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Clowndoe

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I'm going by memory, so I can't give perfect answers, although if you didn't find/look on Google I don't see why I should.

1. By memory I think they were all the same thing.

2. They didn't do anything. Henselt is just a paranoid jackass who didn't like being showed up by Geralt and the elite soldiers.

3. Dunno, can't remember.

4. She just leaves and moves on.

5. Triss used the magics on him.
 

The Madman

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It's been quite some time since I last played Witcher 2, but I'll see if I can remember enough to answer your questions.

1. Conclave is the event they are attending, while the Council and the Lodge are essentially the same thing. I think the Lodge was formed after the Council fell apart or something like that? Not quite sure. Either way same thing.

2. Again I don't remember the details, but Roche was the leader of that entire underground group you have to uncover with the secret coin thing. Can't remember precisely what their goal was, but as I recall Henselt just didn't like having his authority challenged and thus had them all killed regardless of their intentions once he found out.

3. Ciri is Geralts adopted daughter. She never appears in the games, but is a major character in the books. She's also extremely capable and has been MIA since the book series ended and the games timeline began.

4. Don't think you ever find out exactly what happened to Ves. At least if it ever is quite revealed I don't remember seeing it.

5. Mysterious witchcraft and sorcery. It happens sometimes when you're romantically involved with a powerful sorceress and have an adopted daughter which isn't much less powerful.
 

hazabaza1

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I thought the Lodge were independent mages or something. I remember there being a big fuss about mages from the Lodge or something.
 

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IIRC, the council was the previous band of sorcerers + sorceresses that fell apart. The lodge of sorceresses filled the void, and is the current big thing. Limited to females only though.
 

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1. -Conclave is a part of group of mages that conspired with Nilfgaard.
-Council is the lower part of the Brotherhood of Sorcerers.
-Lodge of Sorceresses is a group that was created after the coup at Thanedd made entirely by female members with Phillipa Eilhart at the helm.

2. Roche and a bunch of others from their secret group that you find during that quest were conspiring against Henselt because they were sure that he was being influenced by Dethmold (I can't recall if Dethmold was in cahoots with Nilfgaard though) to do the wrong decisions. That's what I took from it.

3. In a nutshell so I don't go into way too much info: Ciri is the "adopted" daughter that Geralt received through the Law of Surprise and she became a mage in training. She then realises that she had a latent power (elder blood) to travel between worlds at will (quite similar to Alvin from Witcher 1) and with the help of some unicorns she escapes.

4. No one knows what happened to Ves, because we aren't told anything.

5. Goes something like this: (I may have my timeline screwed)

-Geralt dies at Pogrom, Yennefer dies trying to revive him.
-Ciri saves them both, revives them and she moves them to the Isle of Avallach
-Riders of Hunt want Ciri because of her special powers and try to get her out of hiding by capturing Yennefer
-Geralt leaves the island looking for the hunt get Yennefer back.
-Throughout all this he finds Letho and the two other Witchers and helps them and they go together at the Hanged Man's tree where they attempt to fight the hunt.
-Geralt sacrifices himself and asks the King of the Wild Hunt to switch places with Yennefer.
-He is part of the wild hunt for a certain time until The Witcher 1 begins. Not much is known about what happened to Ciri or Yennefer after that, except that of course the ending of Witcher 2 where Geralt finds out that Yennefer has amnesia as well (side effect of being part of the Hunt I reckon), is alive and in Nilfgaard.

Hope this helped a little. I haven't played the game in a while.

PS/OFF: Gonna be hard for me choosing between Triss/Yennefer in Witcher 3...
 

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DarkhoIlow said:
1. -Conclave is a part of group of mages that conspired with Nilfgaard.
-Council is the lower part of the Brotherhood of Sorcerers.
-Lodge of Sorceresses is a group that was created after the coup at Thanedd made entirely by female members with Phillipa Eilhart at the helm.

2. Roche and a bunch of others from their secret group that you find during that quest were conspiring against Henselt because they were sure that he was being influenced by Dethmold (I can't recall if Dethmold was in cahoots with Nilfgaard though) to do the wrong decisions. That's what I took from it.

3. In a nutshell so I don't go into way too much info: Ciri is the "adopted" daughter that Geralt received through the Law of Surprise and she became a mage in training. She then realises that she had a latent power (elder blood) to travel between worlds at will (quite similar to Alvin from Witcher 1) and with the help of some unicorns she escapes.

4. No one knows what happened to Ves, because we aren't told anything.

5. Goes something like this: (I may have my timeline screwed)

-Geralt dies at Pogrom, Yennefer dies trying to revive him.
-Ciri saves them both, revives them and she moves them to the Isle of Avallach
-Riders of Hunt want Ciri because of her special powers and try to get her out of hiding by capturing Yennefer
-Geralt leaves the island looking for the hunt get Yennefer back.
-Throughout all this he finds Letho and the two other Witchers and helps them and they go together at the Hanged Man's tree where they attempt to fight the hunt.
-Geralt sacrifices himself and asks the King of the Wild Hunt to switch places with Yennefer.
-He is part of the wild hunt for a certain time until The Witcher 1 begins. Not much is known about what happened to Ciri or Yennefer after that, except that of course the ending of Witcher 2 where Geralt finds out that Yennefer has amnesia as well (side effect of being part of the Hunt I reckon), is alive and in Nilfgaard.

Hope this helped a little. I haven't played the game in a while.

PS/OFF: Gonna be hard for me choosing between Triss/Yennefer in Witcher 3...
Pretty much this. I'm kinda hoping for Ciri to make a reappearance, by far one of my favorite characters in the books.
 

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shapaza said:
I picked up the Witcher 2 a while back during the Steam summer sale and finally got around to finishing it. I really enjoyed it, but there were some elements in the story that I don't think I fully understood.
Most of it is probably my fault for not playing the first Witcher (a lot of people I asked said to just skip it and read the plot summary because the game is inferior to The Witcher 2) or reading the books, but I would be grateful if anyone could help me understand the story better.

1. What exactly is the difference between the Conclave, the Council, and the Lodge? From what I understand, they're all groups of sorceresses and mages that advise the Northern kings or something like that?
Conclave is all of the mages.
Lodge is just the socresses involved in the conspiracy. Triss, Sile, Sabrina etc.
Council is just a political gathering I think.

2. In Roche's path, the Blue Stripes all got hanged for conspiring against King Henselt. But I didn't catch what exactly the Blue Stripes/Roche were conspiring to do? Overthrow Henselt? Steal all his underwear?
I think it was to overthrow him.

3. Who the heck is Ciri and what is the Isle of Avallach?
Ciri is the MAJOR SPOILERS LOOK AWAY IF YOU DON'T WANT TO BE SPOILED FOR THE NOVELS OR TW3 POSSIBLY
daughter of the Emperor or Nilfgaard
SPOILERS DONE and also payment for Geralt for a job he did. She underwent Witcher training and is the second main character of the novels, travelled between worlds and loads of stuff.

The Isle is where Geralt was resurrected after he was killed, he lived there with Yennefer until the Wild Hunt attacked.

4. What happened to Ves after the end of Act 2 on Roche's path? I don't remember ever hearing about her again, or am I not supposed to know?
I think she just goes back to Temeria whilst you and Roche head to the mountain city.

5. How was Geralt brought back to life after he got killed in the Rivian Pogrom?
Yennefer did it or something.

I also thought it's confirmed Ciri is back? In all the art and trailers and things there's 2 mounted figures, one obviously being Geralt and the other being Ciri?
 

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Maybe I'll have to give this another shot.. I played a day or so and just didnt feel it. I thought it would have been a more open world and keyboard controls didnt seem fluid.
 

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Googenstien said:
Maybe I'll have to give this another shot.. I played a day or so and just didnt feel it. I thought it would have been a more open world and keyboard controls didnt seem fluid.
Witcher 3 will be open world, like it seems every post-Skyrim RPG aspires to be. Witcher 2 is a more linear, directed, Bioware-style RPG.
 

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Ciri is a special character from the books not getting too much into her parents back stories she's basically a blood descend of a very important ancient elf and human alliance so much so her family unites both sides just because they're from this elven line so everybody wants her. She's also a time lord and like the wild hunt can move between worlds.

I think Geralt does die or else he's inches from it when Ciri shows up and fast travels both their bodies out of there. She takes them to Avallach it is a very special magical realm he and Yennifer marry and they make note in the book that the only time these two were able to settle down was in death. Many dead characters in the story also show at the wedding but being in this realm and having an adopted daughter that is a time lord helps in bringing them both back to the world and alive though I think in the book they have amnesia too. People aren't meant to return from that world.

Roche's team didn't do anything Hanselt paranoid about Sabrina's curse made a convenient lie. These guys were in the wrong place at the wrong time and Roche along with Geralt are meddling. Geralt is consorting with the enemy when you get the Virgin's sword so that alone would make Hanselt a bit suspicious. But in short he was the bad guy of the game and needed to have more of a reason to die.

There is a difference between the conclave and the council but I don't remember specifically what so I won't guess.

As far as Ves I figured she up and left or is on a mission for Roche at the time.

Fans of the series have gone through painstaking efforts to translate the books from Polish to English you can read many of the short stories and novels here: http://en.thewitcher.com/forum/index.php?/topic/20967-our-community-fan-translations/

This way you can learn about a whole lot of things the lodge, mage structure, Ciri and her powers, how the world in TW2's game became like it did, ect.