The beauty in Geralt’s character for The Witcher games is that he’s no white knight nor a black knight, but he could be. He’s the perfect template for neutrality in gaming. Still and more often than not, Geralt engages in behavior and activities which would have brought shame to a normal human being. Since he’s a witcher and all, he’s more immune to mortification, probably.

These actions are sometimes an involuntary part of the story and sometimes they’re caused by the players themselves, Geralt usually shouldn’t take the full blame. Either way, the said witcher has had his fair share of shameless deeds all throughout the three games, and here are 10 of the most unforgettable ones.

10 SLEPT WITH HIS LOVER’S BEST FRIEND

You don’t have to be a witcher or live in a medieval fantasy world to know that this is ethically wrong. Granted, Geralt should only take half the responsibility for this as he had amnesia. The other half goes to Triss Merigold for being a backstabbing coquette.

Triss took advantage of Geralt’s amnesia and Yennefer’s absence to seduce Geralt and form a relationship with him. It was only in the second game that Geralt fully recovered his memories though Yennefer seems to think that he deserves to be punished.

9 SEXUAL CONQUEST IN THE FIRST GAME

Apart from Triss and Yennefer, we all know that Geralt is quite notorious for being an albino gigolo. This phase of his life was at its peak in the first game where Geralt has a penchant for having more than 26 sexual encounters (excluding the repeat ones at brothels).

Geralt was worse than a 14-year-old undergoing puberty when it comes to raging hormones that he even propositioned one of his flings to “do it” while a literal battle rages on around them. It’s apparent that he’s had his fill of youthful fun come the third game and seems to have “matured” significantly.

8 AGREEING TO BE A ROYAL BODYGUARD THEN FAILING

At the end of the first Witcher game, Geralt saved King Foltest from a mysterious assassination plot involving another witcher. After that, Foltest employed Geralt as a bodyguard and oddly enough, the witcher agreed to such a proposition even if it’s not his specialty.

Well, turns out he wasn’t really that good of a bodyguard as a witcher-assassin named Letho still managed to kill Foltest effortlessly in front of Geralt at the start of the second game. It’s one of those failures that Geralt will constantly carry in his long life.

7 BETRAYING VERNON ROCHE

Vernon Roche quickly became Geralt’s most reliable ally in the second game after the former believed that Geralt was only falsely accused of the regicide. He then went on to help Geralt absolve himself of his crimes and catch the real assassin, it was a solid and honorable agreement.

What does Roche get in return? Betrayal. One of the drastic binary options you get in the second game is betraying Roche and siding with the rebel alliance of Scoia’tael. Should you choose that path, Geralt continues on as if he didn’t do anything bad to Roche after all they’ve been through.

6 VELEN MASSACRE

By the third game, Geralt’s already used to facing the consequences of his decisions that he’s not bothered with the worst of them anymore. It just so happens that one of the worst of them happens during the first act of The Witcher 3, in Velen where you get to choose to save a village of adults or save a bunch of children.

Whichever choice you make, people will die and life carries on for Geralt since he has no time to reflect on his choices because he’s got errands to do. Players definitely won’t see Geralt as affected as they are after the whole Velen act.

5 OVERCHARGING

In The Witcher 3, you can actually do some standard witchering - that is, walking around town and looking for problems to solve. As players, you tend to understand Geralt’s plight and can choose to overcharge; you’re the best of the best, after all.

Ethical problems arise when you’re overcharging peasants to which Geralt has no consideration for whatsoever. Sure, it makes sense to overcharge some lords and nobles, but poor peasants that empty their life savings? This is probably where the “witchers have no emotion” myth comes from.

4 LOOTING EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING

In addition to asking destitute peasants premiums for killing easy monsters, Geralt also has a habit of looting every dead body and every house without batting an eye as if he’s in the middle of a post-apocalypse.

By “Geralt” that means you because there’s just no way you didn’t loot bodies of mangled and poor souls and robbed peasant huts for liquor. You’re not to blame, of course, that’s how the game was built, but Geralt could at least feel a bit of disturbance about it.

3 PUT OFF SAVING CIRI FOR A CARD GAME

This has always been a problem for many open-world games with urgent main missions and even the best of them fall into this design conundrum. Does Geralt race against time to save his dear Ciri or sit down in a brothel to play Gwent with the prostitutes?

Well, that’s up to you but rest assured that Geralt won’t feel an ounce of distress doing that over prioritizing his daughter’s life whose every second is borrowed time.

2 BREAKING DIJKSTRA’S OTHER LEG

Geralt and Dijkstra have a long history of betrayals and grievances. You can certainly feel the political tension between the two. Geralt has already rendered Dijkstra disabled by breaking his leg. Geralt apparently had no qualms on doing this again after Dijkstra wanted to conclude unfinished business with Philippa.

Dijkstra was well within his ethical rights, of course, but Geralt was out of time. So push came to shove (literally) and Geralt could have stopped there but had to break Dijkstra’s leg just to add insult to injury. He then ran away afterward like a punk.

1 BEING OVERTLY VIOLENT

Of course, you could choose more peaceful resolutions to problems especially in the third game, but you’ll find that Geralt still relishes in showering himself with blood should you choose the other way.

He’ll even gleefully bisect some drunkards or give some 10th-degree burns and not have any nightmares about it. It’s Geralt’s most defining feature in all the three Witcher games: he speaks violence fluently and gracefully, sometimes with multiple conversation partners.

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