I want to thank the author for making this in writing, instead of simply in videos!

Oh My God I seriously cannot believe you just spoiled the whole books. I've read them and it's of no consequence to me, but many people haven't. The fact that emperor Emhir is father of Ciri is crucial and should not be spoiled like that.
Also some background- emperor Emhir was cursed and Geralt lifted the curse in return receiving Ciri, after her parents died in a shipwreck and her grandmother Kalante was killed during the first invasion. So in a way Ciri is Geralt's adopted daughter and Yennefer- sorth of a wife.

Way to drop here too for those of us who just want to see comments. Genius

If you don't want spoilers, then don't come to a Web page that's obviously going to be nothing but..... dumbass

why is it crucial? His character does not really change. Although he has moments of being kind he usually has the interest of the empire at all times in mind.

Gerald gets hired by Ciri's father, it's the main theme of TW3. No use playing that if you don't want spoilers.

That gets revealed within about the first 5 mins of Witcher III, so I think it's a case of needing to be caught up or REALLY going out of your way to avoid spoilers (and ending up on this page was a fail on part II).

A "Book spoiler" tag would have been nice! (Unless some of the stuff here was explained in the last two acts of The Witcher that I missed) Otherwise great guide.

Dandelion? where is Jaskier!

In czech its Marigold and Triss Merigold is Triss Ranuncul. As twisted as it is.

Too late I am already playing......( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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Knowing how to use something has never stopped people before.

Yep... overused ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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A great series overview can be found here -

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Covers things in a lot more detail and what happens in the books (even the un-translated ones)

A number of mistakes:
1. Triss is not his on again off again lover. He had one short affair with her while being temporary separated from Yennefer. Triss found in Geralt what she needed to feel her life fulfilled yet because of her friendship with yennefer (and fear of her) will not try to attempt anything as long as she is part of the picture. Also Geralt made it clear that although he likes her a lot his heart belongs to Yennefer.
2. Yennefer is kinda of a total bitch that changes men like socks. Before Geralt she wasn't in any serious relationship or been in one after. Her problem is she cannot commit to him until she fullfils her desire to have child. Although most sorcerrers become sterile and as a result she can never have a child by natural means or magical the genies she tries to capture fulfils Geralts last wish (not mentioned specifically) by giving them (Gerald is sterile also) an adopted child in the form of Ciri.
3 Ciri is not Emhyr's daughter rather than she is the child of Paveta and Duny. Emhyr tries to link her to him somehow either by marriage or adoption
4. the wild hunt is actually an army force of elves from another dimension. they invaded that dimension and killed all humans, dwarves, gnomes, etc. They had the ability to travel trough dimensions that they lost somehow. As a result they cannot fully materialise in our dimension. Their view on Ciri is the same as the kings of the Northern Kingdoms and Emhyr: try to harvest her power for themselves, if impossible kill her.
Also the fact that she renounces all her magical powers may affect the view of the Wild Hunt on her, but not the kings who view her as a strategical pawn because she is descendant from the Cintra royal family.

Actually, Emhyr is the father of Cirilla. It happened while he still suffered from a curse and went by the name of Duny. Duny and Emhyr are the same person.

I find this hard to believe but we will see what the novels say. I am currenrly mid way through tower of the swallow

I've watched the Polish TV show only. Never found the book where I live. But I searched the witcher wiki/wikia for info about him. Sorry if I spoiled it for you.

The TV series and movie took a lot of liberties. they mixed a lot of events and characters randomly and so on. They are only loosely based on the novels. So I am not entirely sure you are right , but even if you were you did not spoiled it for me. I am almost mid-way trough "Lady of the Lake" and still you claim does not seem to verify. (note that this is the last novel of the series as far as I know)

Only in the first episodes. After that it is pretty accurate to the books. Some passages that are even mentioned in the games. And the Wiki/Wikia refers to the books, not the TV series. There is an extensive biography of Emhyr there.

http://witcher.wikia.com/wi...

well, it does not change much. He is still a general asshole with moments of being a good guy. For instance when he talks to the fake Ciri he is pretty nice with her. I think that if someone else have taken the throne he wouldn't have been half bad.

Note: It appears you were right. He was Ciri's father. Also the games move a bit from the story as in the end SPOILER!

Yennefer marries the witcher and Ciri probably will marry Galahad.

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Thanks for this - I really enjoyed the Witcher 2 but found it's story almost impenetrable as I hadn't played the first one, and as a result found it hard to get into and didn't finish it. Not making same mistake again with the 3rd, so thanks for the bg.

SPOILER ALERT: Thank God for the threesome :D. Thank CDRED for 'mandatory' romance :D

SPOILER!!!!!

CDRED Trolled you

Kinda weird that you're so excited about that.

Hope we see Vilgefortz at the end, opening the possibilty of a bigger enemy in the next games..

Good lord, MASSIVE SPOILER! I came to this goddamned page just to get a who's who and get caught up on the other two games, not to have the plot spoiled for me. Thanks, PC Gamer.

A$$holes.