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** Displayed in smaller scale, when a Kaedweni platoon leader instructs his men to absolutely stay their hand from pillaging the villages they pass through in order to appear "representable", but concedes that raping women is okay, as long they do it out of sight.
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* QuestionableConsent: Ciri is rescued from gang rape by the Rats, ChaoticEvil AffablyEvil types after she kills her first person. Traumatized, Ciri doesn't resist when their leader tries to have sex with her but is obviously terrified. Mistle 'rescues' her only for her to have sex with her instead.
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* QuestionableConsent: Ciri is rescued from gang rape by the Rats, ChaoticEvil AffablyEvil types after she kills her first person. Traumatized, Ciri doesn't resist when their leader Kayleigh tries to have sex with her but is obviously terrified. Mistle 'rescues' her only for her to have sex with her instead.
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* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Ralf Blunden, The Professor, (no, not the one from the game!) speaks this way.
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** DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnFemale: The former is treated as creepy by the narrative, the latter is treated as romantic, going on how well Mistle and Ciri get along later.
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Tissaia finds the idea ''ludicrous'' that a mage would ever choose their homelands over their fellow wizards. She is disgusted, [[contemptous even TitleDrop]], that mages would fight for the North against other mages who would fight for Nilfgaard. She also believes magic should be a wizard's only passion and that all sorceresses should be sterialized.
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Tissaia finds the idea ''ludicrous'' that a mage would ever choose their homelands over their fellow wizards. She is disgusted, [[contemptous even TitleDrop]], [[TitleDrop contemptuous even]], that mages would fight for the North against other mages who would fight for Nilfgaard. She also believes magic should be a wizard's only passion and that all sorceresses should be sterialized.
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** Leads to a BreakTheHaughtyMoment when she discovers not only DO mages hold nationalist sentiments but they are willing to fight and die for them. That compared to their homelands, political power, and race, that magic is a MINOR consideration.
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** Leads to a BreakTheHaughtyMoment BreakTheHaughty moment when she discovers not only DO mages hold nationalist sentiments but they are willing to fight and die for them. That compared to their homelands, political power, and race, that magic is a MINOR consideration.
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Tissaia finds the idea ''ludicrous'' that a mage would ever choose their homelands over their fellow wizards. She is disgusted, [[contemptous even TitleDrop]], that mages would fight for the North against other mages who would fight for Nilfgaard. She also believes magic should be a wizard's only passion and that all sorceresses should be sterialized.
** Leads to a BreakTheHaughtyMoment when she discovers not only DO mages hold nationalist sentiments but they are willing to fight and die for them. That compared to their homelands, political power, and race, that magic is a MINOR consideration.
** Leads to a BreakTheHaughtyMoment when she discovers not only DO mages hold nationalist sentiments but they are willing to fight and die for them. That compared to their homelands, political power, and race, that magic is a MINOR consideration.
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* QuestionableConsent: Ciri is rescued from gang rape by the Rats, ChaoticEvil AffablyEvil ForTheEviluz types after she kills her first person. Traumatized, Ciri doesn't resist when their leader tries to have sex with her but is obviously terrified. Mistle 'rescues' her only for her to have sex with her instead.
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* TheDragon: Vigelfortz has been serving as this to Emhyr for decades. In truth, he's been TheStarscream all the time. Emhyr wasn't fooled for a second, though.
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* TheDragon: Vigelfortz Vilgefortz has been serving as this to Emhyr for decades. In truth, he's been TheStarscream all the time. Emhyr wasn't fooled for a second, though.
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* MagicKnight: Geralt never suspects [[spoiler: Vigelfortz]] is one of these. It ends poorly for him.
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* MagicKnight: Geralt never suspects [[spoiler: Vigelfortz]] Vilgefortz]] is one of these. It ends poorly for him.
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* TheStarscream: Vigelfortz is this to Emhyr [[spoiler: and betrays him during the Second Invasion by sending him a Fake Ciri.]]
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* TheStarscream: Vigelfortz Vilgefortz is this to Emhyr [[spoiler: and betrays him during the Second Invasion by sending him a Fake Ciri.]]
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* WeCanRuleTogether: Vigelfortz really thinks Geralt should abandon being a Witcher, study to be a sorcerer, and become his right hand man. Geralt is genuinely confused why he even cares.
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* WeCanRuleTogether: Vigelfortz Vilgefortz really thinks Geralt should abandon being a Witcher, study to be a sorcerer, and become his right hand man. Geralt is genuinely confused why he even cares.
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* BroughtDownToNormal: While not normal, Ciri relinquishes her potential to become a godlike Sorcerer forever.
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* BroughtDownToNormal: [[spoiler: While not normal, Ciri relinquishes her potential to become a godlike Sorcerer forever.]]
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* BroughtDownToNormal: While not normal, Ciri relinquishes her potential to become a godlike Sorcerer forever.
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* TheDragon: Vigelfortz has been serving as this to Emhyr for decades. In truth, he's been TheStarscream all the time. Emhyr wasn't fooled for a second, though.
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* RapePillageBurn: How Nilfgaard handles the Second Invasion of the North.
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* TheBeautifulElite: This is how mages are portrayed.
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* DirtyCoward: How the North's monarchs react to Nilfgaard's invasion once things go South.
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* IAmNotLeftHanded: Mages traditionally look down on combat and fighting-skills as beneath them. [[spoiler: Vilgefortz]] is the exception and it costs Geralt dearly.
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* RapePillageBurn: How Nilfgaard handles the Second Invasion of the North.
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** Geralt insists on remaining neutral but because of his PapaWolf protection of Ciri, he's in EVERYONE'S way.
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* WeCanRuleTogether: Vigelfortz really thinks Geralt should abandon being a Witcher, study to be a sorcerer, and become his right hand man. Geralt is genuinely confused why he even cares.
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* DeadlyDecadentCourt: The mages live lives of hedonistic luxury, fine food, sex, and gossip. [[spoiler: They're also now bitterly divided into those who support the North and those who support the Empire.]]
* GoodCannotComprehendEvil: Tissaia's disgust for Philippa and Dijkstra's arrest of the Thanedd Coup members is built around her belief the North is full of genocidal murderers even if Nilfgaard is just as bad. The idea that the people they've arrested ''really are'' dangerous murderers who want to slaughter their fellow mages for Nilfgaard doesn't cross her mind.
* GoodCannotComprehendEvil: Tissaia's disgust for Philippa and Dijkstra's arrest of the Thanedd Coup members is built around her belief the North is full of genocidal murderers even if Nilfgaard is just as bad. The idea that the people they've arrested ''really are'' dangerous murderers who want to slaughter their fellow mages for Nilfgaard doesn't cross her mind.
* MagicKnight: Geralt never suspects [[spoiler: Vigelfortz]] is one of these. It ends poorly for him.
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* PapaWolf: ''Everything'' between Geralt and Ciri is slaughtered in a manner not too dissimilar to ''Film/{{Taken}}.''
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* PapaWolf: ''Everything'' between Geralt and Ciri is slaughtered in a manner not too dissimilar to ''Film/{{Taken}}.'''' [[spoiler: Until Geralt meets Vilgefortz and the best he can do is slow him down by letting him beat on him.]]
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* SelfMadeMan: Vilgefortz went from the gutter to being the most powerful man in the North after the monarchs.
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* NotQuiteTheRightThing: Tissaia frees her fellow mages from bondage at the hands of Dijkstra and Philippa. The bound mages then proceed to start massacring everyone they can lay their hands on.
* PapaWolf: ''Everything'' between Geralt and Ciri is slaughtered in a manner not too dissimilar to ''Film/{{Taken}}.''
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* MyCountryRightOrRight: Tissaia thinks this is a stupid disgusting idea and that the North is no better than Nilfgaard. She thinks mages must hold themselves to a higher standard of morality. [[spoiler: The vast-vast majority of mages, it turns out,disagree.]]
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* MyCountryRightOrRight: MyCountryRightOrWrong: Tissaia thinks this is a stupid disgusting idea and that the North is no better than Nilfgaard. She thinks mages must hold themselves to a higher standard of morality. [[spoiler: The vast-vast majority of mages, it turns out,disagree.]]
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** Philippa, in particular, is a nationalist of Redania and is genuinely ''outraged'' by the betrayal of the mages allied with Nilfgaard.
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* NeutralNoLonger: ''Almost every single mage in the North'' chooses a side between Nilfgaard and the Northern Kingdoms. Tissaia is stunned when she realizes she and a handful of others are the ''only'' mages out of thousands who are more loyal to each other than their homelands.
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* NeutralNoLonger: ''Almost Almost every single mage in the North'' North chooses a side between Nilfgaard and the Northern Kingdoms. Tissaia is stunned when she realizes she and a handful of others are the ''only'' mages out of thousands who are more loyal to each other than their homelands.
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* BlackAndGrayMorality: The Second Nilfgaard War has the Nilfgaardians act in a truly monstrous fashion but the Kings in the North act thoroughly contemptible during it.
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* TheArchmage: Tissaia is able to tear down all of the defenses of an island by herself, which other mages had spent ''months'' putting up. [[spoiler: It proves to be a profoundly ''stupid'' thing to do.]]
* BlackAndGrayMorality: The Second Nilfgaard War has the Nilfgaardians act in a truly monstrous fashion but the Kings in the North act thoroughly contemptible during it too. Still, Nilfgaard is actively destroying nations while the Northern monarchs are just profiting from it.
* BlackAndGrayMorality: The Second Nilfgaard War has the Nilfgaardians act in a truly monstrous fashion but the Kings in the North act thoroughly contemptible during it too. Still, Nilfgaard is actively destroying nations while the Northern monarchs are just profiting from it.
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* LesCollaborateurs: [[spoiler: Vilgefortz and Franscesca Finderbair]] along with all of their associates are in the pocket of Nilfgaard.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: InUniverse, Ciri names herselfFalka Falka.([[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast an infamous rebellion leader]] in the North) to the Rats.Rats.
* NeutralNoLonger: ''Almost every single mage in the North'' chooses a side between Nilfgaard and the Northern Kingdoms. Tissaia is stunned when she realizes she and a handful of others are the ''only'' mages out of thousands who are more loyal to each other than their homelands.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: InUniverse, Ciri names herself
* NeutralNoLonger: ''Almost every single mage in the North'' chooses a side between Nilfgaard and the Northern Kingdoms. Tissaia is stunned when she realizes she and a handful of others are the ''only'' mages out of thousands who are more loyal to each other than their homelands.
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* CurbStompBattle:BlackAndGrayMorality: The Second Nilfgaard War has the Nilfgaardians act in a truly monstrous fashion but the Kings in the North act thoroughly contemptible during it.
* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler: Vilgefortz]], irritated with Geralt's taunting, proceeds to beat the living shit out of him.
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* KickTheDog: After ''Blood of Elves'' made things murkier, Nilfgaard is back to being evil.
-->''“War to the castles, peace to the villages,” Coehoorn said to his commanders yesterday. You know that principle,’ he added at once. ‘You learned it in officer training. That principle applied until today; from tomorrow you’re to forget it. From tomorrow a different principle applies, which will now be the battle cry of the war we are waging. The battle cry and my orders run: War on everything alive. War on everything that can burn. You are to leave scorched earth behind you. From tomorrow, we take war beyond the line we will withdraw behind after signing the treaty. We are withdrawing, but there is to be nothing but scorched earth beyond that line. The kingdoms of Rivia and Aedirn are to be reduced to ashes! Remember Sodden! The time of revenge is with us!’ ''
-->''“War to the castles, peace to the villages,” Coehoorn said to his commanders yesterday. You know that principle,’ he added at once. ‘You learned it in officer training. That principle applied until today; from tomorrow you’re to forget it. From tomorrow a different principle applies, which will now be the battle cry of the war we are waging. The battle cry and my orders run: War on everything alive. War on everything that can burn. You are to leave scorched earth behind you. From tomorrow, we take war beyond the line we will withdraw behind after signing the treaty. We are withdrawing, but there is to be nothing but scorched earth beyond that line. The kingdoms of Rivia and Aedirn are to be reduced to ashes! Remember Sodden! The time of revenge is with us!’ ''
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* {{Irony}}: In the prologue there are rumors of the death of Princess Cirilla of Cintra, and a horse messenger is hired to deliver a message from King Foltest to King Demavend which confirms this. Unbeknownst to the messenger, he had encountered Ciri(lla) and Yennefer in a town he'd passed ''after'' he first heard the rumors.
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* AltarDiplomacy: The Emperor of Nilfgaard is hunting Pavetta's daughter and Geralt's ward Ciri in hopes of taking her as a wife to cement his conquest of Cintra.
* CurbStompBattle: Lampshaded. While recovering from his fight with [[spoiler:Vilgefortz]], Geralt thinks of what he could do to avoid ending badly damaged, and comes to conclusion that nothing would have helped -- his opponent was so above his level that if he wanted to leave the fight unharmed, he should have run away.
* CurbStompBattle: Lampshaded. While recovering from his fight with [[spoiler:Vilgefortz]], Geralt thinks of what he could do to avoid ending badly damaged, and comes to conclusion that nothing would have helped -- his opponent was so above his level that if he wanted to leave the fight unharmed, he should have run away.
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* AltarDiplomacy: The Emperor of Nilfgaard is hunting Pavetta's daughter and Geralt's ward Ciri in hopes of taking her as a wife to cement his conquest of Cintra.
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** Lampshaded. While recovering from his fight with [[spoiler:Vilgefortz]], Geralt thinks of what he could do to avoid ending badly damaged, and comes to conclusion that nothing would have helped -- his opponent was so above his level that if he wanted to leave the fight unharmed, he should have run away.
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** On a larger scale, the Nilfgaardian Empire swiftly crushes nearly all resistance in the Northern Kingdoms upon arrival, leaving the last few free kingdoms scrambling to sign non-aggression treaties.
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* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: Nilfgaard abandons the elven Scoia'tael partisans that assisted their invasion of the North by refusing to let them retreat to the Valley of Flowers, behind the front lines.
** Worse, [[ShameIfSomethingHappened to safeguard the well being of the elves of the Valley]], they are expected to [[StandYourGround continue fighting to the last elf]].
** Worse, [[ShameIfSomethingHappened to safeguard the well being of the elves of the Valley]], they are expected to [[StandYourGround continue fighting to the last elf]].
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While mentoring Ciri in the art of magic, Yennefer is invited to the upcoming sorcerer council at the Thanedd Island, where they reunite with Geralt. However, things go downhill fast when a coup d'etat breaks out amongst the mages. [[spoiler:Geralt is crippled (would be killed, if it were not for Triss), Yennefer disappears without a trace until book five, and Ciri is teleported by stray magic deep into the Nilfgaard territories.]] Meanwhile, Nilfgaard renews its assault, crushing the Northern Kingdoms one by one.
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While mentoring Ciri in the art of magic, Yennefer is invited to the upcoming sorcerer council at the Thanedd Island, where Island. Thanks to insubordinate Ciri, not thrilled by the prospect of becoming a humble student of magic, they reunite with Geralt. However, things go downhill fast fast; the schemes wrought during the council go well beyond the average when a coup d'etat breaks out amongst the mages. [[spoiler:Geralt is crippled (would be killed, if it were not for Triss), Yennefer disappears without a trace until book five, trace, and Ciri is teleported by stray magic deep into the Nilfgaard territories.]] Meanwhile, Nilfgaard renews wastes not the opportunity to renew its assault, crushing northward onslaught, starting a massive campaign that leads them to crush the Northern Kingdoms one by one.
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* TheImmodestOrgasm: A sex scene between Geralt and Yennefer about halfway through the book elicits both applause and complaints from people in nearby rooms.
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The fourth book in ''Franchise/TheWitcher'' series by Andrzej Sapkowski. The book was originally released in Polish, and an English translation was released after numerous delays in August of 2013.
While mentoring Ciri in the art of magic, Yennefer is invited to the upcoming sorcerer council at the Thanedd Island, where they reunite with Geralt. However, things go downhill fast when a coup d'etat breaks out amongst the mages. [[spoiler:Geralt is crippled (would be killed, if it were not for Triss), Yennefer disappears without a trace until book five, and Ciri is teleported by stray magic deep into the Nilfgaard territories.]] Meanwhile, Nilfgaard renews its assault, crushing the Northern Kingdoms one by one.
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!!Tropes found in the book:
* CurbStompBattle: Lampshaded. While recovering from his fight with [[spoiler:Vilgefortz]], Geralt thinks of what he could do to avoid ending badly damaged, and comes to conclusion that nothing would have helped -- his opponent was so above his level that if he wanted to leave the fight unharmed, he should have run away.
* InformationBroker: Codringher (and Fenn), an AmoralAttorney complete with RightHandCat, who for a good price can find any info or secure any court verdict. Geralt hires him to gather info on matters related to Ciri.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: InUniverse, Ciri names herself Falka ([[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast an infamous rebellion leader]] in the North) to the Rats.
* PartyScattering: Happens to the main cast of the series during the [[spoiler:Thanedd coup]] at the end of the book.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The Rats.
* RapeIsLove: [[spoiler:Mistle pretty much rapes Ciri [[NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization but she doesn't mind]], and the two are a couple in the next book.]]
* TeleportersAndTransporters: The portal in the Tower of the Seagull is supposed to be connected to the mysterious Tower of the Swallow but has long been known to malfunction.
* WizardingSchool: Arethusa on Thanedd, where Yennefer intends to enroll Ciri.
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While mentoring Ciri in the art of magic, Yennefer is invited to the upcoming sorcerer council at the Thanedd Island, where they reunite with Geralt. However, things go downhill fast when a coup d'etat breaks out amongst the mages. [[spoiler:Geralt is crippled (would be killed, if it were not for Triss), Yennefer disappears without a trace until book five, and Ciri is teleported by stray magic deep into the Nilfgaard territories.]] Meanwhile, Nilfgaard renews its assault, crushing the Northern Kingdoms one by one.
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!!Tropes found in the book:
* CurbStompBattle: Lampshaded. While recovering from his fight with [[spoiler:Vilgefortz]], Geralt thinks of what he could do to avoid ending badly damaged, and comes to conclusion that nothing would have helped -- his opponent was so above his level that if he wanted to leave the fight unharmed, he should have run away.
* InformationBroker: Codringher (and Fenn), an AmoralAttorney complete with RightHandCat, who for a good price can find any info or secure any court verdict. Geralt hires him to gather info on matters related to Ciri.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: InUniverse, Ciri names herself Falka ([[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast an infamous rebellion leader]] in the North) to the Rats.
* PartyScattering: Happens to the main cast of the series during the [[spoiler:Thanedd coup]] at the end of the book.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The Rats.
* RapeIsLove: [[spoiler:Mistle pretty much rapes Ciri [[NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization but she doesn't mind]], and the two are a couple in the next book.]]
* TeleportersAndTransporters: The portal in the Tower of the Seagull is supposed to be connected to the mysterious Tower of the Swallow but has long been known to malfunction.
* WizardingSchool: Arethusa on Thanedd, where Yennefer intends to enroll Ciri.
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