You know, I get the feeling the reason why we all talk that much about romances is that the choice which woman we romance is pretty much the only meaningful and hard decision for Geralt that really creates an emotional attachment for some people (and probably for Geralt himself, in a figurative way).
I guess we wouldn't talk that much about Yennefer (and Triss) if the game offered any other meaningful and hard choices for Geralt that are important for him on a personal level.
I wish there would have been the possibility that some of Geralt's closed ones or loved ones could die, maybe even Yen. But CDPR apparently didn't have the balls for that. Instead of making Witcher 3 the best possible RPG, they literally turned it into a waifu simulator with some attached stories and it shows in this thread and in others. If that was the concept of the game CDPR did a good job. But I fear that this wasn't the original intention for this game and that us discussing these topics that much is just an indication that they seriously fucked up the C&C component beyond the romance stuff...
If you had to choose, whom would you try to safe: Yen or Ciri? Yen or Dandelion? Yen or Triss? Just think about the possibilities (and it's just one basic example) and the various consequences. But instead of something like that we got a pretty much linear waifu simulator with some rather small decisions in sidequests and at the beginning of the main quest but nothing really important for Geralt or the player. And so we're here to discuss Yennefer, because there is nothing else to discuss (well, beyond the fucked up story and lore in general)...
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Pretty much this. I mean, think Skellige, when they chose their new ruler. I couldn't give a flying fudge. I really couldn't. I had more attachment to level 3 drowner back at the White Orchard fields... There was simply not enough meaningful content that really drew you in, made you carefully consider exactly what could hit the fan should you continue down your chosen path. Could well be the reason many grew attached to Yen/Triss.
But that said, I feel Yen is quite the major part of the lore (yeah, yeah, books and blah) and should be discussed simply because she's the Darth Vader of my Star Wars - overarching characters, yo!