This page has an analysis/explanation of the events in the intro cutscene ("The Trail") of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.
- We are taken to a scene of a fierce combat between two armies.
- The battle is between soldiers of the Nilfgaardian Empire and the Northern Kingdoms
- This battle takes place in or near Willoughby, as indicated later from the Letter from Yennefer
- A heavily armed soldier is seen letting out a battlecry
- Yennefer is seen riding her horse through the battlefield.
- The soldier swings his sword at Yennefer's horse, decapitating it. Yennefer is knocked down to the ground.
- Cutscene fast fowards to the present day, in which Geralt and Vesemir are tracking Yennefer down. Geralt has been using his Witcher Senses to see what has transpired here.
- Geralt examines the decapitated head of Yennefer's horse, and the body of the dead soldier that attacked Yennefer. That soldier has had his eyes gouged out by Yennefer's enchanted raven.
- Yennefer escapes to the woods. A branch tears a piece of her clothes. Geralt examines that piece which is still hanging on the branch, as well as a bag filled with various books and keys that was dropped by someone which Yennefer collided with during her escape.
- Yennefer realizes she is trapped betweem the two groups of soldiers who are advancing quickly. She throws some sort of magical rock that creates a rain of stones, trapping the soldiers beneath heavy boulders.
- Yennefer gets up and grabs another horse and escapes.
- Geralt, in present time, looks towards the horizon, to the direction Yennefer fled to.
- During the escape, the artifact Yennefer used to summon the enchanted raven drops to the ground.
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Yennefer trapped between two groups of soldiers.
This magic rock thrown by Yennefer will engulf the soldiers in an avalanche of stones so that she can escape
The Battlefield
Geralt examining the decapitated head of Yennefer's dead Horse
This is the an enchanted raven to gouge this soldier's eyes out.
