The Witcher 3 thread - now with more goat

Started replaying the whole Witcher Trilogy. Even the first game has aged rather well, and with significant cheats available through Megadev, maybe I'll get past the Kayran fight in TW2 this time. I still haven't seen two thirds of that game.

I've always had quite a way with words.

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I would love to play as Geralt again. I really do...

Does anyone have a list of the witcher books in chronological order of events?

Hey, who wouldn't like an elitist warmongering empire that spreads famine and misery everywere they go? I remember when Emhyr nearly raped his own daughter in an attempt to impregnate her. Good times.

Yes. In the books Emhyr heard of a prophecy about how his child would rule half of the world and then his child's child would come to rule all of it. So obessed he was with it that he decided he himself would bed Ciri and make a sucessor to the throne. But Geralt managed to talk Emhyr out of it before it could happen.

And I would argue that it's a reason to reject Nilfgaard. The northern kingdoms are not trying to expand their territories, nor is Kovir. The only one engaged with a campaign of conquest is Nilfgaard. All to fulfill Emhyr's ego. I simply wouldn't think you would be the type that sides with imperialist expansionists. Especially since I assume you've personally witnessed all the burning villages they left behind.

If you haven't read the books, I think you may also appreciate TW2 more if you've already played TW3. I did Iorveth's path, and the first time I played the game, I had no idea what the hell was going on by the time I got to the end - the name Emhyr meant nothing to me when it came up, Radovid seemed indistinguishable from the other jerks and tyrants I was running into all the time, and the final dialogue with the kingslayer didn't tell me much that I could understand beyond "there were a bunch of conspiracies to kill people for some reason or other."

I originally played TW1 in fits and starts, so I probably no longer remembered that much about Radovid by the time I got to TW2, and TW3 hadn't even come out yet. I'll admit that I tend to be kind of lazy about reading codex entries in RPGs, so maybe I'd have been able to follow the politics more clearly in my initial playthroughs if I'd done that. As it was, I found the plot of TW2 difficult to follow even though I enjoyed the game and appreciated the characters and the ideas behind it.