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Originally Posted by Lady Dragonfly  <snip>
Yes, but why did Azar Javed want to kill Alvin? Can you explain that? Did he know who really Alvin was? How? If he did know that, he must have known that killing Alvin would undo the Grand Master. Why would Javed want to undo GrMr, his close ally? I don't think it makes any sense. There was absolutely no indication that Javed intended to eliminate any of his associates, whoever that might be, unless I grossly missed something. Besides, what would Javed win by killing Alvin? The only explanation is that Javed knew who Alvin was and just pretended they were going to capture and kill Alvin, so he would teleport back in time (replicating events). That means GrMr trusted Javed implicitly, because he literally placed his life in Javed's hands, which was imprudent on GrMr part. I wouldn’t trust the likes of Azar Javed with my pocket change, let alone my life.  <snip> |
Indeed it is the variation of the paradox I mentioned.
By "striving" after Alvin's life, it resulted in Alvin being taken in by Garalt and Triss/Shani and thus would end up "teleporting" around. If he did not strive for his life, Alvin would have not been kicked around in time and could not have become the Grandmaster. The Grandmaster also knew that Alvin would survive, because - well, otherwise he wouldn't be the Grandmaster etc.
Javed was just a tool by the Grandmaster in his ploy to perfect humanity (or create run-of-the-mill mutants as it were
) and to seize power, and thus he used him to set the events in motion which would recreate Alvin as the Grandmaster.
However the lacking pieces of the puzzles is what actually happened to Alvin - did he travel far into the future to see the "apocalypse" and then back again to become the Grandmaster. Could he do this on will alone, or accidents or .....
There are many unknown pieces of the puzzle, but basically the above is what I'd deduct out of the story and the information given via dialogues, but without knowing what the devs say about the story.
At least that's my story and I'm sticking to it until I hear something else
Confusing indeed, but that is the "nature" of time travel and those time-paradoxes, all of which hold no solution with our understanding of time and events.
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Originally Posted by Lady Dragonfly <snip>
Another puzzle: Geralt was killed by the angry mob, but his body was never found. Who resurrected Geralt and why? The Wild Hunt ghost? What was the “reason” the Lady of the Lake referred to? Was he chosen to fulfill the Prophecy? (see The Short Guide, Part One... ) Or his own Destiny? Btw, I chose not to believe in destiny, but here it is – time travel, the prophesied Ice Age, and whatnot. The free will concept bit the dust.
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Well - the death of Geralt and Wild Hunt etc puzzles me as well, but I think it has to do with the novels prior to the game, and then the amnesia is just a tool to explain why a very experienced and powerful Witcher starts at level 1.
They couldn't very well start a RPG with Garalt being more powerful then most monsters.
So I think it is more game play then game story related to be honest
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The GrMr was kinda wimpy. And so was Javed; <snip> Actually, I was happy – I hate the super-hard and super-immune bosses too. |
Indeed. It was some of the "minor" bosses, I had most problems batteling and not the actual bosses. But I like that.