10 Alternate Video Game Endings That DRASTICALLY Change The Story

While the Witcher 3 is undoubtedly one of the best threequels of all time, it's depiction of Yennefer - protagonist Geralt's on-again off-again love interest - is one of the game's weaker aspects.

Developers CD Projekt RED wrote themselves into a corner with regards to the raven-haired sorceress. After being left out of the previous two games, Yennefer had a lot of ground to cover up in order to garner gamers' affection, especially as she was competing against Triss - the lovable, loyal and utterly fearless sorceress Geralt had spent the past two games romancing. To give Yennefer even a fighting chance of winning the player's heart, CD Projekt needed to make her as likeable as possible

So it's little wonder they left out the scene where she betrays her friends into an early grave.

Modders Glassfish and xLetalis discovered an unused scene in the game that would have made loving - or even liking - Yennefer an almost impossible task. 

In this scene, Yennefer asks her fellow sorceresses to assist her in locating her lost adopted daughter, Ciri. They agree to help and perform a ritual to locate Yennefer's wayward progeny, only for the ungrateful sorceress to betray them to the invading Nilfgaard army after Ciri is located. End result? Three captive and soon-to-be-executed witches, and one shell-shocked player. 

Yennefer's justification for doing so - that the women may have wanted to use Ciri for their own schemes - feels extremely flimsy, and does little to justify her complicity in the brutal deaths of her fellow magic users.