Kalkstein alive or dead. (spoilers)

[Saedraverse]

So anyone who's played the first game will know this lovable bumbling alchemist.
Thing is when looking for Dandelion I met a transvestite elf, who said Kalkstein was in Novigrad.
"Was" being more than literial, he'd been burned at the stake.
NNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! (That was in the title but removed for spoilers)
Someone please tell me, if you saved Triss in Witcher 2 and there was no massacre of the mages at Loc Muinne, that Kalkstein lives.

[Chunkarock]

Fu ck! Shouldv'e put spoilers in the title! Oh, the deception!

[mblftw]

They still massacre the sorceresses in Witcher 2 if you save Triss (Flaming Rose guys rape two sorceresses to be exact, as I did a W2 playthrough right before W3 came out). Kalkstein dies.

No choices from W2 stop the Eternal Fire from starting its witch hunt, that seems to be one of the central points of W3's plot as far as I've gotten. I doubt there is a way to save Kalkstein.

[Saedraverse]

Originally posted by Centurio:

Fu ck! Shouldv'e put spoilers in the title! Oh, the deception!

Dammit, and I'd removed the cry of no from the heading to cause I though that'd hint at spoilers :/

[Saedraverse]

Originally posted by mblftw:

They still massacre the sorceresses in Witcher 2 if you save Triss (Flaming Rose guys rape two sorceresses to be exact, as I did a W2 playthrough right before W3 came out). Kalkstein dies.

No choices from W2 stop the Eternal Fire from starting its witch hunt, that seems to be one of the central points of W3's plot as far as I've gotten. I doubt there is a way to save Kalkstein.

What? But doesn't if you save triss the conclave for Mages start up again? I'd have thought that'd make a difference. Unless of course Nevigrad remains mostly the same and differences are noticed elsewhere.

[mblftw]

Originally posted by JediSpectre117:

Originally posted by mblftw:

They still massacre the sorceresses in Witcher 2 if you save Triss (Flaming Rose guys rape two sorceresses to be exact, as I did a W2 playthrough right before W3 came out). Kalkstein dies.

No choices from W2 stop the Eternal Fire from starting its witch hunt, that seems to be one of the central points of W3's plot as far as I've gotten. I doubt there is a way to save Kalkstein.

What? But doesn't if you save triss the conclave for Mages start up again? I'd have thought that'd make a difference. Unless of course Nevigrad remains mostly the same and differences are noticed elsewhere.

I'm still in the middle of the Novigrad questlines in my playthrough, but so far she hasn't even mentioned such things. Sad, as I had spent my W1/2 playthroughs making choices towards a relationship with Triss, and abandoned the political questlines to save her, then find out Geralt immediately dumped her after W2 anyways.

The W1 endings effected next to nothing in W2, so I came in to W3 expecting it to be the same.

[BHam]

good i hated kalkstein.

[ThatRabidPotato]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[CheechWizard]

Yeah I was so pissed when I found that out. That's the one character I wanted to see again.

Elf dude says "Yeah Dandelion went to see Kalkstein to build a bomb..."

I do a fist pump, woot I'm going to meet Kalkstein again, hope he's not pissed about me vendoring Raven's Armor!

Then Elf Dude says "...to bad they burned him at the stake."

NOOOOOOOO!!!

[udienowplz]

I just found out about this in my playthrough. Can anyone find out if the W2 choices affect him? Will I have to do this myself?!

[Tawm]

"Aerith dies. Spoiler alert."