For you maybe, Yen is one of the few characters that even comes close to their book counterpart for me.

Yeah you skipped alot of books.

I kind of always preferred Shani in the first game. But I had 3 pts. 1 with Shani (which ended up not mattering in the next game), 1 with Triss and 1 with neither (which ended up not mattering at the start of the next game). In the 2nd game I ended up liking Triss a lot. So I stuck with her in all 3 carry over saves. I'm only in my 2nd pt of the 3rd game now and almost to do the battle at Kaer Morhen. 

I hadn't read any of the books   But I'd heard things about Yen.  I didn't much care for her in my 1st pt and stuck with Triss.  This time I am going to pick Yen and she has her moments.  We'll see if I end up liking her as much as Triss.  But I agree, they both needed more (especially Triss imo).

Okay, I've rambled long enough about not much really.  But I have a question...I haven't figured out how to spoiler tag things.  Can that be done here?

I only read the Djinn story and already felt her depiction in the game closely resembles the Yennefer from the story.

Shani is so pretty.

Nah. She is a medic who is friends with Geralt, helped them on one big adventure in the books and was in the first game. I wonder if at the end oft he expac she'll get her position that should be happening very soon.

Nah, she's been AWOL since TW1. Which sucks because she's undisputably the superior redhead...

It would be great if this expac does tie into her getting the position that we know happens after the witcher sega sometime in the future



We already saw Attre being very close to becoming Emperor which was already confirmed that he would become emperor many years after the sega.

Fuck that bartender in Oxenfurt and his Deus Ex Machina card draws! D: