History Characters / TheWitcher3WildHunt

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!!The Wild Hunt
[[folder: The Wild Hunt as a Group]]
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->''"The vague, ghastly shapes of riders become visible in the ribbon sliding across the sky. As they come closer and closer, they can be seen ever more clearly. Buffalo horns and ragged crests sway on their helmets, and cadaverous masks show white beneath them. The riders sit on horses’ skeletons, cloaked in ragged caparisons. A fierce gale howls among the willows, blades of lightning slash the black sky. The wind moans louder and louder. No, it's not the wind. It's ghostly singing."''
-->-- '''Andrzej Sapkowski,''' '' '''(The Time of Contempt)''' ''

The Wild Hunt is known to most Nordlings as an omen of war, a cavalcade of spectral riders galloping through the skies. In fact they are Dearg Ruadhi, the Red Riders, warriors of Aen Elle, or the Alder Folk, projecting their wraiths across worlds, hunting for the heirs of the Elder Blood. For information about the King of the Wild Hunt, see Eredin Breacc Glas in [[Characters/TheWitcherVillains the book villains]]; for information about former member Avallac'h, see in [[Characters/TheWitcherOtherCharacters other book characters]].
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* BlackKnight: They all fit the physical description.
* CoolShip: A rather literal example. Naglfar is an icy longship said to be made from the nails of dead men that allows the Wild Hunt to physically sail between the worlds and can appear in any sufficiently large body of water almost at a moment's notice.
* DemBones: They deliberately wear skeleton-themed suits of armour. Helps with the intimidation factor.
* TheDreaded: The only people who don't fear them are the ones who don't believe that they exist.
* {{Expy}}: Their design is meant to evoke Peter Jackson's version of Sauron.
* EvilIsBigger: They are all extremely large compared to any other humanoid races, standing almost a head taller than Geralt.
* EvilIsDeathlyCold: They open portals to the world of the White Frost to bring winter wherever they go. One of the earliest signs of their arrival is the temperature dropping sharply and breath becoming visible. Even after they're gone, places where they've been stay locked in snow and ice.
* EvilSoundsDeep: They all have a deep, thundering voice but only when wearing their helmets. If the helmet is off then they sound like any other elf, only more arrogant.
* TheFaceless: They hide every inch of their bodies under their suits of armour.
* HiddenDepths: You get to visit their world and discover it's a CrystalSpiresAndTogas paradise. They're actually quite civilized and a bit sex-crazy in addition to being Nazgul-expies.
* OurElvesAreDifferent: If the Aen Seidhe of The Witcher's world are viewed as the Seelie Court in terms of Celtic mythology, then the Aen Elle are without doubt their Unseelie counterparts.
* OutsideContextProblem: 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.
* RageHelm: Most of them wear skull-themed helmets.
* TheFairFolk: Interdimensional beings bereft of empathy who are known to kidnap children and sometimes return them decades older -- but only a few months after they were taken. Season with [[Myth/NorseMythology Frost Giant]] as desired.
* TinTyrant: All of them are covered head to toe in skeletal looking armor.
* VillainousCheekbones: Seems to be a racial trait for the Aen Elle. Those whose faces we do see are shown to have prominent cheekbones that make them look very gaunt.
* TheWildHunt: Naturally.
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[[folder:Imlerith]]
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->''"The sisters said you would come. They saw you arrive in the water's surface... They did not see the girl, but she is with you, is she not?"''

%%->'''Voiced by:'''

The Wild Hunt's Chief General and its mightiest warrior. He tries to hunt Ciri down on horseback through the forests of Velen after she escapes Ard Skellig, acting as Eredin's emissary to the Crones of Crook-back Bog and he later leads the ground assault on Kaer Morhen. Geralt recognises him from his capture and enslavement among the Red Riders and respects his martial-prowess warily; to the extent of recognising that the outcome of a battle between them -- would be uncertain at best.
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* BaldOfEvil: Has a shaved head under his helmet.
* BedFullOfWomen: Just before his fight with Geralt, he is surrounded by a harem of Succubi. However, he's dressed in full armor by then.
* TheBrute: He's big even for an Aen Elle elf, and delights in violence and feats of strength.
* CarryABigStick: Wields an enormous mace with one hand as his primary weapon.
* CoDragons: To Eredin with Caranthir.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Geralt roasts his helmet glowing hot with the Igni sign, and when Imlerith tears the helmet off, Geralt grabs his mace and crushes his skull with a single blow.
* TheHedonist: Partakes in the Witches' Sabbath for their pleasurable debauchery and to revel in the subservience of his inferiors. His love for the joys of the flesh ends up being his downfall when Geralt and Ciri infiltrate the gathering and kill him.
* HeroKiller: He's badass enough that Geralt doesn't want to risk taking him on even if he has Lambert and [[spoiler:Letho]] as back-up. He becomes a literal example of the trope when he snaps [[spoiler:Vesemir's]] neck in the Battle of Kaer Morhen when the captive witcher stabs him in the axilla.
* HiddenDepths: He can tell if Geralt lies to him in their minimalist exchange, proving that he has more perspicacity than his violence-loving demeanour might suggest. When he catches one of the dying leaves from the Oak of Bald Mountain, he also seems to have caught on to the fact that the Crones are being butchered by Ciri.
* LightningBruiser: Once he discards his shield and starts teleporting all over the place.
* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: Carries an ''enormous'' meteor iron shield that protects him from Triss's firestorm artillery strike during the Battle of Kaer Morhen. Just to show how sturdy it is, all the warriors in his company are roasted, but he's unscathed.
* NeckLift: Seems to be his preferred tactic for subduing smaller enemies.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Smashes Vesemir's ribs in with a kick, stomps on his right forearm so that both bones snap, punches him repeatedly in the face until Eredin commands him to stop, then hoists him up by the throat and [[NeckSnap throttles him to death]] when the old witcher sticks him with a hidden dagger.
* NoodleIncident: Apparently he and Geralt were acquaintances during Geralt's service with the Wild Hunt, meaning that the witcher probably saw him crushing alien faces while he was chained up and being dragged behind Eredin's steed.
* SlouchOfVillainy: You'll find him slouching lazily on a throne-shaped rock amidst a harem of succubi at the Sabbath.
* TeleportSpam: Utilises it extensively in the second phase of his boss-fight.
* TribalFacePaint: Has three red stripes painted across his face, [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall resembling the game's logo]].
* TurnsRed: Once he reaches half health, he ditches his shield and becomes ''much'' faster.
* WorthyOpponent: He expresses respect for Geralt's skills as a warrior, acknowledging his bravery at Kaer Morhen and asking him who taught him to fight with such dexterity while they battle, and even manages to GoOutWithASmile just before the witcher caves his skull in.
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[[folder:Caranthir Ar-Feiniel]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Almost Zireael... ''Almost''. -- Ysgarthiad!"'']]

->''"You cannot win... Even should you kill me."''

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The Wild Hunt's Head Navigator and most powerful Mage. He was one of Avallac'h's most promising pupils and unlike his counter-parts can use exclusively Elder Blood sourced transitioning between planes, as he was also a throwback to Lara Dorren's heritage that his mentor wished to preserve. Now he helms the Naglfar across the multiverse, opening portals of intense cold that allow their great armies to sack and loot many planes of existence without a shred of opposition; searching for a way to save his race from the White Frost -- as he uses it to destroy his King's enemies.
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* TheAce: Magic or muscles, he curses his teacher to transform into a deformed midget, defeats Eskel in single combat, overpowers Yennefer's magic shield to the extent that she collapses and he can freeze the rest of the defenders of Kaer Morhen solid. He then saves his compatriots from Ciri's Source maelstrom and later entraps Emhyr's fleet in a sorcerer's blizzard of such scale and potency that Phillipa, Yen, Fringilla, Triss ''and'' Margarita combined cannot overcome it. In fact, without a berserk Ciri tearing into him, slicing his gut open and crippling his staff, Geralt probably would have been defeated much as his fellow witcher was.
* CoDragons: To Eredin with Imlerith.
* EnemySummoner: Summons ice elementals in his final boss-fight.
* EvilGenius: In charge of steering the Wild Hunt across the worlds, a skill that normally requires centuries to master.
* EvilSorcerer: The Wild Hunt's most dangerous magic user.
* TheFaceless: The only one of Eredin's lieutenants who never reveals his face.
* GameBreakingInjury: Courtesy of Ciri, once again allowing her foster father to pin down and slay another sorcerer that was way above his level in melee combat.
* AnIcePerson: While the Hunt is associated with ice and cold in general, only Caranthir is seen actually using ice-based magic in combat.
* MagicStaff: Carries a staff with a glowing spherical crystal as a focus to breach the fabric of existence. It is strong and massive enough to double as a mace for close combat.
* MinorMajorCharacter: He is by far the single most dangerous entity in the main game. Caranthir makes it possible for the Wild Hunt to travel between worlds, he is behind [[spoiler:the curse placed on Avallac'h that both Ciri and Geralt spend a significant amount of time trying to dispel]], and he is so singularly powerful that there are two occasions where he would have killed the heroes had Ciri not intervened. Despite that, he has little screentime and even less characterization, serving as little more than the penultimate boss.
* MyMasterRightOrWrong: Is absolutely loyal to Eredin and can't be swayed with reason.
* RedBaron: Also known as the Aen Elle's ''Golden Child'', their finest template of the key between Worlds, though he pales in comparison to the true heir of their near-lost Power, Cirilla.
* TakingYouWithMe: When defeated by Geralt, he teleports them both underwater in hopes of drowning his foe.
* TeleportSpam: Teleports around the battlefield throughout his boss-fight.
* TykeBomb: Avallac'h plotted out Caranthir's entire life before he was even conceived, producing him through an intense process of selective breeding to preserve Lara Dorren's geneology, and apprenticed him to be a powerful sorcerer with the ability to bend time and space. He succeeded... and then Caranthir signed on with Eredin.
* WorfHadTheFlu: Endures a smack-down by an awakened and incredibly empowered Ciri, which weakens him enough to allow Geralt to slay him.
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[[folder:Ge'els]]
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Eredin's viceroy in Tir ná Lia.
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* AffablyEvil: He's very civil and accommodating to Geralt, even though he views the witcher as an inferior being from a race he's happy enough to subjugate.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: In a BlueAndOrangeMorality kind of way. A genocide against an inferior race? Insignificant. A regicide, on the other hand? Intolerable.
* EvilAlbino: All the Aen Elle have pale skin and eyes, but Ge'els accentuates the look with his grey hair and white clothing.
* LargeAndInCharge: He's huge, almost a foot taller than Geralt and Avallac'h. And unlike Eredin and his ilk, it's not accentuated by armor.
* HonorBeforeReason: [[spoiler:Avallac'h]] explicitly namechecks this as his biggest flaw.
* ManInWhite: Wears a stylish white and silver ensemble.
* ManOfWealthAndTaste: Clearly enjoys the finer things in life.
* MinorMajorCharacter: As Eredin's viceroy, he serves as the de facto ruler of the Aen Elle whenever the King of the Wild Hunt is absent, but only has one scene in the entire game.
* NobleDemon: Indifferent to humans but suffers no injustice amongst his own kind, least of all regicide.
* NonActionGuy: Handles affairs of the state while Eredin raids and plunders with the Wild Hunt.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: To a surprising degree. He is even willing to negotiate with enemies on their own ground if he finds them sufficiently honourable.
* WickedCultured: Paints portraits ([[spoiler:in Kubistic style!]]) in his spare time.
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!!Other Book Characters

[[folder: Hjalmar an Craite]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Allen Leech

The son of Crach an Craite and one of the candidates for the throne of Skellige. Hot-headed, hot-blooded and always eager for glory, he nonetheless is noble and honorable. His feat to claim the crown is to slay the Ice Giant of Undvik, leading an expedition that was cut down until he and 2 friends were left. With Geralt's help, he slays the giant. When the Massacre of Kaer Trolde occurs, he doesn't hesitate to find the culprits right away. His actions can eventually make him king, where he continues raids against Nilfgaard.
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* AscendedExtra: He is briefly mentioned in the books, but Geralt never meets him "on screen".
* BadassBeard: Like dad like son.
* TheBerserker: If Hjalmar wasn't an Craite, he would've made a fine Vildkaarl. Hell, he even has some nostalgia for Svalblod, the Skelligan Blood God and the Vildkaarl's patron.
-->'''Geralt:''' What'd this god do to get banished?\\
'''Hjlamar:''' [[WarGod Svalblod]]? Nothing! It was his priests that were the problem.
* BigBrotherInstinct: He shows some of this towards Cerys. Despite knowing the Cerys set out to perform her own deed to earn the crown, and thus her failing is to his advantage, if he's rescued first by Geralt he'll insist Geralt then go to help his sister on Spikeroog. He's also worried about her setting off on her mission alone.
* BrainsAndBrawn: Brawn to Cerys' brains.
* DaddysGirl: Gender swapped. Hjalmar loves his dad above all things in this world and gets violently protective on his behalf. Hell, he even intimidates ''[[TheBerserker Madman Lugos]]'' when he gets up in Crach's face, warning him to watch his tongue when he's talking to his father.
-->'''Hjalmar:''' (''in a low growl'') Maybe you'd better watch your tone when you talk to my dad.
* FieryRedhead: Runs in the family.
* TheHero: One of two in the Skellige arc, with Geralt as the supporting protagonist.
* TheGoodKing: An interesting take on the trope. As Skelligans are basically [[HornyVikings Vikings]], they're idea of what constitutes a good king can basically be summed up as: "awesome warrior who's favoured by the gods and leads us to glory and victory in battle". Hjalmar fulfils all these criterion exceedingly well, just like Bran before him. Even though he ends up neglecting Skellige itself as a result of his constant raiding when he's king, none of the clans hold it against him if they even acknowledge it as a problem. The only important thing is that the king's leading them to [[BloodKnight to bigger and better battles]] and filling their longships with plunder. Hjalmar's the perfect Skelligan king because Skelligans are so batshit violent and insane that all they want to do, like real Vikings, is fight, kill, die and go to the Halls of their ancestors.
* GracefulLoser: If Cerys becomes High Queen, he immediately congratulates her and holds no grudge towards her, giving her his full support - which stands in contrast to a lot of his kinsmen who are wary of a woman on the throne.
* HotBlooded: It runs in his family.
* LeeroyJenkins: At times this behavior gets the better of him.
* NiceGuy: When he isn't kicking ass, he's a rather honorable and amiable fellow who doesn't hesitate to share a drink and laugh with you. He's notably the only person who makes no remark about Cerys trying to win the crown despite of her gender.
* RoaringRampageofRevenge: After the massacre of Kaer Trolde, he immediately searches for the culprit and it does not go well for the Vildkaarls.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: And how.
* SiblingYinYang: Downplayed. Hjalmar and Cerys appear different on the surface: He's a ProudWarriorRaceGuy to the n-th degree, while Cerys prefers to reason through her problems. But at their heart, they are both stubborn and hotheaded.
* WarriorPrince: Should he become king, he rules much as Bran did and leads the clans on many a mighty raid. He even manages to unite the clans and successfully kick Nilfgaard's black-plated arse back to the south in possible endings.
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[[folder:Roach]]
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Geralt's horse(s). Geralt has taken a habit of naming all the horses he's ever had Roach[[note]]A closer translation would be Roachy. The original name for the horse in Polish is "Płotka", a diminutive form of the word "Płoć" (meaning "roach"). Diminutives are endearing in Polish.[[/note]], after the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_roach European fish]]. Geralt notes that he has a preferences for mares over stallions. Roach is Geralt's primary means of transport in ''The Witcher III'', and there she takes the appearance of a chestnut mare. After completing a certain quest, Geralt can obtain a Nilfgaardian black mare as his mount, replacing the previous Roach.

In ''Blood and Wine'', while under the effect of a certain (mushroom-based) potion, Geralt gains the temporary ability to talk to Roach and understand her. [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane Or maybe he's hallucinating the whole thing]].

Except for appearances, the game treats both versions of Roach identically, thus tropes apply to both of them without distinction.
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* AutomatonHorses: Roach doesn't need to be fed, never sleeps, and is incapable of dying.
* BadassBookworm: Like its owner, Roach has encyclopedic knowledge of monsters... Oh and she can read. She thus resents Geralt telling her what the evidence they found points towards.
-->'''Roach:''' I can read! And draw my own conclusions!
* CoolHorse: With the proper gear, both version of Roach can win every horse race in the continent. ''Blood and Wine'' takes it further by letting you outfit your horse with all kinds of cool armor.
* CowardlyLion: While there's a mechanic based on her being scared of any danger close by, she still displays UndyingLoyalty to Geralt.
* DeadpanSnarker: Roach and Geralt's communications is basically 90% her snarking at Geralt.
* {{Deuteragonist}}: of the ''Equine Phantoms'' sidequest of the ''Blood and Wine'' expansion, being Geralt's noble steed, investigation partner, and [[spoiler: through pardoning the ghost causing all the problems, the one who ultimately solves things]].
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: If you read her entry in the characters tab of the bestiary, Geralt hypothesizes that her constant exposure to magic, Witcher Signs, and the like are what caused her to develop her OffscreenTeleportation abilities.
* {{Irony}}: In the regular game, Geralt will note to a goat that it has the primary quality to be a good Roach, it doesn't talk much. Come the quest in ''Blood and Wine'' where he can talk to Roach, and we quickly see that Roach, in fact, is constantly talking.
* LarynxDissonance: Despite being a mare, Roach speaks with a man's voice. When asked about it she points out Geralt has never talked to another animal, so he's got no room to judge.
* LegacyCharacter: Geralt names all his horses "Roach".
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: A fair amount of their conversation revolves around the horse riding mechanics of the base games, from the poor handling of Roach (and habit of getting stuck in fences), to her [[GameplayAndStorySegregation ability to always be there when Geralt whistles, even after he's been shipwrecked]], to her kicking off Geralt during combat.
* LoyalAnimalCompanion: So loyal, it allows her to always be there when Geralt whistles. Even if he let her across the ocean!
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Sure, maybe the potion did allow Geralt and Roach to talk... Or maybe Geralt was just high and hallucinating, and projecting his own deductions onto his horse.
* OffscreenTeleportation: Even if you're separated by islands, she'll instantly arrive when Geralt whistles for her. He theorizes that she became an EmpoweredBadassNormal, she chalks it up to UndyingLoyalty.
* SelectiveMemory: Roach has no memory of ever bucking off Geralt during combat.
* SirSwearsALot: She has a surprisingly filthy mouth.
* ThisIsMyHuman: She says as much about Geralt.
* UndyingLoyalty: Her only response to Geralt asking how she's able to cross the sea if it means heeding his call; it's simply that he's her human.
* VitriolicBestBuds: There's quite a bit of bickering when she and Geralt start chatting it up. They're still a man's loyal steed and a steed's gallant human.
* WeaksauceWeakness: She gets stuck in fences. She admits it's her main limit.
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[[WMG: Characters original to the Game]]

[[folder: Phillip Strenger, The Bloody Baron]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' James Clyde

The Bloody Baron is the ruler of the Velen region, a No Man's Land existing between the Nilfgaard and Redanian fronts. A former Temeranian soldier, he deserted from their army and proceeded to take over the region with his armies. He is a angry, bitter drunk who is missing his wife and teenage daughter.
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* AbusiveParents: He never harmed his daughter physically, but Tamara considers his near-constant drunkenness, neglect, and [[spoiler: abuse of her mother]] plenty bad enough.
* AdiposeRex: A ruler of a large middle region of Temeria while also possessing a large region around his middle.
* TheAlcoholic: He's a notoriously heavy drinker, [[spoiler:which played no small part in the abuse he heaped upon his wife]].
* TheAtoner: In the end, he knows full well that he's responsible for tearing his family apart, and he's ashamed of how far it had to go before he recognised it. [[spoiler:If his wife is still alive at the end of the Family Matters quest, he departs to find a sage that can restore her mind and swears he'll never touch a drop of drink again.]]
* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: At least he seems to think so. [[spoiler:He thought having another child with his wife would give them a chance to start over again. Anna, however, had a different opinion, and made a deal with the Crones to arrange for a miscarriage.]]
* BadassBeard: Not to the levels of say, Crach or Hjalmar, but still plenty badass.
* {{Expy}}: Is explicitly one for Mark Addy's portrayal of Robert Baratheon in ''Series/GameOfThrones''.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: A possible ending of his storyline. Specifically, if you choose to free the spirit trapped in the Whispering Hillock (after starting Ladies of the Wood). The children in the swamp escape, but the spirit takes its revenge by burning Downwarren to the ground, and the Crones punish Anna for failing with a curse that will kill her even if it's lifted. With Anna dead and his daughter wanting nothing to do with him, the Baron takes his own life.]]
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: If Geralt kills the tree spirit (or frees it BEFORE going to the Bog) and finishes the quest "Return to Crookback Bog," The Baron will leave for Blue Mountains a changed man with his wife Anna.]]
* FindTheCure: [[spoiler:When he sees that Anna has been driven mad from her time with the Crones, he sets out for the Blue Mountains to seek a healer who he hopes can restore her mind.]]
* FlatEarthAtheist: He refuses to acknowledge the Crones might even exist until they send their fiend. Even if Geralt keeps telling them they do, and he's met them. And it happens even if Geralt is the one who helped him uncurse his miscarried daughter!
* FreudianExcuse: Gives one for his behavior. [[spoiler: He was traumatized by his experiences during wartime and turned to alcoholism to cope, which led him to... overreact... when he found out his wife had run away with their child ''and'' another man, which in turn led to her no longer even maintaining the pretense of loving him.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: His explanation for the first time he hit his wife was because she had gone insane with hysterics and tried to stab him with a knife, and he had to defend himself and use force to calm her down. [[spoiler:This would have carried slightly more moral weight had he not explained immediately before that the precipitating incident for that was when ''he'' had [[UnstoppableRage gone insane with jealous rage]] and [[MurderTheHypotenuse murdered his wife's lover]].]]
* ItsAllMyFault: While he tends to allay responsibility for his many failings, the one exception he makes is the case of [[spoiler:his wife's miscarriage]]. He blames himself entirely for that. [[spoiler:Ironically, it's probably the ''one'' thing that wasn't directly Phillip's fault; Anna didn't want the child, and the miscarriage was the result of a deal she made with the Ladies of the Wood combined with her accidentally losing her magical protection the night she fled.]]
* MoralityPet: His daughter, Tamara. It's said that whenever he flew into a violent rage, just seeing her would calm him down. [[spoiler:And while he abused his wife, he never raised a hand to his daughter.]]
* MurderTheHypotenuse: When he returned from the front to find out his wife had left him with her lover of three years and taken Tamara with her, he killed Anna's lover and fed his remains to the dogs. Anna went into a homicidal fit of rage that he couldn't stop [[spoiler:until, for the first time, he hit her]].
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: He has a reputation for extreme brutality, hence why he's called the Bloody Baron. Oddly, he didn't earn the nickname from any violent incident, but because while he was capturing a group of enemy soldiers (with very few casualties) one of his own men spilled a vat of dye into a river, leaving people to assume he'd conducted a massacre. The barkeep who tells the story mentions a lesser known tale of him killing a group of soldiers about a week before the dye incident, but apparently it didn't stick in people's minds.
* NobleBigot: He's a terrible, terrible person with a few redeeming qualities. He's also got a very disdainful attitude toward the peasantry which comes up and causes some trouble [[spoiler: while trying to rescue his wife]].
* PetTheDog: The Baron is a morally complex character. In many ways he's a completely awful human being, but he also does some surprisingly honorable and noble acts.
** When he finds out about a child sent to die in the woods, he adopts her in his kitchens.
** He faithfully upholds SacredHospitality, giving Ciri lodging, food, and time to convalesce during a lull in her flight.
** When he believes he's about to be killed by the Basilisk, he tells Ciri to take anything she needs from his castle. Ciri ultimately [[LickedByTheDog remembers him fondly]].
** He's adamantly against Geralt killing the Botchling created from his miscarried daughter. [[spoiler: He also participates in the ritual to turn her into a friendly household spirit.]]
** [[spoiler: His first reaction to finding out his wife being held by the Crones is to take a group of men to rescue her.]]
** He makes a note that he considers Uma a person (if an unfortunate and crippled one), unlike most of his men who consider him more of a pet.
** He's also remarkably progressive compared to a lot of his people in terms of gender stuff. He let his daughter learn to ride and wield a sword, he's never dismissive or patronising of Ciri for her gender, is willing to race her (and gives her his horse when she does win) and takes her hunting. According to some rules-chafing comments from his band of thugs, he has implemented a strict no-raping-the-peasant-women rule. Compare him to the average Velen peasant.
* PietaPlagiarism: You'll be treated to an image of him carrying his wife this way in the ending where [[spoiler:they both survive, signifying the beginning of his redemption.]]
* TheQuisling: Has willingly joined Nilfgaard in the hope of they'd make his title a real one. Despite this, he is portrayed sympathetically since Temeria really does have no hope of victory against Nilfgaard.
* TheRedBaron: Few people call him by his actual name.
* ReformedButRejected: If you let him come to terms with his wife's miscarriage by helping with the ritual, he quits drinking and becomes a much more sombre, sober fellow. His daughter has known him too long as he was to immediately believe he's changed.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Implied to be the beginning of his problems. He began drinking as a way of dealing with the horrors of war, but after the war was over he was unable to quit.
* SirSwearsALot: in the Polish dub, he spouts almost as many profanities as Thaler.
* SlowlySlippingIntoEvil: The Baron is a broken man [[DestructiveRomance with a]] [[HairTriggerTemper lot]] [[TheAlcoholic of]] [[ShellShockedVeteran issues]] living in a world filled with monsters, both literal and figurative, and is desperately trying to not become one himself. He's failing. [[spoiler:You can save him if you try hard enough.]]
* StoutStrength: Overweight? To be sure. But he's an active and experienced soldier, so he's also extremely physically tough.
* SympatheticMurderer: It's unknown how many people he's killed, being both a former soldier and a lord with penchant for hanging dissenters. We do know that he murdered his wife's former lover and fed him to dogs while in a jealous rage. If the player chooses, they can ask Philip for his side of the story and, after hearing it, either say that they agree with him or that he's still a monster.
* TheUnfairSex: ZigZagged, and left to personal interpretation. Though several characters blame him alone, the Baron argues that there was fault on both sides. He spent longs periods away from home and became an alcoholic; during one of his absences, Anna had a long-term affair with another man and tried to run away with him. After Philip killed her lover, she said things to hurt him him to push him into [[SuicideByCop killing her]], and then ultimately [[spoiler:made a deal with the Crones rather than bear the Baron's second child]].
* TheUsurper: Is not the legitimate heir of the barony. Its lord was killed and he just moved in with his men.
* WhatTheHellHero: If Geralt opts to slay the botchling, he gives Geralt a furious and stricken cry of: [[spoiler:"You killed my child!"]]
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[[folder:Anna Strenger]]

The wife of the Bloody Baron, who went missing along with their daughter. It's revealed that she suffered years of physical abuse at his hands.
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* AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder: Her husband constantly being sent to war, combined with the fact that even when he ''was'' home, he had become a drunken wretch, drove her to seek solace from a childhood friend of hers. Philip ''was not pleased'' when he found out.
* BalefulPolymorph: [[spoiler:If the children disappear on her watch (due to Geralt freeing the tree spirit to save them), then the Crones punish Anna by turning her into a Water Hag.]]
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: She made a deal with the Crones to [[spoiler:get rid of her unborn child, and they did -- by forcing her to miscarry during a fight with her husband. Then they sent a Fiend to collect her and transformed her into Gran, who is basically their slave.]]
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: After marrying Philip, she fell in love with a childhood friend of hers and ran off with him and Tamara. It was cut short when Philip found them and killed her lover, something she's never gotten over.
* DearJohnLetter: She left one for Philip at home, and when he returned from war, he found it and tracked both her and her lover down.
* GoodAdulteryBadAdultery: Left ambiguous which side it falls on. Philip began drinking to cope with being sent off to war all the time, and at some point Anna began having an affair and no longer loved him. Trying to run off with her lover is what led to the complete collapse of their marriage. Whether or not she was wrong for cheating on Philip and trying to leave him is left up to the player to decide.
* FlorenceNightingaleEffect: Philip fell in love with her after she tended to his wounds from combat.
* QuestionableConsent: It's made clear that, after Philip killed her lover, Anna no longer loved him and had no desire to have another child with him. Yet, Philip was convinced that a second child would give them both a second chance and continued on without her approval. This implies that she didn't lay with him out of choice.
* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:Her miscarriage and servitude to the Crones did much to erode her mind, to the point where she doesn't even seem to remember who she is when Geralt first meets her. After the children are eaten, she completely snaps, turning into a barely-functioning TalkativeLoon who's completely unaware of what's going on around her.]]
* SuicideByCop: After her lover was killed, she began antagonizing Philip in hopes that he'd assault and then kill her.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: [[spoiler:She's in her forties and her missing posters show her as the Baron describes her: black-haired and sharp-eyed. When she's finally found, her hair gone entirely grey and she has the face and frailty of an elderly woman.]]
* YourCheatingHeart: She didn't just cheat on Philip (he actually says he could have dealt with it if it had been only that, just a night or a fling) but the fact that the affair had gone on for ''three years'' and she ultimately left him drove Philip to a rage.
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[[folder: Tamara Strenger]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Laura Rogers

The daughter of the Bloody Baron who ran away with her mother. She ends up joining the Eternal Fire as a Witch Hunter.
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* ActionGirl: Tamara joins in the fight to [[spoiler: free her mother from the Crones]]. The other Witch Hunters even note they don't have to train her in combat because she already knows how to fight.
* AbusiveParents: From her perspective, her father was a horribly emotionally neglectful drunk. From his, he tried to give her anything she might have wanted.
* DaddysGirl: The Bloody Baron considers her one. She has a considerably less rosy picture of the subject.
* TheFundamentalist: Subverted. Tamara is sincere in her faith by all accounts. She doesn't show any sign of being prejudiced against Geralt or magic in general, regarding her faith as comfort and protection along with duty. This is a sharp contrast to the citizenry of Novigrad. Her mentor in the faith is similarly reasonable.
* NiceGirl: Probably one of the most fundamentally decent people in the game. The poor fisherman who helped her and Anna escape from Crow's Perch did so because when Tamara had learned his son was sick, she brought food and medicine to help just because it was the right thing to do.
* RealMenLoveJesus: [[spoiler: Joins the Eternal Fire when she reaches Oxenfurt.]]
* TragicKeepsake: Subverted. She throws away the doll which symbolizes the few happy memories of her father she had, feeling he was trying to bribe her affection back.
* TheWitchHunter: [[spoiler: Becomes one after she joins the Eternal Fire.]]
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[[folder:The Ladies of the Woods]]
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->''"A word once given we never break..."''

Three sisters, Weavess, Brewess and Whispess, also known as the Crones, who reign over the southern marshlands of Velen unchecked and are worshipped as goddesses by the local populace.
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* AGodAmI: They demand worship and total obedience from the people living within their sphere of influence, tormenting those who don't comply with curses that range from mischievous to AFateWorseThanDeath.
* AbhorrentAdmirer: They make sexual advances towards Geralt, making no secret of the fact that they kill and eat their lovers, not even accounting their hideous appearance. That said, they are capable of appearing in the form of three incredibly attractive young women (though that dents their danger-factor not a bit).
* AIIsACrapshoot: One possible origin. The somewhat dubious "She Who Knows" tome describes them as having initially been created as golem-like servants by a druidess, who were corrupted after they slew their own creator (who in turn had begun to destroy Velen in bouts of madness).
* AmbiguouslyBi: They are sexually "interested" in men, no question. However, they also make very lewd comments about women (particularly Ciri) and, during the Witches' Sabbath, they only allow the comeliest lasses and the most strapping men to come visit them. What exactly happens to the women is unknown, as the only corpses we see in their lair are male.
* BadBoss: Their servant is rightfully frightened of them; they're quick to punish her for the slightest mistake or transgression.
* BadSamaritan: They take Ciri in after finding her unconscious in the swamp. [[spoiler:And then plan on hacking off her feet and eating them before they hand the rest of her over to the Wild Hunt.]]
* BloodMagic: Their enchantments seem to require blood sacrifice at the Witch's Sabbath. Whispess' collection of severed human ears is implied to allow her to hear what their owners hear as well.
* BullyingADragon: [[spoiler: The Three Crones pretty much laugh off Geralt's threats to avenge the children they've murdered by coming back with Ciri to kill them. Then he does.]]
* BurnTheWitch: According to the lore notes on Chuchote Cave in ''Blood and Wine'', Whispess was subjected to this. She refused to provide aid to a knight after peering into his black heart, and in retaliation, he burned her alive. She survived, however, and got her revenge by driving him to [[DrivenToMadness madness]] and [[DrivenToSuicide suicide]] by constantly whispering into his ear. How much of this legend is true, though, will forever be a mystery.
* EarAche: Their preferred method of payment for services rendered is a freshly-severed ear.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: They are not pleased when they find out Geralt has freed the spirit from the tree, claiming that he has unleashed an ancient evil who will bring even more death to the world.
* ExactWords: They never break a promise, but rarely fulfil it in a way that is beneficial to the recipient. [[spoiler:They seem reluctantly impressed if you follow the suit in your dealings with them.]]
* TheFaceless: Two of them hide their faces behind masks, suggesting that they are even more hideous than the third.
* TheFairFolk: Inhuman beings who follow alien morality and make a life living hell for those who cross them. They even have a name they prefer (the Ladies of the Wood) and one they dislike (the Crones of Crookback Bog), and using the latter to their faces will get you chastised for rudeness.
* FauxAffablyEvil: The sisters feign politeness, are willing to express gratitude in the [[AbhorrentAdmirer most twisted ways]], and always keep their word. They also do absolutely nothing to disguise how murderous, gluttonous and depraved they really are.
* GodGuise: An [[{{Ambiguous|Situation}} example]]. [[PhysicalGod They may be actual deities of the woods]] or they may be something else. And however great their power, they defer to the Wild Hunt. [[spoiler: Either way, they can be killed by Ciri, a PhysicalGod herself.]]
* TheHecateSisters: They're all hideous and elderly, but they do have an age-based hierarchy and different roles in their little "pantheon" indicated by their names. Weavess is the youngest and the only one to show her face, while her job is to weave the hair they collect from every boy's first haircut into useful things. Brewess is plump and tends the most toward friendliness (or what passes for it among the Crones), and she brews potions and broth for her sisters. Whispess is the eldest and the one who collects human ears so she can listen to what happens in Velen, and seems to keep her sisters focused on what's happening while coldly threatening those they meet.
* IAmAHumanitarian: They get their sustenance, and possibly some of their powers, from consuming human flesh.
* IGaveMyWord: "A word once given we will never break." They will give Geralt the information he seeks, even if he upholds his deal with them in a very [[ExactWords loose way]]. Particularly since they're prone to doing the same thing.
* KarmaHoudini: It initially seems so, when they laugh off Geralt's unambiguous promise to return and kill them. [[spoiler:While two of the sisters unavoidably end up upon Ciri's sword during the course of your playthrough, Weavess runs away with Vesemir's medallion and is not seen again. In the ending where Ciri dies, Geralt himself hunts her down and slays her. In the endings where Ciri lives, the fact that she has her wolf medallion again implies that she hunted down Weavess herself.]]
* OlderThanTheyLook: They are able to disguise themselves as a youthful, attractive and very naked trio of women to do... something to the young people offered at the Witch's Sabbath.
* OurOgresAreHungrier: Their exact species is not revealed, but they have a lot in common with mythological ogres.
* PathOfInspiration: Their religion in Velen is devoted to providing them human sacrifices to eat. What do they give in exchange? Magic acorns. They're legitimately magical and everything, promoting good harvests and curing disease, but the sisters never give even close to enough for the whole of Velen.
* PostFinalBoss: [[spoiler:The Weavess will be the last thing you fight and kill in the game's DownerEnding.]]
* ProphecyTwist: Whispess says "One shall die, but it shan't be one of us" when Geralt says after he finds Ciri the two of them will be back to kill the Crones. [[spoiler:She's right: Ciri kills two of them.]]
* SchmuckBait:
** Their entire racket works by enticing their servants and targets into performing their bidding for them. The Crones usually use ExactWords, {{Understatement}}s, [[YouDidntAsk Lies of Omission]] and [[MetaphoricallyTrue Metaphorical Truth]] to paint a brighter, happier picture of what's actually happening. For example, at one point they ask Geralt to receive "payment" from the ealdorman of Downwarren (meaning the man has to cut off his ear) and one night of every year, the ladies allow three people the "honor" of visiting them (at which point, the person drops down into a pool of blood while the women prepare a pot to cook their dismembered corpse in).
** Also, for the Witches' Sabbath, someone who isn't picked to visit the Ladies but wants to go anyway has to undergo a "test" to do so. Every single step of the test is fatal; first, there's the part you're told about: there's a drop into murky water to retrieve a coin, which is almost impossible to actually accomplish. Then, there's the parts you ''aren't'' told about: the water is full of drowners, and once you're out, a Fiend awaits you. If you get past that, the test-giver doesn't even bat an eyelash and happily tells you that you are to keep the coin and present it to the guardian beyond the gate. Except the guardian instantly recognizes the coin as "a death sentence" and attacks on sight.
* SmugSnake: All three are very old and very powerful, so they have every reason to be smug. [[spoiler: The problem is that they don't realize who they're dealing with in Geralt and Ciri.]]
* TimeAbyss: Are said to be older than the oldest tree in the swamp and having been present when the elves first came from over the sea. And there's rumor that ''their'' creator somehow still exists.
* VillainousGlutton: Much of their motivation stems from simply securing more humans to feed on. [[spoiler:They attempt to take Ciri's feet, even when they know they're supposed to give her to the Wild Hunt, because the taste of her Elder Blood was just too tempting for them to ignore.]]
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Every peasant in Velen who knows about them absolutely ''adores'' them, and blindly allow themselves to ignore all of the warnings of how evil and monstrous they are. However, this is also because every dissenting voice has been either killed or suffered a FateWorseThanDeath at their hands.
* TheWeirdSisters: There are three of them and they deal in black magic and human sacrifice.
* WickedWitch: They draw heavily from the imagery of Baba Yaga, the quintessential wicked witch of the Slavic folklore, and like her they are inhuman ogre-like creatures with unclear but enormous power over nature. It is also entirely possible that they were, in part at least, inspired by the three witches of Shakespeare's Macbeth.
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[[folder: Priscilla]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Emma Hiddleston

A bard who is working in Novigrad and a lover of Dandelion.
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* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted. [[spoiler:The Concerned Citizen does a real number on her face, practically leaving it as one gigantic bruise.]]
* BrokenBird: Subverted to hell and back. [[spoiler:Even though she was forced to drink undiluted formaldehyde by a [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot High Vampire religious zealot serial killer]], she not only quickly recovers, but the only lasting damage is being unable to sing as high as before the attack.]]
* TheChanteuse: Or the Medieval equivalent thereof.
* DeadpanSnarker: Surprisingly averted. She doesn't find Geralt's jokes appropriate when Dandelion's in danger. Which isn't to say she won't joke at other times.
* DistaffCounterpart: An in-universe one. Everyone says she is the female Dandelion and that's why he's in love with her, since he loves himself above everything else.
* {{Expy}}: Is this for Essi Daven a.k.a Little Eye, a bard from the original Witcher short stories. Amusingly, she was ''Geralt's'' love interest in the books as opposed to Dandelion's.
* FashionableAsymmetry: True to her jester getup, her trousers are of mismatching colors. [[OrangeBlueContrast One leg is blue, the other is orange]].
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Amongst the most golden in the game. And Priscilla shows kindness to everyone.
* LargeHam: If Priscilla is chosen as an actress for the play, she overemphasizes every single word. However, the crowd loves her, so it doesn't hurt the performance.
* LovableRogue: Just like Dandelion.
* MayDecemberRomance: Maybe, given how gracefully people in the Witcher universe age. Priscilla looks to be in her early twenties. Dandelion is [[OlderThanTheyLook about forty-seven]] by ''Witcher 3'', but Priscilla's age in unrevealed.
* NiceHat: Wears a fancy orange hat similar to what Dandelion's sporting, with a peacock feather in it.
* QuirkyBard: A Cockney accented SexyJester bard is pretty quirky.
* SexyJester: Her performance outfit is basically a skin-tight court jester's uniform.
* SoreLoser: Immediately upon losing a game of gwent to Geralt, she snaps that it was a bad idea.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Effectively plays Dandelion's role as the NonActionGuy SpoonyBard while he's gone. Many people, ''including Geralt'', seem to prefer her due to not having TheLoad tendencies that Dandelion does.
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[[folder: Cyprian "Whoreson Junior" Wily]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Ewan Bailey

One of the Big Four crime bosses of Novigrad. He is working as TheDragon for King Radovid and has ambitions to become sole boss of the city.
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* AintTooProudToBeg: He'll get down on his knees and beg for his life once it starts to become clear that his usefulness to Geralt is coming to an end.
* BullyingADragon: Whoreson Junior decides to bully Ciri and Dandelion, despite the fact the former is a PhysicalGod. Ciri massacres potentially half of his organization in one terrifying night. Then, weeks later, Geralt finishes the rest off trying to find out about Ciri.
* CutLexLuthorACheck: After his HeelFaithTurn, he comments that he makes twice as much money as a legitimate brown-water trader as he ever did as a crime lord. [[spoiler: Since said legitimate enterprise is run by the business-savvy doppler Dudu rather than the nutcase Whoreson, anything else would be... strange.]]
* CutsceneBoss:
** Geralt catches Whoreson in his skivvies, catching him cleaning up from a bath with the corpses of three dead prostitutes. He gets promptly beat down in that very same cutscene.
** SubvertedTrope: [[spoiler: At which point, he gets in a fight with ''Ciri''... who fights him as a WarmUpBoss.]]
* CruelMercy: One fate Geralt can give him. With all of his businesses destroyed, his men dead, three major crime bosses after him, and his patron abandoning him he ends up in The Bits as a beggar with children harassing and throwing rocks at him. Averted if Geralt just shanks him.
-->'''Ciri:''' On the way here, I didn't know what I'd do. Killing him was definitely an option.\\
'''Geralt:''' Still want to?\\
'''Ciri:''' No. [[FateWorseThanDeath This is worse.]]
* DeadPersonImpersonation: [[spoiler: Dudu can end up potentially doing this to Whoreson, ironically turning Whoreson's operation into something more honest and surprisingly more lucrative for all in his group.]]
* DirtyCoward: Goes to pieces when Geralt gets up in his face.
* DisposableSexWorker: Has them mass delivered to him on a regular basis by [[spoiler: King Radovid's men]] because of how quickly he goes through them.
* TheDon: The leader of one of the four big criminal organisations in Novigrad.
* TheDragon: [[spoiler: Serves as this to King Radovid in Novigrad. He's actually less than a speck of dust in the man's arsenal but is the biggest weapon the King has in the city.]]
* HeelFaithTurn: [[spoiler: [[VoluntaryShapeshifter Du]][[DeadPersonImpersonation du]] fakes one for him.]]
* HonorAmongThieves: He has none. This proves to be a mistake. His fellow crime lords team up to destroy him when he breaks their unwritten rules of conduct.
* MonsterClown: Has his men parade around in jester hats and clown make-up.
* TheRedBaron: Inherited one, as his father was apparently the original Whoreson.
* SerialKiller: The dead prostitutes around his home.
* SmugSnake: He ''really'' has no idea how out of his depth he is. Perhaps he would have once, but he's degenerated with time.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: The spelling of his last name is all over the place. The game mostly goes with "Wily", but has it as "Wiley" a few times. The official guide goes out of the way to have it as "Willey" throughout the whole thing.
* TattooedCrook: He's the vicious leader of a gang, and his body is covered with ink.
* TokenEvilTeammate: Even among criminals, he and his gang stand out in terms of evilness. While Sigi, the King of Beggars, and Cleaver run the gamut between LoveableRogue to PragmaticVillainy, Whoreson and his men are all deceitful, violent, and pointlessly cruel.
* TooDumbToLive: It's very likely Junior would have been wiped out by his fellow crime lords, even without Geralt's help.
* UnwittingPawn: Appropriate with [[spoiler: Radovid's]] chess metaphors. It's clear that whether he succeeds or not, Whoreson Jr. is not going to be rewarded for his efforts.
* YouHaveOutLivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler: King Radovid has this reaction once he succeeds in breaking up the four crime bosses' alliance.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Francis Bedlam, the King of Beggars]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Richard Hawley

Francis Bedlam is one of Novigrad's Big Four crime bosses who rules over the city's beggars and petty thieves from his hideout at Putrid Orchard.
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* TheDon: One of the city's most influential crime lords, in spite of relying on a lower class of criminal activities than his colleagues.
* HurricaneOfEuphemisms: He puts considerable effort into dressing words like "begging" or "stealing" into more entrepreneurial language.
* TheIdealist: In spite of his criminal practices he has a strong sense of social justice and appreciation for the ideals of liberty and equality. He seeks to amass enough true political power to turn Novigrad's title of "free city" into a factual statement.
* KingOfTheHomeless: As his nickname suggests, his influence runs mainly among the city's poor and the destitute, who he taxes for any illegal activities they partake in return for his protection.
* NeighborhoodFriendlyGangsters: He sincerely has the city's best interests in mind and has put considerable effort into helping to keep it neutral from the war. He is also helping the city's mages hide from the witch hunters in return for providing medical services to his subjects, which ironically makes the beggars in his auspices have better health care than the city's elite.
* TattooedCrook: Has multiple sexually explicit tattoos all over his body.
* UndergroundRailroad: Manages one for mages in Novigrad with Triss Merigold and Sigi Reuven.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Caleb Menge]]
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Caleb Menge is the fanatically ambitious commander of the Church of the Eternal Fire's Temple Guard. He is the individual who is handling the persecution of witches, sorcerers, and alchemists in Novigrad.
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* ANaziByAnyOtherName: Is masterminding the genocide of both supernatural nonhumans and magic-users in the city.
* BaldOfEvil: A classic example thereof.
* BullyingTheDragon: Torments an armed Geralt with his lover's screams while sitting across from him in small room, guarded by a single man. Said lover is one of the most powerful magicians alive. [[spoiler: Either way, it doesn't work out for him; Geralt either snaps and paints his office and the rest of the barracks red, or Triss holds out, breaks free of the torture restraints, and kills him herself.]]
* BurnTheWitch: His modus operandi. It can be turned back on him.
* ColdBloodedTorture:
** He has his torturers remove the fingernails of witches in order to interrogate them. [[spoiler: He can also subject Geralt to listening to Triss being tortured as they talk.]]
** He also intends to have Dandelion broken on a wheel and flayed alive as a warning to other entertainers and intellectuals questioning the Church's rule.
* CorruptChurch: Informs a bunch of looters that the sorcerers they murdered have had their property seized ''for the Church.'' [[spoiler: He has also been spending Sigi's money for his own benefit.]]
* DeadPersonImpersonation: Becomes victim when Triss and Geralt's attempts to rescue Dandelion.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Has a very prominent one across his face.
* FantasticRacism: He considers Dopplers and other intelligent beings to be monsters worthy of execution, and obliquely refers to Geralt as a "thing" for being a witcher. He also considers any and all magic-users to be less than human.
* KarmicDeath: Either killed by Triss in revenge for [[spoiler:subjecting her to above-mentioned torture]] or cut down by Geralt when his and Triss's ruse gets blown and steel is bared. Regardless of his immediate cause of death, he gets burned posthumously with all of his followers in their headquarters... just like so many victims of his pogroms.
* {{Sadist}}: According to Dudu, [[spoiler: taking Menge's form for too long fills him with an outright compulsion to start torturing witches and non-humans.]]
* SmugSnake: Gets up in Geralt's face to tell him he's watching him and then attempts to psychologically torture him as they talk. He also thinks he can handle ''Triss Merigold'' without effort. Either individual proves easily able to kill him and, potentially, all of his followers.
* TheWitchHunter: The leader of them in Novigrad.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Joachim von Gratz]]
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Joachim von Gratz is the chief surgeon at Vilmerius Hospital. He meets Geralt and Dandelion during the hunt for the serial killer known as the Concerned Citizen. Joachim is also a former professor at Oxenfurt University, where he was acquainted with Shani, who served as his assistant for a year.
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* TheAtoner: He killed people during the Oxenfurt Revolution, believing that its goals were worth the price of killing its opponents. He has come to regret those actions and worked hard to atone for them.
* BadassGrandpa: He may be getting old, but he is still a wicked shot with a crossbow. As a big believer in "preventative medicine" he regularly goes into Novigrad's rather dangerous sewers to eliminate the drowners and other beasts within so he has less patients to patch up later. Geralt jokingly states that he is taking away jobs from professional monster hunters.
* CoolOldGuy: Lets see: besides being a calm and skilled surgeon, Joachim also regularly kills monsters and helps investigate a serial killer. Not to mention he helped lead the democratic Oxenfurt Revolution when he was younger, although he considers some of his actions during that time to be sins.
* DeadpanSnarker: Makes quite a few deadpan jokes, even during his and Geralt's autopsy on the dwarven victim. Geralt calls him out on it, and Joachim apologizes and explains surgeons have a different sense of humor than most.
* EveryScarHasAStory: Convinces Geralt to let him come along to the morgue by showing him the scars on the back of his neck, which could only have come from a morningstar or flail, to prove he has seen combat and is well aware of the danger he is placing himself in.
* JumpedAtTheCall: He immediately joins Geralt in investigating the attack on [[spoiler:Priscilla]]. Geralt and Dandelion are both left rather stunned at how quickly he volunteers.
* NoodleIncident: Mentions he once spent a year being tortured in the dungeons of Tretogor, but then claims that is a story for another time.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Immediately tells Geralt all the information he knows on the serial killer and offers to help him break into the city morgue to examine the body of the last victim.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Uma, the Ugliest Man Alive]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Michael Maloney (''Wild Hunt'')

Uma is a tiny malformed creature full of boils, first encountered in Crow's Perch, held captive as a form of entertainment for the Baron's men. He is mentioned again in the main questline in Skellige, where he emerged from a boat Ciri used. His appearance is found to be the result of a curse. Geralt recovers him from Crow's Perch and brings him to Kaer Morhen, where his curse is lifted by Geralt and company by mixing the Trial of the Grasses with Yen's magic, revealing Uma to be [[spoiler:Avallac'h.]]
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* ChekhovsGunman: Appears in Velen, with no apparent significance. Is then discovered to be [[spoiler: Avallac'h, the elven sage who helped Ciri escape the Wild Hunt, trapped in this cursed form.]]
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Tends to eat dirt he scratches from his toe while the other characters talk.
* HiddenDepths: The Bloody Baron claims he can see there's some sort of wisdom and cunning in Uma's eyes, which is an early sign that there's definitely more to him.
* InSeriesNickname: "The Ugliest Man Alive", though it's actually only Dandelion who calls him that.
* PokemonSpeak: He can only utter "Uma" or some variation of that, thus people named him that.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Cerys an Craite]]
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Cerys an Craite is the daughter of Crach an Craite, the Jarl of Kaer Trolde in Skellige. She is a tough but diplomatic individual who, atypically for the islanders, prefers to talk her way out of trouble instead of fighting.
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* ActionGirl: A downplayed example. She clearly isn't afraid of a fight, or even a war, but always prefers to solve conflicts through non-violent means.
* BrainsAndBrawn: The brain to Hjalmar's brawn.
* DarkHorseVictory: If she wins the kingsmoot.
* FieryRedhead: Downplayed. She's strong-willed and feisty, but far from impulsive.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Has a noticeable but non-deforming scar under her eye.
* GracefulLoser: She handles it well if she Hjalmar succeeds the throne.
* TheHighQueen: Like her brother, she too makes an ideal ruler for Skellige. She's a clever, more introspective sort, knowing the value of when to parley and when to fight. Under her the isles prosper, as she's strong enough to temper her people's ProudWarriorRaceGuy antics to keep them from engaging in something stupid.
* OnlySaneMan: Pretty much this for all of Skellige - how about we figure out what's ''actually'' wrong with the Jarl rather than assume it's the gods? How about we ''don't'' piss off Nilfgaard and make them decide we're too much trouble to ignore? How about we actually ''find out who committed the massacre at the feast'', using investigation and deduction, rather than charge at the first apparent guilty party with a head full of rage?
* RememberTheNewGuy: She was created for the game and does not appear in the original books, unlike the rest of her family. This is {{Lampshaded}} by Geralt when they first meet, as he notes that they've met before but he can't recall her name.
* SheIsTheKing: She can become the first female ruler of Skellige Isles depending on the players decisions. Some islanders are quick to adopt the Queen-moniker, but occasional references to "king" can still be found.
* WomenAreWiser: Considerably calmer and more diplomatic than her brother Hjalmar.
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[[folder:The Concerned Citizen]]

A SerialKiller that Geralt hunts for the "Carnal Sins" quest. He targets people who insult the [[CorruptChurch Order of the Eternal Fire]], either through their words or deeds.
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* BoomerangBigot: Willingly supports a religion that wants to completely wipe out [[spoiler:him and all his fellow non-humans]].
* ColdBloodedTorture: He tortures his victims by [[EyeScream removing their eyeballs and placing burning coals within their empty sockets]], forcing them to drink formaldehyde, and cutting out their hearts.
* {{Expy}}: Of John Doe from ''Film/{{Se7en}}'', even down to their assumed names: generic aliases used for unidentified individuals.
* FrameUp: Frames another man for his crimes, and should Geralt fall for the ruse, leaves behind a final body and a mocking note detailing how he's going to move on to a smaller village and continue his work.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: He appears very briefly in the quest to find him long before the characters have any idea who he really is, and yet drops clues hidden in vagaries.
** First, he falsely attributes [[spoiler: his apparent youth to the preservation chemicals he works with in the morgue]] without actually naming any. Among those [[spoiler: chemicals would be the formaldehyde he uses to inflict torment on his victims.]]
** He mentions an incident where [[spoiler: Nathaniel grabbed a burning scalpel and stabbed him in the back to the bone.]] He wasn't happy about it, but at the same time, he doesn't seem exceptionally bothered by it, either. [[spoiler: Being a vampire, that kind of wound is actually quite trivial and he healed it very quickly.]]
** In retrospect, [[spoiler: sending Geralt to the Venglebud estate, and mentioning Nathaniel leaving town on urgent business, is an obvious false flag ploy to pin the killings on Nathaniel.]] The fact that [[spoiler: Nathaniel genuinely is a psychopath who enjoys burning people]] just cements the lie further.
* TheFundamentalist: Is dedicated to the {{cult}}-like Order of the Eternal Fire and shares their belief that Novigrad is a fallen city.
* KnightTemplar: Believes that his horrific murders will act as a form of shock treatment, awakening the city to its decline and causing its populace to repent.
* MoodWhiplash: He causes a light-hearted quest about helping Dandelion start up a cabaret to turn dark when he brutally assaults Dandelion's friend and love interest Priscilla to make her drink pure formaldehyde. She survives, but his other victims are less lucky.
* OlderThanTheyLook: [[spoiler:Geralt notes that Hubert looks ''much'' younger than his former student, Dr. Joachim von Gratz, who's an old man with wrinkles, grey hair, and a receding hairline. He handwaves this being a result of the preservation chemicals he works with, but that's a lie; he's a higher vampire]].
* {{Sadist}}: He quite enjoys inflicting horrible tortures on his victims, including making them drink embalming fluid and putting burning coals in their eye sockets. [[spoiler: And then subverted; the torture isn't because he likes it, he just wants to frighten the people of Novigrad into being more righteous and pious. Even the hot coals in the eyes are a ploy in case he needs to a scapegoat to pin everything on.]]
* SecretIdentity: [[spoiler:He's [[TheCoroner Hubert Rejk]].]]
* SerialKiller: Has brutally tortured and murdered a large number of people over the years.
* WouldHitAGirl: Three of his named victims were women, and there were countless more unnamed.
* WouldHurtAChild: His victims include orphan children.
* WholePlotReference: The "Carnal Sins" quest is a huge reference to ''Film/Se7en'', as it features a religious zealot ritualistically murdering people he sees as sinners in order to wake society up into being more righteous.
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[[WMG: Characters from ''Hearts of Stone'']]

[[folder: The Frog Prince]]
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[[folder: Horst Borsodi]]

A snobbish recluse and the owner of the Borsodi auction house, the largest in Oxenfurt. Known for being an unpleasant person to talk to and an even worse one to do business with, it seemed he had already exited Geralt's life when he had the later banned from the auction house over a question. But as it turns out, the Witcher was going to get much more involved in the affairs of Mr. Borsodi than he had ever intended.
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* BerserkButton: Simply mention anything relating to his family members or ancestors. He won't react well.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: the House of Borsodi was not a peaceful one. [[spoiler: By the end of the quest, one or both of the living heirs (Horst or Elwad) will be dead. They hate each other so much it is impossible to save both of them]]
* {{Jerkass}}: Stands out, as out of all the antagonistic figures in Hearts of Stone, he is the only one who ''isn't'' AffablyEvil.
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[[folder:Olgierd von Everec]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"You don't strike, sir! You flail!"'']]

->'''Geralt:''' You're... immortal?\\
'''Olgierd:''' Depends on your understanding of the term. Indeed, I cannot be killed. But it's not at all what folk imagine. Not dying does not mean eternally living your life to the full.

->'''Voiced by:''' Paul Thornley

Seemingly the main antagonist in the Hearts of Stone expansion. A ruthless but charismatic Redanian noble-turned-bandit Ataman (captain), he leads a free company called the "Wild Ones" against Nilfgaard and has a deep and vested history in the eastern countryside beyond Oxenfurt. In his hiring of Geralt of Rivia for a unique monster contract, it is revealed that he possesses the ability of CompleteImmortality through a Wish turned Curse along with a plethora of other powers that he obtained through demonic pacts. The consequences of these actions are ultimately up to the White Wolf to see through to either salvation or damnation...
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* AffablyEvil: Protects the daughter of the house owner his band stays in from his drunk and horny subordinate and doesn't punish her in any way after she drives a sword through his chest.
* TheAtoner: [[spoiler: If he is saved, he vows to leave his old life behind and start over.]]
* BonusBoss: Despite having his own unique combat style and {{Leitmotif}}, dueling him is entirely optional. You only have to face him if you decide to save the man he's about to execute after escaping the Ofieri.
* CarpetOfVirility: His robe exposes a large portion of his hairy chest.
* CompleteImmortality: Does not age. Cannot be killed. [[WhoWantsToLiveForever Turns out he isn't too thrilled by it.]]
* CoveredWithScars: All of Olgierd's visible skin is littered with different scars. Geralt's otherwise impressive collection look downright superficial compared to the gruesome set that Olgierd has.
* CrazyJealousGuy: When it looked like an Ofieri prince was going to steal the woman he loved away, Olgierd somehow cursed him to turn into a gigantic, monstrous frog.
* CulturedBadass: Growing up in the von Everec house of nobility, he places great import on doing things with as much class as possible as well as only doing things or associating with people who suit his class. He is also the leader of a group of glorified bandits and brigands, and is the strongest among them.
* DeathOfPersonality: As a side effect of [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor his wish]], he got a heart of stone - all his feelings were gone, which effectively made him an empty shell of his former self.
* DistinguishedGentlemansPipe: A more unusual example. A man of action first and foremost, he is also an avid scholar; he preferred to spend time in his [[MagicalLibrary study]] than working on his marriage. Granted cigars and cigarettes don't seem to exist in the setting.
* DomesticAbuser: By the end of his marriage to Iris, he murdered her father in a fit of rage when he announced Iris's intention to divorce him, then kept her a prisoner in their own house with nothing but demonic familiars and a horrifying monster as company. Eventually, Olgierd himself became Iris's greatest fear.
* EqualOpportunityEvil: His band of thugs has an almost 50:50 split between men and women.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Orders the execution of his subordinate who violated his band's "chivalrous code" by killing the owner of the house his band invited themselves into.
* {{Foil}}: To Geralt in some ways. Both have [[MagicKnight preternatural swordsmanship skills augmented by a suite of magical powers.]] However, Olgierd's emotions are bombastic, but superficial. Geralt's on the other hand, are very subdued in expression due to the Witcher trials, but his are authentic and truly from the heart. Geralt has an ironclad morality and has considerations of the good of the many, while Olgierd is devil-may-care to the extreme. When described by others, Gaunter does a TitleDrop for the DLC, saying Olgierd has a heart of stone, while Olgierd can say that Geralt has a heart of gold after one instance of standing up to Olgierd's band of thugs for someone they were treading upon.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: They only add to his sinister appearance.
* HeelRealization: Should you choose to help him break the deal with O'Dimm, he will regain his heart and swear to leave his current lifestyle behind.
* ICallItVera: He named his CoolSword [[spoiler:Iris, after his wife.]]
* LastOfHisKind: Last member of the House of von Everec, a once influential noble family.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: His StartOfDarkness was summoning O'Dimm to give him the means he believed would save his marriage to Iris.
* MasterSwordsman: This guy is the only person save Eredin who is capable of ''completely'' parrying Geralt's whirlwind attack and it is clear he finds their duel to be the time of his life.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: He bears a very strong resemblance to David Beckham. His character and look is also based on Daniel Olbrychski's role as Kmicic from the film adaptation of Henryk Sienkiewicz's "[[Literature/SienkiewiczTrilogy The Deluge]]".
* OffWithHisHead: With certain dialogue options Geralt will decapitate him. He puts his head back in place in a moment's notice, right after [[BaddieFlattery complimenting the witcher's fighting abilities]].
* OhCrap: The normally unflappable Olgierd completely breaks down once he realizes the final part to his contract with Gaunter has been fulfilled [[ExactWords exactly as worded]]. [[spoiler:Namely, that he and Gaunter are now standing together on the moon. Not the moon in the sky as he intended, but a mosaic of the moon on the ground.]]
* RapidAging: [[spoiler:As Gaunter claims his soul, Olgierd quickly ages into a decrepit old man, growing grey, wrinkled and weak before completely disintegrating until a charred skull is all that remains of him.]]
* SenseFreak: Not being able to die and being unable to feel almost all positive emotions kept pushing him to keep trying new things and pursue extreme sensations.
-->'''Olgierd von Everec:''' Geralt. Have you decided to play defender of the downtrodden?\\
'''Geralt of Rivia:''' More like gutter of sons of bitches. \\
'''Olgierd:''' Long as I'm here, you'll gut no one. \\
'''Geralt:''' That a challenge? \\
'''Olgierd:''' Why not? I've not fought a witcher before...
* ShoutOut:
** Duel him and he will sometimes quote Bonhart from the witcher saga before launching his first attack.
** His story and connection to Gaunter O'Dimm is a very deliberate ShoutOut to {{Faust}} and his deal with Mephistopheles, right down to the deal being made at a crossroads.
* TomeOfEldritchLore: Geralt remarks he has the "library of an Occultist" while investigating the von Everec Manor
* WickedCultured: The man knows his statues.
* WorthyOpponent: Finds one in Geralt in their duel. [[spoiler:Despite the fact that he's immortal, he still cedes the fight to Geralt when the latter would have killed him by almost fully beheading him. He ''claps'' in admiration while his head dangles down his back by the last stretch of skin holding it on.]]

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[[folder:Gaunter O'Dimm, Master Mirror]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Shani, darling... would you ask an eagle how it knows how to fly?"'']]

->''"I'm no cheat. I give folk what they want, nothing more. That they oft desire unworthy things - that is entirely the fault of their own rotten natures."''

->'''Voiced by:''' Alex Norton ''' ''(Witcher III, Hearts of Stone)'' '''

A [[BlatantLies "traveling merchant"]], who offers his help to Geralt in exchange for the witcher doing a job for him.
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* ArcVillain: [[spoiler:He's the main antagonist of the ''Hearts of Stone'' expansion.]]
* AtTheCrossroads: Apparently, a deal has to be made with him at crossroads.
* BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame: [[spoiler: The only way to nullify a deal made with him is to defeat him in a duel of wits with your soul at stake.]]
* BlackSpeech: When Geralt finally defeats him, he shouts at him in a mixture of languages [[spoiler: (Antillean Creole French, Georgian and Ossetian) in a deep and forboding, demonic-sounding tone]] before disappearing. The rough translation of what he says is:
-->'''O'Dimm''': "You are primitive. You think you've defeated me but you are wrong. [[spoiler: I can't be killed, I will be back]]."
* BloodMagic: [[spoiler:Making a pact with him involves a blood offering.]]
* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: The main reason he's willing to tolerate Geralt being obstinate, and the reason he refuses to explain his true nature to him. He needs Geralt alive to complete his mission, and even after Geralt (possibly) succeeds, O'Dimm is so impressed that he leaves Geralt alone because his services would be useful again in the future.
* ChekhovsGunman: He first appears in the game's prologue, has an odd conversation with Geralt, and gives him a lead on Yennefer's location. He returns as a major character in the ''Hearts of Stone'' expansion.
* ColorMotifs: On many occasions, but in particular when he first approaches Geralt on the Ofieri ship, O'Dimm is awash in orange-red lighting, making his skin look reddened and providing visual reference of his evil.
* DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler: His actual business.]]
* DisproportionateRetribution: Sticks a spoon through a drunk's eye, killing him, for merely interrupting him.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Geralt first meets him in a tavern early in the main game, where he provides some advice about where to look for Yennefer.
* EvilIsPetty: While showing off his time freezing powers, he takes the opportunity to put a fly in a man's soup. See also DisproportionateRetribution above.
* EyeScream: At the Alchemist, some rowdy drunk had the misfortune to disrupt his meeting with Geralt and gets a spoon in the eye.
* EvilSoundsDeep: Not normally, but he can do a very menacing growl to emphasise that he's not one to be messed with. [[spoiler:See also BlackSpeech above.]]
* ExactWords: He adores tricking people by way of ambiguous wording that can be interpreted however suits him. For example, his contract with Olgierd said that it could only be collected when he and Olgierd "stand together on the Moon." naturally, Olgierd thinks this makes him quite safe. [[spoiler: Until he finds himself standing with O'Dimm on a mosaic of the moon, which counts for the contract.]]
* FauxAffablyEvil: More often than not presents himself as a jolly fellow, discussing recipes with old women and even giving Geralt helpful advice on several occasions. [[spoiler: That being said, he can turn cruel and ruthless when he is even mildly annoyed.]]
* TheFairFolk: While his species is never explicitly revealed [[spoiler: he's believed to be a demon]], he shares several traits of traditional fairies such as aiding mortals with [[LiteralGenie contracts riddled with fine print]]. Whether he's a totally evil or simply has [[BlueandOrangeMorality different values]] is ambiguous, but he can be genuinely helpful [[spoiler: if you beat Hearts of Stone before the main quest he won't be able help you find Ciri, but he tell you everything you need to do in order to save her]].
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: When Geralt asks O'Dimm what his true name is, O'Dimm warns him that everybody who has found out what it was is now insane, dead or both. In addition, one scholar who had been studying O'Dimm's true nature became blind from reading forbidden texts, then became convinced he would die upon leaving his protective wards. [[spoiler:He is absolutely right about the latter.]]
* GoodColorsEvilColors: He has a preference for red-orange colors akin to fire, and it certainly evokes imagery of hellish evil.
* GracefulLoser: [[spoiler: Upon being found and banished, he begrudgingly congratulates Geralt in doing it.]]
* HumanoidAbomination: [[spoiler: He may look human, but he's not.]]
* IconicItem: He has a thing for spoons. He snaps a wooden spoon to mark his pact with Geralt. He kills a man who interrupted him by stabbing him in the eye with a spoon. He also snapped a spoon to curse a noble in Toussaint and made not using spoons a condition to break the curse. He also makes allusions to cooking, both gingerbread and yes, soup.
* IHaveManyNames: Different cultures have different names for him. In-game, he's known as Master Mirror, the Man of Glass, and [[spoiler: Evil Incarnate]].
* InexplicablyAwesome: O'Dimm demonstrates power above and beyond any other character in the setting, and he ''loves'' to show it off. Where he came from, and how he got so powerful, is never explained other than to say he is MadeOfEvil.
* JerkassGenie: His wish fulfillment always comes with a twist. By default, he makes sure the wish comes true in a way that doesn't give you what you want, [[spoiler: as Olgierd found out.]]
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: If Geralt allows O'Dimm to collect on his deal with Olgierd, then he claims Olgierd's soul and goes on his merry way]]
* KickTheDog: His incredibly mean-spirited treatment of Vlodimir, from TheReasonYouSuckSpeech he dumps on the ghost to the way he [[spoiler:cruelly tortures and banishes him once his time is up.]] He also [[spoiler: kills a random peasant in the Alchemist for interrupting him by putting a spoon handle through his eye while time is stopped.]]
* MakeAnExampleOfThem: [[spoiler: In ''Blood and Wine'', his influence is still felt. He once appeared at a certain Toussaint noble lady's feast as a beggar pleading for food. The custom in Toussaint is to allow travellers and beggars hospitality. The noble lady, a beautiful woman, ignored the custom and refused O'Dimm any food. His reply was a curse: "None shall sit and dine with you at your table, no spoon you have shall sate you, never again shall you wish to spy your reflection in the mirror". The woman was turned into hideous and violent wight that collected spoons, desperately hoping one would allow her to eat, to no avail. She abducted people and tried to make them eat with her, but all ended up dead in one way or another, and she smashed all the mirrors in her manor. Her family was forced to flee and her home fell to ruin. Her curse can be lifted if Geralt deduces how; otherwise he can only cut her down.]]
* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: He actually appears in the background through most of "Heart of Stone", lurking in the background (Sometimes under disguise) to keep tabs on Geralt. CD Projekt Red actually ran a contest to have people find all his appearances, and no one could find all of them, so the winner was chosen from those "close enough". Examples include:
** [[https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/gk3eejwoktgvsk3cyxox.jpg He's disguised as one of the guards that answer the alarm during the DLC's heist mission.]]
** [[https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/nsqirmdzuzprawdlxcp2.jpg He's at the auction Geralt attends earlier in the same quest]].
** [[https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/xg1y39jfl06zufpcmkcr.jpg He's in the background when Geralt meets the mercenary posting Olgierd's notice at the Seven Cat Inn]].
* OutsideContextProblem: [[spoiler:Gaunter is a being of immeasurable power beyond anything Geralt has ever encountered before, who nobody can even begin to comprehend without [[GoMadFromTheRevelation going mad]], and who isn't even of the Witcher world in the first place.]]
* PetTheDog: If he is asked where Ciri is, he doesn't tell you her location, but he does give some actually helpful life advice to Geralt.
* PhysicalGod: After intervening to save Geralt, he theorizes that O'Dimm is a mage, or possibly a djinn or demon. O'Dimm can, among other things, [[spoiler: float in the air, conjure up wind and storms, freeze time, banish ghosts, create dreamworlds of demonic entities, manipulate probability, and seems to be nearly omniscient.]] In fact, his only obvious limitations seem to be that he [[spoiler: cannot see into otherworldly places like the Isle of Mists]] and that he is [[spoiler: vulnerable to the same rules as his own pacts, so that as long as someone abides by the limitations of a pact he made with them, he can't touch them]].
* PragmaticVillainy: His PetTheDog moments, particularly when he helps you find Ciri can be interpreted as this. Geralt is so useful a pawn that O'Dimm wants him to survive hale and hearty. [[spoiler:Further implied by the fact that he'll tell Geralt everything he need to know to save Ciri, because in the ending where she dies, so does Geralt.]]
* SadisticChoice: Apparently enjoys subjecting people to painful dilemmas. [[spoiler:In order to seal an agreement with Olgierd, he forced the man to either sacrifice his wife or his brother. Olgierd chose his brother, who was dead the next day.]]
* SatanicArchetype: [[spoiler: He cannot be killed, when defeated he's simply banished to wherever he came from, he's immensely powerful, he fulfils wishes in exchange for souls, he has FauxAffablyEvil tendencies and he's referred to as "Evil Incarnate". He is, by all appearances, the closest thing in the Witcher universe to the orthodox devil. Further {{foreshadowing}} of this is that both times after he uses his TimeStandsStill powers, somebody says the word "devil" in a sentence once time restarts.]]
* ShipperOnDeck: He senses Geralt's lingering feelings for Shani and, for whatever reason, encourages him to get together with her.
* ShoutOut: Possibly to [[Franchise/TheDarkTower Randall Flagg]]. Flagg is an [[spoiler:ambiguously demonic]] villain who went by the pseudonym Walter O'Dimm. Flagg is also portrayed as being [[spoiler:the embodiment of evil]]. ''Literature/NeedfulThings'' has a similarly ambiguous deal-spinner with the surname Gaunt.
* TimeStandsStill: Among his powers is stopping time altogether.
* TheUnfought: Geralt never faces him in direct combat because it's unlikely Geralt would stand a chance against him. Instead, if Geralt challenges him to save Olgierd's life, O'Dimm [[spoiler:transports Geralt to a nightmare world where Geralt must survive the dangers within and solve O'Dimm's riddle before time runs out.]]
* VillainsNeverLie: In his own words, O'Dimm ''never'' cheats. He's entirely, one hundred percent honest with his business partners. To him, it's his victims' fault that they leave so many glaring loopholes in their contracts and make such poorly formulated requests that give him room to screw them over. Notably, in the bad ending, he will gladly grant Geralt any of a series of rewards he asks for, with no strings attached, save for immediately telling him where to find Ciri.
* VillainsOutShopping: He tends to partake in a lot of casual and mundane activity when he's not dealing with [[DealWithTheDevil devilish business]], like drinking schnaps in a bar or discussing gingerbread baking with an old woman.
* VillainRespect: If you finish the DLC and allow O'Dimm to win, he will gleefully state that he wants to work with Geralt again someday and, if he has any further trouble collecting a debt, will call upon a Witcher.
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[[folder:Vlodimir Von Everec]]
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Olgierd's younger brother. Geralt has to show him the time of his life. Which might be a problem as he's very very dead.
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* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: According to O'Dimm he was jealous of Olgierd, as Olgierd was smarter, and better at everything.
* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: The player gets to control him during the wedding, though he is possessing Geralt's body at the time.
* BigBrotherWorship: Despite his jealousy of his older brother's seeming superiority, he still admires and loves him dearly.
* BoisterousBruiser: He's rowdy and eager to fight, best shown when he leaps at the chance to fight the three protective brothers of a woman he was trying to seduce.
* TheBroCode: Subverted. After he meets Shani, Vlodimir asks Geralt if he's got claim to her, vowing that he'll make no move on her if he does. Regardless of how the player answers, though, he continues trying to get in her pants all day.
* CasanovaWannabe: He fancies himself a ladies man, but he fails spectacularly at seducing Shani. O'Dimm, as part of his TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, mentions that he usually only managed to seduce women already charmed by his brother.
* ChivalrousPervert: He's a shameless lech, but even Shani has to admit he's a little endearing for it.
* DubNameChange: His name is Wytold in the Polish version of the game.
* TheHedonist: Enjoys fighting, drinking, and having sex. Even death hasn't curbed his enthusiasm for them.
* InstantSeduction: When Shani dares him to try and seduce a woman, Vlodimir starts sweet-talking a nearby woman. The look on her face, the way she stammers, and the camera angles make it clear that it worked exceedingly fast. Even Shani later admits that if the woman's brothers hadn't shown up right at that moment, Vlod had her.
* SharingABody: Geralt reluctantly allows him to his possess him for a day, so Geralt can fulfil Olgierd's request to show his brother "the time of his life."
* ShipperOnDeck: He encourages Geralt to woo Shani. Partly because he really wants Geralt to do it, but moreso because ''he'' wants to do it in Geralt's body.
* UnwittingPawn: He's unaware that [[spoiler:his beloved brother sacrificed him to get his wish]].
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[[folder:Iris von Everec]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I do not wish to suffer any longer... but I fear there will be cold and darkness, until... there's nothing at all."'']]

Olgierd's wife. Geralt has to get the purple rose from her that Olgierd gave her before he left.
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* AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: Possibly, if you [[spoiler:take the rose from her.]]
* BrokenBird: She didn't have a good life, what with her parents hating her bandit husband, said bandit husband [[spoiler: selling his emotions for immortality, killing her father and locking her in the manor until her death.]]
* CessationOfExistence: What she fears will happen to her.
* CuteGhostGirl: Once her sense returns, she's just a very pretty and sad young woman.
* DeathByDespair: According to the Black Cat.
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Of the RavenHairIvorySkin variety.
* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:She was condemned to imprisonment in Olgierd's estate forever. Death granted her no freedom, it merely forced her to relive the memories of her torment over and over again.]]
* GhostAmnesia: She states that she could barely remember anything from her life unless the rose was with her.
* MentalWorld: Her Painted World. Created by her artist's imagination, it hold her spirit, memories and fears even after her body has died.
* PosthumousCharacter: By the time Geralt meets her, she's long dead.
* SadisticChoice: [[spoiler:She finds herself stuck having to make a very difficult choice. Either she gives Geralt the rose and allows herself to pass on, potentially ceasing to exist, or she keeps it and remains trapped in her personal hell forever.]]
* StarCrossedLovers: There was a time when she and Olgierd truly loved each other. That time is long past, largely because of the things Olgierd did so they could stay together.
* StringyHairedGhostGirl: As all wraiths, though only until [[spoiler: Geralt buries her body and summons her directly.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: She ties very heavily into the backstory, making any knowledge about her a huge reveal.
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[[WMG: Characters from ''Blood & Wine'']]

[[folder:Duchess Anna Henrietta]]
See [[Characters/TheWitcherOtherCharacters other characters.]]
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[[folder:Sir Palmerin de Launfal]]
See [[Characters/TheWitcherOtherCharacters other characters.]]
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[[folder:Sir Milton de Peyrac-Peyran]]
See [[Characters/TheWitcherOtherCharacters other characters.]]
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[[folder:Dettlaff van der Eretein]]
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Higher vampire responsible for restoring Geralt's vampire friend Regis to life. Feral and aggressive, he doesn't much like humans and prefers to keep himself isolated from them, instead associating with other vampires. Regis suspects Dettlaff is being drawn into something he wouldn't normally do, and beseeches Geralt for help learning what it is.
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* AffablyEvil: He's not exactly a joy to be around, but he'll back off killing Geralt even when Geralt is obviously not inclined to do likewise. He has a sense of camaraderie and honor. [[spoiler: This goes well out the window at the end when you see what Dettlaff is capable of when his pride is wounded.]]
* AxCrazy: When he loses his temper, everything around him becomes a target.
* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Even though Dettlaff is one of the villains, his death is treated with pathos. After all, he was basically Syanna's unwitting pawn and manipulated into performing murders he didn't want to commit. Geralt's interactions with him show that Dettlaff can be a pretty nice, if somewhat unstable, person who never would have willingly harmed a human if it weren't for Syanna. That it's Regis who winds up putting him down in the end, despite owing his resurrection to Dettlaff, adds to the sadness.]]
* BadassLongcoat: He wear a pretty cool-looking frock coat.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: While he doesn't really like people, it only takes a very small act of kindness to earn Dettlaff's friendship. Centuries ago, he killed a monster out of vengeance for a child who gave him an apple [[spoiler:and he similarly befriended de la Croix because he allowed him to get his shoes shined ahead of a snobby aristocrat.]]
* BigBad: Subverted. [[spoiler:After being set up as the apparent villain of the plot, it is later revealed that he is being blackmailed by an even greater villain into doing her dirty work. All he really wanted was the love of his life returned to him unharmed.]] [[spoiler: Double Subverted when it's revealed that said blackmailer and said love were one and the same person all along. An enraged Dettlaff, along with an army of his fellow vampires, goes on the warpath, becoming an even bigger danger than his former lover ever meant for him to be.]]
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Even among the Higher Vampires, who rarely conform to human morality, his moral code is somewhat peculiar. In spite of his great intelligence, his mindset is that of a predatory pack animal. He is mostly indifferent and detached from the human world, but he places absolute loyalty and trust in anyone who manages to win his friendship, and is all but incapable of comprehending complex mind games or betrayal. [[spoiler:When he learns that he's been manipulated, he loses his mind trying to grasp the contradiction and swears bloody revenge on anything within several miles radius due to his inability to place blame on the correct target.]]
* BloodOath: Because he used so much of his own blood reviving Regis, the two are spiritually bound together. Regis can't offer a human parallel, but they appear to be something like foster brothers.
* BrokenPedestal: Regis vigorously defends Dettlaff from Geralt's suspicious questions, describing him as a noble spirit who can be counselled to change his ways. [[spoiler:When he sees how far Dettlaff has gone, consumed by rage and willing to kill countless people all for the sake of offended pride, Regis is forced to admit Dettlaff hasn't lived up to his hopes.]]
* DarkIsNotEvil: Dettlaff dresses in black, has black hair and a rather grim disposition, but he's not malicious, just not that fond of or interested in humans. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, when he loses his temper, he does so ''spectacularly''.]]
* DeaderThanDead: [[spoiler:Regis strikes the finishing blow on him, ensuring that Dettlaff will never regenerate or harm another soul ever again, since only a Higher Vampire can permanently kill another Higher Vampire.]]
* EyelessFace: [[spoiler:His OneWingedAngel form has no visible eyes, which just makes him look all the more monstrous.]]
* FatalFlaw: Wrath and Pride. He is a very proud vampire, and wounding it in anyway makes him go absolutely berserk.
* FinalBoss: [[spoiler:He'll be your last physical challenge in ''Blood and Wine'' should you fight him.]]
* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: A vampire who can be very civil when inclined, and he once killed a monster preying on humans because one of its victims was a child who offered Dettlaff an apple. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, Dettlaff's pride gets the better of him and when he realizes he's been manipulated, he decides to lay waste to an entire city with a horde of lesser vampires.]]
* TheHeavy: Initially seems like the BigBad of the expansion, but is really [[spoiler: blackmailed into committing the murders by Sylvia. He later however raises an army of vampires by himself and tries to sack the city.]]
* HealingFactor: A standard power for Higher Vampires, who are functionally immortal. Even Geralt admits that there's no way for a witcher to permanently kill one. In the final battle, [[spoiler:even though Geralt manages to defeat Dettlaff, he immediately begins regenerating and it has to be Regis who strikes the final blow since Higher Vampires can only be killed by another one of their kind.]]
* HumanoidAbomination: He's a Higher Vampire, the one who [[spoiler: resurrected Regis]] to be exact, so he's this by default. Although [[spoiler: when he goes into an UnstoppableRage against Geralt, his lapse in emotional control causes him to transform into an eyeless, winged monstrosity, and it only gets worse from there.]]
** [[spoiler: His final form, implied to be the closest facsimile we will ever see of a higher vampires true form, is best described as a "blood dimension" centered around colossal organs.]]
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:You can simply let him leave if he kills Syanna, never answering for the hundreds if not thousands of lives he took in his completely unjustified massacre across Beauclair.]]
* LightningBruiser: He moves frightfully fast on his own, and the TeleportSpam he utilizes in battle only makes him faster. And you do ''not'' want to get hit by those claws.
* LooksLikeOrlok: His features are more wolf- than ratlike, but his inspiration is still clear from his long-clawed hands and the black longcoat that he wears.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler:Finding out that Syanna was using him drove him into laying waste to the city.]]
* MultiarmedAndDangerous: His OneWingedAngel form combines two clawed hands, two feet, two huge bat wings, and two spiked forelimbs for a total of eight different ways to rip someone apart.
* NobleDemon: One of the most powerful vampires in existence, he has no desire to harm others and once even killed a legendary monster because it killed a boy who offered him an apple. [[spoiler: He gets a lot less noble at the very end when he opts to massacre everyone in Beauclair after being consumed by rage and despair]]
* NotGoodWithRejection: One of his more animalistic traits, and probably his most unfortunate one. He seems to believe earnestly that his lover would never leave him willingly for any reason. Once he ''begins'' to suspect she might not have reciprocated that feeling, the situation worsens dramatically.
* NotSoDifferent: [[spoiler:Regis]] is of the mind that both Geralt and Dettlaff are similar in that they "have noble hearts, yet both are wont to [[ShootTheDog perform ignoble deeds]]." [[spoiler:Dettlaff's willingness to murder thousands of innocents when he feels betrayed shows that there is in a fact a world of difference between the two.]]
* OneManArmy: He's a Higher Vampire. It comes with the territory. He kills dozens of humans effortlessly. [[spoiler: He doesn't even need a vampire army to raze Beauclair. If Regis wasn't there to stop him, he'd easily be capable of it himself.]]
* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler: He does this once you take off a third of his health during his final boss fight, and then again when two thirds are gone.]].
* PetTheDog: [[spoiler:He regenerated Regis and brought him back to life out of an act of pure altruism. It's for this reason why Regis is so determined to save him.]]
* PreAssKickingOneLiner: "If you acknowledge any gods...start praying now!"
* {{Pride}}: He has a lot of it. Offending it is a way to make him act brutally...unreasonable.
* PsychopathicManChild: Having all the powers of a Higher Vampire and effectively the mind of an immature and very insecure teenager make for a very deadly combination.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Unlike the more undeniably friendly [[spoiler:Regis]], whose mist form is [[DarkIsNotEvil soft blue-black]], Dettlaff turns into a cloud of blood red smoke tinged with black, illustrating his far more sinister nature. [[spoiler:Particularly after he goes off the deep end.]]
* SuicideByCop: [[spoiler: According to the character entry written by Dandelion, Detlaff ''let'' himself be killed by Regis. Even though Regis would have been able to kill Detlaff, who was horribly maimed, Detlaff made it as easy as possible for Regis. After being betrayed by Syanna and then alienating Regis with his bloodlust, Detlaff had lost the two things that made his unfathomably long life worth living]]
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* SympatheticMurderer: Killing people because [[spoiler: he's being blackmailed to do so as his lover being held hostage and facing death by torture...but at the end, it becomes much harder to hold on to any sympathy as he takes his anger out on thousands of innocents.]]
* TheseHandsHaveKilled: He was so disgusted with himself for killing de la Croix that he slices off the hand he used to perform the deed. It's just a bout of dramatics, though, since he grows a new one.
* UnstoppableRage: Dettlaff's greatest flaw is that he can''not'' rein in his temper. When he gets angry, and it's not hard to set him off, he goes on a violent rage, killing everyone around him with all the terrifying destructive power of a Higher Vampire. [[spoiler:When he finds out he was manipulated by Syanna, and he wants to die, he decides that everyone in Beauclair needs to die along with him.]]
* WasItAllALie: [[spoiler:He wonders if the love Syanna showed him was false the whole time, which contributes no small part to his fury.]]
* WolverineClaws: He uses his extendible nails to deadly effect, and is capable of parrying Geralt's Whirl attack perfectly with them.
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[[folder: Sylvia Anna]]
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Long-lost sister of Duchess Anna Henrietta.
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* ActionGirl: After being exiled from her duchy, she was taken in by a gang of bandits and gradually became their leader. She proves capable of handling a sword and fighting magical beings alongside Geralt.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: She found the notion of a powerful higher vampire as a lover pretty appealing for a while. However, Dettlaff is not a standard "bad boy"; initially he tried to scare her away because he was ''afraid''. [[spoiler:She claims she couldn't love him the way he loved her, because no human could, and that was why she left him.]]
* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:If she kills Anna. While she dies in the process herself, she still succeeds in murdering the five people she set her sights on from the very beginning.]]
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: In the fairy tale land, she takes a liking to Geralt because he's helped her up to that point.
* BigBad: [[spoiler:She is the reason for Dettlaff committing the murders and ultimately sacking the city, and she may attempt to have her own sister killed even after getting imprisoned.]]
* BlackSheep: [[spoiler: Due to having the Curse of the Black Sun. Whenever anything went wrong, it was Sylvia's fault. When Henrietta started fights, it was her sister who got the blame, even if Henrietta stood up for her. Eventually, her family stripped her of all her titles and exiled her.]]
* CainAndAbel: The Cain to Anna Henrietta's Abel. [[spoiler: Depending on Geralt's actions, they can reconcile, or Sylvia Anna can murder her sister and die in turn.]]
* CharacterTics: She tends to hold a hand behind her back in a very militant posture.
* ChekhovsGunman: The earliest you're likely to see her is on "The Ducal Family" painting, which includes a dark-haired girl around Anna's age who was never alluded to before.
* DarkActionGirl: A skilled swordswoman capable of performing a great number of villainous deeds. And fittingly, she's an EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette dressed in black.
* TheDogBitesBack: Her motivation. [[spoiler:Also, as it turns out, injuring the feelings of a higher vampire has consequences. It's hard to decide it's better or worse that she seems a little sorry for what she did to him, whether he kills her or not.]]
* TheDreaded: When in the land of fables, ''everyone'' there is scared witless of her.
* EtTuBrute: [[spoiler:Anna's perceived betrayal hurt Sylvia more than anything else and is what drove her to swearing revenge.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:She only wanted to punish and kill the five people who wronged her in the past. She never intended or wanted Dettlaff to go on a rampage across Beauclair.]]
* {{Expy}}: [[spoiler:To Renfri from ''[[Literature/TheLastWish The Lesser Evil]]'' short story. Both were noblewomen who were made into BlackSheep due to the Curse of the Black Sun, both joined up with outlaws, and both were willing to commit great evils to seek vengeance on those who wronged them.]] Geralt even name-drops the former as a comparison.
* FakedKidnapping: [[spoiler:She staged her own kidnapping to dupe Dettlaff. He's ''pissed'' when he figures out that she used him.]]
* ForWantOfANail: A waitress accidentally spilled Sangreal on Syanna and her notes while she was planning the murders. If that hadn't happened, Geralt's trail would have gone cold at the toy factory.
* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler:Being exiled led her to see the world as a cruel place, with everyone in it to be used as a tool.]]
* HeelFaceDoorSlam: Some choices can result in [[spoiler: Syanna rejecting a chance at redemption and stabbing her sister in the back when Anna Henrietta begs forgiveness.]]
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: [[spoiler:What her experiences led to believe. Dettlaff is tame in comparison; he's powerful and dangerous, but straightforward.]]
* IAmAMonster: [[spoiler:She believes herself to be a twisted one.]]
* LittleRedFightingHood: [[spoiler:While exploring the Land of a Thousand Fables, she ends up playing the part of Little Red Riding Hood in a reenactment of the story. She also assists Geralt in fighting the BigBadWolf, and wears the cloak for the remainder of the adventure.]]
* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:She's the person pulling the Beast's strings to commit the bloody murders in Toussaint.]]
* ManipulativeBitch: [[spoiler:She manipulated Dettlaff, the owner of Dun Tynne, and her own sister.]]
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The Curse of the Black Sun is supposed to make girls who are born under its sign evil, but no one knows if it really exists or not. Standard symptoms of the curse include bad behavior and nightmares, and Syanna had both. But on the other hand, Annrietta was even worse than she was in many respects in terms of behavior, and it's impossible to tell if Syanna acted out because of treatment.
* MoralEventHorizon: InUniverse, Regis considers her intentions to [[spoiler:murder Anna Henrietta to be this. Regis was already extremely pissed at her for ruining his friend Dettlaff's life (and possibly causing his death), but learning she wants her own beloved sister dead causes him to wash his hands of her completely.]] Geralt, however, can still succeed in bringing out some good in her.
* NatureVsNurture: If she's inherently evil because of a curse she was born with or if she simply started acting out from abuse is never really answered for sure. However, with a LOT of work on Geralt's part, she can be happily reunited with her sister.
* NightmareFuelColoringBook: Girls with her curse suffer gruesome nightmares from childhood. She made drawings of them.
* ParentalAbandonment: [[spoiler:Her folks exiled her into the woods and left her for dead.]]
* ParentalSubstitute: [[spoiler:A camp of bandits took her in, and apparently treated her far better than the knights who threw her out. By the time the story begins, she's the one leading them.]]
* PinkIsFeminine: She doesn't dress in anything other than black, but in the land of fables, she immediately calls a pink unicorn for her mount.
* PrincessInRags: [[spoiler:While not a princess, Sylvia was still a girl of noble birth who was stripped of her titles, banished from her home, and abandoned in the woods with only the tattered robes on her back.]]
* {{Revenge}}: [[spoiler:Basically why she had Dettlaff murdering people. The four initial targets are the knights who escorted her into exile, because not all of them were knightly about it. The final target was Anna Henrietta, who "forgot" about Sylvia when she assumed the throne.]]
* RevengeBeforeReason: She would have completely gotten away with her scheme, without anyone ever finding out she was involved, if she hadn't decided to go even further by stealing Sangreal as well as the Heart of Toussaint. But she says if she could turn back time, she'd do it all over again because they were her birthrights.
* SiblingRivalry: It was a fairly normal variant when they were little girls, but after they grew up it got much nastier.
* ThenLetMeBeEvil: [[spoiler:What she ultimately decided after being kicked out: if they were going to treat her like a villain, then she was going to act like one.]] This is also said to be a possible result of the so-called "Curse of the Black Sun"; when everyone treats a child as if they're evil from the start, then eventually they will be.
* VillainessesWantHeroes: She becomes quite attracted to Geralt and attempts to get amorous with him.
* WalkingSpoiler: There is no indication that she exists, let alone is involved in this arc until Anna Henrietta brings her up. That very revelation changes a lot of plot details, and the twists only hit harder from there.
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[[folder:Sir Guillaume de Launfal]]
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A relative of Palmerin, trained by him to become a knight errant of Toussaint. Guillaume is in love with Vivienne, a handmaiden of the Duchess and promised her the head of a beast, which leads to him taking on some rather questionable fights to obtain a suitably impressive trophy for his lady. Highly romantic and disinclined to think his actions through, he sometimes seems to genuinely believe he's a knight in a fairy tale.
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* DrowningMySorrows: If Vivienne [[spoiler:leaves Toussaint, he perceives it as rejection and turns to the bottle for solace]].
* HonorBeforeReason: His desire for honor and glory to impress Vivienne leads him to take on some fights he's ill-suited to face. [[spoiler:Twice Geralt and Palmerin have to jump into a fight he started to save him from a monster.]]
* KnightErrant: Like his relative Palmerin.
* KnightInShiningArmor: He's woefully inexperienced when it comes to combat, but when [[spoiler:he volunteers to take Vivienne's curse upon himself without hesitation, even when he knows what it could potentially do to him]], he proves he has the heart of one.
* LadyAndKnight: Basically what he's trying to pull. It's not really working out for him.
* NiceGuy: Despite his zeal, he's unfailingly polite, and insists on giving Geralt credit for the slaying the monsters Geralt usually rescues him from.
* SuicidalOverconfidence: Tackling Golyat alone would likely have killed him if Geralt and company hadn't intervened.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Vivienne de Tabris]]
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One of the duchess' ladies-in-waiting, the patroness of the latest tourney, and the object for Guillaume's affections. Lately, Guillaume suspects she may be under a curse of some sort, prompting him to hire Geralt to look into the matter.
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* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:When Geralt finally catches up to her and sees the creature she's become, Vivienne simply kneels down, ready to accept her execution at the witcher's hands without resistance. Luckily for her, Geralt only kills dangerous monsters, and she is neither.]]
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: [[spoiler:She's so pure-hearted, she refuses to transfer her curse onto another person or even harm another bird just to relieve her of her curse.]]
* ImAMonster: Her curse [[spoiler:turns her into a half-bird, and she considers herself to be a monstrosity to the point that she was certain Geralt was hired to kill her.]]
* LadyAndKnight: Guillaume would really like to get this kind of relationship going with her, but he's having a bit of trouble getting the "knight" part down.
* OurWerecreaturesAreDifferent: [[spoiler:A curse placed on her before she was born effectively turned her into a were-oriole. Every full moon, Vivienne transforms into a humanoid bird. However, the curse has been getting progressively stronger, to the point where she fears she may eventually become a bird creature forever.]]
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:The fact that she disappears into the night and has an affinity towards birds makes Geralt think that she's a bruxa. She's not.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: Because of the exact nature of her condition, and because she herself is a very withdrawn person, it's hard to say anything about Vivienne without spoiling everything.
* WorldsMostBeautifulWoman: Called the most beautiful woman in Toussaint, and with very good reason.
* YourDaysAreNumbered: [[spoiler:One way to dispel the curse has the unfortunate side effect of shortening her life to a mere seven years at most. She decides to use that time to live her life to the fullest and see all the wonders of the world.]]
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[[folder: Barnabas-Basil Foulty]]
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AKA B.B. or the Majordomo. He is the majordomo to the Corvo Bianco estate that Geralt receives early in the DLC. Unused to being a landowner, Geralt has the expert see to the estate's general affairs and consults him on plans to upgrade the buildings and grounds.
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* AffectionateNickname: Geralt comes to call him B.B. for short.
* AlliterativeName: '''B'''arna'''b'''as-'''B'''asil.
* TheJeeves: Both in his function and in his attitude. The Journal calls him "The Gentleman's gentleman".
* LethalChef: According to Dandelion's notes on him, he's so bad in the kitchen that he's set water on fire on more than one occasion.
* NiceGuy: He's very polite and welcoming, going so far as to provide food and shelter for Marlene should [[spoiler:Geralt dispel the curse that turned her into a wight.]]
* ShoutOutThemeNaming: Basil Foulty -> [[Series/FawltyTowers Basil Fawlty]]. Note that this Basil is far friendlier than his namesake.
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[[folder:Orianna]]
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A patroness of the arts in Beauclair who knows a few things that Geralt needs to track down the Beast.
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* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler: Despite her deeds, the "Night to Remember" trailer paints her in a tragic light when she lies dead, with tears running down her eyes, and Geralt waking up next to her.]]
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: [[spoiler: An adult taking advantage of the simple minds of children for her own pleasure? Orianna's motives eerily parallel the mindset of a child molester.]]
* EarlyBirdCameo: The redhead dressed in a purple gown pacing in the background of the updated main menu? That's her. That's her singing, too. [[spoiler:She is also the bruxa that Geralt kills in the "Night to Remember" trailer, which came out over a year before ''Blood and Wine'' was released.]]
* EverybodyKnewAlready: [[spoiler:Geralt immediately figures out something weird is going on with her. Regis eventually says outright that she's a vampire, to the surprise of no one.]]
* FriendToAllChildren: She finances an orphanage, is very protective of her charges, and is loved by them in return thanks to her generosity. [[spoiler:Ultimately subverted. She doesn't really care about the children, she just likes the taste of their blood.]]
* LackOfEmpathy: She really doesn't feel much for the suffering of other people. [[spoiler:Which is pretty typical of vampires. She treats Dettlaff's rampage across the city as an annoyance rather than a cataclysm where people are dying in the streets due to one vampire's petty rage.]]
* NotSoDifferent: [[spoiler:Geralt is understandably disgusted when he learn that she uses the orphanage as a farm to raise her favorite source of blood, but she points out that witchers are responsible for the deaths of more young boys than she is.]]
* PragmaticVillainy: [[spoiler:She doesn't kill the children whose blood she drinks. She wants them alive so that she can continue feasting on their blood, after all. And mistreating them will earn her wrath - because you're damaging her property.]]
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[[folder: The Unseen Elder]]
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The vampire elder of Toussaint. The cave he sleeps in contains the original passegeway that vampires passed through into this world during the Conjunction of the Spheres. Geralt can choose to ask him for help in drawing out the Beast.
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Even talking to him requires a specific ritual with a very specific yet purely symbolic offering. Failing to meet these conditions can lead to rather [[DisproportionateRetribution unfortunate]] [[BerserkButton consequences]].
* FlashStep: To ludicrous degree, bordering on OffscreenTeleportation.
* GodzillaThreshold: His supreme authority over vampires would make him a tremendously useful asset in tracking down Dettlaff. However, because the very act of speaking to him is so incredibly dangerous, [[spoiler:Regis]] makes it clear that the Unseen Elder should only ever be turned to as a last resort.
* HairTriggerTemper: Talking to him, you only get one question despite several options. Asking more than that, or even repeating the same question leads to a slashed throat and a NonStandardGameOver.
* {{Hikikomori}}: This is what he ultimately amounts to, underneath everything. He can't bring himself to go outside, because the human world is too uncomfortable for him to bear, and he's obsessed with the idea that the gate between the worlds could open again at any time, and terrified that he might miss it if he ever gave up his vigil.
* LooksLikeOrlok: Unlike other higher vampires, he doesn't bother making himself look human. Not like he needs to, considering his only company are bats and other vampires.
* MonsterLord: Has absolute authority over all vampires of Toussaint. When he calls, they all answer, whether they like it or not.
* OrcusOnHisThrone: Despite his power, he doesn't concern himself with worldly affairs, preferring the peace and quiet of his cave.
* RealityEnsues: Thought this was a standard RPG conversation where you get ask any and all questions you want, or answer however you like? Nope. You ''will'' tread lightly and pay attention to the Elder or you'll have no game to continue playing.
* VampireMonarch: One of the several Elders, who hold dominion over all vampires in their respective corners of the world.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: According to [[spoiler: Regis]], The Elder is staying in his cave next to the gateway to his homeworld because he is homesick, even despite knowing well it might never open again.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Commander Damien De La Tour]]
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The captain of the ducal guard of Toussaint. He was originally in charge of hunting the Beast, till the Duchess hired Geralt. He is at first reluctant and opposed to working with the Witcher, but soon comes to respect him.
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* CommanderContrarian: Justified in that he's initially insulted in having the investigation taken out of his hands and given to an outsider.
* FireForgedFriends: Him and Geralt come to earn each other's respect through working together.
* InspectorLestrade: At first, though he improves as he comes to respect Geralt's findings.
* RedHerring: At the start of ''Blood and Wine'' he appears to be the most likely suspect to the murders, between his name, his unprovoked hostility towards Geralt, and his closeness to the murder victims. Turns out he has nothing to do with them.
* UngratefulBastard: [[spoiler:Just like Anna Henrietta, he doesn't show an ounce of gratitude towards Geralt for saving Touissant in the ending where only Anna Henrietta survives, even if you choose to kill Detlaff. While Anna Henrietta can be excused due to Syanna having been her sister and her [[FatalFlaw utter inability]] to recognize that Syanna was evil, Damien has no such excuse.]]
[[/folder]]

* HiddenDepths: He can tell if Geralt lies to him in their minimalist exchange, proving that he has more perspicacity than his violence-loving demeanour might suggest. When he catches one of the dying leaves from the Oak of Bald Mountain, he also seems to cotton on to the fact that the Crones are being butchered by Ciri.

[[folder:Caranthir]]

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-> Voiced by James Clyde

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* SexForSolace: She implies to be this the case for her sexual encounter with Geralt. At the moment, she simply needed a man.

* NobleDemon: One of the most powerful vampires in existence, he has no desire to harm others and once even killed a legendary monster because it killed a boy who offered him an apple. [[spoiler: He gets a lot less noble at the very end when he opts to massacre everyone in Beauclair until he gets what he wants.]]

* NotSoDifferent: [[spoiler:Regis]] is of the mind that both Geralt and Dettlaff are similar in that they "have noble hearts, yet both are wont to [[ShootTheDog perform ignoble deeds]]." [[spoiler:Dettlaff's willingness to murder thousands of innocents out of wounded pride shows that there is in a fact a world of difference between the two.]]

* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler: He does this once you take off a third of his health during his final boss fight.]].

* UnstoppableRage: Dettlaff's greatest flaw is that he can''not'' rein in his temper. When he gets angry, and it's not hard to set him off, he goes on a violent rage, killing everyone around him with all the terrifying destructive power of a Higher Vampire. [[spoiler:When he finds out he was manipulated by Syanna, he decides that everyone in Beauclair needs to die.]]

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* ConservationOfNinjutsu: The very first time you fight a single Wild Hunt soldier, he's a full-on boss fight with his own health bar. Later in the game you'll be cutting apart groups of them as easily as you would any other type of mook.

* DistinguishedGentlemansPipe: A more unusual example. A man of action first and foremost, he is also an avid scholar; he preferred to spend time in his [[MagicalLibrary: study]] than working on his marriage. Granted cigars and cigarettes don't seem to exist in the setting.

* TheFairFolk: While his species is never explicitly revealed [[spoiler: he's believed to be a demon]], he shares several traits of traditional fairies such as aiding mortals with [[LiteralGenie contracts riddled with fine print]]. Whether he's a [[CompleteMonster totally evil]] or simply has [[BlueandOrangeMorality different values]] is ambiguous, but he can be genuinely helpful [[spoiler: if you beat Hearts of Stone before the main quest he won't be able help you find Ciri, but he tell you everything you need to do in order to save her]].