On the the line of salt, its actually in the quest where you defeat the elemental in the cellar from earlier in the video. It's on the stairs leading to cellar from the ground floor. Geralt remarks how it's 'pointless superstition' (or something to that effect). He would probably tell the baron to do it too because people obviously believe it and it would keep people out of the way for the duration of the quest. Also for the price setting in the contracts, it's randomised, it might be chance he allowed you to push for a higher price on your Griffin try, but to be honest I haven't tested
It might make sense that the line of salt would be useless against physical monsters, mostly affecting wraiths. Geralt having prior information about the monster, he might’ve known that it couldn’t’ve been a wraith, thus the comment.
But in " Equine Phantom" alternate ending Geralt also advice hermit to draw a line of salt, saying "Might keep him out". So it may work - just for a specific type of ghost.
@@FrozenShadow007 except he comments that it's "pointless superstition" based on the house's owners point of view, being uninformed about the specific monster, to the owner it might have been a ghost, it just doesn't make sense (at least not the way geralt phrases it) to call it that knowing there are cases that this works. Also by the time this comment happens, geralt has absolutely no idea that it's an elemental.
Did you know that if you choose to kill the dopler instead of sparing him, he will chase you forever. Even if you go all the way across the map. Sometimes he gets killed by guards because some of them will fight him on his way out of the city. You can fast travel far away and he will still chase you. You can see the quest distance going down constantly. If you go skellige, he will wait for you to get back to velen/novigrad and then start the chase again. He will never stop unless you kill him or he gets killed by guards
I've gone back to the house and seen people working on it, but don't remember dialog abut Kurt or whoever dying. Is that only triggered if you go inside and see the collapsed basement?
I think the detail about the School of the Griffin has to do with the reputation it has. Out of all the schools, it is said the the School of the Griffin is the most respectable one, as their members mantained the original witchers knightly values, and were educated in things like etiquette.
And griffin witchers may be more common in Redania, cos Caer Morhen locates in I believe Blue mountains( its in Caedven, and very far away from Redania), and griffin’s home castle somewhere along coastline( opposite part of the map, and not Caedven), so griffins could be considered not as potential traitors, spies etc(like wiper Witchers after emperor took them under control and used to kill kings of northern realms) from Caedven( Redania and Caedven has a lot of tension between each other)
@@crabrave729 But Kaer Seren (former home base for School of the Griffin) is also not in Redania but instead in the Kingdom of Kovir and Poviss (which is north-west of Redania).
@@Ivanus59 yes, I meant that witcher so far away from his basically home, which is located on opponent’s territory, after experience with kings layers may cause some suspicion, Kovir and Poviss usually keep neutrality so this could draw away any suspicions from Redanian elites, politicians ( those who could known what vipers did by order of nilfgaard). Or I’m hallucinating.
After watching that part I immediately thought of Coën. You know, the witcher who trained Ciri at Kaer Morhen with the rest of the gang in the book, Blood of Elves. Coën belongs to the School of the Griffin. Maby Geralt chose School of the Griffin out of all other schools since he had close relations to it, not only by it's reputation.
@@oqumaQu may be, but i think, when You tell you are a griffin, its not because you are showing respect but because you lie. Geralt doesn't look like cat witcher so no problems of proving you are not crazy, no such problems with bear witchers, so i think he lies perpouosly, but why ? And Coën may be the reason he chose scholl off griffin, for sure.
@@xLetalis hehe seriously with your devotion to seeking out details, one wonders what would you analyze the old Hexer ;), 13 episodes, thing of completely original storylines as well as the adaptational work in portraying of the short stories and so on and on hehe.
Great idea on Yontek. Geralt is also a source child, Eskel was suspected to be one too. My thought was he might have been a Druidic apprentice or a mage student before the outlaws/band on magic. Surviving a massacre like that makes anyone a little screwy
Oh that is a nice detail!! I never knew that about Yontek :). His portrayal is also a typical 'village idiot' that often appears in various rural stories and the like, fairy tales as well, and with the witcher lore on the subject of these mentally affected children with inherited power it fits very well!! Indeed it might explain his state and as was said source children when not taken care of with their magical talents may become unstable mentally, his abilities maybe were not nearly as strong and so he was overlooked by the mages and considering that such abilities may also pass down the line generations later. In the lore we have apparently many degrees of magical talent, some people may have the minimum of abilities, some don't have them at all.
Not every magician are sources, a attunement to magic is necessary to become one but a source has more than that. Every witchers have a attunement to magic because the Signs require a aptitude with it so they can work. A ordinary human with no magic affinity would be unable to make any signs. Yontek don't need to be a mage student: the childrens of wizards often inherite a more potent affinity with magic than their parents and that power is what fry their brains. Yontek is lucky, he isn't a vegetable.
aah, my week is complete again :) It's a testament to both the game and your tenacity that there's still secrets and 'things missed' to be found after all this time!
Considering how monsters are from different planes of existence and how varied their counters are maybe Geralt just knows that salt helps against some kinds of monsters like necrophages but not against elementals
I've always took Geralt's line of salt demand in the Baron's quest as an example of Granny Weatherwax's headology - it's not supposed to work on wraiths or botchlings, it's supposed to work on humans and keep them in their houses. If you just tell them to stay at home they may ignore that order, but with the salt - oh, now it's serious business. And Yontek is almost certainly an untrained sorcerer/mage, probably a child of a magic user. It's not known if Tissaia's ideas were ever implemented - I think they weren't because during the Lodge summit in the books they use the age argument against putting one of the members of the Lodge on Kovir's throne, not that they are all infertile due to sterilization.
The salt line is in the same quest as you mentioned with the Earth Elemental and the ''Rivian Tramp'' Guy. It's right before Geralt goes down the stairs. There's a line of salt and he comments something like ''It's useless.''
How?! Like how can you still find something that I've missed?! I am now doing a 100% of every location and still couldn't see some of things you've shown us! You're a legend!
Interestingly, when it comes to giving Dandelion the Hierarch painting, if you store it in your stash you can still "give" it to him while keeping it for yourself
For the two men trying to tax travellers on the bridge (Gaffer! Gaffer!) His friend calls him Sobek. In Egyptian Mythology Sobek was the a crocodile god and was said to have created the Nile River or is associated with rivers hence him being on a bridge over a river.
when my first encounter with these guys ended, drowners came from the river and cilled them instantly. i was to surprised to do something. it was so weird 😅
Additionally, in Polish we often use "Sobek" to describe a person who is selfish and only thinks about themselves ;p not sure there's any link to that here, but still :D
The thing about the line of salt is actually in one of the quests you mentioned earlier in the video. The one with the golem in the cellar. Before you go into the cellar to kill the golem, you can see a line of salt on top of the cellar stairs and with the Witcher senses you can trigger a monologue from Geralt about it if i recall correctly. It's been a long time since i've last played that quest thoroughly.
Geralt has often been seen to ignore the “truth” for expedience. It’s his job to kill monsters not disavow everyone of their silly superstitions. So even if the salt does nothing it convinces the townspeople that the threat is real and not something they should mess around with this accomplishing Geralt’s goal of keeping them safe and out of his way.
17:26 Yes you are right. I commented it in one of your videos. Geralt does asks everyone to line their houses with salt... but he dismisses this theory in the quest of Therazane which you mentioned earlier in the video. The stairs that lead to the basement are warded with Salt to protect against wraiths.
@@windwaker105 I mean.. botchlings are specters aren't they? or are they necrophages, that summon specters? I mean... though they are present as "cursed ones" in the Journal, that's since they use the cursed oil.. But they pretty much are necrophages. And if salt used to work on necrophages, we wouldn't have seen all those water hags and drowners beside those big water bodies... they just can't all be big freshwater lakes, but they still have necrophages
You probably know this but, just in case... Another funny fact about paintings. Go to the brothel in Toussaint after the quest about your portrait and check the wall near the redhaired lady, the one that performs rol games with Witcher Cosplayers 😎
17:16 it was the same quest in 12:06 when you enter the assumed cursed house. i think salte lines are effective against certain type of wraiths and cursed creatures. since in a mission in blood and wine ( the one where roach talks ) if you did not pardon the knights wraith geralt will advise the old woman to use salt line if he ever came back.
I think salt is also used to draw the rune and a circle in Witcher 2 while lifting the curse from Henselt (where wraiths are involved as well), although I'm pretty sure it's not just salt, seeing as Henselt complains about the smell.
Its crazy how one game can have so many concent (also secrets and hidden quests/dialogues), since i started to watch this channel until now it seems like it wont ever end.
I got one for you. In the abandoned manor where you battle the earth elemental in the basement you can also find a portrait of the hierarch of the eternal flame. The manor is also the closest dwelling to the home of the dwarfs that give you an identical portrait once you clear the witch hunter out when freeing Dandelion. Might be something more to look into.
The salt line. Yes, I believe he just said it to keep people calm. Cause before he said it was useless. Unless it is because they are different types of magic or curse.
If I recall correctly, there is also a line about salt being just a peasant superstition in Witcher 1, when you get the wraith-repelling talisman from the hermit at Murky Waters. And sure enough, it doesn't work on most wraiths, but it does work on noonwraiths, so the salt is probably one of the "might help, might not help, cannot harm" cases.
I totaly missed the quest with yontek through my first playthrough. Don't know why. It isn't on any notice boards and my first game was very streamlined. In the Polish version, the character of Yontek sounds mentally insane. It feels very strange. Well done for killing the pigs, I wouldn't have heart to do it lol!
Sorry to hear you were sick the past days, I too had a little sickness sore throat , runny nose . Never a good feeling, hope you recover fully soon so you can enjoy life to the fullest. Happy Witchering
I love that you keep finding these little details and keep the series going. You may at this point know more of the Witcher lore than even the game Devs. Second only to the original author.
That was interesting. I've always successfully placated the Botchling and never thought about what might happen if you messed up. Seeing it becoming an enlarged monster took me by surprise.
Geralt also mentions the line of salt to be utterly useless in the quest where we go to find Iris,Olgried's wife in the mansion in the Hearts of Stones Expansion
What an awesome video! Geralt does say that the salt line things doesn't work at the beginning of the Dysart quest when he's first investigating the house. Hope you're feeling better :)
17:20 You are right! That was part of the golem quest "Therazane" you mentioned earlier in the video. Geralt said that a line of salt will not work BUT maybe it worked for the other monster? Who knows?
I literally seen every video and I wish I could forget everything you've posted so I could rewatch it all and be amazed at how many hours you've dedicated to little hints
stumbled on the heirarch painting detail looking for a way to get rid of the painting and accidentally got stuck in dialogue with Dandelion after getting it from the storage chest, nice detail they included. didn't know that xLetalis didn't know about it
maybe the salt thing in the botchling quest is the reference to the Supernatural TV show. P.S. The quest with the support beams with the elemental, I think you need to count in the third support scaffolding at the entrance to the chamber. you can see it at 14:13 in your video on the right. in my play-through I broke the ones inside but quest giver is still alive and well.
I think the Foot Casting bit from the books is also a card in Gwent called Casting Contest. Has an animated bit of a guy casting a spell with his foot and another with boy casting a spell with his (for a lack of better words) wand.
20:45 As far as i know haggling is random-during the Wine-Wars Quest Series in B&W you can sometimes haggle both of the Questgivers there to pay you up to 900 (rare) or at least 850 (still somewhat rare). To confirm or deny, one would probably need to haggle with the Count for a 100xTimes or so choosing each of the 3 Answers (Wolf, Cat, Griffin) and see how often you can get the higher reward or how it changes. Choosing another Answer could have a slightly different chance but again, might be worth it to play around with that for a little bit! Other than that, great video as always-good job & thank you! 👍 ps: I'd say that Therazane is almost 100% from WoW, its not from somewhere else afaik ^-^
The detail about extra dialogue with the Earldoman in Downwarren can be unlocked even if you free the spirit. You just have to return there before finishing the Baron questline, and after seeing the crones, since the village won’t be destroyed yet.
If you ever do the Witcher 2 save import video, a crazy detail I found was during "Of Swords and Dumplings" when you have to get into the warehouse to mark the crates. If you chose Iorveth in Witcher 2 and helped in Vergen, the dwarf guarding the warehouse will just let you in if you pick the "Gotta get inside." option and he'll compliment Geralt on his work in Vergen.
With the bandits, I think I've almost always run into them because that's one of the only bridges that doesn't require a pass to get across the pontar into Novigrad and I hated having to wait around for one. I must've just used that bridge again later because I still didn't have a bridge pass for the guards.
That bridge dosnt cross the Pontar. There is only 2 bidges that cross it, the one at Oxenford and the one south of Novigrad. This bridgr is south-west of Oxenford and there are 2 other bridges on the same river. Also you always need a pass to cross the Pontar, but if you get a pass and go past one bridge you dont get asked for a pass in the other bridge.
I am pretty sure that in polish version o the game dialogue with the guy from golem in cellar theres a cameo of school of cat insted of griffin, snd there domr nsdty things said about school of cat.
I think the part you're referring to, about dismissing the line of salt, was about vampires... I remember something along the lines of vampires not being afraid of garlic. I believe something like that was in the books as well
Hope you feel better! I just finished modding my copy of the witcher with over 200 mods and LOVE watching your videos while I was doing it. Also thanks for always supporting and creating for this awesome community!
17:44 love that me messing up on my first playthrough gets a spot on this video XD Great video! loved the shade at Netflix and my favourite type of magic
It is quite possible the "Line of salt" thing only works against specific creatures. Same way bringing Black Blood to anything but a vampire fight is pointless. It could even be to limit the movement of the Botchling - the creature might have tried to run away and hide in a house, by breaking through the doors. But might be deterred by a line of salt and windows height. Maybe Botchlings just _really_ hate the smell of salt? Or at least the young ones? But it being usefull to keep the people inside (and thus out of the combat zone) is also a good approach.
Welcome back brother, we missed you while you were gone for the past week, and thank you for your effort recording and editing this while you were still sick. You’re a real one :)
Thanks for another Witcher video! Didn't know that those pigs (in Yondek's quest) could actually be killed. Yennefer VA voicing as Iron Maiden saying "What is she to ya, this sorceress Yennefer" does make me chuckle a bit, heh.
Theres something i found out on a random video on tik tok, apparently during the feast at Vegelbud Palace on one of the tables there's a wine named after Dijkstra, which according to the witcher lore, had terrible taste and was served to redanian prisoners at Dijkstra's personal request. Either CD project red made quite a blunder or Vegelbuds are up to something.
Pretty sure you can put the Hierarch Hemelfart portrait in the save chest before you give it to Dandelion, that way he hangs it in the Chameleon/Rosemary and Thyme but you can also hang it in your villa in Toussaint (Wineboys dlc) later.
xLetalis, the most important thing I missed in The Witcher 3 was the fact that I didn't know how much I needed this video. Right now, it is the perfect break to my work. Thanks for such dedication to TW3 as always!
I think the part with the line of salt was incidentally the one with the rivian tramp guy. I recently played it and remeber wondering about that conradiction. Hope you get better soon!
@@xLetalis I think you’ve got the wrong comment, but I read the one and I do recall that dialogue option with Triss after pressing Menge for the most information. Though I always assumed that the dialogue appeared after the torture, at the house outside the city, where you can ask Triss to kill the man or wipe his mind.
Fantastic video xLetalis! I do have a fun little detail that I discovered a bit ago that I believe you haven't covered yet: during the contract in Skellige where where the monsters try to crush you with a rock (and where you get the nekker boots). When talking to the Doppler in the village about your reward - you can ask for as much coin as possible and he won't get annoyed, I imagine this is because they're trying to kill you and will promise any amount of coin to get you to take the contract. Thanks for all the amazing content over the years :D
I think mr @xletalis that the line that you reffer in the video about the salt was someting diferent in BaW that Damien said to Geralt about how to defeat the vampire attack , in my mind it is the only moment that i can remember about geralt take time to explain to some folk about traditions being a myth, as always superb videos, keep the good work and hope you feel well soon
How to Letalis way of finding new things people have missed: Start a quest and then talk to every person in the game - end the quest and talk to everyone. :DD thats it. I like your videos. keep going
17:08 Yess! I remember about salt lines in a different quest! The quest was named "Doors Slamming Shut" it's weird that you didn't remember because in this video you mention the exact quest. And yes, there is a contradiction. In the main Baron quest Geralt says to make a line of salt and in the side quest he says it is useless.
Great vid as always! I found a small detail with the Hearts of Stone expansion which relates to the Open Sesame quest, specifically which safecracker you can choose. I went straight to Quinto, bargained for him and then immediately accepted him for the job, I did this without even contemplating Casimir. Considering that Eveline's location is somewhat close to where Casimir lives (Alness) I went to have a look to see if you could interact with him and sure enough you could, well kind of. His hut was blown to pieces and a few villagers stood around it, I guess he couldn't hack it. Its another really small really cool detail from CDPR which makes the world feel alive and lived in.
about the iron maiden quest if you deat olaf the bear ,champion of skellige isles you can go to her and she agrees to fight you right away without having to fight the guy who she otherwise ask you to fight with
I didn’t even realise this I just played the iron maiden one again and I got the sword quest but seeing this I’m sure I got the fight quest the first time. Legend as always mate haha
I've seen a thing. When you bring Triss to Caleb Menge's garrison to ask him about Dandelion, leave Triss to be tortured and scream only once, and then refuse to continue and kill everyone. There is a line available at Triss house after a while about her finger nails, when you choose "How do you feel?". I think before her sidequest. Interesting follow-ups!
I remember a rare dialog line you may want to use. If you start the cave of dreams quest by going to the boat and negotiating a reward but instead of going on the boat you start the Stranger In A Strange Land quest. Then after imprisonment you are forced by Lugos to do the quest. (As usual). After the cave you will get your reward, but they are disappointed that you haggled a reward despite being forced to do the quest. I don't really remember it because it was a long time ago.
The other line of salt you are thinking about is the Doors Slamming Shut quest. The line of salt is on the top of the stairs leading down to the basement where the earth elemental is.
On the the line of salt, its actually in the quest where you defeat the elemental in the cellar from earlier in the video. It's on the stairs leading to cellar from the ground floor. Geralt remarks how it's 'pointless superstition' (or something to that effect). He would probably tell the baron to do it too because people obviously believe it and it would keep people out of the way for the duration of the quest.
Also for the price setting in the contracts, it's randomised, it might be chance he allowed you to push for a higher price on your Griffin try, but to be honest I haven't tested
It might make sense that the line of salt would be useless against physical monsters, mostly affecting wraiths. Geralt having prior information about the monster, he might’ve known that it couldn’t’ve been a wraith, thus the comment.
But in " Equine Phantom" alternate ending Geralt also advice hermit to draw a line of salt, saying "Might keep him out". So it may work - just for a specific type of ghost.
I think there might have possibly a line like that in the Witcher 2 too? Its been awhile since I played it.
Arent lines of salt drawn into the pentagram or what its suposed to be around the profesor from heart of stone ?
@@FrozenShadow007 except he comments that it's "pointless superstition" based on the house's owners point of view, being uninformed about the specific monster, to the owner it might have been a ghost, it just doesn't make sense (at least not the way geralt phrases it) to call it that knowing there are cases that this works. Also by the time this comment happens, geralt has absolutely no idea that it's an elemental.
Did you know that if you choose to kill the dopler instead of sparing him, he will chase you forever. Even if you go all the way across the map. Sometimes he gets killed by guards because some of them will fight him on his way out of the city. You can fast travel far away and he will still chase you. You can see the quest distance going down constantly. If you go skellige, he will wait for you to get back to velen/novigrad and then start the chase again. He will never stop unless you kill him or he gets killed by guards
Ofcourse he knows it he has showed it in his videos
Possibly the heaviest editing I've done on my voice so far, in an attempt to make it sound normal
I do some work as an audio engineer, if there's anything I can do to help out let me know :D
Don’t worry about it!!! Please don’t push yourself for us!
The salt line is in Doors slumming shut quest
Dude that sounds way better tbh
Btw, where are you from? I'm dying to know that)
@@volkovvolk_drps1 bulgaria, says so in the about section.
xLetalis: "Did you know you can save the questgiver who calls you a Rivian Tramp?"
Me: I didn't even know he dies in the first place.
whats this armor geralt wears in that part?
it's basic bear school 🙈 always collected it, never actually worn. i sure will now 🤣
@@mistle7364 The legendary Ursine gear set is my favorite in the game by far. Looks so awesome.
Neither did I, but I think it is because I never went back after finishing his quest😅.
I've gone back to the house and seen people working on it, but don't remember dialog abut Kurt or whoever dying. Is that only triggered if you go inside and see the collapsed basement?
The fact that you are still going at it, after all of this time, speaks volumes of your dedication. My hat goes off to you Xlet.
I think the detail about the School of the Griffin has to do with the reputation it has. Out of all the schools, it is said the the School of the Griffin is the most respectable one, as their members mantained the original witchers knightly values, and were educated in things like etiquette.
And griffin witchers may be more common in Redania, cos Caer Morhen locates in I believe Blue mountains( its in Caedven, and very far away from Redania), and griffin’s home castle somewhere along coastline( opposite part of the map, and not Caedven), so griffins could be considered not as potential traitors, spies etc(like wiper Witchers after emperor took them under control and used to kill kings of northern realms) from Caedven( Redania and Caedven has a lot of tension between each other)
@@crabrave729 But Kaer Seren (former home base for School of the Griffin) is also not in Redania but instead in the Kingdom of Kovir and Poviss (which is north-west of Redania).
@@Ivanus59 yes, I meant that witcher so far away from his basically home, which is located on opponent’s territory, after experience with kings layers may cause some suspicion, Kovir and Poviss usually keep neutrality so this could draw away any suspicions from Redanian elites, politicians ( those who could known what vipers did by order of nilfgaard). Or I’m hallucinating.
After watching that part I immediately thought of Coën. You know, the witcher who trained Ciri at Kaer Morhen with the rest of the gang in the book, Blood of Elves. Coën belongs to the School of the Griffin. Maby Geralt chose School of the Griffin out of all other schools since he had close relations to it, not only by it's reputation.
@@oqumaQu may be, but i think, when You tell you are a griffin, its not because you are showing respect but because you lie. Geralt doesn't look like cat witcher so no problems of proving you are not crazy, no such problems with bear witchers, so i think he lies perpouosly, but why ? And Coën may be the reason he chose scholl off griffin, for sure.
The Witcher 3 was released 7 years ago (omg, time really flies!), and now you present 7 details from the game. Pretty iconic, thanks dude!
my pleasure :)
@@xLetalis hehe seriously with your devotion to seeking out details, one wonders what would you analyze the old Hexer ;), 13 episodes, thing of completely original storylines as well as the adaptational work in portraying of the short stories and so on and on hehe.
Great idea on Yontek. Geralt is also a source child, Eskel was suspected to be one too. My thought was he might have been a Druidic apprentice or a mage student before the outlaws/band on magic. Surviving a massacre like that makes anyone a little screwy
You're a girl. Why aren't you dating me? Why are you always choosing normies over fellow gamers?
Oh that is a nice detail!! I never knew that about Yontek :). His portrayal is also a typical 'village idiot' that often appears in various rural stories and the like, fairy tales as well, and with the witcher lore on the subject of these mentally affected children with inherited power it fits very well!! Indeed it might explain his state and as was said source children when not taken care of with their magical talents may become unstable mentally, his abilities maybe were not nearly as strong and so he was overlooked by the mages and considering that such abilities may also pass down the line generations later. In the lore we have apparently many degrees of magical talent, some people may have the minimum of abilities, some don't have them at all.
Not every magician are sources, a attunement to magic is necessary to become one but a source has more than that. Every witchers have a attunement to magic because the Signs require a aptitude with it so they can work. A ordinary human with no magic affinity would be unable to make any signs.
Yontek don't need to be a mage student: the childrens of wizards often inherite a more potent affinity with magic than their parents and that power is what fry their brains. Yontek is lucky, he isn't a vegetable.
Geralt isnt, IS just onthe Netflix series in the books not a spurce child
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aah, my week is complete again :)
It's a testament to both the game and your tenacity that there's still secrets and 'things missed' to be found after all this time!
glad to hear :)
Considering how monsters are from different planes of existence and how varied their counters are maybe Geralt just knows that salt helps against some kinds of monsters like necrophages but not against elementals
Wraiths actually. At the time Geralt does not yet know he's dealing with an elemental, so it can't be that. It's probably just a writer's mistake.
Your Geralt impression is spot on.
Hope you get better soon.
I've always took Geralt's line of salt demand in the Baron's quest as an example of Granny Weatherwax's headology - it's not supposed to work on wraiths or botchlings, it's supposed to work on humans and keep them in their houses. If you just tell them to stay at home they may ignore that order, but with the salt - oh, now it's serious business. And Yontek is almost certainly an untrained sorcerer/mage, probably a child of a magic user. It's not known if Tissaia's ideas were ever implemented - I think they weren't because during the Lodge summit in the books they use the age argument against putting one of the members of the Lodge on Kovir's throne, not that they are all infertile due to sterilization.
The salt line is in the same quest as you mentioned with the Earth Elemental and the ''Rivian Tramp'' Guy. It's right before Geralt goes down the stairs. There's a line of salt and he comments something like ''It's useless.''
Just when I was feeling sad, brother xletalis popped up with another video to cheer me up. Thank you brother. Get well soon.
How?!
Like how can you still find something that I've missed?!
I am now doing a 100% of every location and still couldn't see some of things you've shown us!
You're a legend!
dude ive got 750 hours in.. thats small potatoes compared to some but im still only about 91% complete lol
Interestingly, when it comes to giving Dandelion the Hierarch painting, if you store it in your stash you can still "give" it to him while keeping it for yourself
For the two men trying to tax travellers on the bridge (Gaffer! Gaffer!) His friend calls him Sobek. In Egyptian Mythology Sobek was the a crocodile god and was said to have created the Nile River or is associated with rivers hence him being on a bridge over a river.
indeed!
when my first encounter with these guys ended, drowners came from the river and cilled them instantly. i was to surprised to do something. it was so weird 😅
Additionally, in Polish we often use "Sobek" to describe a person who is selfish and only thinks about themselves ;p not sure there's any link to that here, but still :D
The thing about the line of salt is actually in one of the quests you mentioned earlier in the video. The one with the golem in the cellar. Before you go into the cellar to kill the golem, you can see a line of salt on top of the cellar stairs and with the Witcher senses you can trigger a monologue from Geralt about it if i recall correctly. It's been a long time since i've last played that quest thoroughly.
that s right, Geralt the hypocrate xD
@@LessbetterJoe Maybe it doesn't work on elementals, but does on spirits?
@@jonbaxter2254 Geralt said that line in this house according tu the wraiths that were considered to haunt this mansion
Geralt has often been seen to ignore the “truth” for expedience. It’s his job to kill monsters not disavow everyone of their silly superstitions. So even if the salt does nothing it convinces the townspeople that the threat is real and not something they should mess around with this accomplishing Geralt’s goal of keeping them safe and out of his way.
that moment when the letalis "boring outro" is a cutscene you've never seen in your life
Because of the things that we missed in Witcher 3, xletalis has rewarded us consistently with the findings.
I just love that toussaint music you overlay in parts of this vid
17:26 Yes you are right. I commented it in one of your videos. Geralt does asks everyone to line their houses with salt... but he dismisses this theory in the quest of Therazane which you mentioned earlier in the video. The stairs that lead to the basement are warded with Salt to protect against wraiths.
Salt won’t work on wraiths, but maybe on Botchlings
@@windwaker105 I mean.. botchlings are specters aren't they? or are they necrophages, that summon specters? I mean... though they are present as "cursed ones" in the Journal, that's since they use the cursed oil.. But they pretty much are necrophages. And if salt used to work on necrophages, we wouldn't have seen all those water hags and drowners beside those big water bodies... they just can't all be big freshwater lakes, but they still have necrophages
You probably know this but, just in case...
Another funny fact about paintings. Go to the brothel in Toussaint after the quest about your portrait and check the wall near the redhaired lady, the one that performs rol games with Witcher Cosplayers 😎
17:16 it was the same quest in 12:06 when you enter the assumed cursed house.
i think salte lines are effective against certain type of wraiths and cursed creatures. since in a mission in blood and wine ( the one where roach talks ) if you did not pardon the knights wraith geralt will advise the old woman to use salt line if he ever came back.
I think salt is also used to draw the rune and a circle in Witcher 2 while lifting the curse from Henselt (where wraiths are involved as well), although I'm pretty sure it's not just salt, seeing as Henselt complains about the smell.
i always love the thronebreaker soundtrack in the background, it's so good
Any day that you release a video is an amazing one xLetalis, keep up your beautiful work
Its crazy how one game can have so many concent (also secrets and hidden quests/dialogues), since i started to watch this channel until now it seems like it wont ever end.
The fact you are able to continue making videos from a game that is what 7 years old now and still find something I missed is amazing.
I got one for you. In the abandoned manor where you battle the earth elemental in the basement you can also find a portrait of the hierarch of the eternal flame. The manor is also the closest dwelling to the home of the dwarfs that give you an identical portrait once you clear the witch hunter out when freeing Dandelion. Might be something more to look into.
The salt line. Yes, I believe he just said it to keep people calm. Cause before he said it was useless. Unless it is because they are different types of magic or curse.
Line of salt thing is dismissed in a quest mentioned previously, the one with earth elemental and Kurt
If I recall correctly, there is also a line about salt being just a peasant superstition in Witcher 1, when you get the wraith-repelling talisman from the hermit at Murky Waters. And sure enough, it doesn't work on most wraiths, but it does work on noonwraiths, so the salt is probably one of the "might help, might not help, cannot harm" cases.
@17:23 He did! In the golem quest Kurt Dysart gives out.
exactly!
I totaly missed the quest with yontek through my first playthrough. Don't know why. It isn't on any notice boards and my first game was very streamlined. In the Polish version, the character of Yontek sounds mentally insane. It feels very strange. Well done for killing the pigs, I wouldn't have heart to do it lol!
You probably missed it as it was a free dlc quest and came out a month after release.
makes sense (about Yontek's mentality)
bro how can a man still create good and interesting content from a 7 year old game. both game and letalis are unbelievable fr
Sorry to hear you were sick the past days, I too had a little sickness sore throat , runny nose . Never a good feeling, hope you recover fully soon so you can enjoy life to the fullest. Happy Witchering
I love that you keep finding these little details and keep the series going. You may at this point know more of the Witcher lore than even the game Devs. Second only to the original author.
That was interesting. I've always successfully placated the Botchling and never thought about what might happen if you messed up. Seeing it becoming an enlarged monster took me by surprise.
I think the amount of detail in witcher 3 are endless
I can't imagine what will the come out with in witcher4
I remember seeing the first time Yontek was randomly doing the hockus pockus and it felt so random and hilarious
Yes the line of salto is in the Therazine - Doors slaming Shut quest
Geralt also mentions the line of salt to be utterly useless in the quest where we go to find Iris,Olgried's wife in the mansion in the Hearts of Stones Expansion
What an awesome video! Geralt does say that the salt line things doesn't work at the beginning of the Dysart quest when he's first investigating the house. Hope you're feeling better :)
17:20 You are right! That was part of the golem quest "Therazane" you mentioned earlier in the video.
Geralt said that a line of salt will not work BUT maybe it worked for the other monster? Who knows?
About the line of salt Thing: I think IT was during the therazane quest you mentioned in the video
I find it impressive how you are always finding things in these games even after finishing them.
Get better soon!
:) thank you, already feeling better
17:20 It is in the quest you already mentioned, the one where the vuy calls you a Rivian tramp
yes that line about salt nonsense is in quest with that earth elemental that you talked earlier
I literally seen every video and I wish I could forget everything you've posted so I could rewatch it all and be amazed at how many hours you've dedicated to little hints
You are clearly a wizard to be able to find these.
stumbled on the heirarch painting detail looking for a way to get rid of the painting and accidentally got stuck in dialogue with Dandelion after getting it from the storage chest, nice detail they included. didn't know that xLetalis didn't know about it
That there was a reference to Berengar by the scholar, interesting.
16:26 To me, the most notable difference is Letho being dead or alive
Thanks for another awesome video btw :)
oh well, other than that I suppose :)
maybe the salt thing in the botchling quest is the reference to the Supernatural TV show. P.S. The quest with the support beams with the elemental, I think you need to count in the third support scaffolding at the entrance to the chamber. you can see it at 14:13 in your video on the right. in my play-through I broke the ones inside but quest giver is still alive and well.
I think the Foot Casting bit from the books is also a card in Gwent called Casting Contest. Has an animated bit of a guy casting a spell with his foot and another with boy casting a spell with his (for a lack of better words) wand.
20:45 As far as i know haggling is random-during the Wine-Wars Quest Series in B&W you can sometimes haggle both of the Questgivers there to pay you up to 900 (rare) or at least 850 (still somewhat rare).
To confirm or deny, one would probably need to haggle with the Count for a 100xTimes or so choosing each of the 3 Answers (Wolf, Cat, Griffin) and see how often you can get the higher reward or how it changes.
Choosing another Answer could have a slightly different chance but again, might be worth it to play around with that for a little bit!
Other than that, great video as always-good job & thank you! 👍
ps: I'd say that Therazane is almost 100% from WoW, its not from somewhere else afaik ^-^
The detail about extra dialogue with the Earldoman in Downwarren can be unlocked even if you free the spirit. You just have to return there before finishing the Baron questline, and after seeing the crones, since the village won’t be destroyed yet.
If you ever do the Witcher 2 save import video, a crazy detail I found was during "Of Swords and Dumplings" when you have to get into the warehouse to mark the crates. If you chose Iorveth in Witcher 2 and helped in Vergen, the dwarf guarding the warehouse will just let you in if you pick the "Gotta get inside." option and he'll compliment Geralt on his work in Vergen.
With the bandits, I think I've almost always run into them because that's one of the only bridges that doesn't require a pass to get across the pontar into Novigrad and I hated having to wait around for one. I must've just used that bridge again later because I still didn't have a bridge pass for the guards.
That bridge dosnt cross the Pontar. There is only 2 bidges that cross it, the one at Oxenford and the one south of Novigrad. This bridgr is south-west of Oxenford and there are 2 other bridges on the same river.
Also you always need a pass to cross the Pontar, but if you get a pass and go past one bridge you dont get asked for a pass in the other bridge.
You know you can just swim, right?
I am pretty sure that in polish version o the game dialogue with the guy from golem in cellar theres a cameo of school of cat insted of griffin, snd there domr nsdty things said about school of cat.
Ahhhhh everybody's favorite game with infinite hidden details. Gotta love Witcher 3
17:13 yes there was... it was in a quest that you mentioned in this video "the Doors Slamming Shut" quest
I think the part you're referring to, about dismissing the line of salt, was about vampires... I remember something along the lines of vampires not being afraid of garlic.
I believe something like that was in the books as well
Hope you feel better! I just finished modding my copy of the witcher with over 200 mods and LOVE watching your videos while I was doing it. Also thanks for always supporting and creating for this awesome community!
17:44 love that me messing up on my first playthrough gets a spot on this video XD
Great video! loved the shade at Netflix and my favourite type of magic
It is quite possible the "Line of salt" thing only works against specific creatures. Same way bringing Black Blood to anything but a vampire fight is pointless. It could even be to limit the movement of the Botchling - the creature might have tried to run away and hide in a house, by breaking through the doors. But might be deterred by a line of salt and windows height. Maybe Botchlings just _really_ hate the smell of salt? Or at least the young ones?
But it being usefull to keep the people inside (and thus out of the combat zone) is also a good approach.
Welcome back brother, we missed you while you were gone for the past week, and thank you for your effort recording and editing this while you were still sick. You’re a real one :)
Thanks for another Witcher video!
Didn't know that those pigs (in Yondek's quest) could actually be killed.
Yennefer VA voicing as Iron Maiden saying "What is she to ya, this sorceress Yennefer" does make me chuckle a bit, heh.
I wish I had xLetalis's determination.
Man still grinding details after 7 years.❤❤
Considering Therazane in WoW isn't just some random elemental, I don't doubt it is a reference to her
In the contract "Doors Slamming Shut" (The one with the Golem in this video :)), he mentions the line of salt
Theres something i found out on a random video on tik tok, apparently during the feast at Vegelbud Palace on one of the tables there's a wine named after Dijkstra, which according to the witcher lore, had terrible taste and was served to redanian prisoners at Dijkstra's personal request. Either CD project red made quite a blunder or Vegelbuds are up to something.
Thank you and speedy recovery to you! Take good care!
Pretty sure you can put the Hierarch Hemelfart portrait in the save chest before you give it to Dandelion, that way he hangs it in the Chameleon/Rosemary and Thyme but you can also hang it in your villa in Toussaint (Wineboys dlc) later.
xLetalis, the most important thing I missed in The Witcher 3 was the fact that I didn't know how much I needed this video.
Right now, it is the perfect break to my work.
Thanks for such dedication to TW3 as always!
17:13 Yeah, there was a line like that in Apiarian phantom quest.
Damn, I made a fool of myself, that line is from "doors slamming shut" quest, not the apiarian phantom :ddd
Sorry about that.
I think the part with the line of salt was incidentally the one with the rivian tramp guy. I recently played it and remeber wondering about that conradiction.
Hope you get better soon!
What the hell, I completely missed the Fool's gold, Yontek quest :D
salt reference is in doors slamming shut
That second one is interesting as I’ve played the game maybe 7 times, and this mission 5 or 6 times, and have never got asked to retrieve the sword.
Doesn't this happen when you let them rip all fingernails as well? I've definitely heard it but you might be right about the circumstances
@@xLetalis I think you’ve got the wrong comment, but I read the one and I do recall that dialogue option with Triss after pressing Menge for the most information. Though I always assumed that the dialogue appeared after the torture, at the house outside the city, where you can ask Triss to kill the man or wipe his mind.
I cannot seem to kill the crones as Ciri after she evaded Emmerith in the bogs and before Bald Mountain.
It baffles me every time you do these videos. No idea how your able to find all these but it must’ve taken a heap of time. Cheers mate
great job you're still killing it. although i discovered most of them i didn't know about the pigs and yen's stuff and collapsed sealing
Fantastic video xLetalis! I do have a fun little detail that I discovered a bit ago that I believe you haven't covered yet: during the contract in Skellige where where the monsters try to crush you with a rock (and where you get the nekker boots). When talking to the Doppler in the village about your reward - you can ask for as much coin as possible and he won't get annoyed, I imagine this is because they're trying to kill you and will promise any amount of coin to get you to take the contract. Thanks for all the amazing content over the years :D
I think mr @xletalis that the line that you reffer in the video about the salt was someting diferent in BaW that Damien said to Geralt about how to defeat the vampire attack , in my mind it is the only moment that i can remember about geralt take time to explain to some folk about traditions being a myth, as always superb videos, keep the good work and hope you feel well soon
How to Letalis way of finding new things people have missed: Start a quest and then talk to every person in the game - end the quest and talk to everyone. :DD thats it. I like your videos. keep going
Can't help but realize Yontek looks like Michael Cera
I love the Fool's Gold mission. What about you guys ???
17:08 Yess! I remember about salt lines in a different quest!
The quest was named "Doors Slamming Shut" it's weird that you didn't remember because in this video you mention the exact quest.
And yes, there is a contradiction. In the main Baron quest Geralt says to make a line of salt and in the side quest he says it is useless.
Great vid as always!
I found a small detail with the Hearts of Stone expansion which relates to the Open Sesame quest, specifically which safecracker you can choose.
I went straight to Quinto, bargained for him and then immediately accepted him for the job, I did this without even contemplating Casimir. Considering that Eveline's location is somewhat close to where Casimir lives (Alness) I went to have a look to see if you could interact with him and sure enough you could, well kind of.
His hut was blown to pieces and a few villagers stood around it, I guess he couldn't hack it.
Its another really small really cool detail from CDPR which makes the world feel alive and lived in.
The line about salt is the same mission of the earth elemental or golem. That mission from "rivian trap" quest giver
Great video! In that bridge encounter, have you ever followed the bandits? I wonder where they go after that
hmm I'm not sure!
about the iron maiden quest if you deat olaf the bear ,champion of skellige isles you can go to her and she agrees to fight you right away without having to fight the guy who she otherwise ask you to fight with
I didn’t even realise this I just played the iron maiden one again and I got the sword quest but seeing this I’m sure I got the fight quest the first time. Legend as always mate haha
On Therazane, Therazane is, in fact, an earth elemental in WoW, too.
I've seen a thing.
When you bring Triss to Caleb Menge's garrison to ask him about Dandelion, leave Triss to be tortured and scream only once, and then refuse to continue and kill everyone. There is a line available at Triss house after a while about her finger nails, when you choose "How do you feel?". I think before her sidequest. Interesting follow-ups!
I hope this series never ends
I remember a rare dialog line you may want to use. If you start the cave of dreams quest by going to the boat and negotiating a reward but instead of going on the boat you start the Stranger In A Strange Land quest. Then after imprisonment you are forced by Lugos to do the quest. (As usual). After the cave you will get your reward, but they are disappointed that you haggled a reward despite being forced to do the quest. I don't really remember it because it was a long time ago.
The other line of salt you are thinking about is the Doors Slamming Shut quest. The line of salt is on the top of the stairs leading down to the basement where the earth elemental is.