DA Fan gives TW3 a shot: Text Based Let's Play

Yennefer's big change came after being put into a trance by Sigrdrifa, the Priestess of Freyja on Hindarsfjall.
Yennefer had told Sigrdrifa that she wasn't prepared to humble herself to save Ciri, wasn't prepared to give up any of her magical powers, and that she didn't want to suffer for anyone!
In the trance, she saw Geralt fighting the Nilfgaardians at the bridge, and then saw him having sex with Fringilla Vigo.
She saw Ciri, with her face covered in blood from Stefan Skellen's Orion, and then saw her using Falka's fire magic to cure the unicorn Ihuarraquax's wounds.
She saw herself chained to a wall, her fingers broken, in Stygga castle.
And after the trance, the huge diamond she needed fell free from the statue of the Goddess Freyja.
After this, she did the first unselfish thing she had ever done in her life.
She was prepared to risk her life to save Ciri, and asked Crach an Craite for a longship with a minimum crew of only volunteers, to sail to the Sedna Abyss.

After how easily Vilgefortz had defeated Geralt on Thanedd Ilse, he knew that even with the help of his four companions, he might not be able to beat him, and so before leaving Toussaint for Ebbing he gave Dandelion a message to give to Dijkstra, telling him where Vilgefortz could be found if they failed to rescue Ciri.
Dijkstra couldn't take enough men that far into Nilfgaard, but he knew Emhyr wanted Vilgefortz for treason, and so got word to him that Vilgefortz was at Castle Stygga.
After the deaths of Angouleme, Milva, and Cahir Mawr Dyffryn in rescuing Ciri from Bonhart, and Regis while fighting Vilgefortz.
Geralt, Ciri, & Yennefer were all exhausted, injured, and tired of fighting.
When Emhyr and his men showed up, they knew they had lost.
Emhyr hadn't seen Ciri since she was a very young child, and he was immensely proud of how she stood up to him in the face of death.
But he still wanted to have a child with her, and replaced the fake Ciri for her as his wife.
Ciri and Yennefer didn't know that Emhyr was actually Duny, Ciri's father, but Geralt had guessed he was and told him he knew.
So Geralt had to die to keep the secret, and Yennefer had to die because Emhyr knew she would seek revenge for Geralt .
But Emhyr appreciated that Ciri wouldn't have survived without them, and so he game them the option of a peaceful suicide together.
Emhyr made Yennefer a promise that he would never make Ciri cry.
Geralt and Yennefer made love one last time in the bath.
Ciri was defiantly saying she would never let him have her, that she would kill him in his sleep.
But as she got outside and realized she would never see Geralt an Yen again, she broke down, dropped to her knees, and started screaming uncontrollably.
Emhyr walked up to her and whispered, goodbye my daughter, and then signaled all his men to pull out and leave.
When Geralt knocked on the door to call for the knife to slash their wrists, Ciri came in and said, you both look pretty silly standing there naked, you should get dressed.
They spent the next month or so, riding around the towns in the south that Ciri had been to while captured.
She wanted to give a proper burial to Mistle and the Rats, but an old woman from the village had already paid for proper graves.
They rode to a village where Ciri was responsible for the death of the innkeeper, she wanted to leave money with his family.
They rode to the town with the arena where Ciri was forced to kill people for entertainment and gambling, and burnt it down.
She wanted to go to the Pereplut swamps and bury Vysogota of Corvo, the hermit who saved her life, and nursed her back to health.
Around their campfire, Geralt was having a nightmare of a great owl, clawing at his eyes, when he awoke he wasn't sure if it was worse, in a bright white light, that scared the horses, appeared the ten sorceress' of the Lodge, and demanded that Yennefer to bring Ciri to them.
Yennefer said she would come immediately, but wanted Ciri to have a couple of days with Geralt first.
Until we meet again, she said to Geralt almost tenderly, I'll make it up to you, there has been too much silence between us. She said, don't just nod, give me a hug and kiss. Then Yennefer left through a portal to castle Montecalvo.
After a long silence, Ciri said , where to know ?
Geralt coughed, conquering the pain in his breastbone, I want to take you to a land of fairytales.
Ciri thought Toussaint was beautiful, just like a fairytale.
We're going to a Palace, to meet the Duchess.
The Duchess, she said wryly, doesn't have big green eyes, and short black hair, does she? (Ciri had also seen the image of Geralt and Fringilla.)
She looks nothing like that, Geralt snapped. I don't know where you got that idea from.
Geralt had promised Dandelion that if he found Ciri, he would bring her back to meet his new love, the Duchess Anna Henrietta.
After the meeting with Dandelion, Geralt was deeply saddened to have to split with Ciri again, but she said it was not goodbye, and that after her meeting with the Lodge, she would join them in Rivia, in six days.
At the meeting of the Lodge, Yennefer has had enough of it all, and just wants to be with Geralt.
Ciri has also seen too much fighting and has resigned herself to do whatever the Lodge want from her, but she wants to keep her appointment with Geralt and say goodbye first.
Geralt and Dandelion had made it to Rivia, and met up with Yarpen and Zoltan. Geralt had had enough of everything, he had given Zoltan back his sword, and said he was no longer a witcher, and didn't need a weapon. Zoltan didn't want the sword back, and so they agreed to give it to the innkeeper, to mount above the fireplace.
But the hatred between Humans and Non Humans in Rivia had reached boiling point, and a Pogrom broke out with Dwarves and Elves being killed in great numbers. Geralt told Yarpen and Zoltan to hide in the cellar and he grabbed the sword to go and calm the Humans down.
But it was well past anything he could do to stop it.
Ciri, Triss, and Yennefer ride in to Rivia. Yennefer sends Ciri off ahead, because she wants to talk with Triss.
Yen tells Triss that Geralt is all she wants, and that she doesn't want her to have anything more to do with him.
Not to talk to him, not to see him. Triss had decided she would no longer stand aside for Yen, each time she came and went, and it turned into a, I'll pull your matted red hair!
Try it you vindictive bitch and I'll scratch your eyes out! I...
Just then Ciri came galloping back at full speed. I know Geralt is in danger! she said and then spun Kelpie around.
Triss and Yen spurred their horses on, but they couldn't catch Ciri, and were soon cut off by the fighting.
They were knocked off their horses by errant rocks, and when Yennefer started casting spells, they called her an Elven witch.
They were both on the ground and Yen told Triss to teleport them out.
But Triss said, I'm the fourteenth of the Hill, I no longer do anything out of fear! Give me a hand to cast Alzur's Thunder.
It will take too long, yelled Yen with blood flowing from her mouth, we'll be killed! A rock hit her in the head and she fell into Triss's lap.
Triss started to cast the spell, but her swollen lips, meant she wasn't able to speak the words properly.
The heavens opened up with the biggest hailstorm ever seen ( Now called Merrigold's Hailstorm, the spell has never been surpassed since.)
Hailstones the size of hens eggs, coming down at such a velocity that they destroyed houses.
Yennefer cast a shield spell over them, and the streets quickly emptied as people fled for cover, or were killed.
When the hailstorm stopped, they helped each-other up, and limped to where Ciri was heading.
Geralt was lying in a huge pool of blood. His heart pieced by a pitchfork. (just as Ciri had prophersized)
Triss was a specialized healer and knew they were too late to save Geralt.
Ciri was screaming, your pathetic Yennefer! Your magic is useless if you can't even save him!
Yennefer, who wasn't a healer, was madly trying to heal Geralt with a spell.
Triss knew how much energy that spell would use, and she also knew it could never work on Geralt, because he was sterile.
If a mage casts spells that require more magical energy than they can draw from the elements, they can hemorrhage and black out, or in extreme cases die.
Whether this is what killed Yennefer, or whether it was just that her fate was magically tied to Geralts, and she had to die when he did, who knows?
But they both died there on the ground, in front of Ciri, Triss, Dandelion, Yarpen, and Zoltan.
Ciri said, It's my fault, I once renounced my powers, if I didn't, I could have saved him. It's like I killed him myself.
Then the white unicorn Ihuarraquax appeared on the shore.
He came closer, and bowed his head to Ciri.
Ciri touched his horn, and Triss gasped in awe as the girl's eyes filled with white heat, and her head enveloped in a halo
With her other hand, Ciri touched the witcher. From her fingers drifted a ribbon of flickering light.
It was unreal, like a dream.
The unicorn pawed at the ground several times, and Triss saw him pointing his horn at a boat.
He shook his head once more and the unicorn began to disappear into the fog.
Ciri asked that their bodies be loaded onto a boat.
When Dandelion picked up Yen's body, he was surprised how light she felt, and he could swear that Cahir and Milva were helping him carry her, and that young Angouleme was holding the boat steady.
The Dwarves picked up the witcher, Triss held his head. Yarpen Zigrin blinked for a second, because he thought he saw the Dahlberg brothers.
Zoltan Chivay would have sworn that Caleb Stratton helped him lift the witcher's body.
Triss Merigold was sure she could smell the perfume of Lytta Neyd ( Coral ) and in the haze, her eyes saw witcher Coen of Kaer Morhen.
Ready Ciri, the sorceress said dully. Your boat is waiting.
Ciri brushed the hair from her forehead, and sniffed.
Apologize to the ladies at Montecalvo Triss, she said. But I cannot stay here without Geralt and Yennefer. I simply cannot.
They must understand.
Good bye, Triss.
Ciri, Triss whispered. Little sister...Let me sail with you...
You do not know what you ask Triss.
Ciri climbed aboard the boat, and then disappeared into the fog, like a ghost.

So the books end with Yennefer in love with Geralt and wanting nothing but him.
But the games changed a few things, not all of them made sense.
Witcher 2 sets Yennefer back to the Pre trance cold heartless bitch.
After a year together on the Ilse of Avallach (renamed Avalone in witcher 3) The wild hunt come and made off with Yennefer. (They wanted Ciri to come looking for her.)
Geralt gives chase. In the Angren forest, north of Riverdell, he saves the life of a witcher named Letho of Gulet.
Letho, Serrit, and Auckes, know where to find the Wild Hunt.
The four witchers battle with the red riders, at the Hanged Man's Tree in Velen, but as fast as they can slay them, Caranthir ports in more.
It becomes a stalemate, and Eredin agrees to swap Geralt for Yennefer. Geralt rides with the Red Riders.
And Yennefer travels south to Nilfgaard with Letho Serrit, and Auckes.
But everywhere they went, Yennefer got in trouble, and the witchers pulled her out of it, because Letho felt indebted to Geralt.
She would throw temper tantrums, and she tried to seduce Auckes, to turn him on the others.
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When they got to Nilfgaard, Emhyr offered them the job of killing the Northern Kings.
When they headed North, Letho wasn't aware of the Lodge of Sorceress'.
Even when Letho got help to kill King Demavend from Sheala de Tancarville, he didn't know about the Lodge.
And the Lodge didn't want Foltest killed, they wanted a strong North.
At the time Foltest was killed, Shilard Fitz-Oesterlen wasn't aware of the Lodge of Sorceress', he learnt of them through Yennefer, a week or two after.
Even Dijkstra didn't know of the Lodges existence. He told Philippa he had prove of outside involvement in Vizimirs assassination, but he didn't realize she was involved in it. He only found it out after Philippa sent assassins to kill him, as she was the only one he had trusted with the information.
In Witcher 3, when Yennefer sees what the witch hunters did to Margarita, (and Sheala if she was still alive.) she goes, Oh those bastards!.
But she knew bloody well when she gave Emhyr their names, that they would all be tortured and killed.
When Yennefer told Emhyr about the Lodge, They immediately started torturing Assire var Anahid, and Fringilla Vigo.
Vattier de Rideaux put Cynthia in Philippa's bed to spy on her.
When Triss showed up Philippa's house in Vergan, Cynthia used Philippa's leash to cast an artifact compression spell on her, and took her to Shilard Fitz-Oesterlen as a figurine. Without Philippa's leash, Cynthia didn't have the power to decompress Triss, so they had to keep Assire var Anahid alive, long enough to release Triss, and was then giving a quick death.
Triss was then tortured, but she couldn't tell them anything, they didn't already know, because she hadn't been invited to a Lodge meeting since before Foltests death.
If Geralt didn't rescue Triss from the Nilfgaardians, then Letho would do it.
Fringilla was kept alive, simply because she hadn't talked under torture yet.
The Lodge of Sorceress' was the reason Radovid gave as justification for starting the witch hunts.
So Yennefer was responsible for hundreds more mage deaths at Loc Muinne and beyond, than she was responsible for at Thanedd Ilse.
If Geralt went to save Triss, instead of going after Philippa, or Anias, Triss would save a lot of Mages lives at Loc Muinne, but it only postponed their deaths until a little later.
If Geralt saved Sheala from the megascope trap, she would tell him that Yennefer was alive and in Nilfgaard.
But if Geralt told Letho, that he saved Sheala, he called him a heartless bastard.
He said I had giving her a quick death. Emhyr or the Northern Kings would make her die very slowly, and painfully.
Triss still didn't know Yennefer was alive, because she wasn't in on Lodge meetings.
If Yen had loved Geralt as much as she did in the end of the books, then she would have got in touch with much him sooner.
She could always locate him with scrying. She had all the time of Witcher 2, and the six months between Witcher 2 and 3.
The game Yennefer only got in touch with him when she needed his help. Which is how it was for 90% of the books.
In the books, when Ciri asked Yennefer at Mother Nennekes, if she knew the witchers, she said she had been to Kaer Morhen many years earlier, and met Vesemir and Eskel, but not the younger witchers, Lambert, and Coen.
But at the start of Witcher 3, Geralt clearly states to Vesemir that Yennefer has never been to Kaer Morhen, and that's why the dream was so strange.
Yet in White Orchid, Vesemir says to Yennefer that he is pleased to see her (not meet her) and if she had never been to Kaer Morhen, then she never would have met Vesemir before.
In Witcher 2, it says that following the peace of Cintra, 53 officers of the Vrihedd Brigade had their throats cut, and their bodies dumped into a revene.
But in the book, it says 51, because Iorveth, and Isengrim Faoiltiarna escaped before execution, and that Dijkstra ordered all of them to be hung at dawn, with no public onlookers.
An odd thing to change, when clearly Iorveth was still alive in Witcher 2.

But after everything I've posted, if you still think Yennefer is better than Triss, then your welcome to her.
And just to finish off, with three Triss screenies, just because I had them.
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And it seems there can be no secrets between sorceress'
Because even though Coral lied to Yennefer, and said she didn't sleep with him, she must have told Triss.
After Triss decompressed one of the Coral's exlovers that she had turned into a figurine.
Being Coral's lover was always very dangerous, even for Geralt.
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a true and classic happy ending. In a Witcher game? I was shocked!!! )

Actually, I felt it was almost too good to be true.

The one in Witcher 1 was really funny as well, especially if you romanced Shani and had to deal with Granny. In Witcher 2, the whole thing resulted in a quest resembling the Hangover movies, complete with Geralt not remembering how he gut that tattoo on his neck.

Still, Witcher 3's cross dress phone prank takes the cake, IMO.