Eh, I prefer the one where Ciri destroys all horcruxes and kills Vecna.

Ah man that one is so hard to get I have never even seen it,

Bullshit! The ending where Dandelion uses the Force to blow up the Death Star is supreme.

I prefer the one where we learn Rosebud was his childhood sled.

The one where he throws Emperor into Death Stars’ core is by far more impactful

Dude, same! I was kinda suspicious, but I was constantly thinking of what could I have done wrong

I almost replayed the game

Omg Same!!!!

You and me both. I really thought I messed up and literally froze

Yeah man, I thought Geralt commissioned that sword in her memory and I was just absolutely heartbroken.

Truly one of endings of all time

highly original

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Her certainly witchered over all those whores in novigrad

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That part always feels so incredibly stupid. We return from cutting down 50 fully armed Redanian Kingsguard in a close quarters battle and what does Sigi do? He brings 5 unarmored thugs to fight the dream team of murder in a wide open courtyard. He could've tipped off the meeting location to the guards or Witch Hunters, or lured each individual into an ambush. He could have poisoned the ale. But no, he doesn't do anything remotely clever and the big idiot dies in a really violent way doing the one thing he admits he sucks at: melee combat.

@@ZombieMurdocI don’t know if it was because of last minute cut content but that’s some ridiculously weak writing.

I think they might have a deadline to finish their's work LOL that's why they just threw it off like that.

Yeh Dijkstra ho is spy and knows very well Geralt would definitely defend his friends ,So he would perhaps kidnap them or asassinate them and blame it on nilfgard to continue the war

Probabaly the weakest part of the game for me. CDPR f*cked up big time in this quest.

@@v1c341 What's your favourite Blood and Wine ending then, in all details? :D

Ciri becoming a Witcher is a more true too the book ending for anyone tell me Ciri can not become a Witcher sword of destiny page 344 Conversation between Ciri grandmother and Geralt Do you believe a Child of Destiny would pass through the Trial.with out danger Do you We believe such a child would not require the Trials' So yes the Witcheress ending is more too the book and if anyone has actually read the last book it basically ends with Ciri saying this king should have a job for a Witcher girl

@Mike Kabakov Well they probably didn't have to trick Emhyr. He has no qualms with any of them, other than maybe Geralt for not bringing Ciri to him, but he doesn't seem upset about it in the actual ending. There's also no real reason he would do anything about Ciri's decision. Sure he tries to buy her (as she puts it if you visit Emhyr with her) but he doesn't force her. My interpretation of the Empress ending is that Ciri realises that she can do a lot of good by being a just ruler, not that Emhyr somehow forced her. (book spoiler) Another reason to believe that he wouldn't force Ciri is because at the end of the books he had the perfect opportunity to use her against her will, but changed his mind and let her go and spared Geralt and Yen.

@@sanzau8669 I think the Witcheress ending is best for Ciri and Geralt would "pick" it canonically. I think the Empress ending is best for everyone else in the world.

I totally agree. We all know Yen and Triss would love to be there when Ciri completed her first Witcher contract and got her first silver sword

Yeah, its Blaviken all over again.

Indeed, the Witcher world is characterized (I think, at least) by a fairly cruel and unfair world that crushes most within it and rarely sees true justice served.... but still has enough light and happiness in the ties one has with ones loved ones, that it's all still worth it.

Yeah I agree it’s much better than the fairy tail ending🤣. Also I never knew you could visit the queen after?! I just left

Is it possible to not save Siana or get her punished (not let her kill the DUchess), save the Duchess and not go in prison ??

@@amazewolf2494 There's also a tiny treasure hunt side quest where you can read the notes of a man who got exiled from Toussaint for accidentally humming one of Dandelion's ballads in the presence of ''Her Illustrious Highness''. He then tries to gift her a shaelmaar to get back into her good graces, and gets himself and his hired crew killed doing it. Then there's another side quest where you can save Beauclair's barber, and the poet who hires you and goes with you to do it keeps making new verses about/for Anna Henrietta, at one point prompting Geralt to ask why he needs so many to which he'll respond that she is as fickle as can be and may just decide to execute him for not having something to entertain her with if she gets ''bored of her breakfast'' that day. Anna is always on an emotional power trip. A complete tyrant. It's just hard to see her that way due to her personal charm and her looks. Like seriously, she EXILED a man for humming a (super popular) ballad accidentally just because it was written by her ex, a man she cheated on her husband with and was then surprised to find him being a player. The same way monsters are susceptible to silver, Anna Henrietta is susceptible to accountability.

for me, Regis is the best addition to the DLC as he is really cool and I kinda like the whole situation that he got involved with deftlaf, so bad that he goes away after the DLC and I really dispise Syanna and the whole fairy tale thingy with her, I personally don´t like that sort of stuff even though I am playing a game about knights and monster.

The only part I didn't like was that Gerald cant romance the duchess or her sister

It’s not underrated.

@@darkdraco02 He can with the duchess sister

@@cevinastrom87 really ? I tried and best I could do was keep her alive and she decided to be nice to her sister. How do we do it ?

yeah i totally agree especially since he is immortal and has to live with his entire race hating him forever he doesnt deserve that also if he is hated by the vampires doesnt that mean he will have an extremly lonely live

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@@ronnyh7he already lives lonely

He didnt need to kill Deflat, just imprision him to cool off. Just like what happened to Regis himself after melting against Vilgerfortz. He took a while to regenerate.

First time I played i thought I got the bad ending because I was talking to Emhry and told him she died. I was so distraught I just started a save from when you first get ciri and looked up how to save her. If I would have paid attention, I would have realized that I literally made all of those choices but one. (When you meet the lodge I went with her) It always makes me laugh when I think about it , I was so invested

Where you at now?

@@stormnp1846 Oh I’ve finished the video by now.

@@Deathranger999I meant in game

@@stormnp1846 Oh I see. I’ve played through 3 times (including the first play through that I abandoned). Gotten all achievements, 380+ hours. Done for now, but knowing the game I’ll probably go back eventually. Maybe when they release the next gen edition. :)

Crazy how this game can tell multiple outcomes of multiple stories and keep them all faithful and the show can’t adapt a story that is already written and keep it faithful lmao

​@@daveyjoneslocker4703 they had no intention of keeping faithful from the outset.

@@Interrobang212 yeah, it was textbook case of fooling already established fanbases and making short term money out of them..

maybe except for Djikstra's rule. That wouldn't happen, Geralt plain and simple wouldn't let a suddenly brainless Djikstra kill his friends.

I did...Witcher "Bad"/Tragic endings are always great to see too. My favs is the fairy tale both sister live and forgive then also letting Dettlaff kill Syanna whether I fight or spare him then Geralt goes to prison for "failure". It's great and bittersweet fits the theming a lot. I also got the Fairy Tale good ending first time...I'm not an idiot you always listen to the Vampire Buddy. But I prefer the darker bittersweet I love getting the option to decide if Dettlaff should die or not. Syanna went too far. But the villain's are the parents of Anna and Syanna plus the Knights.

I got the fairy-tale ending because years of gaming have taught me that when you've got an RPG, you look under every rock and follow every possible trail, and doing that in Blood and Wine absolutely inevitably leads to doing all the legwork required to get the ending that's built around the player doing that.

Tbh I actually liked the ending where all of them dies. I didn't like Anna, detlaff and Sienna. All of them are so selfish and only see from their pov. So all them dieing because of their foolishness was so good. After repeating to Anna 1000 times that her sister was bad she didn't listen, after trying to clam detlaff down he didn't listen, after trying change Sienna ways she didn't listen. When all of them died I was so happy.

I created a manual save at some point because I was almost certain going to see the Elder was the wrong decision but I really wanted to interact with him. Then I did everything as I thought I should and stumbled on the fairy tale ending.

​@@SimuLorddoing that ended up with me getting syanna that stupid ribbon. I figured it may help to show kindness (plus gwent). Let's just say I did not expect the results of that decision.

So true! It is the one ending which sticks the most to the books. Sapkowski is not known for writing happy endings and I like it that way. Endings like these are hard to bear but linger on the most. For the games witcher ending is my favorite tho. Bcs she is moving on and not falling back into old habits. I want her to evolve.

Sapkowski made Ciri an empress, and hinted that Geralt kept being a witcher, if only to hunt one last escaped monster from some mage lab (I'm kinda too lazy rn to check the book for details).

@@GrimK77 yeah, I read Season of Storms earlier this year. He never officially confirms myself as geralt, but it's obviously him. Tho I think the Empress Ciri you're thinking of is the doppelganger mentioned in the video, not actually her. The last place she's mentioned being in the timeline of the books is the world of Camelot, unless I'm mistaken.

@@mattdanc Yes she returns to world of Camelot as "Lady of the Lake". Bcs Galahad keeps calling her by that name and refused to call her differently. For me she might explore this world for a while and travel through time and space if she is getting restless again. Season of storms plays before the saga If I understood correctly. During a time were Geralt and Yen were separated

@@mattdanc Yes, basically Sapkowski landed her in arthurian legends

Ciri cannot undergo the Trial of the Grasses and become a witcher. No matter how skilled she might be, she cannot take potions or endure the hardships of a real witcher. Her life would be short as a witcher. Becoming empress really is the best ending for her.

@@johnschneider298 Why would she need potions with elder blood...

@@dafyddrogers9385 Because elder blood doesn't make her invincible. She admits in game that Geralt is a better fighter than her. Being able to warp through time doesn't equal a Witcher's strength, speed, and ability to heal from injuries. Her powers certainly help her in combat and are beyond a mere human, but aren't at the level of a true witcher's.

@@dafyddrogers9385 Look at how scarred up they are, even the great White Wolf. I don't recall anything about Ciri's powers letting her quickly heal from wounds that would otherwise be mortal.

@@johnschneider298 The thing is, there is nothing preventing her from taking the Trials. So "Ciri cannot undergo the Trial of the Grasses..." is completely inaccurate

Exactly. I hate empress ending so much, I hate it when nilfgaard/emhyr gets to win the war because I read the books and played 1&2.

@@space-unbound I played 1&2 as well. I wanted to know the whole story before re-playing W3 again and I did good. Got witcher ending

I disagree, in the Witcher world people seldom get the end they want. Ciri having to assume responsibility and not get to flutter away her gift is far more fitting then getting everything she wants and becoming a Witcher. I think it’s the happy ending everyone gives theirselves and tries to justify it. Considering the books end with Geralt dying unceremoniously by a pitchfork, I feel people are weirdly sentimental about the ending of Witcher 3

@@flingymingy A new perspective. I like that

@@spademaiden Yeah I mean. I like the empress ending too. You also should consider that she knows how to do a good job in both being a witcher, and an empress. She grew up in Cintra as well as Kaer Morhen. She was also born into royal family so there must be some ruling spirit there. I've always imagined Ciri on the throne a lot like her grandmother, but with less flaws. For instance some rulers lack understanding of everyday people. Ciri's got this decency from being "raised" by Geralt so would look out for the people. I understand that it might not be completely within her personality from the books, but she came a long way since then. She could've changed a lot since then. Also people gather experience as they go on. So she would do well being the empress. Besides she could see Geralt anytime she wants with her powers.

So he'd let a mass murdering maniac live because Regis would have to move if he didn't? Doesn't sound like Geralt to me

I can't The Witcher players never stick to their decisions and face the consequences?

I did feel a little bad for Dettlaff too. It sucks when someone who supposedly loves you is just using you. It kinda makes me wish there was an alternate way where he didn't outright declare war on Toussaint with an army of vampires. Where we help arrange a meeting between him, Anna and her sister so they can talk face to face. Regis there to stop Dettlaff from outright slaughtering the women if they got pissed and Geralt acting as the wall between the two sides to keep things on track. But he started a war and killed who knows how many innocents because syanna was using him and never loved him. He crossed the line and Geralt had to slay the Beast

Book series I think too much happened for her to ever consider accepting it from him. Considering the reason everybody wanted her to begin with. However her grandmother and her great grandmother almost all the women in her line have fiery spirit like ciri ,they all settled down and became rulers in the end. One of the reasons everybody wanted her was because she is the rightful queen of cintra, then you have the elder blood for the other half. I don't want to give away spoilers for those who haven't read the books so I'm trying to limit the response. I think her fiery temperament if she had a chance to reclaim cintra get revenge on those who killed her family she would. She would reclaim the throne ,however it's simply too late for that. Considering her father is responsible for said slaughter, I can't see her forgiving him and accepting the offer

@@JB-xl2jc She does want to help people, but she isn't a saint. In the books especially, she is shown that she can be selfish, and hurt others as long as she can get her way. And I don't think she would decide to sacrifice all her freedom that she just gained by defeating the White Frost by chaining herself to a throne she doesn't want.

@@dominikrudolfettrich2556 Consider that book-Ciri is substantially younger.

@@JB-xl2jc What a load of bollocks by yet another clueless individual... Ciri couldn't care less about "helping the people". There's NOTHING, not in the short stories, not in the saga, not in any of the games, that suggests all ciri thrives to do with her life is to "help people". I also fail to see how governing millions of subjects with an iron fist ( still nilfgaard, you know) constitutes as helping anyone but Emhyr's desires to stabilize and legitimize his empire. " Part of growing up and being a strong person is accepting duty and helping others where you can". I hate this. Proper whataboutism. Generalizes a specific, set character with random 21st century standards of a "grown up". Who gives a shit what you think "people" do? We already know what ciri will do, and its not what you're suggesting...

@Kuygh Wow. In only two paragraphs you were rude, ignorant, opinionated, and wrong. Even if your argument was right you'd still be a dipshit. The fact that it's wrong is just a cherry on top. You didn't even have an argument, just "Nuh uh, I disagree!!" So it merits little response past mockery.

Yeah and it mirrors the short story of the Lesser Evil when he met Renfri. In that story, he left the town after becoming 'The Butcher of Blaviken' rather than double down and attempt to explain that he had just saved many lives. He didn't think he would succeed and chose to accept they now viewed him as the monster, and he walked away. After barely making it out of prison (and only with Dandelion's help) due to the Duchess blaming Geralt for what happened, it makes sense he would walk away rather than try to explain himself again. Better to cut his losses and live with the knowledge that at least he did what he thought was right, regardless of how the world sees him.

Geralt may have his conscience clear, but as the player you know Emhyr tells her something that makes her reconsider the Witcher path and choose the Empress instead. To be honest I enjoy all the endings, and think the Witcher path is more consistent for the series as a whole, but the Empress ending has a bitter sweetness (especially if Geralt tells Ciri they're likely never to see one another again) that I really enjoy and I think "fits better" if Witcher 3 was a stand alone story.

Me too :))

I like the idea of saving ciri just for her to die because of snowball fights or something

Dettlaff got taken in by a pretty face and a pair of tits....which, at his age, is ludicrous. Seems he learned nothing in all those centuries. At the end I actually started to think 'Now what is best for Geralt' so Detlaff has to die and Syana redeemed so everyone can be happy and Geralt gets to enjoy Corvo Bianco in peace.

@Mike Kabakov it is a short story in the first "prebook"

@Mike Kabakov I just read it, havent read the main books yet. Its one of six stories. Its with renfri and stregobor in the first prebook called "the last wish". Here is a link to the wikipedia from the book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Wish

@Mike Kabakov It is labeld as "prebook" to the main series in germany. As far as i know the Autor Sapkowski started his witcher universe with a lot of short stories, which got bundeld into the prebooks. I like that all witcher games are about choosing the lesser evil. There arent much choices where you really can choose a good and a bad ending. I would say killing Dijkstra and saving roche might be the better ending, because it will end the war. Roche will join Nilvgard as a vassal state with a semi-free temeria, just like toussaint. Compared to Radovid or Dijkstra it could be see as lesser evil, but you cant make a "good or bad" choice there.

I did that too, and I liked Anarietta. But actually she's stupid and annoying, stubborn and reckless (but maybe I'm just saying that because she didn't sleep with Geralt) 😫

Regis ending off better is a common reason for preferring the ending where Detlaff is spared, but in my head, there's one reason why it's somewhat fair for Regis to take some sort of a hit in the "good" or intended ending (intended being that most people would naturally go for it). Regis continually underestimated Detlaff, possibly due to the connection they've shared, to the point that he vowed to Geralt that "not a hair on Syanna's head will come to harm" which fell apart in a matter of seconds after meeting with Detlaff. It was probably unconscious on Regis's part, but still a pretty big fuck up if you ask me. Therefore, Regis did get involved in a big way - it's unlikely that Geralt would've accepted a meeting between Syanna and Detlaff if Regis couldn't assure him that nothing bad would happen.

Detlaff for being hundreds (if not thousands) years old is way too petty and childish. One woman betrayed you and you unleash hell upon a whole town. I don't think he deserves sympathy. I dislike Syanna as well.

Ah Regis has a long tradition of traveling around the world, him not being welcome in toussaint isn't actually that big of a deal for him.

I always tried to be understanding to Detlaff but let's be clear, he's a total psycho. Trying to murder a whole city because a girl played with you? Detlaff is dangerous and letting him go isn't a moral choice. He's gotta go.

Personally I was going to side with Detlaff until he had hundreds or thousands of innocent civilians killed because of a feud they had no idea about. He's a higher vampire. If he had a problem with Syanna or Anna no one can stop him getting to them. Instead he butchered countless innocents. He had to be put down.

Well it's not like everyone who worked on the Witcher 3 has left the company, quite a few who were involved with it are still working on the next game surprisingly

@@navarro4043 most of the more important developers have gone some time ago. Some of the writers have also left. Look at the mess they made of cyberpunk. CDPR were one of the the few studios left that people had total confidence in, then cyberpunk happened.

@@navarro4043 I think we all have such high hopes for the witcher, none of us want a repeat of the mess that surrounded cyberpunk. I used to say I had total faith in CDPR, that faith has definitely been tested.

I'm at over 200 hrs in the game and videos like this show me I need to run at least 800 more to discover everything, i had no idea about some of these options!

just got this ending and damn it was actually impactful but i dont understand what happens when the mob swarmed my boy geralt at the end like does he actually die?

Same for me! I wanted Syanna to face justice but letting her live is too dangerous. I wanted to calm Detlaff but he couldn’t see beyond his broken heart. Annarietta is a victim of circumstance like Syanna but is a petutlent child who screams for satisfaction. Regis is the only person that truly deserves a happy ending. I also have a really hard time with the kill Radovid quest. I know Dijkstra would make a good ruler but god damned if I let Toller, Roche, and Ves die by his hand

I know right? Every time I tell myself I'm going to try a different pathway, 95% of my choices always end up the same though xD Only variations tend to be Yen vs Triss, with this current playthrough being a play-them-both and get Ciri to live with me in Toussaint

agreed, thats what youtube is for

Agreed. I just visit everyone's KZfaq videos if I'm curious

I did everything the same

Exactly how my first playthrough went. Now on NG+ and same endings for main story and HoS. Currently on B&W planning to fight Detlaff at the end and keep both sisters alive.

It's the default ending too, If I am not mistaken.

@@onetwothree9 it’s not “default”, it just requires player intervention to prevent, just like every other ending

Love the theory! Alternatively, consider this order... Bad ending first, disappears, Geralt Survives. Then after a period of time she ends up with nilfgaard (either Geralt finds her one day and takes her or she goes herself.. who knows maybe after travelling through so many worlds she decided to try out the "world of politics"? lol) She spends a lot of time being groomed for leadership, 3 years later in blood and wine She makes it known to geralt that she hasn't ruled out the idea of leaving Nilfgaard. Eventually she does: then Witcheress ending. Makes the most sense to me since she expressed not liking government. BUT WAIT... Shes the lady of space and time right? I just had the thought.. what if She experiences these events in a different order than everyone else?? She might be jumping back and forth between past and future... Lets say she Enters the tower to try to prevent the white frost.. takes way too long.. comes back only to find that geralt didnt survive his suicide mission, Heartbroken; she jumps back to when Geralt finds her on that island when he thought she was dead. Both of them have an emotional reunion. Geralt thought she was dead, and Ciri just left the future where Geralt was dead... but of course she can't tell him that. Knowing that she was able to stop the white frost before. She jumps forward, basically skips the that whole bit because she it got handled in a previous timeline lol. And since she isn't gone for that long period of time and now that she is there, Geralt doesn't go on his suicide mission. They then report to nilfgaard. After finding out that the royal life isnt for her, she decides she would rather spend some quality time with her real "dad" (Geralt). When finding out the truth of the whole matter of Emhyr, and her mother's mysterious death at sea, she decides to fake her own death. Leaving NIlfgaard to the wolves that despise her father; She then sets out to roam the lands as a Witcheress

You have a conversation with Regis in all B&W endings. No matter what, the last scene of B&W before the credits is always Geralt and Regis sitting and talking.

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