Neutral, Knights or Elves?

[12D3V4R]

What did you choose?

At the start of chapter 3, tris told me it would be good for my memory if i chose a side, tho i didnt recall having the option to side with one before that. I stood with Siegfried at the bank, and i thought that meant i was with the knights the rest of the game, yet i ended up being neutral in the end.

[Lucathegreat]

I chose Siegfried at the bank because he was a nice guy, but then during the assault in the village I did my own business, I would've sided up with those poor elves but I couldn't, so both attacked me. Ended up neutral, eventually.

[CrumbleCat]

引用自 Ragnarök：

All Scoia'tael are minorities. Not all minorities are Scoia'tael. As a player, learn to separate the two entities. They are not one and the same.

The Squirrels are a band of terrorists that were once allied to a foreign power to the detriment of their own countrymen, especially their own race. They spend most of their time accomplishing nothing in general, save for pandemonium and mindless violence. They are equally responsible for much of the hatred directed towards other Elves, Dwarves, Gnomes and Halflings that are just trying to go about living their lives peacefully.

How could anyone justify siding with them after they took an entire village hostage, despite the humans of said village offering to share their bounty of food with them freely? It baffles me.

Neutral > Order > Scoia'tael.

I really don't think you have the needs of both sides in mind. What do the elves want? A home and safety. What do the humans do? Treat them like slaves, put them in a crappy non-humans part of town, make fun of them, rape [forced sex] em more than any other races.

The whole hostage thing is such a human thing, that if humans were in the same position, they would have done it too. When people get backed into a corner, they will kick and scream till the last man.

But yes, there's racists on all sides. I wouldn't support the squirrels, but I would help the non-humans find their own place to call home. The game only lets me side with the squirrel ruffians, sadly.

Also, a quote from the elf boss lady Toruviel: "Help us flee under the cover of night. We have no wish to fight. With luck, no one will be harmed" Meanwhile, White Rayla from the order is on the shore saying KILL ALL NON-HUMANS GRRRR.

[Ragnarök]

Nope. That is what "some" humans want. The Squirrels motto is "Drive them into the sea!" in regards to all humans, which makes them no better than the humans that persecute them. The Order just happen to be good at what they do.

Vizima was already on fire when the Order moved into Murky Waters. Yaevinn had been planning the rebellion for a long while, something Toruviel would have been well aware of. White Rayla was demoted by Siegfried right before the assault and she played no part in the hostage situation, whatever she might have been saying prior. This doesn't remove the fact that the Squirrels were a guerrilla unit that refused to disarm, and the Order were operating within the law by putting down said insurrection, whatever ulterior motives the Order had for doing so. If it wasn't the Order that put them down, it would have been the Temerian army eventually.

All of this would have been prevented if Toruviel would have swallowed her pride, disarmed her unit and integrated with the humans of Murky Warters when they first offered to help freely. Pride goeth before the fall.

[The Giving One]

But even the Scoia'tael (and many other non-humans) give a certain level of respect to Geralt wherever he goes, and humans always have something smart like "freak !" or other snide comment to say to Geralt, and so that is also why I personally usually side with non-humans while playing this game, although Ragnarok makes some excellent points in his posts above.

It is really interesting how the story and history make it so hard to decide, just like how it would be in real life to some I suppose. Everyone is different in the real world, so then their choice in the game will also be different than the next person. And with those choices, always come consequences.

[DrCatfish™]

I have no issues with the Squirels, nor do I have any concerns with the Order. I draw the line when innocents are slayed, or either side has to resort to stealing from another. I mainatined neautrality until encroaching upon the Vivaldi Bank Hostage situation, where the elves discriminated my human appearance and I was more or less forced to side with the Order, even though I wished to anyway.

The Squirels are a sort of extremist group to me, much more evil and vile than the Order, even though both are racist pricks.

If the Squirels went about their cause in a way that wasn't hating humans and their affiliates, basically denying water in the desert, I would side with them over the Order, but acting like a terrorist group gives them a negative connotation in my mind.

The Order is far from good and just however, human-centric and rather racist to the minorities. I dislike them almost equally to the Squirels.

This all being said, it hardly matters. When a group has to utilize innocent parties to hide behind their motives, the line has been drawn. That group is officially a terrorist corroborate, and deserves death.

(Also, being racist to the guy who's not really even human is kind of a ♥♥♥♥ move.)

EDIT: Sided with the Knights for Alvin, eliminated the threat to the innocent, felt like ♥♥♥♥ as everyone and their ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ mother condemned me for slaying non-humans the rest of the game.)

[JJDrakken]

Full on Neutral, because in the end, it helps Folstat out & fix Temeria. In the end, Geralt was buds with Folstat.

[Dorg4s]

because a witcher is neutral and because both are wrong I every time want to be neutral, Squirels are the same the Order in racism and more extremist, in the end both are ♥♥♥♥ and need be wiped (Squirels only say about "non-human rights, we fight for peace" for justify your poorly acts, non-human don't deserve the hatred, but this don't justify the Squirels acts)

[The Giving One]

That' s another thing I love about this old goodie of a game, is that as you can see from the comments, most of us would like to stay neutral, and that makes sense and Witchers do hate politics, and Geralt is no different in that regard for sure.

But the game makes it so hard to stay neutral. I think CDPR was a group of geniuses back when this game's story was created, as well as now, and we have come a long way with Geralt since then for sure.

EDIT..That and the original author of the stories. Wanted to give him credit, too.

[Peculiar_Shenanigans]

I side with the elves because.... ROBIN HOOD xD I get a bit of those vibes.
I do take the neutral route of "they also make mistakes" but when you have to take a side at the bank.... elves.