Depending on choices made in previous games, Emhyr can be overthrown or remain as the emperor of Nilfgaard. If the canon ...

When Geralt is offered a sum of money from Emperor Emhyr for finding his daughter, Ciri, and bringing her to meet him, the player is put in quite a difficult position.

She’s a princess of Cintra and the daughter of Pavetta and Duny, which was an alias used by Emhyr var Emreis, the emperor of Nilfgaard, as well as the adopted daughter of Geralt of Rivia and ...

Born into royalty, Ciri has no desire to sit on the throne after her blood father, Emperor Emhyr var Emreis, passes - she wants to follow in the footsteps of her monster-murdering surrogate dad ...

When Ciri wakes Geralt up to hunt for Imlerith, taking her straight to Velen skips the scene with Emhyr, and counts as a positive choice. In the meeting with Phillippa, sending her alone ...

Ciri will ask Geralt to go to Velen to face Imlerith on Bald Mountain. Geralt can tell Ciri they need to go see Emperor first or agree to go to Velen and ignore the Emperor.

After all, the season saw not only the death of Geralt’s beloved mare Roach, but also the revelation that the warlike Emperor Emhyr of Nilfgaard is in fact Duny, Ciri’s father.

Late in the season, we learn Emhyr Var Emreis, the Nilfgaardian emperor, finally merges his armies in Cintra. It’s the first time we see him on screen. It turns out Emhyr is Ciri’s birth father.