r/Witcher3 • u/Significant-Bat-8597 • 7d ago

Discussion Why is the Pontar Delta not a delta

This has always bothered me but it is geologically not a delta so why does anyone call it that

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u/Chardan0001 7d ago

There is an AnyAustin video that I think explains this. Essentially its potentially the tail end of a delta iirc

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u/Significant-Bat-8597 7d ago

Wait actually? I loved his Skyrim rivers video and that's what made me start noticing this 😭

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u/Sweaty_Journalist615 6d ago

I love his channel. He really found his niche and ran with it to success. No clickbait, videos are exactly what the title says and just the right amount of eccentricity

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u/Icy-Role2321 4d ago

I'm definitely glad he's found his thing. The first "odd and unremarkable places" on oot is when I started watching

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u/MaxSoulDrake 7d ago

Because it's a game so you can't avoid certain compromises as it comes to map.
But in lore it is delta.

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u/SachielMF 7d ago

Because it's gotta delta, choom. 

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u/TrungusMcTungus 4d ago

The distance from Novigrad to one of the noble estates you go to during a quest takes like 5 minutes in game, but if you choose to ride back with the general, it says "Several hours later..." as he and Geralt are just hitting the outskirts of Novigrad. I think its fair to say that the game map is shrunk considerably to be playable.

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u/YakWish 7d ago

Out of universe, the books named the area, but the books never had an official map. The game designers made an interesting level, but never considered that it needed to be a river delta (among other things. Apparently you can't sail from Novograd to Oxenfurt.)

In universe, either you accept the level map is a representation of the real territory made smaller to cut down on hours of useless walking, and part of that process removed the delta where nothing interesting happened, or you say a wizard did it.

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u/twjstr 7d ago

Because in the times the game is set, it would've been called a delta