The most evil decisions in The Witcher 3

Key points

• Geralt's decisions in
  The sorcerer 3
  can have significant consequences on the story and his relationships with other characters.
• Players must face morally questionable choices such as rejecting Ciri's wishes, betraying allies, or releasing dangerous entities for personal gain.
• The game challenges players with nuanced dilemmas, showing the complex and morally ambiguous nature of the fantasy world.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is one of the most acclaimed open-world RPGs of all time, and with good reason. The game has a vast and beautiful open world that players can spend dozens of hours exploring, as well as a gripping storyline where they play as Geralt and must reunite his “family,” all while battling an external threat from the Wild Hunt , an elite team of elves from Aen Elle who pose as wraiths and spirits.

The sorcerer 3 is not the most traditional RPG, as there is a pre-made main character, Geralt of Rivia. He has an established personality and was a character from a book series, meaning he has an established moral compass and is not as free in his decisions as a character created by another RPG. While Geralt is traditionally a good character, there are some who are morally questionable, if at all evil decisions he can make.

8 Refusing to visit Skjall

Denying Ciri an opportunity

Skjall is a minor character in the game and has a rather unfortunate fate. After Geralt and Yen travel to Skellige to search for Ciri, they encounter a village devastated by the Wild Hunt. There they learn of the Craven, a young man who abandoned his people and was thus dishonored in death. However, it is soon revealed that he did this to save Ciri.

After Ciri discovers that he is dead, she wants to visit Skjall's grave. Geralt can offer her his support and keep her company, or he can coldly deny her this opportunity. This breaks Ciri's heart and helps unlock a bad ending, causing tension in the relationship between her and Geralt, as well as players losing the opportunity to make peace with the past.

7 Kill the baron's son

Forcing stillborns to suffer

The Blood Baron questline is one of the most nuanced and morally gray stories in the game, touching on topics like abuse and miscarriages. Geralt becomes involved in the story of a destroyed family and, at one point, has the opportunity to dig up the baron's dead son and use it to locate his wife and daughter.

One way to do this is to transform the child into a benevolent spirit who will guide the Witcher's path. However, players can also kill the child right before his father's eyes, and while it's probably necessary, it ends up re-traumatizing the Baron and hurting him even more.

6 Accept payment for Ciri

Making fun of Geralt

Another Ciri-related decision is to take her to see Emhyr var Emreys before hunting Imlerith in Velen. While taking her is not in itself a bad thing, if the player chooses to do so, they are faced with another choice: whether to accept the coin Emhyr promised for finding Ciri. If Geralt refuses the coin, Ciri is very proud of it.

However, if Geralt accepts the coin, Ciri feels as if she has been sold to the Emperor and betrayed by Geralt. The scene itself continues while the coin is counted, almost written to humiliate the Witcher and make him regret this choice. It's meant to get a bad ending with Ciri at the climax of the main mission.

5 Forcing the Godling out

Reject the peaceful solution

During Geralt's visit to Novigrad, he seeks the help of a woman named Corinne Tilly, but there is a problem: he suffers from endless nightmares. The Witcher decides to investigate and discovers that a deity named Sarah is responsible for them. Now he lives in Corinne's house and evokes those dreams.

The Witcher can communicate with her and find a way to resolve the situation peacefully, but the player can also choose to chase her away using burdock. This leads Sarah to leave the house and retreat to the swamp, cursing Geralt and calling him a tactless idiot. This is a rather heartless decision when a peaceful alternative was available.

4 Choosing both Triss and Yen

Adultery

Yennefer and Triss are the main love interests of the game, and while each has their own preferences and reasons for choosing one or the other, the game also allows the player to confess to both of them in their respective missions. While it seems like a real possibility at first, the outcome isn't so bright for Geralt.

Just before leaving for Skellige, Geralt receives an invitation for a threesome with both Yen and Triss, but they end up tying him to a bed and leaving him for the night, with Dandelion eventually coming to the rescue. Despite the opportunity to settle down, Geralt can choose to become an adulterer and betray both Triss and Yen, ending up alone.

3 Freeing the spirit of the tree

Helping an ancient evil

When Geralt meets the Hags, they give him the task of destroying an ancient evil trapped under an old tree. Finally, when Geralt discovers the creature, he hears a proposition: release the spirit from its prison and set it free, so that it can free the children the Hags are about to eat, and then enact its revenge.

While the spirit keeps its promise and frees the children, it also annihilates the nearby village along with all its people. He remains at large and can still cause damage with no way to stop him, meaning that Geralt has released a very dangerous enemy in exchange for only a few lives saved, making it a questionable choice.

2 Convict Olgierd

Condemning a soul to torture

In Hearts of stonethe plot focuses on a man named Olgierd von Everec, a morally questionable and even reprehensible person at first glance, a ruthless warlord who has harmed members of his own family in the past. However, the player learns more context that allows him to sympathize with Olgierd, including details of the contract he made with the mysterious Gaunter O'Dimm.

The culmination of the expansion is the meeting with Olgierd in a secluded place where Gaunter tries to take possession of his soul. The player can save Olgierd from his curse and allow him to seek redemption for his actions, but can also step aside and allow Gaunter to force Olgierd into a life of eternal suffering and agony.

1 Kill Keira Metz

Slaughter a friend

Keira Metz is a friend of Geralt, Triss, and Yen in the books. She is encountered in Velen and given a series of story-related missions. It includes investigating the Mouse Tower and helping her find some notes from an old sorcerer. Eventually, this can lead to a date and a little romance between her and Geralt.

However, Keira ends up stealing Geralt's notes and abandoning him. This culminates in a meeting between the two, and if Geralt behaves rudely and provokes Keira, they enter into a battle in which Geralt kills one of his friends, depriving himself of a powerful ally, all because of an unresolved misunderstanding.