The Witcher 3: 10 Things That Make No Sense About Blood & Wine – TheGamer

Being the final content forThe Witcher III: Wild Hunt,Blood and Winewas under a lot of pressure to provide a satisfying conclusion for Geralt of Rivia in his video game iteration. Looking at the reviews and how after five years most of the fans are still interested in the game (this piece being a good proof), Blood and Winepretty much exceeded expectations.

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Still, that isn't to say thatBlood and Wineis perfect. Much likeHearts of Stone and the base game, it came with a slew of plot holes and inconsistencies-- all side effects of crafting a complex magical dark fantasy world. Here are 10 of those things that preventedBlood and Wine from beingfaultless.

Blood and Wine's main quest, due to its high level requirement, is usually meant to be played after the base game's main quest. That very well means Geralt would have already rescued Ciri and probably even made her empress or witcher.

Too badBlood and Wine's narrative didn't allow for much of her involvement because she could have solved half the problems in the DLC's plot. Heck, she can probably even do a huge favor for the Unseen Elder and opened a portal to the vampire homeworld. Why didn't she?

It's understandable why the whole game ended up giving Geralt Corvo Bianco and set him up for life-- it's his conclusion. However, this wasn't even the first time Geralt helped a whole kingdom, in fact, he did help Emhyr var Emreis with Ciri and even Foltest in the first two games.

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Being Geralt, he rejected all their rewards but suddenly didn't shy away from a vineyard? That's not very witcherly of him. Moreover, Geralt can reject Triss' idea of settling down comfortably in a nice house but would still accept a whole mansion and plot of land and even invite Triss with him. Maybe he just prefers Toussaint over Kovir?

The Fablesphere or Land of a Thousand Fables was a hidden realm created by a powerful sorcerer for Anna Henrietta and Sylvia Anna as a gift. Apparently, time there is slower than in the outside world and it just so happens that Syanna mathematically spent 40 years there just hiding from Dettlaff or prior to that.

From that rule, she's supposed to look like a senior citizen, which she isn't which probably means that aging doesn't work like that in the Fablesphere.A person can live there and spend centuries there without aging, practically learning knowledge worth a thousand years or building something great. So why aren't kings funding such a thing?

Dettlaff often seems infantile in behavior and even naive. He's practically head over heels for Syanna, given the lengths he went through to save her. Syanna, being a master manipulator, surely could have known this.

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However, instead of being honest to him regarding her quest for vengeance, she pulls an overcomplicated kidnapping scheme. Given how deeply in love Dettlaff was, there's a big chance he would just willingly punish those who hurt Syanna. That would have made for a more powerful enemy.

When Dettlaff soon found out that Syanna played him like a harp, players expected the latter to be ripped to shreds on the spot. Instead, Dettlaff does the opposite and... lets her hide which was weird since he was planning to kill her later on.

Regis chalks it up to Dettlaff not wanting to act rashly except that's still what he did later on and it's also out-of-character and illogical for him to let prey escape given his rage. Besides, was there any real need to give Syanna three days to come up with an explanation?

One odd thing aboutBlood and Wine's exposition is that most of the "white" in Dettlaff's grey area morality is only told by Regis who owed the former a ton. Regis paints Dettlaff as honorable and genuinely kind.

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Except Dettlaff also massacred innocents in Toussaint when Syanna didn't show up after his 3-day grace period. Well, it does sound true to his word but was he really that naive to ignore the fact that the people of Toussaint had nothing to do with it? Maybe Regis was wrong in his assumption of Dettlaff. Maybe Dettlaff was just a plot device.

The Witcher 3barely robs players of agency, so whenBlood and Winedid just that by skipping the timeframe three days forward, it was questionable. It's like the writers just wanted to make the players assume that Geralt, Regis, and Anna Henrietta did nothing in those three days.

Turns out Regis had an idea all along-- only he suggested it as soon as Dettlaff carried on his mass murder in Toussaint. They could have tried that three days earlier before Dettlaff depopulated dark fantasy Disneyland.

Now, on to the lore. Regis makes it perfectly clear that only higher vampires can kill other higher vampires. However, there has been an instance where Geralt killed what appeared to be a higher vampire, such as that cranky vampire in the coffin.

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Okay, maybe that dude was a lying Katakan wannabe. Still, the previous witcher games placed Katakans, Ekimmaras, Bruxas, and other intelligible vampires as higher vampires but Geralt still killed those back then. This only makes Regis' new rule of who's a higher vampire and who can kill what more confusing.

Speaking of vampire inconsistencies, Orianna inBlood and Wineis a very wealthy vampire who's a good friend of Regis in Toussaint. One would think that she's also a higher vampire due to her status, circle, and sophistication but apparently, she's just a mere Bruxa. Geralt even kills her in a pre-release cinematic trailer.

How and why a Bruxa got into Toussaint high-society, made friends with the Unseen Elder and Regis, and even ran her own orphanage is odd for someone her vampire class. Unless maybe she's a special promoted Bruxa, but in that case, would that make her a higher vampire?

In regards to only higher vampires being able to kill their own weight class, inter-higher-vampire killing is also punishable by exile. In this case, it's assumed that they don't really kill each other the same way humans do other humans.

That rule is sacred among higher vampires. In that case, how did they ever get wiped out from Tesham Mutna? Based on the in-game lore books, there are legions of higher vampires in Tesham Mutna but seeing as they can only be killed by their own kind, witcher or human intervention should be useless. In that case, Toussaint's human kingdoms shouldn't have existed at all.

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