Death of important characters (Spoilers)

[Zabanzo]

Someone from the wolf school and one of the dwarves (Zoltan or Yarpen). Hjalmar will also die in some reckless, foolish manner for trying to be the hero...
Also few more members of Lodge will pay for their crimes..

 

[Scryar]

Vesemir
Eskel or Lambert
Ciri depending on our choices (they said there will be 3 different epilogues, wouldn't be surprised if they are tied to Ciri's fate)
Maybe Triss or Yennefer depending on our choices

That's my guess relating to Geralt's closest friends. Though I think only Dandelion has plot armor (he writes the journals and if I'm not mistaken he is described as an old man in the books)

 

[Lieste]

Massive spoiler:

Spoiler

Every body dies. Eventually.

 

[Riven-Twain]

A large number of loyal fans of The Withcer series, from hyperbolic tension, resulting from waiting so long.

 

[Lieste]

A large number of loyal fans of The Withcer series, from hyperbolic tension, resulting from waiting so long.

That's only a subset. :listen:

 

[hamilcarBarca.196]

I hope ciri is going to die...

 

[Psycroptoxic]

I hope ciri is going to die...

.

 

[hamilcarBarca.196]

.

actually,I have a better Idea

Spoiler

if it's possible,I will let the emhyr take her and make her preignant like the initial plan

:cheers:

 

[Giovanni1983]

actually,I have a better Idea
if it's possible,I will let the emhyr take her and make her preignant like the initial plan

:cheers:

Major spoiler there. Better make it hidden

 

[Kinley]

The title mentions that the thread contains spoilers. So, while it would be nice, it's not necessarily needed to spoiler tag anything.

 

[Giovanni1983]

The title mentions that the thread contains spoilers. So, while it would be nice, it's not necessarily needed to spoiler tag anything.

You are correct, i totally forgot about that. My apologies to @hamilcarBarca.196

 

[Mekari]

They will pull a Kojima on us. Geralt will die at the beginning and well be playing as Lambert for most of the game!

Seriously I think either Lambert or Eskel will die first

 

[hamilcarBarca.196]

You are correct, i totally forgot about that. My apologies to @hamilcarBarca.196

nah u right...
I forgot that there's some people on the planet that haven't still read the book yet

 

[GuyNwah]

TL; DR: The first important death will be Vesemir; or if the story turns toward them, Eskel or maybe Lambert. However, this wants explanation.

Tragedy is a very special art form, and only rarely is it well done. I believe CDPR's writers understand tragedy and will inform their decisions accordingly. The best description of modern tragedy is by Arthur Miller, in his essay "Tragedy and the Common Man" (1949),

"I think the tragic feeling is evoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing-his sense of personal dignity. From Orestes to Hamlet, Medea to Macbeth, the underlying struggle is that of the individual attempting to gain his 'rightful' position in his society.

Sometimes he is one who has been displaced from it, sometimes one who seeks to attain it for the first time, but the fateful wound from which the inevitable events spiral is the wound of indignity and its dominant force is indignation. Tragedy, then, is the consequence of a man's total compulsion to evaluate himself justly.

In the sense of having been initiated by the hero himself, the tale always reveals what has been called his 'tragic flaw,' a failing that is not peculiar to grand or elevated characters. Nor is it necessarily a weakness. The flaw, or crack in the characters, is really nothing-and need be nothing, but his inherent unwillingness to remain passive in the face of what he conceives to be a challenge to his dignity, his image of his rightful status"

I emphasize, "the fateful wound is indignity and its dominant force is indignation... a man's total compulsion to evaluate himself justly.... The flaw is his inherent unwillingness to remain passive..."

Geralt, Ciri, and quite possibly both of them are the hero(es) of this tragedy in the making. It is the injustices and indignities that pile upon them in their search for Yennefer and each other that will drive them to tragic action. This suggests an important, unjust death of a character dear to Geralt early on, though I may be wrong. Geralt's witcher companions, unfortunately, are clear targets for such a death.

Dandelion lives to tell the tale; Zoltan is too indestructibly earthbound. Iorveth and Roche are no longer important: their actions or deaths would be in the background. I do not think Yennefer or Triss would die early. And few other characters would matter.

As to how it ends, it would not surprise me to find one or more endings with either Ciri or Geralt dying, and the other going all "whirlwind of rage and steel" to set her or his death right.

 

[Butcher_of_Cidaris]

My bet 2/3 witchers will die. Triss or Yaniffer depend on your option in the end. Zoltan will live happy live till his far end, Dandelion live (since he is the one who narrative whole story), Iorveth or Roche die depend on your choice, Ciri will live but can die if you play a crappy-choice path.. :hmm:

And Gerald will live because you can continue playing after finishing main quests

PS: if my predictions come true ill start play lottery

 

[dragonbird]

I'm betting that Roach will survive.

 

[Garrison72]

I'm betting that Roach will survive.

That whoreson is invincible. I'd put place money on him surviving. Iorveth on the other hand...

 

[dragonbird]

That whoreson is invincible. I'd put place money on him surviving. Iorveth on the other hand...

I meant the horse, duh.

 

[Senteria]

I voted: All of them. Seeing how they killed of half the characters Sapkowski introduced to us in the witcher books in the witcher 1 and 2 that has a combined 100 hour playthrough. Now they'll have 200 hours, which means everyone will die.

 

[Garrison72]

I meant the horse, duh.

That bitch is invincible. Iorveth on the other hand...

Duh.