20 Details You Probably Missed in Skellige | THE WITCHER 3 

King bran. OMFG THEY TRIED TO WARN US

The one thing I wish Skellige had, was actual ships traveling back and forth between the islands. It doesn’t need to be that much, maybe 2-3 ships at a time? I mean, for an island nation, it makes very little sense that there aren’t any ships traveling back and forth between the different settlements on the islands.

A small contribution for anyone who doesnt know: If you ignore stealth options and approach Emhyr's ship while on a boat during the "Veni, Vidi, Vigo" quest (one of the final main missions of the base game) Geralt will cite "Wait! Parlay! I'm a- ! Dammit!" before getting sunk. Most probably a Pirates of the Caribbean easter egg. Made me smile instantly :P

Skellige was amazing. But Toussaint just took my breath away

Next video: "187 Details, easter eggs, secrets and bosses you probably missed in Royal Palace from Vizima" Lol.

Cerys on the throne is best. She literally is stated to cause the Isles to thrive and grow, she’s a great queen.

Man, everyone's like "I had no clue there was a lift." When for me that was the first thing I saw and thought everyone knew about that

#11: Deflect the curse definitely. If you make him go back to her, he'll be unhappy because he doesn't love her, she will be unhappy because he'll never love her, his wife will be unhappy that he left her, and his son will have to grow up without a father. If you deflect the curse, Lothar and his family live happily ever after, and Jonna, who is wicked enough to curse an innocent child over jealousy, will get what she deserves.

Jesus, the mild panic I got when geralt was falling at the beginning there.. It's a good thing no monster ever figured out they could drop him like two meters off the ground and insta kill him!

3 trolls in the cave are so funny. They just keep farting when you fight them lmao.

“What’s the different between a nilfgardian and a drowner?” “Drowners actually know how to swim” When Black ones attack Skellige.

2:16 I was actually surprised that Birna Bran let herself get arrested. When I sided with Cerys and Birna was being exposed I thought she would jump from the rampart to her death and say something about her choosing her end at her own terms, especially after they reveal the method of her death

Finished the game just to realise that you didn’t really finish sh*t

In the basement where the sky cells are, one of the pirates also has a letter covered in lovecraftian language and the word "cthulu" indicating they may have been cultists.

Here is another one. On the east side of Skellige , you will find a small island where you will see a sunken ship. If you investigate enough, a quest will show up. The ship apparently comes from very very far away, as far as Ofir I think. The quest ends in Novigrad when you encounter a woman with his child speaking a whole different dialect.

There is a Jimi Hendrix Easter Egg i just found after having the game since its release. Its an NE Island on the Pali Gap Coast in Skellige. An Isolated cave used as a retreat by the worlds most famous bard before Dandelion, the great Xirdneh of Zanguebar reknowned for his ferocious lute strumming. Xirdneh is Hendrix backwards. Hendrix had a song named Pali Gap about a place in Hawaii where he made a movie and filmed a concert. I met the bass player from the band of Gypsies named Billy Cox and we talked about this song because the riff is boss. This made my day. As if i could not enjoy this game any more!!!

Birna's corpse in the game the exact image on her Gwent card in the Blood and Wine DLC! That is so epic.

I think the ghost ship is a reference to Pavetta (Ciri’s birth mother) and her death. She was on a ship, there in Skellige, and drowned after a storm suddenly broke out. Or just another Skelliger voyage gone wrong.

There was this shrine in an island where you can pray for good or fair weather, and it works. The island was where you can get the "Iron Lady" quest.

I prefer Cery's on the throne. Skellige had always known war. Why not something new?

“No Nordling’ll ever understand the isles. This is Skellige!”

I have a minor detail that probably gets missed. When your wondering in wilds, you can search wooden logs and find money inside of them. I have no idea why, but you can get a fair amount of coins from them.

Skellige is my fav place to be around the atmosphere is much better and the people actually respect being a witcher and being a warrior and are actually honest people loved the place shame the game wasn't based more in skellige

Me: You really think you could find 20 things a Witcher veteran like me did miss? *Watches Video* Also me: * surprised pikachu face *

Yeah killing Morvagg after he gives you the prize... is satisfying.

normies: I see dead people. xLetalis: I see hundred of crabs.

Here's another super unique detail I noticed: During the quest, 'Stranger in a Strange Land', if you Aard the other prisoners, you'll get into a fist fight with them, and if you win, it triggers a rare dialouge scene with the Guards

The best detail about Skellige for me personally is that most of the towns/villages in the Skellige isles are named after actual locations in Norway. I was raised in the very real town of Larvik, and I can’t tell you how much I appreciated its namesake in one of the best games of all time.

It's amazing how alive is the Witcher world CD Projekt created. If Cyberpunk 2077 has a fraction of the replayabilty of The Witcher 3 it will blow me away.

CDPR: How much detail do we want in the game? Also CDPR: Yes

9 things you might have missed in skellige: 1: At 11:42 Something you might have missed is if you choose to let jonna live, after a couple of days go back to the house of the cursed child. Now you can see there is a guy axing woods outside their house. Wait till it gets dark and the guy will come inside and sit on a chair inside the house. This might be the new partner of his mother and the now-stepfather of the child. 2: You can actually save jorund from dying. His death is scripted at the end of Contract: The Phantom of Eldberg if one hasn't completed King's Gambit yet. However, if King's Gambit is completed before the contract, the fight will never happen and thus he lives. However, doing the above to save him will lock you out of the following quests: Stranger in a Strange Land, The Cave of Dreams, and An Unpaid Debt. One trick however to not miss the cave of dreams contract is to go directly to to the cave location before collecting your reward from jorund ( or starting his quest). You can encounter Blueboy Lugos' ship near a cave southeast of Holmstein's Port and Kaer Muire. There you can start the quest. 3: There is actually a Secret Chest in Skellige (Kaer Muire Mountain). Just go on top of the mountain on Kaer Muire and you will stumble upon a chest. Wont reveal whats inside, its for you to find out. :) 4: Another one, there is actually a lot of hidden chest and a big genie like bottle or something that is used for alchemy below the distillery Southeast of the Palisade and northwest of Grotto. You can go there when you start the associated quest: Practicum in Advanced Alchemy. After finishing the quest, go out of the cave and on the wooden stair just outside the cave, slide down the mountain and on the bottom, you can find the chest where you can loot some good stuff including an alchemy diagram which can be found if you swim on the shore and dive down the water. But before doing that, there is actually a rotten corpse on the left side of the shore which looks like Gunter o Dimm or should i say GOD :) I think you can loot something from him which might be an apple which in reference to the garden of eden story wherein adam and eve saw the truth when eating an apple. I think Gunters purpose is like how the snake or satan performed his actions on the garden of eden. The rest is for your own interpretation. 5. On the Lord of Undvik quest, when you reach the area of master armorers cave associated quest, you can actually go on top of the mountain. Climb up to the top and slide your way down like a ski and turn right so your path would go down directly to the house. Its a very long and satisfying slide. Probably the longest one ive done. The path is also clear. 6: You can actually follow cerys after her argument with her brother during the opening of kings gambit quest. She will go down to the stairs and breath some fresh air to cool down on the balcony of the castle. There you can trigger a conversation with her. 7: At 16:05 There is actually a post script where svanrige actually ended the feud with all the clans and established a monarchy himself patterned after the continent but on the cost of blood of his people thus eliminating the voting system of the vikings which contradicts the notion of the freedom to vote in skellige and the uniqueness of its politics. 8. To confirm svanrige accusations with her mother that she told him to stay outside the feast hall, you can actually find him on his room on the right top just outside the feast hall. There he is standing beside his bed. 9 - Inaccesible place of power in Kaer trolde. But hear me out first. My unconventional choice despite criticism from others is hjalmar to be a crowned as king. Despite being hot-headed, he has the counsel of his sister and his father. Yeah, birna will not be convicted, but i hate the idea of banishing svanrige when you help cerys despite svanrige actually accused his own mother. I think the devs were critical about hjalmar. Even to the point of putting a quen (queen) place of power which is only accessible if you choose cerys. Hjalmar is a true embodiment of a skelligan. That is there way of life, though it might be not peaceful to other but through time with the help of her sister and his father, i think he will be a good king. I just can feel that CDPR is biased towards hjalmar. He is a nice guy, even helps geralt in battle in kaer morhen which he has a funny scene that he WWE one of the wild hunt soldier and went inside the portal, but was transported back because the hunt might have been shocked with what he has done. Haha. Even though in my own interpretation, birna will again strike and conduct another assassination towards hjalmar, he told geralt that he will be more suspicious and look more closely behind his back. Geralt even mentions to cerys that hjalmar is impetuous but not stupid. (Thus, he knows about the legend of the Vildkaarls who transforms into bears). Well, that is all I can remember xletalis, thanks and cheers mate.

the white crabs thing is actually pretty normal. i found a bunch of them too, and some of them were compressed against one another - i'm not sure if it's a bug, but you can also spot a hundred or so white crabs - near the docks the man you have to talk to to lift morkvarg's curse is placed.

me: ok time to study RU-vid: hey look whats just uploaded me: WELP ONE MORE WONT HURT

King Svanrige If you let the Woodland Spirit live, whenever you're near to any enemies (wolves/bandits) crows will fly around as a warning. Only happens on Skellige though.

I don’t know if this was already covered, but should you travel to Skellige before doing ANY research on Ciris whereabouts in Velen and or Novigrad, Geralt will tell Yen (at the funeral of King Bran) that he hasn’t found out anything as of yet! There’s even a dialogue option which goes something like „Haven’t found out anything yet. I just came here as fast as possible“ upon which Yennefer says something about how she expected Geralt to travel to Skellige only after completing his search for Ciri on the continent and that now they’ll start searching on Skellige since they’re both there already! Intersting detail one can easily miss since I doubt anybody would do things so much out of order!

Video intro: Geralt jumping from like 200 ft cliff to a river Me: Second guessing from a 10 ft jump

Skellige has the best music and is the most beautiful location in the game by far!

1 more bonus thing- There's 4 stones on Faroe that can be prayed at and it will clear the weather.

i believe in skellige there is a point up high on a mountian which looks like a stone monument. there is a poem on a bit of parchment at the foot of the structure which intimates that you should find the point where the tip of the structure casts a shadow into a nearby valley under the noon sun. if you go to that point, there is a chest half buried in the earth and some loot inside. i missed it on my first 3 playthroughs.

So here's two I recently found, not sure if anyone else found them. 1) on one the islands on the top right corner. If you explore the island you find what looks like a funeral pyre with a big brown bear on it with 2 chests. 2) (and this one intrigues me) again in top right corner area you find a ship, with bodies tied to the ropes going to the sails. Then on the steering wheel you find a body crucified to it. Does it belong to a quest or something? There's no treasure to it and it didn't trigger anything? Maybe a forgotten or drop quest from developers?

20 things??? You'll probably be able to find 100 things in Toussaint if you could find 20 in Skellige

I remember a locked house near the nithing quest that if you meditate in front of, a group of bandits come out and attack you and it turned out they had a hostage in there. Also in novingrad, there was a quest where some skellige men took over a brothel and you try to get them to leave, if you killed the ice giant first there was a dialog option mentioning it and they called geralt the giantslayer a friend and leave.

I might have found something: the Skellig islands actually exist in real life and are mainly know for their large population of birds. Now if you rotate the map of Ard Skellig (the main island) 45 degrees clockwise it is in the shape of a bird including a lake for an eye.

Cerys or Hjalmer? It's a tough choice if really do care, while i just go with the one i like the most as a character (Cerys) there is pros and cons to both rulers. *Spoilers* Hjalmer will rule skellige as it has been ruled for pretty much ever, plundering the sea, make skellige strong by showing outlanders that they are not to be triffled with, He would make an excellent commander in war and a good king to his people as not that much change would come if he was to be elected king. Cerys on the other hand does want to make change, while still keeping the isles strong she instead choses to welcome trade to the isles as well as starting to live off of the land instead of relying solely on the sea to provide. While alot of skelligers wouldnt agree with Cerys's methods right off the bat they are bound to pay off eventually. While not as great a warrior as Hjalmer she's a better diplomat and Would make an excellent queen if she gets elected.

Oh man, every time I learn something new about the Witcher it always baffles me how great of a game came out of such a comparatively small studio. The details are insane. Also the fact that in many quests you don't get a "well done"-medal but just have to live with your own consciousness is pretty cool, that feeling of doubt that you forgot something or didn't make the right choice without ever getting a definitive answer. Just next level gaming.

3:13 its an easter egg, a reference to a Polish punk song which contains a line "Dobry chłopak był i mało pił" which means "he was a good boy, didn't drink much" but it doesn't rhyme or sound catchy in English. Witcher has a lot of those small Polish pop culture references which are very hard to notice for a foreigner.

Played for 350+ hours, never knew about the lift. The more you know.

20:06 In the German Version are the Trolls 3 German RU-vidrs Gronkh, Sarazar and High5. Gronkh and Sarazar are one of the fameoust RU-vidrs in Germany.

The Cerys path is better, the berserkers are formidable warriors, if Skellige ever gets invaded by the Nilfgaardians again, Skellige will need the berserkers, and she would probably be capable of marrying a foreign ruler and unifying their countries. Hjalmar keeps tradition up and his people happy but he's poking the hornet's nest, on the sea he could probably fend off the black ones but on land they are no match against trained and disciplined soldiers, once Nilfgaard makes it to shore its pretty much game over for them. I am proud of them both though, true warriors of steel and mind alike.

I knew about the lift, didn't know about the dialogue...your videos are never a waste of time.

Was i the only one who got the chills when he went to the whale spawn point?

I was laughing my ass of in my first playthrough when I asked Morkvarg for the reward and killed him right after that. One of the best endings to a quest xD

I see you still continuing your Witcher 3 researchs. Keep it up the videos xLetalis.

Cerys is the best ruler, because despite ignoring their traditions she wants to make Skellige a better place for those who live there.

I know I'm really late to this but I've now played the game 3 times and have chosen Cerys every time because she seems calmer and more level headed than Hjalmar. Also, the music in Skellige is my favourite. It's so hauntingly beautiful

About the last little detail: You can find the wedding gift in the ship wreck and give it to the (almost) husband.

IIRC, once you leave the tent after Avallac'h's briefing to you and the Sorceresses, you can find Ciri nearby in small, narrow ravine practicing her "Force" powers by levitating several small rocks. There are a few small snippets of dialogue. Another great video - Thank you.

A little longer than usual but I hope you guys enjoy it! Also, I've left a couple of things out since I plan on making exclusive videos for them. (One is about Hjalmar's quest). Also I I forgot to ask you guys to like the video :P Go ahead and do if you thought it was good!

The crabs are definitely there! I saw them too.

Cannot believe the amount of detail in this game. The land patterns and some of the other stuff you show is simply incredible. Developers knew 99.9% players won't see it, but still put it there for sake of making a more detailed, living world... incredible. It's 55 GB for good reason I see.

Common games "Goodbye NPC i'll never meet again!" The Witcher 3 "Let's make the grieving npc go mourn near the shore"

am i the only person who didn‘t even knew that morkvarg can be a man again i always solved the quest with giving him his own flesh and thats it :D

Brother you are the only one I know who shares my unrelenting passion for the witcher world! Currently watching your whole playlist (130+ videos) in order. Thank you so much for this A+++ Content and see you in the next one 😁

yeah but even if you kill morgvarg after hearing about his reward, people in towns will say, "another murderer runs free"

The crabs aren't specific to that quest, i saw them the first time i arrived on Undvik, but always at night time. It's a great sight when you see them.

Oh god oh no I can feel it, witcher 3... ITS PULLING ME BACK IN

After u get the quest about the book research. If u go further on the island. The hardest Griffin will be waiting for u.

I was surprised you didn't include the shipwreck to the east of "Redgill" that leads to the quest "From a Land Far, Far Away". I only discovered this one myself a couple months ago.

As far as I know the three Trolls are not only references but they are also voiced by the three RU-vidrs. CDPR had that done also with three german RU-vidrs btw.

Should've mentioned about shrines of Skellige gods which you can pray and change weather with it. And one of those shrines, theres a cute sidequest. Not sure locations. Youll have to search for them.

The Iron Maiden quest was a personal favorite of mine in Skellige.

Not something missed, but I recently did the Skellige's Most Wanted quest. Probably one of the most interesting one I have done so far. Very philosophical, & made me glad about the times I showed mercy to monsters earlier in the game!

You didnt include the unmarked riddle on Skellige, near the Druids Place I think. On a mointain, is a smal Stonehenge-like Rock formation, that ona specific time of the day, throws a shadow into the woods below, right where this shadow lands, isa secred unmarked tressure chest. I don´t quite remember where exactly it was, but somewhere south of the druids place I think. There is a book near these stones aswell that explains the riddle, if Im not mistaken.

Undvik is my favorite location in the whole game! I think there should be at least several interesting details... At least, song of the old man is beautiful

I still remember how blown away I was and how euphoric it was to land on Skellige for the first time, absolutely amazing.

Number 19 at 20:47. It’s just amazing that they put in that amount of detail. I would never even think to look for something like that. Amazing.

great video as always :D, you are the best Witcher youtuber easily

Skellige Act was so good to be just a game.I blindly went for Cerys for a wise king.Anyways,I'm waiting for a Toussaint video because it's so breathtaking and eye catching.I found so many things in Toussaint but I'm not home rn.Thanks for videos like this.I appreciate your efforts.Have a good life with your family...

I really liked 'the best of both worlds' option with Morkvarg. Similarly to the Werewolfs wife, it feels like a secret third option. Also Blueboys death hit me much harder than I expected, especially after his quest.

I just finished the game after it having been sat on my hard drive for 2 years without being touched. Gotta say, I am glad I opened it again. Definitely the best open world game I have ever played, and the second-best video game I have ever played. Everything about it was absolutely perfect. Only thing I could fault was Roach's mechanics being a bit wonky. Ending is an emotional roller coaster. I am actually sad that I can't erase my memory of this game and play it all over again. What an absolute masterpiece.

No one: xLetalis: THERE WAS CRABS HERE I SWEAR. (This counts as one right?????) Love the video

Cerys is best ruler, shes smart and stabilizes Skellige. Also she's badass and gorgeous

Man cant believe in 2019 ive come back again to your channel. used to binge watch your TW3 vids back in 2016

I missed at least a few of these that I can remember. I do remember there are more than a few of those Nazca Lines on Spikeroog that you can see if you manage to get up high enough. I believe you were the only one that has mentioned them at all out of the videos I have watched.

Poor xLetalis playing too much witcher 3 he thought crab rave was in Skellige (: Really good video !

I love this chain of islands, they may have slaves but they sure know to party. Edit: I chose Cery, that way we are rid of Birna Bran betrayal.

yesterday, I found king bran's burning ship on Skellige sea when I just randomly sailed on the sea.

I've played through this game at least 4 different times and I never knew that you could loot back the 1000 coins you paid to the captain to sail you to Skellige. I guess that obvious fact flew right over my head...or ran aground over a rocky outcropping.

Hey xletails found another side quest in skellige that i have never found even after 600 hours of playtime. Its called finders keepers and it is on the island north east of Yustianna grave on some islands by the coast. A ship wreak and a group of pirates are there. After killing them investigate and you start the quest. It is quite small but it is very obscure.

This is what I love about this game. I'm on my 3rd play through and I 'm still learning new things about it. I'd have to say that my favorite 2 details were how you could recover your money after the ship crashed and the pictures on the land . Skellige is so freaking massive, I probably only did around 50% of the stuff there.

"You fall off a ship, you can always swim back. You fall off a lift, all thats left is the funeral" That caught me off guard🤣🤣🤣

Skellige's soundtrack, mainly the one that plays in the port of Kaer Trolde is Masterful,of the 9 times I finished the witcher 3 I always feel chills when i hear this soundtrack. I also feel nostalgia, remembering when I finished the game for the first time in 2018 and went to Skellige for first time in the game.

Videos like this just shows what a great game this is, I'm on my 3rd play through and I'm still finding new things and outcomes

0:29 better known as the „Rad Steez, Bro!“ archievement mountain

Very cool Videos, I just love them to watch. Thank you so much for your effort ✌🏽✌🏽

@xLetalis You just earned a Subscriber, great video and lots of interesting things, I think I recognised most of them but the re-reference was wonderful!

Cerys is a great ruler. She is wise and sly, she finds the right way. I like her.

Perfect!I'm just about to start a new Witcher 3 playthrough for the 50th time

@xLetalis Hey man great vid . i just want to add one detail (or a bug more specificly) . i am not sure if thats a bug in my game or in general . When i did the morgwarg quest i did actually choose to let him go so that i he tells me about my reward and killed him right there and then . But afterwards in chatter through the streets in various places in Skellige people actually said that morgwarg is free to kill again or something like that (they didnt blame me but they talked like he is still alive).

Cerys is the best ruler for Skellige. Full of wisdom, unites the clans in the end, and puts an end to the raiding of foreign lands. Sigi is the best Chancellor option in my opinion. Even though he's an ass, he's the lesser of 3 evils and he quoted Macbeth