Thread by @simon_brooke

It just happens that wandering through Velen yesterday I picked up a crafting diagram for the Black Unicorn blade. I'd hardly have noticed – one picks up a lot of crafting diagrams in @witchergame – except that the Black Unicorn got a mention in #NightCityWire this week. >>>

There are 'goodies' you can get, apparently, in @CyberpunkGame, if you connect your game to @GOGcom and you also have a copy of @witchergame linked to GOG. And one of those goodies is said to be the Black Unicorn blade.



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So wow, I thought, was this a blade added in a patch to @witchergame with the intention of being carried forward into @CyberpunkGame? Sadly, no. It first appears, actually, in the Dark Mode DLC for Witcher II, and then again in Witcher 3.

witcher.fandom.com/wiki/Black_Uni…

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So, is it the same blade? Again, sadly, it seems not. The Black Unicorn in the @witchergame is a dark steel two-handed longsword with a very slight 's' bend to the quillons, whereas the @CyberpunkGame Black Unicorn appears, from the Night City Wire video, to be a katana. >>>

Nevertheless, the next thing I intend to do is take that crafting diagram to Éibhear Hattori in Novigrad, and have him make me a Black Unicorn. Because even the notion that one might carry a sword from Novigrad into Night City is weirdly cool, in a very geeky way.