Talk:Vesemir/@comment-5.254.65.28-20160809120925/@comment-79.121.84.143-20171209122915

Devs' explanation why Vesemir dies, from the 10th anniversary Q&A session:

"Q: Did Vesemir really need to die?

Kuba Szamałek: ''It’s a tough question to answer. Obviously, Vesemir did not need to die — after all, his fate wasn’t dictated by some immutable force of nature, but was determined by our story team. When designing the Battle of Kaer Morhen sequence, we felt that we need some dramatic event to showcase the might of the Wild Hunt. Otherwise, it wouldn’t feel like a big enough threat, a force to be truly reckoned with. In other words, a siege without casualties wouldn’t feel authentic and wouldn’t generate the emotional response we needed at this critical juncture in the story. Once we realized this, we asked ourselves who from among all the defenders of the keep would be most willing to sacrifice him or herself for Ciri; whose death would have pushed Ciri over the edge. Vesemir’s name came up immediately, though we couldn’t decide on his fate right away. He was such an important person in The Witcher universe that we felt the matter needed to be thoroughly discussed. So discuss we did — and we eventually concluded that to perish while fighting the Wild Hunt, in defense of Ciri, was a death befitting the oldest of the witchers of the School of the Wolf.''"