The Witcher 4 will take place on the unnamed continent of the series, where grass covers everything like champagne on a tablecloth, as always. But this time players will be able to experience new regions and nightmarish beasts, including one who is apparently a real bastard.
A “cheating, cheating, cheating bastard,” to be exact, according to game director Sebastian Kalemba in a recent interview with Gamertag Radio co-host Parris Lilly. His name is Bauk and you'll find him located in one of the “amazing” and “brand new regions” that Kalemba hints at to Lilly.
The creature is inspired by Serbian mythology, which tells of a shadowy creature that lives in the darkness and wants to eat you. In The Witcher 4, as revealed The cinematic trailer for the game.Bauk is a large mess of bones and hair, who attacks the protagonist Ciri in the misty forest with his unnatural chicken arms.
“Fate cannot be changed,” he utters as if he's gagging, his skin tight over his beak, threatening to take out Ciri's eye.
Appropriately, Kalemba tells Lilly that this version of Bauk “plays on your own fears” and says he loves that aspect of the monster encounter.
“When you look at The Witcher, the way we treat the word 'monster,' we do it from a completely different perspective since The Witcher 1,” Kalemba continues. Initially in the series, you had to “deal with a normal monster, then you had humans who behaved monstrously. Then, here, you have inner demons that you have to fight first in order to finally detect.” [Bauk] and kill him.”
CD Projekt Red says its “ambition is high, tremendously high” with The Witcher 4 as developers hope to “apply all the lessons learned” from Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3.