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Old thread:

Geralt and Triss OTP

This thread needs more philippa.

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trissfags eternally BTFO

What was the point? That she's haughty and privileged. The sorceresses Geralt fucks are more haughty and think the people below them are even more subhuman.
At least it isn't too late for this brat to be fixed.

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>mages
>rich
>pretentious
>elites
>morally ambiguous
>mages fall from grace
>now on bottom rung of society
>Triss leads mages out of Novigrad
>City turns on nonhumans
>more are killed than mages ever were
>defenseless compared to the mages

Triss is a bad person. She knows that a public exodus will shift attention to nonhumans, but she sees them as lesser and doesn't care.
Radovid was right.

Agreed. Does anyone have the lewd Witcher 3 photo where she has her eyes back?

Radovid literally did nothing wrong. After the witch hunts magic becomes more standardized and practical. It's not some "muh seecret club" anymore.

Triss has no way of knowing how Radovid will react. He is an predictable madman. Also, that logic is very stupid. Your colleagues and friends are dying and you should let them get killed because then a madman won't start killing others. No, you help the people close to you. Mages that are left in Novigrad are bottom of the barrel and even among them there are people like Albert Vegelbud, who is an amateur alchemist, meaning the witch hunters already started targeting non mages. Also it is naive to think Radovid would stop at the mages and not go after the others anyway after he killed the 30 or so mages Triss saved from Novigrad.

Philippa dies during the witch hunts. Fuck you.

By your logic, Geralt should just give Ciri to Eredin and prevent the death of millions of innocent elves by sacrificing Ciri for them. Geralt is a subhuman piece of shit for valuing the life of one girl over the lives of the whole species.

Horrible analogy bro. Eredin wants to use Ciri in order to open a portal between the two worlda for a full scale invasion since their world is dying. Giving Ciri up would result in devastation.

Meanwhile aiding Ciri and defeating the wild hunt and then the frost leads to saving millions in their world and saving the elven world as well.

Almost finished reading the books

I do wonder why noone consiered ditching Triss and Yenn as Waifu for Ciri

After all what has happened to her i just want to hug and comfort her and impregnate her so my child will rule the multiverse

Do my romances effect the endings? Like if i choose to romance triss instead of yen will certain outcomes be different?

>Triss has no way of knowing how Radovid will react
I agree, she's an idiot. Sorry, my bad.
>He is an predictable madman.
I know, he is predictable. Multiple characters throughout say that once the witch hunts are over that they'll turn on nonhumans
>Your colleagues and friends are dying and you should let them get killed because then a madman won't start killing others
You either help them all, or help none. That's what makes a good person, a good person. Triss saves her privileged friends and colleagues.
>Albert Vegelbud, who is an amateur alchemist
A pretentious asswipe with too much money. The only reason he's in trouble is because he couldn't keep his mouth shut about his new hobby that he took up because of the perpetual boredom brought about by infinite funds. His family's wealth is obscene.
>Also it is naive to think Radovid would stop at the mages and not go after the others
No it's not, it makes no logical sense otherwise. Haven't you ever read that holocaust quote?

"First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me."

A united front of all the possible scapegoats would be Radovid's worst nightmare.

A better analogy would be if Geralt knew Ciri would bring the plague eventually, in which case he should off her on the spot.
1 for 1 million.

yes
try to romance both for the best ending

Ciri is welcome to join Geralt and Triss in a polygamous marriage.

I posted a compilation of the romantic foreshadowing that Sapkowski dropped with Ciri a few threads back.
Basically it's clear that she was planned to be his waifu in Sword of Destiny, but was dropped halfway through Blood of Elves. Their first story together where she's going on and on about Geralt being her destiny and vice versa, is literally after a satisfying closure on Geralt and Yen's relationship; virtually ignored in Blood of Elves.

don't try to fool me, i already know romancing both leads to leads me to be forever alone

>is literally after a satisfying closure on Geralt and Yen's relationship

Scratch that, the closure comes as a nonsequitor in the middle of the story. Making it even more foreshadowy.

>romancing both leads to leads me to be forever alone
I suppose if you call getting custody of a hot 20-something year-old slut, who lives in your house for an indefinite period of time being "forever alone".

That's if she lives. Otherwise you get a gay bard.

Yes it does

yeah but what i was asking was more of important main plot things like people dying and what not if dump one for the other
I suppose that would happen if you choose triss since yennifer is suppose to be the "canonical" love of Geralt's life

City lives with you in the end of be?

Triss doesn't have unlimited power, she can't stop the war or save all the people Radovid might want to have persecuted. Other, more powerful sorceresses than her have all escaped and went into hiding. The mages left are as helpless as they get, they have no one to stand in their defense but Triss. She helps those that are close to her and that are the most persecuted group currently in Novigrad. It is not Triss' duty to predict future and let innocents die based on a possibility a mad king might not become even madder. In the war times, you help those you can, you don't leave innocents to die because you can't save them all, so why save any approach.

That quote also goes in line with the idea that Radovid would simply continue killing non humans after he is done with the mages anyway.

Also, I hope you hold Yennefer to the same standards, because she is willing to let Skellige die to save those she cares about. Triss can't know what Radovid plans, but Yennefer is told the mask will fuck everything up and she does it anyway, regardless of the consequences. She would stomp over anyone for Geralt and Ciri and let innocents die if that's what takes to save those she cares for. She clearly shows that.

Yes, you get extra romantic scenes and a happy ending with the waifu you choose for Geralt. Other than that, the romances don't affect the main story.

>tfw you are alive in this specific period in the whole history of the universe where you can have Ciri as your waifu

>reading post
>thinking up a response
>"I hope you hold Yennefer to the same standards"
>deletes paragraph
Oh, you're a waifufag and you think this is a waifu war.

thank you i was starting to worry but now that i know i'll follow my dreams

If Triss wasn't a greedy pussy she'd have stayed in Novigrad and helped the King of Beggars transform the city like he foreshadows. Instead she runs away for monetary gain and we get a cut plotline.

>trying to fap to ciri sfm porn
>she has horrendous deep scars all over her body
It's so distracting

Where's Yen? With Geralt in Toussaint, right?

Nah I'm not making it a waifu war, I just gave an example of a character that probably better than anyone reflects what you blame Triss for. Yen is the perfect example of someone who would help those close to her even if it meant others dying for it. I personally don't mind that quality in Yen at all, similar to how Triss saving the mages is a heroic act imo. You don't calculate with the lives of innocent people you care for and abandon them based on the prediction of how a mad king might act in the future. Triss helps those she can, the best she can.

Triss saved a lot of innocent people and is now in a position to help many more in far substantial ways than playing King of Beggar's secretary.

Nah, Yen was never really a proper Lodge member, I wanted to make a Loge pic and I though she doesn't really belong there.

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>Triss saved a lot of innocent people and is now in a position to help many more in far substantial ways than playing King of Beggar's secretary
I'm sure all the dead dwarves and elves in Novigrad appreciate Triss' position and how she utilizes it. Especially with all the profit she's receiving from said position.
She's a piece of shit that ran away when Novigrad needed her most. No, she didn't just run away, she ran away and took the most powerful resources that could tip the scales in the favor of a truly free Novigrad.

>be drunk, washed-up Scoiatel Marksman
>still be a sex goddess with an open shirt, cute braid, and a cheeky voice
Why are elves so perfect?

Triss is a literal whore. Instead of staying in Novigrad and fighting for her ideals, justice, equality, freedom, knowledge, she sells herself and her friends to the highest bidder: Kovir.

>is now in a position to help many more in far substantial ways
This is political doublespeak bullshitting that means nothing.

She's dead now because of Triss.

The most powerful resources escaped Novigrad with their tails between their legs leaving those not able to do so to take their blame. Radovid doesn't hate the mages because of the ones his witch hunters persecute in Novigrad, he hates them because of the likes of Philippa and to a lesser extent Triss, although Radovid often had nice words to say about Triss in the games compared to her colleagues.

All Triss is doing is saving the innocent people that would die for sure if not for her. You are arguing that Radovid would suddenly go pacifist after he exterminated the mages in Novigrad, that's ridiculous, the mage hunts aren't limited to Novigrad, they happen all over the North and Triss can't possibly save them all.

Triss doesn't own the dwarfs and elves anything, she is not the one killing them, Radovid is, and Triss is only helping her friends and colleges escape certain death. Radovid would continue being Radovid no matter what Triss did in Novigrad. Implying 30 or so mags have the power to make Radovid less mad is unrealistic.

Also, you are greatly overestimating King of Beggars, he is a local player with very unrealistic expectations at best, even Dijkstra mocks him and when Radovid enters the city, King of Beggars can only suck his dick and shove his dreams of ruling Novigrad up his ass with of without the 30 puny mages Triss helped escape.

not really forever alone, its the rare 3rd option

Someone throw a Brazzers logo on the bottom right.

Nah, she actually has influence and resources at her disposal now(money, information networks, people working for her) and she can use that to help far more people than she ever could locally with the scraps she had.

Triss' ideals aren't limited to Novigrad. She is not the protector of the city nor does she owe anything to Novigrad. Mage hunts happen everywhere and she can help more people now than she ever could staying in Novigrad. Triss is looking at the wider picture, you are looking things locally.

I saw that

>Nah, she actually has influence and resources at her disposal now(money, information networks, people working for her)
But there's no certainty that she will. Triss is also in a "better position" to murder people for sport, but that doesn't mean she'll do it.
It's bullshit doublespeak that politicians use all the time.

>nor does she owe anything to Novigrad
She owes the King of Beggars.
>Triss is looking at the wider picture, you are looking things locally.
She certainly isn't. She got money for bringing economic, scientific, and military assets (the mages) to Kovir. Kovir is free. She has no intention of fighting the witch hunts and there is no indication that she does. Stop spewing your headcanon.

She's an opportunist that sold her ideals. You can still fuck her, but you can't be this delusional.
If it helps you sleep at night CDPR wrote this because they cut Novigrad content, so it's out of character.

>The most powerful resources escaped Novigrad with their tails between their legs leaving those not able to do so to take their blame.
What are you talking about. Mages flocked to Novigrad thinking it was free and got trapped there. Triss gathered the mages and sold them to Kovir for a cushy advisory position
>All Triss is doing is saving the innocent people that would die for sure if not for her
And by doing so, fucking over a far greater number of people.
>Triss doesn't own the dwarfs and elves anything
Yes, and helping people when you don't have any obligation is what separates good people from shitty people.
>Also, you are greatly overestimating King of Beggars, he is a local player with very unrealistic expectations at best
He controls the entire population of poors, essentially 1/4th the city, he had (until recently) the support of every mage in Novigrad, and had been stockpiling massive amounts of coin for the takeover.
> King of Beggars can only suck his dick and shove his dreams of ruling Novigrad up his ass with of without the 30 puny mages Triss helped escape.
That. Is. The. Fucking. Point.

>All Triss is doing is selling people to Kovir in exchange for vast sums of wealth and power.
ftfy

>Implying 30 or so mags
That's called ludo-narrative dissonance.
It was probably more like 900.

No problem, pick whoever you like better. Both are nice and have some cool scenes with Geralt.

Based on Triss' past behavior and the way she risked her life helping the mages when she had nothing to gain from it but death, it is fair to assume she will continue doing so now that she actually has more possibilities and ways to help them. Besides, she tells Geralt herself that she would like to take the position and that she could help a lot of mages by doing so. Triss' idealism is a big part of her character. She never murdered people for sport before, but she has helped those in need.

Owes him what? They helped each other because they had mutual interest. He provided money and shelter, Triss and the mages provided their magic services. He benefited on the misfortune of others. He is a local figure. It makes no sense for Triss to give two fucks about him, he is a non factor in Novigrad after Radovid takes over. His dreams of ruling the city are baseless and ridiculous, he is a local criminal. Doing anything with him is wasting time and lives.

Triss literally says she wants to help others and that Tancred will make that a possibility. I'm assuming you never saw that, as I doubt you romanced Triss. The assets she took to Kovir were saved, not lost, if they remained in Novigrad they would die, even the game tells you they die if you don't save Triss.

Triss helps innocent people survive, if you see that as a bad thing, go right ahead, blame Radovid's actions on Triss. I of course, couldn't disagree more.

And I've read all the cut content there was and nothing suggests what you're saying to be true. Rescuing mages from Novigrad was always there although it intertwined with the plague and Iorveth's and Rita's storyline.

do you think that those guys had fun with the wooden stake?

WHEN IS THERE GONNA BE HEALING

EVERY GOD DAMN DAMN QUEST THERES TRAGIC STUFF HAPPENING

I WANT HAPPY

Dijkstra literally says there was 30 or so of them after they leave on a ship.

Mages flocked to Novigrad, but once the witch hunts started, those capable enough to escape, did so, leaving less fortunate to tend for themselves. There is only few dozens of them left.

>And by doing so, fucking over a far greater number of people.
No, those people are fucked anyway. After the mages are gone, it's their turn either way. If Radovid wins, during the witcheress epilogue you can find Tomira getting burned by Radoivd's men, clearly showing it's only a matter of time before it's their turn.

>Yes, and helping people when you don't have any obligation is what separates good people from shitty people.
And Triss has no obligation whatsoever helping the mages in Novigrad, she could have escaped and save her ass any time she wanted, but she stayed and risked her life for them instead, living in squalor and constantly fearing capture. You are blaming her because she can't help everyone and you are putting Radovid's actions on her. Who died and made Triss the protector of the all races and nations of the world? In the war times, you help your people, those you can, those close to you and hope for the best.

Besides at the time Triss is in Novigrad, mages are the one that take the bulk of the persecution. By your logic, Triss should have jsut left because what's the point of helping them when Radovid will go after some other people anyway, let's just leave them to die a horrible death. That would make her a better person for sure.

>He controls the entire population of poors, essentially 1/4th the city
He controls shit once Radovid invades the city, even without Radovid, he is outclassed by Dijkstra.

>the support of every mage in Novigrad
He has few low tier mages, the only thing they could do is die. If you think King of Beggars would stop Radovid if he had the support of 30 mages that can't even escape the city, helping him, you are delusional.

YOU FUCKED UP! YOU LET THE PESTA LOOSE!

but i wanted to check on what happend... and i thought this was gonna be the good ending

whats even a Pesta, they didn't even tell me nor is it in the beastiery

Most certainly. I'm sure Keira's anus was well entertained the night before in preparation for the big show.

It's a wraith with a special, magical ability to manipulate and spread plague due to the horrific and brutal way they died. In the case of Annabelle, she can spread Catriona which is really the Bubonic Plague from our universe that Ciri brought into the universe via trans-dimensional teleportation. If Annabelle escapes, her spread of Catriona will lead to the deaths of millions of innocents.

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>Owes him what? They helped each other because they had mutual interest. He provided money and shelter, Triss and the mages provided their magic services.
Yes, and they didn't follow through. The magical services were necessary to free Novigrad.
>His dreams of ruling the city are baseless and ridiculous
I suppose so was Saskia's? Fuck off
>Triss literally says she wants to help others and that Tancred will make that a possibility.
Sure sounds likes she's got her heart in the right place. I assume she's doing this pro bono? No? She's in the lap of luxury? Wow. I bet that has nothing to do with her living in a slum until recently. Triss is no different than Kiera.
>Triss helps innocent people survive, if you see that as a bad thing, go right ahead, blame Radovid's actions on Triss
That's not what anybody said. Triss is shitty because she could've done more, instead of leaving everyone else hung out to dry to sell her faggy mage friends into saftey.
>No, those people are fucked anyway. After the mages are gone, it's their turn either way.
Are you a goldfish? Or just a Nazi sympathizer? This was already addressed several times. They wouldn't be fucked if they helped free Novigrad like originally intended.
>And Triss has no obligation whatsoever helping the mages in Novigrad, she could have escaped and save her ass any time she wanted'
She sold them for a royal advisory position. Exactly akin to Keira, but she chose a better ruler.
>He controls shit once Radovid invades the city
Because the mages are gone dipshit.
>He has few low tier mages, the only thing they could do is die
Kovir thought they would be useful. I'm sure you know every single mage, there talents, and what the King of Beggars intended for them, so do go on. You don't? wWoow so why even write that?
>If you think King of Beggars would stop Radovid if he had the support of 30 mages that can't even escape the city
Yeah, because you know everything that the King of Beggars planned

Trissfag continues to devalue Triss as a character by trying to make her a paragon of justice. They clearly don't love Triss because they can't look at her without a rose-colored filter.
Triss did what Keira tried but better. She's a selfish and flawed human being, who tries to play, little-miss-perfect, but you can't find me a character who isn't.

We have a crucial difference in opinion when it comes to the fate of Novigrad. You seem to believe Novigrad might have been freed or somehow be an independent city under the govern of the King of Beggars. I think that very idea is ridiculous. Novigrad either ends up in the hands of Radovid, Emhyr or Dijkstra. Possibility of a scenario where Novigrad is a free city is long gone. The mages Triss saves are a non factor. You seem to think they have the power to help free the city along with the local peasantry, yet all I see is a small group of very scared and helpless people incapable of even saving their own lives, let alone defeating an army(no matter whose).

Novigrad is lost, that is a fact. There isn't a scenario in which it is free, save the mages or not. The scenario you're talking about is already in game and things don't play out the way you'd hoped. Don't help Triss and the mages stay. And to surprise of no one, they don't help free the city, they die a painful and horrible death.

> if they helped free Novigrad like
Have you seen the mages Triss saves? Do they look like a combat asset to you? Will 30 of them really tip the scale to freeing Novigrad? Not likely.

>She sold them for a royal advisory position
She didn't sell them, she saved them. If you let them stay in Novigrad, they all die. In Triss epilogue at BaW, she talks about Kovir and mages and the things she says tell a very different story than what you're implying.

>Because the mages are gone dipshit.
You are greatly overestimating the mages. Most got caught and burned alive, implying they would stop Radovid when they can't even stop his goons form exterminating them is ridiculous. A combined asset of 30 barely mediocre mages won't tip the scales of war and fend off either of the armies wanting to invade the city.

>Yeah, because you know everything that the King of Beggars planned
Whatever he planned, it would fail, entire Nilf or Rad army > Bedlam's peasants and 30 scared mages.

There is plenty of things in both the books and the games that paints Triss as a different, kinder and more idealistic sorceress compared to others. Keira is guided by self preservation, she only does things for herself, Triss sacrifices for others. As far as the mage situation is concerned, things are very clear, there isn't a thing in the game that suggests Triss having any back intention, quite the opposite, she stays and helps them when she has nothing from it to gain but death. She ends up saving them from certain death(game fact, they die if they don't leave with Triss). I'm not painting her as a paragon of justice, I'm simply disagreeing with blaming Radovid's actions on her.

And as far as Triss' flaws are concerned she has plenty. She can be weak, manipulative, jealous, treacherous, shady. She has made mistakes, betrayed her friends, but she also did plenty of amazing things. The case of the mages I'm talking about happens to be one of the amazing things she did. Like I said, I do wonder whether these people hold the other characters to the same insane standards as Triss, because if they do, they should hate pretty much every major character in the series.

People are arguing that Triss is a horrible person for helping people not get tortured and burned to death. What a fucking bitch :3

>Do they look like a combat asset to you?
Does Triss?
>You are greatly overestimating the mages.
9 women destabilized the entire north and ignited the witch hunts.
>She didn't sell them, she saved them.
So she didn't get a royal advisory position and fat stacks of money? That's selling dude.
>Whatever he planned, it would fail
Yeah, it's not like it was originally written that he would succeed or anything... wait it was.

Here's the lowdown
>Triss and King of Beggars make a deal
>King of Beggars plan hinges on Triss and Geralt
>CDPR cuts content
>Triss gains assets from Kovir in exchange for smuggling mages there
>Triss gets rich
>Novigrad is further turned into a living hell
>Witch hunt is now a full blown genocide

Triss did not do a good job in Novigrad. Like you say, it's only 30 mages, and 30 mages apparently could've tipped the scales in favor of a free and secular city-state.

There is so much mischaracterization in this post that I can't even start. You hate Triss. What you love is not Triss. Your life is a lie.

>Triss as a different, kinder and more idealistic sorceress
Triss gets horny thinking about a 12-13 year-old Ciri being pumped full of mutagens and drugs. She even starts to contemplate how she can benefit from it. She changes her mind soon after, mainly because of Geralt and her vagina and the symbiosis between the two, but the original still thought exists

>Does Triss?
She does, but she is one. Even sorceresses like Philippa and Sile get captured and aren't capable of single handily tipping the scales of war and they trump Triss in power. Triss alone fighting alongside Bedlam won't change the fate of Novigrad. Triss is nowhere near as powerful to do something like that.

>9 women destabilized the entire north and ignited the witch hunts.
None of the Novigrad mages can't hold a candle to the likes of the Lodge. Even Radovid complains to Geralt how his mages are incompetent compared to Rita or Triss. You've seen the mages Triss is saving. They are a scared bunch of incompetent weaklings.

>So she didn't get a royal advisory position and fat stacks of money? That's selling dude.
She got a position that allows her to help others in ways she wasn't able to do before. Position having its perks doesn't mean she did it for them. When the witch hunts start, Triss doesn't have a deal with Tancred, she has nothing and yet she stays and helps showing her ideals and motivation to help don't come from the desire for power not to say she doesn't enjoy the benefits of her new job.

>Yeah, it's not like it was originally written that he would succeed or anything... wait it was.
Show me that please, I've read so much cut content and never saw that. I'm not saying it wasn't like that, I'm genuinely curious to see. I love reading stuff like that.

Still, I'm not about the base my judgement on things that aren't even in the game and we know very little of and can only assume. Based on what is in the game, there isn't a scenario that has Novigrad become free, it always falls and the mages die if not saved.

Bedlam does feel like he was underused, but his plans remain on the one dialogue he has with Geralt and are in the fantasy realm. The idea of Bedlam defeating Rad/Emhyr under any circumstance sounds incredibly stupid anyway, so that's probably one of the things I'm glad got cut.

Well, we disagree. I stand behind every word.

I honestly don't remember that, it still doesn't change my original though. I meant compared to the other sorceresses, not compared to a perfect angel. Sorceresses behavior isn't exactly the definition of morality, they are all greedy ambitious, horny bitches to an extent.

Game only fag here.

So I finished Witcher 2 the other day and I was wondering what is canon ending of Henselt.
I let Vernon Roche kill him.

He dies either way. Either Roche kills him or he dies fighting Radovid's army between the games if he survives TW2.

>She does
No, she looks like a young girl.
>one of the Novigrad mages can't hold a candle to the likes of the Lodge
Pure speculation. Kalkstein was in Novigrad and got killed. He was an asset more valuable than 10 Triss'.
>She got a position that allows her to help others in ways she wasn't able to do before
More bullshit political doublespeak. The opportunity to help is not the help itself. Look up fallacies because there's definitely one centered around the exact phrase you're using. And she's literally not, because she can't do anything against the interests of Kovir. She's not going to help the dwarves and elves she forsakes. That's never even occurred to her.

>I honestly don't remember that, it still doesn't change my original though. I meant compared to the other sorceresses, not compared to a perfect angel. Sorceresses behavior isn't exactly the definition of morality, they are all greedy ambitious, horny bitches to an extent.

They should all be killed. Triss included. She hasn't shared the secret of mandrake decotion to the public yet. She needs to be set aflame. All of them are committing a crime against humanity every single day they don't share the secret of immortality.

/wtc/ has a very anti-Radovid agenda even though he did nothing wrong.

She deserves it.

Philippa is a goddess in human flesh. I would follow hr around and worship hr like some wayward, pathetic urchin if I were in the Witcher Universe.

Is that you user?

I love Philippa.

>No, she looks like a young girl.
Well, she kicks ass and saves Geralt's life many times and her appearance won't fool the witch hunters or her enemies, but I get what you're trying to say.

>Pure speculation.
I disagree about Kalkstein being worth 10 Triss', in fact I'd give 10 Kalksteins for one Triss, but that's irrelevant. It is not pure speculation, they are clearly incapable of protecting themselves, they might have valuable knowledge about magic, but it's clearly not the type of magic that will stop two armies and giant nations from taking over. You think Radovid or Emhyr don't have their own, better mages too? And Kalkstein getting killed only proves how expandable they are if they find themselves on the wrong side, although to be fair he is not exactly a mage, but this can refer to capable people in general. I can't imagine a scenario where 30 weak mages tips the tides of war making the one city defeat two giant armies. Novigrad can't resist as independent, it's impossible from the strategic and logical point of view. They have two nations with their armies knocking on their door, no peasant king will defend them against that.

>More bullshit political doublespeak.
Not really, in her BaW dialogues, you can hear that the mages are doing well in Kovir. The interests of Kovir have become the interests of mages. It is the only place they can have refuge no matter who wins the war(I guess Dijkstra would be the best option for them) and they are working on keeping Kovir strong and independent.

We may have a misunderstanding though. I'm not arguing that Triss will help the elves and dwarfs, but why would she? It is not Triss' duty to protect all the people and races of the world, she can only help those she can and providing a refuge for the mages and making a good life for them in Kovir is a noble enough goal. She is doing what she can for her people. You wouldn't expect Iorveth caring about the mages over the elves, or Roche caring about elves.

I'm actually very pro Radovid ending. He wins the war in my favorite scenario despite being mad as fuck. It makes most sense story wise for my Geralt.

Philippa loves Triss.

does anyone know of a mod to make all the boats respawn? i accidentally crashed them all and i really really really really don't want to swim to the last 4 or so points of interest in skellige.

I don't think there is, you can try using spawn('boat') console command but I'm not sure if it will work. How did you manage to crash them all though? I think I crashed 5-6 boats in my 8 playthroughs and I did all Skellige question marks 3 times.

>tfw you'll never be some young, naive Redanian Knight who falls in love with the court Sorceress Philippa Eilhart
>tfw you'll never be her slave because you love her, but still complain about her lack of morals and sensibilities or her ruthless efficiency and logic

the small debris around the smuggler's cache things that are very hard to see hurt you if you run into them. and every time i would come into port i would ramming speed the dock

>I disagree about Kalkstein being worth 10 Triss'

You are objectively wrong. Kalkstein had begun to discover atomic theory by the end of TW1. Triss Merigold's contribution to society is an illegible and unrepeatable lightning spell that she mumbled in Rivia.

I just park the boat around them. You can see the icon on the map before you reach them so you just turn left or right enough to avoid debris and dive in the water. It's easier killing sirens under water too.

>tfw she will never fuck you out of interest

Kalkstein is worth more than the lodge, Geralt, Regis, and Ciri combined. The advances that can be made with atomic theory outweigh every single possible thing they could ever hope to do in their lifespans, and the effects thereof.

>'I do not believe it,' Condwiramurs pursed her lips. 'In the annals there is no shortage of other examples of courage and heroism from Venerable Triss, some even call her chronically
fearless.

But you have a good point and I'll have to agree and I can't rip on Kalkstein, I quite like him. I'd still sell him ten times over for Triss :3

If Triss saw Kalkstein burn and did nothing because she didn't want to take risks, she is worse than Hitler.

Holy shit, I haven't chuckled this hard in a long time. Well done, user.
Do you think Djikstra has a 8 inch thundercock because he's a fucking giant or a chode because he's a big fat pig?

Those are more contributions to folklore to be honest.

If you walk around Dijkstra's bathhouse during the quest where he first appears, you can overhear women talking about him having a monster schlong. I don't remember the exact words but it's funny.

What ever happened to the whole CD Project Red being hacked? They said they wouldn't negotiate, so did the hackers release the data?

I know, I was joking. I just though it's an appropriate quote. I said you're right and agreed on Kalkstein.

Shut up! Lies! Philippa is relatively pure! She hasn't been schlonged by Djikstra's monster cock.

Djikstra and Bedlam both were said to have big cocks from those gossiping sluts iirc

Oh, come on now, Philippa pure? She mastered the art of summoning sex gardens. She most likely fucked my Trissfu too.

What I like about Philippa is how she's such a cute, smug nerd. Her personality is like a fusion of Djikstra and Yennefer.

Possible although I forgot about Bedlam.

I had that impression with Sile, especially book Sile. Phil on the other hands came off as dominant and very calculated in everything she does. I feel like no word she says hasn't been carefully thought out before. I like her though. I like the Lodge in general. They had some fucked up plans but interesting plans, but so did the others, TW world is a jungle and they are all just fighting for their place.