Hey,
let's share stories (themes, etc...) you would like to see in The Witcher 4.
Here is a quest I made:
let's share stories (themes, etc...) you would like to see in The Witcher 4.
Here is a quest I made:
Possible quest names: Place in the Sun, 'Till Spring's warms yee,...
The story:
The story takes place in a village and a surrounding forest. One day there arrives a slave trader who offers to sell slaves for money. Among them is a woman with long black hair, dark eyes, and an intense look. The trader presents her as a witch, who was practicing blasphemer rituals. She catches the eye of a local fat, wealthy, and deeply religious supplier; so he buys her. His vision is to turn her to the local religion and make her his wife who bears him a strong son, worthy of passing his business on.
He marries her, but the marriage isn't working. The woman may not even understand the concept of it. One day the man finds his "wife" praying to a weird amulet. He thinks it's some blasphemer ritual the trader talked about, so he beats her, breaks the amulet, and talks about it with a local priest. The priest is strict - he wants to imprison her, burn her alive, etc...but the man says he will turn her. He forces the wife to practice local religious traditions, be part of the local community, stay by his side, and be with a child.
Several weeks or months later there comes a great storm. The woman warns a nearby family, who live all together in a big house, that it will be struck by lighting, and catch on fire. The family gets outside, and indeed, shortly after that's exactly what happens. The head of the family accuses her of witchcraft and she runs and hides in her house. The "husband" comes in shortly afterward, shocked by the accusation, angry, and ready to deal with the guy. But to his surprise, he finds his wife writing something in a book covered in black leather. He thinks the book is related to black magic, beats her once more, and brings her to the priest, who decides to imprison, torture, and execute her in a few days, once she admits to her witchcraft.
The woman is imprisoned in an underground prison with a small window with bars, and her hands and legs are chained. She is afraid of being tortured, desperate, and is weakening with each passing minute. However, there comes one of the guards to the rescue. He unchains her, breaks the bars, tells her he will tell the locals she escaped using dark powers; and then helps her to stealthily escape the underground. He tells her to hide in an abandoned watch tower in nearby woods and that he will come the next day to give her provisions, but that she must run away because the locals will go after her. She agrees and escapes.
When she reaches the tower, she brews a pain-numbing potion, stabs herself in the belly, and miscarries. The child turns into a botchling. After that, she's about to die, but there comes a forest spirit, which offers to help her. She says she doesn't want to live until her husband lives. The spirit takes her wish with its logic and casts some sort of hibernating spell on her and moves her to some other place. Then the spirit makes deals with several animals to take care of her - e.g. some lynxes to protect her from wild beasts and give her fur to stay warm; some birds to bring food and feed her, etc...
After the woman is safe and stabilized, yet still "hibernating", the spirit asks the botchling to go to the husband and tell him that it gives him a year and a day to come for his wife (it doesn't know or understand that he was the one who turned her to the priest to die). The botchling follows the "trail of blood" (that's the term from Witcher 3, I guess) and finds the husband, but he gets absolutely horrified and runs away. However, he heard the message but misinterpreted it in the way he wanted - that his wife is alive, so she must be a witch who escaped the prison, and now she wants revenge and sent a daemon after him to kill him. That's when he starts sitting in front of their house, counting the days until she will supposedly die and he will be free of her revenge and the "daemon".
And that's when a player comes in somehow and is supposed to untangle and deal with the whole situation...
The story:
The story takes place in a village and a surrounding forest. One day there arrives a slave trader who offers to sell slaves for money. Among them is a woman with long black hair, dark eyes, and an intense look. The trader presents her as a witch, who was practicing blasphemer rituals. She catches the eye of a local fat, wealthy, and deeply religious supplier; so he buys her. His vision is to turn her to the local religion and make her his wife who bears him a strong son, worthy of passing his business on.
He marries her, but the marriage isn't working. The woman may not even understand the concept of it. One day the man finds his "wife" praying to a weird amulet. He thinks it's some blasphemer ritual the trader talked about, so he beats her, breaks the amulet, and talks about it with a local priest. The priest is strict - he wants to imprison her, burn her alive, etc...but the man says he will turn her. He forces the wife to practice local religious traditions, be part of the local community, stay by his side, and be with a child.
Several weeks or months later there comes a great storm. The woman warns a nearby family, who live all together in a big house, that it will be struck by lighting, and catch on fire. The family gets outside, and indeed, shortly after that's exactly what happens. The head of the family accuses her of witchcraft and she runs and hides in her house. The "husband" comes in shortly afterward, shocked by the accusation, angry, and ready to deal with the guy. But to his surprise, he finds his wife writing something in a book covered in black leather. He thinks the book is related to black magic, beats her once more, and brings her to the priest, who decides to imprison, torture, and execute her in a few days, once she admits to her witchcraft.
The woman is imprisoned in an underground prison with a small window with bars, and her hands and legs are chained. She is afraid of being tortured, desperate, and is weakening with each passing minute. However, there comes one of the guards to the rescue. He unchains her, breaks the bars, tells her he will tell the locals she escaped using dark powers; and then helps her to stealthily escape the underground. He tells her to hide in an abandoned watch tower in nearby woods and that he will come the next day to give her provisions, but that she must run away because the locals will go after her. She agrees and escapes.
When she reaches the tower, she brews a pain-numbing potion, stabs herself in the belly, and miscarries. The child turns into a botchling. After that, she's about to die, but there comes a forest spirit, which offers to help her. She says she doesn't want to live until her husband lives. The spirit takes her wish with its logic and casts some sort of hibernating spell on her and moves her to some other place. Then the spirit makes deals with several animals to take care of her - e.g. some lynxes to protect her from wild beasts and give her fur to stay warm; some birds to bring food and feed her, etc...
After the woman is safe and stabilized, yet still "hibernating", the spirit asks the botchling to go to the husband and tell him that it gives him a year and a day to come for his wife (it doesn't know or understand that he was the one who turned her to the priest to die). The botchling follows the "trail of blood" (that's the term from Witcher 3, I guess) and finds the husband, but he gets absolutely horrified and runs away. However, he heard the message but misinterpreted it in the way he wanted - that his wife is alive, so she must be a witch who escaped the prison, and now she wants revenge and sent a daemon after him to kill him. That's when he starts sitting in front of their house, counting the days until she will supposedly die and he will be free of her revenge and the "daemon".
And that's when a player comes in somehow and is supposed to untangle and deal with the whole situation...