Talk:Orianna/@comment-86.173.207.148-20160702001527/@comment-81.23.70.2-20160720091918

I'd say she's some sort of a Higher vampire, at least as high as Regis, judging from her having the crystal to the Unseen Elder cave, and her comment on Regis indiscretion and how he needs reprimanding. Or maybe she's not that high of a vampire but she's having favour with the Unseen Elder, remember that Dettlaff told Geralt about killing a Bruxa dear to him, so we can assume such thing exists between vampires of different level.

Now back to the trailer, if she's a bruxa, a regular one, killing her makes sens as Geralt did with many bruxae before.

BUT, if she's a true Higher Vampire, he couldn't have killed her. So what if some other vampire did it? Namely the Unseen Elder himself:

Geralt said "they" paid him for her, so it's fair to assume everyone in Beauclair knows about her being a vampire and worse, using the orphanage as her blood cellar. Also in the trailer she's dressed modestly compared to what she used to wear in her manor, so we can imagine she left it, and had been kind of on the run, or at least keeping a lower profile.

And we've seen the Unseen Elder to be quite cooperative when it comes to vampires causing trouble which may eventually lead to him and his cave.

Finally, in the trailer, Geralt did faint for a while between shooting Orianna falling to his crossbow bolts and him waking up to her skeletal body, also, he didn't chop her head or anything as a trophee, like he usually does with his contracts.