Solving the Mystery in The Witcher 3 

Wind's Howling

This played out like a real life Witcher contract. great detective work everyone!!

I just kind of wish they came forward and spoke about everything like this that came to mind. Who cares if it was scrapped, if it didn't work, or whatever, it's still really interesting to see their thought process and some alternative lore we could've had, no reason to hide any of it It could even make for an extremely interesting "the making of" video, focusing on the writing itself instead of on the animations, voice acting and similar stuff

It's amazing how ambitious CDPR were with the Witcher 3, despite being a much smaller studio back then. I mean it is still a massive game, however I can't help but dream of how much more there could've been :) Also I know a new Netflix trailer is out, I'll probably make a video about it next week

The voice acting out those NPCs harmed by the Katriona is second to none. Amzing how they put in so much effort to the deleted NPCs too

Is it possible to do a Q&A with devs or VA's? Could give a nice insight into the development process and maybe cut content.

I love how xLetalis has evolved from doing Witcher 3 videos to doing Witcher 3 cut content videos. Much respect.

Cutting out Emhyr/Tywin’s lines is criminal, we need moooore!!!

Now that i've just finished The Witcher 2 for the first time, i realise just how much we're missing in The Witcher 3 with Iorveth missing entirely, and Roche doing little more than a glorified cameo. I feel like so much more could've been done with the latter alone, let alone the both together. It's incredible to think that there is so much to The Witcher 3 and that it already takes almost 200h if not more to finish entirely, and yet so much is missing at the same time. This titbit of new dialogue is interesting, it really ties into the previous game, and well, when you have Charles Dance as a VA, it's a criminal offence to hear his voice so little in the game. Especially considering how Emhyr only appears in TW3 despite being an overarching character/antagonist of the whole Franchise and that the whole of TW2 is essentially a giant game of chess, and Emhyr's the one moving the pieces. Maybe it was meant to be part of a quest that would've delved a bit more on the possibility of Roche being in contact with Nilfgaard to negotiate and secure a future for a free Temeria as a vassal of the Empire. Because coming straight from TW2, Roche cooperating with Nilfgaardians sounds rather out-of-character. I wish we knew just how much though. Iorveth, some Roche content, any kind of follow-up regarding Aryan la Valette other than a brief appearance of his mother, Saskia and the events of Vergen, all the cut Nilfgaardian content, etc...

Listening to Emhyr muse about the death of Foltest, however brief it was, kind of makes me wish that that they had included a separate scene with him and Ciri in the game. It could have been a cool opportunity to show another side to his character, like his moment with Ciri in The Lady of the Lake.

It may not be related but one thing I noticed. The Sword of Destiny trailer has a three interesting parts, 1st is Nilfgardian army walking through forest in what looks like a winter and 2nd is Geralt walking towards Emhyr while he is sitting on a throne. The 3rd is the Wild Hunt burning down a village. The very first Witcher 3 debut trailer has Geralt standing infront of burning village. Maybe this was all part of a storyline that was scrapped including this winter location and maybe the first time you would meet Wild Hunt was in White Orchard.

A mystery to that needs to solved is when we are getting Witcher 4. Thank you, xLetalis.

After all these years, I cant believe youre still talking about this and yet I find myself comforted and enthralled by the content.

Temerian: Did you... did you really dancing on graves of your's enemies? Emhyr: ...Dude did i look like a dancer to you?

In relation to the cut dialogue, I think somrthing similar should have replaced it, to further show the darker side of Nilfgaard, I believe Witcher 3 doesn't do that enough for Nilfgaard and makes choosing their ending an easier choice than the Radovid or Djikstra ending.

All appreciate the detectives at work with these scrapped content.

Thanks for talking about alternative Prologue. Very few people knew about it before you made this video! I should also give credit to user Flipper444 and his source in Poland who knows a ton about the cut content and have helped the BiA team a lot. Just a few points. I think they scrapped the alternative prologue because they didn't want to spend the time and effort making something that only the small subset of people who played Witcher 2 at the time and imported a save would ever see. I presume that the regular White Orchard would've had the cultist plague stuff at one point too before the whole plague questline was scrapped. Regarding the infected peasants in Velen, they actually were set to spawn at what was once a field hospital labor area next to the Devil's Pit. However this is now just a field of Nekkers. MerseyRockoff(credit to him for the restored Emhyr intro) decided to move them to Mulbrydale so that they would make a bit more sense in the current version of the game. Thanks for the great video!

You called the last section "boring outro", but I personally find it dope with the OST. Im amazed how you keep finding Witcher things to talk about

This ...brings a smile to my face

AAHHHH!! The long awaited vid! Thank you! I get to hear more of the emperor speak. And I nearly choked on my ramen seeing my portraits in . Thank you so much!!! (wish I could use the nilfheart emoji )

The content being removed for new players makes alot more sense when you realize that the previous witcher games also aren't on playstation

Always love watching your Witcher 3 videos! I love learning more about Witcher 3 no matter how big or small.

Would love the games creators to do a podcast discussing all of this stuff. Good job mate!

The whole demon thing is very interesting and peculiar at the same time. Demons are quite rare in the Witcher universe and can't recall them ever engaging actively without humans doing something so maybe this plague thing is a result of a contract gone wrong or something, maybe like O'Dimm? Wonder if getting the empress ending while having started HOS might turn up something although it shouldn't considering the whole intro thing but who knows. Anyway I was hoping to see Iorveth in this whole mess somehow or maybe even Isengrim but alas

Thanks for another really interesting video Letalis!

I think that you and those sharing your love for the game(s) are doing some solid, commendable work. I always enjoy watching your videos and hope to be able to continue doing so for many, many years to come. Best wishes!

I do think that the committed section of our Witcher community is second to none. I do so enjoy seeing various people coming together to help solve mysteries that the game has thrown up. Eight years later and there's still things being found. There can't be many games with this type of longevity. Sure, you can say Skyrim still has a loyal following but I'm not aware that secrets are still being found in the game after 12 years or for that matter after its first 5 years.

Your enthusiasm about this game is inspiring! 🎉 love your videos!

Haha, I love your illustration cuts for the deleted scene! Maybe the Temerians had some kind of holy tree in the yard (as the Melitele cult is a bit druidic), Emhyr wants to make an example and the gardener tried to intervene.

This detective work is incredible! Thank you for the glorious additional content. I'm nerding out over the extra Emhyr dialogue and new tangible evidence of the original plans for the opening. EPIC.

Thank you so much! I loved this video. I think it's understandable that CDPR decided to keep the game easy to acess for completely new players. Still, I also think it's a little shame and do fondly remember preparing about 12 different versions of TW2 saves with detailed descriptions of my steps before TW3 was released. I was so mind-blown after TW2 how different the two paths in the game are designed that I was sure this would continue even further. I was a little bit disappointed when it then had so little impact. A disappointment I recovered from in no time when I realized what an absolute masterpiece TW3 was. But in your video I notice again how my mind also digresses "what could have been". A dream that remains - it's fun to fantasize further. Thank you so much xletalis!

Great video as always, mate, and it’s made me want to go back and play The Witcher 2 yet again. Thank you.

I presume the axe Emhyr calls for is not for the man’s execution but to chop down the tree. If the gardener’s to be executed he’s more likely to hang. But the tree seems to have some special significance-but this is Nilfgaard now. Silly Temerian customs will no longer grace a royal court.

Unbelievable that you go so far into it.

Hi xLetalis, i think i found another easteregg referencing monty python, it's the one with the silent druid in Gedyneith, i think it's referencing more or less a scene in monty python : the life of Brian, when brian steps on a monk foot and made him break his vow of silence that lasted 18 years. by the way i love the work you do, it's inspiring !

Sometimes content is scrapped because it was a bad idea to begin with, but later devs will find another reason and rarely admit the truth. It would make sense that in the Iorveth path Temeria will fall faster and with less resistance, if you don't help Nathalis in Chapter 3 of Witcher 2. Then the meeting with Yenefer can happen sooner, but Gerald and Yen will have to wait until spring to start the main game, due to too much snow. There may have been a whole section of Gerald and Yen reconnecting before the start of Velen, and some Velen events happening sooner or not at all.

Nice job it was amazing whenever ive got witcher craving i go straight to peterkennis witcher audiobook or xletails videos thanks to you we have new contents after all this years God bless you and your family❤️🙏

Wow once again you came up with the goods! Never change xLetalis...you're a genius.

Just replayed witcher 3 again today. Still can't believe there are still things to find in this game.

I thought this was about the cyberpunk Mystery lol But still a great video like always man!

You dropping a witcher 3 vid any day of the week is nice but dropping one on Friday before the weekend is Chef'skiss 😅❤

Alternative prologues I see, this is where the idea for Cyberpunk 2077 came from.

Your channel is a gift

It's absolutely amazing how much details and content was cut out without making the game less great. I would love to see the questline about the Catriona plague and the Devils Pit. Even though I am glad that they cut out some stuff that would not have been suitable for the story (like the earlier dialouge with the man with the dog who is searching for his brother).

Thank you for the interesting content about our favourite game!

great work 😃

I really loved the witcher 2, and was really bummed when I found out Iorveth was cut out (since I played all three games in order). the idea that choices from tw2 would affect tw3 that much is so cool, it would really make the game unique for each player. And might even encourage people to play the extremely underrated prequel.

8:04 love that image of Yennefer.

You are for the Witcher what Dan Brown once was.

I wouldn't be surprised if there's still more secrets to be found with this game. I also wouldn't be surprised if even the devs have no idea what is there.

Love your TW3 videos : )

Great Video. It amazes me how much (cut) content can still be found in the Witcher 3. It's really interesting how different the potential opening is to the existing one. I feel like the existing one could be Iorweths path in which he and and other elfs just left the continent to escape the coming war. Whilst in the other opening which would be Roches path which could take place during the time when Radovid attacked Kaedwen (how it's told to us by ambassador var Attre in the existing opening) someone who tried to stop the advance of the nilfgaardian army opened the devils pit and let the plague loose. Therefore the entire game could have played out differently and without the nilfgaardian influence. Or it could have let to an ending in which the nilfgaardians lost the war for sure.

significant peripetion Sir :D well done as always

Just nice to see a throne breaker clip at the end :)

You, good sir, rea;;y are the GOAT here. Simply marvelous. thank you for finding more secrets every few days.

Great video! Keep it up.

Dear lord... I love you, Letalis for everything you do for us! Let it never end!

gotta love xLetalis

You had to upload it right when I was about to go sleep.. guess I'll be dreaming about Cerys tonight.

They should release a small novel like story of the original devil’s pit, would be so cool!

When I see a xLetails video up, I click.

People keep asking me why I replay Witcher 2 and 3 over and over and over... I just send them the link to your RU-vid channel.

Thank you

Can we all agree that the best thing is that the love and excitement to dream big and push past ones ability isn't really a fault. Many of the problems become charming or loved in time. Its amazing how big the quality jump is and how much they were able to stuff in. I just made another post talking about how much wonderful content they have available if they just bring everything up to the quality of 3 and its an old game. Hopefully switching engine's will mean the whole thing is redone. 1 and 2 will get fleshed out and brought to the quality of 3 and 3 brings them together in something truly epic with choices really making a difference. Blood and wine could be fleshed out and maybe the part about mutagens could become a major story and stand alone and connected to the school of the car. Its amazing they put people who cared enough anywhere near enough money to get what we have. I want to see if there is anything decent in season 3 Netflix but I will wait for several months to make sure I don't support it. That's why what you do is important. Its easy to avoid something bad to send a signal. There are a lot of things that might be good or have something new that triggers the corporate mindset to go in anew direction. If we want more things like the Witcher we have to make it known there is interest and money. You can even see it with the Witcher that there is a worry of anything that might be to complex for the unwashed masses. The more we can do to show a market the better hopefully. Then hopefully we can find people who care to make it.

Its amazing even considering how much the final narrative is a patchwork with massive chunks reworked pretty much last minute its still on a class on its own in game storytelling.

Glassfish is an upstanding guy

Nice to hear some cut Charles Dance lines!

oh yeah!! see ya again in another two weeks!!

imagine an alternate uncut version of witcher 3

It would make sense that the Iorveth/Roche path choice would affect when the Nilfgaardian invasion happens. Different pieces on the board to consider.

I too am disappointed by the cut content for Witcher 2. That being said, I completely understand why CDPR kept the references of other Witcher stories to a minimum. If you rely too much on things from the first 2 games and books, it can put people off from buying and playing your game. Having never played Witcher 1 or read the books prior to playing 2 and 3 for the first time, any references to those events flew way over my head. I even had to look up a few Witcher 2 characters because I forgotten who they were. It wasn't a deal breaker, but I did have to shrug those moments off and hope they weren't important to the story. It was only after watching a playthrough of 1 (that gameplay is just not fun for me) and reading all the novels, I was able to truly appreciate everything the game offers. Having been on both sides of the coin, I can see how someone walking into Witcher 3 completely blind would have been completely turned off if the game continuously played back to prior events. Many new players may walked away and Witcher 3 only has about the same success as the first 2 games. Making it available and approachable to everyone is why it has become the huge success it is. I know diehards can be annoyed when things are streamlined to expand to a wider audience, but CDPR made the right call on this one.

I wonder if there are additional details between those corpse piles in the southern end of the Velen map and the Devils pit quest. Haven’t been there since before the next gen update. I doubt it though. Still one of my favourite locations because of how disturbing the environment is there. Lighting piles of corpses on fire (nearly twelve) and the smell.

My fav W2 path is Iorveth/Saskia, however that will get you the least amount of special content in W3.

Very interesting

7:20 dark souls vibes. I like it!

Medallion’s humming. New xLetalis video, must be.

Cant wait for your Season 3 Trailer reaction

Can we all agree, there will always be new stuff to find in Witcher 3

Next xLetalis video is gonna be titled : I watched season 3 of the Netflix show so you don't have to.

After all this, we definitely need a documentary for making of the witcher 3 from CDPR.

Hello. I know people won't care much about what I want to say, but I'm gonna say it anyway... I've been feeling down a lot lately (I have serious mental health issues), but watching your videos helps me cope with that (especially "X things you missed in TW3" and videos from DA series, I enjoy those the most) and it makes me feel better, even if it's just for a little while. I just wanted to say thank you for making this content. There isn't much things I enjoy these days, but watching your videos is a great help to me. Thank you!

Your videos are so damn good.

In year 2137 will hapen two things: humans become multigalactic civilizaton and xLethalis will discover another thing about Witcher 3

Hey Xletalis, I was just playing the Witcher 3 again and Im sure you already know, but if you use axii on Louis when he's wounded on the ground (lethos betrayer) you can actually fight him and kill him

If I had to guess, the decision to cut Yorveth entirely, probably came quite late in development relatively speaking

Always wondered what was going on with some of those villagers in Mulbery. Seemed like they were talking about something other than what was right in front of them. Like there was something off about them. Probably why I always found ways to get the hell out of there quickly as I could because weird, disjointed conversations in roleplaying games almost always are a sign of something really bad right around the corner, either a badly implemented quest that can screw a lot up or a major game breaking bug. Either way experience has taught me to run away from those. But it does make a lot of sense that it represents the two different paths you take in Witcher 2 what you find in White chard at the start. Would have made me redo the one side of Witcher 2 as my save files from siding with the elves got corrupted before Witcher 3.

Aw maaaaan Charles Dance was amazing as Emhyr and they cut out conversations with him?! That line about if he actually dances on the graves of his foes/no one ever asks him that is so good!

1:52 what a peculiar harpy

Well no matter what the "great plagues" and the "witch hunts" are all canonic events in the future of the witcher world :), they are events that happen as said in books and it's nice the games really delve into it: "In particular, it is believed that Ithlina predicted the Nordling Wars (1239-1268), the Great Plagues (1268, 1272 and 1294), the bloody war of the Two Unicorns (1309-1318) and the Haak Invasion (1350). It was equally believed that she predicted the climate changes observed beginning at the end of the 13th century (The White Frost), which popular superstitions always associated with the end of the word and the prophetic arrival The Destroyer [sic]. This fragment of Ithlina's prophecy was the trigger of the infamous Witch Hunts (1272-1276) and caused the deaths of numerous women and unfortunate girls, who were mistaken for the incarnation of The Destroyer. Today, Ithlina is considered as a legendary figure by a number of researchers, and her "prophesies" as contemporary apocrypha cobbled together from bits and pieces, an ingenious literary fraud.. Effenberg and Talbot Encyclopaedia Maxima Mundi, Tome IX" :) quest about the Catriona would be have been interesting.

I know they are different univereses but the fact that Charles Dance is Tywin Lannister and Emhyr still fascinates me

8:14 That dial-looking structure just looks like the gate dial mechanism from StarGate franchise as if one of the gates was buried there ages ago.

Another great deep dive into the game. With the success that Witcher 3 had, I can't really blame them for not wanting to link Witcher 2 choices to the original version. It would've been great though to include it in one of the updated versions.

Hey there! Will you be making videos about Phantom Liberty when it comes out? It would be really nice if you also continue your cyberpunk details missed videos :)

So interesting! Always makes me sad that Iorveth and any implications from the Witcher 2 were taken out of the game

The main complaint I have with Witcher 3 is the fact that my boi Iorveth is not there. What a missed opportunity.

Trying to resist the temptation to play TW3 again. Is xLetalis the Oscar Wilde of TW3?

Can it be that in the comic intro of the witcher 3 the priest that is talking is somehow involved with the cut content of the plague and the devils pitt?

I'm glad they did, wticher 3 was my first in the saga cause of never having a PC and just consoles. And I gotta say, in my 30 years as a gamer, this title will forever be one of the best video games I've ever played. If they didn't made it to be open for newcomers like myself I might have never played this jewel.

It wouldn't surprise me if the Devils Pit was designed with all those NPCs as ghosts and you have to use the lantern to see them. Like in the tower of mice quest where you gradually learn what happened etc.

Dont know if you ever found this but if discoverd that you can see the dwarf (fabian) that gets killed by pricilla’s attacker (the vampire) in the mission pyres of novigrad. You see him talking to his brother who you encounter in the mission. Thought it was cool so had to share it with you. 😁