CD Projekt Crimson correctly revealed new Witcher 3 enlargement Songs of the Previous yesterday throughout Opening Evening Stay, confirming the brand new playable location as Letten, the place Geralt’s greatest buddy bard pal Dandelion comes from. However the place precisely is Letten on the map? It is bloody exhausting to search out.
Certainly, I am unsure it is marked in any respect on any maps but as a result of it is a location CDPR has padded out to set this authentic Witcher story in. However we do lastly have official steering on methods to discover it. That steering comes from Peter Gelencser, who’s the world director of Songs of the Previous at developer Idiot’s Concept – the co-developer of the enlargement.
Gelencser was talking in a CDPR Gamescom stream earlier at this time and clarified: “The entire thing performs out in Letten, which is the birthplace of Dandelion. It is within the north, someplace half-way between Kovir [I think he says Kovir] and Kaedwen for all you map nerds on the market. When you go to the Gulf of Praxeda and take the Buina river to the east and take a proper on the Nimnar river, on the opposite southern shore of the Nimnar you’ll find this pretty place.
“But it surely’s within the north if you need the TLDR model,” Gelencser mentioned.
Even with these instructions, it is exhausting to pin-point on a map, as a result of as I mentioned, I do not suppose it seems on any maps but. However on an in depth map I did discover, you may clearly see the Gulf of Praxeda physique of water within the north, then comply with the Buina river from it to the Ninmar river till you get to the place roughly Letten should be: someplace close to Gelibor, I estimate. Someplace in northern Redania, in different phrases, and never very removed from Blaviken, the place Geralt picked up his notorious “Butcher of Blaviken” moniker.
Importantly, this places the enlargement comparatively shut geographically to the area the place The Witcher 4 takes place: Kovir. It is also a major distance away from the areas in The Witcher 3, that are down in southern Redania main into Temeria; and away from Cidaris, the rumoured location of Songs of the Previous.
Letten itself was described by Karolina Kuzia-Rokosz, the imaginative and prescient director Idiot’s Concept, as a “very calm” and “idyllic” Polish countryside space. It is spring after we go to, as a result of they’re celebrating the end-of-winter pageant Belleteyn, so the “mornings are contemporary” and “you may see the crisp gentle travelling on all of the vegetation”. It is a inexperienced and blooming purple, vibrant place, as you may see in gameplay footage shared through the CDPR stream (phase begins from 2 hours quarter-hour in). However after all there is a darker “underbelly”, Gelencser mentioned, that we don’t but see.
A couple of photos pulled from the stream. That vast property: that is Dandelion’s household’s nation manor. No surprise he is so pleased all the time.
As to when this enlargement takes place, Kuzia-Rokosz defined Songs of the Previous begins what appears like instantly after the second Witcher 3 enlargement Blood and Wine, the place we believed we left Geralt retired on his winery. “So the occasions of the third enlargement unravel after Geralt hoped to retire at Corvo Bianco,” Kuzia-Rokosz mentioned, “however then yet one more journey unveils.”
The Witcher 3: Songs of the Previous wasn’t the one main Witcher announcement yesterday. Alongside it, CDPR additionally introduced a Remastered version of The Witcher 3 that won’t solely overhaul graphics but in addition gameplay parts of the sport – sure, together with fight.
Dom noticed the enlargement at Gamescom earlier at this time and can share their full ideas quickly, however already they’ve shared that CDPR had the thought for this enlargement “years in the past”, and that there’ll in all probability be a brand new romance for Geralt in it. Songs of the Previous is due for launch on PC, PS5, Xbox Collection S/X and Change 2 – that is a brand new addition – subsequent 12 months.