Prerelease:The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt/Character Development

This is a sub-page of Prerelease:The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.

Early Character Names

According to the document "W3 Quest Asset List", the following characters originally had different names:

Early Name	Polish Name	English Name
Becca	-	Cerys
Canaris	-	Caranthir
Corine	-	Corinne Tilly
Guslar	-	The Pellar
Lady Bran	-	Birna Bran
Margaret	-	Gretka
Mousesack	-	Ermion

Character Development

Geralt

3D Models

Concept Art

Yen

The developers ran into trouble when designing Yennefer, as she was not described in great detail in the books. They created 4 models before settling on the final version, which they were very happy with.

One of the reasons that Yen and Ciri weren't introduced in the earlier games was that the developers weren't confident about their ability to tackle such multifaceted characters. (For example, Yen being a mix of really mean and really sweet.) As a result, they felt they had to hone their skills before they could do the characters justice.

(Source: CD PROJEKT RED Presents: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Panel (PAX 2015))