They wouldn't even need to work together, The Unseen Elder is basically the only being I can think of off the top of my head on the level of Vilgefortz.
I love the details CD Projekt put in the Blood and Wine DLC. I had drank a Black Blood potion and one of the Bruxas jumped and drank the blood, right after that she started coughing and acting like she drank acid, I pushed her with Aard and stabbed the heart.
@@cloudyskiees Even in the "Killing Monsters" trailer, the running attack animation the guy does with his stick before Geralt absolutely fucks him up is also an attack animation for humans in the game.
That would be awesome to know, imagine a world full if the higher vampires😐, as fast as one could kill Geralt like in one hit, a whole world of them would be something
@@guntervanstraaten4562 that do leave a question on what they feed on in there world and how there reproduction work because of there no kill each other rule like something missing in the world
@@Pokemanking12 unsure, though if memory serves the no killing rule is only after those that got stranded during the conjunction of spheres. But it does raise the question still as to how they reproduce, since we obviously dont hear about baby vampires, though that is equally scary as it might be cute 😂
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8:30 It's a good thing that in game they do not hunt in packs. Otherwise it would be almost impossible to fight them. 4-5 Bruxae could kill any player, especially at maximum difficulty.
Yrden is quite underrated. It's your best weapon against invisible enemies, force them to use their physical form. Most of the battles I saw, people don't use Yrden with Foglets or Bruxas. Hmm...
It seems among Vampires there are two kinds of “higher vampires.” The Novigrad serial killer claimed to be a higher, but once he is killed he doesn’t regenerate and fully die. So he isn’t biologically a true higher vampire, but he shows intelligence similar to a human like an actual higher. So I guess the two “higher vampires” are like 1. Those who shown human intelligence but can be killed normally. 2. Those who shown human intelligence but can regenerate from lethal wounds and only can be killed by another higher vampire
Dean Heng - Higher vampires can’t be “killed” by ordinary means, but the books established the following... That they can be rendered inert if sufficiently injured. Regis was “killed” by villagers thanks to his intoxication with human blood. He spent 50 years in the ground before he regenerated to the point that he could leave the grave. Regis was again “killed” in the final book when Vilgefortz collapsed a pile of rubble upon him and essentially used magic to melt it into slag. This would likely have kept Regis from ever regenerating had Dettlaff not arrived and did what he did to restore Regis. So, maybe Orianna and the coroner in Novigrad are higher vampires, and would eventually reappear once they’ve had enough time to regenerate. Likewise, if you damaged a higher vampire enough, while they would not truly be “dead,” they would be rendered harmless indefinitely.
Who needs to “read” a beastiary this play through?? Imma slide onto RUclips and get George here to chat to me about how to slay my beasts! Like an Ebook, beastiary version Love all your videos mate, great work🙏🏼
The first time I played Blood & Wine and ran into that first Bruxa. She blocked every one of my attacks and was swiping me with ease. I just played the game recently and it was MUCH harder when it was first released(Death March). It made the situation and DLC seem so frightening and dire. Detlaff did one hit kills and so did the Sewer monster in Heart and Stone.
Thank you for popping out on youtube, now I've finished Witcher 1, bought Witcher 2 and finished it, and now playing 3rd. So long my life, my obligations.
@@vernonrosalita3888 *Aladdin music kicks in:* "A whole new world A new fantastic point of view No one to tell us no Or where to go Or say we're only dreaming." :D
Their speed must be massively supersonic. In Witcher lore, Geralt is described many times to be super fast, faster than eyes can see, and Bruxas are even faster than him. Probably is thank to his super reflexes, above his speed, that help him to fight them, even if, in books was said there is a potion that can increase Witcher's speed but that kind of potion doesn't exist in Witcher 3.
I think Orianna is a "sophisticated" Bruxa, in the same vein that the Coroner is a more sophisticated Katakan. Higher Vampires to someone hunting them (like a witcher) most likely means something akin to the vampire having at least human levels of intelligence, the ability to reason, and possibly even blend in with normal humans, whereas "lesser" vampires are essentially just beasts with vampiric features. It would make sense for witchers to classify them this way, as it makes a huge difference in fighting them. Fighting something that runs on animal instinct is very different from fighting something with the ability to ambush, reason, and make calculated attacks. True Higher Vampires being a distinct race might not even be widely known among non-vampires, as they are 1) exceedingly rare 2) extremely difficult to detect unless they reveal themselves voluntarily and 3) an all around secretive people. So it's possible the confusion stems from the fact that a lot of monster-hunters, witchers etc. can't really know the inherent differences between say a highly advanced Bruxa or Katakan because vampires themselves make a point of not revealing it. After all, a Bruxa taken for a (more powerful) True Higher Vampire is not gonna correct that mistake, since it likely means less people willing to hunt her, and True Higher Vampires have no reason to correct the confusion themselves - why give humans an advantage hunting their kin? I think vampires don't make as much of a "class distinction" among themselves, as long as the other vampire is able to reason and communicate. Dettlaff especially is said to prefer "lesser" vampire kin to the company of humans. And it would make sense for a people who have effectively been exiled from their homeworld to share more of a bond with others of their kind, even if they're not exactly the same species of vampire. In short, I don't think it's contradictory for Orianna to be a highly sophisticated Bruxa as opposed to a True Higher Vampire. Pretty sure personality matters more to someone like Regis than something as superficial as race or class anyway.
I remember coming across a bruxa for the first time in toussant. Just wondering around “minding my own”.. i heard her crying by the orchard/grave (whatever it was) then i talked to her because she was in front of the chest. After talking to her she disappeared and i went the treasure ... as soon as I was done with the treasure BOOM KILLED!! What a fun experience! Lmao!
I seem to remember randomly encountering Bruxae during the Blood and Wine DLC, either before or after Dettlaff's invasion. It's been a while... but I distinctly remember randomly talking to the women wearing hoods/cloaks only to hear a shrill giggle, the cloak falling to the ground and then a fight. It may be a rare encounter, but I distinctly remember it and being caught completely off guard. In fact, that makes me think it was before the invasion as I had no idea what it was at the time.
Yep it was before Night of The Fangs mission. Theres a few of those women that are constantly walking around the town (might only be during night) and you can encounter them in the wilds across the map. I think its only a chance of them revealing themselves when you talk to them cause it only happened to me a couple times out of all of the hooded when I spoke too. The one that surprised me the most was the woman that ambushed me at an old abandoned castle while I was looking for Witcher Diagrams. I figured she was going to give me a quest or something.
Bruxa have some telepathic abilities but you don't really see Orianna break it out. It's possible she was actually weaker than Vareena from A Grain of Truth. Or maybe Vareena was an exceptional individual. Oh. One creepy bit worth bringing up? Bruxae most often sing after they've fed. Orianna had just drank blood before Geralt got her.
@@lukas-kevynmuller6697 In the sense that she's sentient yes. Lesser vampires aren't. The type of vampires Regis and Detlaff are stand above even that though.
@@The_Chef2511 interesting. I've gotta start reading the books. Only played the witcher 2 & 3 a lot and watched the netflix show, which seems to be rather disappointing when compared to the books
I like Bruxae. They are complex creatures and not necessarily evil. In fact, you can meet at least two of them without them turning hostile, unless you attack them. Orianna, also, arguably did more good than harm with her orphanage (I nearly called it happy farm, but that dark reference wouldn´t do her justice as she´s not that sick and twisted)
Personally of the belief Oriana is a true higher vampire. I don’t really buy the theories of her and the doctor from Novigrad being lesser while at the same time having a human form that fools a large portion of the playerbase (strictly talking about the serial killer side quest and reactions on the Witcher 3 subreddit) Truth be told, we don’t know all too much about the vampires, and it very well could be a mislabel on CDPRs part, as Geralt originally thought the girl at the manor was human until Nivellen told him about the dreams (as some vampires are mislabeled in the bestiary) Back to my point (also a tl;dr) I believe some vampires are truly higher in nature. We only know of Regis, Detlaff and the Unseen Elder- 3 of an entire race. Their true power limit remains to be seen in the Witcher world, so the idea that not all higher vampires have the “higher” form isn’t too far fetched. For all we know, they (Oriana and the doctor) could have been taking pity on Geralt for getting involved, using a “lesser” form instead of their higher.
The info I got regarding them being higher vampires in a classification sense is from the 'world of the witcher' book made by cdprojektred. Personally I believe they included that info in their own personal lore to make up for that mistake, but regardless it certainly adds more layers to vampires as a whole!
Nah, I'm pretty sure she's a Bruxa. You can see Geralt fighting her in the trailer for the expansion pack: we hear her sing and see her face before they get into a fight. Also, her hair is identical. That isn't to say that the ingame story didnt strongly insinuate that she was a Higher Vampire. It did.
Great video George! Would you consider making a "Witcher Vampires: Alp" soon? I am very interested in them as well, as they are considered to be even more dangerous than their cousins, Bruxas.
I’ve always felt Orianna was a higher vampire. She seems too similar to Regis and Detlaff is to not be truly higher. She also leads you to the unseen elder, and I’ve always thought only a higher vampire could contact him.
That's why it's all so confusing aha, perhaps she's simply a lot older than them, we know vampires seem to work on an age based society similar to our own!
That woman at the front of the shack scared the shit out of me. I was searching the dead man and when I turned to her it immediately turned into bruxa. That's a real jumpscare. We had the same thoughts about Orianna, she's definitely not a true higher vampire but a very old bruxa.
I got spooked out from the Bruxa in some ruins on a hill when I was searching for Witcher diagrams. Absolutely nobody there, picked up the diagrams and turned around to go on my way and this hooded figure walks past me and went invisible ready to attack me. Gave me a jump scare because she appeared outta nowhere
Yo you should do a Fairytale comparisons and parallels within the Witcher. Like the Last Wish story with the Bruxa and Nivellen is basically Beauty and the Beast
tbh i had (for no reason) really much trouble fighting them in the "blood and wine"dlc. even when those were one of the cooles new enemies in the game.
Great Vid! I'm a recent fan and am liking the vids! They're helping expand my understanding of the world in things I dont know much about, such as the school of the bear and things like that
My exploding quen manual shield build with the knock back and reflect effect really gave these ladies a lot if trouble when fighting me lol. Just waited for them to attack and release on em then get several hits in.
@@ashwolf2006 honestly, if they had a secret weapon called the morning star in witcher 3, I swear I would do the entire story using that weapon only and playing bloody tears durimg every boss battle 😂
I remember the Bruxa fight for the first time. I was a purely melee only build (It was my first playthrough, before I learnt about the power of signs and the alchemy trees) and it was pure pain. First time I defeated it I abused AoE Aard (It knocked it out of invisibility and allowed me to get up close) and now I've played the game that much I find it one of the easier fights now I know its counters.
Hey there, I don't know if you already made a video about it. But could you make a video about the pogrom that destroyed Kaer Morhen? I think that would make for an excellent video. Love you work, keep making it and I will keep watching it! :)
Damn, i hated that fight, that bitch was killing me in 2 hits and got invisible every Time i delivers a hit. Olgierd and Detlaff were probably my favourite bosses along with Care taker.
Hey there! Love your video’s Keep up the good work Could you one day make a video about Phillipe Eilhart, and how come sorceress became hated by the Redenians? I didn’t played W2 and I feel like I’m missing something in the story the first time I entered Novigrad Also there are almost no lore videos about Phillipa on RUclips!
Fun fact: when rodents chatter their teeth, that's called "bruxing" (it's cute) Unrelated fun fact: the above fun fact kinda kills the fear factor for the name of this species of vampire for me
I really get confused with the whole "higher vampire/Higher Vampire." Perhaps the Higher Vampires such as Dettlaff and Regis begin as the generic "higher vampire" and evolve into true "Higher Vampires" with age. That might explain how it is mentioned in B&W that Higher Vampires don't all have identical powers. Some tend to gather covens, some have higher abilities to alter themselves into swarms of bats or birds...their attributes seem to vary. While Regis and Dettlaff have near equal strength, they don't react identically. The last fact regarding Orianna being a true "Higher Vampire" is that she knows of the existence and whereabouts of the Elder Vampire. While all vampires seem to know about him and defer to him, I doubt most would know his actual whereabouts. While Regis knows about the Elder, he tells Geralt that he must learn of his whereabouts from Orianna. Whether this infers that Regis doesn't know the Elder's exact whereabouts or that he is totally unwilling to share it is unclear. If Orianna is truly a Bruxa, she is beyond the normal Bruxae because she lives completely openly among the society of Toussaint. Indeed, she is a major figure in that society. The other Bruxae encountered in B&W are rather more hidden. They're out there as cloaked women...indeed walking the streets you run into them constantly. Hard to imagine the citizens of Toussaint seem quite ignorant of a group of creatures that literally infest their cities and the province as a whole, along with other forms of vampires. For a society steeped in fairy tale legends, it seems odd they know so little about the vampires.
So she makes you dream to feed from you, and if she is nice, she will leave you alive. They are basically higher vampires but less weaker, But with more age they become nearly as powerful as the higher Vamps. Very interesting intelegent creature and i loved seeing it in the Witcher season 2.
in the witcher every monster is it's own study wich really adds to the game preparing for your enemy while undertanding the lore behind them makes the game much more immersive and of course much more fun (the witcher 3 is a masterpiece) . . . . great video
Meanwhile, while George was thanking patrons and viewers i was wondering around the comment section when suddenly, that magical Orianna song finished this masterpiece off.... Well done buddy, you sure know how to win the audience... (Also Orianna is a Higher Vampire, her 'Aura' in the game is clearly saying 'dont f***k with me)
Thank you for this man. Fun fact I made and uploaded the entire video but then realised I committed the crime of not including lullaby of woe in a bruxa video, so I thought I'd make a special effort for there to be an eerie ending for those of you that stuck around!
Wait, wait... I thought "post-conjunction" creatures denoted the creatures that came into being after the conjunction mixed things up, but were not originally in the other world either? A mixed breed of some sort from the chaos of the conjunction.
"Remember there's higher vampires, and there's HIGHER vampires..." "Oh,...which one are you then?" "Well I just finished the last of Snoop Dogg's blood so..."
so a higher vampire can only be killed by another higher vampire, but in the blood and wine expansion pack why doesn't geralt use the higher vampires severed hand to hurt him, I mean since the hand is still largely alive could u technically kill a higher vampire with it's own claws?
I love fighting bruxa. Casting yrden and then knocking them into the circle with aard so that you can get the instant kill without them escaping is challenging and rewarding.
You are overthinking the Orianna debacle. CD Projekt Red simply presented her in a trailer as a Bruxa but then, at some point, decided to upgrade her to a Higher Vampire for the actual Blood and Wine DLC release. Not only does Regis outright imply that she is a Higher Vampire, but also one of special standing, as she is the only one who knows the Unseen Elder's secret location. Furthermore, the witcher medallions do detect Bruxas but can not detect Higher Vampires. And that is clearly the case with Orianna - in the DLC, the medallion does not hum in Orianna's presence. End of story.
When a game is so massive and immersive, that the designations themselves get confused by its peasants and lead to the gamer's confusion as well What I love about this game, more than I love other fantasy games is that this literally could be consideres sci-fi, cause every "monster" is pretty much treated as a normal animal, from the point of view of knowledge about it, and magic itself is like an element of nature, an energy, not unlike air, water or fuel, I think that that makes this really special, mainly because it's not just fantasy, but rather intelligent
To this day I don't understand the higher vampire in that quest with the morgue doctor. I mean he seemed more like an ordinary vamp, who can swap shapes. But still the bestiary shows him a hogher, whitch means he's not really dead, since now we know higher vampires can't be killed permanently by anyone except members of the same species.
"what should be looked out for is their breathtaking speed" I think at that point it might be a little bit too late to survive (if you´re not a witcher).
The first time I battle a bruxa, which was in the 2, I was petrified just because something like that should not have claws that long a that sharp and also doing that much damage and moving that fast...I died many time.
Vampires are the greatest and most dangerous monsters in the entire world of the witcher. I wonder why so many vampires are drawn to tousaint is it the atmosphere or is it the concept of it being the wine country they associate the blood of the people there as their wine or maybe all those different types of wine in the blood give them a greater variety of tastes when feeding
I will give the Witcher a run before cyberpunk 2077, I was giving it a go but got so far as to Ciri's escape from novigrad, that was 6 months ago so I have to start over again.
I always wonder that if All the vampires unite and start a war against all humans will the witchers of the Witcher universe be able to defeat them(Or would they need more witchers to defeat em)
They would get trashed. The witchers, though powerfull, are few in number. The vampires would be able to overpower them with numbers, not to mention the "Greater" higher vampires (i.e. regis and detlaff for example) would be able to overpower a majority of the witchers.
Do you think its possible that all vampire start as one of the lesser variants but with enough time they become higher vampires? Like theoretically Regis was once a Katakan but after living long enough he evolved, grew more powerful, and intelligent and he is now what we know him to be.
I don't know about anybody else i consider vampire like Detlaff and Regus as Alpha or True High Vampires and Katakans/Bruxa as Beta or False High Vampires
Disney princess: *sings and hangs with birds*
Geralt: 😐🗡️
Honestly if the higher vampires decided to work together they would be a bigger threat then the wild hunt.
Luckily their so against that aha, I mean look at the unseen elder
There aren't enough of them to organize.
They wouldn't even need to work together, The Unseen Elder is basically the only being I can think of off the top of my head on the level of Vilgefortz.
Gaunter O'dimm would probably put a stop to that. He can't play with his favourite toy humanity when humanity get's enslaved by them.
I mean they tried but humans are annoying so they stopped xD
I love the details CD Projekt put in the Blood and Wine DLC.
I had drank a Black Blood potion and one of the Bruxas jumped and drank the blood, right after that she started coughing and acting like she drank acid, I pushed her with Aard and stabbed the heart.
Just like the trailer
@@galadrinihrinor4863 literally point for point of what happened in the trailer, me smells something fishy.
It does happen, it's actually super useful. It bailed me out during the attack on the palace when you come across the alp and the bruxa.
@@daltonevans3412 yea because the witcher 3 trailers are one of the few that actually show gameplay, u can actually do whats shown in them
@@cloudyskiees Even in the "Killing Monsters" trailer, the running attack animation the guy does with his stick before Geralt absolutely fucks him up is also an attack animation for humans in the game.
I've always wandered what the world of the Vampires looked like
Seeing how they took interest with humans when they arrive,I am sure there no humans in there world
That would be awesome to know, imagine a world full if the higher vampires😐, as fast as one could kill Geralt like in one hit, a whole world of them would be something
@@guntervanstraaten4562 that do leave a question on what they feed on in there world and how there reproduction work because of there no kill each other rule like something missing in the world
@@Pokemanking12 unsure, though if memory serves the no killing rule is only after those that got stranded during the conjunction of spheres.
But it does raise the question still as to how they reproduce, since we obviously dont hear about baby vampires, though that is equally scary as it might be cute 😂
@@guntervanstraaten4562 that why I wander if something missing that stopping them from making more.
Didn’t know there was a “monetization friendly” mode in Witcher 3
I didn't want to risk a potential ban aha
@Pipa Obala one every 3 minutes far to excessive makes me want to not watch the channel
All you people bitching about ads, just don't watch his channel.
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You all have no reason to complain about it.
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Jean-Pierre Van Staden take it you’re successful on RUclips? Why else would you be giving advise on how to be successful on RUclips?
8:30 It's a good thing that in game they do not hunt in packs. Otherwise it would be almost impossible to fight them. 4-5 Bruxae could kill any player, especially at maximum difficulty.
Personally the screeches of 5 bruxaes would kill my eardrums permanently
Fighting more than two bruxas at once is impossible
Yrden is quite underrated. It's your best weapon against invisible enemies, force them to use their physical form. Most of the battles I saw, people don't use Yrden with Foglets or Bruxas. Hmm...
Wraiths as well
The Bestiary claimed Yrden doesn't work on Foglets... Have we been lied to?
Use moon dust
I just use the bomb that let's you see them
and thats why griffin set is one of my favourites :D
i always play quen and yrden,so it fits like a glove
Regis and Detlaff are the DUDES
So confusing between higher vampires and higher vampires
redith137 lmao he’s just saying some books mean higher as in better in rank, not an actual “higher vampire”
Highest vampires
It seems among Vampires there are two kinds of “higher vampires.”
The Novigrad serial killer claimed to be a higher, but once he is killed he doesn’t regenerate and fully die. So he isn’t biologically a true higher vampire, but he shows intelligence similar to a human like an actual higher.
So I guess the two “higher vampires” are like 1. Those who shown human intelligence but can be killed normally. 2. Those who shown human intelligence but can regenerate from lethal wounds and only can be killed by another higher vampire
higher vampires < Higher Vampires
Dean Heng - Higher vampires can’t be “killed” by ordinary means, but the books established the following...
That they can be rendered inert if sufficiently injured. Regis was “killed” by villagers thanks to his intoxication with human blood. He spent 50 years in the ground before he regenerated to the point that he could leave the grave. Regis was again “killed” in the final book when Vilgefortz collapsed a pile of rubble upon him and essentially used magic to melt it into slag. This would likely have kept Regis from ever regenerating had Dettlaff not arrived and did what he did to restore Regis.
So, maybe Orianna and the coroner in Novigrad are higher vampires, and would eventually reappear once they’ve had enough time to regenerate. Likewise, if you damaged a higher vampire enough, while they would not truly be “dead,” they would be rendered harmless indefinitely.
Who needs to “read” a beastiary this play through?? Imma slide onto RUclips and get George here to chat to me about how to slay my beasts! Like an Ebook, beastiary version
Love all your videos mate, great work🙏🏼
Thank you mate, I'm glad you enjoyed it!
@@WitcherGeorge what do you hope fore in witcher 4
*Bruxa Exist*
Abraham Lincoln: I'm gonna destroy this species whole career
Don't get the reference
@@nobleactual7616 Good. The movie was kinda iffy 😂
What does that mean? Are you giving any reference? 🙄Please tell me.
@@ankitwawage abraham lincoln vampire hunter
@@IrchaMan Well something new for me to learn. Thank you so much Bro
In Witcher 1 was brothel full of bruxas 😍
Were they bruxae or "just vampires"? I've always spared them, didn't love dickhead of that knight.
@@paranormalphenomena563 that was an appropriate solution.
It was a dusk till dawn eater egg
Actually just the Lady of the Night was a bruxa, the other girls in the brothel were alps.
Oh, Bruxa means Witch [in Portuguese].
And it pronnounces _broo sha_
@@actualzafra no its , "BRUHCHA"
Bruxa do 71 HIHIHI
And it's "bruja" in Spanish, pronounced BROO-HA
Tuga que gosta de Witcher
Não acredito, e eu a pensar que era o unico
The first time I played Blood & Wine and ran into that first Bruxa. She blocked every one of my attacks and was swiping me with ease. I just played the game recently and it was MUCH harder when it was first released(Death March). It made the situation and DLC seem so frightening and dire. Detlaff did one hit kills and so did the Sewer monster in Heart and Stone.
Thank you for popping out on youtube, now I've finished Witcher 1, bought Witcher 2 and finished it, and now playing 3rd.
So long my life, my obligations.
Good luck on the path, for it is long aha
@@WitcherGeorge Tnx mate! Off I go, for the pans of poor people won't find themselves!
I think you still have a life and obligations . A witchers life and obligations
@@vernonrosalita3888
*Aladdin music kicks in:*
"A whole new world
A new fantastic point of view
No one to tell us no
Or where to go
Or say we're only dreaming." :D
Just finished witcher 3 including expansions, 2 days ago. Enjoy playing man.
Their speed must be massively supersonic. In Witcher lore, Geralt is described many times to be super fast, faster than eyes can see, and Bruxas are even faster than him. Probably is thank to his super reflexes, above his speed, that help him to fight them, even if, in books was said there is a potion that can increase Witcher's speed but that kind of potion doesn't exist in Witcher 3.
I think Orianna is a "sophisticated" Bruxa, in the same vein that the Coroner is a more sophisticated Katakan.
Higher Vampires to someone hunting them (like a witcher) most likely means something akin to the vampire having at least human levels of intelligence, the ability to reason, and possibly even blend in with normal humans, whereas "lesser" vampires are essentially just beasts with vampiric features.
It would make sense for witchers to classify them this way, as it makes a huge difference in fighting them. Fighting something that runs on animal instinct is very different from fighting something with the ability to ambush, reason, and make calculated attacks.
True Higher Vampires being a distinct race might not even be widely known among non-vampires, as they are 1) exceedingly rare 2) extremely difficult to detect unless they reveal themselves voluntarily and 3) an all around secretive people.
So it's possible the confusion stems from the fact that a lot of monster-hunters, witchers etc. can't really know the inherent differences between say a highly advanced Bruxa or Katakan because vampires themselves make a point of not revealing it.
After all, a Bruxa taken for a (more powerful) True Higher Vampire is not gonna correct that mistake, since it likely means less people willing to hunt her, and True Higher Vampires have no reason to correct the confusion themselves - why give humans an advantage hunting their kin?
I think vampires don't make as much of a "class distinction" among themselves, as long as the other vampire is able to reason and communicate. Dettlaff especially is said to prefer "lesser" vampire kin to the company of humans. And it would make sense for a people who have effectively been exiled from their homeworld to share more of a bond with others of their kind, even if they're not exactly the same species of vampire.
In short, I don't think it's contradictory for Orianna to be a highly sophisticated Bruxa as opposed to a True Higher Vampire. Pretty sure personality matters more to someone like Regis than something as superficial as race or class anyway.
I like this take.
I remember coming across a bruxa for the first time in toussant. Just wondering around “minding my own”.. i heard her crying by the orchard/grave (whatever it was) then i talked to her because she was in front of the chest. After talking to her she disappeared and i went the treasure ... as soon as I was done with the treasure BOOM KILLED!!
What a fun experience! Lmao!
I hated fighting the bruxa in the game, especially in my first playthrough because of their invisibility and powerful attacks
I seem to remember randomly encountering Bruxae during the Blood and Wine DLC, either before or after Dettlaff's invasion. It's been a while... but I distinctly remember randomly talking to the women wearing hoods/cloaks only to hear a shrill giggle, the cloak falling to the ground and then a fight. It may be a rare encounter, but I distinctly remember it and being caught completely off guard. In fact, that makes me think it was before the invasion as I had no idea what it was at the time.
Yep it was before Night of The Fangs mission. Theres a few of those women that are constantly walking around the town (might only be during night) and you can encounter them in the wilds across the map. I think its only a chance of them revealing themselves when you talk to them cause it only happened to me a couple times out of all of the hooded when I spoke too. The one that surprised me the most was the woman that ambushed me at an old abandoned castle while I was looking for Witcher Diagrams. I figured she was going to give me a quest or something.
Also, if you wander the streets of Beauclair you often pass "mysterious women" cloaked and in the sunlight
Ik it's possibly redundant, but do an Alp video! Ik they're similar to Bruxa but just wanna hear the difference!
Bruxa have some telepathic abilities but you don't really see Orianna break it out. It's possible she was actually weaker than Vareena from A Grain of Truth. Or maybe Vareena was an exceptional individual.
Oh. One creepy bit worth bringing up? Bruxae most often sing after they've fed. Orianna had just drank blood before Geralt got her.
isn't she a higher vampire?
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In the sense that she's sentient yes. Lesser vampires aren't. The type of vampires Regis and Detlaff are stand above even that though.
@@The_Chef2511 interesting. I've gotta start reading the books. Only played the witcher 2 & 3 a lot and watched the netflix show, which seems to be rather disappointing when compared to the books
I like Bruxae. They are complex creatures and not necessarily evil. In fact, you can meet at least two of them without them turning hostile, unless you attack them. Orianna, also, arguably did more good than harm with her orphanage (I nearly called it happy farm, but that dark reference wouldn´t do her justice as she´s not that sick and twisted)
Personally of the belief Oriana is a true higher vampire. I don’t really buy the theories of her and the doctor from Novigrad being lesser while at the same time having a human form that fools a large portion of the playerbase (strictly talking about the serial killer side quest and reactions on the Witcher 3 subreddit)
Truth be told, we don’t know all too much about the vampires, and it very well could be a mislabel on CDPRs part, as Geralt originally thought the girl at the manor was human until Nivellen told him about the dreams (as some vampires are mislabeled in the bestiary)
Back to my point (also a tl;dr) I believe some vampires are truly higher in nature. We only know of Regis, Detlaff and the Unseen Elder- 3 of an entire race.
Their true power limit remains to be seen in the Witcher world, so the idea that not all higher vampires have the “higher” form isn’t too far fetched. For all we know, they (Oriana and the doctor) could have been taking pity on Geralt for getting involved, using a “lesser” form instead of their higher.
The info I got regarding them being higher vampires in a classification sense is from the 'world of the witcher' book made by cdprojektred. Personally I believe they included that info in their own personal lore to make up for that mistake, but regardless it certainly adds more layers to vampires as a whole!
WitcherGeorge
At least they got vampires right, if not better than she who shall not be named
Nah, I'm pretty sure she's a Bruxa. You can see Geralt fighting her in the trailer for the expansion pack: we hear her sing and see her face before they get into a fight. Also, her hair is identical.
That isn't to say that the ingame story didnt strongly insinuate that she was a Higher Vampire. It did.
She is as much of a higher vampire as bloody baron is a baron.
One of the CDPR developer have already confirmed Oriana is an higher vampire
That song at the end. So dope. I sometimes hang out at the Home Screen of Witcher 3 and listen lol
One of my favourite stories from the witcher books is A grain of truth when geralt faces the Bruxa vereena
Great video George! Would you consider making a "Witcher Vampires: Alp" soon? I am very interested in them as well, as they are considered to be even more dangerous than their cousins, Bruxas.
I’ve always felt Orianna was a higher vampire. She seems too similar to Regis and Detlaff is to not be truly higher. She also leads you to the unseen elder, and I’ve always thought only a higher vampire could contact him.
That's why it's all so confusing aha, perhaps she's simply a lot older than them, we know vampires seem to work on an age based society similar to our own!
The fight with the cintrian at the party also leads credence to this. No marks and defeats him nonchalantly
Geralt killing her in the trailer disproves this.
Also her body burned in the sun light, which doesn't happen to higher vampires
The_Drop Bear I feel that the trailer wasn’t cannon to the game as it shows Geralt killing her (which obviously doesn’t happen).
@@be9716 after finding out about the orphanage he says he will come back for her
That woman at the front of the shack scared the shit out of me. I was searching the dead man and when I turned to her it immediately turned into bruxa. That's a real jumpscare. We had the same thoughts about Orianna, she's definitely not a true higher vampire but a very old bruxa.
I got spooked out from the Bruxa in some ruins on a hill when I was searching for Witcher diagrams. Absolutely nobody there, picked up the diagrams and turned around to go on my way and this hooded figure walks past me and went invisible ready to attack me. Gave me a jump scare because she appeared outta nowhere
Yo you should do a Fairytale comparisons and parallels within the Witcher. Like the Last Wish story with the Bruxa and Nivellen is basically Beauty and the Beast
tbh i had (for no reason) really much trouble fighting them in the "blood and wine"dlc. even when those were one of the cooles new enemies in the game.
Great Vid! I'm a recent fan and am liking the vids! They're helping expand my understanding of the world in things I dont know much about, such as the school of the bear and things like that
I remember listening to the audio Book of the witcher series.
When the narrator says:
"She's a Bruxa!"
It gave my spine chills.
When you know about them, hearing that line is definitely a red flag aha
Witcher 3 is part of my life
Even outside its genre, many agree that TW3 is the greatest video game to date.
@@HalfBreedMix yes
You're doing something right because I got Gwent ad on this videoXD
My exploding quen manual shield build with the knock back and reflect effect really gave these ladies a lot if trouble when fighting me lol. Just waited for them to attack and release on em then get several hits in.
Bruxa let me introduce you to The Morning Star a.k.a The Vampire Killer.
You would scar them for "life" if they saw the morning star in action 😂
@@hidan407 yeah just a tiny scratch or bruise from it. And the vampire and anythin allied related. To them gets turned into a live hand grenade.
@@ashwolf2006 honestly, if they had a secret weapon called the morning star in witcher 3, I swear I would do the entire story using that weapon only and playing bloody tears durimg every boss battle 😂
I remember the Bruxa fight for the first time. I was a purely melee only build (It was my first playthrough, before I learnt about the power of signs and the alchemy trees) and it was pure pain. First time I defeated it I abused AoE Aard (It knocked it out of invisibility and allowed me to get up close) and now I've played the game that much I find it one of the easier fights now I know its counters.
Screams loud, emaciated and super long fingers/claws. I'm getting Left 4 Dead nightmares again.
You should’ve included the differences between alps and bruxas since they’re so similar.
Bruxae is the plural term
Hey there, I don't know if you already made a video about it. But could you make a video about the pogrom that destroyed Kaer Morhen? I think that would make for an excellent video. Love you work, keep making it and I will keep watching it! :)
Can't wait for Cyberpunk lore. 😌
Booooo i want witcher online
Hoss Delgado gross that sounds like the worst idea for a game spin off I’ve probably ever heard:/
Hoss Delgado that sounds so dumb.
@@secredeath no please no
I dont wanna dissapoint you
My first encounter with a Bruxa was probably my favorite fight in Wild Hunt.
Damn, i hated that fight, that bitch was killing me in 2 hits and got invisible every Time i delivers a hit.
Olgierd and Detlaff were probably my favourite bosses along with Care taker.
Hey there! Love your video’s
Keep up the good work
Could you one day make a video about Phillipe Eilhart, and how come sorceress became hated by the Redenians? I didn’t played W2 and I feel like I’m missing something in the story the first time I entered Novigrad
Also there are almost no lore videos about Phillipa on RUclips!
Twas a shame by the end of Blood and Wine you couldnt find and kill more Bruxa. I enjoyed finding, fighting and killing them.
Sure,,,,,,,,,,,,,, yup, that was the reason alright ;-)
Fun fact: when rodents chatter their teeth, that's called "bruxing" (it's cute)
Unrelated fun fact: the above fun fact kinda kills the fear factor for the name of this species of vampire for me
Love the lore videos, keep em coming mate!
I really get confused with the whole "higher vampire/Higher Vampire." Perhaps the Higher Vampires such as Dettlaff and Regis begin as the generic "higher vampire" and evolve into true "Higher Vampires" with age. That might explain how it is mentioned in B&W that Higher Vampires don't all have identical powers. Some tend to gather covens, some have higher abilities to alter themselves into swarms of bats or birds...their attributes seem to vary. While Regis and Dettlaff have near equal strength, they don't react identically. The last fact regarding Orianna being a true "Higher Vampire" is that she knows of the existence and whereabouts of the Elder Vampire. While all vampires seem to know about him and defer to him, I doubt most would know his actual whereabouts. While Regis knows about the Elder, he tells Geralt that he must learn of his whereabouts from Orianna. Whether this infers that Regis doesn't know the Elder's exact whereabouts or that he is totally unwilling to share it is unclear. If Orianna is truly a Bruxa, she is beyond the normal Bruxae because she lives completely openly among the society of Toussaint. Indeed, she is a major figure in that society. The other Bruxae encountered in B&W are rather more hidden. They're out there as cloaked women...indeed walking the streets you run into them constantly. Hard to imagine the citizens of Toussaint seem quite ignorant of a group of creatures that literally infest their cities and the province as a whole, along with other forms of vampires. For a society steeped in fairy tale legends, it seems odd they know so little about the vampires.
So she makes you dream to feed from you, and if she is nice, she will leave you alive.
They are basically higher vampires but less weaker, But with more age they become nearly as powerful as the higher Vamps.
Very interesting intelegent creature and i loved seeing it in the Witcher season 2.
Been waiting for this 😭❤ Thanks bruh
Another video that's informative and pleasant to watch. Good on ya bud.
in the witcher every monster is it's own study wich really adds to the game preparing for your enemy while undertanding the lore behind them makes the game much more immersive and of course much more fun (the witcher 3 is a masterpiece)
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great video
All true and thank you
@@WitcherGeorge no thank you
Meanwhile, while George was thanking patrons and viewers i was wondering around the comment section when suddenly, that magical Orianna song finished this masterpiece off.... Well done buddy, you sure know how to win the audience...
(Also Orianna is a Higher Vampire, her 'Aura' in the game is clearly saying 'dont f***k with me)
Thank you for this man. Fun fact I made and uploaded the entire video but then realised I committed the crime of not including lullaby of woe in a bruxa video, so I thought I'd make a special effort for there to be an eerie ending for those of you that stuck around!
@@WitcherGeorge And eerie it was... Dude you made me scroll up again screaming inside me ''ORIANNA' like a kid who is about to get candy LOL
ok... good.. time to play my 28 walktrough
Wait, wait... I thought "post-conjunction" creatures denoted the creatures that came into being after the conjunction mixed things up, but were not originally in the other world either? A mixed breed of some sort from the chaos of the conjunction.
"Remember there's higher vampires, and there's HIGHER vampires..."
"Oh,...which one are you then?"
"Well I just finished the last of Snoop Dogg's blood so..."
Thank you for your hard work in these videos
Like before watching then enjoy
Appreciate it mate
Orianna ❤️
I'd like to see a video on the Alps but I suspect there's not much difference between them and the Bruxas besides appearance.
They could just become an assassin for hire so they could kill and also feed on their pray without people knowing.
Nice editing, dude. Well done.
I'm only commenting because I feel like I'm around my ppl rite now!
Revisiting this after season 2
George the hero we didnt know we needed.
Awesome video man!! Keep them coming
"Hmmm, times past ... no amount of gold could persuade a Witcher to take this contract!"
The Bruxa where always a cool story my favorite next too the Ekimaras. As always you do great work congrats.
I love your series. Keep up the good work.
so a higher vampire can only be killed by another higher vampire, but in the blood and wine expansion pack why doesn't geralt use the higher vampires severed hand to hurt him, I mean since the hand is still largely alive could u technically kill a higher vampire with it's own claws?
Go forest style and stick some vamp claws onto your silver sword aha
TY for your extra work.
I love fighting bruxa. Casting yrden and then knocking them into the circle with aard so that you can get the instant kill without them escaping is challenging and rewarding.
You are overthinking the Orianna debacle. CD Projekt Red simply presented her in a trailer as a Bruxa but then, at some point, decided to upgrade her to a Higher Vampire for the actual Blood and Wine DLC release. Not only does Regis outright imply that she is a Higher Vampire, but also one of special standing, as she is the only one who knows the Unseen Elder's secret location. Furthermore, the witcher medallions do detect Bruxas but can not detect Higher Vampires. And that is clearly the case with Orianna - in the DLC, the medallion does not hum in Orianna's presence. End of story.
When a game is so massive and immersive, that the designations themselves get confused by its peasants and lead to the gamer's confusion as well
What I love about this game, more than I love other fantasy games is that this literally could be consideres sci-fi, cause every "monster" is pretty much treated as a normal animal, from the point of view of knowledge about it, and magic itself is like an element of nature, an energy, not unlike air, water or fuel, I think that that makes this really special, mainly because it's not just fantasy, but rather intelligent
To this day I don't understand the higher vampire in that quest with the morgue doctor. I mean he seemed more like an ordinary vamp, who can swap shapes. But still the bestiary shows him a hogher, whitch means he's not really dead, since now we know higher vampires can't be killed permanently by anyone except members of the same species.
"what should be looked out for is their breathtaking speed" I think at that point it might be a little bit too late to survive (if you´re not a witcher).
Great video. Liked and subbed. Well done xx
Bruxa has the best Yelp rating in ln low class vamps
Has kinda the same vibe as beeing the smartest special ED xD
Brilliant video! And perfect timing ;) I just started a new Blood and Wine playthrough. ^_^
The first time I battle a bruxa, which was in the 2, I was petrified just because something like that should not have claws that long a that sharp and also doing that much damage and moving that fast...I died many time.
Anyone watching this after witcher season 2🤙🏻
not only speed and invisibility but also defence system like shield, attributes only higher vampire like Detlaff posses..
Vampires are the greatest and most dangerous monsters in the entire world of the witcher.
I wonder why so many vampires are drawn to tousaint is it the atmosphere or is it the concept of it being the wine country they associate the blood of the people there as their wine or maybe all those different types of wine in the blood give them a greater variety of tastes when feeding
Amazing as always !
Please make a video lore on trolls thank you from Norway
Yrden is the best sign to use against Bruxae and Alps because it slows them down and negates their invisibility.
Weren't there some Bruxae in the first Witcher game as well? I vaguely remember a brothel/vampire den that was led by one...
I really loved the video. But why did they more or less do away with the Bruxas? I find them fascinating!
Not gonna lie, re living the moments with Netflix series.
At this pace you won't be able to complete witcher 3 goty before cyberpunk 2077 releases.
Please do regular uploads
I will give the Witcher a run before cyberpunk 2077, I was giving it a go but got so far as to Ciri's escape from novigrad, that was 6 months ago so I have to start over again.
I always wonder that if All the vampires unite and start a war against all humans will the witchers of the Witcher universe be able to defeat them(Or would they need more witchers to defeat em)
They would get trashed. The witchers, though powerfull, are few in number. The vampires would be able to overpower them with numbers, not to mention the "Greater" higher vampires (i.e. regis and detlaff for example) would be able to overpower a majority of the witchers.
Do a video on the School of the Snail!
The strongest school.
Do you think its possible that all vampire start as one of the lesser variants but with enough time they become higher vampires? Like theoretically Regis was once a Katakan but after living long enough he evolved, grew more powerful, and intelligent and he is now what we know him to be.
I don't know about anybody else i consider vampire like Detlaff and Regus as Alpha or True High Vampires and Katakans/Bruxa as Beta or False High Vampires
Same, though i classify them as "greater" (regis and detlaff for example) or "lesser" (bruxae, katakans, etc) higher vampires
Regis is the man!
Interesting, always thought vampires become higher the longer they live.
The ones like Regis are called High Vampires that's the thing
IKR? It's not as hard as people seem to make it : Lesser
Very interesting and informative
Is Orianna the Red-Headed Bruxa from the “Night to Remember” Commercial?