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9. Tons Of Side-Quests Are Inspired By Real People And Events

Another tidbit from the aforementioned Kotaku interview, Ashraf Ismail notes that in order to fully ape the sort of sprawling, interconnected tapestry of narratives present in something like The Witcher 3, the team "did a lot of research on Egypt [to find] a ton of stories".

He notes that there were "hundreds of stories that [involved] super-cool characters, people, real-life people who did really interesting things”, to which the team have adapted or been inspired by when populating their version of Egypt.

Indeed, Ishmail ends by saying they "wanted to be able to propose these stories to players", which very much sounds like the multi-step side quests we'll be partaking in were directly based on events that involved people and factions from ancient Egypt itself.

Considering The Witcher's world was consistently rich thanks to Andrzej Sapkowski's book series, there's nothing stranger than fiction - especially when it comes to human history.