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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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Royal Family

Duchess Anna Henrietta

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"Impertinence is the one thing I cannot abide."

Appears in: Lady of the Lake | Wild Hunt

Voiced by: MyAnna Buring (English)^{additional VAs}

The ruler of Toussaint and a cousin of Emperor Emhyr var Emreis. In Blood & Wine she hires Geralt to hunt a monster preying on her subjects. She also had an affair with Dandelion in the past.

Action Dress Rip: Does one when heading off to rescue Milton.
Adaptational Heroism: In the books, Anna is depicted as a spoiled Womanchild who throws temper tantrums and treats the world like it's her playground, with strong implication the only reason her duchy exists at all is due to being far, far away from all the trouble, while having unofficial Nilfgaardian backing due to being distant relative to the imperial family. In the games, Anna is shown to be a very active, capable, and benevolent (if somewhat self-centered) ruler. However, it is implied that she has greatly matured over the last several years since she last met Geralt and many of her flaws are still present but less severe.
Awful Wedded Life: Her marriage to Duke Raymund was anything but loving. He was a serial womanizer, threatened to torture her to death when he found out about her affair with Dandelion, and was generally regarded as a vile man, with his death being greeted with celebrations in Toussaint.
Benevolent Boss: 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.
Cain and Abel: The Abel to Sylvia's Cain. 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.
Can't Take Criticism: Doesn't take too well to criticism or contradiction, particularly in public. At one point, Anna in a frustrated rant to Geralt about his perceived lack of progress 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, despite him not even being one of her subjects as a Witcher.
Character Tics: She wrings her hands when she's nervous.
Distaff Counterpart: Arguably a peaceful one to King Foltest. Like Foltest, she lets her emotions guide her but is extremely popular with her subjects and is relatively nice to Geralt.
Ermine Cape Effect: Just about always dressed in the finest, jewel-encrusted silks with an equally impressive crown.
Establishing Character Moment: Upon hearing that a murder is likely going to happen near her palace, she rips off her skirt to run to her horse and take off together with Geralt.
Failed a Spot Check: After 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.
The Farmer and the Viper: In one ending. If Syanna doesn't realize and repent for her actions or give up her revenge goals, no matter what her sister did for her, (trying to forgive her, putting her in a comfortable situation, even barring regular access to people who wish her harm), it won't be enough. She would still die by Sylvia's hands.
Fatal Flaw: 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. 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. She's beloved, but her decision to place her feelings above the law and potentially spare her older sister sparks small revolts in Touissant.
The High Queen: Technically a duchess, as Toussaint is a duchy of Nilfgaard.
Horrible Judge of Character: 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 Beauclair 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. 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.
The Idealist: Living in Toussaint, which is isolated from the wars, is beautiful, and has a very courtly and wine focused culture, has made Anna very naïve about the way the rest of the world works. When first meeting Geralt, she makes a comment about how she wrote a letter to the emperor asking him to end the war since wars are bad and people die in them, and then assumed that he had done so. Finding out that is not the case stuns and infuriates her and she throws the advisor who kept this from her into prison. Anna then declares she will write another letter, certain this one will end the war, much to the clear discomfort of the rest of her court.
- New dialogue in the next-gen update shows that she's none too pleased about Emhyr's latest war of conquest, and believes that his legacy will bring only sorrow to the world.
King Incognito: 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.
A Lighter Shade of Grey: Her Adaptational Heroism notwithstanding, Anna Henrietta has a tally of mood swings, selfish decisions and beheaded subjects enough to make her a God Save Us from the Queen! candidate in a normal fantasy setting. In the Witcherverse, she is easily the most benevolent and humane ruler, at least among those whom Geralt has personally worked for; the fact that the (very distant) first runner-up is Foltest speaks volumes about the setting’s tone and morals.
My Greatest Failure: Anna's greatest regret was not accepting responsibility for a prank on the Nilfgaardian ambassador she played that her sister was blamed and banished for.
Pimped-Out Dress: As befitting the ruler of the land. Her signature dress is made of gold fabric. All others are equally pimped out (except of course for her undercover outfit).
Reasonable Authority Figure: Among the few decent rulers in the world. She's still a stern ruler and brooks no disrespect, but she is extremely fair and cares deeply for her subjects.
Royal Brat: As a child, she was quite the notorious prankster, and even when she grows up, she still often acts childishly petulant in how she throws tantrums over the smallest offenses. By the time Blood and Wine begins, Anna shows signs of maturing a fair amount, though her old bratty habits still surface from time to time.
Royal "We": 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.
Royals Who Actually Do Something: 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.
Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: 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, despite his not even being one of her Toussaint subjects. 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.
Commoner: But it's against the rules...
Anna Henrietta: I am the rules!
Thicker Than Water: While merciless to criminals and traitors, Annarietta is willing to forgive her sister Syanna for orchestrating the murders of four knights and even planning to kill Anna herself, though her restraint is also fueled by guilt for failing to prevent Syanna's exile.
Too Dumb to Live: Embracing your unchained sister right after being warned of her wanting to kill you? Really, Your Illustrious Highness?
Tranquil Fury: If Geralt gets too smart-assed with her at the wrong moment, she goes quiet instead of shouting.
Tsundere: Ever since she had her breakup with Dandelion (which resulted in him nearly getting executed), she's developed this kind of mindset towards him. She still has lingering feelings for the bard, but her bitterness towards his adultery makes her very vocal about wishing to inflict an even more cruel punishment on him. If Dandelion shows up in the bad ending, he and the Duchess are portrayed as having a purely platonic relationship.
Unlimited Wardrobe: Has a surprising number of wardrobe changes for a videogame NPC with at least 8 character models and five variations of her default outfit (Beige, Red, Green, Blue, Black). This is fitting given her character's stature and position as the ruler of a Chivalric state that places a lot of value on "Pomp and Circumstance".
Wide-Eyed Idealist: 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.
Uptown Girl: The romance between her and Dandelion.
Woman Scorned: She and Dandelion had a very serious affair. And she nearly had him executed when he cheated on her.
Wrong Genre Savvy: 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 The Power of Love 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 Bittersweet Ending at best.

Sylvia Anna

Appears in: Wild Hunt

Voiced by: Antonia Bernath (English)^{additional VAs}

Long-lost older sister of Duchess Anna Henrietta.

Action Girl: 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.
All Girls Want Bad Boys: 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. She claims she couldn't love him the way he loved her, because no human could, and that was why she left him.
The Bad Guy Wins: 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.
Because You Were Nice to Me: In the fairy tale land, she takes a liking to Geralt because he's helped her up to that point.
Big Bad: She is the reason for Dettlaff committing the murders and ultimately sacking the city, and she may attempt (or even succeed) to have her own sister killed even after getting imprisoned.
Big Bad Wannabe: While she is the legitimate Big Bad of her own story arc, in the greater scheme of things she is an extremely minor villain despite her attempts to color herself as a monster, and Geralt calling her the real Beast. Even the similar themed Cain and Abel rivalry between the Borsodi brothers is considerably darker (and has no options for both surviving), and as an evildoer she's got nothing not only on most of the game's major baddies, but even on her own ancestors like Ludovic. Even in her own story, she is ultimately outdone by her pawn, Dettlaff, who becomes an even greater threat once Syanna is apprehended and rendered harmless, and either spends the last portion of the game trying to undo the damage she has caused, or just sits in her prison until the end.
Black Sheep: 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.
Cain and Abel: The Cain to Anna Henrietta's Abel. Depending on Geralt's actions, they can reconcile, or Sylvia Anna can murder her sister and die in turn.
Character Tics: She tends to hold a hand behind her back in a very militaristic posture.
Chekhov's Gunman: 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.
Covered with Scars: Barely noticeable because of her outfit, but in her sex scene with Geralt you'll notice that she has several scars across her various body parts, which she most likely got during her days as a bandit.
Dark Action Girl: A skilled swordswoman capable of performing a great number of villainous deeds. And fittingly, she's an Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette dressed in black.
Did You Just Romance Cthulhu?: Given Dettlaff’s true form and scope of power, she pulled out exactly this, coupled with Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?.
Disproportionate Retribution: While Syanna’s list of victims included three knights whose abuse of her involved whipping, humiliating and making her freeze and starve, earning them this fate fair and square… There were also the fourth who disapproved of their cruelty but was in no position to interfere, and her own sister who had nothing to do with all this.
The Dog Bites Back: Her motivation. 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.
The Dreaded: When in the land of fables, everyone there is scared witless of her.
Et Tu, Brute?: Anna's perceived betrayal hurt Sylvia more than anything else and is what drove her to swearing revenge.
Even Evil Has Standards: 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.
Geralt: Conscience gets to you now?
Sylvia: Better late than never, right?
Expy: To Renfri from The Lesser Evil short story. Both were noblewomen who were made into Black Sheep 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.
Faked Kidnapping: She staged her own kidnapping to dupe Dettlaff. He's pissed when he figures out that she used him.
For Want Of A Nail: 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.
Freudian Excuse: Being exiled led her to see the world as a cruel place, with everyone in it to be used as a tool.
Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Geralt can say this to her if he decides the Black Sun and her mistreatment was no excuse for her criminal activities.
Hazy-Feel Turn: The Golden Ending, where Syanna forgives Annarietta, has shades of this. While she seemingly no longer wishes to kill her sister, she gets no real redemption arc, and, knowing her past transgressions, may be very well faking it to manipulate Anna and get away scot-free.
Heel–Face Door-Slam: Some choices can result in Syanna rejecting a chance at redemption and stabbing her sister in the back when Anna Henrietta begs forgiveness.
Humans Are the Real Monsters: What her experiences led to believe. Dettlaff is tame in comparison; he's powerful and dangerous, but straightforward. Geralt says she is the real Beast of Beauclair. Ultimately, while selfish, cruel and arrogant, she’s nowhere as monstrous as most examples of this trope in the Witcherverse.
I Am a Monster: She believes herself to be a twisted one.
Karma Houdini: In the Golden Ending of Blood and Wine, she, who orchestrated all the horror and tragedy of the main quest to gain revenge for her exile, is implied to get off scot free for her crimes since her newly reconciled sister the Duchess refuses to punish her harshly like she would any other criminal. And to make matters worse, any attempt by the player to have Syanna face justice for her crimes results in a Downer Ending for the Duchy family. Of course, that also results in Karma Houdini Warranty for her, so there's that.
Lighter and Softer: To Renfri, whom she is an Expy of. While Renfri tortured animals and gouged out a servant's eye as a child, Syanna's early pranks were mostly harmless (except for one leading to Anna's admirer killing his brother believing Syanna's false prophecy, but even then this wasn't what she specifically wanted him to do). While Renfri has absolutely no qualms about hurting bystanders and resorts to hostage taking without batting an eyelash, Syanna is adamant about Dettlaff murdering only the five people she believes are guilty, and not a single innocent civilian.
Little Red Fighting Hood: 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 Big Bad Wolf, and wears the cloak for the remainder of the adventure.
The Man Behind the Man: She's the person pulling the Beast's strings to commit the bloody murders in Toussaint.
Manipulative Bitch: She manipulated Dettlaff, the owner of Dun Tynne, and her own sister.
Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: 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.
Misplaced Retribution: Sylvia Anna desires to murder her younger sister for the atrocious actions of her parents and the knights who carried out their orders, while Anna Henrietta had nothing to do with them.
Moral Event Horizon: In-Universe, Regis considers her intentions to 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, or have the entire Duchy renounce her existence if she succeeds in assassinating Anna Henrietta.
Nature vs. Nurture: 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. And on the other hand, if Geralt believes that she was acting it all to lash out against her mistreatment, she follows through her original plan completely.
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Syanna calls out Geralt for exposing her ruse before Dettlaff, which ultimately led to the Night of the Long Fangs. Considering how much the game stresses the vampires getting murderous and uncontrollable when enraged, she is at least partially right this wasn’t the witcher’s most wise decision.
Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book: Girls with her curse suffer gruesome nightmares from childhood. She made drawings of them.
Parental Abandonment: Her folks exiled her into the woods and left her for dead.
Parental Substitute: 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.
Pink Is Feminine: She doesn't dress in anything other than black, but in the land of fables, she immediately calls a pink unicorn for her mount.
Princess in Rags: 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.
Pyrrhic Victory: If she decides to go through her original plan of killing Anna. Of course, she does it when Anna was completely vulnerable, which was her goal all along, and got rid of everyone who wronged her, and even Dettlaff, who was played by her, is dead in the process. But she is soon executed by Damien for regicide and dies an ignominious death, with the Duchy ready to Un-person her for good. Geralt even lampshades it if he decides to pay Sylvia his final respects.
Revenge: 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.
Revenge Before Reason: 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. She follows through with the completion of her revenge in one ending, which leads to her total victory, but with a bolt in her throat as a reward.
Sibling Rivalry: It was a fairly normal variant when they were little girls, but after they grew up it got much nastier.
Single Woman Seeks Good Man: 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.
Suicidal Overconfidence: A trait she shares with her sister. Believing she can talk down an Eldritch Abomination with a badly hurt ego is a gross overestimation of her charm, cunning and oratory skills given he doesn’t even need to hear her out to realize she’s lying.
Then Let Me Be Evil: 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.
Tomboy with a Girly Streak: She spent her entire adult life among bandits and mercenaries, wears black almost exclusively, can stand her own in a fight and manipulate people (and higher vampires) like nobody's business, but deep down she still enjoys cute things and pink colour when she's allowed to have a break from her scheming, much to Geralt's surprise. This is part of the ambiguity around the Curse of the Black Sun - if she was the cursed monster the prophecy talks about, she shouldn't have that streak.
Villainesses Want Heroes: She becomes quite attracted to Geralt and attempts to get amorous with him.
Villainous Valor: Say what you may about Syanna, the fact that she was the lover to freaking Dettlaff, and manipulated him into doing her bidding, and was living even with hostile bandits who often want to kill anyone else normally, speaks volumes about her character. This is followed through even in the bad ending; even though Syanna knew she would be a dead woman walking once she assassinates Anna Henrietta in broad daylight, she still chose to follow through her goals.
Walking Spoiler: 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 allude to her prior to this point, which would naturally raise the question of what happened to her.

Court of Toussaint

Commander Damien de la Tour

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Appears in: Wild Hunt

Voiced by: Tom Goodman-Hill (English)^{additional VAs}

The captain of the ducal guard of Toussaint. He was originally in charge of hunting the Beast, till Duchess Anna Henrietta hired Geralt. He is at first reluctant and opposed to working with the Witcher, but soon comes to respect him.

Badass Normal: 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.
Bodyguard Crush: Dandelion speculates in his journal entry that Damien is in love with Anna.
Commander Contrarian: Due to misplaced arrogance and wounded pride, Damien tries his damnedest to belittle, if not outright dismiss, Geralt's expertise and careful analysis throughout the initial stages of the witcher's investigation on the serial murders. This comes to a halt once it finally dawns on the egotistical de la Tour how terribly outmatched he is at handling Toussaint's vampire menace.
Fire-Forged Friends: He and Geralt come to earn each other's respect through working together, first on catching some wine-stealing bandits then during the battle of Beauclair. He will even admit that he was wrong about Geralt being a troublemaker after successfully wiping out the bandits.
Impossible Task: In the ending where Sylvia Anna dies, if Geralt still chooses to kill Detlaff, causing him to be seen as a hero by Toussaint's commonfolk, as he's released from prison Damien pointedly warns him he should enjoy his fame while it lasts, declaring he will not rest until the people see exactly what Geralt's "heroism" cost Anna Henrietta. Considering that in this scenario, Sylvia Anna is widely seen as the true mastermind of Detlaff's rampage, and the fact that Anna Henrietta imprisoning Geralt was seen as a masively unpopular decision, he has his work cut out for him.
Improbable Aiming Skills: Revealed to have this in the bad ending. Even after the shock of Sylvia Anna murdering her own sister throws everyone into panic, he still nails Syanna down immediately with the only vulnerable part of her not covered by the now deceased Duchess, the neck.
Inspector Lestrade: At first, though he improves as he comes to respect Geralt's findings.
Red Herring: At the start of Blood and Wine Damien 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.
Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: He informs Geralt where Anna is keeping Syanna imprisoned despite knowing it could cost him his head in the hopes that Geralt can end the vampiric invasion.
Two-Faced: The right side of his face will become a huge mass of scars from repeated strikes by a vampire's claws that he suffered during the assault on Beauclair.
Undying Loyalty: He is sworn to Anna and will follow all her commands, even if he disagrees with them. Only once will he "betray" her by providing information to Geralt that could save thousands of lives, and Damien struggles greatly with that decision.
Ungrateful Bastard: Just like Anna, he doesn't show an ounce of gratitude towards Geralt for saving Touissant in the ending where only Anna survives, even if you choose to kill Dettlaff. While Anna can be excused due to Syanna having been her sister and her utter inability to recognize that Syanna was evil, Damien has no such excuse.
- Inverted in the bad ending, where Syanna succeeds in killing her sister. Even though Geralt is partially responsible in this case for edging Syanna down the path where she murders Anna Henrietta, Damien holds no ill will towards Geralt, and will ensure his best that the Duchess's orders regarding Geralt is carried to the letter.
Wrong Genre Savvy: He believes he is the heroic knight who will end the threat to Toussaint while Geralt is a useless mercenary. Upon learning that the Beast is a vampire, he scoffs that Geralt is having trouble and proceeds to list a number of ways to kill a vampire. Damien gets a hard dose of reality check once Geralt states that all of those are falsehoods perpetuated by fairy tales and would do nothing but amuse a Higher Vampire.

Vivienne de Tabris

Appears in: Wild Hunt

Voiced by: ??? (English)^{additional VAs}

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.

Cute Monster Girl: Despite considering herself a monstrosity, she still manages to be easy on the eyes as a bird-woman.
Earn Your Happy Ending: If Geralt decides to disobey her wish to not involve Guillaume in her secret, she is completely cured of the curse once Geralt transfers it to him, with Guillaume not even harmfully affected by it, as he mentions he is only feathery in 'that' area. They become the Official Couple soon enough.
Face Death with Dignity: 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.
Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: 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.
I'm a Monster: Her curse 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.
Lady and Knight: 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.
- If he helps her with her curse, however, they eventually become this.
Our Werecreatures Are Different: 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.
Red Herring: 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.
Walking Spoiler: 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.
World's Most Beautiful Woman: Called the most beautiful woman in Toussaint, and with very good reason.
Your Days Are Numbered: 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.

Knights of Toussaint

Ser Reynart de Bois-Fresnes

Sir Reynart de Bois-Fresnes

Appears in: Lady of the Lake

The very first knight-errant of Toussaint Geralt got to know. He saved him and his friends from the Nightingale Gang at Caed Myrkvid.

Big Damn Heroes: He and his knight-companions saved Geralt and his friends from the Nightingale Gang when help was most needed.
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: The dashing, Lawful Stupid knight errant behaviour is but a facade - he's not only a competent fighter, but in private isn't bombastic at all and shows a lot of skills and knowledge unfit for the image of "a beacon of justice and defender of damsels". He still goes along with Toussaint's hat of We Help the Helpless simply because that's local tradition and how Good Feels Good.
Guile Hero: Displays some surprising business acumen when advising Geralt on how to multiply profits from killing the cockatrice in Lady of the Lake. When it is pointed out by Geralt, he laments that having been born a knight he can only be a knight and die a knight, having sired as many knights as possible before, but never do anything else.
Heroic Sacrifice: He died at the Cervantesa pass defending the local guards.
Killed Offscreen: Geralt learns about his death on a way-back from castle Stygga, wanting to visit a friend.
Nice Guy: As befitting for a knight-errant.
You Owe Me: In return for Geralt helping him slay a cockatrice, he helped Geralt getting to Stygga.

Sir Palmerin de Launfal

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Appears in: Lady of the Lake | Wild Hunt

Voiced by: ??? (English)^{additional VAs}

An 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.

All-Loving Hero: He and Milton once stood up for a Succubus.
Berserk Button: Don't insult the Duchess in front of him or Milton.
Bling of War: 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.
The Idealist: Palmerin firmly believe in the chivalric virtues and inherent goodness of men. 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.
Insistent Appellation: Unlike Milton, in regards to the Duchess. While she and Milton call each by their names instead of titles in private, Palmerin finds that familiarity offensive and thus they avoid doing so in his presence.
Interspecies Romance: 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".
Knight Errant: In their own words, they are bound to defend people, no matter what land they are in.
Nice Guy: 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.

Sir Milton de Peyrac-Peyran

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Appears in: Lady of the Lake | Wild Hunt

Voiced by: ??? (English)^{additional VAs}

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.

Accomplice by Inaction: 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 for the Beast of Beauclair's thematic serial killing.
All-Loving Hero: He and Palmerin once stood up for a Succubus.
Berserk Button: Don't insult the Duchess in front of him.
Bling of War: 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.
Dirty Coward: 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. When he came to regret his inaction, it was already too late.
First-Name Basis: Slips and calls the Duchess Anarietta instead of Her Grace in front of Geralt, admitting that they call each other by their first names in private.
The Idealist: Milton firmly believes in the chivalric virtues. He is however far more cynical than Palmerin, likely due to how he and his friends bent and broke those ideals by mistreating Sylvia in her exile.
Kick the Dog: Blood and Wine hints that he might have displayed some uncharacteristic cruelty many years ago. 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.
Knight Errant: In their own words, he and Palmerin are bound to defend people, no matter what land they are in.
My Greatest Failure: He is clearly haunted by his part in the exile of Sylvia and his inaction in the face of the abuses she suffered, with the mere mention of another who took part in it causing him distress and desire to not think about those memories.
Nice Guy: 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.
Token Good Teammate: While he's guilty of not taking action to stop the cruelties meted out on Sylvia, he's the only one of the four knights who isn't blatantly unsympathetic in some way - Count Louis de la Croix was pitiless to anyone who wasn't his friend and so greedy and stingy that it attracted public criticism, Count Vladimir Crespi was a ruthless businessman that drove any real and imagined rivals out of business, including Geralt's future friends Liam and Matilda, and Ramon broke his oath to repeatedly enrich himself with criminal dealings. Milton remained an honest man his whole life, was the only one to take his oath seriously, and clearly regrets his past actions.
We Hardly Knew Ye: 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.
We Used to Be Friends: With Count Louis de la Croix, the third victim of the Beast. He states that their paths diverged years ago, presumably because of how de la Croix whipped Sylvia into unconsciousness during her exile.

Sir Guillaume de Launfal

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Appears in: Wild Hunt

Voiced by: Dino Kelly (English)^{additional VAs}

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.

Act of True Love: His willingness to take the curse and true love for Vivienne is able to break it and transfer it to himself with minimal side effects.
Drowning My Sorrows: If Vivienne leaves Toussaint, he perceives it as rejection and turns to the bottle for solace.
Genre Refugee: In a series in love with it's Low Fantasy Deconstruction, Guillaume plays the Knight in Shining Armor trope so unironically it's amazing.
Honor Before Reason: His desire for honor and glory to impress Vivienne leads him to take on some fights he's ill-suited to face. Twice Geralt and Palmerin have to jump into a fight he started to save him from a monster.
Hopeless Suitor: Vivienne is well aware of Guillaume's affections, but she feels she can't enter any sort of relationship while she's still cursed.
Knight Errant: Like his relative Palmerin.
Knight in Shining Armor: He's woefully inexperienced when it comes to combat, but when 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.
Lady and Knight: Basically what he's trying to pull. It's not really working out for him.
- If he takes Vivienne's curse onto himself they become this some time later.
Nice Guy: Despite his zeal, he's unfailingly polite, and insists on giving Geralt credit for the slaying the monsters Geralt usually rescues him from.
Stalker with a Crush: To Vivienne. He means well, but he is pestering her.
Suicidal Overconfidence: Tackling Golyat alone would likely have killed him if Geralt and company hadn't intervened.

Citizens of Toussaint

Dettlaff van der Eretein

Appears in: Wild Hunt

Voiced by: Andrew Greenough (English)^{additional VAs}

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 lesser vampires. Regis suspects Dettlaff is being drawn into something he wouldn't normally do, and beseeches Geralt for help learning what it is.

Affably Evil: 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. This goes well out the window at the end when you see what Dettlaff is capable of when his pride is wounded.
Ax-Crazy: When he loses his temper, everything around him becomes a target.
Alas, Poor Villain: 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.
Badass Longcoat: He wear a pretty cool-looking frock coat.
Because You Were Nice to Me: 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 and he similarly befriended de la Croix because he allowed him to get his shoes shined ahead of a snobby aristocrat.
Big Bad: Subverted. 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. 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.
Blue-and-Orange Morality: 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. 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.
Blood Oath: 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.
Broken Pedestal: Regis vigorously defends Dettlaff from Geralt's suspicious questions, describing him as a noble spirit who can be counselled to change his ways. 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.
Dark Is Not Evil: 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. Unfortunately, when he loses his temper, he does so spectacularly.
Deader than Dead: 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.
Eldritch Abomination: His One-Winged Angel form is bad enough, being a Giger-esque amalgamation of a xenomorph and a gargoyle. His final and seemingly true form? Much, much worse, as he transforms into a huge structure of flesh and pulsating veins, complete with three hearts and a floating womb spewing out an endless stream of his previous form’s blood clones. For extra Nightmare Fuel, all parts of this monstrosity are labeled as simply ”Dettlaff”. Oh, and it can’t be killed, only weakened to give Regis a window to deliver the final bite. Easily one of the largest, deadliest and most horrendous creatures Geralt ever fought.
Eyeless Face: His One-Winged Angel form has no visible eyes, which just makes him look all the more monstrous.
Fatal Flaw: Wrath and Pride. He is a very proud vampire, and wounding it in anyway makes him go absolutely berserk.
Final Boss: He'll be your last physical challenge in Blood and Wine should you fight him.
Foil: Dettlaff and the Concerned Citizen (Hubert Rejk) are this to each other, even though they never interact or even are mentioned together. Both are vampires carrying out serial murders in accordance with their victims’ sins, delivering a message of divine retribution. However, while Rejk apparently sincerely believes in cleansing Novigrad through his deeds, Dettlaff has no understanding of human society and religion, and largely doesn’t care, being forced into this by his blackmailer who devised the whole “Beast of the Gods” thing. And while Rejk delights in torturing his victims in the most hideous ways, Dettlaff kills them instantly and painlessly before mutilating the bodies. Also Dettlaff is a true higher vampire, while Rejk pretends he’s one despite being a lowly katakan.
Friendly Neighborhood Vampire: 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. 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.
The Heavy: Initially seems like the Big Bad of the expansion, but is really blackmailed into committing the murders by Sylvia. He later however raises an army of vampires by himself and tries to sack the city.
Healing Factor: 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, 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.
Hero of Another Story: Regis relates a tale from three hundred years previous, where Dettlaff tracked down and killed the Brute of Lyria, a fiend terrorising Lyria, Aedirn and Rivia that had killed almost two hundred people. After the monster killed a boy who had shown Dettlaff an unexpected kindness, Dettlaff tracked down and killed the fiend, then left its carcass beside a sleeping hunter so the man could take the credit for killing the Brute (and ensuring Dettlaff's hand in the matter went unnoticed).
Humanoid Abomination: He's a Higher Vampire, the one who resurrected Regis to be exact, so he's this by default. Although when he goes into an Unstoppable Rage against Geralt, his lapse in emotional control causes him to transform into an eyeless, winged monstrosity, and it only gets worse from there.
- His final form, implied to be the closest facsimile we will ever see of a higher vampire's true form, is best described as a "blood dimension" centered around colossal organs.
Karma Houdini: 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.
Lightning Bruiser: He moves frightfully fast on his own, and the Teleport Spam he utilizes in battle only makes him faster. And you do not want to get hit by those claws.
Looks Like Orlok: 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.
Love Makes You Evil: Finding out that Syanna was using him drove him into laying waste to the city.
Moral Event Horizon: The Night of the Long Fangs when Dettlaff sics his lesser vampires on Beauclair, leading to dozens, if not hundreds, of innocent people brutally killed, which goes far beyond Syanna’s original plan to murder only five who wronged her. As the Unseen Elder points out, this is a no larger cause for regret for his kind than deaths of cattle.
Multiarmed And Dangerous: His One-Winged Angel 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.
Named After Somebody Famous: Not particularly famous, but he seems to be named after Marta Dettlaff, senior concept artist at CD Projekt Red, who has also said that he is her favorite character.
Noble Demon: 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. 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
Not Good with Rejection: 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.
Not So Similar: Regis is of the mind that both Geralt and Dettlaff are similar in that they "have noble hearts, yet both are wont to perform ignoble deeds." 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.
One-Man Army: He's a Higher Vampire. It comes with the territory. He kills dozens of humans effortlessly. 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.
One-Winged Angel: 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.
Pet the Dog: 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.
Pre Ass Kicking One Liner: "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.
Psychopathic Man Child: 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.
Red and Black and Evil All Over: Unlike the more undeniably friendly Regis, whose mist form is soft blue-black, Dettlaff turns into a cloud of blood red smoke tinged with black, illustrating his far more sinister nature. Particularly after he goes off the deep end.
Roaring Rampage of Rescue: After he thinks that Sylvia Anna was kidnapped by Roderick's men, he, Geralt and Regis locate his keep and cut a bloody swath of destruction through the keep to get to her.
Suicide by Cop: According to the character entry written by Dandelion, Dettlaff let himself be killed by Regis. Even though Regis would have been able to kill Dettlaff, who was horribly maimed, Dettlaff made it as easy as possible for Regis. After being betrayed by Syanna and then alienating Regis with his bloodlust, Dettlaff had lost the two things that made his unfathomably long life worth living

Sympathetic Murderer: Killing people because 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.
These Hands Have Killed: 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.
This Was His True Form: Reversed. He assumes his human form after death, which has nothing to do with what he really looks like.
True Final Boss: 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 Final Boss of Blood And Wine.
Unstoppable Rage: Dettlaff's greatest flaw is that he cannot 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. 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.
Was It All a Lie?: He wonders if the love Syanna showed him was false the whole time, which contributes no small part to his fury.
Wolverine Claws: He uses his extendible nails to deadly effect, and is capable of parrying Geralt's Whirl attack perfectly with them.

Barnabas-Basil Foulty

Appears in: Wild Hunt

Voiced by: David Annen (English)^{additional VAs}

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.

Affectionate Nickname: Geralt comes to call him B.B. for short.
Alliterative Name: Barnabas-Basil.
Hypercompetent Sidekick: Geralt's the official owner of Corvo Bianco. That said, B.B.'s the one who keeps it running.
The Jeeves: Both in his function and in his attitude. The Journal calls him "The Gentleman's gentleman".
Legacy of Service: His father, grandfather and great aunt were all major-domos before he was.
Lethal Chef: 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.
Nice Guy: He's very polite and welcoming, going so far as to provide food and shelter for Marlene should Geralt dispel the curse that turned her into a wight.
Shout-Out Theme Naming: Basil Foulty -> Basil Fawlty. Note that this Basil is far friendlier than his namesake.

Orianna

Appears in: Wild Hunt

Voiced by: Laura Doddington (English)^{additional VAs}

A patroness of the arts in Beauclair who knows a few things that Geralt needs to track down the Beast.

Alas, Poor Villain: Despite her deeds, the "Night to Remember" trailer paints her final moments in a tragic light, with tears running down her eyes.
An Arm and a Leg: In the "Night to Remember" trailer, she loses an arm while fighting Geralt.
Does This Remind You of Anything?: 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.
Early-Bird Cameo: The redhead dressed in a purple gown pacing in the background of the updated main menu? That's her. That's her singing, too. 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.
Everybody Knew Already: 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.
Friend to All Children: She finances an orphanage, is very protective of her charges, and is loved by them in return thanks to her generosity. Ultimately subverted. She shelters the children because she likes the taste of their blood. Although she also acts more protective of them than one would expect if they were just a blood source.
Full-Frontal Assault: Comes with the territory of being a bruxa, as she strips naked and fights Geralt in the nude in the "Night to Remember" trailer.
Hoist by Her Own Petard: In the "Night to Remember" trailer, Orianna gains the upper hand on Geralt and tries to finish him off by sucking his blood. Unbeknownst to her, Geralt had drank some Black Blood beforehand, which weakens her enough for him to turn the tables.
In the Back: In the "Night to Remember" trailer, Geralt finishes her off with a crossbow bolt to the back while she's weakened from the Black Blood she accidentally ingested.
Lack of Empathy: She really doesn't feel much for the suffering of other people. 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.
Letting Her Hair Down: In the "Night to Remember" trailer, she undoes her hair before fighting Geralt.
"Not So Different" Remark: 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 and are essentially kidnappers who forced them to become witchers against their will.
Pragmatic Villainy: 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 killing them makes her very angry.
Silk Hiding Steel: Puts up a tough fight against Geralt in the "Night to Remember" trailer.
Stripped to the Bone: In the "Night to Remember" trailer, her corpse disintegrates under the morning sun, leaving behind a skeleton.
Walking Spoiler: The fact that she is the bruxa that Geralt faces in the "Night to Remember" trailer is a major spoiler in and of itself.
Would Hurt a Child: 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.

The Unseen Elder

Appears in: Wild Hunt

Voiced by: Peter Marinker (English)^{additional VAs}

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.

All-Powerful Bystander: He is the most powerful and dangerous thing in Toussaint. He could solve the problem the protagonists are dealing with in a flash, or even conquer the whole duchy if he wanted to, but doesn't simply because he has no interest to. Those who know of the Unseen Elder make it a point to steer as clear of him as possible.
Blue-and-Orange Morality: 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 unfortunate consequences.
The Dreaded: Other vampires are terrified of him. Regis explains that calling him "dangerous" is a grave understatement. Meeting him is compared to suicide. All of it ends up being true. He brutalizes and nearly kills Geralt the moment they meet, and actually will kill him if he fucks up the dialogue in the second meeting.
Flash Step: To ludicrous degree, bordering on Offscreen Teleportation.
Godzilla Threshold: 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, Regis makes it clear that the Unseen Elder should only ever be turned to as a last resort.
Hair-Trigger Temper: 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 Non-Standard Game Over.
Hikikomori: Despite his power, he can't bring himself to go outside, because the human world is too uncomfortable for him to bear; it pains him to speak; 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.
Looks Like Orlok: 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.
Monster Lord: Has absolute authority over all vampires of Toussaint. When he calls, they all answer, whether they like it or not.
Orcus on His Throne: Despite his power, he doesn't concern himself with worldly affairs, preferring the peace and quiet of his cave.
Story-Breaker Power: 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.
Super-Speed: Flash Step aside he will kill Geralt before the latter can even react, should he be angered.
Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Works for and against him.
- 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.
- On the other hand, Geralt points out that for all the Elder's overwhelming power, the humans still ultimately hold all the cards. Even if they can't kill him, they could probably destroy his cave and the gate back to his world he is watching over (either via a powerful mage or simply collapsing the caves the Elder calls home) if Dettlaff were to kick off a vampire hunt with his planned atrocities. The Elder realizes that Geralt is right and offers his aid.
Unseen Elder: Why should I care about Dettlaff? Why should I help you?
Geralt: Sooner or later, Dettlaff will bring trouble. Serious trouble.
Unseen Elder: How?
Geralt: As Khagmar brought trouble before. Folk will take [Dettlaff] down eventually. Might need a year or two, or a decade, but they'll find a way. Then they'll go after other vampires, and eventually they'll find you.
Unseen Elder: [scoffs] And I should fear?
Geralt: Death? No. But that'll be the end of your peace, your quiet. Knights errant, mages- they'll come here day in, day out. One already managed to teleport here. Others will follow-you can be sure. You'll kill them, of course. So they'll flood these caves, or bring in sappers from Mahakam and collapse them.
Unseen Elder: No...This place must be secure. The gate-!
Time Dissonance: He holds out hope that the gateway to his homeworld will open in a few centuries, which he describes as "soon".
Vampire Monarch: One of the several Elders, who hold dominion over all vampires in their respective corners of the world.
You Can't Go Home Again: According to 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.

Marlene de Trastamara

Appears in: Wild Hunt

Voiced by: ??? (English)^{additional VAs}

A baron's daughter who lives in the Trastamara Hunting Cottage who was cursed (implied to be by Gaunter O'Dimm) to gradually and eventually turn into a spotted wight. Her family, distraught over her transformation, left the cursed estate for Kovir, leaving her behind.

Disproportionate Retribution: Was cursed to be a spotted wight because she refused to feed a random beggar.
Exact Words: Her curse specifies that no one will eat with her, no spoon will satisfy her, and no mirror will show her reflection. Gerald breaks it by willingly being her guest, drinking her brew straight from the bowl (so no spoon), and having her see her reflection in the bottom of the bowl.
Forced Transformation: Was cursed (implied to be by Gaunter O'Dimm) to gradually and eventually turned her into a spotted wight.
Last of His Kind: Possibly, she's the first spotted wight Geralt ever heard after witchers supposedly drove them to extinction.
Rich Bitch: Formerly, she was the daughter of a baron and lose to throw lavish parties. One day, during one such party, a certain individual claiming to be a beggar, heavily implied to be Gaunter O'Dimm, knocked on the door of her residence, with a bowl and spoon in hand, asking for food. Not only she refused to give any food, she also said to the beggar that she'd rather feed the leftovers to the dogs than to feed him.
Supreme Chef: She loves cooking, and while she had chefs to cook for her she was the one actually devised the dishes, they only prepare them as instructed, and Geralt can let her stay in his house and cook for him, basically hiring her as his personal chef.

Characters / The Witcher - Duchy of Toussaint

Royal Family

Duchess Anna Henrietta

Sylvia Anna

Court of Toussaint

Commander Damien de la Tour

Vivienne de Tabris

Knights of Toussaint

Sir Reynart de Bois-Fresnes

Sir Palmerin de Launfal

Sir Milton de Peyrac-Peyran

Sir Guillaume de Launfal

Citizens of Toussaint

Dettlaff van der Eretein

Barnabas-Basil Foulty

Orianna

The Unseen Elder

Marlene de Trastamara

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Royal Family

Duchess Anna Henrietta

Sylvia Anna

Court of Toussaint

Commander Damien de la Tour

Vivienne de Tabris

Knights of Toussaint

Sir Reynart de Bois-Fresnes

Sir Palmerin de Launfal

Sir Milton de Peyrac-Peyran

Sir Guillaume de Launfal

Citizens of Toussaint

Dettlaff van der Eretein

Barnabas-Basil Foulty

Orianna

The Unseen Elder

Marlene de Trastamara

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