mp2_choices

There are five major choices that determine how the story ends. Highlight the white areas (click your mouse at the start of the white area that you want to see, then -- keeping the left mouse button pressed down -- sweep your cursor across the entire area that you want to see) to see your options and what their consequences are.

1. Your advice to Radovid.

This determines which Adda cutscene you get during Geralt's summary to Dandelion at the very end of the game.

a. If you told Radovid to CONTINUE stirring up trouble in Temeria, you get the "good" Adda ending. In this scenario, Adda and Radovid marry, he has a humanizing effect on her, and she goes on to be a much better queen to Temeria than anyone had expected. The common people prosper.

b. If you told Radovid to STOP stirring up trouble in Temeria, you get the "bad" Adda ending. In this scenario, Foltest rapes Adda until he sires an heir on her, and the trauma of it all drives her mad. Her son is born both deformed and insane, and when Foltest dies, Adda and her son are murdered in the street by the citizens of Vizima, and Temeria is plunged into civil war, as competing claimants try to seize the throne. The common people suffer.

2. Your belief or disbelief when Elianna claims that Triss is the mastermind behind the witcher disease during the conversation in Elianna's laboratory.

a. Tell Elianna that she's a lying liar (she is!), and two things happen:

1. You'll open up the possibility of giving the stolen witchers' secrets (which you've just retrieved from Elianna's lab) to Triss, so that she can figure out how to cure the illness. This means that you won't have to torture Elianna to get the information. (You still can, if you want to. You just won't HAVE to.)
2. You'll set up the "good" Triss ending, unless you break faith with her later on. In this scenario, Triss and the witchers continue to have a warm and happy association, and Triss' healing skills improve, probably as a result of what she learned from the witchers' secrets.

b. Tell Elianna that her story is worth checking out (it isn't, actually; she's lying), and two things happen:
1. You'll mostly close off the possibility of giving the stolen witchers' secrets (which you've just retrieved from Elianna's lab) to Triss, so that she can figure out how to cure the illness. This possibility is still available if you take a particular path through the conversation with Shani when she tells you that she's not okay with torture (Ask her "What would you have me do,") but it's not available from the beginning, the way it is if you told Elianna that she was lying.
2. You'll get the "bad" Triss ending. In this scenario, Triss' relationship with all of the witchers cools, and although she does continue to visit Kaer Morhen, she never comes when Geralt is there, and their love relationship ends. Vesemir is sad that Triss isn't as warm towards the witchers as she used to be, and Geralt knows that this is his fault.

Author's note: Elianna IS lying. Triss is NOT guilty. Just wanted to make that clear, given that I'm known to be a big Shani fan.

3. Your belief or disbelief when Elianna claims that Triss is the mastermind behind the witcher disease during the conversation with Elianna, Triss, and Shani at Kaer Morhen.

a. If you told Elianna that she was a liar during the conversation in her lab, to continue to have the option NOT to torture Elianna and to solidify the "good" Triss ending, you'll need to follow that up by continuing to believe in Triss during this conversation as well. When Elianna tries to blame everything on Triss, you can either tell her to shut up, or you can ask Triss if she wants to answer Elianna, and when Triss replies "Do you need me to?" respond either "No" or "Only for the entertainment value."

b. If you told Elianna that she was a liar during the conversation in her lab, you can still blow it if you express doubt about Triss during this conversation. When Elianna tries to blame everything on Triss, if you ask Triss if she wants to answer Elianna, and when Triss replies "Do you need me to?" respond "Yes," then Triss will be highly offended that you're taking Elianna's accusations seriously, given how hard she's been working for the witchers.

c. If you told Elianna that her story was worth checking out during the conversation in the lab, then you'll have fewer choices during this conversation. Basically, you've already chosen not to trust Triss, so this subsequent conversation will mostly only have distrustful conversational responses available to you.

4. Your choice about how to get the information needed to cure the witchers.

a. If you choose to torture Elianna, two things happen:
1. Triss reads the information about the witcher disease from Elianna's mind, enabling her to make a cure. The witchers are saved, and they get up off of their sickbeds and have a party. During Geralt's summary to Dandelion at the very end of the game, you'll get the "good" witcher cutscene, the one where they're healthy.
2. Shani will break up with you and you'll get the "bad" Shani ending, the one where she won't speak to Geralt when their paths cross in the future.
a. If you're reasonably gentle with Shani when she expresses qualms about your decision to torture Elianna, she'll relucatantly dance with you during the party for the newly-cured witchers at the end of the game, but that's the last contact she has with Geralt.
b. If you're fairly harsh with Shani when she expresses qualms about your decision to torture Elianna, during the party for the newly-cured witchers at the end of the game, Shani will refuse to dance with you, saying that she doesn't dance with torturers.

b. If you choose to give the stolen witcher's secrets (which you've just retrieved from Elianna's lab) to Triss, so that she can figure out how to cure the illness, two things happen:
1. Triss figures out how to cure the witcher disease from the stolen secrets, and she makes a cure. The witchers are saved, and they get up off of their sickbeds and have a party. During Geralt's summary to Dandelion at the very end of the game, you'll get the "good" witcher cutscene, the one where they're healthy.
2. Shani will be happy with you, and you'll get the "good" Shani ending, the one where she and Geralt continue to love each other, she becomes very friendly with all of the witchers, and the witchers watch over her during her travels, so she isn't threatened by bad guys as much as she used to be.

c. If you aren't willing to torture Elianna AND you don't have the option to give Triss the stolen witcher's secrets, then the game ends prematurely and you get the "bad" witcher ending, the one where the witchers stay sick. (By rights, they should die, but they aren't my characters, so I can't kill them off.) Triss tells Geralt that she and Shani can't devote the rest of their lives to keeping the sick witchers alive, and she teleports Vesemir, Eskel, and Lambert to a sanitarium where they can be continuously cared for. Their being disabled allowed monsters to thrive even more than they had been, and deaths from monster attacks increase. Geralt of Rivia doesn't catch the illness, but he's sick at heart, to see his friends disabled.

5. Your choice about what to do with Elianna once the witchers are well.

a. If you choose to turn Elianna over to the Lodge of Sorceresses, during Geralt's summary to Dandelion at the very end of the game, you'll get the "good" Elianna cutscene. The Lodge of Sorceresses destroys Elianna's laboratory and performs a rite that removes her ability to use magic. She now serves Radovid as one of his minor scribes, where her ability to read and write can still be useful even though her magical abilities are gone ... and where someone who understands what she is can keep an eye on her. The humiliation of her come-down is slowly driving her mad, and something will have to be done about her, one of these days.

b. If you choose to kill Elianna, during Geralt's summary to Dandelion at the very end of the game, you'll get the "bad" Elianna cutscene. The other sorceresses are alarmed that Geralt has now killed two powerful mages, and Geralt finds that the Lodge of Sorceresses has the ability to close many doors to him. He is watched, shunned, and hemmed in even more than before. He sometimes wonders if they have plans for him beyond what he's seen so far, plans that include his death. You'll see a scene of several angry sorceresses confronting Geralt...

Additionally

1. Relationship summary

a. If you get the good endings for both Triss and Shani, during Geralt's summary to Dandelion at the very end of the game, you get a "summary" relationship cutscene, one in which Geralt continued to have relationships with both Triss and Shani. Neither woman ever pressured him to give up the other, and although only one woman at a time was ever in his bed again, it was clear that the agreement to "share" him held.

b. If you get the bad endings for both Triss and Shani, during Geralt's summary to Dandelion at the very end of the game, you get a "summary" relationship cutscene, one in which Geralt found other women to bed, of course -- a witcher always does -- but something important went out of his life when both Triss and Shani left him. He was lonely in a way that he'd never been before.

c. If you get the good ending for one relationship and the bad ending for the other, then you don't get a relationship summary cutscene.

2. Final summary

a. If you get the good ending for ALL of the factors, then during Geralt's summary to Dandelion at the very end of the game, you get a summing up cutscene that shows all of the characters dancing and says, "I guess you could say that everyone but Elianna Corbett lived happily ever after, though it was the kind of happy that included bruises, poverty, and struggle. Still, for that time and that place, it was about as good as it gets."

b. If you get the bad ending for ANY factor, then during Geralt's summary to Dandelion at the very end of the game, you get a summing up cutscene that shows Geralt tossing and turning in his bed and says, "And Geralt of Rivia had trouble sleeping at night for many years afterward."

So, if you want the happiest possible ending, you need to do these things:

1. Tell Radovid to continue stirring up trouble in Temeria.
2. During the conversation with Elianna in the lab, tell her she's a liar.
3. During the conversation with Elianna, Triss and Shani at Kaer Morhen, tell Elianna to shut up.
4. Give the stolen witcher's secrets to Triss so that she can use them to figure out how to reverse the disease.
5. Turn Elianna over to the Lodge of Sorceresses once the witchers are well.

If you want the grimmest possible ending but do want to cure the witchers, you need to do these things:

1. Tell Radovid to stop stirring up trouble in Temeria.
2. During the conversation with Elianna in the lab, tell her that her story is worth checking out.
3. During the conversation with Elianna, Triss and Shani at Kaer Morhen, ask Triss if she wants to answer Elianna's accusations, and when she asks you if you need her to do that, tell her "yes."
4. Torture Elianna.
5. Kill Elianna once the witchers are well.

This information is also available (with the crucial parts under spoiler tags) in this post on the official Witcher forum.