The Gentleman Will Lead. The Emperor Will Follow. — The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt eGuide

Locations: Vizima Royal Castle, Redania, Nilfgaardian Garrison, White Orchard Tavern

Characters: Emperor’s Chamberlain, Emperor Emhyr var Emreis, Master Ort, Cirilla

Questing Decisions

This conclusion of your Wild Hunt occurs if you made two or more of the previous four choices during your adventure:

During Act II: Main Quest: Blood on the Battlefield, you chose to engage in a snowball fight instead of drinking with Ciri.

During Act III: Main Quest: Final Preparations, you decided to let Ciri talk to the Lodge of Sorceresses alone instead of going with her.

During Act III: Main Quest: Battle Preparations, you allowed Ciri to ransack Avallac’h’s laboratory instead of giving her Lara Dorren’s necklace.

During Act III: Main Quest: Battle Preparations, you made time to visit Skjall’s grave on Hindarsfjall, instead of refusing Ciri’s request.

If you made three or more negative choices, Ciri is dead, and Something Ends, Something Begins (I) occurs instead.

For this ending, the following must also occur:

During Act II: Main Quest: Blood on the Battlefield, you made sure not to visit Vizima and did not present Ciri to Emhyr.

Or, if the Nilfgaard lost the war, and either Radovid lives, or Dijsktra rules Redania.

There are three variations to this ending. The first two require the following: During Act II, you must have completed The Assassins’ Quests (Secondary Quest: An Eye for an Eye, Secondary Quest: A Deadly Plot, and Secondary Quest: Redania’s Most Wanted); and during Act III, you must have completed Secondary Quest: Reason of State. How this quest ended influences this ending:

If you killed King Radovid and sided with Vernon Roche and Thaler against Dijkstra, the Nilfgaardians rule over this land. The emperor moves his troops from Vizima Palace, leave this land, and free Temerian troops reclaim it peacefully. This is Ending III (I).

If you killed King Radovid and sided with Dijkstra against Vernon Roche and Thaler, Dijkstra rules over this land. He isn’t a violent despot, but his troops are seeking clues of conspiracy, driving spies and enemies of the crown away from the land. This is Ending III (II).

Did you ignore Secondary Quest: Reason of State? Then Radovid is still very much alive, and rules over this land. The emperor needs to flee from Vizima Palace and witch hunters are everywhere, violently oppressing the population. Uprisings are crushed, and an air of despondency hangs like poisonous cloud. This is Ending III (III).

Objective:

Talk to Emhyr var Emreis.

One week has passed. The war between Nilfgaard and Redania has concluded, and you have been summoned to report to the Emhyr on the search for Ciri. You are beckoned forward by the chamberlain. In the hall, an officer is drilling his troops. What he says depends on who won the war:

Ending III (I): If the emperor and Nilfgaardian army won the war over the Redanians and King Radovid, the wealth of Novigard is ordered to be guarded from looters. In addition, there is talk about an approaching delegation (probably the Redanians ready to sign a peace treaty).

Ending III (II and III): If the emperor and Nilfgaardian army lost the war over the Redanians and King Radovid, deserters are ordered to be shot. In addition, there are further reports on deserters.

Other courtesans mention the war depending on the outcome, too.

You are shown into the emperor’s quarters. You inform him Ciri is dead—slain as she attempted to stop The White Cold prophecy. Only Avallac’h knows this apart from you both. Yennefer has decided to stay in the north. And you?

Tell him you have post-war work to do.
Tell him it’s none of his business.

He asks if Ciri conveyed anything to you about him. Answer him (your response elects a small modicum of sadness depending on how flippant you pretend Ciri was about the emperor):

She regretted not saying goodbye.
That he wasn’t a good father.
Or she didn’t talk about him.

The emperor requests that you leave. He never wishes to see you again.