Unsolved Mystery in The Witcher 3 

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White Orchard seems to really punch above its weight in terms of hidden/hard to find content

How many years later and we still discover or try to discover things in this game. It is amazing to me that this happens, this game is really something else, something special.

The first floating stones i always thought it was Ciri messing with the place of power, since the stones also float around her when she practice her magic. Idk if she can leave them floating for eternity, but who knows, after the game ends, she is so much powerful than when we see her training.

Cant believe its been 8 years and community still talks about unsolved Witcher 3 mysteries, goes to show how big the game is

I should add that all this was in the Old-Gen as well!

I think we are missing a likely possibility. It could be that winter white orchard was developed from a version of WO before places of power were actually added to it (maybe they weren't in game yet, or maybe they weren't going to put them in the tutorial zone). The cult altar and the harpy nests could be their earlier ideas for what would occupy those locations, as they probably planned where map points of interest would be first.

Every time I see content from White Orchard I want to return there. To start the game and just be there again. Maybe it's nostalgia, because it's the first area you experience the Witcher 3 or it's just a fantastic map.

I'm sure the large blobs are supposed to have a dungeon inside them, starting from the missing mesh. They all seem connected and it makes sense to load them in like that. But man, it's incredible you keep presenting us with all this stuff, still after digging around so long.

It warms my cold, dead heart to see you **still** finding new things to mention in The Witcher 3. This is a game I will always keep installed, firing it up again feels like meeting up with a dear old friend.

These large somethings look like oversized Stones. The red Box says "Outdated Mesh", so might those just be stones that should be underground but their mesh got somehow corrupted and supersized them?

There is so much work you put in these videos. It's rare to go someone go as far as translate a dead language for their videos. Also I love how you use music from the previous witcher games as well as thronebreaker soundtrack, it's a nice touch and those games are underrated.

xLetalis in fifty years "After all this time? Always"

I'm surprised you don't have one of the games supervising developers as a contact by now telling you all their little secrets. Anyway if you use the auto-loot mod in White Orchard you can get a ton more "treasure" than you ever could from quests, manual looting, and walkabouts. So there must be a lot of things in that area that were never implemented.

Will xLetalis ever be done delivering Witcher content? I don't ever want that mystery to be solved.

Somewhere at CDPR, there is a spreadsheet/chart/checklist where someone is keeping track of everything that xLetalis finds in the game.

My guess is that at some point in development they went with a wintery white orchard, but scrapped it and reused that little subsection of it for the empress ending.

After all these years, still love your vids man

The 'stargate' thing in the original devils pit (before next gen) actually looks a lot like the conjunction of the spheres model/animation from the intro of the game. (Seen at 10:16 in the video) . Maybe it was somehow related to that?

I got goosebumbs all over my body when you showed the "prophet" from the intro... I have to play through the game once again. What a masterpiece

Maybe the harpy nests in White Orchard were meant for a return of the Harpy guy from the quarry in Vergen from Witcher 2. :)

If the next witcher game doesn't have a xLetalis Easter egg, I ain't buying it.

Its been like 6 months since i played the witcher 3 and 2 months since i last saw a witcher vid. Glad you posted

The devs own you so much with making this things public :) With all the content of Witcher3 they was going to develop much more but had no time. And the things you are telling are pretty interesting!

I had no idea that places of power got removed in empress ending. I guess I didn't need to look for it since I %100'd the Ehite Orchard at the beginning of the game. Still, it's wonderful and even creepy to discover these. Thank you so much.

Imagine if we gave devs as much time and money they needed to make their visions come true. It would be a beautiful game

I feel like in 50 years after like World War 3 or something some people will still be going through Witcher 3 somehow and will still find more details

Ahh the Witcher 1 music so many fond memories. Vizima? Or Lakeside? And a dice poker or tavern music... Great discoveries!

Love this ending, I get it every time I play the game. White Orchard looks so beautiful in the winter

Amazing Xeltalis however I noticed something years ago and I think i mentioned it in a comment on one of ur videos years ago. The thing is about Zoltan and Dandelion you know in Empress ending they sat in the White Orchard inn in the epilogue. However after you finished it they vanished unlike other endings where they both presented at Novigrads R&T inn .in the empress ending I can't find them but why and where did they go?. Is it because of their last dialogue in the empress ending might they went to an adventure?.

The large floating things connected to the mesh place-holder look like LOD glitches. You see very similar things in Skyrim/Fallout 4 if you remove certain things in the editor incorrectly, for example the elevated freeway in FO4. The LOD remains even when the asset is removed unless certain steps are taken. So it looks like whatever was there was removed in a hurry and without care since you were never meant to access the area.

How about that: There maybe was a 3th dlc planned, building up on all these various leftovers, including the devils pit and maybe the most western & southern parts of Velen which always appeared somehow unfinished.

I have been watching your videos for a long time. You are doing a great work in keeping the witcher community alive. Keep it up.

Maybe the floating rocks are related to ciri? Just a thought. After all Avallac'h tried to train her to control her power, we could see a glimpse of it before the main battle with the hunt, where ciri was practicing with floating rocks. But who knows maybe they are indeed just placeholders.

It's amazing that after all these years your still able to make content about witcher 3

Please never stop making Witcher 3 videos

8:30 makes me really feel how much more deeper the world of the game was supposed to be!

The camp in White Orchard is originally filled with bandits and I'd always assumed the cage (which is there then as well) was for a merchant or someone else you could rescue which was then cut. I now wonder if it's inclusion was only to service the plague plot instead. What's strange is why only have these things appear in the Empress ending if the Plague was going to feature so heavily in Velen? I also assume the piles of corpses in Fischlow in Velen were part of the cut story, since there's no apparent function for them and the town itself seems inappropriate for the content included.

A game so big that we are still finding things and with mysterys abound.

Love seeing you dive deeper into the development stuff that’s supposed to remain behind the scenes Such as that placeholder and unfinished unreachable stuff Or for example the developers trying to block the ciri sword glitch

Wow, that's the most interesting details I've seen for ages. If only the developers would just say what was all about. There doesn't seem to be any way of working it out otherwise.

If I ever become disgustingly rich (unlikely, but you never know 😅) I'm definitely bribing, I mean investing in, CDPR to produce some kind of DLC for all the original cut content. And an Iorveth storyline.

Incredibly awesome work. Please, keep it up !

Wow every time you do a video with things we might miss i see that even though i have played the game more than 5 times i have not discover not nearly half of the secrets....

Why you aren’t as big as Vaatividya I do not know. You go into incredible depth and you keep finding new stuff.

OST from the first game in the end hits right to the heart...

yaaaay!! great video, as always. always good seeing you upload. I enjoyed the last creepy bit. if it was indeed all connected, makes sense that they went back on it; a little bit too dark, maybe. anyway hope things are going well for you. cheers!

Love how even smallest details are conected

Side note, I actually like White Orchard during Winter, unfortunately it's behind an Ending that I never did in 4 playthroughs

i have an interesting detail i meant to share here ages ago but i forgot, so during the quest where you find letho in the barn, behind the small buildings to the side of the forest, youll find a pillar with three unreadable plaques, and sometimes when you approach it during the day time, with clear weather, a huge flock of birds will fly up from the pillar, in a spiraling way? its been in the game since last-gen, and ive only found a single post about it on reddit from a year ago, geralt says a "hmm" that i never heard before, probably a rare voice line activator or something to do with a cut quest? you can find the mystery pillar when you turn right at the entrace to the barn letho is hiding in, and follow the path a bit, and take the first left branch thats in the direction of the nearby dragonslayer grotto. im certain that this pillar has something to it, but im not an expert at finding out stuff like you lol

The 2nd newest video on Sway Play channel is about this mystery (it's in Polish). And there are few things that you haven't mentioned. First of all in the game files there is something that refers to the quest with the wraith of cementary (probably on the one in front of chappel). There are also some people in front of the chappel and it looks like they are begging (?) or praying there. Also, in the 2nd note of the occultyst it's mentioned that he suffered bad pain and thought that killing others will cause his pain to reduce because demons that hunt him will feed on the screems and pain of those who are being sacrifised. Also: - In the bandit camp there is dead child and their parent that you can investigate (you can find the 2nd note close by). - The place where you can fight bandits and make it free to people is surrounded by corpses. - There are a lot of corpses in the river. - In the begging of the game one if you capture the thief with meds and then turn him to nilfgardians one of them tell's you that their soldiers are sick and suffering (maybe one of them was the occusltys?). Basically whole white orchard is a mess in this ending. Just wanted to let other people know about it so maybe they will found something new about this case. PS sorry for (probably) terrible English

Incredible amount of hidden things in this game, but thanks to you for finding them. Been away from your videos, but I'm back with an amazing video

Just a guess, but I wonder if that was meant to be an underground cave accessed via the rear of the chaple, you go through there in order to complete a kill quest to take out harpies at the other end of it. The glitched rocks may be the underground tunnel kinda seen on land instead of under it.

Quality content!! You are such a legend

It looks to me like they first made winter without a power point and then added power points to the game and converted winter to summer and used it, they ended up having it left over and put it at the end of the game

When I started a new game with the latest update I noticed Geralt’s beard grows even when you wear the golden mask used in luring out Dudu. I know no one else cares for this though I think one of the CDPR devs saw a comment and patched that. It’s neat to think the devs are creating new details with each update or patching up details like Geralts beard previously not growing when wearing a mask.

Cool video. Love these mystic and religious mysteries in witcher! I have but one question - what is that beautiful music that plays from 9:53 to 11:04 ?

xLetalis, thank you for always providing us Hardcore Witcher fans, with more content to enjoy, each and every time you post a new video!~

Aww yeah, always a good day when you post a vid xLetalis

Awesome Video! I really appreciate all the love and effort you put into your videos! The mystery is super exciting, but it's a shame, that it probably will never solved :(

don´t know how you keep surprising me with the same game everytime, great job :D

Also White Orchard on Winter seems like a fairytale for me... xD I rarely go for the empress ending

Amazing job!

Great video and interesting mystery, was not aware of it

I wonder if the cult stuff would have been related to the cannibals you find in Velen in the south-western portion, south of Midcopse. It's honestly a huge shame that the Catriona plague plotline was mostly cut, because it had interesting potentially and even was supposed to feature Iorveth. It was also implied by some mages letters you find in the Witcher 2 on a side quest, that the Vrans were wiped out by Catriona.

Looks like I got to play this again, so much stuff in this video I apparently missed, like that big group get together in the end

Wow, i wish we could have seen that prophet storyline. Would have been very neat to see it in the empress ending

Perhaps i am very wrong, but: In Gwint (separate) , Nilfgaard team had a cult of cosmos/space/universe/ eclipse, i am not sure about exact name, but they are related to human sacrifices according to illustrations. And also, that "solar" 7:35 remind me of that. So i am thinking.....maybe it is related to that cult, since Nilfs control majority, if not all of the territory. Maybe it is easier to "work" with villagers in occupied places, then perform it in the city.

Omg an xletails video uploaded before me. What an honor. Love your amazing content for one of my favorite games ever. Love from Pakistan bro ❤

My theory is that there was an idea to extend content after the ending to make it more realistic and imersive but the amount of work they would have to use was to great to amount of people that would notice the changes ( or simply lack of time) that they simply made a world border and scrapted the idea

Yet another amazing video, mate.

I would pay money to see you interview the creators of this game.. the mysteries you could solve

The giant objects look like they were suppose to be a stack of rocks blocking the doorway in the crypt, my guess it was an accident they were so big and happen to be left untextured.

So cool video! I wish we could get another DLC. I know they work on new games but it's sad to let this huge world be forgotten. Btw the part about Radi and Salma is absolutely brutal. Just imagine the care for details of the devs. Amazing!

I find your channel a few weeks ago, and I chain watched a lot of your videos. I need more

1:19 Man has a lifelong beef with Ciri lol😭

Year 2053, xLetalis journal: once again i found new sacrificial ritual in witcher 3, maybe this place was meant to summon a deeekjhksdjhgasjdhgjhd

Thank you. 👍This is an amazing investigation. 🧐For a long time I tried to ask about the notes of the demon worshiper in the White Garden, and only here I heard something interesting and new, and so much!😮

Fascinating finds! Always fun to find placeholder textures and wonder what they were supposed to be.

How is bro still finding secrets🔥🔥🔥

Polish youtuber 'sway play' made video about cut content from winter ending, where she focused on cultist notes (i dont remember if letalis made any video about them), and story behind them, not on places of power. If someone speaks polish i recommend it.

i hope so much, that the reworks will have just as much depth as the trilogy (especially TW3) has

The gaint stone might be some atmosphere placeholder. It's visible in some angle might because in game developing a mesh need to define "surface" & using shader to make it visible. And an atmosphere object usually need this kind of future (angle) cuz you don't want it to interference player's view once the character is inside the env

Man, you are amazing. Keep up the good work, you always literally make our days when you upload a new video, and we'll always be here to support you!

Wonderful as always! Take care, all!

I think the big forms that appears in the Sky close the energy site and the monster nests can be areas where the monsters can moove, the limits of how far they can go

My first guess about the dissappearing Places of Power was that since the whole "Conjunction of Spheres" thing was ended with Ciri's mission to save the world, they had no longer connection to that kind of witcher magic (as they are used mainly by witchers, and they increase witchers abilities to kill monsters & the monsters also come from other world, so the energy from that place is somehow related to influencing witchers/monsters). With gates closed there's no way for them to be in use any longer, but since some of that magic remains people were drawn to these places (just like you said) and build their own monuments/teplaes/etc. based on their religion believing that these spots are special (kind of what Avallac'h said. And how they develop into all kinds of weird altars is maybe based on how the developers wanted to portray the world after the game events: Ciri becoming Empress means Nilfgaard's victory so no Eternal Fire but the reality after war probably becomes chaotic for a longer while and people try to figure out "new lords" and "new gods" to understand what is happening to them. There's also no cure for Catriona most likely (Keira didn't give it to Radovid and even is she did, he is dead and his impact on the Catriona doesn't exist) and after a global war there are outbreaks all over the world. Maybe it wasn't developed because CDPR ddin't want to use that many plots and they would have to be altered for all kinds of ending which wasn't very effective in rpoducing a clean ending of the game. Or maybe like you said, it is related to the Devil's Pit, and since Catriona wasn't expanded to a full blown plot the places were simply re-used (that would meant the Places of Power were created AFTER the Catriona plot concept, right?). Btw, love the creepy HoS music when you intorduced the huge blobs of something, that was a well placed track! :D

Fine, ill stop everything im doing and watch this video, youve charmed me

This is super weird actually. There is Pawel Sasko, CDPR dev who streams on twitch, might be useful to ask Him about this

The game just gets creepier and creepier. I went to the bald mountain thinking it will be quicker to get to that new secter location in next gen. Decided to go to the village and in Witcheress ending the village is infested with Foglets, blacksmith and merchart lying dead and incide Sylvains cave there is a lootable corpse with "bald mountain key". Seems like crones took everyone with them when they died 😱😱😱

I really wish someone from CDPR would make a video explaining at length what some of the cut quest chains were all about, and what the characters that were cut or whose screentime was shortened were meant to do, etc... Game's been out for 8 years now, it's no industry secret to talk about it. Sure it'll make people sad or upset that we're missing some cool content, but it would also allow to better understand some unresolved mysteries or plot elements that probably made more sense before the cut content.

I am re playing this game this week, deleted when reaching to Emyr audition 'cause I realized I had forgotten to turn on simulate to witcher 2 (I ain't accept missing Letho). I found that creepy house in White Orchard and I'm like "Better find it on youtube" and after 2 days I found it in this video accidentally (I was watching bunch of your videos and some other folks). Many thanks for your knowledge, wish you health and fortunes

Interesting as always xLetalis.

I Can't believe I never knew that there was a third ending, the empress ending. Just obtain the platinum trophies after completing the death match run; your video is helpful to know the secret beyond the boundaries of the game; keep it up.

What, the dwarfs start digging out the place of power? XD Definitelly want to see that in my next playthrough. Would love to ask the developers about the truth behind all this.

I do so love all this conspiracy theory stuff though. Keep going xLetalis you really make me happy with your videos.

I'm proud to support your channel, Letalis! Extra kudos for TW1 music in the boring outro

Jesus... the love I feel for this game.. It's very unfortunate that they removed so many things. You'll be discovering new things until the new Witcher game comes out, lol

I am listening to the Last Wish book, and in the very beginning, when Geralt takes Stryga contract, he's talking to a man who looks after Vizima, and he says that loads random mages tried to lift the curse from Adda, even some INSANE HOG FARMER 🐖 YONTEK??? (sorry, I'm listening to the books in Russian, it might be different in English/Polish)

Interesting find!