What would it be?

For me it would be to basically tell the Order, the Scoi-whatever, and everyone else to fuck off, go help Morenn protect her homeland (invite Vivaldi along, since he's one of the few decent people you meet and I'd hate to leave him to be killed). I'd wait until everything had completely burned down around all those assholes' ears and swing back by (after lots of homeland defending and Dryad sexy-time) to lop off Avar Javed's head.

I love The Witcher, but seriously, I want to lop off nearly every NPC's smarmy fucking head every time I hear them speak.

What would you do if you were Geralt?

On a more practical note: Forget about the rest of the world - Take Triss and get as far away from civilization as possible - build a cabin - raise babies - enjoy life. ;-)

PS - I agree with you that HoMM 2 was the best ;-)

Not just babies, vampire slaying babies that can light their birthday cake candles with their minds;)

lol pretty much. Running off with Triss. The whole world is full of assholes. Morenn and the Druids are the few nice people.

Yeah. Talking about nice people - Murky Waters have more of them in contrast with other places. Undoubtedly the influence of their Lady. Also Kalkstein and anarchist merchant from Vizima are standing out.

Yep - I got to actually think about my response today - A combination of Powers raised by both Triss and Geralt = a force to be reckoned with. Or maybe twins working together. Or maybe twins one equally bad the other equally good. The stories are endless...

Ummm... You guys should read the books and check out how the last orphan raised by the White Wolf and a sorceress turned out ;-)

I should probably read the books anyway;) Well, it'd be "cool" but it's all kind of mental masturbation on my part as Geralt is supposedly sterile (though maybe Triss could do something about that over the long term if she put her mind to it).

The sterility is one of the efects of the mutations a young witcher has to go through to gain his superhuman speed, reflexes and incredible metabolism. Although no Trial is equal (Geralt's white hair being an example of possible variations) all witchers who survive the mutations end unable to produce children. That is why they took orphans and surprise-children* to be initiated as witchers.

If Merigold were to find a cure for infertility, she'd be doubly blessed - magic users like her are also barren because of the magic radiation messing with their bodies. It seems however infertile sorcerors and witchers as part of the canon are something that is there to strenghten the point of both being hard and individual paths (since noone is born into it) as well as very lonely and demanding ones.

*(a surprise-child was an old witchers' practice. If they saved a life of someone that could not repay the debt, they would ask for "what you will find upon returning home, that you didn't know you had". More often than not that something turned up to be a child. Hence many myths about witchers stealing children, you might find references to those rumours throughout the game)

One story of such surprise child is also available as an add-on to the Witcher (it's included in the GOG release). See "The Price of Neutrality" mod.

The constant underlying subject of the Witcher is the question of fate vs personal choice between good an evil. Witcher is always confronted with it, and has to figure out his path and decide how those things can be reconciled.

Yup. And that's what I love about the games as well - there are no easy and obvious choices. And while the first gives you three basic paths, the second does this even better imho, since there is no clearly neutral path, and there are situations where a neutral choice would not be possible, forcing you to choose what "neutral" or "good" or even "less evil" actually is. You know. Like life does.

I agree with you. I am currently in chapter V right now. I am on the neutrality route and I've been venting my anger on the damn Scoiataels and Order people for the past 15 minutes. I can't believe that I had to put up with their bullshit for the past three chapters!

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Well, your reward is a threesome with some hot nuns, so be assured you chose the correct route not just to avoid helping a bunch of worthless bastards, but for the best endgame sex;)

Hehe, that's true. :D Another good thing about the neutrality route is that you can cut down both Scoiataels and Order guys. =D

Also, note, that even within Scoia'tael and Order there are better characters than others. (Though I found more of them amongst Scoia'tael side). Some of them can be misled by their leaders, others might be blinded by illusions, but not all of them are outright evil.

For example if Yaevin has a rather sneaky character, Toruviel on the other hand is truthful, and not blindly hating humans as others (she partly changed because of her previous encounter [in the books] with Geralt, and after some kind people helped her during the war).