Blood and Wine
A final hunt awaits in a land of wine, beauty, and hidden terrors.
Blood and Wine is the second expansion pack for the 2015 video game The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, developed by CD Projekt Red and released on 31 May 2016. It follows Geralt of Rivia as he travels to Toussaint, a duchy untouched by the war taking place in the base game, to track down a mysterious beast terrorizing the region.
Quick Facts
- Developer
- CD Projekt Red
- Release year
- 2016
- Setting
- Toussaint
- Protagonist
- Geralt of Rivia
- Genre
- Action Role-Playing Game
- Platforms
- PC
- PlayStation
- Xbox
Lore & Background
Geralt accepts a contract from Duchess Anna Henrietta of Toussaint to slay a mysterious monster that killed two of the duchy's knights. He catches the culprit red-handed: Dettlaff van der Eretein, a vampire, but their fight is interrupted by another vampire, Geralt's supposedly deceased friend Regis. Geralt and Regis discover that someone abducted Dettlaff's human ex-lover, Rhenawedd, to force him to murder the knights. It is then revealed that Rhenawedd and the duchess's long-lost sister Syanna are the same person: she faked her own kidnapping and orchestrated the murders as revenge against the knights who abused her while escorting her into exile.
Reader's Guide
Betrayed, Dettlaff attacks Toussaint's capital with a horde of vampires, and Henrietta orders Geralt to kill him. To find Dettlaff, Geralt can either free Syanna or seek out the Unseen Elder, the head of Toussaint's vampires. Depending on his choices, Syanna is killed by Dettlaff, the sisters reconcile, or Syanna kills Henrietta and is killed by guards herself, leaving Toussaint in mourning.
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