Witcher 3 - Hidden Society of Higher Vampires - Witcher 3 Lore & Mythology

It's so nice to see someone actually doing lore videos other than that phony idiot WitcherGeorge. Wonderful job on this video, earned the subscription for sure.

This was an incredibly detailed and amazing video, thank you!

"high vampires cant be killed"

- master mirror enters the chat

Looks like higher Vampires are related to the flood.

"If you acknowledge any gods, start praying now" Gives me chills!!

Now can a djinn wish a higher vampire to be human ?

The Tesham Mutner (however you spell it) armour is one of my favourite sets in the game, the effect you get from it just makes everything melt in your path haha

Still can’t believe they’re “immortal”

The Witcher lore for vampires is actually a lot like the original vampire lore before Dracula

they blue balled the poor vampire in tesha mutna xd

WaffleStomper.

Amazingly done. Well done

Great video. Thank you for sharing !

I am actually shocked at the number of people who think letting Detlaff go is a “good” choice. Regis had seen Detlaff be incredibly selfless but imo Detlaff showed his true colors by ordering the wholesale Slaughter of the men, women and CHILDREN of Beuclair. In addition to that, he attempts to kill Syanna without even hearing her side of the story (not that she had any justification for her actions but still) then if she has the ribbon, he attacks both Geralt AND Regis… I don’t know about you but I wouldn’t consider one of my closest friends riding off into the sunset (or moonlight?) with a mass murdering psychopath a happy ending. Yes Regis owed him for regenerating him but I’m pretty sure if Hitler did you a favor you wouldn’t think “yeah he did some bad things but he’s actually a really swell guy once you get to know him!” And for what? He got used by a woman? Join the club! “Your honor my client may have committed genocide but his girlfriend really hurt his feels, so obviously you should drop the charges!” What happens next time he gets his feelings hurt? Who’s to say he won’t kill Regis? Also remember that Geralt doesn’t force Regis to kill Detlaff, Regis makes that choice, he could have just broke him down to regenerate him later but he realized the danger he posed, and even though the other vampire’s would hate him for it “out of sight out of mind” was a small price to pay for preventing the slaughter of more innocents.

So vampires are introverts with magic?

this shit is fascinating man

Is it safe to assume that the ‘higher vampire’ in novigrad morgue isn’t actually a higher vampire?

I think if we burn the dead elder and bottled up the ashes and threw it in a lava it will end it.

Kane (Legacy of Kane) vs Geralt. Now that be a good fight as Kane is also a much higher Vampire

The Only kind of Realistic Fictional Character capable of taking out a Higher Vampire is a Spartan-II, or an Armored Spartan of other types. Spartan-IIs are nearly as fast as Higher Vampires, but are just as Strong, and can match them in reflexes. In Mjolnir, one would be capable of handling them with minimal difficulty, with the Master Chief, Noble 6, and the Known Blue Team members being able to Kill the Unseen Elder with a moderate difficulty. It must be said that Kelly-087 would likely have little difficulty due to her being Significantly Faster than even the other Spartans, being the Fastest human since the Human-Forerunner War. Spartan-II Eyesight is also Better than a Witcher's, even Geralt with Potions, as they can see clearly without aid in nearly Complete Darkness, and can see Active Camoflage without issue in almost every scenario, something that normal humans cannot do without aid.

Most powerful WHAT???
Gaunter O'dimm: Hold my Ale....

Dude I put this on to sleep almost every night for years now thank you man

How do they regenerate if you burn them all the way down. Like wtf

I think sorcerers are really the only beings that can surpass the strength of elder vampires, but only very few of them can reach that level, for example the sorcerer Vilgefortz was physically capable of beating a Witcher as skilled as Geralt and on top of that he had a mastery of magic to the point he could “kill” a higher vampire for decades

what is that background music from? It's giving me some nostalgia but I can't remember where it's from

What if you take the teeth’s or glands of a higher vampire? Wouldn’t that kill another one?
Like if Regis gave one of his teeth’s mixed with saliva/glands to Geralt and used it as a weapon?

not wanna be that guy, but Vilgefortz killed Regis pretty solidly. Yeah for the games somehow somewhere detlaff managed to dig through the leveled castle stygga and managed to find the block of solid volcanoglass in which regis was molten into atoms and somehow managed to dig out singular atoms and regenerate them, but that is not canon and after Geralts revival before game 1 the second biggest deviation from the books.

Mages have abilitys to quasi kill vampires (and in the bookverse there is absolutly no proof they cant be destroyed- all we know is that Regis has not encountered anyone capable of desintegrating him prior to vilgefortz. That probably is also the reason why vampires in the books dont just try to take over the world. If there was no danger to them they could do as they please.

this guy kind of sounds like Glidus

The Witcher's higher vampires are the strongest in "history".

Why couldn't we play as a higher vampire in this universe!?

Vampires being a separate species reminds me of Legacy of Kain how there was a race of ancient vampires.

To this day I think I made the wrong choice killing Dettlaff, not because of him, but because of Regis
Masterfully made video btw

Honestly, except for the elders, humans would still pose a serious threat to higher vampires. If humans started hunting HV in earnest, they could be successful due just to the numbers. Decapitate, throw in a pit with all the others, and burn every week. Or just put a castle worth of stone atop them. They can regenerate all day, but it won't matter. At that point, the immortality would be a curse.

Oreana's bloodlust seems more like addiction than indulgence.

This a fundamental problem with Blood and Wine.

One of the most powerful higher vampires actually a simp tricked by that jezebel Syanna?

Gimme a break.

They can’t even understand the concept of fear however this one is won over by “love”? Then blackmailed by humans?

So which is it? Are they highly intelligent considering human nothing more than mosquitoes or incredibly gullible simps tricked by a pretty girls false smile?

So it makes me wonder what the vampires fed on back in their own world? It clearly wasn’t humans or anything like us as they have no idea how we work, but the elder has a human shape which I don’t think he is doing to look more like us considering how much he hates our irritation.

I think this was a mistake on CDPRs part they should have made him look less human.

I ultimately let Detlaff walk away after killing Syanna because it's just one human life against an ancient being that's been alive since even before it got here post conjunction.

Did she have a shitty life? Yes, but nobody forced her to manipulate Detlaff into doing her dirty work, possibly souring one of the few High Vampires that didn't go out if their way to make human lives shit.

Detlaff killed, sure, but as Regis said, trying to force human morals and perceptions onto something that alien was flawed to begin with.

Also Anna was just as delusional as the rest of Toussaint, the way she handled Geralt trying to explain the complexities of the issue at hand and expecting him to just bend over like her Knights and do his job.

Toussaint was beautiful, but it sure stank of shit under all that wine

Oriana is hot af

what if you cut up the higher vampire and then kept the parts in a brazier or something that's constantly maintained to keep them weak?
I could totally see the church of eternal fire having a section of mages for such a task, and they'd do it religiously too

You speak to fast

Master Vampire < Higher Vampire ...
Nightstalker Vampire < Higher Vampire ...
Lord Harkon < Unseen Elder ....the odds are in Witcher's vampires favor

all higher vampires gangster till geralt and his power of main character pulls up

so they need no food, not even blood. nothing save another vampire can kill them and even if they are scraps they regenerate. so in theory these higher vampires can survive the white frost if it came?

say it once and say it many times. why could Regis not imprison detlauf when he was weakened? you have an anti vampire cage in the dungeon below and the fampires did it once before with the one psycho vampire.

I'd really love to see a future Witcher game in which, in an expansion, we see the portal between worlds open up to the homeworld of the vampiric species. It would be a great plot if we were forced into the portal and forced into a playthrough of stealth until we get back. It would be quite exhilarating.

vampires....sounds jewish

If you acknowledge any gods, start praying to them now.
*Proceeds to play a Nilfgaard Gwint hand full of spies and healers

Higher vampires are killable with silver sword