Witcher Lead Story Designer Says Ending Was a 'Mistake' He Didn't Control

Artur Ganszyniec, who served as lead story designer on the 2007 game, completed a 26-episode, 40-hour playthrough of the first Witcher and used the final five minutes to reveal a key piece of development trivia. He said the writers were "not really" involved in creating the game's final cutscene: "The script for this… it was created not really involving the story team.

So it was sort of, we weren’t really paying attention. And that was a mistake, I think." The ending shows the attempted assassination of King Foltest; after Geralt kills the would‑be assassin he discovers the culprit was a fellow witcher, which leads directly into The Witcher 2, where Geralt is locked up for his suspected part.

Ganszyniec pointed to a mismatch between Dandelion’s closing narration—"What then happened to the witcher?"—and the animated outro that immediately answers the question.

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