I finished the game just recently and not sure about my decision to leave the bad diamond in the mega scope. I mean yes, she did order Demavend dead, so that is enough to leave her in her death trap, right? We do find out that the rest of the assassinations aren't of her plotting though and she was tricked by Letho.

Also, to make things worse, I just witnessed her call down a dragon from the sky! No way am I going to help her out of her trap! She would just call the dragon back and take off again.

What did you do at this point and why?

Thinking back on my game, I killed a lot of humans. I let Roche kill Henselt, and I killed Letho and Sile. I'm beginning to think my neutral Geralt wasnt so neutral after all. This adventure really changed my Geralt.

I let her die in my first 2 playthroughs, and let her live in my last one. I guess we will see when they either add an expansion, or make TW3.

i let her die and i sided with Roche and handed Anais over to Radovid. The time of the sorceress's scheming is over. They're all gonna burn at the stake.. :D

but yeah TW2 has changed my neutral Geralt. feels weird man..

I let the bitch explode. It was awesome.

Saved her. Didn't seem like she was going to explode anytime soon, and it fit my Geralt.

Sure, she was involved in killing a king, but that is just the way politics work there. Kings murder countless people in political games and have lots of luxury. Moral judgment aside, the price of that is they are a legitimate target. If they lose their head in it that is just part of the dangerous game they play.

In other words, she was just another politician to me. She called down a dragon, but the kings have no less blood on their hands so whatever. The official viewpoint is that only kings have the right to play these games. But that is because the kings determine the official viewpoint, and of course they are going to push that idea.

Yes! She said something's wrong with the diamond twice so for a second I thought it would loop until I clicked on it but nope! Quite possibly one of the most satisfying squishes ever in a game. Letho's remark about him changing it was too cool.

Same xD

She just tried to have a dragon rip apart me and all the rest of the surviving northern monarchs. Kinda hard to just say, "Aw, alright- no hard feelings!"

I let her die my first play through. In my second I saved her - the second play through also ended in a mage pogrom so she's going to have to go into hiding for a while. I'm not too worried about her. Geralt talked to Letho (or maybe Saskia, it was one of those conversations I think) about her too and sort of said the same thing, that she wasn't really important anymore, but that Phillipa was still dangerous.

This is possibly one of the tougher choices in this Choice&Consequence driven game! Let her die or spare her, i.e. let her be hounded to the end of the earth by both Imperial and Northern kingdom's assassins (and experience exquisite torture à la Eilhart)? As Letho says, to do the latter is just too heartless.

I let her die. One, I hate behind the scenes manipulators. With a burning passion. Hate them. Demavend may very well have been a terrible ruler, but if she and the rest of the lodge take it upon themselves to determine who can and can not rule, then no one but the Lodge is ever truly in charge, even if the other kings don't realize it.

also, as you mentioned, the dragon. When backed into a corner, she clearly wasn't above burning everyone at the talks to a crisp to hide her misdeeds. And if you side with Iorveth there is an aspect of that scene that makes it even worse.

Contrast Iorveth, who i sided with on my first playthrough (and from what I've seen of Roche's side so far, I think the Iorveth path will be my canon version of Geralt). He's a killer, I know that. But he's crystal clear about what he's doing, and why. He's not doing it out of a desire for personal gain and power, but for a cause he sees as just. Whether you agree if that cause IS just is a matter of debate, but he at least is open about it, all the kings know he's out there, and what he wants, and can (and do) fight back. Same thing with Roche. But with the Lodge, they don't know what the they want, people aren't even supposed to know it exists, they just have it imposed on them.

Exactly why I love him. He doesn't fuck around haha. I love how he seems like this evil guy until you understand his cause, then you realize you'd be just as vengeful.

Well-said, both of you.

And as has been pointed out before, Iorveth's got that fantastic little Alan Rickman thing going too.

geralt is completely rational. he needed her alive for information.

That's probably one of the main reasons I enjoyed the game. It allows you to make up your own reasons you made your decisions, rather than having Geralt explain himself.

I ended up saving Sile, because, well, I just got Henselt killed. I couldn't really judge because whatever the motives we're both directly responsible for the death of a king.

i let her live in my first playthru and let her die in my second bu as Letho says, it would be worse for her had she lived as she would have been tortured then killed