u/Hadiseh2000

Decided to replay Origins again last night after SO many years. I forgot how much this game meant to me. There are so many fond memories. The second that main theme started playing, I just sat there and started crying. 😭

Had to actually turn the game off and go for a walk in the middle of the night lol.

Ostagar, Denerim, the Landsmeet, the characters, the sacrifice… it all just came rushing back 💔

Like I know they barely show up in The Witcher 3 (which makes sense with the Nilfgaard invasion and Geralt focused on finding Ciri), but they were a huge part of the first two games. That said they’re also one of the messiest parts of the lore.

Honestly, I get where they’re coming from. Centuries of being pushed around, forced into ghettos, treated as second rate citizens in a world they once dominated; of course they’re angry.

But they’re not exactly innocent victims either. Yarpen summed them up pretty well: excessively proud of their heritage, constantly complaining about losing their lands, even though they did the same to gnomes and dwarves. If the roles were reversed, would they really act any differently toward humans? There’s a level of hypocrisy there that’s hard to ignore.

And the thing is, other elder races don’t seem to struggle with coexistence in the same way. It’s mostly the Aen Seidhe who view living alongside **“stinky dh’oine”** as beneath them. So the *“solution”* becomes…TERRORISM! ofc/ s

They also know they’re fighting a lost cause. Aelirenn proved that centuries ago when she led the young elves into a doomed uprising. It ended in disaster. The Scoia’tael know this history. they know how these rebellions go and yet they double down, speeding up their own downfall.

They’re also MORE than willing to kill other nonhumans who choose to live peacefully among humans. In many ways, they’ve made life harder for the very people they claim to defend. A lot of human hatred toward nonhumans is fueled by Scoia’tael actions. Without them, sure, discrimination would still exist but maybe not this level of hatred and violence.

Then there’s Nilfgaard. Through the Vrihedd Brigade the Scoia’tael were used as a convenient guerrilla force, and once they stopped being useful, they were discarded like they never mattered.

So I’m stuck between two ideas: they’re victims of a brutal cycle, but they’ve also crossed lines that are hard to defend. The Witcher world is morally gray, but the Scoia’tael sit in a particularly messy spot.

Do they have any path to redemption in future games or lore? Or were they always doomed to fade along with the world they’re trying to reclaim? Is there any chance they could swallow their pride a bit, like Iorveth did to some extent, and settle for peaceful coexistence with the other races?

That guy was seriously creepy whistling his own theme... Even Geralt seems a bit unsettled for a moment

Is it possessed?

Mine is "In the Eternal Fire’s Shadow". It came later in the game’s updates, but it’s one of the many side quests I genuinely enjoy and always anticipate revisiting. The mood sticks with me every time, and I can’t help feeling bad for Reinald.

Nothing beats a peaceful Skellige boat ride…

Finished another replay today, this time as an Infiltrator. first time trying the class.

At first it felt a bit weird not having biotics since I usually play Adept or Sentinel, but it really grew on me. By me3 Cloak felt kind of busted at times some missions were straight up laughable because of it. That said, I don’t think I fully used the class to its potential so I’ll probably have to do another Infiltrator run at some point. I mostly relied on Cloak and Incinerate with either Garrus or James running squad ammo.

Went full Paragon and chose the Destroy ending. I skipped the Omega DLC this run (since I’d just done it in my previous PT and was not looking forward to doing it again so soon) so I didn’t get enough EMS and Shepard didn’t make it this time.

Thinking of going Engineer next since it’s the only class I haven’t played yet. Feels like I’ve been sleeping on it for almost 10 years

For some reason I had completely forgotten about this small side quest (or maybe I just never played a Colonist in the OG) but this run I chose to roleplay as a Colonist and this part hit me like a truck. I think it’s quietly become my favorite minor side quest in the whole trilogy💔