Quest: The Last Wish - Does it have consequences if i refuse to report to Emhyr? [Includes Spoilers]

[ZeroLexx]

I'm at the End of the "The Last Wish" Quest where yenn tells me that we have to give emhyr a report. I don't feel like he has to know and was wondering if that decision impacts the games ending. I'm aiming for a specific Ending Ciri Empress and would like to know if that's still possible if I refuse to meet him. I know that I have to meet him later before going to bald mountain

[dwarfpcfan]

No the condition to get that ending requires she meet with him

[pure contempt]

Mild spoilers:

As dwafpcfan said, the empress ending entails getting Ciri to meet her dad after kaer morhen, that unlocks that ending. To get the ending you then have to make 5 choices which you should look up if you are worried, the first one directly ends with kaer morhen just before you go to meet emhyr with Ciri (if you convince her too).

It also relies on Radovid being killed which is a quest line involving djestra and phillipa.

In summary

1) make the correct 5 choices
2) get Ciri to meet Emhyr
3) kill radovid

[𝙹𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛]

Radovid's assassination questline was a bit too rushed at the end, especially Dijkstra's secret plot. Like, why didn't he poison the wine instead? Maybe he didn't want Geralt to get involved but for someone like him, he could've just waited until Geralt left to ambush them. That way he wouldn't have risked clashing against Geralt's blade.

[pure contempt]

Originally posted by Light Yagami:

Radovid's assassination questline was a bit too rushed at the end, especially Dijkstra's secret plot. Like, why didn't he poison the wine instead? Maybe he didn't want Geralt to get involved but for someone like him, he could've just waited until Geralt left to ambush them. That way he wouldn't have risked clashing against Geralt's blade.

also the game kind of screams at you to kill him. When you go to him for help with the hunt he refuses, roach says when and where. Really if they wanted us to even consider it he should have offered help in financial form, or like Crach have given some weapon.

Instead he just outright refuses, its not even a split second needed to decide.

Plus I didn't like the way they wrote the interactions between Geralt and him, it seemed like they outright wanted the player to dislike him, while also trying to make us think old fueds were settled. I literally got whiiplash when phillipa got added in and he hadn't forgiven her for trying to kill him, while forgiving Geralt for breaking his leg. meh I just dont really get where the devs were coming from on his whole deal

[Seventh Monkey]

i dont know but all i know is neither of the sorceress girls slept with me and i killed alot of things out of spite

[𝙹𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛]

Originally posted by lokust:

Originally posted by Light Yagami:

Radovid's assassination questline was a bit too rushed at the end, especially Dijkstra's secret plot. Like, why didn't he poison the wine instead? Maybe he didn't want Geralt to get involved but for someone like him, he could've just waited until Geralt left to ambush them. That way he wouldn't have risked clashing against Geralt's blade.

also the game kind of screams at you to kill him. When you go to him for help with the hunt he refuses, roach says when and where. Really if they wanted us to even consider it he should have offered help in financial form, or like Crach have given some weapon.

Instead he just outright refuses, its not even a split second needed to decide.

Plus I didn't like the way they wrote the interactions between Geralt and him, it seemed like they outright wanted the player to dislike him, while also trying to make us think old fueds were settled. I literally got whiiplash when phillipa got added in and he hadn't forgiven her for trying to kill him, while forgiving Geralt for breaking his leg. meh I just dont really get where the devs were coming from on his whole deal

Exactly. And considering Geralt's interactions with Roche, you'd assume that they only took Roche's path into account (from W2) when they wrote him into W3. And regardless of the path, Roche saves Geralt from the noose in W2's prologue. If we look at it this way and considering your points, surely Geralt would choose Roche over Dijkstra? Dijkstra knew this (as was confirmed when he called Roche an old friend of his), so he would've suspected that Geralt might try and help Roche.

What's more? You may or may not know about the Witcher's code. When Witchers are offered jobs that they think is outside their field of work or antithetical to their personal morals, they can turn down the job by saying that it goes against their witcher's code. But in fact, its just a load of nonsense. There is no code that they're obliged to abide by, its simply an excuse to turn down jobs that they don't wish to take up without explaining why. Coming to the topic, Dijkstra knows Geralt to the point where he even knows the whole truth about the witcher's code. That just makes him look even more stupid if he knows him so well.

[pure contempt]

Agreed
Geralt may not get involved with or like politics but his history clearly shows he does get involved in it willingly or otherwise from time to time, especially when it comes to the people he likes/family or friends.