Poisoned or bound in a false slumber?
I'm going to say SPOILERS just in case you haven't got to the end of the game on Iorveth's path, if not then fly you fools.
Saskia has just been poisoned, Geralt, Iorveth and Cecil are waiting outside the doors of her home. Phillippa ceases her spellcasting and emerges, a close up shot of her face comes into view, and she looks neither tired from spellcasting or worried, in fact she almost seems to smirk.
This got me thinking, Phillippa states that she slowed Saskia's life signs to halt the spread of the poison, but is it possible that this is ALL she did. Bound the Virgin of Aedirn in false slumber, because her resilient Dragon blood was already dealing with the poison on it's own. After all Saesenthesis states that her kind heal quickly, moments after being impaled through the chest by a giant pine, that shames even Witcher vitality.
Could this be the moment that Eilhart found out what Saskia is, and enacted a desperate gambit to ensorcel the Dragon. A petal of the Rose of Rememberance is needed, and she just happens to have many Aen Seidhe of Iorveths scoiatael on hand, who probably have seen every such place it grows in their centuries of life. Concoct some pointless errands to keep the white wolf and the elven fox busy, as well as maybe endanger Stennis's life, over a few simple drops of blood. Hell she might even suspect that the local harpys are holding Saskia's dreams.
If this is true, I applaud the subtle plotting of Ms Eilhart and the writers, because something like this could be so easily missed. Then again i'm basing this on nothing more than a glance and a feeling, but Assassins of Kings knows how to weave a plot of surprising twists and unexpected depths.
So brothers and sisters, come at me with your finest logic, we must bend our minds to this task and seek the truth through hint and hunch.
I'm going to say SPOILERS just in case you haven't got to the end of the game on Iorveth's path, if not then fly you fools.
Saskia has just been poisoned, Geralt, Iorveth and Cecil are waiting outside the doors of her home. Phillippa ceases her spellcasting and emerges, a close up shot of her face comes into view, and she looks neither tired from spellcasting or worried, in fact she almost seems to smirk.
This got me thinking, Phillippa states that she slowed Saskia's life signs to halt the spread of the poison, but is it possible that this is ALL she did. Bound the Virgin of Aedirn in false slumber, because her resilient Dragon blood was already dealing with the poison on it's own. After all Saesenthesis states that her kind heal quickly, moments after being impaled through the chest by a giant pine, that shames even Witcher vitality.
Could this be the moment that Eilhart found out what Saskia is, and enacted a desperate gambit to ensorcel the Dragon. A petal of the Rose of Rememberance is needed, and she just happens to have many Aen Seidhe of Iorveths scoiatael on hand, who probably have seen every such place it grows in their centuries of life. Concoct some pointless errands to keep the white wolf and the elven fox busy, as well as maybe endanger Stennis's life, over a few simple drops of blood. Hell she might even suspect that the local harpys are holding Saskia's dreams.
If this is true, I applaud the subtle plotting of Ms Eilhart and the writers, because something like this could be so easily missed. Then again i'm basing this on nothing more than a glance and a feeling, but Assassins of Kings knows how to weave a plot of surprising twists and unexpected depths.
So brothers and sisters, come at me with your finest logic, we must bend our minds to this task and seek the truth through hint and hunch.