

Geralt of Rivia, the cunning assassin known as The New York Times bestselling series that inspired the international hit video game: The Witcher.įor over a century, humans, dwarves, gnomes, and elves have lived together in relative peace. The only good elf, it seems, is a dead elf. But times have changed, the uneasy peace is over, and now the races are fighting once again. For over a century, humans, dwarves, gnomes, and elves have lived together in relative peace. The elf from Iorveth’s command shook of the hands of the guards, climbed onto the stump and allowed them to place the rope around his neck.The New York Times bestselling series that inspired the international hit video game: The Witcher.

He looked again at the slogan he had written and rose with effort. ‘Traighlethan,’ corrected the elf from Iorveth’s commandos. The rest of the condemned, also following tradition, sang in chorus the hymn of the Joyful, an anonymous song, composed in Drakenborg, whose words were learned by each of the prisoners in the barracks at night by listening to the sounds coming from the death cell, knowing that someday they would join in the chorus. There were hundreds of similar inscriptions. Only one of the elves, a Scoia’tael from Iorveth’s commandos had recently received a heavy beating in the laundry room, he kept his serenity and dignity, and wrote on a wall beam the inscription: “Freedom or death”. The Dijkstra Riesling was being poured into a tin plate and sipped without hands, in order to have better chances of getting a slight dizziness from the watered down wine.

In a cell occupied by six elves, one half-elf, one halfling, two humans and a Nilfgaardian, there was joy. That night another tradition was being performed. Other than TW2, he’s mentioned three times during chapter five of Baptism of Fire:
