Aren't the kids witnesses? (MAJOR SPOILERS)

[iseli]

Aren't the kids witnesses? (MAJOR SPOILERS)

I don't see why it is necessary to frame Geralt. I mean, Foltest's daughter did see Letho just as he finished slitting the king's throat so why couldn't she just explain to the soldiers "No, he didn't kill my father. It was a big, bald man who jumped off the window" ?

 

[227]

I don't see why it is necessary to frame Geralt. I mean, Foltest's daughter did see Letho just as he finished slitting the king's throat so why couldn't she just explain to the soldiers "No, he didn't kill my father. It was a big, bald man who jumped off the window" ?

Because Anais doesn't talk at all throughout the game, and even if she did, it's unlikely that she'd even know where to start or who to trust enough to tell. The worldview of children is a fragile thing, and something like watching a parent be brutally murdered by someone you had trusted only moments earlier could easily render her unwilling to tell anyone.

Aside from that, both her and Boussy shortly become pawns in the political scheming of others, at which point the truth matters little to anyone surrounding them. That's why you can run into a hangman torturing either Aryan or Louisa La Valette, trying to force them into saying that the kids were the product of incest rather than actually being Foltest's children. Would the people trying to strip them of their legitimacy to the throne really care about what they have to say?

 

[Adonai-]

Nope. Anais & Boussy left before Letho killed Foltest.

Ta-dah!

Adding to that, when you've apparently caught a trained killer holding a sword above your dead king, you probably wouldn't pay much attention to what a small child has to say.

 

[227]

Ta-dah!

Yeah, but Anais comes back and sees enough to figure out that Geralt wasn't the one who did it.

 

[Adonai-]

Yeah, but Anais comes back and sees enough to figure out that Geralt wasn't the one who did it.

Touché. I honestly didn't recall that part - was it added to the scene in the EE?

Regardless, she wasn't there when the guards burst in and it doesn't seem like Geralt saw her, hence no one questioning her about the assassination.

 

[227]

I honestly didn't recall that part - was it added to the scene in the EE?

Hm... I have some screenshots of it that were taken in 1.35, so I'm fairly confident that it was always there. Seem to remember it being a part of one of the many trailers, too, but I may be wrong about that.

Regardless, she wasn't there when the guards burst in and it doesn't seem like Geralt saw her, hence no one questioning her about the assassination.

True, true. It makes sense that no one even bothers to ask. Besides, it must have felt like quite the stroke of luck, having someone as distrusted as a witcher to blame it on. He's pretty much the perfect scapegoat for those who would rather put it behind them and vie for the throne than actually learn the truth of what happened.

 

[Cs__sz__r]

She eventually attested that Geralt did not do it.

 

[username_3670024]

She eventually attested that Geralt did not do it.

Yes, it's mentioned very briefly early in act 3 that she attested to Geralt's innocence, although it's extremely brief and easy to miss or forget about.

 

[dragonbird]

Guys, this is a 2012 thread.

The questions were answered in quests that were added to Act 3 in the EE version. This thread was written before the EE version was released.