The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings

What happens in the game

Letho's assassination campaign is tied to Nilfgaard's strategy of destabilizing the North before invasion. Geralt's route through Flotsam, Vergen and Loc Muinne changes according to the allies he chooses.

The political branches reveal different parts of the same crisis: racial conflict, royal ambition, mage politics and imperial preparation all converge at Loc Muinne.

The story, step by step

1. The kingslayer

   After Foltest's murder, Geralt is blamed and escapes with Vernon Roche to pursue Letho. Flotsam introduces Iorveth's Scoia'tael, the town's exploitation of nonhumans and the first choice that divides the entire middle act.

2. Two roads through the North

   Roche's route centers on King Henselt, military power and Temerian survival; Iorveth's route centers on Saskia, Vergen and a multiethnic political experiment. Both uncover sorceress manipulation and Nilfgaard's use of assassins to fracture the kingdoms.

3. Loc Muinne

   The summit collapses into violence as the Lodge, monarchs and empire pursue competing settlements. Geralt can rescue allies, intervene in political outcomes and decide Letho's fate after learning that the kingslayers prepared the ground for Nilfgaard's invasion.

What the story is really about

How it ends

Geralt can make different decisions about Letho and the political survivors, but Nilfgaard's coming invasion and the recovery of Geralt's memories carry forward.

What changes afterward

• The North loses leaders and unity.
• Geralt remembers Yennefer and resumes the search that leads into Wild Hunt.

How it connects forward

The Witcher 3 begins amid the Nilfgaardian invasion prepared by the second game's conspiracy.

Places in this game

• Temeria
• The Northern Realms
• Nilfgaard

Characters in this game

• Geralt of Rivia
• Triss Merigold
• Yennefer of Vengerberg
• Emhyr var Emreis

Continue exploring

• The WitcherAfter the novels
• The Witcher 3: Wild HuntThird Northern War