The world of the witcher was originally a world of elves, dwarves, and gnomes. But then
there was an event known as the Conjunction of Spheres. It was a collision of universes
within the multiverse. The Conjunction of Spheres brought various monsters to the land
as well as humans. In order to fight the monsters, elves taught humans how to master Chaos and
use its power to perform magic. The Northern kingdoms established the Brotherhood
of Sorcerers and opened magic schools such as Aretuza and Ban Ard. Then, they created
the first Witcher. A mutated human engineered to be able to kill monsters. And they did
just so. The Witchers killed a lot of monsters. But as time went on, there were fewer and
fewer monsters to kill, which meant that witchers were earning less and less coin each year.
As a result, one of the witcher mages began to create new mutant hybrids, and he let them
out into the world. These new crossbreeds killed people. So that was not a good look
for the Witchers. A sorceress named Tetra who had a personal
vendetta against witchers rallied her king and her people to her side. Tetra sacked Kaer
Morhen, and they killed the mages who knew how to create witchers, so new witchers cannot
be created. And only a few survived. One of those few survivors was a young Geralt of
Rivia. Geralt of Rivia is not actually from Rivia.
He came up with that name himself. Geralt’s mother was a sorceress. And for reasons, she
gave Geralt to Vesemir where Geralt was trained to fight. Geralt underwent the process known
as the Trial of Grasses. A process that only 3 in 10 boys survive. But Geralt was very
resilient, so they put him through extra experiments that the other boys did not undergo. As a
result, Geralt now has White Hair. Witchers often winter at Kaer Morhen, but
when spring comes, they head out into the world to earn money killing monsters. Geralt
came across his first monster not 50 miles from the witcher keep of Kaer Morhen. The
first monster that Geralt ever killed was a human. A man who was trying to rape a girl.
But the girl didn’t thank him. When she looked at Geralt, she screamed and passed
out. That was the first of many times that Geralt himself would be looked at as a monster.
It happened again in Blaviken. Stregobor asked Geralt to kill Renfri, and Renfri asked Geralt
to kill Stregobor. But he denied them both because Geralt never takes coin to kill humans.
And he would not choose the Lesser Evil. Unfortunately, Renfri forced Geralt to make a choice. In
order to protect the town, Geralt killed Renfri’s band and then he was forced to kill Renfri.
Afterwards, Geralt tried to stop Stregobor from taking and studying Renfri’s body,
but Stregobor painted Geralt as a butcher, earning Geralt the infamous name, The Butcher
of Blaviken. Elsewhere, the quarter-elf girl named Yennefer
was born a hunchback. Her father sold her off to Tissaia de Vries, Rectoress of Aretuza.
Yennefer was broken down, so she slit her own wrist in an attempt to die. But Tissaia
saved her life, and over time, Tissaia began to look at Yennefer as a daughter.
While training to be a sorceress, Yennefer saw what happened to girls who failed to ascend
and Yennefer and Istredd began a relationship. But Istredd is a rat, so he told Stregobor
that Yennefer was part elf, and as a result, the chapter put her aside for Fringilla. But
Yennefer wasn’t done fighting. So she demanded a transformation and then impressed the King
of Aedirn on the dance floor. Yennefer became his mage. Unfortunately, the transformation
came at the cost of being fertile. And Yennefer later found out that the Kings and Queens
were scumbags. So Yennefer went rogue and focused on finding a cure for her infertility.
Meanwhile, Geralt continued on the Path, and his next journey was indirectly connected
to Yennefer. Yennefer’s real father was half elf, and
he was killed during the Great Cleansing, which is a disgusting way of saying that humans
killed a lot of non-humans such as elves. Some of the elves who survived fled to the
edge of the world where they are struggling to survive. Former King, Filavandrel, is one
of those elves. Filavandrel thought about killing Geralt so that he could not out the
elves to the humans. But in the end, Filavandrel saw that Geralt was an outcast just like himself,
so Filavandrel let Geralt and Jaskier go free. A few years later, Triss asked Geralt to help
her with a problem – a Striga. It would not have been an easy fight, but Geralt could
have just killed the Striga. Instead, he risked his life to remove the curse from the princess.
And if not for the help of Triss, Geralt may have died from his wounds.
But he didn’t die. Geralt survived, and Queen Calanthe hired him to do something.
He never agreed to this, but Calanthe had wanted Geralt to kill Lord Urcheon of Erlenwald
AKA Duny. Of course, Geralt wouldn’t do that. Geralt does not take coin to kill humans.
Instead, Geralt saved Duny’s life. Geralt did not want anything in payment, but Duny
insisted, so Geralt tempted fate by casually demanding the Law of Surprise. As fate would
have it, Pavetta was pregnant. This is when Geralt’s destiny became tied to Ciri. And
Geralt didn’t stop with Ciri Seven years later, Geralt met Yennefer of
Vengerberg. They fell in love on day 1. So Geralt risked his own life to run back inside
and save Yennefer’s life with his Last Wish. And what was that last wish? Check out the
link above. Afterwards, Geralt and Yennefer made love,
but unfortunately, Geralt left before she woke up. And that broke her heart. Over the
coming years, Geralt and Yennefer would see each other from time to time, but Yennefer
didn’t want to get hurt. So even though she loved Geralt as much as he loved her,
she would always leave while Geralt slept. However, Geralt and Yennefer stumbled into
each other yet again on the Dragon Hunt. They slept together, and when they woke, no one
was gone. Very cute. But things would soon go south.
Yennefer told Geralt that she wanted to kill the dragon in hopes of healing her infertility.
And Geralt laughed at her, telling her that the fertility cures are make believe. He also
said that she would be a terrible mother. That was literally the most hurtful thing
that he could have said to her. In the end, Yennefer didn’t kill a dragon.
In fact, she helped Borch Three Jackdaws protect his adopted baby dragon. Afterwards, Villentretenmerth
said that he could see why Geralt didn’t want to lose Yennefer. And that triggered
her. Yennefer began to worry about Geralt’s mysterious last wish. She began to worry that
the love that she felt for Geralt wasn’t real. So Yennefer yelled at Geralt for having
bound a child to him and leaving her all alone, then she left. Geralt then told off Jaskier
and he returned to Cintra to go check on Ciri. When Geralt got to Cintra, Calanthe tried
to give him a fake Ciri, but Geralt called her out on that. He then tried to leave Cintra
without taking Ciri, but Queen Calanthe imprisoned him instead. And then the war reached Cintra.
Calanthe and Eist fought Nilfguard outside the walls of Cintra, and Cahir shot down Eist.
Calanthe then returned to Ciri and told her to go find Geralt. Unfortunately, Cahir killed
Ciri’s escort and he caught up to Ciri. But she escaped due to an unplanned outburst
of magic. Meanwhile, Mousesack held off Nilfguard as
long as he could, but eventually, he caved. Calanthe took her own life, and Mousesack
was captured, killed, cloned by the Adonis Doppler, and sent out to find Ciri.
Ciri joined a refugee camp, but they were attacked at night so she fled with Dara. They
spent time in Brokilon forest with the Dryads, and Ciri drank from the source then had a
vision of a tree that talked to her out on a desert. Then Fake Mousesack showed up, so
Ciri left with him. But she could tell by his answers that he was not the real Mousesack.
So they got into a little scuffle, and the Doppler ran off.
The Doppler caught her and tied her up, but Dara found Ciri and freed her while the Doppler
visited Cahir. The Doppler cloned Cahir, fought him, and one of them one of them ran off.
The Cahir who stayed connected with Fringilla, and they made a plan to push north.
Speaking of the war … Nilfguard conquered from the south. All that separates the Northern
Kingdoms from Nilfguard is the Yaruga River. A key crossing point of that river is at Sodden.
The Northern Mages got together to discuss the war. And Fringilla had shown up and told
them that Nilfguard’s war was with Cintra and Cintra alone. So half of the mages chose
to sit out the fight. But half the mages chose to go down to Lower Sodden and prevent Nilfguard
from crossing over into the Northern Realms. And it was good that they did that because
Nilfguard attacked in force. One of the Cahir’s defeated Vilgefortz one
on one, and Fringilla’s mages used dark magic. But the people of Sodden and the Northern
mages fought hard. And Yennefer reserved her Chaos and unleashed fire, annihilating the
Nilfguardian forces and saving the North. At least, for now.
But it came at a cost. Coral died, Triss was badly wounded, and when the dust settled,
Vilgefortz killed one of his own men. And no one saw him do it.
While all of that went down, Ciri was in the area. She stole a horse and set up camp alone.
Her former friend tried to kidnap her and turn her over to Nilfguard, but once again,
she exploded with magic, killing them all. The next morning, Zola found her and took
Ciri under her wing. Meanwhile, Geralt escaped from his prison
cell in Cintra, but was unable to find Ciri. So he left the city and came across a man
named Yurga. Geralt saved Yurga from ghouls so Yurga offered Geralt the Law of Surprise.
As fate would have it, Geralt’s mother came across them on their ride to Yurga’s for
the first time since she gave Geralt to Vesemir. And Geralt’s mother saved his life. Then
she left. And as fate would have it, Yurga returned home to a Child Surprise - Ciri.
So the season ended with Geralt and Ciri finally coming together. The White Wolf and the Sword
of Destiny. But the Sword of Destiny has two blades, and Geralt is just one of them. So
in order for their family to be complete, they need something more.
“Who is Yennefer?”