#bloody Baron

[ladycibia]

I mean, I don't even let him prioritise his own daughter...

[fallenintothewell]

I’m replaying witcher 3 and practicing stylization

[mrstellmeafuckingsecret]

sirius black's hear me outs: fleamont potter, euphemia potter, hephaestus, lyall lupin, the voice that says "divine" on candy crush, peter's mother, uncle alphard, velvet (the texture...), florean fortescue, the bloody baron, the entire concept of titration, cold showers

[holdmymallowsweet]

Slytherins 🐍

all named and confirmed Slytherins in Hogwarts Legacy 📜

Ominis Gaunt & Sebastian Sallow

Salazar Slytherin - Anne Sallow

Headmaster Phineas Nigellus Black

Nerida Roberts - Imelda Reyes - The Bloody Baron

Professor Abraham Ronen

Grace Pinch-Smedley - Violet McDowell

Professor Aesop Sharp

Former Professor Charles Rookwood - Former Professor San Bakar

All Slytherins in Hogwarts Legacy, to the best of my knowledge and ability (but let me know if I missed anyone). I tried to make everyone up there look as good as possible, although poor Anne and her sunken cheeks broke my heart and yes, Sebastian and Ominis get to share a pic 💚

[revoevokukil]

TW3 Story Leaks

It's Saturday, and I bring you some cold, hard rumour.

It seems somebody on reddit is working through the leaks of The Witcher 3, claiming approximately 300k of lines relating to the previous story iterations also leaked in 2021. Much of what they are claiming matches with the leaked files from 2014. There is completely new information too, though, and they plan on publishing their work-through early 2025.

So far, this is the information I've gathered from their posts:

Iorveth's daughter was Vernossiel. Her quest had her involved with a cult of the Bloody Mother; spores from a particular "flower" affected her thinking so she got brainwahsed into being sacrificed in a ritual killing in order to rise as the Bloody Mother herself.

Cerys was fake-Ciri.

The Baron (or Baron’s men?) was originally a rapist.

The Big 4 was originally Big 5, including Isengrim. Isengrim and Iorveth had houses in Novigrad.

Vincent Meis' model existed.

There was a quest with “thralls” (most likely Following the Thread involving Jad Karadin and the Faroe island) where Geralt would temporarily get married to a chieftain’s daughter.

We’d lock Yennefer in dimeritium handcuffs at one point to prevent her from interfering with the King’s Gambit questline.

Avallac’h provided Geralt with the means to warg as a rat in order to eavesdrop on the meeting of the Big 5 (including Isengrim) on Dijkstra’s ship. (Iorveth was planning on blowing the ship up.)

The Catriona Plague questline. It had a Nilfgaardian general Martin running a krankenhaus, where was infecting his countrymen with the plague and stealing their valuables. He made deals with Gaunter O’Dimm (his involvement in HOS is as a leftover from here) to get a cure for the Catriona, then with Gaunter’s archnemesis to get to keep the cure. Geralt had to figure it all out as Catriona was becoming more and more rampant and the faction with the cure would have huge leverage in how the war questline would resolve. Geralt would get the chance to hand the cure back to Gaunter, to Radovid, or Emhyr.

Iorveth got infected with Catriona, then infected Thaler to improve his morale on getting a cure (Thaler promised Iorveth a cure for assassinating Emhyr or some such.)

The war quest lines were somehow related to the dreamer Corinne Tilly who was a Nilfgaardian spy.

Voorhis laid siege to Crow’s Perch because Temerian rebels took it over.

The Sabbath originally had slave markets, an orgy meadow, and ritual suicides. Changed after 2014.

There was an option to assassinate Radovid after taking out Roche, so Dijkstra's rule was always an option.

Roche originally preferred fighting for Temeria no matter what. Reason of State had Roche vs Thaler and Dijkstra.

Radovid was more like his W2 self. Emhyr "more like Stalin."

Radovid took over the Temple Isle.

Emhyr was supposed to appear in the army camp center.

If Emhyr lost, Voorhis would overthrow him.

All the content showcasing Nilfgaardian war crimes was cut: a Nilfgaardian general was spreading the Catriona plague, robbing his dying countrymen; Voorhis' cruelty during the siege of the Crow's Perch, Nilfgaardians' direct attack on Kaer Trolde.

Crach died during the battle for Undvik and Voorhis negotiated over his body; the corpse was returned and Nilfgaard respect local burial traditions.

Melusine quest line had more content related to blood shrines.

There was an opportunity to try and convince Caranthir to betray Eredin, after which he'd get replaced by some elven lady (Isilira?). (Conflicted about this, as in 2013 leaks it seemed Caranthir knocks Avallac’h out on Naglfar when Geralt and him try to infiltrate it.)(Isilira is the lady you meet in Avallac’h’s lab in the released version.)

There was a sequence in White Orchard in the Empress ending where Voorhis had announced he'd arrive and propose to Ciri in few days, but Ciri lost Emhyr's signet ring to prove his approval of the marriage. Then some kind of gamble ensued under the influence of a Korred, and Ciri decided if she'd win she'd marry and if not she'd run away (not sure if this shouldn't it be the other way around).

Gameplay-wise:

There was a 'vital spot' system, where you gained points by performing various actions and could then use those points to perform combat moves that would either weaken of 1-shot an enemy.

Manticores were cut.

Players could buy boats and horses; rowboat for rivers and lakes.

Wind tunnels and proper storms in which a boat could tilt over.

Water combat was cut.

Focus mode in combat was cut.

[fonsmortem]

Bloody Baron | Phillip Strenger

❛ ᴵ ᵏⁿᵒʷ ᴵ ʷᵃˢⁿ'ᵗ ᵃ ᵍᵒᵒᵈ ᶠᵃᵗʰᵉʳ. ᴮᵘᵗ ᵐᵃʸᵇᵉ ⁱᵗ'ˢ ⁿᵒᵗ ᵗᵒᵒ ˡᵃᵗᵉ ❜

❝…The local peasantry anointed him the "Bloody Baron," a clear indication that he did not handle his vassals with kid gloves. On the other hand, he proved a surprisingly gracious host to an unexpected guest who was also a stranger and a hired monster slayer.

His treatment of children and young women, towards whom he demonstrated wholly sincere, near fatherly-concern, likewise contradicted his bandit-like appearance and terrifying monicker. Ciri had learned this for herself, finding care and shelter under his roof…❞

✥The Witcher 3, Journal entry one of the most "alive" art that I have painted, I love story of this character

[wizengamot-chiefwarlock]

We could go on speculating about how the afterlife works in harry potter, but unfortunately, that remains a mystery. So let's talk about ghosts!

" ... a ghost is the transparent, three-dimensional imprint of a deceased witch or wizard, which continues to exist in the mortal world. Muggles cannot come back as ghosts, and the wisest witches and wizards choose not to." ['Ghosts' by J. K. Rowling]

More specifically-- the objects that exist in the ghost world, from a few weird things mentioned in the books.

“You look troubled, young Potter,” said Nick, folding a transparent letter as he spoke and tucking it inside his doublet.

transparent???? letter????

How exactly do you get paper in the ghost world? Or objects that aren't your clothes?

Now, it's clear that all wizards and witches that become ghosts remain in the clothing they wore at the time of their death- so the clothing adopts that ghost-like, transparent existence too. But other objects?

What if a wizard had a piece of paper in his pocket when he died? He comes back a ghost, the clothes come back to cover him, does that paper also come back?

What if they have a wand with them when they die? Does the wand pass over to the spirit world? Can ghosts perform magic?

'All these centuries later, he (the Bloody Baron) wears his chains as an act of penitence ... as he should,” she added bitterly.

The Bloody Baron wears chains as a symbol of repentance. Where did the chains come from? Do they appear automatically if you're a ghost who's repenting?

Now even more confusing- animals.

Through the dungeon wall burst a dozen ghost horses, each ridden by a headless horseman.

Ghost... horses?

Wasn't it only wizards and witches that come back as ghosts? Are the horses wizards too?? What?? (I'm imagining this really werd narrative rn where a whole bunch of wizards got turned into horses and somehow died-- and came back as horses...?)

At the front of the pack was a large ghost who held his bearded head under his arm, from which position he was blowing the horn.

Where did bro get a ghost horn from???? How does this even happen???

[harbinger-of-reason]

Your followers should be fully aware that you genuinely believe a wifebeater deserves to be "redeemed" and have the woman he abused (to the point of killing her unborn child) returned to him like she's his object. Your followers should be aware of what a disgusting misogynistic pig you are. Kindly stay the fuck off of my posts if you're the type of manbaby who worships misogynistic writing.

Just so everyone is aware. This is in response to me defending the writing of the The Bloody Baron questline in the Witcher 3 game. This person contends that the generally accepted "good" ending where the Baron chooses to give up alcohol and tries to earn back the trust of his family is misogynistic because it gives an abuser a chance at redemption. She also misconstrued some facts about the questline including that the Baron did not cause his wife Anna's miscarriage. It was caused by evil spirits called The Crones who she made a sort of Faustina bargain with to escape The Baron. The game is pretty in your face that the Baron is not a good man and is a very flawed person who is responsible for the destruction of his family. He justified his abuse with the fact his wife had cheated on him in the past while he was deployed as a soldier. He kills her lover in a fit of rage and then when she comes at him with a knife he hit her to "calm her down" which is apparently where the abuse began. However, the "good" ending as I described earlier has several characters believing he's capable of change and deserves a second chance.

Now, while the situation isn't perfect and the player can make some dialog options that I don't like. Still, the reason I've been describing this as the "good" ending is because the other ending to this questline has Anna die by a curse from the previously mentioned Crones. The Baron later hangs himself out of grief. The Witcher 3 is a depressing fucking game. All that's to say there are a lot of details I have to live out that also make players feel this was a well written questline and this is the best ending.

Of course none of this really matters because the person asking me this clearly never played the game and just feels they get to write it off as misogynistic and evil based on some bits of the story they watched on YouTube. Also, I wanna point out the irony that they claim I'm the one objectifying the abuse victim here, while never learning or using the Woman's name.

[dragoneyes618]

"Jealous of my freedom" is an odd phrase to use here, isn't it?

The Baron loved Helena Ravenclaw, but she did not love him. Helena had stolen the diadem from her mother, and fled to a forest in Albania. She's living alone, in the wilderness, having stolen from her mother, not even being able to use the diadem for anything, and he's jealous of her?

Of her freedom?

As the daughter of Rowena Ravenclaw, one of the founders of Hogwarts and the wisest one, Helena would have been under quite a lot of pressure and expectations. Perhaps she chose to flee to remote Albania for more reasons than simple fear of being discovered as the thief of the diadem.

And if any of the other founders also had children - we know that Slytherin, at least, did, the Gaunts being the ignoble scions of his line - they, too, would have been under just as much pressure, expectations, constraints.

I don't know if the wizarding worlds has titles and nobility, like lords and knights and so on. But many purebloods considered being pureblood as good as having a noble title, didn't they? Such as...a baron, perhaps? Who, it's confirmed, was Sorted into Slytherin House?

Could the Bloody Baron, jealous of Helena Ravenclaw's newfound freedom, have been the son of Salazar Slytherin?

[chilljustacat]

[heraldofsomething]

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Family Matters

[ladycibia]

That one time the Baron's men went aggro on me even though I bought them a drink :( (or when you forget the commands and start punching people in the face while drinking a potion and shooting with the crossbow)

[windcubes]

START THE BLOODY QUEST BEFORE I PISS MESELF

[actual-haise]

Let's go lesbians! Let's go!

[theprodigypenguin]

A thought that just occurred to me cuz I've been watching a true crime documentary series, but isn't it like hella fucked up that Helena Ravenclaw was murdered by a man when she rejected him and now she's a ghost in the same castle as her murderer? Like even in death she can't escape the man who murdered her? That's gross.

Someone should exorcise the bloody baron.

[games-desu]

Bloody Baron quest

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (2015)