While its remastered upgrade might have broken cover in late September, The Witcher 3’s extra expansion isn’t set to join it until next year. With 2027 still a month and a bit away, a modder’s taken it upon themselves to add a few more adventures to Geralt’s time in Toussaint, Blood and Wine’s gorgeous French-ish duchy, before the bloke from the river heads off to Letten for Songs of the Past.
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So far, only the opening chapter of the mod – Annals of the Duchy – has been released. It adds in a new quest about Geralt, with help from either Yen or Triss if either have made the trip out to Toussaint as part of your playthrough, getting into a scrape thanks to a halfling who seems to promise Gerry the chance to juice up his vineyard’s vines.
The mod’s creator, Jontej, has previously put together a couple of other custom Witcher 3 quests. While they do look to have used AI voices in English versions of those mods, for Annals of the Duchy they’ve enlisted a cast of human actors for both Enlish and Polish versions.
Jontej has plans to expand this new questline going forwards, having cited specific “plans for an extra storyline involving Syanna”, whom you might remember from Blood and Wine’s main quest. Given that – spoilers ahead – the mod relies on you having gotten the Blood and Wine ending which sees both Anna Henrietta and Syanna survive, as well as having paid to renovate the gardens of Geralt’s vineyard. They add that, when it comes to their additions, the “timeline fits quite well [with] the upcoming official Songs of the Past Expansion, which has been confirmed to take place after the events of the main game/Blood and Wine”.
As much as I’ve argued that, as of right now, I struggle to see how Songs of the Past will manage to outdo Blood and Wine as a satisfying end to Geralt’s tale in the Witcher game trilogy, I am intrigued by the idea of a few more modded adventures showing Gerry adjusting to the semi-retired life. After all, Toussaint’s got to have a few more dungeons tucked away that’re worth temporarily dusting off the White Wolf’s twin swords for.
To kick off Annals of the Duchy, you’ll need to trigger its first quest by taking a stroll from the Corvo Bianco manor house down to its gardens between 11am and 1pm. It’s worth noting that any other mod which messes with Yen, Triss or companions in general has a chance to muck things up as far as Jontej’s creation goes.
