Skellige's ruler
Skellige's crown goes to whichever an Craite Geralt helps in King's Gambit: Cerys if he joins her investigation, Hjalmar if he rides out with him. Help neither, skip the feast, or leave the quest unfinished when you come back to Skellige for The Sunstone, and Svanrige is crowned instead.
Getting to King's Gambit
- 1Finish Possession and The Lord of UndvikPossession
King's Gambit only starts once both are done: Possession for Cerys and The Lord of Undvik for Hjalmar. Crach then invites Geralt to the feast at Kaer Trolde.
- 2Finish King's Gambit before The SunstoneKing's Gambit
When Geralt lands on Skellige to look for the Sunstone, the game checks whether King's Gambit is done. If it isn't, Svanrige is crowned and the quest can no longer change that.
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The choice
After the massacre at the feast
King's GambitOnce the bears are dead and the jarls blame Crach, Cerys wants to investigate and Hjalmar wants to hunt down the guilty right away.
- "I'll help you, Cerys."Cerys becomes queen
Geralt and Cerys trace the massacre to Arnvald and then to Birna, Svanrige's mother. Birna is tried by the jarls and Cerys is crowned.
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q206_cerys_queen - "Going with Hjalmar."Hjalmar becomes king
Geralt and Hjalmar wipe out the Vildkaarls, the berserkers who turned into the bears. Their testimony clears the an Craites and Hjalmar is crowned.
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q206_hjalmar_king - "You two can handle this fine without me."Svanrige becomes king
Geralt leaves Kaer Trolde and the investigation runs its own course. Svanrige takes the throne.
Game facts:
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How it ends
Queen Cerys
King's GambitGeralt helped Cerys.
Birna was tried by a council of jarls. Though Geralt and Cerys presented damning testimony against her, for a moment it seemed the sly widow would escape justice. In the end, the final nail in her coffin was pounded in by her own son, Svanrige, who sensed her lie at once when she denied the accusations. Birna was given the sentence she deserved and disgrace covered the name of the once-proud Tuirseach family.
Game facts: q206_cerys_queen >= 1
King Hjalmar
King's GambitGeralt helped Hjalmar.
Though Hjalmar was not able to uncover who stood behind the massacre at Kaer Trolde, the testimony he and Geralt provided clearly showed the hosts had not had a hand in it, and that those murdered during the feast had been properly avenged - thus clearing the an Craite family name of all suspicion. Crach and his children were still far from safe, however - the traitor responsible for the bloodshed remained at large, uncaptured and ready to strike again.
Game facts: q206_hjalmar_king >= 1
King Svanrige
King's GambitGeralt helped neither of them, or King's Gambit wasn't finished before The Sunstone.
In the end Geralt decided Cerys and Hjalmar were perfectly capable of taking care of themselves without his assistance. Meanwhile he had more important things to tend to - ones tied to Ciri. He thus left Kaer Trolde and let the investigation into the massacre run its own course.
Game facts: q206_svanrige_king >= 1
Skellige's epilogue slide
The game checks Svanrige first, then Hjalmar, and shows Cerys when neither was crowned.
Skellige
While the Continent bled engulfed by war, Skellige bloomed under Cerys' enlightened rule.
Unlike those who had come before her, the young queen did not raid foreign shores, looking instead to her people, tending to her land.
The island-bound nation prospered, though its fangs of yore were dulled.
Though the war on the Continent had ended, Hjalmar refused to lay down his arms.
The young king pledged to raid and burn the shores of the Empire of Nilfgaard each spring. He meant to keep his word, even at the cost of drowning his people in their own blood.
Game facts: q206_hjalmar_king >= 1
Many islanders believed Svanrige would be no more than his ambitious mother's puppet. The young king proved them wrong, ignoring her whims and ruling with an iron hand all his own.
Tired of the jarls and their endless feuds, he resolved to turn the Isles into an absolute monarchy modeled after those of the Continent.
What he resolved, he achieved, but only by shedding his countrymen's blood.
Game facts: q206_svanrige_king >= 1