In an interview with Gamertag Radio's Parris Lilly back in December, The Witcher 4's director, Sebastian Kalemba, confirmed that this new monster is called a "Bauk." Inspired by Serbian folklore ...

Bauk. This first entry is slightly cheating because the monster seen in The Witcher 4‘s reveal trailer is a Bauk. This monster is based on a Serbian myth and is said to lurk in dark spaces, ...

Appropriately, Kalemba tells Lilly that this version of Bauk "plays with your own fears," and says he loves that aspect of the monster encounter.

The Bauk’s visual design was crafted with a very specific emotional effect in mind. “What emotion do we want to have with the player with the monster?” says Mitręga.

She sips a potion, and as the poison courses through the mutated monster hunter's veins she is granted clarity of sight and sound – the Bauk no longer speaking in whispers but sharp shrieks as ...

There's discussion about the Slavic style being used artistically as well as the animation behind the Bauk monster. This isn't the first time CD Projekt Red has elaborated on the trailer, either.

So perhaps it's possible to slay the monster and keep Mioni alive. Or maybe the cost of Mioni's survival means the Bauk must be spared. We can only speculate for now.

“We created a physical representation of Bauk’s shoulders and his attacking arms, and having four operators, we kind of re-created the whole monster,” said Maciej Kwiatkowski, a motion ...

From the developers of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and Cyberpunk 2077, CDPR give us our first glimpse into the world of The Witcher 4 as Ciri takes on a fearsome monster called the Bauk in this ...

The Witcher 4 is likely to be no different, with The Witcher 4's trailer featuring a monster, a bauk—a typical monster from Eastern European legend.