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Warning! The following article features spoilers for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.
A modder has restored content cut from The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt ending where Ciri becomes a witcher herself.
NexusMods user merigoldmaribor got the scenes running again with working dialogue, showing a sliver of additional content after The Witcher 3 usually cuts to credits. After Ciri receives her sword from Geralt and moves to leave, the scene keeps going to reveal the pair's next steps.
"Yen awaits in Ellander," Geralt says (Ellander is a duchy of Temeria that sits east of Vizima). This is the Temerian capital where players visit Emhyr var Emreis in The Witcher 3 and is also the main city of the original Witcher game and its upcoming remake.
"We can meet her in two days if we hurry," Ciri replies. The two then walk towards the inn door and the game cuts to black, triggering the credits in this version. An alternative version of the scene references Triss Merigold if players entered a relationship with her as Geralt and not Yennefer of Vengerburg.
Those trying to connect the dots between this hidden ending and CD Projekt's Polaris, essentially The Witcher 4, probably won't have much luck, however. As Ciri notes, the duchy is only two days away so likely isn't a tease for a location in the new game, which is expected to feature Ciri as the protagonist as Geralt's story has come to an end.
The story has also moved forward beyond those two days. Canon comic series The Witcher: Curse of Crows tells the story of Ciri working as a witcher and travelling with Geralt and Yennefer in and around Novigrad, the main city featured in The Witcher 3. The Blood and Wine expansion is set three years after the main game's ending too, and eventually sees Geralt retire in Toussaint.
The cut content therefore doesn't tease much for the future, but Witcher fans will be happy to see more secrets from the game unearthed almost a decade after its 2015 release. Fans have restored other content in the past, including a huge chunk of gameplay cut from one of The Witcher 3's final missions.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He'll talk about The Witcher all day.
A modder has restored content cut from The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt ending where Ciri becomes a witcher herself.
NexusMods user merigoldmaribor got the scenes running again with working dialogue, showing a sliver of additional content after The Witcher 3 usually cuts to credits. After Ciri receives her sword from Geralt and moves to leave, the scene keeps going to reveal the pair's next steps.
"Yen awaits in Ellander," Geralt says (Ellander is a duchy of Temeria that sits east of Vizima). This is the Temerian capital where players visit Emhyr var Emreis in The Witcher 3 and is also the main city of the original Witcher game and its upcoming remake.
"We can meet her in two days if we hurry," Ciri replies. The two then walk towards the inn door and the game cuts to black, triggering the credits in this version. An alternative version of the scene references Triss Merigold if players entered a relationship with her as Geralt and not Yennefer of Vengerburg.
Those trying to connect the dots between this hidden ending and CD Projekt's Polaris, essentially The Witcher 4, probably won't have much luck, however. As Ciri notes, the duchy is only two days away so likely isn't a tease for a location in the new game, which is expected to feature Ciri as the protagonist as Geralt's story has come to an end.
The story has also moved forward beyond those two days. Canon comic series The Witcher: Curse of Crows tells the story of Ciri working as a witcher and travelling with Geralt and Yennefer in and around Novigrad, the main city featured in The Witcher 3. The Blood and Wine expansion is set three years after the main game's ending too, and eventually sees Geralt retire in Toussaint.
The cut content therefore doesn't tease much for the future, but Witcher fans will be happy to see more secrets from the game unearthed almost a decade after its 2015 release. Fans have restored other content in the past, including a huge chunk of gameplay cut from one of The Witcher 3's final missions.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He'll talk about The Witcher all day.