Talk:The Witcher: Matters of Conscience/@comment-26189128-20151111171857/@comment-210.186.234.2-20151122100255

Skip to the last paragraph if you only want to know about the possibility of Saskia and/or Iorveth appearing in the next expansion, aka their "alive or dead" status. Not going to edit this into the wiki because I left out quite a few details lol. Consider this as a sort of continuation of the summary:

After Barclay Els (quite a respected dwarf, if you don't know) arrives in Vergen, he joins Geralt, Saskia and the rest to kill the chelonodrake. The chelonodrake was killed but Barclay  has been  heavily injured. Saskia broke her promise to not transform into a dragon anymore (because she lost control of herself and killed 12 people in her dragon form when she was trying to defend a team headed to a silver mine from the chelonodrake which unexpectedly appeared) and transformed into a dragon to bring him to the medics fast but it wasn't fast enough so Barclay died. A few blamed Saskia for the mission's tragic end, all had known the risks involved. Saskia decided to leave Vergen.

Saskia has a conversation with Geralt in some jungle and later, when Nilfgaard attacked, returned to Vergen to help them. Geralt doesn't go back there, though. From here on there's no more dialogue and only Dandelion's narrations, I'll quote some of what he said: "[A poet's] duty above all is to chronicle events. To record the truth. Though at times... I would very much prefer to lie." "I would like to lie and say the dwarves' valor so impressed the Black Ones that they did Vergen no harm." "I would like to lie and say that Saesenthessis' return shifted the course of battle dramatically." "That at the very sight of her the Nilfgaardians scurried south, leaving the victors to dance on the graves of their foes." "I'd like to lie and say Vergen was not razed in punishment for its stubborn resistance." "I would like to lie and say that with the enemy hordes defeated, Saskia flew off into the sunset." Dandelion also implies that Geralt regrets abandoning Vergen 'because he was a professional and preferred to remain neutral'.

So, '''Nilfgaard defeated Vergen and Saskia supposedly died in battle. Iorveth has already left Vergen prior to the comic's events so he's likely alive.''' (According to Saskia (when she, Geralt and others were hunting the chelonodrake): ..."Iorveth's gone and taken his elves with him. We can no longer count on their support [to defend Vergen]." Also Iorveth apparently only took his archers with him.)