God, it's awful. Triss and Geralt are horribly disrespectful to their dead friend. The most vindictive sorceress? Really, Triss!? Also lol at them for not telling those poor guys that they've been decompressed for 20 years :lol: I'm not even gonna mention a complete lore-rape with the way artifact decompression works :rant:
Well seems she has doubts if Coral is the really most vindictive sorceress :stuart:
No wish to spoil surprise perhaps.
Yep. They should be more exhausted or Triss knew how to handle this better.
Maybe it was just cheaper not to make the decompression scene like in TW2. These are only very minor side quests, after all. And the developers may have preferred not to show a completely naked soldier and nobleman.
Oh that's right. Yennefer is. Not Sabrina or Philippa, the most vindictive sorceresses are her friends. Whoever wrote this quest hated either Triss or Coral, or both.
They also should be naked. Oh well, I guess the devs didn't want to shock us
I did not notice any questionable use of magic on Geralt in TW1 (some mind reading, but not control), maybe I missed something. The idea to "ape" Yennefer's attitude (and sometimes Philippa's, Fringilla's, and whoever else's) in the hope that Geralt will find that attractive sounds silly, and why do it only in one chapter ? Sounds more like bad writing to me, or a lack of clear plans regarding what to do with the characters from the books.
"My favorite type of magic" - there is not enough evidence to prove that such kind of magical abuse was planned on Geralt, and in my opinion it would have been OOC, but it seems some people believe in it.
Disregarding conspiracy theories like above, I do not think there is that much difference between TW2 and TW3.
I meant that she did it, but of course without magic.
Yep. Just speculations.
They also should be naked. Oh well, I guess the devs didn't want to shock us
Not unlikely. And it would have required creating more naked models for just that one quest.
Agree. Also, I think it was somehow ironic that what began with curiosity ended with an unrequited love and sadness. I would say she fell into her own trap. Besides the standard procedure of sorceresses - I guess she was so disillusioned with relationships that simply didn't believe in true love and thus could not understand Geralt's and Yen's complicated, passionate relationship. So even though Yennefer was a good friend of Triss curiosity totally won her over because she wanted to experience something new, something deeper. By the way, in the books she struck me as the type of sorceress who (after many disappointing affairs) was longing for a deeper, long term relationship which could have made her happy but in the world of sorceresses/sorcerers it was not so easy to find and Triss knew it. Partly, that's why she envied Yen.
Quick question for you all:
I am replaying Witcher on NG+, and I came across the section where you first track down Triss in Novigrad. I noticed that the Rose of Remembrance is classified as a quest item, and I was wondering if there is something that I have missed on my previous playthroughs. Is there actually a quest associated with it, or is this perhaps just cut content that never made it into the game?
I am replaying Witcher on NG+, and I came across the section where you first track down Triss in Novigrad. I noticed that the Rose of Remembrance is classified as a quest item, and I was wondering if there is something that I have missed on my previous playthroughs. Is there actually a quest associated with it, or is this perhaps just cut content that never made it into the game?
It is a quest item before you speak to Triss about it, after that it become junk :lol:
But we all know it's the best item in our whole inventory. Ever.:wub:
Even though Geralt sounds surprise she's kept it. Silly boy. :eredinfacepalm:
I no longer ask her about it as i both intensely dislike the dialogue & prefer to keep it as a quest item.
Plus i can headcanon Geralt returns it to her later.
Well...Philippa used only one petal. So rose could be safe.
Still I don't like how CDPR handle with the rose. Rose is always present in TW3 and always dry.
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You can ask about the rose once in Triss' default dialogue (available before beginning A Matter of Life and Death, after Blindingly Obvious in Final Preparations, and on the boat during Battle Preparations), and get these few lines of conversation:
Geralt choice: You kept the rose of remembrance. (q301_rose_remembrance)
Geralt: See you kept the rose of remembrance I gave you in Flotsam.
Triss: Seems so long ago… Probably because so much has changed.
Geralt: So, sentimental value… that why you kept it?
Triss: Partly. Though… more as a warning.
Geralt: See you kept the rose of remembrance I gave you in Flotsam.
Triss: Seems so long ago… Probably because so much has changed.
Geralt: So, sentimental value… that why you kept it?
Triss: Partly. Though… more as a warning.
Philippa's lesbomancy apparently only requires one petal, so one can imagine (even if it is not shown on screen) Geralt taking it back and giving it to Triss at some later time.
So, I know a few of you have speculated that Lambert once had a little something something with Triss, based primarily off of what he says in Kaer Morhen during his night of drunken revelry with Geralt and Eskel.
I've finally been getting into Gwent, and when I beat Lambert he gave Geralt the unique Triss card and said something like, "Better that it goes with you than me" vel sim. Anyone else think this might be a subtle reference by CDPR to a fling that Triss and Lambert once had, or am I reading into things? Also not sure if it was entirely coincidence that I won the Triss card off of him, or whether that always happens.
I've finally been getting into Gwent, and when I beat Lambert he gave Geralt the unique Triss card and said something like, "Better that it goes with you than me" vel sim. Anyone else think this might be a subtle reference by CDPR to a fling that Triss and Lambert once had, or am I reading into things? Also not sure if it was entirely coincidence that I won the Triss card off of him, or whether that always happens.
Triss and Lambert are too antagonistic to be indifferent to each other, so they have some kind of history, but I do not think there is any warrant to believe it a romantic one. Triss and Eskel, on the other hand, are shacked up in the post-canon Something Ends, Something Begins. Must be something to that old witcher touch.
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Yeah i don't see a romantic history between Lambert and Triss.
With Eskel there's clearly the potential(and non canon consumation) but no realisation in actual game or book canon.
With Eskel there's clearly the potential(and non canon consumation) but no realisation in actual game or book canon.