![]() And by all accounts except Syanna’s, Milton was an upstanding knight. He likes money but he also stood up for and befriended Detlaff, the story putting more emphasis on his compassion than any cruelty. We do know none of the knights were perfect men based on Damien’s information-harsh business practices and rumors of dealings with the criminal underworld-but de la Croix was just… stingy? Hardly the worst vice in the world, especially compared to all we see in the DLC. She accuses Anna Henrietta of never looking for her and we learn that’s also a lie born of her desire to paint her sister in a cruel light: “I did… you just didn’t want to be found.” Syanna has a solid history of manipulation, twisting information, and outright lying to paint herself as the victim, so it’s possible-likely even-that this extends to her “they beat me, starved me, and left me out in the winter cold with only a lace dress” story. Particularly when combined with the revelation of other twisted information. Syanna tells so many lies throughout that I simply don’t trust that sob story at face value. Some might consider death via vampire too harsh a punishment for her crimes, though I’m not sure I do, especially since we only have her word that the knights really treated her as badly as she says/deserve death for it. No way is much going to happen now that they’ve actually made up. She got a cushy palace “cell” while kept as an actual prisoner. Or worse, her basically getting off scott free because we know Anna Henrietta blindly favors her sister, no matter what she might say about treating her like any other criminal. Syanna is punished in a more fitting manner, at the hands of Dettlaff himself, rather than through Damien trying to protect Anna Henrietta. Meanwhile the “bad” ending has so much going for it? The biggest issue to my mind is Dettlaff’s massacre going unpunished, but you simply gain too much else to prioritize that alone. With their ruler gone it all falls apart and, as Geralt says, chaos now reigns. Especially when we consider that Anna Henrietta’s resulting death erases all the good you do by killing “The Beast” and lifting the kingdom’s spirits. ![]() ![]() Syanna is dead anyway, so Detlaff was ultimately killed for nothing. The tragic ending is, well, obviously tragic. The “good” ending might end on a high note of them hugging, but there’s no way I trust that to last. In the tragic ending she’s very persuasive in saying that she hates Anna Henrietta, would absolutely try to kill her again if given the chance, and is pleased to finally be able to express that honesty. Someone who has harbored resentment most of her life and plots that elaborate an assassination attempt doesn’t just drop it because the guy who caught you suggests, “Maybe forgive your sister!” and you talk childhood memories a bit. Based on information gathered from all three playthroughs I don’t trust Syanna one bit.
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