Witcher 3 Map: Details About the Map, Findings & Treasures

Crowned as a game of the year, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is a game that is a masterpiece. Games like these are not made that often. The game excels in every aspect that you can think of. One major aspect that makes and contributes to its greatness is the map and the world you see in the game. The Witcher 3 map is counted among one of the vast open-world maps to date in a game. To give you a little idea of the witcher 3 maps; it is around 20% larger than Skyrim. And if you have played the previous Witcher game you will find the setting this time around is 30 times larger, giving you more time to spend and grind and experience the environment.

Talking of the map; the story of the witch 3 majorly takes place at the stronghold of the witcher, Kaer Morhen. Unlike many other open-world games Witcher 3 map is divided into several areas which are pretty large as in the picture below. The map is divided into majorly these areas namely Orchard, Velen and Novigrad, The Skellige Isles, Kaer Morhen. There are some smaller areas as well like the Royal Palace in Vizima or the Isle of Mists. 

About Witcher 3

Developed by Polish studio CD Projekt RED The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt comes after The Witcher and The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings. The entire series is based on books by the same name. It is a single-player, action game that takes borrows RPG elements. 

The story of Witcher 3 takes place after the events of The Witcher 2 which deeply talks about the story of our protagonist Geralt of Rivia. This time around in witcher 3 the games a whole consists majorly of two main aims Nilfgaard’s invasion into the Northern Kingdoms and the second is  Geralt’s own quest to eliminate the Wild Hunt.

Witcher 3 Map: Details Regarding the Locations, Rewards & Findings

As we have said earlier the witcher 3 map is divided into several big and small areas. These places are fairly very far from each other and do require vehicles like sailboats, horseback to reach. However, sailboats and horseback can be used to travel through smaller areas but larger areas can not be traveled using these vehicles.

For example, Skellige isles and Novigrad are two of the larger areas which are far away in order to reach from one to another you need to use the Fast travel option. Also before you can use the fast travel you have to make sure to unlock at least one signpost in that zone. But a single signpost will not be enough and as you progress you will quite a few.

As you begin the game the very first open-world location in the game that you will encounter is White Orchard. You will be spending a few hours exploring, doing quests, and killing monsters here after that you will visit Royal Palace in Vizima and the journey and adventure will take you to all other places Velen, No Man’s Land, Novigrad, etc.

Each place you must have an objective or the purpose; you will spend a good enough time completing and searching for the witcher contracts along with the main story. You will be meeting some great characters, if you have played the previous Witcher games you will get to meet some characters from previous games as well. Once you finish the main storyline of the game you can still take witcher contracts and finish them.

White Orchard, Witcher 3 Map

White Orchard is the first open-world zone you can explore in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt after finishing the tutorial in Kaer Morhen. It takes approximately a few hours to finish all quests available here.

Velen / Novigrad, Witcher 3 Map

Velen / Novigrad – Map of Velen and Novigrad. It contains all areas available in the core version of the game, as well as those added in the Hearts of Stone DLC.

The Skellige Isles, Witcher 3 Map

The Skellige Isles is a collection of many individual isles. The largest being the Ard Skellig, An Skellig, Undvik, Faroe, Spikeroog and Hindarsfjall. The land is divided among several clans and the leader of all those clans are jarls. The archipelago is also famous for warriors, sailors, pirates.

Kaer Morhen, Witcher 3 Map

Kaer Morhen means “Keep of the Sea of Yore,”. This place is the school of Witchers. The place was destroyed and people who used to live here are murdered during Pogrom. Only a couple of witchers are here.

The Isle of Mists, Witcher 3 Map

The Isle of Mists is not that very important and there is not many findings and treasure here. But there will be a quest that will lead to this island, so make sure that you collect all that is present here.

Toussaint, Witcher 3 Map

Toussaint is operated under the Empire of Nilfgaard. This country is also famous for Wines and has pretty weird Rainy and Sunny weather. Toussaint unlike other most countries does not have a secret service. 

Conclusion:

In the above guide, we have talked about the Witcher 3 map. There are several major locations that this map consists of. The guide majorly talks about the findings and treasures on each map. This will help in gathering as much treasure, and other rewards as possible.

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