Cursed Ones
Archspores
Demons
The Black Cat and Dog
- Animalistic Abomination: They look like their animal namesakes, save for the Glowing Eyes of Doom and the fact that they can talk, but are instead magical beings bound in animal shapes, their thought processes and desires completely alien to humans.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: They were intended to be companions for Iris specifically because Olgierd was no longer capable of loving her, but they couldn't love her either - it was not within their natures.
- Familiar: They are bound to Iris von Everec as her companions. Her being a ghost doesn't release them from their duty.
Draconids
Basilisks
Basilisks
Cockatrice
Dracolizards
Dracolizard / Slyzard
Dragons
Dragons
Ocvist
Forktails
Wyverns
Wyverns
Elementa
Djinn
Earth Elementals
Fire Elementals
Gargoyles
Golems
Ice Elementals
Hybrids
Griffins
Sirens
Other Hybrids
Harpies / Shishigas
Manticore
Insectoids
Arachas
Necrophages
Foglets
Other Necrophages
Ogroids
Giants
Nekkers
Hagubman
A nekker warrior leading a tribe of Nekkers on the island of Hindarsfjall in Skellige. His attacks on the villages of the island have resulted in a large bounty being set on his head.
- The Dreaded: The inhabitants of Larvik are terrified of him, having no clue what is ambushing their people and literally ripping their warriors in half.
- Flunky Boss: When his health reaches certain points, Hagubman will burrow underground and a wave of Nekkers will appear to fight Geralt.
- King Mook: He is large even for a nekker warrior.
- The Strategist: For a nekker he has a inexplicable grasp of tactics. He uses a wheelbarrow in the road to ambush a group of warriors hunting his tribe, and has found a cave to operative from that is filled with poisonous gas that nekkers are immune to but serves as an effective defense against intruders.
Other Ogroids
Relicts
Chorts
Chorts
Fiends
Leshen
Shaelmaars
Spriggans
Sylvans
Spirits
Wraiths
Noonwraiths
Ghosts of women who were set to marry but died before their bethrothal could occur.
The White Lady / Luzi
A noonwraith which haunts the fields south of Novigrad. Geralt discovered she was the wraith of Luzi, a girl who lived in the village outside of Novigrad's walls who committed suicide with a silver dagger given to her as a wedding gift.
- Arranged Marriage: Her parents set up a marriage between her and a wealthy old man who lived inside Novigrad's walls.
- Driven to Suicide: Rather than marry an old man, Luzi fled the alter and slit her wrists in the fields.
- Haunted Fetter: The sliver dagger she used to commit suicide. Geralt burns it in order to draw the White Lady out.
Other Spirits
Barghest
Vampires
Sarasti
A ekimmara that was sleeping in an elven ruin beneath the village of Bywater in Velen before being awoken by the villagers. After it slaughtered a patrol of Nilfgaardian soldiers, Geralt was hired to investigate and kill the creature.
- King Mook:
- Sealed Evil in a Can: It was asleep in buried elven ruins underneath Bywater for centuries before the villages Dug Too Deep and woke it up.
The Bruxa of Corva Blanco
A oddly intelligent Bruxa encountered by Geralt early on during his investigation into the Beast of Beauclair.
- No Name Given: Geralt never learns her name, even after Detlaff reveals that she was a friend of his.
- Revealing Cover-Up: Her attempts to get rid of evidence about the Beast of Beauclair leads Geralt to realize he is dealing with a vampire.
- Villainous Friendship: She is a friend of Detlaff's, and he is not happy that Geralt killed her for aiding him, although he knows it was self-defense.
Dol Blathanna
Filavandrel aén Fidháil of the Silver Tower
Sir Arthur Tailles of Dorndal
A knight of the Order of the White Rose in his youth, Tailles was left with a scar upon his face during a confrontation with Geralt. The two would meet again years later, with the knight continuing to bear a grudge against the Witcher and now serving the Order of the Flaming Rose.
- Bald of Evil
- Butt-Monkey: Every time he encounters Geralt he ends up embarrassed or wounded by the Witcher. Their final encounter in Blood and Wine has Geralt note this, suggesting that Tailles not try a fourth time.
- Dueling Scar: He was left with a nasty one during his first fight with Geralt after challenging him to a duel the Witcher had to accept or be hanged, with the additional rule that Geralt could not touch Arthur with his sword or be subjected to a painful death. Thus, Geralt had to force Arthur's own blade into the knight's face, leaving him with the scar.
- Fantastic Racism: Despises Witchers, calling them mutants and freaks.
- The Fundamentalist
- Jerkass
- Revenge: Swears that he will kill Geralt to avenge all the "wrongs" that the Witcher has done to him.
- Surprisingly Sudden Death: During the Night of the Long Fangs, a Bruxa ambushes him within the palace and kills him instantly to the horror of everyone nearby.
Count Roderick de Wett
A Nilfgaardian noble who joined the Order of the Flaming Rose and became an advisor to King Foltest. His time at Foltest's court led him into becoming close with Princess Adda.
Princess Pavetta Fiona Elen
Lady Eithné
Aglaïs
Braenn
Shevlov's Free Company
King Niedamir
The ruler of Caingorn and founder of the Hengfors League.
King Esterad Thyssen
King of Kovir. He restored the Thyssen dynasty to the throne of Kovir after his father, King Baldwin, was overthrown by Idi. After years in exile and the death of his father, Esterad seized power during an event known as the Night of Knives and Torches which resulted in the death of Idi, his family, and other individuals who had aided in the downfall of the Thyssen dynasty. As king, Esterad maintained Kovir's neutrality during the Northern Wars, although he gave covert assistance to the other Northern Kingdoms.
- The Exile: Spent most of his youth as an exile in Talgar.
- The Good King
- Happily Married: To Queen Zuleyka, a noblewoman from Talgar whom he met during his exile. They shared a bedchamber unlike most royal couples in the series, and Esterad was said to have never been unfaithful to her.
- Heroic Sacrifice: When three assassins came for him, Esterad prioritized keeping Zuleyka safe instead of taking care to stay alive until help arrived. He ended up fatally wounded but Zuleyka was completely unharmed.
- Spotting the Thread: Upon seeing the portrait of the fake Ciri that Emhyr married, he instantly spotted several clear signs she was an imposter. He kept that knowledge to himself to discuss with Zuleyka to determine how best to utilize it, but was slain by assassins not long afterwards.
King Tankred Thyssen
The only son of King Esterad and Queen Zuleyka. He ascended to the throne of Kovir following his father's assassination and continued Kovir's policy of neutrality during the Third Nilfgaard War.
- Alliterative Name
- The Ghost: He never appears in any of the stories or games but is mentioned several times.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: During the third Northern War Tankred opposed the witch hunts carried out by Radovid and offered Kovir as a sanctuary to any fleeing mages, alchemists, herbalists, and others affected by the hunt. He worked closely with Tris Merigold to arrange covert rescue and extraction of those individuals from Novigrad.
Prince Anséis of Lyria and Rivia
Hen Gedymdeith / Gerhart of Aelle
Vissena
Felicia Cori
A student at the sorceress academy of Aretuza. As part of her education Cori became an apprentice of Phillipa Eilhart and accompanied her to Vergan and Loc Muine just before the outbreak of the Third Northern War.
- The Apprentice: Every sorceress student must intern under a experienced sorceress in order to graduate Aretuza. Cori was assigned to Phillipa and was assigned to create and sell magical items for her.
- Back for the Dead: Appears very briefly in Wild Hunt when Geralt arrives just in time to helplessly watch her be burned at the stake.
- Burn the Witch!: Becomes the victim of the witch hunters in Novigrad, with Caleb Menge burning her alive in the city's market square.
- Too Good for This Sinful Earth: She is a sweet, nice sorceress in training who participated in no power-craving plots. Naturally, she ends up dead.
Sigo Buntz
A mage living in Port Vanis in the kingdom of Kovir. After purchasing the tower of a deceased fellow sorcerer, Sigo inadvertently trigged its security system, trapping him inside and teleporting the tower to the island of An Skellig.
Fercart
Grandmaster Ortolan
- Absent-Minded Professor: He is the ancient and renowned leader of a wizarding research complex is and utterly out-of-touch with reality.
- Affably Evil: He wants to remove Geralt's eyes due to needing a sample of a Witcher's eyeball cells for his transhuman research, and it has to be gathered from a live specimen. However, he is perfectly willing to let Geralt go after that, and even offers to help Geralt regenerate his eyes in a two or three years, when he hopefully perfects the procedure.
- For Science!: Although he is a reasonably kind and nice man, especially for a wizard, his morality holds a very distant second place after his magical research. Add to this his general "for the greater good" attitude, and some of the results can be rather unpleasant. Ortolan angrily berates Geralt for killing some of the monsters created by their research team and their predecessors, accusing the witcher of disrespect towards science and knowledge. The fact that these "masterpieces" were killing people by the dozen flies over his head completely.
Sorel Albert Amador Degerlund
- Faux Affably Evil: While at first he seems quite casual about the whole Ortolan's plan to take Geralt's eyes, but almost immediately starts gloating that his hench-ogres will catch blind Geralt afterwards, and that Sorel will vivisect him mostly just For the Evulz.
Future Sorcerers
Nimue verch Wledyr ap Gwyn
Condwiramurs Tilly
Brouver Hoog
The Elder of Mahakan, Brouver Hoog served as the elected leader of the Dwarven clans who ruled the city of Mahakam. He was conservative in his policies and forbid young dwarfs from joining the Scoia'teal to wage war against humanity.
Colonel Barclay Els
Nilfgaardian Mages
Adalbert
A mage assigned to the Loc Muinne delegation to investigate rumors that the mage Dearhenna once had a secret laboratory beneath the ruined city.
Albrich
Nilfgaardian Military
Field Marshal Menno Coehoorn
One of Nilfgaard's greatest military officer, Emperor Emhyr appointed Coehoorn as Governor of Cintra following the First Northern War. When the Second Northern War began, Coehoorn commanded the Center Army Group.
Nilfgaardian Nobility
Seneschal Ceallach Dyffryn aep Gruffyd
Lord of Darn Dyffra. He and his wife Mawr had six children: Aillil, Cahir, Dheran, and three daughters.
Ambassador Henry var Attre
The Nilfgaardian ambassador to the Free City of Novigrad. During the Third Northern War, he attempts to coerce the city into siding with Nilfgaard against Radovid. His daughters live on his estate in Novigrad.
- Everyone Has Standards: Despite serving Nilfgaard, which has committed numerous war crimes, var Attre seems quite disgusted by the Church of the Eternal Fire's persecution of non-humans and mages as scapegoats for starting the war.
- Mr. Exposition: Fills Geralt in on the state of the war between Nilfgaard and the North after the Witcher's audience with Emperor Emhyr, and is remarkably honest about it with Geralt, dispensing with the typical Nilfgaardian propaganda.
- Worthy Opponent: Is quite open about his admiration for Radovid, noting that his conquest of the weakened Kaedwen changed the war from Nilfgaard against two weak enemies to one strong one.
Sweers
Toussaint
Baron Amadis de Trastamara
Ofir
Royal Family
King Vizimir II the Just
King of Redania. He was married to Princess Hedwig of Malleore and had three children: Radovid, Dalimira, and Milena.
- Killed Offscreen: He was assassinated by an elf, whose employer was unknown.
Redanian Intelligence
Ori Reuven
- Number Two
- Undying Loyalty: To Dijkstra.
Redanian Military
Oxenfort
Professor Premethine Shakeslock
An expert in black magic who teaches at the Oxenfurt Academy. Due to his knowledge he is imprisoned by the witch hunters in his house, although that is far from the worse form of imprisonment he is suffering.
- Death From Falling Over
- Go Mad from the Revelation: He lost both his sight and his sanity from his research into Gaunter O'Dimm, and especially after he met the man.
- Yank the Dog's Chain
Other Redanians
Casimir Bassi
A dwarf living in the village of Alness. His years working in the mines of Mahakam made him an expert in explosives, leading Geralt to seek him out as a candidate for his heist of the Borsodi Auction House.
- Demolitions Expert
- Driven to Suicide: Geralt finds Casimir about to blow himself up after his discovering his wife was cheating on him and she left. If Geralt can't talk him down, he goes through with it in a massive explosion.
Quinto
One of the best safecrackers north of the Yaruga. He is a potential candidate Geralt can recruit for his heist of the Borsodis' Auction House.
Coinneach Dá Reo
Clan Brokvar
Hjort
A elderly druid who serves as an advisor to Jarl Udalryk.
- Arbitrary Skepticism: Despite having helped deal with the Hym and having experience with other magical events, Hjort is at first skeptical of the idea that a drink spiked with blood and mardroeme may have triggered the transformation of berserkers present at the Kaer Trolde feast, dismissing it as an old legend.
- Cool Old Guy
- Dreaming of Things to Come: Has experience with oneiromancy and is highly respected for having predicted future events from rather obtuse dreams.
- The Good Chancellor: He does his best to help Udalryk's deteriorating mental state while desperately searching for a cause behind his madness, as he is not convinced that the gods are truly speaking to the Jarl.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Hjort is always ready to assist Geralt and Cerys in their interactions. He even aides Cerys in her plan to rid Udalryk of the Hym through Geralt faking the murder of baby Aki, putting his life at risk to do so.
Clan Dimun
Jutta an Dimun
A young shieldmaiden of Clan Dimun who is undefeated in combat. Geralt can challenge her while visiting the island of Faroe.
Clan Haymaey
Otrygg an Hindar
The grandson of Jarl Donar and youngest contender to become King of Skellige.
- Big Eater
- Real Men Love Jesus: He is quite pious like his grandfather.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Barely has any screentime before being killed in the Massacre at Kaer Trolde.
Clan Tuirsech
Jarl Eist Tuirseach
Folan, Son of Ulf
A skilled archer and sailor of Clan Tuirseach. Folan is a friend of Hjalmar and Cerys an Craite, and was one of the warriors who Hjalmar recruited to slay the ice giant Myhyff to prove himself worth of being king.
- Jumped at the Call
- Ship Tease
- True Companions: With Hjalmar and Vigi the Loon.
Clan Tordarroch
Jarl Harald Tordarroch
The leader of Clan Tordarroch, Harold was thought dead when the ice giant Myhyff massacred most of Undvik's population. He survived, although his mind was damaged by the death of his friends and people.
- Driven to Suicide: The boat he is working on is meant to serve as a vessel for a Viking Funeral for himself and the remains of his men that are onboard.
- Sanity Slippage
- Sole Survivor: He is the only inhabitant of Undvik who did not flee or die when Myhyff attacked.
- Younger Than He Looks: The image to the right is what he used to look like. Now, his hair has gone completely grey and he looks at least a few decades older.
Temple of Freya
Royal Court
Temerian Nobility
Count Daniel Etcheverry
Baron Aryan La Valette
The oldest trueborn child of Baroness Maria Louisa La Valette. Aryan defends the La Valette's castle from King Foltest's siege during the rebellion over Aryan's half-siblings Anaïs and Boussy.
Anaïs La Valette
The eldest of Maria and Foltest's bastard children.
- Break the Cutie: Implied to happen to Anaïs over the course of the second game. First, she sees her father get murdered before her eyes. Sometime later, her brother is (possibly) killed and she gets kidnapped by Dethmold. She ends the story wanting Roche to take away her toys and teach her how to fight.
- Living Macguffin: As Foltest's only possible living heir, multiple people fight over having custody of her, which would be the key to ruling what is left of Temeria.
Velen
Sergeant Ardal
The right-hand man of the Bloody Baron and local fist-fighting champion of Velen.
- Dangerous Deserter: He served alongside the Baron and deserted with him when their unit was smashed in the opening battles of the war by Nilfgaard. Ardal is also far more dangerous as a deserter than the Baron is, lacking any of the standards of his commander.
- Jerkass
- Karma Houdini: It is sadly impossible for him to face justice for his crimes.
- Number Two: Serves as the Baron's second-in-command and takes care of most of the day-to-day operations of the soldiers, with the Baron being preoccupied with the search for his wife and daughter.
- Tyrant Takes the Helm: After the Blood Baron either leaves to find a cure for Anna's condition or commits suicide, Ardal takes control of Crow's Perch and the Baron's remaining forces and begins an even worse reign of terror, doing away with the Baron's rules against rape and murdering with impunity.
Gors Velen
Molnar Giancardi
Iola the Second
School of the Bear
School of the Cat
Aiden
A friend of Lambert's who was murdered by assassins while attempting to lift a curse off a duke's daughter.
- Posthumous Character: Died before the events of Wild Hunt, with Lambert seeking to avenge his death.
- Token Good Teammate: According to Lambert, Aiden was not like the rest of the School of the Cat's witchers, most of whom became assassins for hire.
School of the Griffin
Jerome Moreau
While in Toussaint, Jerome was pursued by his father, a scientist who sought to reverse the mutations that watchers underwent in order to get his son back.
School of the Manticore
School of the Viper
Auckes
- Those Two Guys: With Serrit. The two of them work as a team during the Kingslayer conspiracy.
Renfri
Crinfrid Reavers
Mercenaries and dragon hunters, the Crinfrid Reavers have encountered Geralt several times throughout his life.
Deidre Ademyne
- Composite Character: She combines elements of Ciri (being a Witcher's surprise child who is bound to him by destiny) and Renfri (a nobleman's daughter who is said to be afflicted with the Curse of the Black Sun who has relatives and a mage trying to kill her).
