Witcher 3: The Secret of Dolores' Brotrher.

[@xLetalis]

Thanks to some of you guys I just saw yesterday's CDPR stream where they mentioned another yet undiscovered easter egg, I'll make a video addressing it tomorrow. In the meantime I hope you enjoy this one.

[@ThPunshr]

Awesome

[@GucciVal]

Can’t wait!! 😁

[@snakesruleLMR]

Great video as always! Just a heads up, the chapter heading at 2:41 says "Dolores' brother killed her husband". It had me confused for a second, since you were saying it was the other way around.

[@mohabgamal6522]

Something related to the crones and a very impactful character maybe Ciri?

[@flicka25]

Was about to mention it lol....I was watching that live with LastKnownMeal and we all said xLetalis will find it for sure

[@warlordofbritannia]

The whole quest is a reference to Edgar Alan Poe’s “Fall of the House of Usher,” down to some of the names and plot details (Roderick, sibling being buried alive inside the house) Once you realize that, it’ll help you understand some of the apparent oddity of the quest-the siblings Usher are even twins

[@flicka25]

Great story that, was made into a movie...Vincent Price starred in many of Poe's story adaptations

[@mpj12345]

Iirc correctly the buried woman in that doesn't die, or at least it's ambiguous if you consider the general descent into madness, and she wasn't buried in order to kill her. So I don't think you can track these 2 stories all that closely despite the obvious references.

[@Footsoldier1234]

Poe also has a story where someone was buried alive by being sealed in with a brick wall. Something about a beating heart he always hears after the crime that drives him insane.

[@Shamrock797]

@@Footsoldier1234 In The Tell-Tale Heart, the main character hides a body under his floorboards, but goes mad thinking he hears the dead man’s heart continuing to beat until he confesses to the crime.

[@Footsoldier1234]

@@Shamrock797 Yeah that was it. Thanks.

[@LayneZoomer]

I actually never found the brother in the basement but I already knew it was kind of an incestuous relationship. It is an old manor and the name of the quest is,"The Fall of the House of Reardon" This is a reference to,"The Fall of the House of Usher" which is an Edgar Allen Poe poem where there is an incestuous relationship in an old manor. Pretty cool

[@ManiekM115]

I've played Witcher 3 few times and never found the basement with this corpse :D I've started to play again yesterday then gonna see it myself now :) I always love your videos, great work :)

[@xLetalis]

good luck!

[@titaiao]

bro i check every inch of the map, i already explored all the question marks and more

[@Vyache17]

Damn, this guy always do that to us :D

[@jasondetilly5647]

Same here haha

[@spikey288]

I think the reason the pages are torn out is just to prompt players to look around for the missing pages. This detail is easily missed if you don't look around.

[@birdsamora9925]

WHAT

[@spikey288]

@@birdsamora9925 In other words, the theories people are coming up with to try to explain why the brother wrote his final words on pages ripped out of the diary, are overthinking it. It was more likely just a level design mechanic to tell the player when he/she finds the diary with missing pages "hey, if you look around you'll find the rest of the story".

[@Bjjbhcoa86]

I have played this game six times (nothing compared to you, I know) but never once found that basement, I am in awe. Thank you, will go and see it immediately :D

[@macgarnicle]

Adding to the mystery: In many playthroughs, the missing pages are bugged and only show blank. Seems like the quest got rushed a bit in production.

[@hungetkunstler]

This quest is referencing the works of Poe. The quest is named after The Fall of the House of Usher, which also has a possibly incestous brother/sister relationship in it, and also The Cask of Amontillado in which the narrator leaves his rival entombed behind a wall in his cellar to die.

[@arthurplummer520]

Came to post just this! This need's more upvotes lol. Poe's works were referenced throughout the game. Edited for spelling

[@Nicole-xd1uj]

I've done that quest three times now and have gotten several of the conversation variations but never knew that that Dolores had been thrown out of that home behind her...the devs really thought of everything and so have you.

[@anvos658]

I think its likely easy to miss, like certain other things that trigger if Geralt gets to close to an area, so most times your likely too busy looking for the notice board and looting crates and such while it happens.

[@egeaydemir9825]

I hope you never run out of Witcher content

[@xLetalis]

hey there, I hope so too ;]

[@elizabethalderman8749]

Personally I think the brother had stolen her diary because he was didn’t approve of him and wanted to protect her. The husband (who really was a bad person) realized he found their plans so he knocked him over the head and left him hidden. He then lies to Dolores that he spoke to the brother (unaware pages had been torn from the diary) and that he was unwilling to meet them. They leave - but not until after he’s hidden the “body”. (All she says is he refused to see her before she left so he could easily have said he went out on business in a huff or something)

[@staefanie]

I always wondered, why there are dead cows in the stables next to dolores bedroom building. If they left willfully and not in a hurry - why leave the cows and not sell them? So maybe this was related to the cut pesta storyline in velen (the plague maiden)? they maybe had to leave to flee the plague? Great video as always!

[@badak_6382]

The monsters that Geralt was supposed to kill killed them probably.

[@anvos658]

Well simple answer would be the husband was afraid his wife would notice the strange new wall in the cellar and with her brother's strange disappearance put things together, or was just smart enough to realize his actions might cause the brother to come back as a wraith. That is a weird thing about the Letho path, of why he told Geralt he fought ghouls instead of wraiths, but I guess its possible, there could have been ghouls there that were killed by the wraiths and Letho's actions caused dead peasants not to come back by dealing with the bodies and making them feel avenged. As for why there is more than one wraith there is the simple answer that the peasants were running the farm until the nekkers popped out of the fields and killed a bunch of them, which led the peasants to abandon the farm that was now infested with wraiths and the fields filled with nekkers. . That they left though is also evidence it wasn't the sister, since she could have easily spun a story he left on a trip and the husband, not being as familiar with the house, would have no reason to question the wall.

[@linuskaiser4563]

I’m currently on my third playthrough this time on new game + and I gotta say you sir are one of the reasons I keep want to play this game again and again! Please never stop making these videos!

[@xLetalis]

I'll do my best :)

[@Kansaqe]

Maybe the brother was lured to the basement then knocked out and not dragged there. Dolores was preparing to elope and thus won't know if her brother was around. The brother probably tore out the pages from the journal in anger like you said then lured to the basement by the husband for a confrontation.

[@Hybe123]

I see a lot of people never found the basement and the wall. I found that on my first playthrough, but I realized I never found the journal even though I played the game many times. I always had Letho there because I originally spared him in Witcher 2 😀

[@Isilily]

I love how much there is to this quest, but it's so easy to do it "wrong" and miss a lot of it. In my last save I accidentally killed all the ghosts just by wandering around the map before even talking to Delores, so all the dialogue I got when I did talk to her was oh yeah I took care of that already. No backstory, nothing about prompting him to find the chest.

[@dramonmaster222]

I love how you find the most INTERESTING things in this game.

[@RubenKelevra]

I think the diary pages may have contained a declaration of love from Dolores to his Brother. So his husband found that, torn it out, knocked the brother out in rage and put him with the pages in the cellar. :)

[@CyrusLeGrandProd]

Awesome video as always ! however, during my last playthrough i noticed that the crops the brother was talking about are those infested with nekkers nests, and surprisingly, the man who was carrying bodies with his cart and who has been saved from ghouls by Geralt lives in the same area. Does this mean that he was working for the Reardon family before the domain fell apart, then He got that new job to live and subsist to the needs of his family ? Would be cool it if is possible to find a link between the two quests.

[@margo_gin]

Geralt on the thumbnail is really, really, really, really, really, ridiculously good-looking

[@xLetalis]

I agree ;]

[@Daniel218lb]

Year 6621 of the forth era! XLetalis LXXX. A true descendant of xLetalis l. Discovers new secret curiosity on this particular quest on Blood Of Wine! The game runs now at 60fps on the Rtx 14000 Ti at native 24k.

[@rabel1545]

FINALLY a KZbinr with a sponsor that isn't just an instant skip.

[@xLetalis]

[@CoolGuyJ84]

Oh I didn't know there was an extra dialogue and epilogue if we leave the finding of brother till late (always found the skeleton in the basement and reported to Delores afterwards). Nice.

[@2penetration451]

This is one of my favorite quest because Letho is in it. Then I never knew nor find out that the brother's in the basement. Hell, I don't even know that there's a basement.

[@light-4291]

Hey man, I just wanted to say thank you for all that amazing videos about my favorite game of all time. Your Videos showing how deep the Witcher 3 Iceberg really is and after all those years we still find out more about this game. It’s just amazing 🙂

[@xLetalis]

hey, my pleasure :)

[@Yajeeb]

Your videos ache my heart everytime i think about how CDPR would've shaken the gaming industry IF CyberPunk was done like *The Witcher 3* . They were crowned to be the pioneers to put to death microtransactions, corporate greed and set a new High Bar. They would've still been picking up wallets to this day... but alas! Here we are, became the villain we sought to destroy.

[@Silly_Illidan]

Huh? So much drama for a game that essentially only buggy?

[@lambosnicko]

@@Silly_Illidan we didn’t even get half of what was promised. The game also tanked old gen console’s on release but yeah just a few “bugs”

[@mistle7364]

@@lambosnicko yeah it was a mess on last gen. i really wanted to start over after the last patches but...meh....🤷‍♀️ but i really should. paid full prize🤣

[@thebusey543]

yep, Cyberpunk has nowhere near the depth that Witcher has. It had all the potential, here's hoping they give us some DLCs that make up for it.

[@DesiMcSheepxD]

Ironic, isn't it?

[@JoseMora-wc5zz]

One of the best content creators on KZbin. I’m going to lose my shit if Witcher 4 comes out. Because I KNOW you’ll be all over it.

[@imnotpayingchildsupport4506]

To this day all sorts of things can be found in the witcher 3

[@auroralupton]

I always thought this was a reference to "The cask of Amontillado" but you bring up interesting points about who actually did it. A few people also mentioned "The fall of house usher", I forgot about this but it seems to me they reference both.

[@Liams_Kebab]

Its funny how Detlaff is named degenerate in his later form

[@mortezamoravvej8080]

Damn, I never get bored of this game ❤❤❤

[@xLetalis]

same here ;]

[@ryanjohndavies4092]

I had absolutely no idea about the basement. But I've always chosen Letho to be alive whenever I start a new game so never really explored the area much

[@saprelik]

Unbelievable man! You amazed me with so many new details to this quest!

[@arttuluttinen]

In my usual (non-Letho) playthroughs (PS4) The dialogue in reaction to learning of her brother's death is the same for me *before* the initial quest ends, except the part of her wanting to find the spot where he died.

[@joebeck8904]

I never knew there was so much to that side quest. Thank you for this video man great work as usual.

[@yuescloset]

Watching this while Im eating my breakfast and I nearly choked seeing how you matched the diary entry with scenes of Ciri, Morvran and the Empress Ending. LOL. Your videos are informative, entertaining... and occasionally hazardous to my health XD (joke). Always a pleasure to see the Merchant of Ciri do his thing XD

[@xLetalis]

I had a feeling you'll appreciate it while editing, also nice to see that Tomira icon in someone's name

[@rochjedrzejewski3548]

Yea, Merchant of Ciri - isn't that associated with someone else, Master of Mirror maybe...:-)

[@DxTrDs]

I've played this game so many times and for so long, so when I started playing it again recently and didn't simulate the witcher 2 save I was surprised about the brother bit. It also helped that I set my witcher sense to also appear in the minimap. I've never done that before.

[@tomtom21194]

Never found the brother in the basement before. Letho was always there in my playthroughs and never bothered to go back and search the place

[@nawaz3147]

Recently while roaming around the Witcher world I came across a suicide spot inside the eternal fire temple. Also found a poem which led me to an unmarked treasure north of Kaer Gelen. As I've nothing else to do in the game, I've decided to go full explorer mode. Scaled all the peaks of Skellige Isles except Spikeroog. Visited Yen's Djinn ship in the process.

[@Timmywii]

I can't imagine how much time and effort you gave to this magnificent game. Honestly, there are not many games with so many major and minor stuff to find after 7 years and you continue to find new stuff. Many kudos for your persistence and determination.

[@dijkstra4698]

You never cease to amaze me with these videos honestly. CDPR is crazy good with the details and so are you with finding them.

[@Skilliger_keks]

A new episode of detectiv Letalis

[@mortezamoravvej8080]

the way you explain is just fascinating.

[@StrayMind]

Idk how many times I’ve done this quest and never found the brother - this game never stops surprising me Thanks for the video!

[@xLetalis]

[@justinreckers161]

I really hope you to do a blind, live stream of a Witcher 3 play through (preferably on KZbin) when the next gen edition comes out. Imo, many of us would enjoy chatting and hearing your thoughts throughout. This game is still the best as there is so much content. I can’t wait for new edition 😊

[@ivanlopez2979]

I thank you so much for these type of videos! I am making my 20th playthrough and I never got to the basement. Also never did Blue boy Lugos's quest in the cave of dreams until today! I cannot wait to see if I was missing anything in your next video

[@joaocarlospaesjr2324]

I didn't even know it was possible to talk to her after completing the secondary mission, I'm going to do that now in my save that I'm replaying the game for the twelfth time after update 4.0 in new game mode+ .

[@Rowlandi11]

Wild to see you still doing this. Long live the Witcher 3

[@annahenrietta9517]

Glad to see inspector Letalis back at work.

[@xLetalis]

Your grace

[@jeremymcpherson007]

This channel never fails to impress - or to increase my appreciation for what W3 devs accomplished.

[@legendsofthebravebard]

Poor Morvran, always getting beat up in Novigrad.

[@xLetalis]

[@MandalorianRevan]

Glad to see I'm not the only one who didn't know about the basement until this video.

[@kdot-is9yb]

Honestly after finding and finishing Lethos quest i just finished the quest and never went back

[@diegoaltli9691]

What! Didn't even know about the hidden room!!!!! And the fact that she returns to her brother's remains is amazing!!! Loved Cyberpunk2077, but it's almost unbelievable that the same people who made that game created TW3

[@nerdoutreachprogram5358]

I’m so glad X is still making Witcher 3 videos.

[@GButtersnaps]

Yeah it's me commenting again. I love how much work you put into these videos, and what I love most about them is I randomly find some of the things you show before I watch a video and it makes me excited. You've become my favorite person to talk about Witcher! Literally all my info comes from your channel.

[@ShadowJCreed]

I’ve done two playthroughs of this game and I had no clue about the entire basement area and finding her brother’s skeleton. Each time I had Letho alive so maybe it was because of his quests that I never did really investigate around the whole manor

[@Kat_30303]

I was waiting for a video about Dolores! I had mentioned her in a comment section a while back and you replied saying there was more about her. This is much more than I expected and really cool thanks!

[@flicka25]

Someone mentioned this and it's a reference to The Fall of the House of Usher where the brother buries his sister alive because she wants to get married. Apparently there was insanity in the family. It ends with the sister escaping and setting the house on fire. If she hadn't been nuts before she was then lol. There's a movie too if anyone is interested. But I never found Letho either even though I let him live....still lately the game seems to be disregarding this save because Baroness La Valette is very cordial and I killed Aryan lol First time I played it she mentions it and walks away. This is during the Broken Flowers Quest.

[@bindair_dundat]

There's a basement? If neither the ghost contract nor the Letho quests send you directly there, I think I've missed that. On 3 playthroughs...

[@xLetalis]

[@dylanmatlock7280]

Can’t wait to see you doing videos on the Witcher 4 ! You have the best Witcher content in my opinion!

[@paulreckless]

So im currently at video number 146 binchwatching your stuff. I must say i really enjoy your videos. Stay like you are. You seem like a kind and nice person.

[@armanmoshfeghyar8701]

The legend uploads again! Idk if this is common knowledge or not but one thing I found and it was interesting is that if you romance triss,talk to yen about your romance with triss in skellige,then in the ugly baby mission when doing yen's part if you be annoying to yen and take the antagonize options, she'll open a portal and send you flying in kaer morhen, you'll land in the sea and when you go back there's a little piece of unique dialog about it. It was the first time I got it and thought it was worth sharing.

[@David-nq8cv]

Oh that is quite old knowledge which I'm sure some are unaware about

[@jxjason9]

another round of never ending mysteries

[@darkshadxow]

First and glad to be in another amazing video by greatest Witcher channel.

[@xLetalis]

you flatter me ;]

[@its_Jeppu]

I never even knew her brother was in there, how am i still finding out stuff?!

[@Krin06]

Damn, Witcher 3 will always suprised me

[@scifugitive2]

The husband could have indeed be identified by the brother, even if not when the brother was hit from behind. It would be highly unlikely that Dolores would be able to pick up and move her brother to the basement and wall him up.. all before he comes to. But the husband might have been able to get the brother down to the basement by himself. However, there would have been a surprising amount of time to get the wall bricked up, and the brother would have awoken before the wall was complete. Unless the husband had paid someone to help or do the wall for him, he would have been recognized by the brother. Granted, Dolores could have knocked out her brother and then set her husband to block him up. But, unless husband for some reason told the brother that Dolores whacked him; the brother would have assumed that the husband clocked him because the husband was there... blocking him into an alcove coffin. As to why Geralt assumes that the pages are from Dolores' torn journal, it is just a guess on his part. There is no proof given that they were her diary pages. This is Dolores' brother, with whom he lived for decades (we think). It is highly likely he had a journal or notebook too, and would be likely purchased or made at the same place as Dolores' journal. This is circumstantial.

[@xLetalis]

thank you for the insight!

[@makenaiyomi1083]

Yeah I felt like I never got the full picture of that quest either. I tried to investigate it a bit in my last playthrough and found all the things you can find but actually never came back a few days later. Glad to see I'm not the only one who thinks something is up here.

[@Philipp2968]

How you always use „Tomira“ as another word for butt 😂

[@montblanc6982]

It was the brother who murdered the husband, then placed the pages writen from his perspective on him, so it appears to be the other way around on first glance, since there is no ink vial in the room.

[@celuloiddreamer]

Had the apprentice working on this quest’s continuity, clearly 😂

[@mam0lechinookclan607]

Didn't even know Letho was in the Witcher 3 :O

[@ridleythebloodthirsty8958]

I ran straight past a Leshen and broke right into the cellar finding the corpse along with the letter

[@michaeltheisen]

"I need to fill in this space with some video overlay...... hmm" *proceeds to rough up Ciri's future hubby*

[@slabbyfatback2272]

She killed her brother, wrote the notes (acting like her brother)using her journal thinking nobody would ever get their hands on her journal to start with-Just in case his body was ever found, she'd have an alibi.

[@Jinkypigs]

LOL. Wrote the note expecting no one to get their hands on it ... and then just in case for alibi. Dude make up your mind.

[@kkkk-uh1cu]

Bruh. Journal, not body

[@kanegamer5595]

I didn't know that you could find her dead brother, I always just found the treasure and that was it

[@diyeana]

Geralt's creeping on poor Dolores, watching her sleep.

[@kag8394]

What the hell. I been there thousends of times and I didn't noticed that basement. Time to play the witcher yet again.

[@MontanaBoyInJapan]

First time I learned about the basement despite playing through four times. I will have to do this when the updated version is released

[@steffent.6477]

I never returned there. Thank you for the input.

[@neros398]

Plot twist: xLetalis is actually gaunter odimm, thats how he know all this stuff. They even look alike

[@King_Nothing_Official]

Dolores: one can't turn back time Ciri: Hold my sword

[@adolfobama3601]

Awesome vid as always. Seems like you gonna find easter eggs till 2030.

[@xLetalis]

thank you :)

[@Casca1997Berserk]

.. Or longer :p

[@marocho129]

Am I the only one who completely missed the 2:45 cellar even though I did this quest like ten times? :D

[@lesliekilgore648]

i personally think this quest is so 'buggy' is because CDPR just wrote in TOO MANY OPTIONS and possible paths for Geralt to take to 'finish' this quest. just look at Letalis' video and you'll see there are: find Letho by accident, find Letho on old lady's quest, find the skeleton and notes first, find the treasure first, find the skeleton after the journal, trigger Letho's traps, don't trigger Letho's traps, Letho is dead in W2, Letho is alive in W2 and MANY MORE! the options were just too many for CDPR to correctly write NEW DIALOGUE correctly for EVERY option!

[@Charuid]

I missed the brother on my Xth playthrough before finishing the quest for some reason and was so bummed out I wouldn't be able to find Dolores to tell her later or that she wouldn't return to the manor. Found it later, told her, she returned, all was well. It was all thought out so perfectly by CD Pred.

[@nay-leen1322]

I have never known about the basement!! 🤯 Great work on the video, very cool ❤️

[@katearcher8514]

She says that her brother didn't even get out of the house to see them off, so apparently he was already trapped and she didn't know about it. Assuming she doesn't lie of course.

[@johnheslin6914]

Just saw this video.......just a day after I found Dolores's brother after finishing the quest.

[@samadhoosen6014]

I'm starting to get the feeling that you like this "Witcher" game

[@Witcherino]

I've played the quest 5 times and never found the basement, first time I hear about that :v I can see some inconsistencies though, I think it's due to the fact that the quest has too many variations and 2 major differences that is Letho being there or not, all of it together was probably hard to put into the game without mixing the code and with knowing wich line belonged to which part of the quest.

[@xLetalis]

I thought it's quite common

[@Witcherino]

@@xLetalis It's probably very common, I apparently don't pay enough attention.

[@SSW1FTT]

10:27 I think Geralt’s dialogue is used for foreshadowing or give clues that there is something else in the area?

[@weetabixharry]

I spent so much time figuring out how to jump up to get the chest in the little barn/stable building that I never even found this underground place in 4 playthroughs. There may be "1 last secret" for some people... but I think most of us still have hundreds left to find.

[@Lacusveris]

I always thought her name was a play of The Cranberries vocalist's name, Dolores O'riordan

[@xodix1416]

Do you know that if you take off your shooes in trisses apartment the landlords are kinder and don't talk about bringing in mud

[@xLetalis]

oh? I have to try it :)

[@sannidhyabalkote9536]

ok WHAT

[@xodix1416]

@@xLetalis The lady even calls you a young gentelmen (polish translation)

[@thrldvrss]

I purposefully didn't set off any of Letho's traps or enter any of the buildings except the one he was in when I encountered this quest again on my current playthrough. I wanted to see if the traps remained in place when the bad guys showed up but it seems that they don't for some reason. Regardless, I went straight to Dolores to let her know that her problem had been taken care of after I sent Letho to Kaer Morhen. We then had the exchange about me going back to Reardon Manor at some point to find her chest so I decided to do this immediately and I also didn't use fast travel in favour of riding on Roach to get there instead. Dolores, to my astonishment, was already there as I could hear her sweeping inside one of the buildings. The interesting thing is that I had to use Aard to break down her door(it was highlighted in red using Witcher Senses like the other doors before you encounter Letho) before I could see her. I felt terrible, as I just made more mess for her to tidy up, but I guess she was just happy to be there again. 😅

[@bobzhang899]

that was the real "overrun by monsters"

[@guitarmama06]

I kind of feel sorry for Delores's brother. The pages from the brother are always empty for me.

[@duffyd2534]

I cannot believe I never found the corpse, I just got the chest and thought I was done😂 Thanks, amazing video