5 Details You Probably Missed in Velen | THE WITCHER 3

[@kanadmainkar4601]

The fact that I still remember the exact story of even the little quests in this game should tell you about the quality and storytelling ability of this game!

[@xLetalis]

very true

[@GAURAV_RANA_]

Rightly said sir. I can tell exactly how i did each and every quest.

[@ShinyStarOfDeath]

I replay it from time to time. Amazing game!

[@kodan7879]

I think The Witcher III is easily the best Action-Adventure game, but as of RPGs go I have to say there are better stories and better branching storylines. (The Witcher 2 and 1 for example) Still an amazing game, topped of with great gameplay, beutiful graphics and some astounding sound design.

[@Reality-Distortion]

@@kodan7879 Witcher 1 storywise looses pretty badly to Witcher 3. It had quite big issues with it's writing.

[@keepcalmyouexist358]

This might be common knowledge, but I just realised: when you go to the Hanged Man's Tree in Velen to meet Roche, there's an 'Unfinished Book' you can loot next to the fire. If you read the entries, it implies that it's written by the Oxenfurt scholar who teaches Geralt Gwent in White Orchard. He really should have stayed away from the war after all.

[@xLetalis]

Yeah I should mention it at some point ;]

[@TitoMcFadden]

To expand upon this, if you look at the body that's hanging above the book (presumably the author), he is barefoot. If you chose to have Geralt warn him not to go to Velen to write about the war, Geralt says "They'll kill you." Then the author asks why would they kill a scholar. Geralt replies "Boots. They'll kill you for your boots." Unfortunately, Geralt was right.

[@ericjgerencir6332]

@@TitoMcFadden yes! great detail that could have easily just been left out.

[@callum596]

I also found zoltan chviay gwent card there

[@HarryCameron7]

Another detail related to Wild at Heart, is the fate of Niellen and Hanna's son. If you travel West from the village to the coast there are some boats on a beach. Amongst them is the body of a child and a note from Hanna to someone explaining they're sending their son to someone else because they can't look after him for reasons "you wouldn't believe if I told you". Obviously he only made it as far as the boats before being attacked by drowners. I remember reading the note to the bottom, realising that it was the same person as the quest, and it just hitting me how sad that whole story was but also how much incredible depth there was in the game.

[@Subpar1224]

Damn I remember finding the boat but didn't realize the names matched

[@chrisbarrett8377]

I remember finding that note, didn't connect it to the werewolf though... I swear I have a touch of PTSD from playing this game

[@Sahil-hp3fz]

I never read any notes I just open them if they are quest related and immediately close them I thinks I'm missing a lot of the lore by doing so

[@MDMetalManiac]

holy fuck! i remember the note ! just didn't realise it their kid

[@saymyname2417]

There can't ever be enough murdered children in the Witcher wirld, can there?!

[@1minofsomething146]

I know it's too late to say this. At that area with the big oak tree called "bald mountain" where you and ciri will fight the crones, if you went there before the story takes you there, you'll find instead of villagers a lot of foglets, and a big hole where if you stand near it, you could hear the crones whispering

[@muhammadaqsathfaza9532]

glad i did not go there before the main quest. Velen swamp just too depressing

[@jdrc1233]

does that affect the story or sum?

[@Bvetrayed]

@@1minofsomething146 ty im gonna try that

[@1minofsomething146]

@@Bvetrayed you're welcome. Enjoy. PS: don't try and jump into that hole, you'll just die lol. But you'll get a sneak peek at what's inside.

[@Bvetrayed]

@@1minofsomething146 ok ty for the heads up 🤗

[@wolfsbane1991]

I'm so happy I found number 5 on my own. I kept thinking of that quest and the little girl. Thought I would take a ride to the village and see if the NPC was still around and alive, found her and got the painting. I was smiling ear to ear! Such a lovely addition, and no quest to lead you to it. Just something meant to be found randomly, by players who are immersed and roam the open World. This is the reason why Witcher 3 is one of the best games ever. Other games might have had a quest saying "Check on the girl after 1 week", but not here. This is pure flavour and something made for the dedicated and immersed players to find. Great list!

[@FlamesAndShadows]

Yup. I carried it in my inventory for the rest of the game.

[@LaurieC]

You can also put the picture on the wall at corvo bianco

[@miasolum5612]

Wait.... The Ghost in the Tree is the MOTHER of the crones?

[@xLetalis]

Guess I should've made 6 things you missed :D yes

[@khanghuynh5513]

There's a book in the game titled "she who knows" seemingly telling the legend of the Crones and the Whispering Hillock.

[@miasolum5612]

@@khanghuynh5513 +xLetalis Thank you both ^^

[@EGB_469]

Yeah that caught me off guard too. Good to know...

[@krautkopf4101994]

It might be even more complicated because the crones are based on baba yaga and in some storys she takes the form of three girls who are all her .... So i dont really have a point with this but interessting detail i guess?

[@steveweng8951]

Hmm...medallion’s humming..Gwent players around?

[@Alex2882a]

I haven’t advanced main story because of Gwent addiction F

[@gixelz]

yes i'm playing hard mode with shitty skellige deck

[@jimothy05]

@@Alex2882a F

[@archi4226]

install phone app

[@Silly_Illidan]

@@archi4226 wait wat? Share me the link plz

[@chika4275]

This is why you have to read and listen to everything in this game, even the MPCs talking! CDPR developers are too creative for there own good! They are actually trying to create a living breathing world! I dont know if gamers realize this! Amazing! Witcher 3 is simply the GOAT! Cant wait for Cyberpunk 2077!

[@xLetalis]

same here

[@egy_fekete_volga755]

dont wanna be an ashole but i have to say you are wrong .........its NPC (non player character) not MPC XDDD

[@zaiKongsi]

@@egy_fekete_volga755 he means Geralt, MPC is Man Played Character . . . . LoL

[@egy_fekete_volga755]

@@zaiKongsi well okay then sry for my bad english

[@zaiKongsi]

@@egy_fekete_volga755 no I'm kidding you're good

[@danm9474]

The god damn music theme of the crones is something that will make my skin crawl for the rest of my days

[@romanfedotov1152]

Music in the game is masterpiece

[@brownmumbapanda7791]

And O'dimms theme

[@lsswappedcessna]

It would make for a killer Violin/Hurdy Gurdy cover, maybe with a synth on bass.

[@roanoke7551]

Seriously. The whole bog is creepy. I said id never go back after the main storyline but then i had to do the scavenger hunts and stuff so ugh. So well made.

[@Metaphix]

The bilberry story is low key one of the saddest stories in the game

[@phantommagnolia]

i laughed at it

[@Metaphix]

@@phantommagnolia Yeah it is pretty funny if you havent seen the Billberry board posting

[@Silly_Illidan]

I just realised 2 things from this video .... The obvious billberry death scenario and the death of the knight in Novigrad....I thought he just collapsed like previous 2 times

[@TypicalMusician]

I agree man I killed the man and felt so bad.

[@TypicalMusician]

I thought that it’ll stop if I hurt him like previous times but poor dude.

[@zoisantonopoulos7999]

I have completed the game 3 times ( 1 with my real choices and 2 with the different decisions) i have 100% it every quests every trophy every achievement , and still didnt know about no3. Thank you very much

[@xLetalis]

you're welcome ;] and congratulations

[@4AneR]

Damn I was exploring all of the Velen's questionmarks before completing Baron's quest. I've found this tree and I had to idea either to kill or free it (had no information because hadn't completed any related quest). So after like 15 mins of wondering i decided to kill it for local folk's safety (because I found several courpses around the tree). Later I got secret ending. And from my prospect of "first time playing" it is the most dull. Crones just disappeared after first (and short!) dialog, Baron seems retired... Wish I hadn't wasted my 30 hours riding across map

[@ianmoone2488]

Zois Antonopoulos I stopped playing a few years ago (I want to again but the recent update really fucks me over since I can’t undo some stuff I did with the Console Commands) but I know I did a full 5 complete play through a.

[@Wodansx1]

Lol bl Alex. For my first playthrough I opted to clear every POI in Velen before entering Novigrad, which let everything play out quite well iirc. Except for being quite under leveled for the content since it was before exp changes lol... I was determined though.

[@JohnDoe-om5ho]

The only reason i dont get 100% is becuase, i can't bring my self to kill Ciri

[@Mediogre-00]

The secondary quest ‘last rites’ After you complete the mission, if you go to the grave with the lamp you get from Keira, you get a small little scene of the lady and he husband reuniting as ghosts

[@xLetalis]

that's probably going to part 2, I've made a video about it some time ago as well :)

[@tadbitr2045]

Starting my 8th playthrough because of this. Damn you.

[@Wolf__3]

Rayhan Nugraha 10th playthrough here ^^ god I love this game

[@G_Kostop]

This week I'll start my 18th playthrough 👌

[@xLetalis]

good luck!

[@blue-fm1fq]

8th loool im on my 14th playthrough

[@Wolf__3]

@@G_Kostop damn nice good luck man

[@couchbear6108]

"I" was wandering in Velan and retraced the steps that Citi and Gretka took in the flashback quest. Found the same corpses , both men and werewolf

[@FlamesAndShadows]

I did that on accident the second playthough. Lets just say looting all the weeds an ingame week before triggering the flashback is a bad idea. Looting the house where she fights Whoreson Junior's men any time before is safe though.

[@TheCenobyte]

I stumbled across something that I've never noticed before that made me laugh. I started a New Game+ recently and bought the entire stock of the herbalist that appears when you clear the Abandoned Site West of Hangman's Tree in Velen, around 8000 gold. When I turned around, he was getting drunk and celebrating his new wealth! When you talk to him again, he goes back to his original position and animation but seeing that really made me smile. It's this attention to detail that I'm looking forward to in CP2077. If they keep including things like this, I'm happy to wait another 7 years :)

[@solt635]

wait how do u have yennefer in ur username what

[@TheCenobyte]

@@solt635 It's a small perk you get when you become a member of XLetalis' channel. In a couple of months, it'll change to Triss.

[@blazethunder5525]

Holy fuck!

[@sterlingd1984]

I bet you can just find an emote for it online and copy paste. I have icons in my steam name from copy and paste, alotta people do it lol

[@bogi1]

@@sterlingd1984 you lost the bet

[@lehtokurppa7824]

I used to despise Velen, not because it was bad no, because it was so well made to be a horrible place. Couldn't wait till I got into Novigrad but now in my 5ft playtrough after reaching Novigrad I just wanted to do more Velen quests. One thing that pissed me off though is that I did the Bloody Baron quest in a different way, I did the Lubberkin quest and met identified Anna in the swamp before informing the Baron and thus when I went to inform him he ordered me to go see Tamara and then ordered me to the rescue mission in the swamp so I never got to meet Tamara and the quest wasn't fully completed. Bothered me quite much actually.

[@pat5star]

that’s why it’s so important to make hard saves with this game every so often!

[@Supervillain725]

I told the Baron I wasn't going to find his daughter (went to her anyway), and he flipped me off and cussed me.

[@8-bitmodern437]

I was so confused. I thought you had to take a boat to novigrad, but it turned out I was in novigrad the whole time and ended up in skelliege at level 11 like an idot. Had no idea novigrad was in the same map as velen

[@aleccross3535]

Found out nearly the same way. After roaming around the mid area of Velen around the Crow's perch, I never bothered to cross the river which ultimately leads to Novigrad. Not until I clicked Novigrad and found out its only up north of Velen in the same region.

[@Silly_Illidan]

Haha...I took too long and now I am too strong and beating the shit out of everyone in skellige....even the guard NPCs

[@eddieescobedo9975]

@@Silly_Illidan what difficulty? Even if you do everything it shouldn’t be too easy thanks to the game giving you less and less experience so you don’t overlevel.

[@Silly_Illidan]

@@eddieescobedo9975 well i was expert at dodging and using combos..

[@eddieescobedo9975]

@@Silly_Illidan that’s not being strong that’s just playing normally. Everyone does that. You can’t over level, u lied. Lmao “got good at dodging” that’s just lame like it’s hard. Your probably over here spending 15 minutes beating one guard and saying ur over leveled

[@michamikoajczak9070]

I believe that Ronvid of Small Marsh is a callback to a character "Zbyszko z Bogdańca" from a book "Krzyżacy" by Henryk Sienkiewicz. It's a set book in Polish schools so pretty much everyone here knows it. The character used to challenge some random people to a duel if someone dares to say that his lady of heart isn't the prettiest woman in the world and also swore to kill 100 enemy knights in her name if i remember correctly, so Ronvids 100 duels would be a blend of those two things

[@xLetalis]

sounds very plausible

[@lunardeathblade2570]

With number 3. You're absolutely right, and it's funny, cause I actually got that to happen on my first playthrough. I was doing as much exploring as I could, and I ended up freeing the spirit cause I thought I'd get a new mount. Later when I was doing the main quests, the crones mentioned the kids were taken by the horse, but they forgive Anna because the kids were ripened and plump. You can mention it to the crones too, and they call you a traitor, but don't curse Anna.

[@wyomingptt]

One of my favorite things about the _Family Matters_ questline is Tamara's Witch Hunter/Eternal Fire supervisor guy. Like he seems like a jerk when you meet him in Oxenfurt but later in the swamp he's actually kinda nice. He even basically tells Tamara to lay off the Baron as he thinks he's really changed.

[@Witcherino]

I've done the "secret" ending for the Baron's quest. It's 100% real, the Crones are not happy with the spirit released but say that Geralt had no way of knowing what it was so they leave Anna alone and the Baron lives. He takes her and tries to cure her.

[@danielsmerda6636]

To be honest, i got the secret ending in my very first walkthrough. Just because i like to explore whole world before making quests :D

[@Witcherino]

I explore a lot sometimes, I like it but other times some quest kinda play in a different order that I don't like that much. For example I like to speak to the person making a contract first not kill the monster first and the speak to the person, but it's cool to find hidden details exploring.

[@mrheroprimes]

same here.

[@ardraagatama2858]

Same here. Your video was legit

[@murcaronisalad5322]

The video also states that the orphans still die. However they do not and go to a school in novigrad. The secret option is the only one where the kids and Anna are alright at the end

[@guilhermecolichini]

There's also the Monty Python and the Holy Grail Easter Egg near Benek. A bunny with a bunch of skeletons around it near a cave.

[@BeautyIsJustAMask]

Iirc you can't kill the bunny either

[@janweiblen5044]

@@BeautyIsJustAMask you can kill the bunny, but only with a grenade

[@Meowjoker]

RUN AWAY!!!!

[@Hu1tziil]

@@janweiblen5044 but only if you count thy tree no more no less.

[@ajs5797]

Re-downloading game right now to play through again. I CANNOT believe I missed this, TWICE.

[@xLetalis]

There's probably going to be part 2 of Velen eventually :) Had a lot of fun making this video, I hope you guys enjoy it!

[@Canwehitsubscriberswitho-sr1id]

Can you make the full set of areas before going back to them.

[@xLetalis]

probably

[@spukknik1]

Is there gonna be a skellige one? I would love if there is a detail from the caranthir fight and finding his corpse in the water.

[@xLetalis]

@@spukknik1 there will be one :)

[@Cplusplus745]

I missed all of these

[@Evravon]

Fun fact: in the "secret" Crones ending, they did NOT eat the kids. You can hear them talk about it. According to some sources, you can find them in a school in Oxenfurt later in the game. Anna lives, kids live, spirit is freed. However, instead of looking at it as "Anna or the children", I look at it as "Anna or the children or the village nearby", because if you save the kids and Anna, the village is still wiped out by the Black Beauty.

[@kingsoren2010]

The school is in Novograd. Check the letter on the table, they are the same kids.

[@necromorphxbrute]

That’s not them in Novigrad same assets yes but not the same kids

[@belland_dog8235]

@@necromorphxbrute You can find the names of the kids, they are the same ones from the Bog

[@belland_dog8235]

The Village sacrificed their own children to the Crones, they brought this upon themselves.

[@mariachipotter6875]

I remember reading that if you set free the spirit, it doesn't stop with the village and goes on a rampage elsewhere. So what ever outcome you choose, people suffer.

[@btcpodcast4781]

7:43 geralts beard just grows in the middle of the conversation lol

[@xLetalis]

:D Btw that can happen if you use console commands to change your beard

[@eldenlord5326]

Best Game in The History

[@UAGoWSuplexer]

Gow - hold my boi GOW is best Game in History

[@lykastannis7662]

RDR and RDR2

[@eldenlord5326]

@@lykastannis7662 not even close

[@Brennbare]

If you help the crone mother and she'll free the kids, you can find the kids at a school in Novigrad later on.

[@NuuKola]

frenk prinsse no way!! Is this for real?!

[@Brennbare]

@@NuuKola yes.

[@CNYoungboy]

Is it the school thats part of a quest? Where the teacher is an ex of the person you're looking for or something? Where the kids ask Geralt questions about what its like to be a witcher?

[@Brennbare]

@@CNYoungboy Yes, that one. You van find a list with all the names and the kids are playing outside. But there's no interaction unfortunately

[@mattiabarbieri988]

It's when you go out talking to Dandelion's exes, you find out one of them is a teacher in a little school and there you have the kids.

[@BioMatic2]

i hate when people ask me to like and subscribe before even watching the goddamn video, so props for doing it the right way.

[@_ElisDTrailz]

My favorite hidden detail is during the quest "The Fall of House Reardon". You can find Dolores's brother walled up in a secret cellar behind one of the buildings.. a nod to Edgar Allan Poe

[@xLetalis]

yep, i think it's in my video of that quest, I loved it too

[@betelgeux6010]

@@xLetalis the name of the questgiver is also a nod to the lead singer of the cranberries, dolores o´riordan who died in 2018

[@Daarkreth]

I remember that in velen there's a quest in which you have to restore three little sanctuary places on the crossroads... If you end that quest you'll find that those who were destroying them were some guys who followed the lead of a certain Friedrich from oxenfurt, aka Friedrich Nietzsche

[@BeautyIsJustAMask]

Quite a lot of details can be easily missed in velen. Think the one I've seen few people know about involves the quest called Hazardous Goods. You save a guy from ghouls who is trapped under a cart full of plague victims. Claims he moves them because no illness holds him. Geralt advices him to stop, go home and take a bath and the quest ends. About a week later you can find him again to the east of house reardon where he now has the plague and even the local nekkers avoid him. He asks you to kill him and burn his body.

[@jephwilli1949]

And what follows from there can be quite tragic

[@pat5star]

yes! i didn’t discover this until my 3rd playthrough. it blows me away that after all the hours i’ve invested in this game i’m still finding new/diff content! absolutely incredible game!

[@graemewillis1413]

@@jephwilli1949 does something happen after you burn his body?

[@jephwilli1949]

@@graemewillis1413 not sure. I chode to let him live rotten XD

[@shalaylaw7933]

Yes! I found that too!

[@chincemagnet]

I had the Witcher Gaetan call me a hybrid, had full Feline set on, thought that was pretty cool. I’m not about to kill another Witcher, there’s so few left in the world now. That sword you get from him is kickass, well worth letting him go for that and the coin. Love that quest, very memorable. Wish there were more Witcher encounters in the game.

[@Trumplican]

3:54 i forgot how much time they must have spent on this one scene npc redhead! she is gorgeous and looks as good as the popular characters I wonder why they spent so much time on her for such a small part. Almost like she was runner-up for the Cerys role.

[@Mr.ChadTV]

Everytime seeing Millies painting, get me emotional.

[@kronoscamron7412]

Another one, after the battle of kaer morhen when you go after imelrith fight during the crone's festival don't forget to loot the Acorn off his body, it will give you a boost of two or three ability points if you consume it. many people miss that one.

[@Lord_Ravenstorm]

First of all, sorry about my English if I commit any mistake. I always enjoy your videos about The Witcher; in fact, when I started to watch them some months ago, they take me to investigate a lot of things in this game on my own. I usually read Reddit and CDPR Forums as well, and consult Wikia "trivia" information too (even to see things that I know or think that are wrong). Thanks to this, I have some hypothesis about "mysteries" or curious issues like the quest 'From a Land Far, Far Away' or the mentioned here Ronvid. And I want to share some information about this character. Well, I remember to read in some site something about Ronvid being a prince or nobleman from Toussaint who travels North impulsed by his madness only to fight opponents for the glory of his beloved Maid Bilberry (probably invented). In this case, it's impossible for him to be the father of the girl Bilberry of Crow's Perch. The person who wrote this, also said something about finding this information in a note in Blood and Wine. I don't know if this is true at all (I've never find something like that), but I'm from Spain, and the interpretation of Ronvid being a "Quixotesque" character is absolutely certain. Even if you talks about this interpretation on the present video, it fits better with the hypothesis of the knight being a Toussaintoine crazy noble, and not a poor Nordling peasant. We must remember that we start our adventure in B&W at Dulcinea Windmill fighting a giant (Dulcinea is the invented beloved of Don Quixote, for those who don't know). But I want to go a bit further. As well as I play the Spanish version of the game, my ingame texts are fully translated (based on the books translations, directly from the Polish -like maintaining the original name of Jaskier, your Dandelion- ), and not only the subtitles of the conversations. So in Spain, Ronvid de la Marisma (literally "Ronvid of the Marsh") also talks about Doncella Bilberry ("Maid Bilberry"), but the note on Crow's Perch notice board points this: "Nuestra Mirtila ha muerto . Mi hija Mirtila, la niña de mis ojos, murió este año con solo cuatro primaveras. La enterramos en el cementerio, junto al abedul torcido. El que quiera echarle un poco de tierra o encenderle una vela, allí la encontrará. - Butkins". Translated literally is: "Our Mirtila is dead. My daughter Mirtila, the girl of my eyes, died this year with only four springs (in English you say summers, I think). We buried her in the graveyard, beside the crooked birch. Whoever wants to place a lump of earth or light a candle for her, there you will find her. - Butkins". You can see that, in the Spanish version, the name is changed, but Mirtila is some sort of feminine of 'mirtilo' or 'arándano' (bilberry or blueberry), or the name Myrtilus. I don't know why the translators changed this, but it seems an act to prove that they are not the same girl and Ronvid and Butkins are not the same man, but trying to maintain some similarity with the original name of both girls. Also is worth mentioning that I play the 1.60 version of the game from the start, so I don't know if the change was always there or is something of the patch. Maybe in another languages is changed too, in the last patch. Another thing... I always think about the name Butkins too. If both men are the same person, why Butkins changed his name into Ronvid? It's true that Alonso Quijano change his name into Don Quijote/Quixote from his surname Quijano, but I see no relation between Ronvid and Butkins. The only thing I can think about the change is because Butkins sounds a bit bad, like when James Gatz changed his name into Jay Gatsby because being "Gods by" is better than being "Guts". But in that case, both names are also similar. However, there's a point in favour of Ronvid being, at least, a Nordling: the knightly surname "of the Small Marsh" sounds a lot like a name from Velen, because all the swamps this region has. Sorry for the long comment, but I really want to point these little things. Greetings and good luck on The Path!

[@gearlord816]

In my first walkthrough, i did the secret ending of the bloody baron's quest chains exactly how you described it and without even knowing about it, until now. That's incredible and this game never cease to amaze me. Thank you for the great video.

[@xLetalis]

it does amaze me as well :)

[@thanasisgeronimos9124]

about the second one....did you go to the cemetery to check for her grave? by the crooked birch ?

[@xLetalis]

I did, but didn't found anything

[@thanasisgeronimos9124]

aaahhh cdpr not doing their job...i am uninstalling Witcher 3....:P :P :P ahahahhaah

[@jumblestiltskin1365]

I was going to ask this. A shame they didn't put something there for it

[@nfactorial4074]

i love your style of minimal editing, being frank and humble, very rare on youtube these days

[@JamesBucket]

Most of these are quite well known, but I love there are still content creators & audience caring this game to this day (I mean, it's been four years). Great video, good work.

[@gamingforlife7232]

I just found that we can loot Imlerith after fighting with him. We will get an item named magic acorn from the loot, what we can do with the magic acorn 1. Consume it, get 2 additional skill points 2. Return it to the villagers, have Ciri wait for you before going to Skellige to find Yen and Triss 3. Return to Yen or Triss, not sure about it, you could try it.

[@rcmanization]

can you consume the magic acorn from IMlerith later in the game too?

[@gamingforlife7232]

@@rcmanization Yes, you can consume it at any point in the game. Unlike the golden egg that you must consume it right after you get it.

[@Jdawg-xx9wl]

It’s amazing after 4 completed play through I can still be blown away by how much depth this game has, when you choose to look for it. Great vid!!

[@xLetalis]

thank you :)

[@therealsuomi1153]

Butkins faith was really sad, when geralt killed him i felt really sorry for some reason.

[@glc704]

@Bored Again in the dramatic situation he was I think killing him and put an end to his suffering is better

[@LuisEnriquecrack]

In my playtrough a novigrado guard came and killed him randomlly

[@emiliacarlotta7074]

I didn't kill him, just axiid him away

[@Shay-ne3bo]

I remember that Schrodinger letter. It gave me a good chuckle. It's one of the very few hidden Easter eggs that I've managed to find on my own.

[@beckyhanaver4275]

The Schrödinger's cat nod made me chuckle when I came across it in the game. I loved that little bit

[@Brubarov]

I can't imagine how sad you must have felt when discovering no 2. This game... The music you chose for your video is spot on too, good work! Thank you.

[@xLetalis]

my pleasure :)

[@jonathanpeters9271]

Erwin Schrodinger was trying to explain the quantum uncertainty principle. A cat in a box with a vial of poison set to release at a random interval. Until you look in the box (observe the particle), you can assume that the cat is both alive and dead simultaneously. Particles of a quantum nature behave this way. Until they are observed, they seem to exist in 2 states at once. That's the basics of it. Big fan of your videos, Letalis. thanks

[@zupremo9141]

You can also save the 2 merchant near the hanged man tree and you will find them in Crow's perch after saving them.

[@EZIGAMING56]

That crones background sound still thrills me. Percival music group has done amazing job

[@xLetalis]

indeed

[@melekRebai]

It's amazing how you read and track all these stuff, I never read the letters or the books, I just open and close them

[@ispeakforthebeans]

The one with the crones and the trees. It is spot on. I got it on my second playthrough. I was so hellbent on completing the side quests I ended up freeing the spirit before meeting the crones. Dunno what happened to the kids in the end, though. Be awfully sad if the crones ate em.

[@MarkaniusProduction]

yes, they still ate them as if you would kill the tree. There is no point to go see the tree before the witches couse you will miss whole story and you wont meet Bożątko Janek.

[@ahabmohammed2422]

This game is a masterpiece 💚😭. Good job mate 🧡

[@morgankay3069]

Once again blessed by another quality video. Can't get enough of The Witcher 3

[@crazystorm1659]

Thumbnail makes Keira look like the Witcher 2’s style. Awesome. I always look forward to these videos too

[@hankhill4353]

Your a real one for uploading this w3 will never die

[@spukknik1]

5 things in SKELLIGE

[@xLetalis]

probably in a couple of weeks :)

[@nnamdichukura9521]

It would probably be like 10 things in skellige

[@Vampyresdontdodishes]

50 things in Skellige lol. I’m probably on my 9th play-through and have not remotely discovered all the “?” Lol. So many...and so many sirens...

[@heymynameispueppy367]

@@Vampyresdontdodishes I'm ready with all "?" and oh my, this was a long way:). But I would do it again and again , because I love "The Witcher", this Game is just amazing and wonderful

[@pzalterias5154]

Did you see in Skellige, there are mounds with white flowers on them near a village, just like Rohan king’s tombs in LOTR. I don’t know if many saw this.

[@michaelradan8022]

During the Crookback Bog, I unknowingly chose to kill the spirit and boy did I regret decision. It haunted me for days knowing that those children died because of my actions, still a game but still.

[@athalik]

You need to free the spirit before starting the quest: Ladies of the Wood (so, essentially, before you walk down the trail of treats). Spoilers follow below: The results of doing this quest in this order are: - The Baron and Anna are "safe", he takes her away to the Blue Mountains, to visit the Hermit-healer, thus avoiding her death and subsequently his suicide. - The children disappear, and are mentioned to be gone several times, though no mention of where they have gone is made. It is implied by the Crones that they are dead. Read more below. - The Crones will consider you a traitor. Gameplay-wise this changes nothing. - The Spirit kills everyone in Downwarren, except for the Ealdorman, as revenge for them having cut down the trees of the forest and for serving the Crones (I assume). Tamara's fate is always the same. No matter what choices you make. I'm pretty sure this quest is an alternative to the Ladies of the Wood quest, where you retrieve Johnny's voice from the Harpies' nest. In fact, one of the ingredients required for freeing the Spirit in the Ancient Oak is a Raven's Feather - retrieved from the very same nest where the bottle in which Johnny's voice is trapped, is hidden. You still have to give Johnny his voice, but you skip the part where you play hide and seek with the children of the bog. Note: The Journal entry will claim that the Spirit saved the children from the Crones, without you even having told it about them. How Dandelion knew of this as he wrote the Journal is unknown (as it is never mentioned or depicted in a cutscene or witnessed by any characters), but it does not necessarily make the entry incorrect. The book 'She Who Knows' tells the spirit's story. A copy can be found in the Sewers through which you helped Triss and the mages escape during the quest 'Now or Never'. The spirit is never described as a force for good nor a force for evil, but one of nature that went mad. This may, however, very well be Crone 'propaganda'. It is possible it saved the children, though it is also possible it kidnapped them and... well, you know. Personally, I hope it rescued them, as this would offer the best of all possible outcomes to one of the otherwise bleakest quest-chains in the world of gaming.

[@cawcawbich]

I was thinking the same thing at first however, when you free the spirit, if you go in the village later, you see that something happened and the elderman (the guy who give you his ear) explain that a black horse came and spreaded madness in the village,making family members killing each other, even describing mothers who were holding their baby that started smashing them at trees. I just came to the conclusion that there is no good choice in this quest. Btw, the spirit do save the kids like she promised you can find that out in the school in Novigrad, there is a note with a liat of new students and the names match.

[@CyrusLeGrandProd]

the spirit = crones mother and she is even more evil than the crones themselves because she lost her mind... tbh i find the option of killing it to be the better one, since i don't think it's a good idea to sacrifice a whole village for 5 children... :/ There is another detail that proves even further my way of thinking : the game gives you more than once a chance to change your mind about freeing the spirit or not, especially when Geralt look at the "mother" remainings and notices that these aren't human ones, this absolutely means that she was just like her "daughters", the difference is here is that crones give the region some kind of protection at least as opposed to the mother who made Velen become a way more horrible place to live in than it is.

[@admiraltbags]

@@CyrusLeGrandProd The village is evil and everyone in it deserve to die. They provide the children to the crones in exchange for their "protection". There is a book, can''t remember the name of it contains details regarding the crones and their mother. If I remember correctly the mother is like the crones except her power grew too strong and began mass murdering and/or otherwise doing the same horrible stuff as the crones but in excess. This wasn't good for anyone, including the crones, so they trapped her in the tree. We actually have no facts that the spirit in the tree is evil, only these books. The spirit itself tells a different story that it once protected these lands and the crones wanted Valen for themselves so they killed her and trapped her spirit in the tree. We know from books that the bog used to be a beautiful forest but look at it now, with the crones living there for hundreds of more years it is a a swamp full of sickness. Lastly, if you free the spirit at the correct point between quests it does in fact free the children which can be confirmed at the school in Novigrad where a letter can be found with all the orphans names mentioning they the orphans were found on the doorstep and have been enrolled in the school. So the take away is, who do you believe? The crones and the books version of events or the actual facts and actions of both the crones and the spirit? It's my belief that the books are a sort of propaganda to ward people off from medaling with the spirit and the tree spirit is the better choice since she kept her promise and saved the orphans plus her version of history makes more sense. The crones corrupted the swamp after killing her so they could feed on the people which they continue to do.

[@admiraltbags]

Also, the animals of the swamp protect the tree spirit as she once protected them. I don't know, It's very clear to me freeing the spirit is the best option since all the facts contradict the "she's more evil" argument. I think she's the exact opposite and is in fact chaotic good.

[@deadgum11]

Its crazy how much thought went into different outcomes and variations of quests

[@xLetalis]

indeed

[@elsonc8308]

No: 3 The Baron is saved. Thank you kindly. You are a great help to the community that loves this game. I appreciate the work. This is my 4th run of the game by the way, and I love every bit of it and thanks to you, the spirit is free and the Bloody Baron is save with his wife! Keep up the great work.

[@xLetalis]

glad to have helped ;]

[@doggstor]

I found something new these days when replaying the witcher 3, might say that's what makes this game great. See, in the quest "The Fall of the House of Reardon", there's an extra detail i found, i don't know if it was mentioned yet, but, you can find a hidden entrance in the back of the barn of the mansion, there you can go below in a place like an wine deposit or something, and there's a wall that can be demolished with Aard, there you find the dead brother of Dolores, who has been killed by her husband some time ago, that explains the wraiths there, and to me, it's a reference to some tales from Edgar Allan Poe, like "The Fall of the House of Reardon" it's a reference to "The Fall of the House of Usher", and how they were twins as the tale too, and the death of the brother it's a reference to other tale from Edgar, called "The Cask of Amontillado", were the guy dies trapped behind a wall too. This gives a tiny extra dialogue with Dolores, but that's all, God, how this game amuses me everytime a play it again. Cheers.

[@JordanC052]

I had a conversation with Dolores about her brother as well. Felt bad she was trying to clean that mess of a property up herself.

[@MHJ1117]

I found him but didnot talk to dolores

[@kalylynn4077]

Xletalis, you can ALSO accept the sisters bribe for coin to stop searching, and then keep searching anyhow. Great way to get some more crowns for free too.

[@xLetalis]

You're right!

[@skeeter197140]

I played through the first 30 hours or so, twice, and both times I visited the spirit in the tree before the crones. I didn't make the connection of it being the crones' mother until I saw this video just now. I also saved it and played through freeing the spirit, and killing it. However, I kept going after killing it, and never saw the other way, which would have led to Anna's change and the Baron hanging himself. Damn, this game's massive.

[@kckk123456]

This is awesome that you were able to link the name mentioned in a letter with the paradox!

[@abhishekjain3148]

Proud to say i found all the main secret variants including the bonus ones (except for number one and two) in my first playthrough.

[@kelpia]

Somehow i never noticed the Schrödinger's cat thing lol gave me a good chuckle when you pointed it out

[@elijah_oofoof8891]

The little girl: starts crying Headphone users: my time has come

[@rwgarchia5187]

I remember if you the secret part for the evil spirit quest she will destroy the village where you acquire the dagger and wraiths spawn there

[@thundertakeyou7174]

I must admit, your videos regarding The Witcher 3 are certainly unparalleled on KZbin, at least on it's English segment. Apart from you, no one demonstrates such desire for searching for hidden content, along with incredible patience that is required to do something of this scale. I'm sure you deserve to know how helpful your videos can be from time to time, and how drastically they can change one's perception of the game. If any new game in The Witcher series comes out, I hope that of all others you will be the one to study it's secrets and mysteries.

[@xLetalis]

Your comment made my day :) Thank you very much.

[@thundertakeyou7174]

@@xLetalis Good to hear it, buddy. Keep up the good work!

[@enzorp5497]

Hi! Sorry to tell you this at this long, I'm a new sub and trying to see the whole series of the details you made. The thing is that in detail number 1, when you mentioned the hunter Neilen and the his death wife's sister, you can choose to accept the sister's offer to get the first reward and go to complete the quest without going to tell the hunter his wife is dead, and in the dialogue that you have in the cave, the sister says something like "What are you doing!?" and Geralt answer "I've changed my mind" and then you can choose between killing the werewolf there or let him kill the sister to then kill him anyway. It's interesting becouse doing the quest that way you can get a double reward. Greetings from Argentina.

[@xLetalis]

Yep I saw that line but only after making this video :) Hope you enjoy the series!

[@nyoom7495]

Something I just noticed on playthrough #6 - if you go to free the spirit in the Whispering Hillock, the spirit will say that she requires "a mare from pastures caught". Upon agreeing to help and learning what needs to be done you can ask the spirit for further info regarding the components of the ritual. When you ask about the horse the spirit will say "a wild steed, from meadows moist". So first the spirit needs a mare and then changes her mind for a steed instead. EDIT: Found another little tidbit. Going to meet Anna in Crookback Bog BEFORE you turn Dea into a lubberkin there will be extra dialog when you talk to the man who helped Tamara and Anna at the end of that segment of Family Matters.

[@klaravackova6002]

there is difference between steed and stud - a stud is a male horse, steed is more general, more like impressive mount I believe. So it can be both male or female

[@dmc8706]

Schrodinger's cat is an illustration that has been misrepresented several times. When I looked into it I found out it's actually a little complicated. This is how it works. It illustrates a new system of math that was designed to represent a bizarre problem that physicist found. There was a test that was run to figure out whether certain subatomic materials are particles or waves. Waves and particles are two completely different things and something cannot be both a wave and a particle. When the test was run sometimes it produced the results that the protons are subatomic particles. Other times the test demonstrated that they are waves. What is most bizarre is the determining variable that changed the result. After running the test of multitude of times and changing specific variables to see what was causing the test to produce different results, the scientist concluded that the variable that made the difference was whether or not the test was being observed at the time it was run. If they were observing it when it happened it produced one result, if they were not observing it when it happened it produced another result. That sounds nonsensical, not only to us but to the scientists themselves. This test has been run a multitude of times and consistently returns with the same result. No one understands it oh, it doesn't make any sense to anyone. One of the theories that's designed to try and explain this is string theory but there are other theories to try and explain it as well. They're all pretty bizarre and out there. So what does this have to do with Schrodinger's cat? Well our understanding of subatomic particles or waves had been expanded. So naturally we needed a new form of math to explain it. the new math was designed to explain where the subatomic materials would be if they were waves and where they would be if they were particles. You'll recall that they cannot be both waves and particles. So in a sense this produces a nonsensical result. Schrodinger use the illustration of Schrodinger's cat to demonstrate that this new math Was giving a limited and bizarre picture of what is actually happening at a subatomic level. In the old stration of Schrodinger's cat Schrodinger has a cat in a box that has a poison dos on a timer where it will eventually kill the cat if the box is not opened. However if you open the box the poison will instantly spread and kill the cat which means that by observing the cat you change the result of the experiment and make it definitely dead. in order to move forward you have to describe the state of something which changes if You observe it. if you were to do this using the new system a mess that have been designed you would not open the box and you would say that the cat that was in the box was both alive and dead at the same time. This is exactly what it is like to describe subatomic materials as those being particles and waves at the same time. It isn't true it can't be true but it's the closest to the truth that we can get with an equation. that's the whole point of the illustration

[@pododododoehoh3550]

David Carter... but did the cat die?

[@ramjb]

@@pododododoehoh3550 Yes and no. The theory (an analogy of real life subatomic quantum physics, and directly relatable with the Heisenberg's exclusion principle) is based on the fact that as long as you don't confirm the status of the cat (thus immediately killing it), the cat is both alive and dead simultaneously and both statuses will be relevant- the creature inside will behave both as dead and alive simultaneously. Which is completely nonsensical from the point of view of our day to day life, but is a behavior of subatomic physics which has been confirmed for almost a century now, and is the basis of most of the quantum physics fundaments. A less complicated answer would be: since the second the box is closed with the cat inside and the poison system activated, the cat is both alive and dead. Until you open the box - then it'll die and stop behaving as dead and alive simultaneously. But until you open the box and check for it's status, the cat is BOTH alive and dead. Simultaneously. The analogy is clear: there are certain particles that in the early 1900s were theorized to be waves, and were theorized to be particles. A good example would be photons (light). Some physicists stated that light was a wave, some stated that it was particles. Experiments backed both sides' opinions, so there was a lot of confusion and some bitter differences about the topic...because if experimentally your theory is sound then it should be valid. But turned out that BOTH theories were turning out to be experimentally correct. The big surprise and what turned subatomic physics upside down in the blink of the eye was the realization that light is both: wave and particle at the same time, and behaves like both...until you check on what it is. Then it'll behave like a particle only, if you test it as a particle, and behave as a wave only, if you test it as a wave. Which sounds like nonsense - just like the cat experiment- but is exactly what it is.

[@Rahul9Nair]

Nice explanation there but I believe that it was Heisenberg's Uncertainty principle and the exclusion principle belonged to Pauli

[@ramjb]

@@Rahul9Nair Happens all the time to me... I'm native spanish and mess this kind of stuff all day long ;). Indeed it's the UNCERTAINTY principle, not exclusion one ;). Nice catch :).

[@dmc8706]

@@pododododoehoh3550 "Everything dies... everything has it's time." The tardis from Dr Who

[@malaysiae1988]

One thing I found that i havent seen in any video is at the bald mountain part when geralt and ciri show the sylvan or whatever it is the coin and geralt has to fight him right after that part with geralt you can keep jumping to get were you can get back in that area and collect what he dropped. Then with geralt you can follow the path which ciri goes to fight the crones and there's a chest with an vran sword and if you keep exploring it takes you back out were you can continue the game. I dont know if its a secret but i havent seen nobody else do it.

[@xLetalis]

that's true, someone else told me and I tried it some time ago

[@kittybierwirth8311]

Just experienced the loss of both annie and baron. That made me so sad. I might try on my 3rd play through for the kill the evil under the tree 1st. Thanks for sharing. 🙂

[@CraftyFoxS]

So many interesting facts and if I watch your videos before playing the game it was gonna be so much easier!

[@xLetalis]

glad to hear ;]

[@jephwilli1949]

I'm literally mindblown. Looks like you're never done playing the Witcher 3

[@xLetalis]

never

[@jumblestiltskin1365]

Love this game. Its amazing how many things people find that might otherwise be missed. A triumph of game story writing that the Big RPG devs could do with taking a lesson from. I hope as much detail goes into Cyberpunk

[@xLetalis]

well said

[@Arionid]

If you take the botchlings blood to the Pellar, after the ritual you can hear frenzied whispering of spirits in that stone circle area, can barely hear it with headphones in, and clearly when focusing witcher senses seems like indecipherable gibberish but my hearing was never that fine tuned, maybe someone else could make out a word or two lol

[@xLetalis]

I have to listen for it next time

[@nathantheredstonenoob3687]

10:49 My dog's head tilted. That cry though lmao

[@MaciejPGie]

5 years after W3 release finally i have purchased the game and finishing it. I am enjoying watching your videos A LOT! thanks man a lot of great work !! You encourage me to play once again and do not hurry while doing it to enjoy these little snacks hidden somewhere inside the game. Thanks man !!!

[@donmrt7092]

I am glad to see that people still love this game...

[@xLetalis]

same here

[@luckdragon88]

Its also worth mentioning that you can also kill the evil spirit without fighting it. If you say you will help free it then you just have to bring the ingredients back to her and then choose the option to 'trick her'. She then just dies in the ritual.

[@xLetalis]

yep, made a video about it kzbin.info/www/bejne/lau7Z2eGZr2sqc0

[@luckdragon88]

@@xLetalis Can always count on you to have these things covered :)

[@nikosamoiridis2571]

During the quest Fool's gold in Lurtch, if you follow Yontek (before going to the cave), who is at first presented as a none too special dimwit, you can see him using some kind of magic

[@xLetalis]

interesting, I always thought I missed something in that quest!

[@BeautyIsJustAMask]

It kinda bothers me that Igor the herbalist who is the pig in the cave when you first go there is no longer there when you go back to undo the curse and you never get to know what happened to him unless that's a hidden detail I'm missing.

[@bobbrown1176]

This appears to be a random occurrence. Out of 4 playthroughs I have only seen him do that that one time, a white glowing left hand.

[@alperenorsdemir4164]

There is one thing I thing you might wanna know @xLetalis; After defeating Imlerith if you say Ciri not to go and wait you can search Impleriths body. There you will find the acorn(Magic acorn) that most probably villagers has spoken about while leaving the Bald Mountain. You can consume the Magic acorn and that gives 2 ability points.

[@xLetalis]

yep I did it on my livestreams, back when I used to stream on twitch

[@StarWindEnergin]

When I see a title like this, I expect it to be clickbait. Instead, this was exactly as advertised. 5 really subtle things that were probably missed. Subscribed for honesty and content.

[@xLetalis]

thanks

[@WanderfalkeAT]

To whoever thinks it is mad that you chose Triss over Yen in your first playthrough. 3:33 - Dont say that this Red Haired Beauty does not make you think you want to take Her here and now :) Red Hair are Man-Killers :)

[@unknowntravisYT]

I accidentally got the "secret" ending to the crones of Crookback Bog on my first playthrough. Except in my one the spirit did free the children and the Baron still took his wife to a healer and nobody died except for the village that got attacked

[@miniharris9216]

Yes I got this too! The tree still freed the children despite not making a promise, killed the people in the town and the wife was not cursed into a hag. So slightly different to the 3rd ending.

[@NO-fn6wy]

As for the whole dead billberry thing I didn’t kill him cause I just didn’t want to but now I’m even more happy with my decision

[@Beatrixacs300]

That Number 1 is really a nice touch but it was exactly the thing I thought it would happen if I accepted the offer, so every single time, I turn her down. Wow, the number 2... That is actually chilling, never really connected it. It makes a sense in a way, so I think you are right. Number 3 is what I pondered for a while in my recent playthrough but eventually, I did the second option - I know that both Anna and Baron die but in all honesty, in a relationship like this, maybe it is better to be dead. Neither of them is saint and I think they deserved each other, so the death was just a natural outcome. Number 4 is indeed something I know - it is one of the storylines I wish would continue. And oh, number 5 was such a sweet detail, I remember bumping into that in my first playthrough. Thanks for the video!

[@xLetalis]

you're welcome :) Thanks for the comment!

[@spbspb2413]

actual things that can be missed, and not a click bait. good video man

[@xLetalis]

Hah, funny you should say that, I swear someone literally called this click bait and the things in it common a couple of days ago

[@beautifulcarpetdiagram]

I've actually found the tree spirit before going to crones while exploring on my first playthrough but I killed it because it looked like an evil weird thing inside a tree

[@arsalansyed123]

Always love watching your vids. Thanks :)

[@xLetalis]

you're welcome

[@alexk2352]

In the first quest about Niellen and Hannah I chose the option to tell Niellen that his wife actually died, so I was very surprised of the actual story about Niellen and Hannah

[@mitcheljoseph]

Im so impressed by your finds!!

[@xLetalis]

glad to hear :) got a new vid like that coming soon

[@tabinagi]

I should add to point #3: If you find the Hillock beforehand and even TALK to the tree (and come back later), you get the same ending if you save the children. The reason for this is because if you go there first by accident, a Side Quest is added to your log, whereas if you do it part of the main storyline, it registers as a main story quest. It's an interesting interaction with quests and one I actually got both times I did my playthroughs. I almost always try to explore literally everything before I move on to a new area.

[@defroses7520]

I'm not saying you are wrong but the time when I stumbled on that mission where that witcher slaughtered the hole village but spared the little girl who was shocked because of the event it was the most honest crying I heard both in games and in real life in a while.It made me tear up a bit even...It could be the music and Geralt's reaction but it was a long time ago.

[@nero151294]

When cat and wolf play

[@brettmiddleton7949]

If Millie is the worst voice acting in the game, that only proves that Witcher 3 is perhaps unequaled in gaming history for the quality of casting and direction of voice actors. They didn't even skimp on the random NPCs, much less characters that Geralt can interact with. I can think of many games -- even ones with generally good acting -- where the worst characters make me cringe and wish I were born deaf. I didn't find Millie bad at all.

[@overlord580]

In my previous play, i tried several times to get the girl with painting and she wasn't there. I've just thinking, maybe there is difference if : 1. You spared witcher's life. or/and 2. You lie to her aunt about who was the real killer?

[@xLetalis]

hah I don't actually know

[@Hamza_azmaH123]

I met her and she gave me the painting in my previous playthrough and i did spare the witchers life

[@Hamza_azmaH123]

Im on my 3rd playthrough now

[@fakuri913]

I kill him, and I still got the painting. Not sure maybe you came to the village at night maybe when she sleep

[@justwatch7091]

I spared him, told truth to aunt. Still got the painting.

[@bartmacful]

Actually the name Bilberry is very popular in Poland. It is translated to Jagoda, or Jagódka. Maybe there is a connection with Butkins and Ronvid, but I think it is just a coincidence. Maybe in English the name sounds exotic and can be deceiving.

[@ryoujiarisato7308]

Fair point, but very rarely cdpr resemble coincidences on their work

[@petermcclenaghen3349]

Brilliant video I have only just discovered your channel but I already love you 🙂

[@xLetalis]

hey ;) Thank you, by the way I'm uploading another one in this playlist later today!

[@petermcclenaghen3349]

Great

[@Follon007]

Thanks for the video, I am currently playing because of this and doing family matters quest. Before you go looking after the botchling, Geralt giva as an advice to tell to the people to put some salt in front of their house. While going back to the forstress with the botchling, if you check the first house on the right, you can see a line of salt in front of it. Nothing exceptional, but still a satisfying small detail.