Talk:Kiyan/@comment-92.203.150.137-20160610191011/@comment-2A02:A311:813E:5380:DC4A:24C5:1C3B:3CA6-20170725034433

I absolutly agree, I was looking for some official reference but did not find any, but, since CDP was publisher for every bioware/interplay/black isle game in PL, and they grew up on this stuff it is very likely this is not just some coincidence. The sheer number of other RPG motifs kinda proves the point - the balduran's butter knife - from tales of the sword coast is just first example. The game draws form Gothic, Neverwinter, Baldur's Gate Planescape and others, furthermore, the base polish players - the main audience for CDP were grown on very strong RPG market since 1995, due to the fact that CDP translated and voice coverd every big title available.

I'm only 70h into this game but by the end i think it would be fun to compile all of these references. There are of course other tribiutes or easter eggs - political or cultural - but, I think the other game references are far more impportatn since they prove that CDP made very conciuous decisions  when making Witcher 3.

The things that pile up into Kiyan being a Darth Sion tribiute are his apperance, insane fighting skills, the kind of fatalist psychology of Kiyan, resistance to extreme pain, rather short appearance, tragedy and more - like the pose you find him, he's meditatning in a manner that Sion did in KotOR, and he tells you that "there is only pain", nothing more. This is the kind of cheerful stuff Sion used to say. I would not call it just an easter egg but rather a very well thought tribiute by dudes who appriciate good RPG's.