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| 8 | [[Characters/TheWitcherWitchers Witchers]] | [[Characters/TheWitcherMagesAndAlchemists Mages and Alchemists]] ([[Characters/TheWitcherLodgeOfSorceresses Lodge of Sorceresses]]) | [[Characters/TheWitcherVilgefortzsConspiracy Vilgefortz's Conspiracy]] | [[Characters/TheWitcherNilfgaardianEmpire Nilfgaardian Empire]] ([[Characters/TheWitcherDuchyOfToussaint Duchy of Toussaint]])\ |
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| 13 | ->[[SarcasmMode "What a nice little company I've collected here!"]]'' ''moaned Geralt shaking his head.'' ''[[RagtagBunchOfMisfits "Comrades in arms! A real party of heroes!]]'' ''[[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech Why, we've nothing else to do but to ring hands!]]'' ''[[QuirkyBard A rhymester with a lute.]]'' ''[[ActionGirl A wild and saucy half-dryad, half-woman.]]'' ''[[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld A nearly five hundred year old]]'' ''[[YourVampiresSuck vampire.]]'' ''[[MyFriendsAndZoidberg And a fucking]]'' ''[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Nilfgaardian who says he is not a Nilfgaardian."]]\ |
| 14 | [[TheLeader "And at the forefront of this party]]'' ''- a witcher suffering from qualms of conscience, powerlessness and not being able to make one single decision."'' ''[[DeadpanSnarker finished Regis calmly.]]'' ''[[SnarkToSnarkCombat "Really, I propose that we should travel incognito, so as not to cause sensation."]]\ |
| 15 | "And laughter." added Milva.\ |
| 16 | "Damn you all!" spat Geralt at last, hiding a spoon in the top of his knee-boot. "God damn you all, you cooperating group of idiots united by a goal, which none of you shares with me, let alone understands... And god damn me too."\ |
| 17 | This time the others, taking Cahir's example, kept silent. Dandelion, Maria Barring, also called Milva, and Emiel Regis Rohellec Terzieff-Godefroy. |
| 18 | -->-- '''Andrzej Sapkowski''', ''(Baptism of Fire)'' |
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| 20 | In his search for Ciri, Geralt gathered around himself [[FiveManBand a small party]]. Whether these people joined him out of [[JustForFun/HowToGatherCharacters old friendship, romantic confusion, or other reasons]], it was perhaps best described by Angouleme: "[[MagneticHero you just can't not follow him]]". In the end, they stood by him [[TrueCompanions for good and for bad]]. |
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| 31 | !!Milva / Maria Barring |
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| 33 | |
| 34 | ->'''Appears in:''' ''Literature/BaptismOfFire'' | ''Literature/TowerOfTheSwallow'' | ''Literature/LadyOfTheLake'' |
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| 36 | -->''"You have no chance of rescuing your young lady. You will never reach Nilfgaard, or even the Jaruga. In this state you could not even walk up Sodden. Your death is already written. It is written on your stubborn face, you can see it in your own terrifying eyes. Death will surprise you soon, witcher. But thanks to this little deer, you will not die of starvation. And that's a good thing. Well... I think."'' |
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| 38 | Maria Barring, better known as simply "Milva" or "Kania" (meaning "kite") in the Elder Speech, and known as "Sor'ca" ("sister") by the elves was a superb female archer from Upper Sodden, one of the few non-dryads tolerated in Brokilon. Eithné was said to be rather fond of her. She led four fictional crusades against the dryads in the hope of reducing the number of volunteers for their expeditions. But when her true part in this was discovered, she vanished. |
| 39 | |
| 40 | During the Second Nilfgaard War she guided the shattered remains of the Scoia'tael commandos through the forest. There, she met the wounded and recuperating Gwynbleidd and became the second of Geralt's companions behind Dandelion. |
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| 42 | * ActionGirl: Thanks to her archery skills, she racks up an impressive bodycount. |
| 43 | * AllLoveIsUnrequited: It's implied that she has a crush on Geralt. Early in their journey, Milva - under the (false) assumption that Geralt is motivated by romantic love - makes a number of snide remarks regarding the nature of their quest, implying that she is jealous of the witcher's obsession with finding Ciri. |
| 44 | -->'''Geralt:''' She needs me. |
| 45 | -->'''Milva:''' (to herself) She isn't the only one. |
| 46 | * BerserkButton: She's a moody enough woman as it is, but being called "auntie" by Angouleme really ticks her off. |
| 47 | * TheBigGuy: She contributes almost entirely by shooting anyone who will threaten the party. She has enough strength to OneHitKO a grown, strong man, and her expertise at multiple ranges makes her very much if not more useful a party member than ''Geralt'' in a skirmish and she definitely exceeds him in body count. Furthering this Trope, she breaks up a trust-tension fueled scuffle between Cahir and Geralt by ''belting them''. |
| 48 | * BraidsOfAction: Justified. [[StockCostumeTraits She is an unmarried peasant woman]]. |
| 49 | * BrokenBird: [[spoiler:While her childhood was not the happiest one, it is her state (mentioned below) that puts a strain on her mental well-being.]] |
| 50 | * BrutalHonesty: She's a very simple-minded person, so whenever she speaks what she thinks about something, she ''never'' beats around the bush. |
| 51 | * ButICantBePregnant: [[spoiler:She conceived with an elf during a particularly unlucky attempt at border crossing into Brokilon, but a ConvenientMiscarriage happened as it was becoming obvious]]. |
| 52 | * CharacterDeath: [[spoiler: Dies during the assault on Stygga castle, dealing a MutualKill with another archer.]] |
| 53 | * TheComicallySerious: Being an honest and down-to-earth commoner in a team of sometimes stuffy characters can bring rather [[HilarityEnsues unexpected consequences]]. |
| 54 | * ConvenientMiscarriage: [[ZigZagged Not really]]. [[spoiler: While it does solve a moral dilemma she has regarding abortion, she ends up weakened, sick and takes some time to recover physically - and ''much'' longer to finally stop being depressed about it]]. |
| 55 | * GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: [[spoiler:Talked out of it by Geralt, but soon after she miscarried anyway.]] |
| 56 | * HeartbrokenBadass: Ironically, done to ''herself''; she spends the second half of ''Lady of the Lake'' sulking and depressed because she [[spoiler:turned down her lover's marriage proposal]]. As Regis notes, she's acting more like someone who [[spoiler:was dumped, rather than someone who ''did'' the dumping.]] |
| 57 | * ImportantHaircut: Cuts off her {{braid|sOfAction}} after [[spoiler:her ConvenientMiscarriage]]. |
| 58 | * TheLadette: Mostly so, although drinking binges aren't her forte. |
| 59 | * LeaveYourQuestTest: At Beauclaire. She receives a marriage proposition from a wealthy older baron who is antisocial like her and who genuinely respects her hunting skills and independence. [[spoiler:For a while, she even seems to be regretting her hasty rejection. Given her hidden issues, one wonders what were her reasons.]] |
| 60 | * MasterArcher: Milva is ''really'' good with archery, to the point she often resolves any fights the hansa gets themselves into before Geralt can even close-in. The narration even notes the different types of bows she's used over the years until her current choice of bow. And against the archetype, she's pretty cheery person. |
| 61 | * TheMole: In the backstory. Sometimes, an angry human mob decides to hunt some dryads for scalps; conveniently, there is a guide -- Maria, a hunter's daughter, who knows the local forests perfectly. Alas, somehow dryads ambush the mob and kill everybody -- except Maria and some wounded dude whom she carries out. Milva managed to play the guide four times before people started to make the connection. |
| 62 | * MutualKill: [[spoiler: During the assault on Vilgefortz's hideout at Stygga Castle, Milva and the last of the castle's archers loose arrows at each other at the same time. Both are fatally injured and die shortly afterwards]]. |
| 63 | * NeverLearnedToRead: To be expected given her background. |
| 64 | * PregnantBadass: She's pregnant for much of the journey [[spoiler: until she miscarries]]. |
| 65 | * RealWomenDontWearDresses: It's stated she pretty much had to be forced into one, when the hanse was invited to a party in Beauclair. |
| 66 | * TheRestShallPass: During the finale, she ties down most of the soldiers stationed in Stygga Castle, with the sole purpose of letting the rest of the hansa keep going. [[spoiler: It gets her killed]]. |
| 67 | * RewatchBonus: Once the reveal is reached, a bunch of scenes with her gain a second meaning. [[spoiler:Was her hangover just bad, or was it something more? Was she really so much of a Ladette, or did she want to prove something to herself? And so on.]] |
| 68 | * WeaponSpecialization: Bows. She really knows her way around them. |
| 69 | * WeaponsOfTheirTrade: Defied. Milva at one point brings up differences between hunting bows and ones capable of being really dangerous to humans. |
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| 72 | [[folder:Cahir Mawr Dyffryn aep Ceallach]] |
| 73 | !!Count Cahir Mawr Dyffryn aep Ceallach |
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| 79 | ->'''Appears in:''' ''Literature/BloodOfElves'' | ''Literature/TheTimeOfContempt'' | ''Literature/BaptismOfFire'' | ''Literature/TowerOfTheSwallow'' | ''Literature/LadyOfTheLake'' |
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| 81 | -->'''Dandelion:''' Aha! What a beauty! Where did you get it, Nilfgaardian? \ |
| 82 | '''Cahir:''' [[InsistentTerminology I'm not Nilfgaardian]]. I come from Vicovaro and my name is Cahir...\ |
| 83 | '''Dandelion:''' [[RunningGag Okay, okay, I know.]] |
| 84 | |
| 85 | A [[TheEmpire Nilfgaardian]] knight, well, [[RunningGag technically he is from Vicovaro]], so, a Vicovarian knight under orders to capture Ciri during the Thanedd Coup. After his failure and subsequent defeat at both Ciri and Geralt's blades and to escape his inevitable punishment by his own superiors, he joins Geralt's party when the witcher accidentally saves him yet again. Who, very reluctantly, accepts his company after trying to scare the youth away several times during their trek. Geralt questions his presence many times after this but the young man's dreams prove that there is more to his impromptu alliance than a simple life debt, and that meeting the Child of the Elder Blood leaves an indelible mark on all individuals. |
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| 87 | * BlackKnight: He wears the Nilfgaardian colors, which just so happen to be black. He is by no means a villainous sort, but he did spend a long time working directly for the emperor. |
| 88 | * CoolHelmet: His winged helmet, which is something that Ciri dreams about in her prophetic visions. |
| 89 | * DarkIsNotEvil: A BlackKnight wearing almost exclusively dark colours and face-covering helmets that works for TheEmpire... and is one of the most decent people in the whole saga, even before he abandoned his employer. |
| 90 | * FireForgedFriends: It takes a ''long'' time for Geralt to get over his disdain for Cahir but get over it he eventually does, and the two get along really well and have each other's back in every fight. Somewhat subverted in that Cahir fully expects to have to fight Geralt to the death once they find Ciri as he intends to take her back to Nilfgaard - something Geralt obviously won't stand for - but the two more or less agree they'll cross that bridge when they get there. [[spoiler: Which never comes to pass anyway.]] |
| 91 | * HeelFaceTurn: See above; he was not outright evil, only serving [[TheEmpire the bad guys]]. |
| 92 | * HypocriticalHumor: As mentioned below, he insists that he's not a Nilfgaardian, because in the Empire, you have to be ''born'' in the province of Nilfgaard to claim it. However, he has no problem referring to all the peoples of the north as "Nordlings" irrespective of their nationalities. |
| 93 | * InsistentTerminology: He's not Nilfgaardian, he's ''Vicovarian''. In the Empire, only those born in the Empire's heartland call themselves Nilfgaardians, and... (the party eventually stops paying attention). |
| 94 | * IOweYouMyLife: This is the reason why he joined Geralt's party; Geralt unknowingly saved him from YouHaveFailedMe. Later he admits other reasons beyond that, though. |
| 95 | * TheLancer: In line with FiveManBand standards, he's the ''hanse'''s second melee fighter, and the younger, more optimistic counterpart to older, angsty Geralt. |
| 96 | * LoveBeforeFirstSight: He fell for Ciri, after seeing her once as a child (and fueling her BlackKnight nightmares ever since), and a second time in combat (she almost killed him). Both times he was under orders to capture her. |
| 97 | * NiceGuy: Beneath the [[DarkIsNotEvil black armor and eagle-wing helmet]] is a genuinely decent man who did his best to comfort a terrified Ciri[[note]]Sure, it all went pear-shaped in a hurry but he had best of intentions[[/note]], stands by his friends, and does his best to assist Geralt in his search despite knowing it will likely end badly. |
| 98 | * NotEvilJustMisunderstood: His first few appearances paint him as a nightmarish figure as he's being viewed through the lens of a traumatized child. The truth behind him is much more complicated. |
| 99 | * PoorCommunicationKills: He was not able to speak the Cintran tongue at the time he captured Ciri, leaving him unable to communicate with and comfort the frightened child, which only made him that much more terrifying for her. |
| 100 | * PunchClockVillain: At the time, he didn't know the reasons why Emhyr wanted Ciri. He just went to retrieve her from the Cintra massacre merely because he was ordered to. |
| 101 | * PsychicDreamsForEveryone: He has the same dreams of Ciri as Geralt, proving Destiny has him more than a mere background. |
| 102 | * RapeAsDrama: Geralt suspects he did something particularly vile to Ciri due to the recurring nightmares she suffered from her encounter with him, and remains hostile to the former knight for a very long time. [[spoiler:It turns out Cahir did nothing of the sort. He retrieved her from the burning city as he was ordered to, undressed her so he could bathe her after seeing how dirty she had gotten, and tried to comfort her when she went catatonic.]] |
| 103 | * YouHaveFailedMe: |
| 104 | ** His first failure to retrieve Ciri from Cintra resulted in him being imprisoned for a year. His second failure to get her from Thanedd left Cahir dead to rights as far as Nilfgaard was concerned. |
| 105 | ** It's a bit more complicated than that- he spent a year in prison not because of his failure so much as a few choice words about the Emperor and the whole quest for Ciri; as for Thanedd, it's again not so much the failure (though it likely didn't help his case) as it is the fact that in the aftermath he vanished off the face of the... Witcher... planet... whatever through a chain of events he had precisely zero control over. Really, the poor guy veers into CosmicPlaything territory with the rotten luck he has. |
| 106 | * YouShallNotPass: Dies pulling one against Bonhart so Ciri can escape. Cahir knows he has no chance against the older warrior when he does this but still manages to bruise him -- which is more than can be said for the Rats, and they fought Bonhart six on one. |
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| 109 | [[folder:Emiel Regis Rohellec Terzieff-Godefroy]] |
| 110 | !!Emiel Regis Rohellec Terzieff-Godefroy |
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| 117 | ->'''Appears in:''' ''Literature/BaptismOfFire'' | ''Literature/TowerOfTheSwallow'' | ''Literature/LadyOfTheLake'' | ''[[VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt Wild Hunt]]'' |
| 118 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Mark Noble (English)[[labelnote:additional [=VAs=]]]Denis Bespaly (Russian), Patrick Borg (French)[[/labelnote]] |
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| 120 | -->''"My name is Emiel Regis Rohellec Terzieff-Godefroy. I have lived in this world for four hundred and twenty-eight years according to you humans, six hundred and forty-two years according to the calculations of the elves. I am a descendant of the survivors, hapless creatures trapped among you after the disaster, which you call the Conjunction of the Spheres. I am considered, to put it mildly, a monster. A horrible bloodsucker. And now I have stumbled upon a witcher, a professional whose job it is to eliminate those like me. That's all."'' |
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| 122 | A medic and herbalist who joins Geralt's party -- supposedly, because he was already planning to go their route. Though friendly, he is an enigmatic individual, a man of intellect who lives in the middle of nowhere and has a share of habits someone paranoid might consider very suspicious. |
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| 124 | * TheAlcoholic: A part of his backstory is that he got out of his addiction, after one drunken accident too many left his life in such a ruin he realised he had to change. [[spoiler:His drug was actually human blood, and his bout of self-reflection was induced by being staked, decapitated, set on fire and then buried for fifty years while he healed.]] |
| 125 | * AlmightyJanitor: When Geralt and the others first encounter him, he presents himself as a village herbalist living a simple life in Brugge. In truth, he is a [[spoiler: Higher Vampire, and could easily destroy anyone who gets in their way,]] but prefers to resolve things diplomatically instead, making sure that he leaves very little impression, lest his true nature be discovered. |
| 126 | * ApologeticAttacker: Gives a mournful apology [[spoiler: in the game before ripping into Dettlaff's throat to destroy him forever]]. |
| 127 | * BackForTheFinale: [[spoiler:He's absent for the games on account of being dead, but plays a big role in ''Blood and Wine'', which serves as the GrandFinale for the game series.]] |
| 128 | * BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Higher vampires like him]] can regenerate from apparently fatal wounds, though the process can take a long time depending on how much damage they sustain. [[spoiler:In the video games it can be sped considerably up by another higher vampire, which is exactly what happens to Regis, allowing him to show up alive again in ''Blood and Wine''.]] |
| 129 | * BeingGoodSucks: He really tries to come to a peaceful solution for all parties in ''Blood and Wine'', but in the GoldenEnding [[spoiler: he has to kill Dettlaft to stop his friend's rampage amongst the humans, and is ostracized by the rest of the vampire community because his actions are seen as a betrayal to his race.]] |
| 130 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: Regis is one of the kindest and most reasonable, even-tempered people you will ever meet in the harsh world of ''The Witcher''. But [[spoiler:as a Higher Vampire]], he wields unimaginably terrifying power. |
| 131 | * CombatMedic: Mainly a healer yet, befitting of his species, can easily butcher anyone when he needs to as shown in ''Blood and Wine''. |
| 132 | * CowardlyLion: He calls himself a coward. If not for that, the word would never occur to you in conjunction with him. |
| 133 | * DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu: The first thing Geralt and company do when they meet him is get drunk on his special mandrake brew. [[spoiler:It takes them a while before they realize he's actually a vampire, and an especially powerful Higher Vampire to boot.]] |
| 134 | * EveryoneHasStandards: Regis is one of the most polite individuals in the whole series, and throughout ''Blood and Wine'' he will defend Dettlaff by arguing he's sure his friend has a good reason for his actions and Dettlaff can change, though does agree he's taking things a bit far. In the end though, Regis is disgusted when he begins killing innocent folk and sides with Geralt to kill him, [[spoiler: doing the deed himself to permanently end Dettlaff's life]]. |
| 135 | * ForgottenFallenFriend: He is not directly mentioned when [[spoiler:Ciri summons ghosts of Geralt's friends. In the video games, it turns out to be because he's not actually dead.]] |
| 136 | * FriendOrIdolDecision: [[spoiler: In ''Blood and Wine'', he tries to protect and defend Dettlaft, the vampire who saved him, while knowing Dettlaft is a wanted murderer. Geralt, who is also one of Regis closest friends, straight up asks Regis whose side he would be on if Dettlaft cannot be talked down.]] |
| 137 | * FriendlyNeighbourhoodVampire: Regis is [[spoiler:totally uninterested in preying on humans. He's]] a delightful and friendly fellow who genuinely enjoys interacting with people, to the point of being somewhat long-winded. |
| 138 | * FromASingleCell: [[spoiler:As a Higher Vampire, Regis can regenerate from any injury. Even being reduced to a smear of blood by Vilgefortz wasn't enough to fully kill him, though the process would have taken a very long amount of time, though Dettlaff's intervention prior to ''Blood and Wine'' speeds the process up considerably.]] |
| 139 | * HiddenDepths: Apart from everything else about him (scholar, intellectual, medic, kind-hearted, dark secret), it turns out that he can brew moonshine from mandrake roots that knocks even ''Geralt'' flat. |
| 140 | * HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: [[spoiler:Deep down, he seems to be aware that Dettlaff is too unstable a person to truly live in the human world, but still insists that he's a good person and does everything he can to prevent Geralt from killing him.]] |
| 141 | * HumanoidAbomination: He's [[spoiler:a Higher Vampire, so he's]] this by default. |
| 142 | * IDidWhatIHadToDo: Says this word for word [[spoiler:in ''Blood and Wine'' after he kills Dettlaff to stop his assault on Toussaint, forever marking Regis as a traitor to his own kind]]. |
| 143 | * InsufferableGenius: He is intelligent, highly educated, experienced and really not shy about showing it off at the slightest opportunity. He later toned it down for a while after being scolded by Milva. From Dandelion's journal depiction of the incident: "The most effective defense against intellectual dominance is a timely and thorough scolding of an intellectual who appears to be dominant." |
| 144 | * IOweYouMyLife: [[spoiler:In ''Blood and Wine'', he feels a great sense of loyalty to Dettlaff for restoring his body, which drives him to go to great lengths to save his friend even while he goes on a murderous rampage across all of Beauclair.]] |
| 145 | * KillItWithFire: [[spoiler:Gets burned to death by Vilgefortz.]] |
| 146 | * LateArrivalSpoiler: To anybody who's played the games before picking up the books (as in, pretty much the whole Anglophonic world). While he's not part of the games' main cast, his nature [[spoiler:as a vampire]] is explicitly discussed. |
| 147 | * LetsGetDangerous: In TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon, [[spoiler:he breaks his vow to abstain from drinking human blood]]. |
| 148 | * LongLived: [[spoiler:Like all other creatures in the series, high vampires are not immortal as such, they just appear to be so from human perspective (their lifespan being roughly twice as long as that of elves).]] |
| 149 | * TheMedic: Stitches wounds, quite knowledgeable about various physical ailments, and expert in the use of herbs to heal. [[spoiler:Also, being a vampire, he can smell sickness and infection in blood.]] |
| 150 | * MinoredInAssKicking: He tends to stick to non-action roles, but he knows a few tricks. |
| 151 | * MrExposition: Regis ''loves'' to explain things. |
| 152 | * MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: Becomes apparent in [[spoiler: the vampire dungeon in ''Blood And Wine'', where Geralt finds several books describing humans as a particularly intelligent species of livestock, as well as the caged remains of humans the vampires slowly bled to death. Regis is mortified by the conduct of his brethren, and goes out of his way to make amends as best he can.]] |
| 153 | * NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: |
| 154 | ** Apparently. Justified by TheMasquerade; see also PetTheDog. |
| 155 | ** [[spoiler:He certainly can turn into a huge bat, put people into deep sleep, is invisible to long-range detection magic, and resistant to wounds and heat. By his own words, he can regenerate from most severe wounds, if given enough time. He also can turn invisible and/or teleport (the scene where he uses this power depicts him as simply "vanishing", which is somewhat unclear).]] |
| 156 | * NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler:At the end of the Saga, when Ciri summons the ghosts of old friends, he is nowhere to be seen. Vampires like him can regenerate. The fandom fell to WildMassGuessing and CD Projekt built from it: while his corporeal body was destroyed, another vampire helped him regenerate to appear in ''Blood and Wine''.]] |
| 157 | * NiceGuy: |
| 158 | ** By the time the party meets him, anyway. He's a pacifist and a medic, helping strangers without reservation and willing to [[spoiler:drop his masquerade]] to save lives of people he just met. |
| 159 | ** This continues into [[spoiler:''Blood and Wine'' where Regis is trying to save as many lives as he can with as little bloodshed as possible. Regis also makes sure to prevent Geralt from meeting with the Unseen Elder due to the danger the Elder possesses to his friend. Furthermore, while Regis sees Dettlaff as a dear friend, Regis is absolutely disgusted by Dettlaff's attack on Beauclair due to the amount of lives lost. Lastly, Regis also takes some of Geralt's [[DeadpanSnarker sharper barbs]] in stride and doesn't hold anything against Geralt.]] |
| 160 | * NightmareFace: His GameFace [[spoiler:in ''Blood and Wine'']] is not a pretty sight. |
| 161 | * OurVampiresAreDifferent: There are several kinds of vampires in the Witcher world. [[spoiler:Regis belongs to]] the so-called "high" vampires are fairly unusual even by those standards. Sunlight has no effect, and a stake through the heart stings but won't kill or even significantly injure. Most unusually, this kind doesn't need to drink blood to survive; rather, it's an intoxicant they enjoy. [[spoiler:He treats his abstinence from it like a recovering alcoholic or addict.]] |
| 162 | * OverlyLongName: His name is quite a mouthful, which is why people tend to just call him Regis. As he explains, it is so long in accordance to an old tradition of his people. |
| 163 | * PetTheDog: He [[spoiler:drops TheMasquerade and]] saves an innocent girl from [[BurnTheWitch burning]]. [[spoiler:It conveniently turns out he's not in the slightest harmed by the trial-by-fire the fanatical priest requested.]] |
| 164 | * ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: [[spoiler:About four-and-half hundred, actually.]] |
| 165 | * SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Granted, he's quite aware of it and is playing TheSmartGuy stereotype up for his own reasons. |
| 166 | * ShootTheDog: Very unhappily resigns himself to [[spoiler: personally killing his friend Dettlaff at the end of ''Blood and Wine'', since the guy will not stop until he's killed every living thing in Beauclair and as a Higher Vampire, Regis is the only thing that can permanently destroy him.]] |
| 167 | * TheSmartGuy: He assumes this role in the party quite naturally. On Geralt's part, he and Regis reach a good understanding over the heads of outsiders (including the much younger rest of the hanse). |
| 168 | * SophisticatedAsHell: As much as he is prone to SesquipedalianLoquaciousness, later he grows quite fond of [[JiveTurkey specific expressions]] used by StreetUrchin Angouleme. |
| 169 | * SparedByTheAdaptation: Since the games are separate from book canon [[spoiler: his appearance in ''Blood and Wine'' can be considered this]]. |
| 170 | * UnusualEuphemism: Occasionally delves in it when talking about [[spoiler:blood]]. |
| 171 | * VampireDoctor: Regis introduces himself as a village medic and herbalist when Geralt first meets him, but is eventually revealed to be a [[spoiler: VegetarianVampire. All the herbs he always has with him are mainly there to prevent dogs and other animals from picking up his vampiric scent — although after decades, if not centuries, of practice]] he has also become a legitimately good doctor and he has largley moved past his old temptations. |
| 172 | * WalkingSpoiler: It's hard to talk about Regis in any capacity without bringing up the fact that [[spoiler:he's a vampire]]. It's even harder to talk about him in the games, particularly ''Blood and Wine''. [[spoiler:The fact that he turns up ''alive'' near the beginning is a huge shock to book readers.]] |
| 173 | * WolverineClaws: [[spoiler:Among their powers, higher vampires can extend their nails into very long claws that can rip through human flesh like paper.]] |
| 174 | [[/folder]] |
| 175 | |
| 176 | [[folder:Angouleme]] |
| 177 | !!Angouleme |
| 178 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/angouleme_witcher_gwent.jpg]] |
| 179 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"Isn’t that right, Uncle White Hair?"'']] |
| 180 | |
| 181 | ->'''Appears in:''' ''Literature/TowerOfTheSwallow'' | ''Literature/LadyOfTheLake'' |
| 182 | |
| 183 | -->''"And we went on robber's road. That's how it went for us, sometimes good, sometimes bad, sometimes we dealt it, and sometimes we took it. Sometimes we were tired, sometimes hungry. Ha, hungry more often. I caught and ate more of what creeps and crawls than I ever had in my life. And of what flies – I once even ate a kid’s kite, because it was stuck together with glue made from flour."'' |
| 184 | |
| 185 | A young girl, around Ciri's age, who joins Geralt's party on his request as a part of his deal with local Nilfgaardian authorities to locate and remove a band of highwaymen to which she once belonged. Though Nilfgaardian law is harsh, she is granted parole -- the local governor saw through Geralt and knew better than the witcher himself that he would not leave without her. |
| 186 | ---- |
| 187 | * BastardBastard: PlayedWith. Her noble mother conceived her with a stablehand and when it became a common knowledge, the girl was send to distant relatives. Then she went through all kinds of crap. By the time she joins the hanse, she does nothing but badmouth her "noble origins", but in the same time is past the point where she cared about any of it, simply living her own life. |
| 188 | * DiedInYourArmsTonight: In Ciri's arms, after she bleed out from a wound in her thigh. |
| 189 | * HairOfGold: She does have a heart of gold too, but rather than the standard image described in that trope's entry, she's closer to [[HookerWithAHeartOfGold this one]]. |
| 190 | * ItsAllJunk: She used to have a medallion with her family's coat of arms. Then she simply bet it in cards and lost it, with no ill feelings or sentiment toward it. |
| 191 | * JiveTurkey: Keeps talking in weird slang, presumably the in-universe equivalent of street thug lingo. Part of this involves calling every man 'unca' and every woman 'auntie.' |
| 192 | * PrincessInRags: Not a princess, but somewhat surprisingly, she was a girl of relatively decent upbringing, but ended up on the street during the Nilfgaard invasion of Cintra. |
| 193 | * NaiveNewcomer: Her first gang, along with her. It was just a bunch of war orphans that heard or read too many [[{{Picaresque}} picaresque stories]] and considered trying it was better plan than staying in an OrphanageOfFear. By the time Geralt and co. meet the girl, she still has some of the original panache left in her. |
| 194 | * TheNicknamer: It's usually "unca" or "auntie". Possibly related to her [[JiveTurkey speech patterns]]. |
| 195 | * OrphanageOfFear: After the war started, her custodians faced a choice: keep their three kids and a bastard of a distant relative ''or'' give the girl to a priest-run 'orphanage'. Turns out the orphanage happened to be [[spoiler: a common brothel, only with kids and teens instead of adults]]. Angouleme escaped from there within few days. |
| 196 | * ReplacementGoldfish: It is rather heavily implied that Geralt requested her parole because she reminded him of Ciri. |
| 197 | * SatisfiedStreetRat: She really doesn't mind her ultimate fate, being perfectly content with a lifestyle of a common thug. |
| 198 | * SixthRanger: She only joins around the fourth book of the Saga. |
| 199 | * StreetUrchin: She was in a teenage gang, then joined a bigger adult one. She still has leftover habits, which sometimes irritates the rest of the company. On her part, she doesn't always understand their objections. |
| 200 | * TagalongKid: Most of the party is annoyed by her mere presence, while she follows them mostly because her old gang ceased to exist and Geralt happend to save her skin. |
| 201 | * ThickerThanWater: Played with. As far as the girl is concerned, she couldn't care any less about her biological family, but it's also made clear there was at least some care provided to her solely due to being a distant relative, even if from an illegitimate bed. |
| 202 | [[/folder]] |
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