My Understanding of the Plot: How wrong am I? *TW2/Book spoilers*
So I've played both Witcher games and read as many of the relevant stories as I could find, but the lore here is as dense as it is compelling. Here's my boneheaded and shallow understanding of the core plot going into TW3, please clarify what I've got wrong!
Geralt is searching for Ciri, who is a bit like a daughter to him, in the sense that she's a woman he actually doesn't want to have sex with. He trained her witcher-style, but she was never given the mutations needed to become a true witcher, because it would ruin her boobs or something. Finding her is his core driving force in TW3.
Unfortunately, Ciri is being pursued by the Wild Hunt. The Hunt's leader, Eredin the Spooky Space Elf, wanted Ciri in order to knock her up, which would somehow give him even cooler glowy-blue superpowers. Ciri was actually keen on the idea at first, but then realized that Eredin, like all snooty intergalactic elven overlords, was a jerk and beat him up before escaping his realm. As you might imagine, getting your poop pushed in by a normal human woman is pretty infuriating for a guy who wears overcompensating Super-Skeletor armor, so Eredin decides to chase her down and force her to... fondle his plums... or whatever.
Meanwhile, Nilfgaard, presumably incensed by the fact that people keep forgetting to add in the extra "a" when writing their country's name, decides to invade the rest of the world. Because rulers in The Witcher are generally total morons (except Radovid and Saskia, they seem alright), Nilfgaard steamrolls everyone in their way and takes over everything. Also, their Emperor knows Geralt somehow.
After reuniting with Triss and Yennefer, two totally trustworthy sorceresses who definitely won't push Geralt into a dangerous love triangle where the loser turns traitor, the Witcher sets out to snag Ciri and put an end to the Girls Gone Wild Hunt's zany cosmic sex trafficking ring. Also Ciri should be the next game's protagonist, basically being FemGeralt without the whole mutant thing.
So I'm basically 10/10 A++ in my summary here, right?
So I've played both Witcher games and read as many of the relevant stories as I could find, but the lore here is as dense as it is compelling. Here's my boneheaded and shallow understanding of the core plot going into TW3, please clarify what I've got wrong!
Geralt is searching for Ciri, who is a bit like a daughter to him, in the sense that she's a woman he actually doesn't want to have sex with. He trained her witcher-style, but she was never given the mutations needed to become a true witcher, because it would ruin her boobs or something. Finding her is his core driving force in TW3.
Unfortunately, Ciri is being pursued by the Wild Hunt. The Hunt's leader, Eredin the Spooky Space Elf, wanted Ciri in order to knock her up, which would somehow give him even cooler glowy-blue superpowers. Ciri was actually keen on the idea at first, but then realized that Eredin, like all snooty intergalactic elven overlords, was a jerk and beat him up before escaping his realm. As you might imagine, getting your poop pushed in by a normal human woman is pretty infuriating for a guy who wears overcompensating Super-Skeletor armor, so Eredin decides to chase her down and force her to... fondle his plums... or whatever.
Meanwhile, Nilfgaard, presumably incensed by the fact that people keep forgetting to add in the extra "a" when writing their country's name, decides to invade the rest of the world. Because rulers in The Witcher are generally total morons (except Radovid and Saskia, they seem alright), Nilfgaard steamrolls everyone in their way and takes over everything. Also, their Emperor knows Geralt somehow.
After reuniting with Triss and Yennefer, two totally trustworthy sorceresses who definitely won't push Geralt into a dangerous love triangle where the loser turns traitor, the Witcher sets out to snag Ciri and put an end to the Girls Gone Wild Hunt's zany cosmic sex trafficking ring. Also Ciri should be the next game's protagonist, basically being FemGeralt without the whole mutant thing.
So I'm basically 10/10 A++ in my summary here, right?
Great summary though 