

Despite his long career, I don't think Geralt has ever encountered anything quite like this. In his interactions with Iris, Geralt says quite a lot with silent looks. The fact that she became so sad that her heart "simply burst" is really wrenching. And later she was bound by his ill-concieved wishes and his growing callousness and cruelty. First she was bound by love and loyalty to a man that had become incapable of truly returning her feelings. Iris von Everec's story is a tragic one. The scars and stitches heavily imply that whatever The Caretaker was, it had its face removed and replaced with a featureless slab of flesh. There's something incredibly disturbing about that creature's lack of a face.

And speaking of digging, we run into The Caretaker. We travel to the von Everec estate and start digging around. Olgierd's third wish: retrieving the violet rose that he left his wife, Iris, before he left her. I've been playing too much Witcher 3 lately. Let's dig into that.Īlso, last night I had a dream where I explored the stranded ruins of an old ship and found a Gwent card high up on the mast.
