endings (spoilers) is their a good ending? discussion

[Nada]

so this probably seems like a throw away debate with no answer but out of curiosity is their an ending that results in the most good i have played 3 times and the first time i remember doing roaches campaign and i don't remember how that ended when the game came out years ago.

2nd attempt
killed Aryan
chose to side with iorveth instead of roache (felt i owned him nothing this time traitor)
saved triss,
letho lives,
loredo lives because chose to save mottle
stennis is an undisputed king and kind of a bastard
, saskia is dead but vergan is a haven town
henselt lives
tanservile exploded

3rd
let stennis die because he's a arse
went with phillipa in order to save saskia this time
spared sile yet this resulted in loc muin in ruins and the people hunting the lodge and burning every witch and mage (very bad)

letho lives

Nilfgard still rises from the south to invade the north regardless (bloody empire its like the sith killing the jedi)

is their any ending that results in the most good?

saving triss stops the hunt of mages but this means you can't save saskia and adein falls.

[Castyles]

Good choices are:
-Let Aryan live.
-Give sword to Iorveth.
-Side with Roche.
-Kill Loredo.
-Let Stennis die.
-Kill Henselt.
-Save Triss.
-Bring Anais to Natalis.
-Save Saskia.
-Let Iorveth get captured.
-Spare Sile (trust me on that one).
-Spare Letho.

The canon state of things, however, are, more than likely, mostly thanks to the Witcher 3:
-Aryan dies in the war, after Geralt reasons with him.
-Geralt provides Iorveth with a way to make things fair.
-Geralt sides with Roche.
-Geralt kills Loredo with the help of the Blue Stripes, thus he never really met Saskia.
-Stennis' plot is never found but he dies in battle, later on.
-Geralt reasons with Roche. Henselt gets away but Radovid kills him, in battle, later.
-Geralt saves Iorveth and he becomes "public enemy #1". Never to be found.
-Anais is saved and is given to Radovid. Temeria, thus, becomes a vassal state under Redania rule. Like Kaedwin, Aedirn and the Pontar.
-Geralt goes after Triss.
-Since the whole plot was never found, Saskia dies because Geralt is ignorant of it. Also: Geralt is known to, sometimes, ignore the rule of neutrality. Saskia was suffering and Geralt's moral compass is always good and, even if he'd let her live, she would still be trouble thanks to Sile's
/Phillipa's control. It was the most "humane" choice.
-Geralt does nothing to save Sile.
-Geralt kills Letho.

Nilfgaard still invades because this is part of the plot. You can't change that. Same for the mess with the lodge and the witch hunts. It's the default Witcher 3 world state.

[Nada]

i thought you couldn't do both save triss and disenchant saskia.

but maybe because i chose iorveth's campaign so i could be wrong about all outcomes.

given the story i thought i was doing the right thing this 3rd time round obviously not

do foltest a favour by killing the boy king aryan because he's selfish and reminded me of joffery

let stennis die because he was a jerk to saskia and no king of mine and everyone would be better off without a tyrant.

i don't trust roache he seems like the kind of person who would stab me in the back so i didn't side with him and felt i owned him nothing after all he believed i killed foltest and threw me in the dungeons

i didn't want the elven woman to die because i am not a murderer. even if scummy loredo got away

i wanted pontar to be free and belived in sakia's idel so i wanted to do what i could to help her & save her in the war

the empire are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ wish i could kill them same with radovich

henselt seems like a wise king so i spared him & reasoned with him for the peace treaty

letho & the lodge aren't my enermy so i spared them & i thought if i could save saskia pontar is free i didn't realise loc mu would burn and all mages and witch's die.

all i wanted was peace and instead i sowed chaos.

it also seems poor that nilfguard still rises from the south and marches on the north. the poor farmers did nothing wrong and got mowed down


also what was the point of not killing ayran at the battle if he dies anyway by blowing himself up in the dungeon coward

[Castyles]

Saving the elven girls from getting burned alive is a good choice but only in the short run - and probably what the real Geralt would choose. Letting Loredo get away is the worst evil, later on.

Yeah. You can't save Saskia, Triss and Anais in the same playthrough. I just made a list of the good choices, overall.

Aryan might help, along with Natalis, to free Temeria from Radovid. But to no avail since, in the canon, Radovid conquers all the north. Thus Aryan more than likely dies by Radovid's soldiers, larer on (he doesn't die in the LaValette dungeon. You can meet him, alive and kicking, at Loc Muinne).

Henselt also dies in battle and Natalis vanishes without a trace - he probably got murdered, too.

Stennis was a stupid idiot, indeed but bear in mind that his father, Demavend, was also a stupid idiot. The difference is that his subjects had a pretty okay-ish life, overall. Peasants were poor, indeed, but hunger was never an issue and his people knew he was stupid but they liked him. Stennis didn't really did anything to be liked - and probably wouldn't even try to, if he became king.

The free Pontar is a good choice but you have to aid the genocidal Scoiatael. And this is bad. They don't want justice and to return to the top, the good ol' days. All they want is revenge. Revenge against everyone, even humans who never did them harm, mind you.

Besides, ever since the first game, their rebellion was doomed to fall. Much like the Witchers. They're, as Geralt would put, just "relics from the past".

Roche is actually trustworthy and one of the few real friends of Geralt - though he has plenty of them anyway. You're wrong in your assumption. And, if he truly believed Geralt was the real murderer, he wouldn't let Geralt go away from the jail in the first place.

And, to close it off, if you think the Nilfgaardian Empire are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ then go play Thronebreaker: the Witcher Tales. You'll see that they're actually far worse than what you think. Same thing for the Scoiatael.