Witcher 3 - Character and Story Recap

If you have forgotten how the story in the Witcher went or who's who in the Witcher series, Game Informer and Gamepur has informative editorials about this. Game Informer concentrates on who the characters are while Shacknews has an overview of the two previous games. If you havent played the original Witcher or Witcher 2: Assasins of Kings, please read the Shackews article at your own risk.

A quote from Game Informer about Emhyr var Emries:

Emhyr was cursed as a kid by some jerk wizard, which caused him to turn into a monster hedgehog during the night - a werehog, if you will. Unlike Sonic, however, Emhyr bounced back from his damnable transformation, getting Geralt to reverse the curse and eventually becoming emperor. You'd think being a freaky mutant hedgehog would give him some compassion for other people, but apparently it just makes you the kind of person who dances on your enemy's graves/neutered pigs. Go figure.

A quote from Shacknews about the start of Witcher 2: Assasins of Kings.

Geralt is held in a Temerian Prison for the assassination of King Foltest. Here he is interrogated by Vernon Roche, the commander of the Temerian Special Forces (known to most as the Blue Stripes). Geralt confesses that he witnessed Foltest's assassination at the hands of another witcher, who managed to escape with the help of some Scoia'tael. Roche believes Geralt, and helps him escape with Triss Merigold to the nearby city of Flotsam.