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Posted May 26, 2011
Salutations.

I just finished the game for the first time, having gone with Roche in act 2 and rescued Triss in Act 3, and I have a question concerning Saskia. Do not read if you fear SPOILERS. :)

I was quite surprised to learn in the game guide (reading the Roche section, not the Iorveth section, with whom I will side in my second playthrough) that Saskia was actually a dragoness.

My question is this: at what point in a Roche playthrough could I have learned of her condition? I certainly had no idea, and neither did anyone else mention it. In the end I finished off the dragon (which seemed a mercy given its current predicament), so poor Geralt has no idea he just killed Saskia. Oops. :)

So, anyway, I'd appreciate it if anyone let me know what I should have done (again, in a Roche playthrough, I imagine the information is more readily available when you follow Iorveth to Vergen) to find out this tidbit.

Thank you.

Itkovian

P.S. Bloody good game. Act 3 was rather short, but I loved the final discussion with Letho. And it certainly a bad cliffhanger... or cliffhanger at all. You have resolution, you find out the truth... just because new events are developing does not mean the tale has no ending. The world doesn't stop moving just because you complete your goal. :)
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Posted May 26, 2011
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Itkovian: Salutations.

I just finished the game for the first time, having gone with Roche in act 2 and rescued Triss in Act 3, and I have a question concerning Saskia. Do not read if you fear SPOILERS. :)

I was quite surprised to learn in the game guide (reading the Roche section, not the Iorveth section, with whom I will side in my second playthrough) that Saskia was actually a dragoness.

My question is this: at what point in a Roche playthrough could I have learned of her condition? I certainly had no idea, and neither did anyone else mention it. In the end I finished off the dragon (which seemed a mercy given its current predicament), so poor Geralt has no idea he just killed Saskia. Oops. :)

So, anyway, I'd appreciate it if anyone let me know what I should have done (again, in a Roche playthrough, I imagine the information is more readily available when you follow Iorveth to Vergen) to find out this tidbit.

Thank you.

Itkovian

P.S. Bloody good game. Act 3 was rather short, but I loved the final discussion with Letho. And it certainly a bad cliffhanger... or cliffhanger at all. You have resolution, you find out the truth... just because new events are developing does not mean the tale has no ending. The world doesn't stop moving just because you complete your goal. :)
Nothing and again that's the point of the game. That's a consequence for siding with Roche. Did you not notice that Roche fights on behalf of the royalty and the nobles? He doesn't care about the Vergens and people of Aedirn. He only goes there to continue serving his former royal master. So there isn't any reason why Geralt would know about this as Geralt's mission is to find Lethos. Remember, Geralt doesn't even want to be there, he only has to stay to lift the curse to recover his memory and the King won't let him leave until he does so.


Luckily for you, you can just load up a save for when you made your decision in Chapter 1 and play the alternate option. It's worth your time to do so.
Post edited May 26, 2011 by hulahula32
Posted May 26, 2011
Well, I read on the forums that you can get the dagger and save Saskia even if you side with Roche, but you don't rescue Triss (the guide says as much). So I'm wondering if there's one of those 16 different endings that include both lifting Saskia's curse AND siding with Roche. :)

Either way, I am planning on siding with Iorveth on my new playthrough (starting from the beginning, however, and making different decisions along the way).

Itkovian
Posted May 26, 2011
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Itkovian: Well, I read on the forums that you can get the dagger and save Saskia even if you side with Roche, but you don't rescue Triss (the guide says as much). So I'm wondering if there's one of those 16 different endings that include both lifting Saskia's curse AND siding with Roche. :)

Either way, I am planning on siding with Iorveth on my new playthrough (starting from the beginning, however, and making different decisions along the way).

Itkovian
They were wrong. You can get the dagger but you can't use it on Saskia.

FYI, you can choose not to kill the dragon. If you don't, Geralt says, a dragon can't die from that type of injury and that he's not a dragon killer.

So you do have a choice and you don't have to kill Saskia.

Triss is always saved. Whether you save her or not she is safe. If you don't save her, Letho will. Letho saves all of Geralt's women.
Post edited May 26, 2011 by hulahula32
Posted May 26, 2011
Well see, Geralt might know that, but when _I_ see a dragon I just beat up take a tree clean through the torso, I see a mortally wounded beast that needs a mercy killing. :)

Indeed, the way Geralt finishes it off feels like that as well, gently patting its head and ending its suffering.

Oh well, I'll know better next playthrough. :)

Itkovian
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hulahula32: Triss is always saved. Whether you save her or not she is safe. If you don't save her, Letho will. Letho saves all of Geralt's women.
That lecherous bugger! :)

Now I'm glad I killed him. :)

Though I admit, I think fighting Letho is the proper dramatic thing to do. One of those inevitable confrontations that just has to happen, comrades who just happen to be on opposite sides. Had a drink or two with him, a long discussion between friends, and then it was time to finish it.

It was quite dramatically appropriate.

And while Geralt isn't one to get involved in these political matters (tookneutral path in TW1), fact is Letho forced him right in this situation by killing Foltest... and destabilizing kingdoms on behalf of Nilfgaard, leading to countless deaths, is not something witchers should be doing either.

Regardless, it was a beautiful ending, quite poetic.

Itkovian
Post edited May 26, 2011 by Itkovian
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