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Cursed Humans
Urcheon of Erlenwald
Duny, Urcheon of Erlenwald
"I never intended to meet her. Just to watch from afar."
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Portrayed by: Bart Edwards Dubbed by:
A mysterious suitor who arrives in Cintra to ask for Pavetta's hand.
- Age-Gap Romance: He was old enough to save the life of Pavetta's father, King Roegner, before she was even born, meaning there's a considerable age difference between them.
- Apologetic Attacker: His first moment on-screen involves punching out a guard at the door and then apologizing for his intrusion.
- Forced Transformation: He is under a curse that makes him look like a humanoid hedgehog, except at night after the twelfth bell has rung.
- Foreshadowing:
- When Ciri examines her "genetic memories" with Triss, she sees her parents talking about what appears to be Ithlinne's prophecy. Duny is convinced people would kill Ciri if they knew about it, and tries to convince Pavetta that they all need to escape. During the finale episode, Geralt wonders why Nilfgaard were the first after Ciri, and how they could possibly know that she is the "Elder Blood" mentioned in the prophecy. It's of course because Duny is the Emperor of Nilfgaard, which is revealed a few seconds later.
- More importantly, during Ciri's Lotus-Eater Machine illusion under the Deathless Mother, her dead loved ones all turn to ash - except Duny, who is secretly still alive.
- I Owe You My Life: Insists on rewarding Geralt, after Geralt defended Duny's life and right for Pavetta's hand by the Law of Surprise. Due to Duny's persistence, Geralt claims the Law of Surprise as reward, as Duny once had, which just so happens to be another child of surprise — Ciri.
- Papa Bear: In one of the visions of her Ciri and Triss uncovered in Season 2, he is very concerned about Ciri being in danger, and tries to convince Pavetta that they need to escape: Ciri immediately recognizes this was the night they died. Listening to their dialogue, and considering this sequence was immediately followed by the reveal of Lara Dorren's Dying Curse, it's clear Duny and Pavetta are talking about Ithlinne's prophecy, with Duny likely worrying that the hatred for anything elf-related could cause the Cintrans to try and murder Ciri.
- Punny Name: Urchin or urcheon is the Middle English term for "hedgehog".
- Walking Spoiler: In Season 2: not only is he not dead, he is the Emperor of Nilfgaard.
Princess Adda
Princess Adda of Temeria
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Portrayed by: Jade Croot
The daughter of King Foltest and his own sister, who was also named Adda. She is believed to have died in the womb alongside her mother, but was actually cursed and turned into a monstrous striga, who plagues Temeria at night.
- Adaptational Dye-Job: After her curse is lifted in the books, her hair turns white as a side effect. While it is hard to see under the blood and dirt, it appears she is a brunette in the show.
- Dead Guy Junior: Her late mother was also named Adda.
- The Dreaded: As the monster that haunts Temeria, she is feared by its people to the point where they are willing to turn against their own king to get rid of her.
- Foil: To Yennefer. The show cuts back and forth between scenes in which each of them are transformed—screaming—from their "monstrous", hunch-backed states into normal-looking girls.
- Hell Is That Noise: The striga constantly lets out a hellish shriek, which is heard throughout the entire castle long before she even appears on screen.
- Inbred and Evil: She is the result of an incestous relationship between Foltest and his own sister. Though the incest itself had no part in her curse, she was nonetheless born as a striga, a feral monster until her curse was lifted.
- It Can Think: There are moments which imply that the striga is by no means a feral, mindless monster of the kind Geralt fights regularly. She not only manages to ambush him and another witcher, both of whom have superhuman awareness of their surroundings, but she also seems to be intelligent enough to understand Ostrit or at least to realize that he is to blame for her curse. She also figures out that Geralt intends to keep her out of her coffin until her curse is lifted and freaks out when he prevents her from entering it.
- Lean and Mean: In her striga form, Adda towers over Geralt, but she is way thinner than him. It does not have a negative impact on her strength, however.
- Lightning Bruiser: As a striga, Adda is faster and stronger than any human could ever hope to be. She is a match even for a witcher, managing to kill one without him having any chance to fight back, while also coming closer to killing Geralt than any other opponent he faces in the entire first season of the series.
- Missing Mom: The curse that turned her into a striga was actually put upon her mother, killing her before Adda was even born.
- Monstrous Humanoid: Her form as a striga, while still vaguely humanoid, is not the slightest bit human.
- Oh, Crap!: When she realizes that Geralt managed to distract her until the sun is rising, she visibly begins to panic and tries to get back into her coffin. This only increases after the witcher seals her out, leaving her with no chance to get back before her curse is broken.
- Tragic Monster: Adda is not actually an evil monster, but a tragically cursed human, who was turned into a striga before she was even born, in a curse that was intended to punish her father. She never had a chance to be anything more than a bloodthirsty beast until Geralt came to lift her curse.
- Wild Child: Since she never received any sort of human education as a striga, she turns into a feral, but clearly terrified child, who needs a lot of support to get the same development as other children in her age.
- Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Her first action as a human is to lie still and appear to be dead or unconscious, so that when Geralt checks up on her, she manages to launch a surprise attack. Her clawing at his carotid as a human slip of a girl comes closer to sealing Geralt's fate from blood loss than any other monster.
Nivellen
Nivellen
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Portrayed by: Kristofer Hivju
An old friend of Geralt who has been cursed to live out his days as a beast, alone in his mansion
- Adaptational Expansion: In the books, Nivellen and Geralt only met for the first time when Geralt stumbled upon his home, long after his curse, and their friendly interactions were born largely from Nivellen being that nice of a host. Here, Nivellen and Geralt are old friends, Geralt having known him since Nivellen was a child, and the two are much greater friends. He also never met Ciri in the books, while here they get to spend enough time together that it adds even more shock when he reveals he raped the priestess who cursed him.
- Adaptational Villainy: In the books, he was still cursed for the same reasoning, raping a priestess, but it was explicit that he only did so because he was more-or-less bullied into it by the other raiders he was with, and he was explicitly a young, weak-willed virgin lad at the time. As a result, Geralt empathised with him and his curse and he's treated as a kid who made a bad decision. Here, it's not specified if he was pushed into it by the others, and as a result Geralt loses all empathy for him when he learns the real reason behind his curse. Also, he was unaware of Vereena's true nature in the books and was subsequently unaware she had been feeding on anyone, whereas here, he was fully aware of what she was and what she was doing, but protected her because she was the only person willing to tolerate how he looked.
- Adaptational Angst Upgrade: In the books, Nivellen felt he was Cursed with Awesome given the magic he commanded in his home, and he'd been alive long enough to accept it. His situation was also mitigated by the fact he'd trade wealth he'd magically summon to locals in exchange for spending a year with a (willing) maiden from their household, which stopped him feeling lonely (and led to locals learning he wasn't a savage beast after all). Here, such trades don't seem to have ever occurred and thus he's much more lonely and self-loathing, which makes him even more dependent on Vereena.
- Affably Evil: Nivellen is a genuinely jolly and affable man who has a lot of fun being Geralt's and Ciri's host for one night and his friendship with Geralt is portrayed as sincere. He is also a rapist, who got cursed by his victim, plus he knows about Vereena's urges and does nothing to save the villagers when she slaughters them.
- Beast Man: At some point between Geralt's arrival at his mansion and their last meeting, Nivellen has been cursed to look like a vaguely humanoid monster, with boar-like features.
- Bring Me My Brown Pants: He and Geralt met during his youth, when the witcher has been hired by Nivellen's father to hunt a nest of wyvern. Nivellen tried to impress his old man by killing a wyvern first, only to fail and nearly get eaten by the monster. By the time Geralt saved him, he already peed himself in fear.
- Broken Pedestal: By the end of their stay at his mansion, Geralt and Ciri have both become deeply disillusioned by him, once they realize that he is not a somewhat innocent victim of a cruel curse, but a rapist and accomplice to a bruxa.
- Corrupted Character Copy: To the Beast of the eponymous fairy tale and Disney movie. Like the Beast, he is a nobleman cursed to look like a huge, hairy monster, with his frightening appearance having driven away all of his former friends and loved ones. They are both also nowhere near as feral as they look, with Nivellen being a genuine friend of Geralt and courteous host to him and Ciri. However, where Beast was unjustly cursed alongside his servants and an overall good man, Nivellen not only slaughtered his servants in a mindless rage after being turned, but he is also a rapist who knows he deserves his curse. Like Beast, he has his very own version of Beauty in the form of Vereena, a monstrous vampire who has killed countless villagers and travellers, a fact Nivellen is very much aware of.
- Despair Event Horizon: After playing a part in Vereena's death and having his curse lifted as a result of it, he breaks down and even begs Geralt to kill him too. Despite his desperate pleas, Geralt and Ciri leave him alone and he is last seen sobbing over Vereena's ashes.
- I Cannot Self-Terminate: During their talk, he mentions to Geralt that he repeatedly tried to kill himself, but failed due to the circumstances of his curse. After being cured of his curse, he begs Geralt to kill him, only for the witcher to refuse him.
- I Just Want to Be Loved: This is a main drive for his character. Since he was cursed to look like a beast, all of his friends and subjects have abandoned him, dooming him to live out his days alone in his mansion. The only person who still willingly stays with him is Vereena, a bruxa. He indulges her cravings for blood and even ignores her murdering the villagers not because he wants them dead, but because he fears that she would leave him should he try anything to stop her.
- Interspecies Romance: Though he may be cursed to look like a beast, he is still technically human and genuinely in love with Vereena, a bruxa
- Kill the Ones You Love: During Vereena's fight against Geralt, he intervenes by staking her from behind with a spear. This fails to kill her and it is unclear if he even intended to or if he just wanted to hold her back to give Geralt and Ciri a chance to escape, but it gives Geralt the opening he needs to decapitate her.
- Murder by Inaction: After Vereena's death, he breaks down and admits that he not just willingly let her feed on himself, but that he ignored her murdering the villagers, simply because she is the only being willing to stay near him in his beastly form.
- The Power of Creation: It is unclear if his powers come from his curse or if he has acquired them by other means, but Nivellen is capable of using magic to conjure objects out of thin air, including a bathtub and a delicious meal for his guests. After he gets freed of his curse, the lights in his mansion are shown to go out one by own, indicating that he has lost his powers alongside his monstrous form.
- Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Geralt and Ciri both appear to think so once he reveals that he wasn't cursed for thrashing a temple, but for raping the priestess. Ciri in particular was previously willing to forgive him for slaughtering his servants in a mindless rampage after being turned, but once he reveals the true reason he was cursed, she turns away while Geralt looks at him in disgust, and ignores his pleas to stay with him.
- Rescue Romance: With Vereena, whom he found injured in the woods. After nursing her back to health, she willingly remained by his side and the two fell in love.
- Suicide by Cop: A possible interpretation of his actions after Vereena's death, with him admitting to his more monstrous deeds is that Geralt would see him as another monster and just puts him out of his misery.
- Unholy Matrimony: He and Vereena are genuinely love each other. He is also a rapist, while she is a vampire who has slaughtered countless innocent villagers and travellers.
- Voluntary Vampire Victim: He lets Vereena feast on him in a feeble attempt to satisfy her hunger for blood, even though he knows that he alone cannot sustain her.
- Walking Spoiler: A lot of tropes about him give away the fact that he is not just an old friend of Geralt who has been unjustly cursed, but that he has done plenty of awful deeds before and after his curse.
Sapient Beings
The Djinn
The Djinn
An imprisoned being of elemental air.
- Jackass Genie: It grants wishes to the one who frees it but twists them towards malevolent ends. In Geralt's case, he and Yennifer will keep finding their way back to each other, but will always be left wondering how much of their relationship is natural and how much is due to the djinn's meddling.
The Doppler
The Doppler, Adonis
Portrayed by: Ben Wiggins, Adam Levy (Mousesack disguise)
A shapeshifting, intelligent being that Cahir hires as a part of his attempts to track down Ciri.
- All There in the Script: Their name is only revealed in Netflix's audio descriptive service.
- Ambiguous Gender: As befits a shapeshifter; although we only see them take on male forms during the course of the show, the Doppler always refers to themself as the gender-neutral "we" and "our" when speaking as themselves and not as one of their disguises.
- Collector of the Strange: They keep bits and pieces of people they've killed preserved in jars, possibly to serve as inspiration for the various forms it can create or just because they found those parts particularly pleasing to look at.
- Dead Person Impersonation: By the time Cahir hires them to impersonate Mousesack, Mousesack has been captured and is only being kept alive so that the Doppler can have a point of reference for his personality. Once that's done, Mousesack is killed, and the Doppler gets to work.
- Even Evil Has Standards: After fooling Cahir, realising he was keeping Ciri's true nature (and thus important details of the job they were hired for) from them, and assuming his form to engage in a Mirror Match, they gain his memories and understand his perspective and philosophy. His religious fanaticism is enough to disgust them, despite the fact they're heavily implied to be a remorseless Serial Killer.
- Evil Makes You Ugly: Their true form is a grey skinned, wrinkled, bald humanoid with pale, pupil-less eyes.
- Evil Is Petty: They ultimately break their disguise around Ciri because they get upset at her asking too many questions, which tips Ciri off and leads to her asking something that the Doppler wouldn't have the correct answer to.
- Kill and Replace: Kills Mousesack and takes their form as a disguise to make Ciri trust them.
- Mad Artist: They see their shapeshifting ability as something of an art form, and they are first introduced staring lovingly at their unclothed body in a mirror while shifted into an attractive man, as if admiring the physical form rather than for any sexual gratification.
- Silver Bullet: Like with most monsters in this series, they have a crippling weakness to silver. Having Dara's silver pocketknife pressed against their throat for long enough put them in so much pain that they dropped their disguise as Mousesack.
- Would Hurt a Child: They demand extra payment for bringing Ciri back alive. They then state that children are their favorite.
Vereena
Vereena
Portrayed by: Agnes Born
Nivellen's lover and the only person who dares to remain by his side in his cursed form.
- Abnormal Limb Rotation Range: She can rotate each of her limbs by 360 degrees, including her head as shown during her introductory scene with Ciri and her final confrontation with Geralt and Nivellen.
- Affably Evil: Vereena seems genuinely fond of Ciri, treats her very kindly and gives her gifts, and only threatens to harm her at the very end out of pure desperation, she also genuinely loved Nivellen not just because he was an endless food supply as his curse wouldn't have lifted had she not.
- Bat People: During her fight with Geralt, she turns into a monster with heavy bat-like features and wings, which is also the form she assumes when hunting for blood.
- Corrupted Character Copy: If Nivellen is one for Beast, she is one for Beauty. Like Beauty, she stumbled upon an old, seemingly abandoned mansion, where she encounters a hulking, terrifying monster, only to see behind his frightening appearance and genuinely falling in love with him as a person. This is where the similarities end, as Vereena is a murderous vampire who has killed an entire village and any innocent traveller who passes through her territory.
- Cute Monster Girl: Vereena's human form is that of a beautiful woman, though her eyes and the way she moves and speaks still immediately clue Ciri in on the fact that she is a monster.
- Ethereal White Dress: Fitting attire for a vampire. She apparently has a full wardrobe of them, judging by her gift to Ciri.
- Hemo Erotic: When Geralt stumbles in on her feeding on Nivellen, the act is shown to have heavy erotic undertones, with her sitting on top of him and moaning with pleasure while drinking his blood.
- Humans Are the Real Monsters: When Ciri says that monsters hurt people, Vereena counters that people hurt each other more than any monster could.
- If I Can't Have You…: After Nivellen stabs her, she is briefly stunned, before twisting her limbs so that she can pull herself towards him, saying that if he isn't hers anymore, he will be no one's at all. Fortunately for him, Geralt kills her before she can kill him, but not before she makes a genuine attempt for his life.
- Interspecies Romance: With Nivellen, who is a cursed human, while she is a bruxa, a higher vampire.
- Make Me Wanna Shout: Her screams are powerful enough to stun humans and knock them off their feet.
- More Teeth than the Osmond Family: She has four rows of sharp teeth, all the better to suck blood with.
- Off with Her Head!: This is how Geralt eventually kills her, after Nivellen distracts her long enough.
- Our Vampires Are Different: She is a bruxa, a higher vampire who entered the world during the Conjunction of Spheres. Unlike traditional vampires, bruxae are not undead humans, but an entirely different species — while they can take on a human appearance, their true form is that of a large bat-like creature.
- Pet the Dog: In her own way, Vereena seems genuinely fond of Ciri, approaching her with curiosity and calming her after a nightmare. She also makes an effort to control her urges instead of attacking and killing the girl as she could have easily done. During her confrontation with Geralt, she even begs the girl not to run because she cannot control herself if she sees her running.
- Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: In her human form Vereena is very beautiful, with dark hair and fair skin.
- Rescue Romance: Nivellen found her injured in his woods and nursed her back to health, with her staying by his side willingly and eventually falling in love with him.
- Tragic Monster: While Vereena is a genuine monster who has killed countless innocent people, she is portrayed almost sympathetically in her interactions with Ciri and in her true love to Nivellen. Ultimately, while Nivellen is a human who has done horrible actions by choice, Vereena is a slave to her own cravings and even makes a futile attempt at controlling her urges when she tells Ciri not to run away from her. She also notably refrains from ever attacking her or Geralt and only fights back after Geralt attacks her first.
- Undead Barefooter: The tracks of her bare feet in the snow are what clues Geralt in that a bruxa's afoot.
- Unholy Matrimony: With Nivellen, whom she loves as genuinely as a vampire can love a human.
- Wall Crawl: She is introduced in that way, crawling through a tiny hole in the ceiling and approaching Ciri while crawling across the wall.
Monsters
Kikimora
A spidery creature Geralt fights outside Blaviken in 1231.
- An Arm and a Leg: it loses a few limbs in the course of fighting Geralt.
- Milking the Monster: The Blaviken alderman wanted it around for 'population control,' which works to Geralt's detriment when he kills it.
- Monster Munch: Inverted. It's a nightmarish and probably dangerous monster, but it's swiftly killed off in the opening scene to demonstrate Geralt's chops as a monster hunter.
- Monster Organ Trafficking: When he can't get paid simply for killing it (and after he's already put in the work to do so), Geralt sells the body to Stregebor for his experiments.
Leshy
A plant monster fought by Eskel, and later Geralt, near Kaer Mohren.
- Achilles' Heel: Burning its heart is its greatest weakness, and supposedly the only way to kill it.
- An Arm and a Leg: Eskel hacks one of its arms off, allowing Geralt to easily identify it when he encounters it later.
- Combat Tentacles: It attacks primarily through the use of lashing tentacles made of roots.
- Half the Man He Used to Be: It's torn in half by a myriapod, wounding it severely enough to kill it even without the use of its Achilles' Heel.
- Outside-Context Problem: The leshy near Kaer Mohren is a mutant, making it stronger than others of its ilk with additional abilities. Notably, while normal leshen are going extinct due to theor inability to reproduce, it is capable of making more leshen... by infecting humans and forcibly converting them into leshen as well.
Basilisk
Repltilian monsters thought to be extinct.
- The Dreaded: Season 3 shows they're infamous enough to be widely feared and reviled, which ironically makes the idea of a caged and helpless specimen a major draw for show-seeking crowds.
- Hero Killer: A small number of them are able to rip through the witchers, causing several fatalities.
Jackapace
An armored monster with an incredible sense of smell.
- Attack Animal: Jackapaces were bred specifically to hunt elves, and may be a remnant of when humans and elves were at war.
- Canon Foreigner: The jackapace was created for the show and doesn't feature in any of the games.
- Mix-and-Match Critters: It resembles a cross between a star-nosed mole and an armadillo.
- The Nose Knows: It's blind but possesses an incredible sense of smell, enough to track its target unerringly across vast distances.
- Rolling Attack:: it rolls itself up into a spiked, armored wheel shape for additional speed and to run down its prey.
Supernatural Entities
The Deathless Mother
The Deathless Mother / Voleth Meir
Portrayed by: Ania Marson (true identity); Ann Firank (as "Ithlinne"); Carmel Laniado (as "Violet" / teenage girl); Bart Edwards (as "Emperor Emhyr")
An ancient being who seeks to influence Yennefer, Fringilla and Francesca.
- A Form You Are Comfortable With: Her M.O. is to appear to different people in the image of someone they would trust.
- Canon Character All Along: She's revealed to be one of the Wild Hunt riders, making her sort-of a canon character, albeit an Ascended Extra who was Named by the Adaptation.
- Canon Foreigner: Voleth Meir was specifically created for the show; in Season 2, she serves to connect several detached storylines - Yennefer, Fringilla, Francesca and the elves, Ciri, the Wild Hunt, and Kaer Morhen - and provides a Final Boss for the protagonists to fight at the end.
- Deal with the Devil: Voleth Meir offers these to Yennefer, Francesca and Fringilla, respectively. Francesca and Fringilla, who take her up on her offer, quickly learn that Voleth Meir's gifts come with a heavy price:
- The alliance between Nilfgaard and the Elves Voleth Meir encouraged them to seek out initially appears to supply Nilfgaard with more fighters and the Elves with a safe haven where Francesca can carry her child to term, but the baby inspires the Elves to think about rebuilding their society instead of fighting, leading to tensions rising between them and the Nilfgaardian military, and criticism mounting against Fringilla, who fears losing Emhyr's trust. Things deteriorate so far that Emhyr has the child killed without Fringilla's or Cahir's knowledge to motivate the elves, causing Francesca to murder all Redanian newborns in retaliation, while Fringilla lashes out against the army leadership, killing her critics and forcing Cahir to cover for her. At the end, the elves are once again without hope, Francesca has committed mass murder, and Fringilla and Cahir get ousted by Emhyr for trying to deceive him.
- In Yennefer's case, her desire to recover her magic would have involved her offering Ciri to Voleth Meir, which—as shown in the season finale—would enable her to open the portals and bring in new monsters from other spheres. It took Yennefer realizing Ciri's true value for her to hold back.
- Emotion Eater: She draws power from negative emotions, and her promises ultimately lead not just to pain and suffering for those who seek her out, but also to the people around them as well. Geralt recognizes this when he and his fellow witchers fight the possessed Ciri in Kaer Morhen and urges the others to control their hatred. It only works partially, because of Fringilla's and Francesca's deals with Voleth Meir.
- Evil Laugh: She gives one of these as she becomes part of the Wild Hunt.
- Expy: Of Baba Yaga. She seems to be an ancient witch who lives in a hut on chicken feet, and she is ostensibly "helping" several characters. Her storyline is also uncomfortably associated with harming or even killing children. Finally, her three robed forms with which she appears to Yennefer, Fringilla and Francesca are the same colours as Baba Yaga's three riders: White (Bright Day), Red (Red Sun) and Black (Black Night).
- The Hecate Sisters: The trope applies rather straightforwardly to the three women she approaches:
- Fringilla, who is the most insecure and only tentatively rebellious is challenged by "Emhyr"/Voleth Meir for being a child;
- Francesca, who searches for a way for her people to prosper again, is the prospective mother; and
- Yennefer, the most suspicious, who ultimately looks for wisdom, is the crone.
- It also somewhat twistedly plays into the visions she grants to them: Francesca is presented with Ithlinne, the wise crone, Fringilla with Emhyr, who reacts to her like something of a father figure and turns out to be a father in the finale, and Yennefer with an aloof teenager, who has a lot of her sarcastic and bitter elements (not to mention looking and acting like a young Tissaia) and can be seen as a darker version of the maiden.
- Lotus-Eater Machine: She traps Ciri in one during the finale.
- Our Demons Are Different: She is an ancient and powerful demon that was trapped by the first witchers centuries ago.
- The Wild Hunt: She joins them as a rider after being returned to her home sphere. It appears to be of her own volition, though it's difficult to say, given that she presents as a cloud of sparks.
The Wild Hunt
The Wild Hunt
The Wild Hunt is known to most Northern sorcerers as an omen of war, a cavalcade of spectral riders galloping through the skies. What little of them is confirmed on-screen suggests that they are a spectral army projecting their wraiths across worlds, hunting for the heirs of the Elder Blood.
- Black Knight: The bulk of their riders shown on-screen fit the physical description.
- Dem Bones: Some of them deliberately wear skeleton-themed suits of armour. Helps with the intimidation factor.
- The Dreaded: The only people who don't fear them are the ones who don't believe that they exist.
- Evil Sounds Deep: They all have a deep, thundering voice but only when wearing their helmets.
- The Faceless: They hide every inch of their bodies under their suits of armour.
- Outside-Context Problem: Most educated people in the North or Nilfgaard don't even believe that they exist, and even the superstitious folk aren't aware of the true threat they represent. The trio of Geralt, Yennefer and Cirilla are probably the first humans of the Continent's sphere to have ever encountered them (in the Wild Hunt's native sphere, no less) and lived to tell the tale.
- Rage Helm: Most of them wear skull-themed helmets.
- Stalker without a Crush: They want Ciri for the power of the Elder Blood she bears.The Wild Hunt: Child of the Elder Blood, starry-eyed Daughter of Chaos, join our Hunt! Your place is among us! You are ours!
- Tin Tyrant: All of them are covered head to toe in skeletal looking armor.
- The Wild Hunt: Naturally.
The Storyteller
The Seanchaí / The Mysterious Elf / The Storyteller
"I slip between world and times, collecting forgotten stories. I bring them back to life when the world needs them."
Portrayed by: Minnie Driver
A mysterious shapeshifting entity who tells Jaskier the Story of the Seven so he can pass it along to the elves.
- A Form You Are Comfortable With: The Storyteller can appear in any shape the person they are talking to cares to see them. She first appears to him as a duplicate of Jaskier himself, before settling on the form of a serene elven woman.
- Hope Bringer: She specifically says that the elves cannot win their current struggle fueled by pain and anger alone, they also need hope, and to get it she is bringing them the Story of the Seven, of the few who overcame the many.
- No Name Given: Never reveals her name, referring to herself only as "a storyteller". Promotional materials refer to her as Seanchaínote , while the end credits name her only as "Mysterious Elf".
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An unknown being who freely grants Balor mastery over wild magics.
- Greater-Scope Villain: In hindsight, one can see why she would sponsor a power-hungry Vizier who betrayed everyone he ever met. Balor's actions indirectly bring about The Conjunction of the Spheres, which brings humans into the world and has them conquer the elven kingdoms, taking over their positions as the dominant race. Humans are practically elves, with one major difference: human mages are natural adepts of chaos magic, which is her specialty.
