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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.
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I disagree that Alvin was unkillable. In the epilogue, Triss told Geralt that he should be very careful because if he is killed in the Ice Age "future", that is for real. That means, by analogy, the GrMr was gambling with his own existence. If Geralt was killed in the future, he was dead in the present. That is what exactly happened to the GrMr himself: he was killed in the future, and his dead body was found in the cloister.
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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 .....
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Yes, he did. Remember the "illusion" of Alvin on that icy path? That was not an illusion at all: that was Alvin teleporting into the future. I vaguely recall Alvin telling Geralt something about his bad dreams. I would imagine that "nightmare" was about that particular encounter.
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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.
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Yes, amnesia is a common condition in RPG.
I wonder, if The Witcher 2 is to be expected, how would Geralt start at level 1 again? And what would be the cause of his degradation/debilitation next time around? A crippling STD? AIDS?
With his lifestyle... well...
I think an expansion is more likely.
Anyway, I will probably replay this game (right after I finish playing Eschalon: Book 1 and finish MoB, and maybe give NWN2 a second chance) and I will try to pay more attention.
I wish the devs come out of the closet and explain what is going on with all this time/space travel.