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* AdaptationalHeroism: In the books, Anna is depicted as a spoiled WomanChild who throws temper tantrums and treats the world like it's her playground. In the games, Anna is shown to be a very active, capable, and benevolent (if somewhat self-centered) ruler.
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* FireForgedFriends: Him and Geralt come to earn each other's respect through working together, first on catching some wine-stealing bandits then during the battle of Belclair. He will even admit that he was wrong about Geralt being a troublemaker after successfully wiping out the bandits.
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* FireForgedFriends: Him and Geralt come to earn each other's respect through working together, first on catching some wine-stealing bandits then during the battle of Belclair.Beauclair. He will even admit that he was wrong about Geralt being a troublemaker after successfully wiping out the bandits.
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* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler: Her orphanage is a cross between a human farm and a wine cellar. Whenever she wants to feed, she indulges in children's blood. According to her it has a particularly sweet aroma that makes vampires salivate.]]
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* CharacterTics: She tends to hold a hand behind her back in a very militant posture.
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* CharacterTics: She tends to hold a hand behind her back in a very militant militaristic posture.
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* AccompliceByInaction: [[spoiler:Because he raised not a word at the other three knights' maltreatment of Syanna when escorting her to exile, she deemed him a Coward, and targeted him as such fro the Beast of Beauclair's thematic serial killing.]]
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* 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. Though the game does not point this out explicitly, she also has a similar relationship with her children as many of the Succubi Geralt meets (and often spares) have with their prey.]] The difference, of course, may be the former are consenting adults and the latter are children. Given the sex comparison to blood, it's no surprise Geralt sees a big difference.
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* 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. Though the game does not point this out explicitly, she also has a similar relationship with her children as many of the Succubi Geralt meets (and often spares) have with their prey.]] The difference, of course, may be the former are consenting adults and the latter are children. Given the sex comparison of sex to blood, it's no surprise Geralt sees a big difference.
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* 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. Though the game does not point this out explicitly, she also has a similar relationship with her children as many of the Succubi Geralt meets (and often spares) have with their prey.]]]] The difference, of course, may be the former are consenting adults and the latter are children. Given the sex comparison to blood, it's no surprise Geralt sees a big difference.
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* 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.]]
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* 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.Dettlaff. 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.]]
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* RoaringRampageOfRescue: After he thinks that Sylvia Anna was kidnapped by Roderick's men, he, Gerald and Regis locate his keep and cut a bloody swath of destruction through the keep to get to her.
* 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]]
* 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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* SuicideByCop: [[spoiler: According to the character entry written by Dandelion,Detlaff Dettlaff ''let'' himself be killed by Regis. Even though Regis would have been able to kill Detlaff, Dettlaff, who was horribly maimed, Detlaff Dettlaff made it as easy as possible for Regis. After being betrayed by Syanna and then alienating Regis with his bloodlust, Detlaff Dettlaff had lost the two things that made his unfathomably long life worth living]]
* SuicideByCop: [[spoiler: According to the character entry written by Dandelion,
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* CantTakeCriticism: Doesn't take too well to criticism or contradiction, particularly in public. At one point, Anna in a frustrated rant makes an analogy between vampire hunting and fox hunting. Geralt can reply that there are slight but critical differences between a higher vampire and a fox, in a tone that clearly indicates that only an imbecile would make such a comparison. The duchess, after an awkward silence, implies that Geralt is about to be charged with treason if he takes one step further.
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* 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. Oddly enough, [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness she's a bruxa in the trailer]] and seems to be a true Higher Vampire in the DLC proper.]]
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The "damaging property" thing isn't even implied in the game. Arguably the opposite is implied; Orianna is much more angry at Arnaud for abandoning the children than one would expect if they were just her property. But so as not to inject my own views, and not to start an edit war, I'm just altering the line.
* FailedASpotCheck: After [[spoiler:Regis tells her that Dettlaff is the Beast, and thus a vampire.]] Despite this information, being told that there were vampires seen about, and Regis appearing from her perspective out of nowhere, she totally fails to realize that perhaps the two eccentric, brooding, slightly creepy people she knows to be friends "for ages, literally" with said vampire might in fact be vampires themselves.
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* 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.]]
* 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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* 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 shelters the children, children because she just likes the taste of their blood.blood. Although [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation she also acts more protective of them than one would expect]] if they were just a blood source.]]
* 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. As she says, she's been around a while; it takes more than a one-night massacre to faze her.]]
* 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. Though the game does not point this out explicitly, she also has a similar relationship with her children as many of the Succubi Geralt meets (and often spares) have with their prey.]]
* 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, afterall. And mistreating all, and killing them will earn makes her wrath - because you're damaging her property.very angry.]]
* 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. As she says, she's been around a while; it takes more than a one-night massacre to faze her.]]
* 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. Though the game does not point this out explicitly, she also has a similar relationship with her children as many of the Succubi Geralt meets (and often spares) have with their prey.]]
* 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
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* 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. However, it is possible to find quests and books that [[Foreshadowing allude to her]] prior to this point, which would naturally raise the question of [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse what happened to her]].
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* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: In the Land of Fables, if you get her ribbon back, she'll feel touched. If you say she looks good in Little Red Riding Hood's little red hood, she'll be noticeably flustered. Lastly, when you both are about to exit, you both can join the Mile High Club together.
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* TrueFinalBoss: [[spoiler: Some aspects of the ''Blood And Wine'' expansion suggests that it's, canonically, the last of Geralt's adventures in ''Witcher 3''. That said, this guy's the FinalBoss of ''Blood And Wine'']].
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* StoryBreakerPower: Like Gaunter 'O Dimm, the unseen elder cannot be fought directly under any circumstance, and ''will'' kill Geralt effortlessly in a cutscene should he be angered.
* SuperSpeed: FlashStep aside hee will kill Geralt before the latter can even react, should he be angered.
* SuperSpeed: FlashStep aside hee will kill Geralt before the latter can even react, should he be angered.
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* RoaringRampageOfRescue: After he thinks that Sylvia Anna was kidnapped by Roderick's men, he, Gerald and Regis locate his keep and cut a bloody swath of destruction through the keep to get to her.
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Not exactly a petty reason. She was exiled for something that was not her fault and was brutalized by the knights who did so.
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[[header:Toussaint]]
->'''Capital:''' Beauclair
A small and beautiful duchy located in the Nilfgaardian Empire. Their wines are some of the best and most famous in the world.
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[[folder: Duchess Anna Henrietta]]
!!Duchess Anna Henrietta
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->'''Appears in:''' ''Literature/LadyOfTheLake'' | ''[[VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt Wild Hunt]]''
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The ruler of Toussaint. In ''Blood & Wine'' she hires Geralt to hunt a monster preying on her subjects. She also had an affair with Dandelion in the past.
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* ActionDressRip: Does one when heading off to [[spoiler:rescue Milton]].
* BenevolentBoss: She pays Geralt quite generously for his work, granting him a vineyard (albeit a dilapidated one) as an advance, and awards him Toussaint's highest honor for a successfully completed contract.
* CainAndAbel: The Abel to Sylvia's Cain. [[spoiler:Sylvia's mistreatment at the hands of their family is what drives her into murdering her younger sister. Whether she succeeds, and whether the two reconcile is dependent on Geralt's actions.]]
* ErmineCapeEffect: Just about always dressed in the finest, jewel-encrusted silks with an equally impressive crown.
* FatalFlaw: Her greatest weakness is her love for her sister and the crippling guilt she feels for her banishment. Anna gets ''very'' temperamental and irrational wherever Sylvia is concerned, and refuses to accept the possibility that she may not be the woman she remembers. [[spoiler:This will result in her death when, even after all Sylvia's crimes have been exposed and Sylvia is unrepentant, Anna insists on embracing her, putting her directly into striking distance of her sister.]]
* TheHighQueen: Technically a duchess, as Toussaint is a duchy of Nilfgaard. A slight subversion is that Anna Henrietta is willing to break decorum and get her hands dirty to protect her subjects.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Played with. In short, her gut feelings about people are usually right, but she fails to consider how extenuating circumstances may make them act.
** When presented with evidence that a shipment of Sangreal has gone missing, she proudly states that Fabricio would never betray her because he has everything he has due to her. She is half-right. Fabricio is loyal to her, but not so loyal that he isn't willing to deal under the table to improve his station.
** When boasting of her ability to sum up people, she pegs Dettlaff's character to a tee just from a single conversation, summing him up as "sensitive, sad...a good man, but lost." Her assessment, however, is a massive understatement: ''he'' is the Beast of Beauclaire she hired Geralt to kill, and he is "lost" due to violent temper which will ultimately drive him to kill hundreds of innocent people.
** And then there's the whole issue with her sister. [[spoiler:Anna ignores every warning that Sylvia is dangerous and has it out for her, which will potentially lead to her death. However, again, her initial impression can be proven correct only if Geralt takes the time to understand Syanna and remind her of how much she once loved her sister.]]
* HundredPercentAdorationRating: As the Journal explains:
-->''If this world has ever known a ruler who enjoyed the absolute admiration of her subjects without the need for systematic repression or a particularly cruel hangman, it was, without a doubt, the sovereign of Toussaint, Duchess Anna Henrietta.''
* KingIncognito: She accompanies Geralt when he tries to deduce a blackmailer's identity in ''Blood & Wine'', though she doesn't have the patience to keep her disguise for long. She does much better when she later partakes a masquerade ball with Geralt, however.
* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler:Anna's greatest regret was not accepting responsibility for a deadly prank she played that her sister was blamed and banished for.]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: She's fairly decent person. She's a stern ruler and brooks no direspect, but she is extremely fair and cares deeply for her subjects.
* RoyalBrat: Contrary to her currently regal behavior, Anna was quite a prankster as a child. [[spoiler:It's what resulted in her sister's exile.]]
* RoyalWe: Frequently speaks in this manner whenever she is on ceremony. She will drop it in casual situations, or whenever she needs to go incognito, or when she needs to metaphorically twist an arm in a critical situation.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Her reaction to learning one of her knights might be the target of a murder? Rip the skirt off her dress, commandeer a horse from one of her subjects and immediately ride off with Geralt in tow to rescue him. She personally accompanies him for the majority of the expansion's main quest to see justice done.
* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: She has a man put on trial for treason and, if Geralt talks back to her while she chews him out, she warns him that he is close to being charged with treason himself. Yet, when it's revealed that her older sister ''actually'' plotted treason against her, Anna Henrietta ''refuses'' to punish her accordingly simply ''because'' she's her sister. This decision actually causes revolts amongst her subjects because the Duchess is treating her own feelings as above the law.
* TranquilFury: If Geralt gets too smart-assed with her at the wrong moment, she goes quiet instead of shouting.
* WideEyedIdealist: During Geralt's first stay in Toussaint, she believes because Emhyr is her cousin and her writing a letter to him he will stop his war efforts.
* WomanScorned: She and Dandelion had a very serious affair. And she nearly had him executed when he cheated on her.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Being raised on fairy tales her whole childhood, Anna Henrietta has a very idyllic view of her duchy and tries to make it a land right out of those stories. However, as many characters note, the reality is not so ideal and ThePowerOfLove is not nearly enough. The only way to get a happy ending for her story is for Geralt to ignore her orders and her blind faith in her sister, which is still a BittersweetEnding at best.
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!!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.
[[/folder]]
!!!Court of Toussaint
[[folder: Commander Damien De La Tour]]
!!Commander Damien De La Tour
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->'''Appears in:''' ''[[VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt Wild Hunt]]''
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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* BadassNormal: When Beauclair is invaded by vampires, Damien heads right out into the streets and leads the effort to repeal them. While taking some nasty wounds, the fact he survives shows how tough he is.
* 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.
* TwoFaced: The right side of his will become a huge mass of scars from repeated strikes by a vampires claw that he suffered during the assault on Beauclair.
* 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]]
[[folder:Vivienne de Tabris]]
!!Vivienne de Tabris
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->'''Appears in:''' ''[[VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt Wild Hunt]]''
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.]]
[[/folder]]
!!!Knights of Toussaint
[[folder:Ser Reynart de Bois-Fresnes]]
!!Sir Reynart de Bois-Fresnes
->'''Appears in:''' ''Literature/LadyOfTheLake''
The very first knight-errant of Toussaint Geralt got to know. He saved him and his friends from the Nightingale Gang at Caed Myrkvid.
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* BigDamnHeroes: He and his knight-companions saved Geralt and his friends from the Nightingale Gang when help was most needed.
* HeroicSacrifice: He died at the Cervantesa pass defending the local guards.
* NiceGuy: As befitting for a knight-errant.
* YouOweMe: In return for Geralt helping him slay a cockatrice, he helped Geralt getting to Stygga.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Sir Palmerin de Launfal]]
!!Sir Palmerin de Launfal
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->'''Appears in:''' ''Literature/LadyOfTheLake'' | ''[[VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt Wild Hunt]]''
And old acquaintance of Geralt, Baron of Launfal, and knight of the Duchess of Toussaint. He and Milton are sent by the Duchess to find Geralt and bring him to Toussaint where he might deal with the duchy's monster problem.
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* AllLovingHero: He and Milton once stood up for a Succubus.
* BerserkButton: Don't insult the Duchess in front of him or Milton.
* BlingOfWar: By the standard fashion of the knights errant of Toussaint, they wear shiny brass and steel suits of armour with colourful plumes and heraldic symbols.
* TheIdealist: Palmerin firmly believe in the chivalric virtues and inherent goodness of men. [[GoodIsNotDumb That doesn't mean that they don't know how to deal with bad people, though.]] He's even more idealistic than Milton, thinking he can talk bandits out of their lives of crime - and if he can't he knows he did everything to avert violence.
* InterspeciesRomance: When Geralt first met him, Palmerin was in a relationship with a Succubus named Natanis who the Witcher was contracted to get rid of by the Duchess, who was receiving reports from noble ladies whose husbands were being "corrupted" by Natanis. Palmerin and a few of the Succubus' other lovers convinced Gerralt that she meant no harm. A cut letter from ''Blood and Wine'' found in the game files reveals that their relationship is still ongoing, with Natanis affectionately calling Palmerin "Tubbynubs".
* KnightErrant: In their own words, they are bound to defend people, no matter what land they are in.
* NiceGuy: Milton and him are genuinely nice people. Who offer to protect a village while waiting for Geralt. One of them even insists that they have go give the bandits a chance to surrender and stand down, even knowing the bandits won't take it.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Sir Milton de Peyrac-Peyran]]
!!Sir Milton de Peyrac-Peyran
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->'''Appears in:''' ''Literature/LadyOfTheLake'' | ''[[VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt Wild Hunt]]''
Another old acquaintances of Geralt and knight of the Duchess of Toussaint. He and Palmerin are sent by the Duchess to find Geralt and bring him to Toussaint where he might deal with the duchy's monster problem.
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* AllLovingHero: He and Palmerin once stood up for a Succubus.
* BadassMustache: Sports an impressive pair, along with a short beard.
* BerserkButton: Don't insult the Duchess in front of him.
* BlingOfWar: By the standard fashion of the knights errant of Touissant, they wear shiny brass and steel suits of armour with colourful plumes and heraldic symbols.
* DirtyCoward: [[spoiler:Sylvia views him as a craven coward who violated the knightly virtue of valor. To reflect this, she arranges for him to be killed during a game where he has to hide while dressed as a rabbit. The specifics for how she came to see him as this, however, are unknown - a logical but ultimately unconfirmed explanation would be that despite not being malicious himself, he did nothing to soften the abuse Syanna suffered at the hands of the other knights who escorted her into exile.]]
* TheIdealist: Milton firmly believe in the chivalric virtues. He is however far more cynical than Palmerin.
* KickTheDog: ''Blood and Wine'' hints that he might have displayed some uncharacteristic cruelty many years ago. [[spoiler:According to Sylvia, Milton was among the four knights to abandon her in the wilderness after she was exiled from her home, and she describes how she suffered severe mistreatment at their hands. While she never mentions Milton by name (and for some odd reason the player as Geralt never has the option to inquire specifically about his old friend), odds are that his misdeed was simply that he did nothing to stop her abuse or prevent his fellow knights from leaving her to die in a winterly forest - which would also be a fit for the vice of cowardice she pins on him.]]
* KnightErrant: In their own words, he and Palmerin are bound to defend people, no matter what land they are in.
* NiceGuy: He and his associate, Palmerin, are genuinely nice people who offer to protect a village while waiting for Geralt. One of them even insists that they have go give the bandits a chance to surrender and stand down, even knowing the bandits won't take it.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler: While he originated in the books, fans who only play the games don't get to know him very well. He's the killer's fourth victim]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Sir Guillaume de Launfal]]
!!Sir Guillaume de Launfal
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->'''Appears in:''' ''[[VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt Wild Hunt]]''
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]]
!!!Citizens of Toussaint
[[folder:Dettlaff van der Eretein]]
!!Dettlaff van der Eretein
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->'''Appears in:''' ''[[VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt Wild Hunt]]''
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]]
%%* SuperSmoke
* 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.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Barnabas-Basil Foulty]]
!!Barnabas-Basil Foulty
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->'''Appears in:''' ''[[VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt Wild Hunt]]''
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.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Orianna]]
!!Orianna
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->'''Appears in:''' ''[[VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt Wild Hunt]]''
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.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder: The Unseen Elder]]
!!The Unseen Elder
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->'''Appears in:''' ''[[VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt Wild Hunt]]''
The vampire elder of Toussaint. The cave he sleeps in contains the original passageway 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]]
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->'''Capital:''' Beauclair
A small and beautiful duchy located in the Nilfgaardian Empire. Their wines are some of the best and most famous in the world.
!!!Royal Family
[[folder: Duchess Anna Henrietta]]
!!Duchess Anna Henrietta
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->'''Appears in:''' ''Literature/LadyOfTheLake'' | ''[[VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt Wild Hunt]]''
->'''Voiced by:'''
The ruler of Toussaint. In ''Blood & Wine'' she hires Geralt to hunt a monster preying on her subjects. She also had an affair with Dandelion in the past.
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* ActionDressRip: Does one when heading off to [[spoiler:rescue Milton]].
* BenevolentBoss: She pays Geralt quite generously for his work, granting him a vineyard (albeit a dilapidated one) as an advance, and awards him Toussaint's highest honor for a successfully completed contract.
* CainAndAbel: The Abel to Sylvia's Cain. [[spoiler:Sylvia's mistreatment at the hands of their family is what drives her into murdering her younger sister. Whether she succeeds, and whether the two reconcile is dependent on Geralt's actions.]]
* ErmineCapeEffect: Just about always dressed in the finest, jewel-encrusted silks with an equally impressive crown.
* FatalFlaw: Her greatest weakness is her love for her sister and the crippling guilt she feels for her banishment. Anna gets ''very'' temperamental and irrational wherever Sylvia is concerned, and refuses to accept the possibility that she may not be the woman she remembers. [[spoiler:This will result in her death when, even after all Sylvia's crimes have been exposed and Sylvia is unrepentant, Anna insists on embracing her, putting her directly into striking distance of her sister.]]
* TheHighQueen: Technically a duchess, as Toussaint is a duchy of Nilfgaard. A slight subversion is that Anna Henrietta is willing to break decorum and get her hands dirty to protect her subjects.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Played with. In short, her gut feelings about people are usually right, but she fails to consider how extenuating circumstances may make them act.
** When presented with evidence that a shipment of Sangreal has gone missing, she proudly states that Fabricio would never betray her because he has everything he has due to her. She is half-right. Fabricio is loyal to her, but not so loyal that he isn't willing to deal under the table to improve his station.
** When boasting of her ability to sum up people, she pegs Dettlaff's character to a tee just from a single conversation, summing him up as "sensitive, sad...a good man, but lost." Her assessment, however, is a massive understatement: ''he'' is the Beast of Beauclaire she hired Geralt to kill, and he is "lost" due to violent temper which will ultimately drive him to kill hundreds of innocent people.
** And then there's the whole issue with her sister. [[spoiler:Anna ignores every warning that Sylvia is dangerous and has it out for her, which will potentially lead to her death. However, again, her initial impression can be proven correct only if Geralt takes the time to understand Syanna and remind her of how much she once loved her sister.]]
* HundredPercentAdorationRating: As the Journal explains:
-->''If this world has ever known a ruler who enjoyed the absolute admiration of her subjects without the need for systematic repression or a particularly cruel hangman, it was, without a doubt, the sovereign of Toussaint, Duchess Anna Henrietta.''
* KingIncognito: She accompanies Geralt when he tries to deduce a blackmailer's identity in ''Blood & Wine'', though she doesn't have the patience to keep her disguise for long. She does much better when she later partakes a masquerade ball with Geralt, however.
* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler:Anna's greatest regret was not accepting responsibility for a deadly prank she played that her sister was blamed and banished for.]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: She's fairly decent person. She's a stern ruler and brooks no direspect, but she is extremely fair and cares deeply for her subjects.
* RoyalBrat: Contrary to her currently regal behavior, Anna was quite a prankster as a child. [[spoiler:It's what resulted in her sister's exile.]]
* RoyalWe: Frequently speaks in this manner whenever she is on ceremony. She will drop it in casual situations, or whenever she needs to go incognito, or when she needs to metaphorically twist an arm in a critical situation.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Her reaction to learning one of her knights might be the target of a murder? Rip the skirt off her dress, commandeer a horse from one of her subjects and immediately ride off with Geralt in tow to rescue him. She personally accompanies him for the majority of the expansion's main quest to see justice done.
* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: She has a man put on trial for treason and, if Geralt talks back to her while she chews him out, she warns him that he is close to being charged with treason himself. Yet, when it's revealed that her older sister ''actually'' plotted treason against her, Anna Henrietta ''refuses'' to punish her accordingly simply ''because'' she's her sister. This decision actually causes revolts amongst her subjects because the Duchess is treating her own feelings as above the law.
* TranquilFury: If Geralt gets too smart-assed with her at the wrong moment, she goes quiet instead of shouting.
* WideEyedIdealist: During Geralt's first stay in Toussaint, she believes because Emhyr is her cousin and her writing a letter to him he will stop his war efforts.
* WomanScorned: She and Dandelion had a very serious affair. And she nearly had him executed when he cheated on her.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Being raised on fairy tales her whole childhood, Anna Henrietta has a very idyllic view of her duchy and tries to make it a land right out of those stories. However, as many characters note, the reality is not so ideal and ThePowerOfLove is not nearly enough. The only way to get a happy ending for her story is for Geralt to ignore her orders and her blind faith in her sister, which is still a BittersweetEnding at best.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Sylvia Anna]]
!!Sylvia Anna
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->'''Appears in:''' ''[[VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt Wild Hunt]]''
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.
[[/folder]]
!!!Court of Toussaint
[[folder: Commander Damien De La Tour]]
!!Commander Damien De La Tour
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->'''Appears in:''' ''[[VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt Wild Hunt]]''
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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* BadassNormal: When Beauclair is invaded by vampires, Damien heads right out into the streets and leads the effort to repeal them. While taking some nasty wounds, the fact he survives shows how tough he is.
* 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.
* TwoFaced: The right side of his will become a huge mass of scars from repeated strikes by a vampires claw that he suffered during the assault on Beauclair.
* 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]]
[[folder:Vivienne de Tabris]]
!!Vivienne de Tabris
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->'''Appears in:''' ''[[VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt Wild Hunt]]''
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.]]
[[/folder]]
!!!Knights of Toussaint
[[folder:Ser Reynart de Bois-Fresnes]]
!!Sir Reynart de Bois-Fresnes
->'''Appears in:''' ''Literature/LadyOfTheLake''
The very first knight-errant of Toussaint Geralt got to know. He saved him and his friends from the Nightingale Gang at Caed Myrkvid.
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* BigDamnHeroes: He and his knight-companions saved Geralt and his friends from the Nightingale Gang when help was most needed.
* HeroicSacrifice: He died at the Cervantesa pass defending the local guards.
* NiceGuy: As befitting for a knight-errant.
* YouOweMe: In return for Geralt helping him slay a cockatrice, he helped Geralt getting to Stygga.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Sir Palmerin de Launfal]]
!!Sir Palmerin de Launfal
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->'''Appears in:''' ''Literature/LadyOfTheLake'' | ''[[VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt Wild Hunt]]''
And old acquaintance of Geralt, Baron of Launfal, and knight of the Duchess of Toussaint. He and Milton are sent by the Duchess to find Geralt and bring him to Toussaint where he might deal with the duchy's monster problem.
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* AllLovingHero: He and Milton once stood up for a Succubus.
* BerserkButton: Don't insult the Duchess in front of him or Milton.
* BlingOfWar: By the standard fashion of the knights errant of Toussaint, they wear shiny brass and steel suits of armour with colourful plumes and heraldic symbols.
* TheIdealist: Palmerin firmly believe in the chivalric virtues and inherent goodness of men. [[GoodIsNotDumb That doesn't mean that they don't know how to deal with bad people, though.]] He's even more idealistic than Milton, thinking he can talk bandits out of their lives of crime - and if he can't he knows he did everything to avert violence.
* InterspeciesRomance: When Geralt first met him, Palmerin was in a relationship with a Succubus named Natanis who the Witcher was contracted to get rid of by the Duchess, who was receiving reports from noble ladies whose husbands were being "corrupted" by Natanis. Palmerin and a few of the Succubus' other lovers convinced Gerralt that she meant no harm. A cut letter from ''Blood and Wine'' found in the game files reveals that their relationship is still ongoing, with Natanis affectionately calling Palmerin "Tubbynubs".
* KnightErrant: In their own words, they are bound to defend people, no matter what land they are in.
* NiceGuy: Milton and him are genuinely nice people. Who offer to protect a village while waiting for Geralt. One of them even insists that they have go give the bandits a chance to surrender and stand down, even knowing the bandits won't take it.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Sir Milton de Peyrac-Peyran]]
!!Sir Milton de Peyrac-Peyran
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->'''Appears in:''' ''Literature/LadyOfTheLake'' | ''[[VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt Wild Hunt]]''
Another old acquaintances of Geralt and knight of the Duchess of Toussaint. He and Palmerin are sent by the Duchess to find Geralt and bring him to Toussaint where he might deal with the duchy's monster problem.
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* AllLovingHero: He and Palmerin once stood up for a Succubus.
* BadassMustache: Sports an impressive pair, along with a short beard.
* BerserkButton: Don't insult the Duchess in front of him.
* BlingOfWar: By the standard fashion of the knights errant of Touissant, they wear shiny brass and steel suits of armour with colourful plumes and heraldic symbols.
* DirtyCoward: [[spoiler:Sylvia views him as a craven coward who violated the knightly virtue of valor. To reflect this, she arranges for him to be killed during a game where he has to hide while dressed as a rabbit. The specifics for how she came to see him as this, however, are unknown - a logical but ultimately unconfirmed explanation would be that despite not being malicious himself, he did nothing to soften the abuse Syanna suffered at the hands of the other knights who escorted her into exile.]]
* TheIdealist: Milton firmly believe in the chivalric virtues. He is however far more cynical than Palmerin.
* KickTheDog: ''Blood and Wine'' hints that he might have displayed some uncharacteristic cruelty many years ago. [[spoiler:According to Sylvia, Milton was among the four knights to abandon her in the wilderness after she was exiled from her home, and she describes how she suffered severe mistreatment at their hands. While she never mentions Milton by name (and for some odd reason the player as Geralt never has the option to inquire specifically about his old friend), odds are that his misdeed was simply that he did nothing to stop her abuse or prevent his fellow knights from leaving her to die in a winterly forest - which would also be a fit for the vice of cowardice she pins on him.]]
* KnightErrant: In their own words, he and Palmerin are bound to defend people, no matter what land they are in.
* NiceGuy: He and his associate, Palmerin, are genuinely nice people who offer to protect a village while waiting for Geralt. One of them even insists that they have go give the bandits a chance to surrender and stand down, even knowing the bandits won't take it.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler: While he originated in the books, fans who only play the games don't get to know him very well. He's the killer's fourth victim]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Sir Guillaume de Launfal]]
!!Sir Guillaume de Launfal
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->'''Appears in:''' ''[[VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt Wild Hunt]]''
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]]
!!!Citizens of Toussaint
[[folder:Dettlaff van der Eretein]]
!!Dettlaff van der Eretein
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->'''Appears in:''' ''[[VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt Wild Hunt]]''
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: Barnabas-Basil Foulty]]
!!Barnabas-Basil Foulty
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->'''Appears in:''' ''[[VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt Wild Hunt]]''
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]]
!!Orianna
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->'''Appears in:''' ''[[VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt Wild Hunt]]''
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]]
!!The Unseen Elder
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->'''Appears in:''' ''[[VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt Wild Hunt]]''
The vampire elder of Toussaint. The cave he sleeps in contains the original passageway 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.
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