Modders just revealed that a quest in Witcher 3 was supposed to bring Geralt to Night City.
According to the modder project What Lies Unseen, the early version of a quest in Witcher 3 was supposed to bring Geralt of Riva to Cyberpunk 2077's Night City.
What Lies Unseen is an amazingly ambitious project that recently datamined the development history of The Witcher 3 and while they did, they made an unbelievable discovery: Geralt of Rivia almost set a foot on the streets of Night City from Cyberpunk 2077.
Through Time and Space
The script for an early version of the quest "Through Time and Space" would have had Geralt and Avallac'h teleported to the main city of Cyberpunk 2077.
In the released version of the quest, Witcher and sage have to skip from world to world in order to reach the homeworld of the Wild Hunt. While doing that, they land on a desert planet, a toxic swamp, an underwater cave and a world that has been ruined by the White Frost already.
The newly found version is quite different, having the very first portal in a Redanian garrison instead of Novigrad and having them later teleport a few weeks in the past to King Radovid.
The most notable difference though hast to be the portal leading to Night City. A surfaced dialogue between Geralt and Avallac'h during this moment has the two even mentioning it:
Geralt: "What... What is this place? Is this the afterlife?"
Avallac'h: "No. Just another of the realities the Spiral leads through... Technologically advanced, but broken. Dying."
Geralt: "Disgusting. This stench, noise... How can you live here?!"
Avallac'h: "You should know better. This world is inhabited by humans, not elves."
The team behind What Lies Unseen stated that the devs of CD Projekt Red also talked publicly about a scene like this, even though it is unclear what the outcome of The Witcher 3 characters appearing in Cyberpunk 2077 would have been.
More connections between Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3
According to the WLU team, there also was a plan of Geralt giving Novigrad some coins for a panhandler during that scene and wanted to implement the character showing up as a rich man as an easter egg in Cyberpunk 2077.
Unfortunately, it seems like this first version of the quest was scrapped, so the only connection between the two games and their respective universes will be very subtle easter eggs like a cryptic puzzle in Cyberpunk 2077 that corresponds to a hidden room in The Witcher 3.
Did you play The Witcher 3 or Cyberpunk 2077? Would you have liked the quest to involve Geralt being teleported to Night City
