What Lara and Geralt have in common? In The Witcher 3’s Blood and Wine expansion, Geralt finds references to Tomb Raider!
To witness this yourself, you need to first unlock and get access to Toussaint, the area available in the Blood and Wine Expansion.
During the first steps of the Turn and Face the Strange secondary quest, Geralt visited a Grave in the graveyard of southern Toussaint.
The witcher investigated Professor Moreau’s grave, but someone else has already beaten him to it – a tomb raider you would say.
Turns out, the thief is a woman. The “grave robber” has done much of the work for Geralt – such as opening the portal into Moreau’s lab.
In the underground lab, the witcher ran into several traps which have already been activated by someone who came before, like a spiked floor and a giant boulder.
Finally, Geralt saw a climb pickaxe, a rope, a bow, and a camp fire – obvious references to the latest two Tomb Raider games!
I hope you found this Witcher 3 Tomb Raider Reference fun. I loved it. There are a lot of references to popular franchises in The Witcher 3. Some of my favorite ones are to Grame of Thrones, like the Tyrion Lannister reference or the several hints at characters and events we get from Blood and Wine.
One of my all-time favorites is during the secondary quest Paperchase, which is a reference to the A38 Permit Asterix and Obelix were chasing in the Twelve Tasks of Asterix animated movie.
