Can someone sum up chapter 3 for me?

[Mari]

I kind of lost interest in TW2 and finishing it after ignoring it for a while.Can someone briefly sum up ch3 for me even if there are multiple choices to everything?Thanks!

[adnoam]

Well...

(spoilers, duh...)

If you side with Roche:

You get with Roche to Loc Muinne and go to Radovid (king of Redania) for help. He tells you that Anais, Foltest's bastard daughter (from the prologue) is held captive by the Kaedwni (Foltest's son, Boussy, is missing and presumed dead). He asks you both to go rescue Anais as he wants to marry her, thus strengthening his claim to Temeria. Roche agrees, as he sees the alternative as Temeria disintegrating between the nobles. Geralt, however, is concerned for Triss, who is held captive by the Nilfgaardians.

There are also several side quests to discover the dirty truth behind what happened to Boussy and Anais. If you follow through them all, you find that Baron Kimbolt paid mercenaries to attack the convoy of Anais and Boussy and kill everyone there (as he wanted the Temerian throne). However, his plan didn't follow through, since Count Maravel changed the route of the convoy to grab the royal children and sell them to Nilfgaard. But the attack was only hald-successful - Boussy was killed and Anais captured - eventually getting the the hands of the Kaedweni.

With the above knowledge, you can go to John Natalis (Temeria constable in charge until a new king is chosen), and present your evidence. You can accuse either Kimbolt, Maravel or both. If you accuse both, since Natalis doesn't have the manpower to arrest them both he decides to arrest just Maravel.

Now, your main choice in this chapter is whether to help Roche free Anais or to go save Triss.
If you help Roche, you break into the Kaedweni camp and kill everyone (including Dethmold). You have another choice - either return Anais as promised to Radovid, or convince Roche to bring Anais to Natalis. If you go to Radovid, he has a good claim to Temeria. If you go to Natalis, Temeria remains independent and united, and Anais to be its future queen.

If you decide to go save Triss instead, then Roche breaks into the Kaedwni camp himself and kidnaps Anais. He takes her away to protect her in secret until she grows, but in the meantime he's declared an outlaw and a wanted man by all the Northern kingdoms. Geralt breaks into the Niflgaardian camp, kills everyone there and frees Triss. More on the implications below.

If you side with Iorveth:

You sneak into Loc Muinne with Iorveth, and find your way into the Redanian dungeon, where Philippa is imprisoned by king Radovid. Since the Nilfgaardian ambassador accuses Philippa and other sorceresses of conspiring to kill Northern kings, Radovid has her blinded while waiting trial. Like in Roche's path you have a choice: Help Philippa escape for a promise of lifting the spell from Saskia, or leave Philippa in the dungeon and go help Triss.

If you help Philippa, you and Iorveth sneak her out of the dungeon to her quarters. She leads you to a magic dagger which should break the spell over Saskia, but flees from you.

If you go help Triss, Iorveth rescues Philippa himself, but is terribly wounded as a result. In the prologue you are given the option of saving him from capture by soldiers (Triss can heal him) and retrieve the magic dagger he got from Philippa, in the hopes of sometime in the future using it to free Saskia.

End game

Regardless of path, there is a summit of kings and mages. Who is present depends on past actions (e.g. if you killed Henselt or not).

If you haven't saved Triss (i.e. you've helped either Anais or Philippa), then the Nilfgaardian ambassador accuses sorceresses (including Triss) of a conspiracy to kill northern monarchs. All present mages are arrested and there's a witch hunt in the north against all magic users. The Nifgaardian plot to cause chaos in preparation for an invasion succeeds.

If you have saved Triss, there are no Nilfgaardians left to attend the summit. Triss publicly accuses Sile in the murders of Demavend and Foltest. Only the few sorceresses which were part of the conspiracy are hunted, and the new conclave of mages is formally established, and will assign mage advisers to the kings of the north.

Regardless of path taken, the summit is interrupted by the dragon (Saskia) coming to rescue Sile and kill everyone there. You have to fight and defeat the dragon, and then you have the choice of either letting it live (still a pawn of the Lodge of sorceresses) or kill it (remove it from the game). If you've taken Iorveth's path and helped Philppa, you can use her magic dagger to free Saskia from the spell - thus ensuring a truly free realm in Upper Aedirn.

Epilogue

You return to Loc Muinne and meet with either Roche/Iorveth or Triss (depending on past choice). If you did not save Triss from the Nilfgaardians you find that Letho saved her himself. You meet with Letho and have a long conversation in which all questions are answered. You have the choice if to fight him to the death or to accept his explanations and part ways.

A post credits scene shows the Nilfgaardian army crossing a river, beginning their invasion of the northern kingdoms.

[CDL Gaming]

I never finished TW2, but played the crap out of TW3. I know this post is very old news at this point, but do you know what/if any implications there are to these choices in TW3? I know in TW3 while getting Geralt's beard trimmed in the beginning there's that interview/recap thing where you can make some decisions and Letho can show up in a mission. Do you see any other repercussions from TW2? Does Anais show up in TW3 or anything like that?

[max.strauss]

Originally posted by CDL Gaming:

...do you know what/if any implications there are to these choices in TW3?

https://witcher.fandom.com/wiki/Saved_game_import

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