CD PROJEKT RED’s least-discussed Witcher project has picked up a notable new name. Baudelaire Welch, a former senior narrative designer at Larian Studios, announced on November 12, 2026 that she has joined CD Projekt Red as a Senior Writer Specialist on Project Sirius, the studio’s multiplayer game set in The Witcher universe. She says she has already been on the team for several months.
Who is Baudelaire Welch?
At Larian, Welch was the writer behind the Dark Urge, the custom Origin character in Baldur’s Gate 3 whose murderous backstory became one of the most talked-about routes through the game. Coverage from GamesRadar and VGTimes also credits her with work on Astarion’s romance scenes and on the companion questlines. Before that she did game design on Crusader Kings 3, according to her own website as cited by GamesRadar.
In her post announcing the move, Welch says she is excited to write fantasy for a studio she sees as one of the genre’s most beloved, and that the team has been great to work with during her first months.
What we know about Project Sirius
Very little. Project Sirius was first named in CD Projekt’s October 2022 strategy update as a Witcher game with multiplayer elements, developed together with The Molasses Flood, the Boston studio CD Projekt bought in 2021. In 2023 the company said the project would be reworked, and it has stayed out of the spotlight since. CD Projekt Red has not shown the game, given it a release window or revealed its story or setting, and Welch’s post does not add any of those details either.
Multiplayer is new ground for the series’ RPGs, though not for the brand as a whole: CD Projekt Red ran the online card game GWENT for years, which grew out of the tavern game in The Witcher 3. Our Witcher 3 Gwent hub covers the original single-player version.
A busy Witcher slate
Sirius is one of several Witcher projects in the works at once. Songs of the Past, The Witcher 3’s third expansion, is planned for 2027, and The Witcher 4 is targeting 2028 as the start of a new trilogy. Welch is also not the first Baldur’s Gate 3 veteran to move to CD Projekt Red, which has been hiring experienced RPG talent across its teams this year. Our September news roundup covers some of the other returns and arrivals.
While you wait for more on Sirius, the Witcher 4 hub collects everything known about the next mainline game, and the Witcher 3 hub has the quests, characters and monsters from Geralt‘s last adventure.
