Somebody has found one of The Witcher 3’s final Easter eggs, nearly seven years after its May 2015 release.
YouTube user xLetalis discovered that Vivienne, a character that players can free from a curse at the risk of dying in seven years, may actually be found dead after waiting that long game.
Vivienne is at the center of the Blood and Wine expansion’s The Warble of a Smitten Knight quest, where Geralt finds his half turned into a bird. He offers to lift the curse, though warns Vivienne that she can only live as long as the beast results.
Okay, here’s the video – Vivienne was found dead in Yennefer’s room on Skellige after 7 years of playing: @CDPROJEKTRED @PaweSasko @PhiWeber @witchergame pic.twitter.com/Z9qPwveSJZ
xLetalis (@xLetalis) 20 March 2022
She accepts, departs, and can later be found at the Skelligs. By meditating for seven years (over 2,500 days), or using console commands to otherwise speed up time, the player can find Vivienne dead in Yennefer’s room in Carr Trolled Harbour.
Philip Weber, acting lead quest designer for CD Projekt Red, noted the irony of the seven-year Easter Egg quest nearly seven years after the release of The Witcher 3.
He told IGN: “I’m not sure if it’s the last secret, but it’s pretty close for sure. Everyone hid so many details during the last months of development that people are probably going to discover something new one day.
“Of course it’s the Easter Egg I hid the most, so it’s quite impressive that it’s finally found.”
While this is one of the final Easter eggs for now, a PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series version of the game is on the way, giving CD Projekt Red plenty of opportunities to sprinkle in new secrets.
Our 9/10 . In reviewIGN stated “Extensively and carefully detailed, The Witcher 3 ends Geralt’s story on a high note,” and we even ranked it high on our list of the top ten open world games of all time.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer who remembers tweeting @thelastdinsdale occasionally.
