you can argue that his "reward" was the fact that they didn't outright kill him. Skellige honor is quite troublesome, i mean they decided to throw Ciri's dead friend in what was basically a shit hole because they thought he ran away. I love the place, but man i hate their rules.
I feel the same way. It just feels wrong to give a man a punishment like that even though he stepped up against his mother and admitted that what she did was wrong. And obviously, he didn't know what his mother did until after the massacre.
Late to the party but if they wanted they could've set him a task that he had to complete to regain his family honor. Or at least to make amends in a way that would satisfy the other clans enough to let him stay. He maintained his honor in my opinion by speaking up against his scheming mother and should be given the chance to earn their favor, dodgy old rules be damned.
After the ship from Novigrad been destroyed near the sea by attackers called Islanders from Skellige; Nobody survive accept Geralt. Unfortunately about deceased Captain that Geralt did pay him 1,000 gold coins for to get there will not welcome to Skellige either. Such a shame!
I mean, he is a Witcher. The guy who shows up to take care of the monsters even an archipelago of heroes can't deal with. Unlike on the mainland, where the Eternal Flame have made Witchers scapegoats, the people there have no reason to have any ill will towards him and his kind.
I enjoyed Cerys' sidequest far more than Hjalmar's. It unveils the real cause of the massacre, instead of just going after its instruments. The Berserkers were not entirely innocent, but this way they find out who truly wanted them all dead.
i know im 5 years late but i agree. the game even ends hjalmars sidequest in a very vague sort of way. hjalmar clears his family's name but crach even says that the true enemy remains in the shadows
5:40 That is actually based on a speech of a Polish Statesman Józef Beck who negotiated in 1939 a British-Polish aid treaty after the Nazis invaded Poland. Here's a part of his speech: "Peace is a precious and a desirable thing. Our generation, bloodied in wars, certainly deserves peace. But peace, like almost all things of this world, has its price, a high but a measurable one. We in Poland do not know the concept of peace at any price. There is only one thing in the lives of men, nations and countries that is without price. That thing is honor."
Cerys becoming Queen makes the most sense. Her bro: basically continues the way Skellige has been since forever at the cost of his peoples blood, whilst yeah it's the traditional choice it's a bad one. Svrange: basically becomes a dictator by killing off any and all dissenters to his rule. Cerys: yeah she stops the indiscriminate raiding that might make her unpopular to some jarls but she also does progress Skellige as a society.
Hjalmar: stereotypical Vikings Svanrige: Vikings in Roman Empire eyes, Barbarians. Cerys: real life Vikings who's not only raiders but also traders, farmers, and maybe some merc companies, sailors even.
Graymeyne i liked how there are places that show the last time they pissed off the empire to much they just came in and fucked them up and she knows that
@@edward113288 Technically, the Vikings refer specifically to the Scandinavians and whatever proxies they recruited to go on expeditions to raid, plunder and conquest: The Old English "Vikingr" translates almost directly to pirate.
"Cerys becoming Queen makes the most sense." It's actually kinda funny how CD Projekt Red gave the female claimant the most logical choice to solve the Beserker mystery when in reality women are everything but LOGICAL XD
i like skillege the most, the people are cooler, more accepting of witchers and witches. all over novigrad and velen, people hate everyone. i spend a lot of my time in skillege over the other places.
Tyler S I can't remember the village name, but it happened after I cleared the curse from the light house where you had to kill the wraiths there. After coming back to the inn at the village, two guys decided it'd be cool to fuck with the witcher and after the ensuing battle, the villagers branded you a murderer.
And CDPR with their stupid feminism implied her brother to be a complete Buffon to ignore the evidences in the crime scene so she could become a ruler easily.
I love the Skellige accents. Haha, they have Irish and Northern Irish accents but they have a mix of Norse culture in there as you can see with their clothing, town names, titles, etc. Makes me think they resemble much of the historical people called the Norse-Gaels, halfbreeds of Irish and Nordic peoples.
Well, that can work since the Irish clans from the past viewed the Norse-Gaels as foreigners. I like to call the Skelligers, Gallowglass. Gallowglasses are warriors from the Norse-Gaelic clans.
Feudal Elective succession was by no means uncommon in Medieval Times which is what The Witcher is based off of. One interesting thing about the Gaels though is their use of Tanistry succession that they could have used for Skellige, but it would have been too complicated to describe in the Game.
Usually I support that the Clan members of the murderer be stripped of their inheritance, but considering Svanringe's honesty, an exception was needed.
7:13 fun fact: this guy is the same dude with the bagpipes in Pavetta's wedding feast! His name is Draig Bon-Dhu, and you can see him in S1E4 in the show
@@mattimeikalainen3434 In TW3, iirc he's portrayed as a gwent card with the same character name, and he might've even been referred to that at some point via dialogue. In the show, queen Calanthe directly says his name when he blows his bagpipe to mock the nilfgaardians.
Svanrige doesn't deserve this shit. His mother brought shame to the clan, while this guy is a true Skelligan. If you don't help the an craite kids, svanrige will become a strong king who will unites all the clans together against niilfgaard.
If you don't help the An Craites, Hjalmar and Cerys will die whilst trying to attack the Nilfgaard fleet before the ship with Geralt, Avallach and all others arrive
Anyone else noticed how Blueboy Lugos got killed, yet Madman Lugo doesn't seem to bat an eye to him. He seems more concerned with the other man's son than his own. I mean I know he was tough on his son, but surely he would have shown a bit of emotion towards him, unless of course he didn't care about his own son.
Luis E Morales Falcon oh yeah she needed the full Prometheus treatment. Curse her to never die and get ripped apart by sirens, harpies, and drowners every day until the curse fades and she dies. Sort of what happened with the werewolf but next level.
3:20 "A king by grace of votes is no ruler but a debtor." An interesting take on democracy. Of course, family-rule has its own set of problems, but she does have a point.
The best part about this game is when Geralt helps Cerys to be crowned 👑 as their "new" queen of Skellige! She really cares about her land when people endorse her. Loved to hear Geralt saying, congratulation to Queen Cerys. Nothing can get any better than Skellige. This one is definitely a masterpiece!
As a fan of the Vikings show, Skellige was my favorite location in this game. Mainly because it's more distinct from everywhere else and the people seem pretty cool. Also Cerys is waifu.
Svanrige is the best ruler Cerys' outcome is more satisfactory (fuck Birna, fuck Lugos too) Hjalmar's quest, while I haven't played through it, does sound more fun.
I followed the ritual and protected the elder, anyway. But I’m not against the idea of helping those ambitious young thugs. Even though I knew the Ancient Leshen was just their petty excuse to frame and overthrow the elders, still they have the potentials to be powerful leaders who show no cowardice towards any natural forces. Isn’t that also a crucial quality in Skellige?
Did you know that after Hjalmar and Cerys argue, you can go talk to Cerys ourside and tell her to go inside. And also fight with the Vildkaarls, the bear guys, the berserkers.
Skellige is just so warm and welcoming compared to everywhere else, genuinely some of my favorite characters. I’m off doing a bunch of side quests now that I’ve gotten through the main story.
@@thewhompingwampa2671 Maybe, but that's the kind of king Skellige wanted. The different clans had different rulers, who made sure their citizens were safe and provided for them. The king's role was symbolic, more or less; I think the king/queen was the ruler of all Skellige in times of war with an outside enemy. The previous king spent most of his time plundering villages outside of Skellige anyway.
More like a Warlord. Let's be honest, he would only raid nilfgaard and probably the rst of the north too. DOn't get me wrong Hjalmar is a good guy, but he is a worrior. He prefers to fight rather to think abaut the skeligge as a whole.
I feel like she deserves it more because she's got wisdom, and apparently Hjalmar only really killed the giant so he could brag about it then sleep with multiple women, he can't do that from a throne, your back would hurt.
Cerys managed to trick a monster that literally no one else in the universe has, and in the process remove a curse from a jarl and on top of that gets to the bottom of who set the berserkers free. All Hjalmar accomplished is sail right into a giants lair and get most of his men killed. He surely would've died too if Geralt hadn't come and saved his ass. Cerys was clearly the better choice.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who chose Cerys. For one, I kind of got the vibe of her being the underdog, which made me feel bad for her, even more so when I saw how capable and intelligent she is compared to her impulsive, idiot brother. Honestly, after doing Hjalmar's quest, it became apparent that Hjalmar was brash, impulsive, hotheaded, and a terrible leader. I mean he basically led his men against a frost giant with no plan whatsoever on how to defeat it and in the process, got practically everyone following him killed. All so he could earn another title to make himself King. He's selfish, with no leadership skills or instincts or even concern for those who follow him. Cerys is smart, clever, and clearly concerned for the wellbeing of her people. I don't care if you can romance her or not. She is just objectively the superior candidate to rule Skellige.
Hey, did you know that you can fight the Vildkaars here before going to Crach (well, in a fist fight)? In one of the corners of the room Hjalmar is fist-fighting with one of them and after he lost you can challenge one of them. If you win, Hjalmar will give you his sword. Also you can challenge the Vildkaar over and over again (i stopped trying after the third fight, don't know how many are possible) but will not win anything more...
People please stop saying that you'd want to romance Cerys... Geralt met her when she was a child, and it's kinda the same as saying that you'd want to romance Ciri
Its not the same as saying you'd want to romance Ciri since the main reason for her being off-limits is she's Geralt's and Yeneffer's adopted daughter more or less. Any person today is considered sexually mature at age 18 and as long as the two adults consent I don't see the problem. I'm sure many of the random prostitutes and other lays Geralt encounters are much younger than he but you guys have no issue with him laying them.
Cerys was a kid when she met Geralt and sat on Geralt's lap. So yes, i think fucking Cerys is wrong for that reason. If i met a kid and played with her and let her sit on my lap etc. there is no way i'd fuck her, no matter how old.
Amazing sidequest. I just completed it. I enjoyed more the time with Hjalmar and the boys slaying the giant but Cerys is far better suited to rule. I wanted Skellige to have a good ruler since Skellige people are the only ones who treat Geralt with respect. To hell with the Nilfgaardians and the northern kingdoms.
I think it's pretty cool to find out that there's a video game character with the same name as me but I was really weirded out by the pronunciation. No one has ever pronounced like that ever. It's actually pronounced cer-is not ser-is. The Welsh language doesn't really convert C's to S's the way English does.
Best moment of my current life was when my friend freaked out that a bunch of rats got into my shed and then he yelled when my cat went to kill them, “YOU INSULT ME, AND NOW YOU THREATEN MY CHILDREN”
Luisin88 Except the emperor get assassinated has nothing to do with Hjalmar being king or not. It all depend if you decide to kill radovid or not in your walkthrough.
I'm not sure about everyone else, revealing Birna Bran as being the perpetrator during the assembly scene always bugs me everytime I play through it. It's not the fact that she was behind the massacre, but the fact that Sherlock Geralt and Cerys Watson weren't able to find enough clues to nail that bitch outright at the council. I feel the two of them could've done just a little bit more to get more evidence against her so that we could watch Birma squirm, rather than having her son cave and spill the beans on her. I wanted the satisfaction of crucifying the bitch with hard, cold evidence- letters written in her hand writing to compare them to the ones she gave the servant, or Geralt finding a servant that works for her- or something else. Yeah, I know, convicting a queen mother wasn't going to be easy, but I just wanted that win of triumphing over her instead of relying on her son's honour being the saving grace at the end.
After watching house of dragon season 1 , reading a little bit about the dance of dragons civil war between the Taergaryans as well as the real life anarchy civil war that happened in england, i simply decided to help Cerys become queen of Skellige Isles. I mean since witcher 3 has those Got references as well as Tywin Lannister himself, i figured why not. Plus i liked the ending slide of Skellige Isles progressing under Cerys rule so i didn't wish to repeat the same mistakes of Got fiction and real life history again.
I love Skellige logic. In Hjalmar's path, all he had to do was clear the Svalblod hideout with Geralt's help and the Jarls are like "Cool, the An Craite's are free of punishment" But with Cerys, when it comes to careful analysis of what happened at the feast and being presented with good evidence of Birna's involvement, they're just like "Nah, not enough. Get fucked"
I always chose to Cerys because her gwent card just so fucking strong and special even than Geralt and Ciri's cards. She alone is 15+ and summoners three woman guardians with total 30+... Jesus Christ.
I know I am late to the party but I never did like Birina she reeked of being a traitor and had a right to hate the customs of her home of Skellige. But to go so far as to kill the claimants to the throne well that is a little overboard and if Bran were alive he would be ashamed of what his wife did and he wouldn't accept this I am sure.
@@xLetalis Sorry, I explain. Lindybeige is a youtuber who makes videos about history and weapons. He made a notorious video about the truth behind berserkers in which he shouted the word with crazy eyes and a high voice
Svanrige Bran did not deserve his punishment after all, he was honest and honorable to the end i would had given him a second chance HE IS A PRIDE TO SKELLIGE AND THE NAME BRAND
Hjalmar was okay and I was sad when he died, but he was way too incompetent to rule Skellige. He lacked the patience and was quick to act on impulse. Ceyrus on the other hand, was an amazing queen. I feel as if the world of the Witcher was a real place, folk would be talking about her for centuries to come about how noble, level headed, patient, competent, merciful and peaceful she was. Long live Queen Cyres!
I really need help and I dont know if anyone will answer but after geralt catches the servant and gets proof(the letters) and it goes to the next scene my game stays at the black loading page and it doesn't do anything, it doesn't show me the scene or nothing. I've turned off the game, the system and tried to update the game but it keeps doing the same thing, the game starts out normal but its just that moment that won't go on, please help :/
Why there are not cutscene that talk like how Cerys rule Skellige and stuffs like in the ending of Red Baron? Am I have to wait till the endgame to see it?
They should've made both siblings great potential rulers with different positive and negative qualities. I hated the fact that they've made her the wise one and the brother the idiot.
A warrior first, a ruler second. IMO, he's not an idiot, just not cut out to peacefully govern; some leaders are like that. I think he'd make an outstanding king in times of War, but outside of them he'd definitely flounder.
Does this mission affect some of your side quests or witcher contract?? Because someone that who died in that bear attack might have a requested side quest or Witcher contract for you.
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Svanrige's punishment was too harsh. I'd say he maintained his honor by speaking up against his own mother.
Yeah I thought his punishment was kinda dumb too, after all he willingly gave up the crown at that point as well.
you can argue that his "reward" was the fact that they didn't outright kill him. Skellige honor is quite troublesome, i mean they decided to throw Ciri's dead friend in what was basically a shit hole because they thought he ran away. I love the place, but man i hate their rules.
I feel the same way. It just feels wrong to give a man a punishment like that even though he stepped up against his mother and admitted that what she did was wrong. And obviously, he didn't know what his mother did until after the massacre.
Yeah the rule of this island is stupid. You cant blame the son for the sin of his mother.
Late to the party but if they wanted they could've set him a task that he had to complete to regain his family honor. Or at least to make amends in a way that would satisfy the other clans enough to let him stay.
He maintained his honor in my opinion by speaking up against his scheming mother and should be given the chance to earn their favor, dodgy old rules be damned.
"You're hot-headed, irresponsible..Skellige needs stability"
Mate, I think you're confusing her with Hjalmar.
despite the problems. skellige is really welcoming when it comes to geralt
After the ship from Novigrad been destroyed near the sea by attackers called Islanders from Skellige; Nobody survive accept Geralt. Unfortunately about deceased Captain that Geralt did pay him 1,000 gold coins for to get there will not welcome to Skellige either. Such a shame!
I mean, he is a Witcher.
The guy who shows up to take care of the monsters even an archipelago of heroes can't deal with.
Unlike on the mainland, where the Eternal Flame have made Witchers scapegoats, the people there have no reason to have any ill will towards him and his kind.
Literally the best reception in all the continent.
@@citus333 No, they are not. They just don't give a fuck.
@@bluejay6956 You can actually find the body of the captain and get your money back. :P If you find him right after you get washed out on the beach.
I enjoyed Cerys' sidequest far more than Hjalmar's. It unveils the real cause of the massacre, instead of just going after its instruments. The Berserkers were not entirely innocent, but this way they find out who truly wanted them all dead.
+MsWannabeGamer same here
+xLetalis I agree, but the berserker cave reminded me a bit of the Grendel legend, it was terrifying and fantastic... I'll be torn if I buy this game
+MsWannabeGamer Yeah, it's a really good whodunit.
Exactly, had a bad feeling about Birna from the start
i know im 5 years late but i agree. the game even ends hjalmars sidequest in a very vague sort of way. hjalmar clears his family's name but crach even says that the true enemy remains in the shadows
5:40 That is actually based on a speech of a Polish Statesman Józef Beck who negotiated in 1939 a British-Polish aid treaty after the Nazis invaded Poland. Here's a part of his speech:
"Peace is a precious and a desirable thing. Our generation, bloodied in wars, certainly deserves peace. But peace, like almost all things of this world, has its price, a high but a measurable one. We in Poland do not know the concept of peace at any price. There is only one thing in the lives of men, nations and countries that is without price. That thing is honor."
That's beautiful! Peace should indeed never come at any price. A measurable one, sure.
23:39 "BEARNA BRAAAN's!"
I die from that accent everytime :DD
Cerys the drama queen lol
That delivery gets me everytime. I cannot help but smirk each time I hear it
Love the way she pronounces it
Cerys is probably one of my favorite characters here :) I was worried that she may turn out to be the traitor.
xLetalis I was never so paranoed as playing witcher 3. I suspect everyone :D
hehe
never doubted her, she was more with senses.
Yeah same, I even suspected Hjalmar, but not Cerys.
too bad we don't get to bone her
Cerys becoming Queen makes the most sense. Her bro: basically continues the way Skellige has been since forever at the cost of his peoples blood, whilst yeah it's the traditional choice it's a bad one. Svrange: basically becomes a dictator by killing off any and all dissenters to his rule. Cerys: yeah she stops the indiscriminate raiding that might make her unpopular to some jarls but she also does progress Skellige as a society.
Hjalmar: stereotypical Vikings
Svanrige: Vikings in Roman Empire eyes, Barbarians.
Cerys: real life Vikings who's not only raiders but also traders, farmers, and maybe some merc companies, sailors even.
Graymeyne i liked how there are places that show the last time they pissed off the empire to much they just came in and fucked them up and she knows that
@@edward113288 Technically, the Vikings refer specifically to the Scandinavians and whatever proxies they recruited to go on expeditions to raid, plunder and conquest: The Old English "Vikingr" translates almost directly to pirate.
"Cerys becoming Queen makes the most sense."
It's actually kinda funny how CD Projekt Red gave the female claimant the most logical choice to solve the Beserker mystery when in reality women are everything but LOGICAL XD
Cerys became my favorite character after the possesion mission
+Diego Undreiner yea she really grew on me as well
same. I disliked her at first.
We never got to know how she managed to rescue the baby tho
Gustavo Suarez We did though. The oven had two doors and she took the baby out from the back before it burned alive.
@@janterri3539 That's only if you return the baby, tho
i like skillege the most, the people are cooler, more accepting of witchers and witches. all over novigrad and velen, people hate everyone. i spend a lot of my time in skillege over the other places.
True but Skellige has its fair share of assholes. Remember when the villagers lied to Lugos about Geralt killing the two guys?
nope, where was that?
Tyler S I can't remember the village name, but it happened after I cleared the curse from the light house where you had to kill the wraiths there.
After coming back to the inn at the village, two guys decided it'd be cool to fuck with the witcher and after the ensuing battle, the villagers branded you a murderer.
+Lord Zuko Strange, never got that story. In mine a third guy told the other two off and they drank together. Also, don't forget poor Sjkall.
Heavenly Star That's probably because to get that story you have to do that contract before the quest in this video.
I chose to help her, not because shes a woman but damn, She was way smarter than her stupid brother
Jarl William By strong you mean getting them kill. Just like he did with the giants.
Thinh Vo the word strong is not even in his comment
And she's also a woman
And CDPR with their stupid feminism implied her brother to be a complete Buffon to ignore the evidences in the crime scene so she could become a ruler easily.
@@Romano2018 I think you are reading too much into it
Cerys has the right idea wanting to unite the clans, people can accomplish a lot more working together then apart.
It also means they have to lose their autonomy and privileges
@@cs0345 That has had to happen for every nation that had to abandon feudalism to further organize.
I just love that Udalryk stands up for Geralt.
After the tragedies and filth that plagued the continent, Skellige was such a breath of fresh air (literally).
Oh boy... toussaint...
Toussaint is soo damn beautiful
I love the Skellige accents. Haha, they have Irish and Northern Irish accents but they have a mix of Norse culture in there as you can see with their clothing, town names, titles, etc. Makes me think they resemble much of the historical people called the Norse-Gaels, halfbreeds of Irish and Nordic peoples.
put simply, i call them vikings.
Well, that can work since the Irish clans from the past viewed the Norse-Gaels as foreigners. I like to call the Skelligers, Gallowglass. Gallowglasses are warriors from the Norse-Gaelic clans.
There accents is supposed to be closer to elder speech like the southern kingdoms Cintra for example
Elder speech is similar to Gaelic
Leonard885 Oh? I see. I kind of knew that since the Elves have those rather weird Celtic names that are a little hard to pronounce.
This was basically the Witcher 3’s Red Wedding.
We even have creepy foreshadowing
There’s actually a reference to that, where the Jarls talked about a “red funeral”.
Geralt should dump his two manipulative witches and hit on an intelligent, patient and grounded hottie like Cerys :)
+Bender B. Rodriguez yes :}
The bad thing is though is that it mentioned that geralt met cerys when she was a child...
+Firestar1034 Anyway most of the young women Geralt shags weren't even born when he started hunting monsters :P
I think one reason why Geralt doesn't bang kings or queens, or anyone with their kind of power is because he's at risk of being punished.
she no longer is a child, she's a fine young woman now
That "Ruler should not be chosen by vote, but by blood" is kinda interesting when you remember that this game was made in Poland xp
+Matti Ratilainen You men the electoral Polish kings?
I though they based skellige off Iceland and Greenland
Even the Scandinavian Kingdoms were elected during the medieval era as well as Poland-Lithuania.
Feudal Elective succession was by no means uncommon in Medieval Times which is what The Witcher is based off of.
One interesting thing about the Gaels though is their use of Tanistry succession that they could have used for Skellige, but it would have been too complicated to describe in the Game.
Usually I support that the Clan members of the murderer be stripped of their inheritance, but considering Svanringe's honesty, an exception was needed.
0ppp
Geralt of Rivia avenged the Bear Massacre, he is the White Wolf, the King in the North! ⚔️ 🐺
Love Cerys. The island of skellige is best area in game for me.Reminds me of Skyrim. I wanted Cratch to be King when i 1st played it.
Jason Smith while I haven't played skyrim I do love Skellige ;]
Apart from the whole dragons and mutated elves underground yes.
7:13 fun fact: this guy is the same dude with the bagpipes in Pavetta's wedding feast! His name is Draig Bon-Dhu, and you can see him in S1E4 in the show
How do you know?
@@mattimeikalainen3434 In TW3, iirc he's portrayed as a gwent card with the same character name, and he might've even been referred to that at some point via dialogue. In the show, queen Calanthe directly says his name when he blows his bagpipe to mock the nilfgaardians.
Is it just me who fancies her the most of all The Witcher characters. I mean, her attitude us so f××king cool.
Glad I'm not the only one.
wanted to romance cerys :( This game made me in love with Scottish woman & everything
*Irish - but Scots are way better ;)
fucking skelligan
Peter Cho Combo of Scandinavian and Celtic = Skelligan, also that's me, so thanks!
no, thank you for being awesome :)
Peter Cho :) you're too kind! same to you.
Svanrige doesn't deserve this shit. His mother brought shame to the clan, while this guy is a true Skelligan. If you don't help the an craite kids, svanrige will become a strong king who will unites all the clans together against niilfgaard.
If you don't help the An Craites, Hjalmar and Cerys will die whilst trying to attack the Nilfgaard fleet before the ship with Geralt, Avallach and all others arrive
RELEASE THE CRACHEN
Lol
Anyone else noticed how Blueboy Lugos got killed, yet Madman Lugo doesn't seem to bat an eye to him. He seems more concerned with the other man's son than his own. I mean I know he was tough on his son, but surely he would have shown a bit of emotion towards him, unless of course he didn't care about his own son.
Blueboy isn't his son Blueboy is his nephew
In the fist fighting quests in Skellige you find out that Lugos also has a bastard and you have to fight him.
@@Elaini-Gaming His wife is also from the Continent and was likely a thrall Clan Drummond captured in a raid.
Birna punishment was to small, Svaringe could have been recruited for battling the Wild Hunt to clean his honor.
Getting chained to a rock to die of exposure and then having your remains picked apart by seabirds is a pretty damn awful way to die.
@@Wasserkaktus In a world with curses she needed more.
Luis E Morales Falcon oh yeah she needed the full Prometheus treatment. Curse her to never die and get ripped apart by sirens, harpies, and drowners every day until the curse fades and she dies. Sort of what happened with the werewolf but next level.
@@sirshotty7689 indeed.
"When I get my hands on that pyromaniac" LMAO! love Geralt! lol
3:20 "A king by grace of votes is no ruler but a debtor." An interesting take on democracy. Of course, family-rule has its own set of problems, but she does have a point.
Which is why voting should be secret.
I love Hjalmar's voice and accent
The best part about this game is when Geralt helps Cerys to be crowned 👑 as their "new" queen of Skellige! She really cares about her land when people endorse her. Loved to hear Geralt saying, congratulation to Queen Cerys. Nothing can get any better than Skellige. This one is definitely a masterpiece!
well said
I genuinely really liked Arnvald so I was so shocked that he helped Birna
So was I, I think nobody expected it
God I love that soundtrack that plays at 2:40! So wunderful!
7:10 Well, I have a terminal fear of bears now.
Logan the Krogan Lol, so does anyone who's come near a bear...
My great grandmother's Swedish, she had to run from polar bears on the way to school.
Logan the Krogan you just now have a fear of bears?
Vegetarian Soylent-Green Yeah right outrun a freaking polar bear
Never noticed it before but 15:09 Skellige art style looks a lot like the Bayeux Tapestry. Nice touch.
Nice catch!
I think this is the canon choice as well, mainly from Birna’s gwent card art showing her chained to rocks.
And Clan Drummond (Mad man Lugos's clan shield maidens) Queensguard.
I spent hours in skellige for the music and the local accent.
Love them both 💕
Everyone knows what you did for cyres and hjalmar, today, your one of us.
Man I love skillege
As a fan of the Vikings show, Skellige was my favorite location in this game. Mainly because it's more distinct from everywhere else and the people seem pretty cool. Also Cerys is waifu.
After the possession quest, I knew she'll perfect to be the queen. Such a smart girl.
Cerys is the better ruler.
I went with her brother though because her "plan" sounded boring to play through.
Svanridge is the best choice
HJALMAR! fuck nilfguard
There is nothing boring in this game.
Svanrige is the best ruler
Cerys' outcome is more satisfactory (fuck Birna, fuck Lugos too)
Hjalmar's quest, while I haven't played through it, does sound more fun.
Roan7995 It's not boring, five minutes in, you're almost burned alive, and than a minute later your in a horse chase
I Never doubt which one to help here. I love Cerys.
Somehow this Hjalmar/Cerys dilemma always reminds me of another side quest about whether to rid the village of that ancient Leshen.
I followed the ritual and protected the elder, anyway. But I’m not against the idea of helping those ambitious young thugs. Even though I knew the Ancient Leshen was just their petty excuse to frame and overthrow the elders, still they have the potentials to be powerful leaders who show no cowardice towards any natural forces. Isn’t that also a crucial quality in Skellige?
Geralt and Cerys should have stated Birna's motive. What she told Geralt earlier in the feast about only having single ruling family.
Did you know that after Hjalmar and Cerys argue, you can go talk to Cerys ourside and tell her to go inside. And also fight with the Vildkaarls, the bear guys, the berserkers.
I do, I'll be making a video about it eventually!
Skellige is just so warm and welcoming compared to everywhere else, genuinely some of my favorite characters. I’m off doing a bunch of side quests now that I’ve gotten through the main story.
Cerys was always my favourite
her brother would make a terrible king
blackvial Yeah
I know I'm late but yeah, he'd be a "Kill everyone and party first then maybe consider thinking later" ruler.
@@thewhompingwampa2671 Maybe, but that's the kind of king Skellige wanted. The different clans had different rulers, who made sure their citizens were safe and provided for them. The king's role was symbolic, more or less; I think the king/queen was the ruler of all Skellige in times of war with an outside enemy. The previous king spent most of his time plundering villages outside of Skellige anyway.
His sister's pacification of the islands would make them more vulnerable to Nilfgaard invasion
More like a Warlord. Let's be honest, he would only raid nilfgaard and probably the rst of the north too. DOn't get me wrong Hjalmar is a good guy, but he is a worrior. He prefers to fight rather to think abaut the skeligge as a whole.
i wish we could romance cerys
shes the best choice by far
I hear ya, I wanted to romance her too and from her banter during the quest. I believe she wanted this too. Sadly we can't :(
The Geralt from witcher 1 would probably try to bang her afterwards
She's the same age as Ciri. They grew up together.
@@lyntonfleming even better
@@outlawdudegaming2949 LMFAO
Skellige it´self is quite cool but the society there seemingly lives under a rock
I feel like she deserves it more because she's got wisdom, and apparently Hjalmar only really killed the giant so he could brag about it then sleep with multiple women, he can't do that from a throne, your back would hurt.
Aw Cerys I loved your accent and your voice
Cerys managed to trick a monster that literally no one else in the universe has, and in the process remove a curse from a jarl and on top of that gets to the bottom of who set the berserkers free. All Hjalmar accomplished is sail right into a giants lair and get most of his men killed. He surely would've died too if Geralt hadn't come and saved his ass. Cerys was clearly the better choice.
He doesn't actually die, you can skip his quest and he'll survive.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who chose Cerys. For one, I kind of got the vibe of her being the underdog, which made me feel bad for her, even more so when I saw how capable and intelligent she is compared to her impulsive, idiot brother. Honestly, after doing Hjalmar's quest, it became apparent that Hjalmar was brash, impulsive, hotheaded, and a terrible leader. I mean he basically led his men against a frost giant with no plan whatsoever on how to defeat it and in the process, got practically everyone following him killed. All so he could earn another title to make himself King. He's selfish, with no leadership skills or instincts or even concern for those who follow him.
Cerys is smart, clever, and clearly concerned for the wellbeing of her people. I don't care if you can romance her or not. She is just objectively the superior candidate to rule Skellige.
CERYS BRINGS NO GLORY TO SKELLIGE
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GLORY DOES NOT MATTER TO A CORPSE.
@@vinpop1237 but she upgrades Skellige's economy-wich means better live for people Living in skellige. Also better economy=better military
I'd give Cerys a hearty pat on the back, the kind Crach would give that sends you face first onto the ground.
Why didn’t the Bears turn back into men at the feast after Geralt killed them? I’ve always wondered!
not sure :(
berserkers turn back into vildkaarls when they fulfill their quota of kills. otherwise they die in bear form, according to the lore.
Hey, did you know that you can fight the Vildkaars here before going to Crach (well, in a fist fight)? In one of the corners of the room Hjalmar is fist-fighting with one of them and after he lost you can challenge one of them. If you win, Hjalmar will give you his sword. Also you can challenge the Vildkaar over and over again (i stopped trying after the third fight, don't know how many are possible) but will not win anything more...
this game stage has me flashbacking to 13TH WARRIOR.
Cerys should have ended up marrying and thereby pardoning Svanrige. Talk about a power couple, considering his ending if he gets the crown.
Maybe that could even happen because they represent the two sides of the same coin. They might keep each other balanced.
People please stop saying that you'd want to romance Cerys... Geralt met her when she was a child, and it's kinda the same as saying that you'd want to romance Ciri
***** I know that, people still marry kids these days. Just because it was normal then, doesn't meant it's not kinda sick now.
Its not the same as saying you'd want to romance Ciri since the main reason for her being off-limits is she's Geralt's and Yeneffer's adopted daughter more or less.
Any person today is considered sexually mature at age 18 and as long as the two adults consent I don't see the problem.
I'm sure many of the random prostitutes and other lays Geralt encounters are much younger than he but you guys have no issue with him laying them.
Cerys was a kid when she met Geralt and sat on Geralt's lap. So yes, i think fucking Cerys is wrong for that reason. If i met a kid and played with her and let her sit on my lap etc. there is no way i'd fuck her, no matter how old.
Game-Caliber I would
Geralt already in atleast in his 9th decade according to vesemir.
SMOKE THE CRACH
Ok but is no one going to mention the "show some of your own" line? No one?
:D
Amazing sidequest. I just completed it. I enjoyed more the time with Hjalmar and the boys slaying the giant but Cerys is far better suited to rule. I wanted Skellige to have a good ruler since Skellige people are the only ones who treat Geralt with respect. To hell with the Nilfgaardians and the northern kingdoms.
When they let me in I felt so honored, it felt like a Viking adoption ceremony
I think it's pretty cool to find out that there's a video game character with the same name as me but I was really weirded out by the pronunciation. No one has ever pronounced like that ever. It's actually pronounced cer-is not ser-is. The Welsh language doesn't really convert C's to S's the way English does.
Best moment of my current life was when my friend freaked out that a bunch of rats got into my shed and then he yelled when my cat went to kill them, “YOU INSULT ME, AND NOW YOU THREATEN MY CHILDREN”
It was cool seeing the giant that-I-murdered's head
Hjalmar, he pushes the Nilfgaardians back and the emperor gets assassinated, better ending.
Luisin88 Except the emperor get assassinated has nothing to do with Hjalmar being king or not. It all depend if you decide to kill radovid or not in your walkthrough.
Everything other than Cerys on throne is pure heresy. I can't imagine any other man or woman on the throne.
Ehm ... is the first one attacked by the bear Draig Bon Dhu, Skellige's most famous bard ?
Yes, and now he lives on in Gwent
Love how the king said What did you say?! To berna when talking shit to geralt
he's not king :)
@@xLetalis yea haven’t played in a while😂
@@dominicmerzib2096 should check my details missed series ;]
I'm not sure about everyone else, revealing Birna Bran as being the perpetrator during the assembly scene always bugs me everytime I play through it. It's not the fact that she was behind the massacre, but the fact that Sherlock Geralt and Cerys Watson weren't able to find enough clues to nail that bitch outright at the council. I feel the two of them could've done just a little bit more to get more evidence against her so that we could watch Birma squirm, rather than having her son cave and spill the beans on her.
I wanted the satisfaction of crucifying the bitch with hard, cold evidence- letters written in her hand writing to compare them to the ones she gave the servant, or Geralt finding a servant that works for her- or something else. Yeah, I know, convicting a queen mother wasn't going to be easy, but I just wanted that win of triumphing over her instead of relying on her son's honour being the saving grace at the end.
After watching house of dragon season 1 , reading a little bit about the dance of dragons civil war between the Taergaryans as well as the real life anarchy civil war that happened in england, i simply decided to help Cerys become queen of Skellige Isles. I mean since witcher 3 has those Got references as well as Tywin Lannister himself, i figured why not. Plus i liked the ending slide of Skellige Isles progressing under Cerys rule so i didn't wish to repeat the same mistakes of Got fiction and real life history again.
I love Skellige logic. In Hjalmar's path, all he had to do was clear the Svalblod hideout with Geralt's help and the Jarls are like "Cool, the An Craite's are free of punishment"
But with Cerys, when it comes to careful analysis of what happened at the feast and being presented with good evidence of Birna's involvement, they're just like "Nah, not enough. Get fucked"
Hjalmar voice actor is sooooo good
Svanrige deserved better. He would have made a good vassal, loyal and honorable.
is it me or are the skelligans like the iron born from got
Whats the name of the soundtrack at the coronation of Cerys?
I think you mean... BEAR zerkers!
16:28 I think I know this guy from somewhere else
in 20:41 minutes of video has the power point ... but did the brother of her quest and had no access to this site .. I have to go on that site?
I don't remember ;[
I always chose to Cerys because her gwent card just so fucking strong and special even than Geralt and Ciri's cards.
She alone is 15+ and summoners three woman guardians with total 30+... Jesus Christ.
How do I use the alternative uses for signs...when I upgraded one it mentioned it but I didn't get a look at the button
Marcella Ramirez You hold down the button instead of just pressing it. :)
I know I am late to the party but I never did like Birina she reeked of being a traitor and had a right to hate the customs of her home of Skellige. But to go so far as to kill the claimants to the throne well that is a little overboard and if Bran were alive he would be ashamed of what his wife did and he wouldn't accept this I am sure.
Am I the only one who read the title as Lindybeige?
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@@xLetalis Sorry, I explain. Lindybeige is a youtuber who makes videos about history and weapons. He made a notorious video about the truth behind berserkers in which he shouted the word with crazy eyes and a high voice
Svanrige Bran did not deserve his punishment after all, he was honest and honorable to the end i would had given him a second chance HE IS A PRIDE TO SKELLIGE AND THE NAME BRAND
Hjalmar was okay and I was sad when he died, but he was way too incompetent to rule Skellige. He lacked the patience and was quick to act on impulse. Ceyrus on the other hand, was an amazing queen. I feel as if the world of the Witcher was a real place, folk would be talking about her for centuries to come about how noble, level headed, patient, competent, merciful and peaceful she was. Long live Queen Cyres!
Does anyone know the song that plays at 9:34 into the video?
I really need help and I dont know if anyone will answer but after geralt catches the servant and gets proof(the letters) and it goes to the next scene my game stays at the black loading page and it doesn't do anything, it doesn't show me the scene or nothing. I've turned off the game, the system and tried to update the game but it keeps doing the same thing, the game starts out normal but its just that moment that won't go on, please help :/
What would have happened if I told cerys I'm sorry? I'm on my first playthrough and couldn't go back through saves.
timestamp?
I had ofieri armor at this point in my walkthrough
Why there are not cutscene that talk like how Cerys rule Skellige and stuffs like in the ending of Red Baron? Am I have to wait till the endgame to see it?
What?
Svanrige is a good honorable man, hope theres a story in the future of him regaining his nobility and brna is the most annyoing bitch in the game
What armour set is equipped for Geralt?
enhanced or superior Feline
Game wont load past this quest. Tried both options. Anyone else?
never had that issue ;[
They should've made both siblings great potential rulers with different positive and negative qualities. I hated the fact that they've made her the wise one and the brother the idiot.
Some say Skellige changes for the worse when she's queen
@@xLetalis In what aspects does it change for the worse?
They lose their potential fighting force. The land prospers but they’re “fangs” get dull as a result.
A warrior first, a ruler second.
IMO, he's not an idiot, just not cut out to peacefully govern; some leaders are like that.
I think he'd make an outstanding king in times of War, but outside of them he'd definitely flounder.
Does this mission affect some of your side quests or witcher contract?? Because someone that who died in that bear attack might have a requested side quest or Witcher contract for you.
Can I go to kaer morhen without losing the chance to make her queen?
If you start the battle of Kaer Morhen before making her or her brother the ruler of Skellige - Svanrige will become king
Is it just me, or does Cerys look like Anna Paquin?
Madcat221 may be :) More badass though ;p
Certainly. Cerys is certainly no meek little thing like Anna often portrays.