What's your canonical ending (SPOILERS)?

[Willowhugger]

Another thing, why would people save Triss if he she pretty much lives anyways?

To head off the massive rape/pillage/plunder against witches which follows.

 

[GuyNwah]

Another thing, why would people save Triss if he she pretty much lives anyways?

One, you don't know she's going to live. Two, she has important evidence to give at the council (admittedly, you probably don't know at that point that she does).

 

[Chewin3]

The Witcher

- Spared Abigail
- Picked the Neutral path, but chose Order in other engagements
- Cured Vincent
- Sided with Thaler
- Chose Triss
- Saved Adda
- Spared Sigfried and Yaevinn

The Witcher 2

- Spared Aryan
- Sided with Roche during the elven bath scene.
- Sided with Roche
- Spared Henselt
- Framed both Maravel and Kimbolt
- Saved Triss
- Saved Sile
- Spared the dragon
- Spared Letho

 

[Chewin3]

Another thing, why would people save Triss if he she pretty much lives anyways?

Which you can only know through metagaming.

 

[whiplash27]

Another thing, why would people save Triss if he she pretty much lives anyways?

Play the ending after saving Triss and without saving Triss. With the new changes in EE, it will give you an understanding as to why someone would pick saving her over doing Roche/Iorveth's path.

Plus, unless you've played the game without saving her, you don't know that she doesn't die either way. Granted it depends on what one considers canonical... Is it your first play through where you have no knowledge of what will happen? or is it your "perfect" play through.

 

[wichat]

No canon.

The variables are too rich for miss only one of them.

 

[username_2093396]

One, you don't know she's going to live. Two, she has important evidence to give at the council (admittedly, you probably don't know at that point that she does).

This always bothered me in the game. Shilard names the Lodge members himself, so why does it make a difference that Triss shows up and says the same thing? I don't understand why there's a generalized witch hunt in the first scenario but not the second

I mean I know that CDPR wanted saving Triss to have political implications, but I don't understand why her word makes such a difference in that scenario. Either way Shilard accused specific sorceresses, so why aren't those specific sorceresses targeted? Or if everyone is hellbent on a witch-hunt, then why do they care what Triss says?

And on a side note, I could swear that there weren't enough people in Loc Muinne in Chapter 3 to account for all of the bodies in the piles during the epilogue. Where did the corpses all come from?

 

[Gocko]

Another thing, why would people save Triss if he she pretty much lives anyways?

Only she had proof that could stop the Conclave from getting disbanded and massacred among with hatred and other massacres against every mage in the world.

 

[GuyNwah]

Triss doesn't say the same thing. Triss specifically accuses Sile; as far as the audience is concerned, this seems to be enough to exonerate the sorceresses in general, especially since Shilard is no longer in a position to dispute her.

As for the bodies, if there were enough actors in Loc Muinne to account for all the bodies, the game would slow to a crawl, and if the body count was limited to the number of actors, it would not be impressive. Just game mechanics.

 

[username_2093396]

Triss doesn't say the same thing. Triss specifically accuses Sile; as far as the audience is concerned, this seems to be enough to exonerate the sorceresses in general, especially since Shilard is no longer in a position to dispute her.

I don't know, to me it sounded like Shilard was specifically accusing Sile and the other members of the Lodge which he listed (not sorceresses in general). I only did the Triss ending once though. Does Triss give Philippa and the others a free pass and blame Sile for 100% of everything that the Lodge did? I kind of remembered her going through a list too, or at least claiming to have a list, but I could be remembering wrong since it was a year ago

As for the bodies, if there were enough actors in Loc Muinne to account for all the bodies, the game would slow to a crawl, and if the body count was limited to the number of actors, it would not be impressive. Just game mechanics.

I actually found the original version more creepy. The EE version seemed overdone to the point where it lost its effect on me. In the original version I was trying to piece together what had happened, and that girl kneeling on the floor babbling seemed really disturbing. But she completely lost that effect in the EE version because she's hardly noticeable among all the corpses. There were just so many bodies that I couldn't take it seriously because I was too busy wondering where the hell they came from

 

[Willowhugger]

Well there's supposed to be whole armies and they're not there either.

I assumed there's at least a few hundred mages present and probably thousands of soldiers from each country.

It's not like there's 30 guys each.

 

[GuyNwah]

I don't know, to me it sounded like Shilard was specifically accusing Sile and the other members of the Lodge which he listed (not sorceresses in general). I only did the Triss ending once though. Does Triss give Philippa and the others a free pass and blame Sile for 100% of everything that the Lodge did? I kind of remembered her going through a list too, or at least claiming to have a list, but I could be remembering wrong since it was a year ago

If you rescue Triss, Shilard does not speak at the summit, not that he could anymore... Triss accuses only Sile, and nobody reads the names of the members of the Lodge.

 

[Nomzter]

Witcher 1 ( choices i remember)
The witch dies
sided with the order in every place i could
Thaler lives
chose triss
I cured Adda
I let the wild hunt guy take Aldesberg

Witcher 2
The la valete baron guy survives ( can't remmber his name)
I gave iorveth his sword
Loredo dies
Henselt lives
Radovid owns temeria
Saskia dies
stuff aint good for kimbolt
Sile dies
letho dies

 

[Dracolich55]

Anyways my own choices:

- Spared Abigail
- Picked the Neutral path, though sided with Yaevin during Vivaldi's Bank and helped Sigfried when he gave that quest near the Druid place
- Cured Vincent
- Sided with Thaler
- Gave Alvin to Triss
- Saved Adda
- Spared Sigfried and Yaevinn
- Killed the King of the Wild Hunt

The Witcher 2

- Spared Aryan
- Gave Iorveth his Sword
- Sided with Iorveth
- Went After Loredo (better for the people of Flotsam overall)
- Spared Adam Pangratt (refused to kill female Troll)
- Got one look at the megascope (chose Roche)
- Saved Saskia
- Saved Sile
- Spared Letho

 

[Rhygaar]

Spared Aryan, an honorable man who is not his enemy.
Sided with Roche, for the humans and non-humans of Flotsam against the vicious Loredo.
Spared Henselt, no sense in killing a cockroach.
Rescued Triss, his friend and companion, he could not do otherwise; even though a child was in danger, he had to trust Roche to protect her.
Spared the dragon, witchers don't kill dragons, he also may have suspected he was dealing with the child of Villentretenmerth.
Swallowed hard, but spared Letho, now that he knows he was a friend in their pursuit of the Wild Hunt and in the time of Yennefer's need.

This is how my first run turned out as well, based on a neutral TW1 save (same choices as dracolish55's just above).
In addition my Geralt could not bring himself to watch Sile be torn to bits so he let her escape.

I want to make two other runs :
- the second to side with Iorveth of course, based on the same TW1 neutral save
- the third one to side with Roche again, in which Geralt will feel a lot more guilt over Foltest's death and feel honor bound to protect his legacy. As a consequence he will also be a lot less forgiving towards all kinds of plotters and assassins. This one I intend to do based on a new TW1 imported save favoring the Order this time.

I hope I'll have finished all these before TW3 is out !

 

[CostinRaz]

Witcher 1:

- Save Abigail.
- Sided with Order in every engagement.
- Saved Thaler.
- Gave Alvin to Shani.
- Cured Vincent.
- Cured Ada.
- Killed the King of the Wild Hunt.

Witcher 2:

- Spared Aryan.
- Gave Roche the Sword.
- Went with Roche.
- Spared Adam.
- Saved Iorveth in Vergen.
- Spared Henselt.
- Framed Maravel and Kimbolt.
- Saved Anais, gave her to Radovid.
- Let Sile die.
- Spared Letho.

 

[Eldanon]

Witcher 1:

- Save Abigail.
- Sided with the Order.
- Saved Thaler.
- Gave Alvin to Triss.
- Cured Vincent.
- Cured Adda.
- Killed the King of the Wild Hunt.

Witcher 2:

- Spared Aryan.
- Went with Roche.
- Spared Adam.
- Let Roche deal with Henselt.
- Saved Triss.
- Let Sile die.
- Let Letho go.

 

[kablenikon]

- Spared Abigail
- Picked Order
- Cured Vincent
- Sided with Thaler
- Chose Triss
- Saved Adda
- (Saved Berengar, doubt thats canon though)

The Witcher 2

- Spared Aryan (Keep it in Temeria)
- Sided with Roche
- Sold the Necromantic Ritual to Dethmold
- Dethmold lives (Because I made the more important call of saving Triss) (Hopefully his magic will turn the tide against Nilfgard.)
- Spared Adam Pangratt (He may be of use in the war to come and well having an elite combat veteran owe you is always a plus)
- Spared Henselt (No need to weaken the North anymore)
- Framed both Maravel and Kimbolt
- Saved Triss (Most Important for the Roche Path. This prevents the witch hunts against magic and all witchers)
- Saved Sile (I wonder if I really should have killed her)
- Spared the dragon (Hopefully can disenchant later, and well as Roche path and letting the Dragon live, I should get a tenth of her treasure I think.)
- Spared Letho (I would like to see more Witchers in the world not less as they are the ones that fight off the monsters of the world due to conjunction)


Temeria may or may not come back oh well. Monarchies over time disappear back then. Can Roche defend the Heir to Temeria? Well if he is worth anything he could.

 

[sfinx]

TW1
neutral (kill elves in bank, though)
Shani

TW2
...

I chose the same in W2.
Spare Aryan ... he is not my enemy and I really don't like idea, when Geralt fights in some stupid war like regullar soldier
Side with Iorveth ... same reasons like in W1 - Squirrels are not good, but I found reasons fot that in human.
Let Loredo escape ... to save women is much more important than revenge or punishment
Side with Stenis ... I am not sure, if that is the same, but i didn't let them to lynch him. I had some complications with that quests for evidence. If I knew the truth, I would let them do what they want, I don't like him.
Go rescue Triss ... of course - there wasn't choice to go with Philippa to save Triss, so best friend is much more important than some dragon problem
Spare Sile ... she is also not my enemy, I don't care what she did - in worst case, she wanted power, just like anyone else, but their plans with new state were quite good
Spare Dragon ... of course - if there would be a chance to walk away with Triss, I would chose that. When everyone just fights for his power, why not Saskia? I saved them and they started their own fight, so what was the point?
Kill Letho ... he just wanted to bring the chaos to the North, he is working for Nilfgaard and he killed innocent people (I don't count kings, they are not innocents), but I am still not sure


But W1 -
Triss ... she is better for taking care about magical child, I like Shani a lot, but not more than Triss
Squirrels ... for example - during bank roberry they just steal from stolen bank, so ? Yaevinn gave me good reasons - like his attempts to live with human
Abigail saved ... I hate processes with witches, I rather do some quick process with people who blame the others for what they did
Adda saved ... just stupid girl, which cooperated with wrong side, I don't like to kill women
Vincent cured ... I don't have any problem with beast, just because they look different (just like with Niveleen or Regis), I also spared that gravier
Brothel saved ... that woman gave me solid arguments - and she was friend of Regis

 

[RSIK_4]

In Witcher 1:

- Save Abigail.
- Sided with the Order.
- Saved Thaler.
- Gave Alvin to Triss.
- Cured Vincent.
- Cured Adda.
- Killed the King of the Wild Hunt.