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The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] In "Lord of Undvik" when you find the second companion in the task to find a way to the giants lair...there is a hall in the RUINS OF DORVE (Far left island on SKELLIGE) It is the biggest building of the map. You will see the corpses all around and a particular one on a chandelier, door on t... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] When Geralt reaches a cabin on the Isle of Mists, he meets a company of shipwrecked dwarfs. Originally a company of seven, four of the dwarfs barricaded themselves in a cabin while the other three shipwreck-survivors were scattered elsewhere on the island. One of the separated dwarfs, Gaspar... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] These are all references to the plot of the Twilight movie and book series. Fight Club There is a reference to Tyler Durden, the split personality of Fight Club's protagonist, on a notice attached to a Novigrad notice board.thumb|220x220px Also in Novigrad, you have to defeat a man called Du... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] You are asked by the bookie named Claytop (Bricktop) to throw the fight. Star Wars In Skellige, there is a quest given by a bounty hunter called Djenge Frett, a reference to the bounty hunter Jango Fett from Star Wars. Wizard of Oz + Alice in Wonderland The book Travel Between Worlds contain... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] At the beginning of the game, when discussing the summons of the Emperor of Nilfgaard, Vesemir says "an offer one can't refuse?". Geralt comments on the death of Hugo Hoff that he now "sleeps with fishes". During the quest "Possession", Aki, the younger brother, was given an ancestral sword.... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] Many halflings when you keep talking to them suggest you don't call them "Baggins". 300 Guards and villagers in Skellige will sometimes yell "This is Skellige!", a possible reference to the phrase "This is Sparta!" uttered by the main protagonist Leonidas. Peter Pan During the quest "Empty C... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] Sing!" from the latest Mad Max movie. Vabank During the Hearts of Stone expansion quest: "Open Sesame!", Geralt may rescue a character named Quinto: it's a reference to a polish film "Vabank". The main character of the film is called Kwinto, and he's a famous safecracker. Multiple Movies Fa... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] Russ Meyer was a 1960s-70s film director known primarily for writing and directing a series of successful low-budget sexploitation films that featured campy humour, sly satire and large-breasted women. Everything you always wanted to know about sex but were afraid to ask In Novigrad after th... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] ONE." Also, he states, it'd be "better to go out with a bang than to die slowly in a hospital." Game of Thrones A secondary quest found in Novigrad is titled "A Feast For Crows". Same as the fourth book from the series "A Song Of Ice And Fire" by George R. R. Martin. thumb|220x220px At the s... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] In the Blood and Wine expansion, you can hear a little girl say "My brother gave me a sword, I named it needle". In the quest The Warble of a Smitten Knight, in the Blood and Wine expansion, the final boss "Gregoire de Gorgon" is a reference to Game of Thrones's "Ser Gregor Clegane". with si... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] Scrubs In the village of Lurtch, a woman can be found arguing with her husband. She asks why he has killed and stuffed her dog, Rowdy, to which he replies that the dog is stuffed with poison and will be used as dragon bait. The dog's name is a reference to Turk and J.D.'s beloved taxidermy d... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] At some point during the "Turn and Face the Strange" quest, you can enter a portal only to enter a small room with nothing but a bloodied crate in the center and a chest contening a Cake nearby. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim The card text of "Black Infantry Archer" in Gwent says "I always aim ... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] An elf in a Scoiat'el camp near Novigrad sometimes says "War. War changes EVERYTHING!" In the Village of Lurtch, after the completion of the DLC quest "Fool's Gold," one of the peasants will directly quote Fallout and say "War, war never changes." Another female NPC then immediately quips ba... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] Monkey Island (Series) In the Blood and Wine DLC's "Fists of Fury" quest, Geralt fights "Mancomb", which is a wordplay on the name of the protagonist of the Monkey Island games, Guybrush. Mancomb looks identical to Guybrush, sporting a blonde pony tail, and the actual "fight" is done by choo... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] The mission "A Towerful of Mice" tells a story of a cruel noble family, that hid in a tower when the peasants rebelled and were eaten by mice. All these details are similar to the polish tale of Prince Popiel. A very similar tale is frequently told in Germany, surrounding a Guardtower in the... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] Firstly to the short story Granica możliwości from Miecz przeznaczenia, where the shoemaker Kozojed/Goatmuncher used a fake sheep filled with poison to try and kill a dragon. Secondly, to the second version of the legend of the Wawel Dragon, a tale from Polish folklore which the short story ... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] Mirror Man lures him to the temple with a moon painted on the floor. Literature At the start of Blood and Wine, the scene with Guillaume & the windmill is clearly a reference to Don Quixote (seeing windmills for monsters; only this time a true monster pops out). Furthermore there are notes s... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] He tries to cheat you, as well as the soldiers that are there, by telling that the beast inside the cage is a basilisk, but Geralt notices the fraud. After this, the wyvern breaks the cage and kills that guy. This quest, called 'The Most Truest of Basilisk', represents a scene from Time of C... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] In the quest "The Great Escape", Geralt and Yennefer go to meet a man who escaped from the prison. His name is Abbé Faria, which is a reference to the priest that Edmond Dantes meets in the book The Count of Monte Cristo. Additionally, the way the man escapes from prison is by playing dead a... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] The book called "Journey to the End of the World" is a reference to Jules Verne's adventure novel "Around the World in Eighty Days". It also mentions the German film star Conrad Veidt (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Man Who Laughs, The Thief of Bagdad, Casablanca), who was one the first ac... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] Towards the end of the quest "Where the Cat and the Wolf Play" Geralt may say "The soil lie light upon you." depending on your choices made throughout the duration of the quest. This is a reference to an inscription commonly used on funerary items from ancient Roman times; "Sit tibi terra le... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] During the quest "Final Preparations", you encounter a character by the name of Abbe Faria. This is the name of the prisoner who helps Edmond Dantes escape the prison in "the Count Of Monte Cristo" by faking his own death. During quest "Through Time and Space" on the desert planet Avallac'h ... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] The child had died of severe burns. Olgierd von Everec resembles Andrzej Kmicic, a character from novel "The Deluge" by Henryk Sienkiewicz, who was an extraordinary soldier and commander, but also a thug and a brawler. Kmicic leads a band of criminals (like Olgierd's Wild Ones) and has a fia... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] One of the first missions in the game Twisted Firestarter references the lyrics of the song Firestarter by Prodigy. "...I'm a firestarter, twisted firestarter..." The "Rosemary and Thyme" is a reference to the English folk song "Scarborough Fair" most known by its performance by Simon and Ga... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] During the mission 'Equine Phantoms', Geralt asks Roach how he can cross large distances when the former whistles. Roach tells Geralt that that he will be there "for you-ou-ou as the world falls down", a reference to David Bowie's "As The World Falls Down" from Jim Henson's 'Labyrinth'. In T... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] It also bears similarities of medieval trade city of Novgorod in modern Russia. A book called "Wondrous World of Insectoids" detail a system called "arachnocommunism". The Bald Mountain is a reference to Łysa Góra (Bald Mountain), a mountain in Poland known to be an ancient pagan place of cu... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] During the quest "an elusive thief" should you spare the Doppler, the merchant will refuse to reward you without a trophy, to which geralt responds "There better be one, or you'll feel the invisible hand of the market smack you so hard you won't be able to sit down for a week". This is a ref... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] Edna var Attre tricks her guard by telling him that Geralt is Fredrick Francis De Bergerac, Rosa's fencing instructor. This references Cyrano De Bergerac, a 17th-century playwright and noted fencer. "Night of the long fangs", main mission from the Blood and Wine expansion, may be seen as a r... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] Their posture closely resembles the one of the men and women in Édouard Manet's famous painting "Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe". When Geralt is searching for diagrams of the Grandmaster Griffin Gear at Mont Crane Castle, you can see several anatomical drawings by Leonard da Vinci hanging on the wa... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] This article will catalogue Easter Eggs and Pop Culture References in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt A virtual Easter egg is an intentional hidden message or feature in an object such as a movie, book, CD, DVD, computer program, or video game. The term draws a parallel with the custom of the Easte... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] ("You have been weighed, you have been measured, and you've been found wanting." - which in itself is a biblical reference, to the Book of Daniel.) Gangs of New York A Quest named "The Gangs of Novigrad" is an obvious reference to the movie "Gangs of New York" starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Onc... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] Geralt also finds Ciri on the bed in the house, put under a death-like sleep much like Snow White. The Departed After finishing "Return to Crookback Bog" one of the witch hunters utters the line "Maybe, maybe not, maybe go fuck yourself" which is a Mark Wahlberg line from the film The Depart... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] The master blacksmith in Novigrad is retired, is called Hattori and makes dumplings, almost identical to the retired blacksmith in the Quentin Tarantino film Kill Bill. Incidentally, he is also referencing the real life Hattori Hanzo, a ninja from the Edo era. The plot of the quest "Followin... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] Thieves randomly shout “Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries!”. Beggars talk about how one of them was cured by a mage from a disease and has a hard time begging now. The entire "Shock Therapy" quest is in reference to the scene in The Life of Brian where Brian c... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] During the quest 'The Great Escape' (reference itself), when you proceed towards the Commanders chambers for the keys to free Magarita, you'll find a document - a list of prisoners - stating 'Undomiel, an Elven mage' being imprisoned which is a reference to Arwen from Tolkien's Lord of the R... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] A reference to the Addams family who have a butler named Lurch, and Evves is meant to be a female version of Addams, as in Adam and Eve. Apocalypse Now The "Siege Tower" gwent card references the movie's famous quote, saying: "I love the clamor of siege towers in the morning. Sounds like vic... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] In the Heart of Stone DLC, when doing the sidequest "Enchanting: Quality Has Its Price", Geralt will have to enter a cave southeast of Hunter's Cottage north of Novigrad. In the entrance of the cave lies a body with a note which starts a new treasure hunt quest called 'The Drakenborg Redempt... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] Breaking Bad A trophy is called "Let's Cook". Behind an illusion in a cave north of Novigrad you'll discover a laboratory with a skeleton holding a document called "Alchemists Notes". In it the alchemist is complaining about his assistant, Jester (Jesse), who'd have had "One Job. ONE." Also,... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] After the fight in the arena, when some of Cleaver's dwarves attack Whoreson Junior's men, some of the dwarves will say, "You're the fucking dainklage!" an apparent reference to Peter Dinklage, the actor who portrays Tyrion Lannister, a dwarf. When you try to get help to fight the wild hunt ... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] In the quest "Through Time and Space", when Geralt is sent to the frozen world, there is a breaking in the cave wall directly in front of Geralt that resembles the crack in Amy's wall. Tower outta nowhere Quest. Geralt, on entering through the portal says, "It looks smaller on the outside". ... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] Another item that you can find in cupboards is Silver Pantaloons, which is an easter egg reference to a recurring easter egg throughout the Baldur's Gate trilogy. There is a sword called 'Daystar' which is a reference to a sword guarded by a lich in the city of Amn. In the Polish version, wh... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] While traveling to the Circle of Elements with Lambert on "The Final Trial", Geralt says "Was bold and brash once, like you. Then I took a pitchfork in the gut." (It is worth noting that the thing actually happened in the novel "The Lady of the Lake" by Andrzej Sapkowski).' Occasionally, Gua... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] GOG.com A book titled Gottfried’s Omni-opening Grimoire (GOG) explains how to bypass the Defensive Regulatory Magicon (DRM). GOG is a distribution service and publisher for PC games and films, operated by GOG Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of CD Projekt based in Warsaw, Poland. GOG delivers ... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] Also after helping Triss rid a warehouse of rats you will see them running thumb|Pied Piper Notethe water like in the story. The "Trail of Treats" is reminiscent of the tale of Hansel and Gretel. You can find Excalibur inside the stone in the dungeon in Skellige, when you want to find the ma... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] During Contract: Dragon quest, Geralt needs sheep for a bait. Village elder asks, if Geralt is going to fill it with sulfur and he responds "Another ally of the brave little shoemaker". It is a two-fold reference. Firstly to the short story Granica możliwości from Miecz przeznaczenia, where ... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] The pact states that the devil is forced to fulfill three wishes (like Mirror Man), and Twardowski is supposed to come to Rome. The devil lures Twardowski to the inn called "Rome" to take his soul, but Twardowski in his last moment says a prayer, and is saved, but must stay on the Moon till ... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] In Oxenfurt, near the northeastern gate, you can find a man who has a wyvern in a cage. He tries to cheat you, as well as the soldiers that are there, by telling that the beast inside the cage is a basilisk, but Geralt notices the fraud. After this, the wyvern breaks the cage and kills that ... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] In the quest "The Great Escape", Geralt and Yennefer go to meet a man who escaped from the prison. His name is Abbé Faria, which is a reference to the priest that Edmond Dantes meets in the book The Count of Monte Cristo. Additionally, the way the man escapes from prison is by playing dead a... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] During "The King is Dead - Long Live the King" Geralt is tasked with finding a key to place in a statue's hand, opening a secret passage. Many items are provided to try, only one works. One of the items is a skull. Nothing happens when it is placed in the statue's hand. After, Geralt sighs, ... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] They're the main characters of Vladimir Nabokov's novel "Lolita". The title of a quest "The Fall of the House Reardon" references Edgar Allan Poe's "the Fall of the House of Usher". During the same quest one can find Humbert's remains, who was entombed alive behind a brick wall. The whole se... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] Walking around in von Everec mansion in Hearts of Stone expansion, Geralt can make comments about certain objects. Of the portrait depicting Olgierd and Iris together, he says "Happy families are all alike, every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way", quoting the first line of Leo Tolsto... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] Wells, "The Island of Doctor Moreau." The sidequest "Last Exploits of Selina's Gang", from the Blood and Wine expansion, mentions three robbers: Selina, Bruce - her lover -, and Robin. This is a nod to DC Comics' Batman (Bruce Wayne), Robin, and Catwoman (Selina Kyle). The quest's title is a... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] Older peasants will sometimes humm Polish old cabaret song "Wesołe jest życie staruszka". A loading tip says "When the time of the White Frost comes, do not eat the yellow snow.", referencing Frank Zappa's song "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow". In the quest "Turn and Face the Strange," which invo... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] Additionally that's a name of a class in game Elsworld. When speaking to a troll in the marsh he will say "Trolololol". During the "Where the Cat and Wolf Play" quest, if you let Witcher go and find letter in his stash, you can read that Witcher of Cat School named Schrödinger might be dead ... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] During the quest "Family Matters," a portrait must be removed from the wall, as there is a hole behind it. This portrait is of the baron and is wife. It bears a striking resemblance to one of the most famous paintings of all time, "Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife," created by Jan van Eyck In... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] This article will catalogue Easter Eggs and Pop Culture References in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt A virtual Easter egg is an intentional hidden message or feature in an object such as a movie, book, CD, DVD, computer program, or video game. The term draws a parallel with the custom of the Easte... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] A man standing in the building just north of Ursten village whistles the theme from "Once Upon a Time in America", composed by Ennio Morricone. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves When Geralt reaches a cabin on the Isle of Mists, he meets a company of shipwrecked dwarfs. Originally a company of... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] Fight Club There is a reference about Tyler Durden, the split personality of Fight Club's protagonist in a notice at a Novigrad's notice board.thumb|220x220px Also in Novigrad you have to defeat a man called "Durden the Tailor" in a fist fight. Broken Flowers A Quest named "Broken Flowers" i... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] Wizard of Oz + Alice in Wonderland The Book "Travel Between Worlds" contains references to the Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland. Zo is Oz backwards as it is mentioned in the book. The story is similar too. Theodore is being taken by a hurricane to another world and Ecila who traveled dow... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] During the quest 'The Great Escape' (reference itself), when you proceed towards the Commanders chambers for the keys to free Magarita, you'll find a document - a list of prisoners - stating 'Undomiel, an Elven mage' being imprisoned which is a reference to Arwen from Tolkien's Lord of the R... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] Mad Max: Fury Road During the Hearts of Stone expansion, some Knights from the Order of Flaming Rose occasionally cry "Witness me, brothers!", "What a day! What a lovely day!" and "I live, I die, I live again!", mimicking the Nux' lines from the latest Mad Max movie. Vabank During the Hearts... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] During the Quest "Carnal Sins", Geralt visits the workshop of a Dwarf to investigate his murder. He is met by the Dwarf's Brother Gus Meyer, who tells Geralt his brother had a fixation for carving female statues with large breasts, regardless of their status. Russ Meyer was a 60's-70's film ... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] Upon examining him, Geralt says "Sky cells… Nice idea for a prison without bars. Shame he didn't know how to fly." There is a sword named Longclaw after Jon Snow's sword. In the cave underneath the Temple Isle, the sorcerer's notes tell that he tried using milk of the poppy in his experiment... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] Sherlock During the Triss romance scene in the Lighthouse two sailors believe the subsequent flickering of the light to be a Morse Code message. This is a reference to the scene in 'The Hounds of Baskerville' where Watson notices car headlights flashing on Dartmoor and thinks it to be Morse ... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] Occasionally, Guards in Novigrad will say "No lollygagging," a phrase also spoken by Guards in Skyrim. In the Hearts of Stone expansion, during a dialog between Shani and a guard in the main quest "Whatsoever a Man Soweth", Shani says to the guard "You were much kinder when I was patching yo... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] When fighting bandits sometimes they will say "I'll rip off your melon and shit down your neck". Killer Instinct and Primal rage During a mission, you must hire thugs for a job. They offer to work for free if you fight them both in an organized fight. If you accept, he says: "It will be a gr... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] All these details are similar to the polish tale of Prince Popiel. (An extra bit of trivia: Stara Basan, a movie that includes this story, was made with Michał Żebrowski as a main character. Michał Żebrowski played Geralt in the TV series 'the Hexer'[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hexer_%... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] The Side mission A Favor for a Friend is based on Cinderella, Apparently Keira Metz favorite fairy tale who with Geralt's help reenacts the story. According to Geralt the story takes inspiration from a true event: Apparently it involves a Zeugl swallowing a princess whole and leaving behind ... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] Lovecraft's Call of Cthulhu. Appropriately, the Necronomicon, which was referenced in works of H.P. Lovecraft, can be found as an in-game book. In Oxenfurt, near the northeastern gate, you can find a man who has a wyvern in a cage. He tries to cheat you, as well as the soldiers that are ther... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] The ceremony on the island directly quotes parts of it. In the quest "The Great Escape", Geralt and Yennefer go to meet a man who escaped from the prison. His name is Abbé Faria, which is a reference to the priest that Edmond Dantes meets in the book The Count of Monte Cristo. Additionally, ... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] The book called "Journey to the End of the World" is a reference to Jules Verne's "Journey to the Center of the Earth" During "The King is Dead - Long Live the King" Geralt is tasked with finding a key to place in a statue's hand, opening a secret passage. Many items are provided to try, onl... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] The backstory of a quest "The Fall of the House Reardon" is about a 14-year-old girl Dolores Reardon and her brother/guardian Humbert. They're the main characters of Vladimir Nabokov's novel "Lolita". The title of a quest "The Fall of the House Reardon" references Edgar Allan Poe's "the Fall... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] You are asked to kill them and will later fight them later in a cave. Walking around in von Everec mansion in Hearts of Stone expansion, Geralt can make comments about certain objects. Of the portrait depicting Olgierd and Iris together, he says "Happy families are all alike, every unhappy f... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] One of the first missions in the game Twisted Firestarter references the lyrics of the song Firestarter by Prodigy. "...I'm a firestarter, twisted firestarter..." The "Rosemary and Thyme" is a reference to the English folk song "Scarborough Fair" most known by its performance by Simon and Ga... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] The Bald Mountain is a reference to Łysa Góra (Bald Mountain), a mountain in Poland known to be an ancient pagan place of cult activity. Due to that, the mountain is known in legends as a place where witches had sabbaths. Dandelion acting as a hero takes a nickname Crimson Avenger, same alia... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] During the quest "an elusive thief" should you spare the Doppler, the merchant will refuse to reward you without a trophy, to which geralt responds "There better be one, or you'll feel the invisible hand of the market smack you so hard you won't be able to sit down for a week". This is a ref... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] This article will catalogue Easter Eggs and Pop Culture References in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt A virtual Easter egg is an intentional hidden message or feature in an object such as a movie, book, CD, DVD, computer program, or video game. The term draws a parallel with the custom of the Easte... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] Technically Ciri is a Princess and The White Frost is directly linked to Ciri's story which makes the reference even stronger. The Departed After finishing Return to Crookback Bog one of the witch hunters utters the line "Maybe, maybe not, maybe go fuck yourself" which is a Mark Wahlberg lin... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] A fist fighter is named Georgius George as in Gorgeous George. You are asked by the bookie named Claytop (Bricktop) to throw the fight. Star Wars On Skellige Isles there is a quest given by a bounty hunter called "Djenge Frett", a reference to the bounty hunter Jango Fett from Star Wars. Wiz... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] Lord of the Rings When you recruit Zoltan to defend Kaer Morhen he says "You have me and my axe!". During the quest 'The Great Escape' (reference itself), when you proceed towards the Commanders chambers for the keys to free Magarita, you'll find a document - a list of prisoners - stating 'U... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] Addams Family The village of Lurch is named after the butler of the Evves family who left the land to the peasants when he died. A reference to the Addams family who have a butler named Lurch, and Evves is meant to be a female version of Addams, as in Adam and Eve. Apocalypse Now The "Siege ... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] During the Quest "Carnal Sins", Geralt visits the workshop of a Dwarf to investigate his murder. He is met by the Dwarf's Brother Gus Meyer, who tells Geralt his brother had a fixation for carving female statues with large breasts, regardless of their status. Russ Meyer was a 60's-70's film ... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] There is a sword named Longclaw after Jon Snow's sword. In the cave underneath the Temple Isle the sorcerer's notes tell that he tried using milk of the poppy in his experiments. After the fight in the arena, when some of Cleaver's dwarves attack Whoreson Junior's men, some of the dwarves wi... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] Video Games Baldur's Gate One of the items that you can find in cupboards or lockers is Balduran's Butter knife. Another item that you can find in cupboards is Silver Pantaloons, which is an easter egg reference to a recurring easter egg throughout the Baldur's Gate trilogy. There is a sword... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] CD projekt RED thumb|220x220px Some of the weather vanes use the stylized cardinal logo used by CD Projekt RED. GOG.com A book titled Gottfried’s Omni-opening Grimoire (GOG) explains how to bypass the Defensive Regulatory Magicon (DRM). GOG is a distribution service and publisher for PC game... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] The "Trail of Treats" is reminiscent of the tale of Hansel and Gretel. You can find Excalibur inside the stone in the dungeon in Skellige, when you want to find the mask from the druid with Yennefer. When Geralt tries to pull Excalibur out of the stone, Yennefer says that the sword is not ac... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] Firstly to the short story Granica możliwości from Miecz przeznaczenia, where the shoemaker Kozojed/Goatmuncher used a fake sheep filled with poison to try and kill a dragon. Secondly, to the second version of the legend of the Wawel Dragon, a tale from Polish folklore which the short story ... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] During the quest 'The Great Escape', you can find a list of prisoners with several inside jokes, including a reference to a prisoner named Sardukhar, a member of the Nilfgaardian Elite Palace Guard. This a reference to the novel "Dune" by Frank Herbert. In the novel, the Sardukar were the el... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] On one of the notice boards there's a notice from "Ismael" claiming "if you see a white whale in the sea, let it swim on. It's mine. If anyone catches it before me, Freya be my witness, I will stab that wretch to death with my harpoon" Clearly a reference to Ishmael and Moby Dick / the whale... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] Towards the end of the quest "Where the Cat and the Wolf Play" Geralt may say "The soil lie light upon you." depending on your choices made throughout the duration of the quest. This is a reference to an inscription commonly used on funerary items from ancient Roman times; "Sit tibi terra le... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] During the quest "Final Preparations", you encounter a character by the name of Abbe Faria. This is the name of the prisoner who helps Edmond Dantes escape the prison in The Count Of Monte Cristo by faking his own death. During quest "Through Time and Space" on the desert planet Avallac'h de... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] A loading tip says "When the time of the White Frost comes, do not eat the yellow snow.", referencing Frank Zappa's song "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow". Miscellaneous During the mission "Defender of Faith", you come across some students vandalizing shrines. The say their master Friedrich sent t... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] When speaking to a troll in the marsh he will say "Trolololol". During the "Where the Cat and Wolf Play" quest, if you let Witcher go and find letter in his stash, you can read that Witcher of Cat School named Schrödinger might be dead or alive, referencing a quantum mechanics paradox called... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] This article will catalogue Easter eggs in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt A virtual Easter egg is an intentional hidden message or feature in an object such as a movie, book, CD, DVD, computer program, or video game. The term draws a parallel with the custom of the Easter egg hunt. Movies Django U... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] Technically Ciri is a Princess and The White Frost is directly linked to Ciri's story which makes the reference even stronger. The Departed After finishing Return to Crookback Bog one of the witch hunters utters the line "Maybe, maybe not, maybe go fuck yourself" which is a Mark Wahlberg lin... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] On Skellige Isles there is a quest given by a bounty hunter called "Djenge Frett", a reference to the bounty hunter Jango Fett from Star Wars. Wizard of Oz + Alice in Wonderland The Book "Travel Between Worlds" contains references to the Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland. Zo is Oz backwar... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] When you recruit Zoltan to defend Kaer Morhen he says "You have me and my axe!". During the quest 'The Great Escape' (reference itself), when you proceed towards the Commanders chambers for the keys to free Magarita, you'll find a document - a list of prisoners - stating 'Undomiel, an Elven ... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] Addams Family The village of Lurch is named after the butler of the Evves family who left the land to the peasants when he died. A reference to the Addams family who have a butler named Lurch, and Evves is meant to be a sort of female version of Addams. (Adam and Eve, gedditt?) Multiple Movi... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] In the cave underneath the Temple Isle the sorcerer's notes tell that he tried using milk of the poppy in his experiments. After the fight in the arena, when some of Cleaver's dwarves attack Whoreson Junior's men, some of the dwarves will say, "You're the fucking dainklage!" an apparent refe... |
The Witcher 3 Easter eggs | [The Witcher 3 Easter eggs] In the trophy list the trophy for unlocking places of power is called "Power Overwhelming", in reference to the original Starcraft Archon quote and cheat of the same name. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim The card text of "Black Infantry Archer" in Gwent says "I always aim for the knee". Clear re... |
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