When Ciri becomes Empress she becomes the most powerful person in the world essentially, with all the power to make people's lives better. I'm not saying you have to agree that the Empress ending is better than the Witcher ending, but if you don't understand why people like the Empress ending after my comments then you're an idiot and you'll But they are the most free and fiercely individualistic people in that world. When Ciri becomes a Witcher, she gains the freedom she has always longed for. When you get the Witcher Ciri ending, when you gift her her sword, you see the joy radiate from her. She becomes what she was always meant to be. Ciri the Empress is the best ending. The best written, we can meet Yen/Triss, Zoltan, Dandelion, a white orchard in winter, a lot of conversations and the most emotional and, like books, has a sweet bitter ending. Ciri herself chooses what she wants to do and can quit at any time, which she will probably do. And if not then she can be like her Geralt didn't force her to visit Emhyr, he only answer his opinion to Ciri, that she should see her biological father, because it could be they last meet ever. And she decide for herself again. And becoming the empress is a big deal. After the game it's most powerful ruler in a world, so she can make a lot. It's not what Ciri wanted, and it's not exactly what Geralt wanted. And, low key, I think a lot of players still kind of want a power fantasy, despite the fact that the narrative of Witcher 3 goes out of its way to undercut any power fantasy aspects. So since "Ciri becomes a Witcher" ending is the closest to what Geralt wanted, it's the preferred ending among the fans who wanted the power fantasy. Out of these 5 decisions, you have to choose the positive choice more than or equal to the negative choice for Ciri to have a happy ending. If you completed "Reason of State" by siding with Roche, Thaler and Ves in the end and visited Emhyr, Ciri will become the empress. In any other happy ending scenario, she will become a witcher. When Emhyr presented Ciri with her only choice of becoming Empress and never seeing Geralt and Yennefer alive again, she was about to break. Perhaps it was fatherly instinct, perhaps it was a calculated need not to have her will broken, but it was at that moment that Emhyr's plans changed and he personally revealed to Ciri that he was her father. Tragic ending. Let's get the horrendous ending out of the way. In the tragic ending, Ciri doesn't survive the events of the game, and, in his grief, Geralt hunts down the last remaining crone in Crookback Bog as he longs for Ciri's medallion, one last memento of his daughter. Of course, Geralt succeeds in his mission, but the closing fFWUS65.