The Witcher decision checklist

This page covers the decisions you have to make during the game and how they impact on the further story.

[[Image:Icon_Prologue.png|32px]] Prologue (Kaer Morhen)
Decision: Fight the Frightener or Save the lab

Impact: if you fight the frightener, in Act I at the bridge, you will face some Salamandra with a mutant dog. But if you choose to save the lab and fight Savolla, you will face the Salamandra only, no mutant dog. Also, facing the frightener gets you a red meteorite from Vesemir.

If you fight Savolla, you can get a sapphire from his corpse.

[[Image:Icon_Act_I.png|32px]] Act I (Outskirts of Vizima)
Decision: Escort Vesna Hood or not

Impact: If you escort her, you get the mill meeting option. If you don't help her, the bandits kill her.

Decision: Help Zoltan

Impact: If you don't help, Zoltan kills them all anyway, but doesn't seem mad at you. It seems you just lose some xp for not helping him.

Decision: Give Arms to Scoia'tael (during Haren Brogg's quest)

Impact: If you give the arms to the Scoia'tael, they will use those weapons to kill Coleman in Act II. This happens as soon as you go to the Hairy Bear Inn after speaking with the detective. If you don't give the arms to the Scoia'tael, Golan Vivaldi will be sent to jail when you go to see him about the two books. However, you can bail him out for 200 orens, then visit him at his home to obtain the books. Killing the Scoia'tael allows you to ask Haren Brogg about Hoog, Zoltan's Scoia'tael friend whom he mentions he was supposed to meet in the Outskirts. One of the Scoia'tael also has Beggartick blossoms on him.

Decision: Fight Leo

Impact: If you fight Leo, you can get a red meteorite off him.

Decision: Save Abigail

Impact: If you save Abigail, she fights with you against the Beast. If you don't save her, she dies and you face the Beast with a bunch of villagers. If she lives, you will meet her again in Act IV and she will also help you fight in the epilogue. If she dies, a generic healer will be in the healer's hut in Act IV and you will have to fight Abigail in the epilogue. Your choice in this decision seems to alter the way in which The Heat of the Day quest in Act IV plays out as well because this decision impacts whether you are someone who stays out of other people's business or whether you try to help others by getting involved.

Decision: Side with Reverend, Odo or Haren

Impact: If you side with any of these people, you will not have to fight them after the Beast encounter. If you don't, they will attack you after the Beast encounter.

[[Image:Icon_Act_II.png|32px]] Act II (Temple Quarter of Vizima)
Decision: Fight with Siegfried or alone in the sewers

Impact: Choosing to join forces with Siegfried will allow you into the Dike with the minimum of trouble and the Order Armorer will be willing to deal with you. There will be a generic guard at St. Lebioda's Hospital, and he will let you enter only if you have the City Guard Signet Ring or with a bribe of about 30 orens. Choosing to kill the cockatrice alone will let you walk into the St. Lebioda's Hospital with the minimum of trouble. However, the Order Armorer will not deal with you but the Dwarven blacksmith will if you helped the Scoia'taels. The guards at the gate to Dike will let you enter only if you have the City Guard Signet Ring or with a bribe of about 40 orens.

Decision: Visit the detective right away or start the inquiry on your own.

Impact: (This is only if you killed the Scoia'tael during Strangers in the Night) Coleman dies immediately after Geralt visits Raymond, which can prevent the player from getting The Rat quest as Coleman gives it (it's a minor side quest with zero plot impact).

Decision: Side with the Scoia'tael or the Order, or refuse both

Impact: Whoever you choose, the other side isn't too friendly with you back in town. If you choose the Scoia'tael, the order merchant/armorer won't interact with you. This is also the case if you remain neutral - the Scoia'tael blacksmith will still deal with you though. Siegfried seems unaffected either way.

[[Image:Icon_Act_III.png|32px]] Act III (Trade Quarter of Vizima)
Decision: Shani or Triss

Impact: Seems to affect your romance subplot and the type of ending you may get. Whoever you don't choose, that person's second sex card will not be available to you. Whoever you don't choose will be angry with you when in Act V, but they'll still help you/talk to you. Also, if you leave Alvin with Triss, in Act IV, Alvin will go to the ruins and you meet the Gambling Ghost. If you leave him with Shani, he goes to the riverbank and gets a dog. Whoever you choose will fight with you in the epilogue.

Decision: Thaler, live or die?

Impact: I haven't noticed anything out of the ordinary. Essentially the last time Thaler is useful plot-wise is just before this choice. In fact, if you decide to let him live, he hangs out at the inn and you can talk to him, but there appears to be a scripting bug: he opens by saying "That a problem?" and one of the possible responses it "They're all safe." It doesn't seem to make a difference what you say to him though.

Decision: Werewolf (kill, save/cure, save/not cure)

Impact: if you save the werewolf and cure him, when you enter the New Narakort Inn to meet with Triss and Leuvaarden, Vincent will enter with a group of guards to fight the Salamandra with you. If you save the werewolf but don't cure him, Vincent will fight with you as a werewolf. If you kill the werewolf, when you enter the inn, you are arrested and have to fight a bunch of city guards and a very small number of salamandra. Killing Vincent is the ONLY way to get werewolf hair for the Predator talent.

If you help Vincent, the novice nun will know about it in the Epilogue and praise you.

Decision: Side with Scoia'tael or Order?

Impact: If you side with Yaevinn, the Scoia'tael will fight with you during the battle with Azar Javed and the Professor. If you side with the Siegfried, the Order will fight with you during the battle. In Act IV, the side you don't fight with will not be available as a choice in which side you will ally with (e.g. if you side with the Order, in Act IV you can either choose the Order or neutral).

[[Image:Icon_Act_IV.png|32px]] Act IV (Lakeside)
Decision: Side with Village, Vodyanoi or Compromise?

Impact: If you side with the village, you get a diamond from Julian as a reward. If you side with the Vodyanoi, the friendly vodyanoi priest will reward you with the Ceremonial Sword of Deithwen (which you can get from Scoia`tael remains quite easily in Act V, even if you're allied with them, as there's plenty of fighting in the streets). if you compromise, you get the sword Aerondight from the Lady of the Lake.

Decision: Kill Berengar?

Impact: If you kill him, you get his medallion which weakens Azar Javed in Act V showdown (some % of his Vitality (I've played at medium difficulty and he lost 25% of vitality due to the medallion), but apparently none of his powers). If you do not kill him, he shows up to help fight Azar Javed (although he is a very weak fighter).

Decision: Side with Order, Scoia'tael or Neutral

Impact
 * 1) Order: the Scoia'tael will be enemies in Act V, you will be asked to kill more Scoia'tael than White Rayla, to make the armor, you will need to see the Order Armorer and get Saint Gregory's litany. Siegfried will fight with you through Vizima in the epilogue. You will have to fight the ghost of Yaevinn in the epilogue. Sex card available is White Rayla's.
 * 2) Scoia'tael, the Order will be the enemies in Act V, you will be asked to escort some refugees to the hospital and to make the armor, you will need to see the Dwarven Armorer and get the Bifunctional fiber and alloy recirculator. Yaevinn will fight with you through Vizima in the epilogue. You will have to fight the ghost of Siegfried in the epilogue. Sex card available is Toruviel's.
 * 3) Neutral: both the Order and the Scoia'tael will be the enemies in Act V, you will be asked to escort some nurses to the hospital and to make the armor, you will need to see Kalkstein and get Agnes of Glanville's Magic Formula. Triss will fight with you through Vizima in the epilogue. You will face both Siegfried and Yaevinn and depending on your answers you will fight them or part in relative peace; in the Icy Plains, you have to fight their ghosts. Sex card available is for two nurses.

[[Image:Icon_Act_V.png|32px]] Act V (Old Vizima)
Decision: Kill or save Princess Adda

Impact: If you save her, you will get a steel sword out of it and she will fight with you in the epilogue as the striga. If you kill her, you'll be able to make a potion from her heart, giving one bronze and one silver talent. Instead of the striga helping you in the epilogue, it's Vincent Meis as a werewolf. Unless you killed him, too. Then it's Count de Wett.

[[Image:Icon_Epilogue.png|32px]] Epilogue
Decision: let the King of the Wild Hunt have Jacques de Aldersberg's soul or not.

Impact: If you refuse ("This is between him and me"), you have to fight the King of the Wild Hunt and some wraiths. If you accept, he doesn't fight you - other effects, if any, unknown.