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Welcome to MojoPlays! Today we're looking at the craziest details you may have missed while playing The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Because … Let's face it, this game is massive, so there's no way you'd be able to take it all in unless playing it was your literal full-time job for many months. There Witcher 3 secrets took some players YEARS to discover, so, here's some cool details you may have missed during your first time around.
Welcome to MojoPlays! Today we’re looking at the craziest details you may have missed while playing “The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt” Because … Let’s face it, this game is massive, so there’s no way you’d be able to take it all in unless playing it was your literal full-time job for many months. So, here’s some cool details you may have missed during your first time around.
Leo’s Grave
If you stumbled across this grave in “Witcher 3” and thought, “Leo? Who the hell is Leo?!” we’d totally forgive you. See, he was a minor character in the first Witcher game, and – even if you played the first game – you still could have missed him, as he happened to die quite early on. Leo was an orphan that undertook witcher training at Kaer Morhen under the tutelage of senior witcher Vesemir. But, he never made it to the point of being a full-fledged witcher, instead dying during the siege of Kaer Morhen before he could undergo the Trial of the Grasses. Upon encountering the grave, Geralt laments that it was a senseless death and could have been avoided.
Calm Kitties!
“Witcher 3” is massive and there’s a lot you can do in between missions to keep yourself entertained like undertaking side quests, playing Gwent, getting into pub fights and… hexing adorable little kitties to follow you around??? Yup, that’s a thing… Casting the Axii sign on stray village cats clams them down, causes their heads to glow alight, and – most importantly – adds cute, fluffy recruits to Geralt’s monster-hunting posse. Now, is there a good reason to do this? No… not really. But is it fun to build an army of hypnotized kitties and parade them around the village just for the sake of showing your friends? Of course it is! That’s what video games are all about!
Trial of the Grasses Cave
While you don’t get to spend much time in Kaer Morhen until later in the game, most gamers are too transfixed by the story at this point and are only concerned with completing mission after mission to see what happens next. Not that we can blame them, but if you took the time to explore the nooks and crannies of this old keep, you’d likely have found a cave northwest of Kaer Morhen that was at one time used for the Trail of the Grasses. Once you kill off all the nasty beasts lurking in this dark cavern, you can explore some pretty cool details like lists of people who undertook witcher training and some archaic devices used during the Trial’s mutation processes.
Lines of Salt
Toward the end of the long, winding “Family Matters” quest line in which Geralt helps the Bloody Baron track down his missing wife and daughter in exchange for information on Ciri’s location, the two men set off to dig up the grave of The Baron’s stillborn child, and in a cut scene Geralt suggests alerting the townspeople to put a line of salt across their doors to protect from ghosts and ghouls should the exhumation bring evil spirits. Well, if you’re the curious type and want to see if the townsfolk actually listened to your advice, you’d be rewarded with seeing lines of salt lining the doors of houses in the village. It’s the little details that make this game so breathtaking.
Hungry Roach
Ever wonder what Geralt’s horse Roach is up to when her master is away fighting monsters and tracking down leads on Ciri? Well, she’s chillaxing of course, grabbing a bite to eat and a quick drink before Geralt returns to ride the hell out of her again… Isn’t it obvious? Just because she’s a video game horse doesn’t mean that Roach does not have a need to eat and drink like the rest of us. Want proof? Just hop off Roach at any point, linger for a while and wait until she wanders away to grab a drink in a village or chew some grass when out in the wild.
Tyrion Lannister’s Dead Body
Seeing as the themes of “The Witcher” and “Game of Thrones” are quite similar – and that “Game of Thrones” was red hot during the years of “The Witcher 3’s” development – it makes sense that the powers that be over at CD Projekt Red would include a nod to George R. R. Martin’s epic saga. What’s even better is they had a sense of humor while doing so… Remember when Tyrion was held prisoner in the Eyrie’s sky cells in season one? Well, “The Witcher 3” enacts a little revisionist history in its own version of the sky cells within the islands of Skellige. If you manage to find these cells, you’ll find a dwarf’s body that looks remarkable similar to Tyrion – right down to the facial scar. Well played CD Projekt Red! Well played.
Flying Ghost Ship
Seeing as it took a tweet from “The Witcher’s” official Twitter account for a lot of gamers to even know there was a ghost ship in “The Witcher 3,” we’d forgive you for not having found this well-hidden detail. Hell, we certainly didn’t find it! But if you want to track it down, here’s what you do: grab a boat and head to the tiny islands between An Skellig and Hindarsfjall. Aim to get there just after 1 a.m. and keep your eyes peeled. Once a day (in-game time, of course), the spooky ghost ship will appear near this location before disappearing back into the seas once again. Don’t worry if you miss it, though, just try again the following day.
Birna Bran
It’s pretty hard to have sympathy for Birna seeing as she killed a whole lot of people just to see that her son became King of Skellige after her husband passed away. But, being chained to a rock and left to die of starvation and thirst while birds picked away at her withering body?? Damn… that’s an unusually cruel punishment! But, good news: after she’s sentenced to a merciless death by the Jarls of Skellige, you can track down her chained body on the beaches of Ard Skellig and… do absolutely nothing to save her… Ok, so maybe it’s not good news, but it is an impressive detail! Now that Birna Bran Gwent card makes so much sense…
Leo’s Grave
If you stumbled across this grave in “Witcher 3” and thought, “Leo? Who the hell is Leo?!” we’d totally forgive you. See, he was a minor character in the first Witcher game, and – even if you played the first game – you still could have missed him, as he happened to die quite early on. Leo was an orphan that undertook witcher training at Kaer Morhen under the tutelage of senior witcher Vesemir. But, he never made it to the point of being a full-fledged witcher, instead dying during the siege of Kaer Morhen before he could undergo the Trial of the Grasses. Upon encountering the grave, Geralt laments that it was a senseless death and could have been avoided.
Calm Kitties!
“Witcher 3” is massive and there’s a lot you can do in between missions to keep yourself entertained like undertaking side quests, playing Gwent, getting into pub fights and… hexing adorable little kitties to follow you around??? Yup, that’s a thing… Casting the Axii sign on stray village cats clams them down, causes their heads to glow alight, and – most importantly – adds cute, fluffy recruits to Geralt’s monster-hunting posse. Now, is there a good reason to do this? No… not really. But is it fun to build an army of hypnotized kitties and parade them around the village just for the sake of showing your friends? Of course it is! That’s what video games are all about!
Trial of the Grasses Cave
While you don’t get to spend much time in Kaer Morhen until later in the game, most gamers are too transfixed by the story at this point and are only concerned with completing mission after mission to see what happens next. Not that we can blame them, but if you took the time to explore the nooks and crannies of this old keep, you’d likely have found a cave northwest of Kaer Morhen that was at one time used for the Trail of the Grasses. Once you kill off all the nasty beasts lurking in this dark cavern, you can explore some pretty cool details like lists of people who undertook witcher training and some archaic devices used during the Trial’s mutation processes.
Lines of Salt
Toward the end of the long, winding “Family Matters” quest line in which Geralt helps the Bloody Baron track down his missing wife and daughter in exchange for information on Ciri’s location, the two men set off to dig up the grave of The Baron’s stillborn child, and in a cut scene Geralt suggests alerting the townspeople to put a line of salt across their doors to protect from ghosts and ghouls should the exhumation bring evil spirits. Well, if you’re the curious type and want to see if the townsfolk actually listened to your advice, you’d be rewarded with seeing lines of salt lining the doors of houses in the village. It’s the little details that make this game so breathtaking.
Hungry Roach
Ever wonder what Geralt’s horse Roach is up to when her master is away fighting monsters and tracking down leads on Ciri? Well, she’s chillaxing of course, grabbing a bite to eat and a quick drink before Geralt returns to ride the hell out of her again… Isn’t it obvious? Just because she’s a video game horse doesn’t mean that Roach does not have a need to eat and drink like the rest of us. Want proof? Just hop off Roach at any point, linger for a while and wait until she wanders away to grab a drink in a village or chew some grass when out in the wild.
Tyrion Lannister’s Dead Body
Seeing as the themes of “The Witcher” and “Game of Thrones” are quite similar – and that “Game of Thrones” was red hot during the years of “The Witcher 3’s” development – it makes sense that the powers that be over at CD Projekt Red would include a nod to George R. R. Martin’s epic saga. What’s even better is they had a sense of humor while doing so… Remember when Tyrion was held prisoner in the Eyrie’s sky cells in season one? Well, “The Witcher 3” enacts a little revisionist history in its own version of the sky cells within the islands of Skellige. If you manage to find these cells, you’ll find a dwarf’s body that looks remarkable similar to Tyrion – right down to the facial scar. Well played CD Projekt Red! Well played.
Flying Ghost Ship
Seeing as it took a tweet from “The Witcher’s” official Twitter account for a lot of gamers to even know there was a ghost ship in “The Witcher 3,” we’d forgive you for not having found this well-hidden detail. Hell, we certainly didn’t find it! But if you want to track it down, here’s what you do: grab a boat and head to the tiny islands between An Skellig and Hindarsfjall. Aim to get there just after 1 a.m. and keep your eyes peeled. Once a day (in-game time, of course), the spooky ghost ship will appear near this location before disappearing back into the seas once again. Don’t worry if you miss it, though, just try again the following day.
Birna Bran
It’s pretty hard to have sympathy for Birna seeing as she killed a whole lot of people just to see that her son became King of Skellige after her husband passed away. But, being chained to a rock and left to die of starvation and thirst while birds picked away at her withering body?? Damn… that’s an unusually cruel punishment! But, good news: after she’s sentenced to a merciless death by the Jarls of Skellige, you can track down her chained body on the beaches of Ard Skellig and… do absolutely nothing to save her… Ok, so maybe it’s not good news, but it is an impressive detail! Now that Birna Bran Gwent card makes so much sense…
