Witcher 3 dataminers detail the enormous scrapped questline that would have brought back The Witcher 2's best character, and maybe saved the game from its worst bit of writing

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The Witcher 3 was an excellent game. An all-timer game. One of the greats. But it had one fatal flaw: The total absence of Iorveth, everyone's favourite focoist guerilla elf boyfriend from The Witcher 2.

But per the third volume of What Lies Unseen—a datamined development history of The Witcher 3 from modders Moonknight, Ferroxius, Crygreg, and Glassfish—that wasn't always the case. In fact, Iorveth was going to have a major role, one that saw him attempt an assassination of the Nilfgaardian emperor (you know, Charles Dance) in order to secure a cure for the Catriona plague.