Yen , The Emperor and The Lodge
Okay been away from the game a while but starting this play through a few things hit me that involve speculation and have been discussed in other threads but never tied together . Yen being in Nilfgard was discussed but the simplest solution was before our eyes without it ever being approached . Without a lot of info speculation was around Yen being imprisoned on one view . Something hit me when Geralt gets his audience with Emyhir . Yen wasn't a prisoner per say she was the mother figure to Ciri and the Emperor wanted as much info as he could get from Yen about Ciri as a father and if his plans were to get Ciri into his life harming Yen would not bode well . Yen not being stupid took every advantage of it . Yen could give the Emperor names of Lodge members whether confirming his info which is more plausible than out right dropping names . This becomes problematic though when you consider he was starting to gather up members of the Lodge in Witcher2 . It is easy enough to get around this because the Lodge didn't know Yen was alive . The gathering up .of Lodge members was I think a means to find out what they know of his plans and if they could be used in his court even though this was after the assassination of Foltest .
The Emperor got the info he wanted through the Witchers he hired because he went through with the assassination of Foltest . I think that his attempt at gathering the Lodge members also gave him the picture of the Lodge being in disarray and made it easy to pin Foltest's assassination on them because they were already behind another . Also rather than wait for any info he may have gotten from Lodge members he gathered he starts the invasion . Now the outlier here was Radovid if he was a little less rabid mages in general would have been in the war . This also made the request from Yen for amnesty for the Lodge a no brainer for the Emperor because if all else fail he would just get rid of the Lodge . I think Ciri showing up also helped change the Emperors focus of how he could use Yen to more of a go get Ciri he would wait and see what he would do with Yen after she brought in Ciri . You would have to figure Yen was near the end of her rope just before Ciri showed up . The Emperor was also aware that Geralt was alive and well because the first assassination attempt of Foltest went sour . The Emperor probably couldn't have been happier when Geralt was hauled away to the dungeon .
The lack of story nothing really gets resolved with these three but it is kind of fun trying to figure out where it all started to unravel and how it all began .
Okay been away from the game a while but starting this play through a few things hit me that involve speculation and have been discussed in other threads but never tied together . Yen being in Nilfgard was discussed but the simplest solution was before our eyes without it ever being approached . Without a lot of info speculation was around Yen being imprisoned on one view . Something hit me when Geralt gets his audience with Emyhir . Yen wasn't a prisoner per say she was the mother figure to Ciri and the Emperor wanted as much info as he could get from Yen about Ciri as a father and if his plans were to get Ciri into his life harming Yen would not bode well . Yen not being stupid took every advantage of it . Yen could give the Emperor names of Lodge members whether confirming his info which is more plausible than out right dropping names . This becomes problematic though when you consider he was starting to gather up members of the Lodge in Witcher2 . It is easy enough to get around this because the Lodge didn't know Yen was alive . The gathering up .of Lodge members was I think a means to find out what they know of his plans and if they could be used in his court even though this was after the assassination of Foltest .
The Emperor got the info he wanted through the Witchers he hired because he went through with the assassination of Foltest . I think that his attempt at gathering the Lodge members also gave him the picture of the Lodge being in disarray and made it easy to pin Foltest's assassination on them because they were already behind another . Also rather than wait for any info he may have gotten from Lodge members he gathered he starts the invasion . Now the outlier here was Radovid if he was a little less rabid mages in general would have been in the war . This also made the request from Yen for amnesty for the Lodge a no brainer for the Emperor because if all else fail he would just get rid of the Lodge . I think Ciri showing up also helped change the Emperors focus of how he could use Yen to more of a go get Ciri he would wait and see what he would do with Yen after she brought in Ciri . You would have to figure Yen was near the end of her rope just before Ciri showed up . The Emperor was also aware that Geralt was alive and well because the first assassination attempt of Foltest went sour . The Emperor probably couldn't have been happier when Geralt was hauled away to the dungeon .
The lack of story nothing really gets resolved with these three but it is kind of fun trying to figure out where it all started to unravel and how it all began .