5+ Details You Missed About Orianna | 5th WITCHER 3 Anniversary

The Witcher 3: Five Details you may have missed about Orianna (Blood and Wine). Hidden secrets, quests, and things in general.

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[xLetalis]

Thank you all for being with me for the past 5 years... I wouldn't be here without you.

[str_brst]

Witcher 3 aged like a fine blood.... and wine

[johnkubiak]

XLetalis *spots a ledge*
XLetalis' brain "do it"

[gamingsolvesmyissues]

I never noticed the parallels between the game and the trailer in how Orianna moves, that's so much attention to detail!

[rezaramx]

isn't the launch trailer the Geralt's final battle with Orianna? he did say he was coming back for her, and we never got the fight in the game, so i think the trailer for the game was the battle that Geralt wanted.
CDPR did a good job completing the entire arc and not leaving anything loose.

[bydenksy]

Oriannas song give me goosebumps all this years

[ravishogre]

orianna gives children to the unseen elder, thats why shes "special" and thats why she has the key, so she can just bring him chiidren any time

[jacekekawa]

Drunk Regis was once killed by angry peasants, staked through the heart, IIRC, even head cut off. Took him some 50 years to heal, dig himself out and become a recovering bloodaholic.
It's not out of the realm of possibility that Geralt "killed" Oriana as a temporary punishment for exploiting the children.

[snapp]

Orianna being a bruxae in the trailer is probs just the result of the initial story draft. She probably was one before in game but as development progressed she became a higher vampire as a character instead and so was changed.

[DonPatrono]

TBH Orianna was never explicitly shown to be a higher vampire in the game...we know she is very ancient and she can easily shapeshift and pass as a human, but we know those traits to be common among bruxae....so nothing forbids that she is a bruxa (meaning a "higher kind of lesser vampire"), but so old and skilled that she can easily pass off as a higher vampire.
This would also explain why she was so fierce in protecting her orphanage: unlike higher vampires that see blood as a narcotic substance, lesser vampires actually require blood to survive, and thus she treated the orphanage not like a "wine cellar" to occasionally drink in order to pass time, but (as stated by Geralt) as a "larder for provisions" in order to feed herself

[racernatorde]

"You know how Orianna starts singing to the scared boy, that same song which she sings during the witcher 3 launch trailer?"
Yeah as if I would ever be able to forget that. Making a launch trailer that tells the finale to the story not only before the expansion pack came out, but even the main game. And hardly anyone knew it untill she started singing. And I didn't even see the trailer before first playing that scene. I cannot even imagine the feels of realizing it in that very moment. For these reasons she is among my absolute favourite characters or should I rather say, best written ones.

About Orianna beeing a bruxa or a higher vampire....I always asumed that CDPR wasn't entirely sure when they made that trailer and B&W and the vampires were still a work in process. She is a bruxa in the trailer without the slightest doupt (Yet no one ever seems to mention the swarm of birds flying off when Geralts rides for Beauclair). I personally consider her to be a "higher bruxa", if that makes any sense. In a way that she is just a very old bruxa. What you mentioned about the risk of her, as the guardian to the key, dying...well I don't think it is too serious. The vampire codex is extremly strict when it comes to turning against your own kind (As we saw with Regis) so I don't think there is really any threat from their own side. The only serious danger to them would be witchers or mages. And I am pretty sure that 99% of witchers are not gonna mess up with a strong bruxa. Not on purpose and full intention to start a war against them. Mages on the other hand...we don't really have enough canon in that regard to be honest. I would say that most either don't know enough about vampires in the first place, are to weak to challenge them or to scared to take the risks?

[ancientdragon]

We all be here at the 50th anniversary "things you missed about the npc that coughs #200"

[federicogrisanti]

It's true that Orianna may seem like a bruxa in the trailer but remember that she is the only female (possible) higher vampire so, since it has never been shown someone like her, there could be a possibility that female higher vampires look similar to bruxae or alps. Who knows? Another strange story that goes in the (already very long) list of higher vampire inconsistencies 😂

[justamanofculture]

CDPR's work is so deep. 5 years later witcher 3 is still going on fantastically. I doubt everyone knows everything about the game.
Can't wait for Cyberpunk2077.

[kingdoom]

Its year 2050
Another video on witcher 3 about 10 details you missed about lambert poem

[unalai.]

I realized something about the crones, when you completed the about the whispering Hillock quest the Crones will say something like "now you shall chase shadows and wander midst fog" and "each time you see her, she shall be a mirage" they are speaking the truth, you will wander midst fog on the isle of mists and if you do the hym quest for Cerys you will find a mirage of Ciri.

[jaydamalley]

I think Orianna is definitely a Higher vampire, but that's she's maybe able to take on the form of a bruxa, like Regis can turn into a giant bat. Also, because she follows the exact method of humans as 'cattle', like is described in those letters you find at Tesham Mutna. Just not as extreme, by letting the children live and focus on the blood "quality". Which makes them a perminent source of 'food', and less likely to get human mobs trying to expose and drive her off.

[roryfehring]

I knew the song was the same in the trailer, but the “nice tune” was a “nice touch”

[paradox]

Plz do one with details you may have missed in The Witcher 3's 5th Anniversary video

[asehujiko]

Orianna can be both a bruxa and a higher vampire if the term "higher vampire" is a tautonym when applied to the name of the genus and species, which is not uncommon in real life for animals that are (or were previously thought to be) the only species in their genus. So in this context, that would mean that the genus higher vampire includes the species bruxae(Orianna), alps, katakans(Hubert) and the "true" higher vampires like Regis, Detlaff and the Elder.

As for why she doesn't go along with Detlaff's command to raze the city, I have three possible theories:
-She's under the authority of the Unseen Elder and thus under no obligations to follow a different higher vampire's orders.
-Detlaff's "influence" isn't direct mind control and the vampires attacking Beauclair are doing so of their own free will because they agree with him and/or peer pressure from fellow vampires who do.
-She may just be too old and powerful for him to boss even with the difference in species/rank.

Alternatively: Bruxae and Katakans call themselves higher vampires to make themselves seem impressive, even though they're biologically not. What are humans going to do about it, run to a real higher vampire and tattle on them for trademark infringement?