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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: While he spends most of the 2nd season as a calm and controlled HyperCompetentSidekick and master of {{Realpolitik}}, [[BigBad Emhyr]] status as an OutsideContextProblem actually drives him into a violent private rant to the point that he states that "Nothing he does makes any fucking sense!"
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* AffablyEvil: He might [[TheSpymaster run]] the Redanian Intelligence with ruthless efficiancy, be an incredebly dangerous HyperCompetentSidekick who is pretty much the power behind Redania and very obviosuly is a master at [[{{Realpolitik}} political manipulation]], but he's also a man who very rearly looses his cool and in almost every scene that he's in he is nothing but plesantly polite and cordial.
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* TheManBehindTheMan: And everyone seems to know it. It's ''very'' that when The Northern Kings meet near the end of the 2nd season, when they speak about how dangerous Redania can grow they all refer to Dijkstra the main problem, not Vizimir.
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: While he spends most of the 2nd season as a calm and controlled HyperCompetentSidekick and master of {{Realpolitik}}, [[BigBad Emhyr]] status as an OutsideContextProblem actually drives him into a violent private rant to the point that he states that "Nothing he does makes any fucking sense!"
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* TheSmurfettePrinciple: With Calanthe dead, she's the only woman among the monarchs of the Northern Kingdoms.
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* AdaptationalWimp: Tied to her AgeLift. By the time Nilfgaard starts thier war of conquest in full, she's a proven and tested LadyOfWar and quite TheHighQueen in the Novels. While there is nothing to say that she won't ''develop'' into this in the series as it goes on, by the end of the 2nd season she's too young to be this.
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* AdaptationalWimp: Tied to her AgeLift. By In the original novels, by the time Nilfgaard starts thier war of conquest in full, full she's both a proven and proven, tested and a incredibly skilled LadyOfWar and quite TheHighQueen in the Novels. respected and wise [[TheHighQueen queen]]. While there is nothing to say that she won't ''develop'' into this in the Netflix series as it goes on, by the end of the 2nd season she's too young to be this.
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* BeautyIsBad: Tetra is drawn to be very easy on the eyes (and Creator/LaraPulver voicing her just adds to the sensuousness of it). She is also unrepentantly vindictive.
* BigBadEnsemble: While she is the most visible antagonistic force against the Witchers as seen in ''WesternAnimation/TheWitcherNightmareOfTheWolf'', the entire mess which ended with the Sack of Kaer Morhen was not wholly her fault--as [[spoiler:she would have had no hard basis for conducting it if Deglan and his accomplices were not actively engaging in aMonsterProtectionRacket]]. MonsterProtectionRacket]].
* ItsPersonal: Ultimately, her motivations for her anti-Witcher crusade boils down to this. [[spoiler:While she eventually realizes not all Witchers were in on the MonsterProtectionRacket, her primary concern is to avenge her mother who was assassinated due a Witcher's con. Bring Kaer Morhen to justice or reforming it was never her agenda: she wanted to tear it down]].
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* ItsPersonal: Ultimately, her motivations for her anti-Witcher crusade boils down to this. [[spoiler:While she eventually realizes not all Witchers were in on the MonsterProtectionRacket, her primary concern is to avenge her mother who was assassinated due a Witcher's con. Bring Kaer Morhen to justice or reforming it was never her agenda: she wanted to tear it down]].
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!!Kaedwen
[[folder:The King]]
The ruling monarch of Kaedwen during Vesemir's early years as a witcher, as shown during ''WesternAnimation/TheWitcherNightmareOfTheWolf''.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The little we see of the king of Kaedwen suggests that while he looks suggestible or weak, he is not the kind of person who takes intrigue from favourites lightly or out of hand. For the most part, he has kept the counsel of Lady Zerbst (a very competent noblewoman). [[spoiler:For that matter, even when he signed on to Tetra's purge of the Witchers at Kaer Morhen, he only did so when she gave him enough irrefutable proof of their villainy. Admittedly, having one of the Witchers executed (and the one with the least involvement at that) puts a damper at this.]]
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[[folder:Tetra Gilcrest]]
A sorceress from Aretuza, she leads an anti-Witcher pogrom, coming to blows against Vesemir and the Witchers of Kaer Morhen.
* BigBadEnsemble: While she is the most visible antagonistic force against the Witchers as seen in ''WesternAnimation/TheWitcherNightmareOfTheWolf'', the entire mess which ended with the Sack of Kaer Morhen was not wholly her fault--as [[spoiler:she would have had no hard basis for conducting it if Deglan and his accomplices were not actively engaging in a MonsterProtectionRacket]].
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[[folder:The King]]
The ruling monarch of Kaedwen during Vesemir's early years as a witcher, as shown during ''WesternAnimation/TheWitcherNightmareOfTheWolf''.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The little we see of the king of Kaedwen suggests that while he looks suggestible or weak, he is not the kind of person who takes intrigue from favourites lightly or out of hand. For the most part, he has kept the counsel of Lady Zerbst (a very competent noblewoman). [[spoiler:For that matter, even when he signed on to Tetra's purge of the Witchers at Kaer Morhen, he only did so when she gave him enough irrefutable proof of their villainy. Admittedly, having one of the Witchers executed (and the one with the least involvement at that) puts a damper at this.]]
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[[folder:Tetra Gilcrest]]
A sorceress from Aretuza, she leads an anti-Witcher pogrom, coming to blows against Vesemir and the Witchers of Kaer Morhen.
* BigBadEnsemble: While she is the most visible antagonistic force against the Witchers as seen in ''WesternAnimation/TheWitcherNightmareOfTheWolf'', the entire mess which ended with the Sack of Kaer Morhen was not wholly her fault--as [[spoiler:she would have had no hard basis for conducting it if Deglan and his accomplices were not actively engaging in a MonsterProtectionRacket]].
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* [[LikeFatherUnlikeSon Like Mother, Unlike Daughter]]: While at first glance she comes off as being very similar to her mother (An aloof dark haired young beautiful queen), the fact that she ''has'' standarts to begin with already shows her to be a much better person than her mother, for what is worth.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Dryly points out that [[MacGuffinSuperPerson Ciri]] proved to be much less trouble when everyone believed her to be dead.
* EveryoneHasStandards: She's notably taken aback (even if she does not disagree) when Folest proposes a bounty of Ciri's head and Tissaia adds that said bounty should include anyone who protects her, stating that said action is "quite barbarous, even for me."
* [[LikeFatherUnlikeSon Like Mother, Unlike Daughter]]: While at first glance she comes off as being very similar to her mother (An aloof dark haired young beautiful queen), the fact that she ''has''standarts standards to begin with already shows her to be a much better person than her mother, for what is worth.
* DeadpanSnarker: Dryly points out that [[MacGuffinSuperPerson Ciri]] proved to be much less trouble when everyone believed her to be dead.
* EveryoneHasStandards: She's notably taken aback (even if she does not disagree) when Folest proposes a bounty of Ciri's head and Tissaia adds that said bounty should include anyone who protects her, stating that said action is "quite barbarous, even for me."
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* [[LikeFatherUnlikeSon Like Mother, Unlike Daughter]]: While at first glance she comes off as being very similar to her mother (An aloof dark haired young beautiful queen), the fact that she ''has'' standarts to begin with already shows her to be a much better person than her mother, for what is worth.
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!!Queen Meve Of Lyria
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* WouldHurtAChild: Proving himself to be a distressing {{hypocrite}} considering how much [[PapaWolf he loves his own daughter]], he's the one responsible for proposing a bounty of Ciri's head as in his eyes [[MacGuffinSuperPerson Ciri]] is too dangerous politically to be left alive.
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!The Northern Kingdoms
!!Cintra
[[folder:Queen Calanthe]]
!!Queen Calanthe Fiona Riannon
!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Jodhi May\\
'''Voiced by:''' Christin Marquitan (German), Adriana Casas (Latin American Spanish)
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[[caption-width-right:250:''"There is a simplicity in killing monsters, is there not?"'']]
The Queen of Cintra, a legendary warrior.
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* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: After the fall of Cintra, it becomes apparent that she was a very unpopular ruler, with the common people considering her an intransigent warmonger.
* AbsurdlyYouthfulMother: Even at the end of her life, Calanthe doesn't look nearly old enough to be the grandmother of a teenage girl[[note]]According to the show's [[https://www.witchernetflix.com/en-gb official timeline]], Calanthe was 18-years-old when Pavetta was born and ''34-years-old'' when Ciri was born, meaning she was only 47 when she died. This fits with the life expectancy of medieval people, especially warrior-rulers of conquering nations. For what it's worth, Jodhi May was only 44 during filming[[/note]].
* ActorAllusion:
** This isn't the first time Jodhi May has [[Film/TheLastOfTheMohicans taken a suicidal jump rather than be captured.]]
** In ''Series/GameOfThrones'', she played a witch, in an anti-anything-magical setting, who prophesied to a teen Cersei her own downfall. Cersei tries to ScrewDestiny all her life, grows to become a sharp-tongued queen and is part of Lannister Household, whose banner is a golden lion. Comes ''Series/TheWitcher2019'', where Jodhi plays a sharp-tongued queen who hates magic and anything that has to do with destiny, is nicknamed "The Lioness of Cintra", often wears golden gowns and the banner of her house is a golden lion too.
* AdaptationalBadass: Despite Calanthe's ferocious reputation in the novels (and the fact that Cintra is quite egalitarian when it comes to masculine/feminine roles in war), it was never explicitly stated that she actually led her armies herself in battle or that she was a particularly great swordswoman herself. This significant shift in her disposition (from political towards military brilliance) probably also affects her AdaptationalVillainy.
* AdaptationalVillainy: While Cintra seems to have prospered and remained secure under her rule, her reign also saw the purging of the elves and the subjugation of other southern territories. The establishment of this fact suggests Calanthe's (and by extension, Cintra's) imperialist expansion was known to most of the Continent. Thus, the invasion of Nilfgaard (and, by extension, the fall of her house) comes off less as a tragedy provoked by an ambitious, ascendant empire and more [[KickTheSonOfABitch a competing imperial power swallowing up Cintra]].
* AdaptationDyeJob: Brunette instead of blonde in the show.
* AdultFear: Her violent reaction to [[ParentalMarriageVeto Duny asking to marry Pavetta]] through the Law of Surprise was ''way'' out of proportion, but [[JerkassHasAPoint her husband made that decision without her OR Pavetta's consent.]] It may also be because outside of battle, she and Pavetta are STILL ultimately controlled by men.
* AesopAmnesia: Has chosen to ignore the results of the last time she decided to not honor the Law of Surprise and pays ''dearly'' for it when destiny refused to defend her kingdom from Nilfgaard's invasion.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: The queen of Cintra, and a deadly warrior as well.
* BadassNormal: Lacks the magical powers of her daughter and granddaughter, but still manages to be a LadyOfWar.
* BatmanGambit: When she and Geralt meet for the first time, she tries to hire him. This is because she is fully aware that Duny of Erlenwald would appear to claim Pavetta, and was banking that Geralt would kill Duny because of his monstrous looks. However, her plan backfires, because Geralt easily can tell that Duny was cursed with his bestial appearance and defends him when it turns out that Calanthe tried to circumvent the Law of Surprise.
* BattleCouple: Calanthe and Eist lead the defense of Cintra together.
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: Much like in the novels; while she's dying of her wounds, she throws herself out of a window in the midst of Nilfgaard's RapePillageAndBurn of her kingdom.
* BigNo: Happens two times in Season 1. Once, when Geralt claims the Law of Surprise for saving Duny's life, and once, when her husband, Eist, is killed.
* BirdsOfAFeather: {{Double Subverted|Trope}}. She initially believes she and Geralt are alike, being {{Blood Knight}}s who live for war. However, Geralt isn't those things once you get past his gruff exterior. Their real similarity lies in their [[ScrewDestiny hatred of fate]] controlling their lives.
* BloodKnight: She is shown in multiple instances to be very bored/irritated when she is not in the midst of battle. She even exalts the "simplicity of killing monsters" to Geralt, in contrast to how she is forced to appear more prim and proper as a queen.
* BloodSplatteredWarrior: She didn't bother bathing or changing clothes when she showed up at her daughter's betrothal party, having just squashed a revolt.
* AChildShallLeadThem: Became queen and was leading Cintra's war effort when she was roughly the same age as Ciri.
* CompositeCharacter: She borrows a few elements from Queen Meve who mostly appears in the books, like being a LadyOfWar leading her own armies and wearing golden plate armour.
* DeadpanSnarker: Of the foul-mouthed variety.
-->'''Jaskier, about to sing a ballad:''' She...\\
'''Queen Calanthe:''' No, no, no! A jig! You can save your bloody maudlin nonsense for my funeral.
* FantasyForbiddingMother: ZigZaggedTrope. It's shown that Calanthe is a bit more contemptuous of the Continent's superstitious customs and belief in destiny. The Law of Surprise seems to drive her hatred significantly, especially since it almost always involves her losing those she loves (such as Pavetta and Ciri). Furthermore, she (as her father before her) defied the Brotherhood of Sorcerers' attempt to inveigle a court mage in their kingdom. That said, she is not prejudicial towards magic (employing a druid such as Mousesack as a trusted adviser in her court), and is even aware that her family's bloodline has the potential for magical powers.
* FantasticRacism: Whether deeply-personal or culturally-inculcated, she clearly has little to no sympathy for non-humans. As shown, she has openly called for the death of Duny -- and then there's her primary role in the Great Cleansing of the elves. The only potential non-human she even deigns to interact with is Geralt himself—and only because, as a witcher, he's a fellow BloodKnight like herself.
* FatalFlaw: {{Pride}}. Calanthe's pride and overconfidence in her country's power and its alliance with Skellige make her belief that Nilfgaard wouldn't dare trying to attack Cintra, until Nilfgaard eventually invaded Cintra's borders. She also refused help from the advisers of the Brotherhood of Sorcerers for years, which might have helped her against Nilfgaard and Fringilla's sorcerers if a majority of the Brotherhood hadn't declared Cintra a lost cause.
* FeminineMotherTomboyishDaughter: Inversion. Due to her significant AdaptationalBadass, this becomes more apparent between her and her daughter Princess Pavetta. Whereas Pavetta looks every inch a PrincessClassic, Calanthe carries her LadyOfWar attitudes to violent and boisterous extremes.
* FrontlineGeneral: Whenever Cintra's armies are amassed and charging into battle, Calanthe is always the first in the frontline. She gets mortally wounded, [[DecapitatedArmy which ultimately renders Cintra more vulnerable to Nilfgaard's assault]].
* HeroicBSOD: According to Eist she went through one of these after Pavetta died. She was eventually able to pull herself out of it after several months of waking up screaming during the night.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Called out by Geralt, when she tries to make Geralt leave with someone else's daughter to keep her own granddaughter away from him.
* GutturalGrowler: Has a very deep, raspy voice, only suitable for a BloodKnight queen.
* TheLadette: She arrives late to her daughter's banquet roughed up from battle putting down a fringe town uprising (which involves blood splashes on her face and disheveled hair and armor) and possibly drunk from victorious revelry, and later chafes at having to wear a bodice when she dresses for the occasion. She also quite vocally states her dissatisfaction with courtly duties and prefers to be out battling.
* MamaBear: It's clear she truly loves both her daughter and granddaughter, and she's fiercely protective of them, especially when it comes to Ciri due to the fact she's all she has left of Pavetta. However, she does occasionally take it to KnightTemplarParent levels, such as trying to kill the man Pavetta loves for being cursed and going to a lot of effort to prevent Geralt from taking Ciri. In both cases, this backfires on her; Pavetta unleashes dangerous magic on everyone to protect Duny, which finally persuades her to accept the marriage, while refusing to give Ciri to Geralt causes her to become caught up in Nilfgaard's invasion without his protection.
* MarryForLove: Played with. She insists she agreed to marry Eist to "save [her] kingdom" via the alliance the marriage brought, but she's clearly [[HappilyMarried not unhappy]] about the situation.
* MuggleBornOfMages: Somewhat. It is implied that Cintra's bloodline (especially the women) usually tends to produce Sources, and her mother was one, but she wasn't. She almost thought Pavetta was non-magical as well, until her betrothal showed her powers manifesting. Ciri inherited her mother's magical powers. [[labelnote:From the books...]]The Elder blood runs in both Calanthe's mother's and father's side of the family, so her lack of power is even more noticeable in that context.[[/labelnote]]
* MyBelovedSmother: While not explicitly shown, Ciri's RebelliousPrincess streak leading her to sneak around in commoner's clothes suggests she herself feels limited/stifled by Calanthe's rearing of her. Ciri even emphasizes that it is quite unfair that she's still quite naive about the ways of the world when Calanthe was supposedly already fighting her first battle at that age. Considering Calanthe already lost Pavetta (Ciri's mother), [[AdultFear you can see where she's coming from]].
* NeverASelfMadeWoman: Calanthe defies this very hard. It is even explicitly mentioned that the reason she took so long to remarry was because she would rather not be under the shadow of a husband and enjoy real power herself. She eventually married a man who prefers to let his wife rule, which is exactly what she wanted.
* OlderThanTheyLook: We see Calanthe during the betrothal of her daughter, and then twelve years after when Ciri is already a teenager. She seems to have not aged that much at all, give or take her harder demeanor.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: She outlived her daughter, Pavetta, and spent months grieving. It's for this reason that she sheltered Ciri.
* ParentalSubstitute: Raised her granddaughter, Cirilla, with her husband, Eist, after Ciri's parents tragically died.
* PrideBeforeAFall: If the events of the series are taken chronologically, Calanthe begins the series at the height of her reputation, power, and imperial influence. We eventually see her embarrassed at her daughter's betrothal (though not without some consolation of her own), eventually lose that daughter in an accident, and then finally see her kingdom fall to a competing empire she has dismissed in the beginning.
* RedBaron: [[LadyOfWar The Lioness]] of Cintra.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Upon seeing Eist die, she goes into a screaming frenzy and attacks the Nilfgaardian forces more fiercely. [[RevengeBeforeReason Unfortunately,]] being blinded by rage leaves one open to attacks and she gets mortally injured in the attempt.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: With the viewer seeing Cintra for most of the first season, Calanthe is seen as the central royal character who engages in administration, diplomacy, and combat.
* ScrewDestiny: She tries to circumvent the Law of Surprise, which binds Duny of Erlenwald to her daughter, Pavetta, after the former saved her late husband's life. However, she eventually has to accept that YouCantFightFate and gives her blessing to her daughter's marriage. After her daughter's accidental death, however, she has hardened again and refuses to let Geralt, again by the Law of Surprise, have Ciri and take her to safety. First, she tries to have Geralt killed, then lies to him and tries to make him leave with a fake Ciri, and finally imprisons him, until Nilfgaard arrives.
* TeenPregnancy: According to the timeline, she was 18 when Pavetta was born.
* TemptingFate: Not only her repeatedly ignoring the Law of Surprise, her dismissing Nilfgaard as a pitiful backwater and openly insulting their nobles also comes to bite her hard a dozen years later.
* TraumaCongaLine: She undergoes two significant ones:
** First, the loss of Pavetta (and by extension, her husband Duny) at sea. King Eist notes that while she has emerged from this hardened and more determined, she did spend nights howling in grief.
** Second, and more tragically, her failing to prevent the invasion of Nilfgaard, ending with the fall of Cintra and her DrivenToSuicide.
* YoungConqueror: She won her first battle when she was Ciri's age.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:King Eist]]
!!King Eist Tuirseach
!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Björn Hlynur Haraldsson\\
'''Voiced by:''' Tommy Morgenstern (German), Armando Coria (Latin American Spanish)
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/witcher_eist.png]]
[[caption-width-right:250:''"You kill them, kill me."'']]
Eist is a noble from the isles of Skellige and the second husband of Queen Calanthe, and thus King of Cintra.
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* AesopAmnesia: Lampshaded. In the twelve years between Pavetta's betrothal (in Episode 4) and the invasion of Nilfgaard (in Episode 1), Eist has turned from a man who threw down with half the Cintran army to help Geralt protect Duny and support Destiny, into a man who locks Geralt up when he comes to claim the child Destiny gifted him. The reason for the change? [[PapaWolf He raised Ciri and loves her too much to risk her safety.]]
* AmazonChaser: His wife is a fearsome warrior queen.
* AmbiguousSituation: Despite being nominally 'king' of Cintra, it is never made clear if that is his actual title or if he's just [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_consort#King_consort prince consort]] (with all the [[TruthInTelevision historical subtext the phrase has]]), especially since it was explicitly noted Calanthe remains the 'senior' royal partner in the relationship.
* BattleCouple: Leads the defense of Cintra alongside Calanthe.
* CoolOldGuy: He's very laid-back, affable and capable of throwing down when required.
* DotingGrandparent: He dotes on his step-granddaughter, Cirilla, and has taught her things like how to win at knucklebones. He's also of the opinion that she should be taught about the harsh realities of leading Cintra.
* DirtyOldMan: He flirts with Queen Calanthe in front of his granddaughter, while his wife is swearing her subjects into fealty.
-->'''Eist:''' (''to Calanthe'') Could use with a bit of [[{{Pun}} "feel"]]-ty right now.\\
'''Ciri:''' [[ParentalSexualitySquick Gross.]]
* EveryoneHasStandards: He supports Duny and Geralt in their fight against Calanthe's men when the latter attempts to break the Law of Surprise.
* EyeScream: Dies with an arrow shot through his eye. Note that he [[HelmetsAreHardlyHeroic didn't wear his helmet when it happened]].
* FantasticRacism: His joke about how Calanthe would have killed the elves if she was taken as hostage by Filavandrel instead of Geralt in one of his adventures, shows that he has no problem with the slaughter of the elves.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Remember him honoring the Law of Surprise for Duny? Twelve years later, he refuses to do the same for Geralt, because the child of surprise is the granddaughter that he has helped raise.
* InLoveWithYourCarnage: He is all heart eyes for Calanthe every time she goes "fighting mode activated". He even maneuvers her into accepting his proposal in the middle of a melee.
* ModestRoyalty: Unlike his wife, he has no problem with Ciri going undercover to play games with peasant children.
* PapaWolf: Incredibly protective of Cirilla. He goes as far as to imprison Geralt, when Geralt refuses to give up on Ciri.
* ParentalSubstitute: Raised Ciri together with his wife Calanthe.
* SecondLove: He is this to Calanthe, whose husband has died before the start of the series. Since she is not yet over his death (or more accurately, she'd rather enjoy ruling on her own name first), she initially rejects Eist's proposal. The events of Pavetta's betrothal finally allow her to accept, with the additional benefit of securing the alliance with Skellige.
* UndyingLoyalty: He tells Geralt that he feels this way about Calanthe after watching her pull herself out of her grief over Pavetta's death.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Princess Pavetta]]
!!Princess Pavetta Fiona Elen
!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Gaia Mondadori\\
'''Voiced by:''' Mariana Santiago (Latin American Spanish)
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/witcher_pavetta.png]]
[[caption-width-right:250:''"Destiny intervened, and our hearts collided."'']]
The daughter of Queen Calanthe and the presumed heir to Cintra during the feast for her hand.
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* AgeGapRomance: Duny was old enough to save the life of Pavetta's father before she was even born, meaning there's a considerable age difference between them.
* BusCrash: Drowns off-screen after her child is born when her ship goes down.
* CallingTheOldWomanOut: Verbally chews out her mother for her genocide of the elves and for treating the slaughter of rebellious peasants as a game.
* DeadpanSnarker: In her EstablishingCharacterMoment, Pavetta's first spoken lines were to chew out the mighty Lioness of Cintra.
-->'''Pavetta:''' Perhaps I should have some starving serfs brought into the slaughter, then. Or I could decapitate some elves and have their heads hung about as a lesson to those who would defy me.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: She is a blonde princess who condemns her mother for the slaughter and mistreatment of the common folk and the elves.
* MarryForLove: Calanthe had an ArrangedMarriage lined up for her, but Pavetta wanted to marry Duny, whom she fell in love with not knowing that she was promised to him by the Law of Surprise. Calanthe initially resists, but relents once Pavetta unleashes her powers.
* NiceGirl: She's one of the few nobility to express concern for the lives of the common people, for starters.
* PowerIncontinence: Has strong latent magical power that she accidentally unleashes when she sees Duny almost getting killed. Her daughter inherited her mother's potential.
* PrincessClassic: She's a sweet, noncombatant princess who wants to marry for love, which contrasts with her fiercely independent and pragmatic BloodKnight mother.
* RecessiveSuperGenes: Pavetta's grandmother also had her ability, but it skipped her mother.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: She looks a lot like her daughter Cirilla, including having the exact same hair and eye colour.
* TeenPregnancy: According to [[https://www.witchernetflix.com/en-gb The Witcher timeline]], Pavetta was only 16 years old when she gave birth to Ciri. Given this is a medieval setting, Calanthe's lack of concern over her daughter's age is justified.
* TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening: [[spoiler: Seeing her own mother about to kill her true love in front of her results in a BigNo and a violent vortex of wind upending the whole room and everyone in it, with her and Duny levitating in the middle where the air is eerily calm, with her chanting in Elder the whole time.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Mousesack]]
!!Mousesack
!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Adam Levy\\
'''Voiced by:''' Atsuyoshi Miyazaki (Japanese), Humberto Solórzano (Latin American Spanish)
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/witcher_mousesack.png]]
[[caption-width-right:250:''"You can't outrun destiny just because you're terrified of it."'']]
A druid in the service of the royal house of Tuirseach of Skellige and later of Queen Calanthe. He is also an old acquaintance of Geralt's.
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* BarrierWarrior: When the Nilfgaardians are at the castle gates, Mousesack conjures a {{Deflector Shield|s}} that holds them off for several hours.
* CoolOldGuy: Mousesack is a powerful magician, an honest adviser to his liege lords, and one of the nicest people in the entire series.
* CourtMage: He is the ''de facto'' court mage of Cintra, despite the fact that he is a druid and not a member of the Brotherhood.
* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Despite being very much alive in both the original books and the video games, Mousesack dies early in the series when a doppler assassin hired by Cahir stabs him to death and assumes his form]].
* TheGoodChancellor: Unlike most sorcerers and sorceresses shown in the series, who tend to use their status as royal advisers mainly for their own benefit, Mousesack is genuinely loyal to Cintra and its royal family.
* IChooseToStay: Decided to stay with the Cintran royal family, after witnessing Princess Pavetta's magical potential, in the hope that TrainingTheGiftOfMagic would help with Pavetta's PowerIncontinence. Unfortunately, Pavetta died not too long after giving birth to Ciri.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: A wise, humble and courteous man who takes his duty to serve and protect his country very seriously. This puts him in stark contrast to the court mages of the Brotherhood, who are overwhelmingly shown to be self-centered, ruthless in their pursuit of power, and apathetic to the plights of the common people.
* YouShallNotPass: When the Nilfgaardians storm the royal palace, he stays behind and fends them off as long as he can to buy Ciri time to escape.
[[/folder]]
!!Temeria
[[folder:King Foltest]]
!!King Foltest
!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Shaun Dooley\\
'''Voiced by:''' Dennis Schmidt-Foß (German), Creator/HumbertoVelez (Latin American Spanish)
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/witcher_foltest.png]]
[[caption-width-right:250:''"For all it brightens, love casts long shadows."'']]
The king of Temeria. At first averse to Geralt, he eventually trusts in Triss Merigold's judgment and asks Geralt to lift the curse off of his niece, Adda.
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* AdaptationalUgliness: Foltest is young and fairly handsome in the books, here he is [[AgeLift middle-aged]] and overweight.
* AdiposeRex: He's [[JabbaTableManners introduced pigging out on meat]] after it is established that Temeria is suffering from winter and his subjects are in misery. It's later revealed this isn't exactly due to apathy/lack of concern for his subjects, and more because he's in the middle of depression and a major dilemma.
* BrotherSisterIncest: He was in love with his sister, Adda, whom he got pregnant and whose daughter, also named Adda, would be cursed to become a striga.
* TheCavalryArrivesLate: PlayedWith. He agrees to send troops to support the defenders at Sodden Hill and he actually keeps his word -- but Nilfgaard attacks early, so but his army arrives only after most of the battle is actually over. Yennefer's spell incinerated a significant part of the Nilfgaardian army just as he and his men join the battle. Nonetheless, his arrival basically ruins any chance the decimated Nilfgaard ans still have at taking Sodden, as they were expecting reinforcements around the same time.
* ConfirmedBachelor: The death of his love, his sister Adda, (and the supposed death of their unborn child) devastated him, which is why he never married anyone.
* {{Foil}}: To Geralt--both have a sort-of daughter who they ignore for years. But it's not to late for either of them to turn around and show up for them.
* PapaWolf: Refuses to allow anyone to harm the striga and only backs Geralt when he figures out that he intends to cure her.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: To his credit, he seems to have recovered his senses after the issue with his daughter is dealt with. He is the first to pledge alliance to the sorcerers fighting Nilfgaard at Sodden Hill.
* TreacheryCoverUp: To hide the fact that the monster that haunted the kingdom was his daughter born of incest, who was cursed by his courtier, Ostrit, to become a striga, he declares the deceased Ostrit to be a hero who sacrificed his life to kill the vukodlak. The miners then gather ore to build a statue for Ostrit.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ostrit]]
!!Lord Ostrit
!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Jason Thorpe
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/witcher_ostrit.png]]
[[caption-width-right:250:''"Her memory will not be sullied, not while I'm alive to protect it."'']]
A courtier in the court of Temeria, who has served the Temerian royal family for many years.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: Freely admits to cursing Adda and her daughter. In the short story the episode is based on, it’s left ambiguous if it was him or Foltest and Adda’s mother.
* EvilChancellor: Ostrit is a high-ranking courtier and adviser to King Foltest, but he has also spent the last decade to thoroughly ruin his king and the entire royal family, with no regards for the well-being of the kingdom altogether.
* FalseFriend: He appears to be a loyal subject and friend to his king, but quickly tries to frame Foltest for raping and murdering Adda, when Triss and Geralt confront him with the king's incestuous relationship with his sister. It's then revealed that ''Ostrit'' is to blame for Adda's death and her daughter's curse and that all he sought to do for the last decade was to ruin Foltest.
* GreenEyedMonster: Failing to win Princess Adda's heart (who's already occupied with her brother) turns him into an insidious one.
* IfICantHaveYou: Adda was not in love with Ostrit, preferring [[BrotherSisterIncest someone else socially-unacceptable instead]]... so he cursed her to death, which turned her daughter into a striga.
* KarmicDeath: He's killed by the monster he created.
* NeverMyFault: He wholeheartedly blames Foltest for the curse, completely ignoring that ''he'' cast it on Princess Adda and her unborn child to begin with. Even right before his death, while crying and begging, he tries to tell the striga it was all Foltest's fault.
* RationalizingTheOverkill: He has clearly deluded himself into thinking that whatever happened is ultimately Foltest's fault -- even the fact that Temeria is near civil war because of the troubles the striga is causing. Even worse is the fact that the person he cursed is ultimately the woman he claims to be in love with, and the TragicMonster that came out of it is an innocent child.
* StalkerWithACrush: It's eventually revealed he harbored unrequited feelings for Princess Adda -- to the point that he still sleeps in her abandoned bedroom. [[SpottingTheThread This clues Geralt]] into the fact that he is in fact the guilty party.
* UndignifiedDeath: Tied and bound to Adda's bed as bait, the striga -- who is implied to have realized that Ostrit is the person responsible for her condition -- stalks him first within the shadows [[KickTheSonOfABitch before ripping out his guts]].
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Rare instance of the villain not planning it beforehand: precisely because the reveal of the striga's circumstances would ruin/destabilise Temeria's royalty even more than it already has, Foltest and Triss decided to cast him as [[HeroicSacrifice the hero who gave his life]] to slay the rumoured vukodlak. He's still dead and unable to do more damage, so it's more of an irritation than a serious problem, but it does mean that the witcher's guild never gets to (publicly) restore its reputation in Temeria.
* VillainsWantMercy: Not unreasonably, he sought Geralt's protection and mercy after he is drawn into the fight with the striga as bait. However, because it is already established his actions ruined so many lives (especially the young princess turned into the striga), Geralt leaves him to his UndignifiedDeath.
* WouldHurtAChild: His curse ruined the younger Princess Adda from the womb, turning her into a striga.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Princess Adda]]
!!Princess Adda, daughter of King Foltest
!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Jade Croot
The daughter of King Foltest and his own sister, who was also named Adda. She is believed to have died in the womb alongside her mother, but was actually cursed and turned into a monstrous striga, who plagues Temeria at night.
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* AdaptationalDyeJob: After her curse is lifted in the books, her hair turns white as a side effect. While it is hard to see under the blood and dirt, it appears she is a brunette in the show.
* DeadGuyJunior: Her late mother was also named Adda.
* TheDreaded: As the monster that haunts Temeria, she is feared by its people to the point where they are willing to turn against their own king to get rid of her.
* {{Foil}}: To Yennefer. The show cuts back and forth between scenes in which each of them are transformed--screaming--from their "monstrous", hunch-backed states into normal-looking girls.
* HellIsThatNoise: The striga constantly lets out a hellish shriek, which is heard throughout the entire castle long before she even appears on screen.
* InbredAndEvil: She is the result of an incestous relationship between Foltest and his own sister. Though the incest itself had no part in her curse, she was nonetheless born as a striga, a feral monster until her curse was lifted.
* ItCanThink: There are moments which imply that the striga is by no means a feral, mindless monster of the kind Geralt fights regularly. She not only manages to ambush him and another witcher, both of whom have superhuman awareness of their surroundings, but she also seems to be intelligent enough to understand Ostrit or at least to realize that he is to blame for her curse. She also figures out that Geralt intends to keep her out of her coffin until her curse is lifted and freaks out when he prevents her from entering it.
* LeanAndMean: In her striga form, Adda towers over Geralt, but she is way thinner than him. It does not have a negative impact on her strength, however.
* LightningBruiser: As a striga, Adda is faster and stronger than any human could ever hope to be. She is a match even for a witcher, managing to kill one without him having any chance to fight back, while also coming closer to [[HeroKiller killing]] Geralt than any other opponent he faces in the entire first season of the series.
* MissingMom: The curse that turned her into a striga was actually put upon her mother, killing her before Adda was even born.
* MonstrousHumanoid: Her form as a striga, while still vaguely humanoid, is not the slightest bit human.
* OhCrap: When she realizes that Geralt managed to distract her until the sun is rising, she visibly begins to panic and tries to get back into her coffin. This only increases after the witcher seals her out, leaving her with no chance to get back before her curse is broken.
* TragicMonster: Adda is not actually an evil monster, but a tragically cursed human, who was turned into a striga before she was even born, in a curse that was intended to punish her father. She never had a chance to be anything more than a bloodthirsty beast until Geralt came to lift her curse.
* WildChild: Since she never received any sort of human education as a striga, she turns into a feral, but clearly terrified child, who needs a lot of support to get the same development as other children in her age.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: Her first action as a human is to lie still and appear to be dead or unconscious, so that when Geralt checks up on her, she manages to launch a surprise attack. Her clawing at his carotid as a human slip of a girl comes closer to sealing Geralt's fate from blood loss than any other monster.
[[/folder]]
!!Lyria
[[folder: Queen Kalis]]
!!Queen Kalis
!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Isobel Laidler
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_witcher_kalis.png]]
[[caption-width-right:250:''"People look at you for who you are, not for what you can give them."'']]
The young queen of Lyria and mother of several daughters, whose husband plots to have her killed for failing to bear him a son and heir.
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* AwfulWeddedLife: Kalis's marriage to the King of Lyria is not a happy one. He only cares about [[WantedASonInstead getting a son from her]], while she complains that he cares for his hounds more than he cares for her. This is even before he sends an assassin to kill her for failing to give him a son.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: At first, she has a pleasant conversation with Yennefer and encourages her in her worldview, while also doting on her infant daughter. Under stress, she reveals her true colours, as she becomes more snappy and mean-spirited the more exhausted Yennefer gets, eventually even trying to sacrifice her daughter to save her own life.
* BullyingADragon: Her insulting remarks towards Yennefer as their flight gets more desperate are more than just a little daring, considering Yennefer is the only one capable of giving her even the slightest hope at escaping the assassin. It is implied that her snapping is what eventually drives Yennefer to abandon her.
* ParentalNeglect: Though initially appearing as a doting mother, she actually cares so little for her daughter that she is willing to give her up to the assassin to bargain for her own life.
* UngratefulBastard: Yennefer conjures up several portals for her and Kalis to flee through, to the point of exhausting herself and nearly dying. Nonetheless, the moment she shows any sign of weakness, the queen begins to drop her nice façade and begins to yell at and insult her.
* SlashedThroat: After unsuccessfully pleading for her life, the assassin kills her by telekinetically slashing her throat with a knife.
* TooDumbToLive: Heaping abuse on the one and only person keeping her alive, as an implacable assassin is closing in on her, has [[MistreatmentInducedBetrayal the logical result one would expect]] and the queen is promptly killed.
[[/folder]]
!!Redania
[[folder:King Vizimir]]
!! King Vizimir of Redania
!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Ed Birch\\
The King of the wealthy kingdom of Redania.
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* FantasticRacism: Orders the roundup and execution of all the elves in Redania.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: The other rulers of the Northern Kingdoms are weary of his ambitions and have meetings they don’t invite him to.
* PrinceCharmless: He spends almost every minute he is on-screen bitching and complaining to Dijkstra.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Dijkstra]]
!! Sigismund Dijkstra
!!!'''Portrayed by:''' [[Creator/GrahamMcTavish Graham [=McTavish=]]]\\
The Chief of Redanian Intelligence.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Instead of the portly figure he's known for in the games, here he has a MrFanservice physique.
* HyperCompetentSidekick: Dijkstra is a frighteningly effective operative in the service of an imbecile king. His EstablishingCharacterMoment has him foil an assassination attempt on Vizimir by his closest advisors by dispatching one with a throwing knife and forcing the other to drink the poisoned wine meant for Vizimir.
* TheSpymaster: He runs Redanian Intelligence, and is able to plant spies in places event the mages of the Brotherhood can’t.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Philippa]]
!! Philippa Eilhart
!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Cassie Clare\\
The sorcereress and advisor of King Vizimir.
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* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Can transform into a barn owl at will, and spends most of season 2 that way.
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!The Northern Kingdoms
!!Cintra
[[folder:Queen Calanthe]]
!!Queen Calanthe Fiona Riannon
!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Jodhi May\\
'''Voiced by:''' Christin Marquitan (German), Adriana Casas (Latin American Spanish)
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/witcher_calanthe.png]]
[[caption-width-right:250:''"There is a simplicity in killing monsters, is there not?"'']]
The Queen of Cintra, a legendary warrior.
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* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: After the fall of Cintra, it becomes apparent that she was a very unpopular ruler, with the common people considering her an intransigent warmonger.
* AbsurdlyYouthfulMother: Even at the end of her life, Calanthe doesn't look nearly old enough to be the grandmother of a teenage girl[[note]]According to the show's [[https://www.witchernetflix.com/en-gb official timeline]], Calanthe was 18-years-old when Pavetta was born and ''34-years-old'' when Ciri was born, meaning she was only 47 when she died. This fits with the life expectancy of medieval people, especially warrior-rulers of conquering nations. For what it's worth, Jodhi May was only 44 during filming[[/note]].
* ActorAllusion:
** This isn't the first time Jodhi May has [[Film/TheLastOfTheMohicans taken a suicidal jump rather than be captured.]]
** In ''Series/GameOfThrones'', she played a witch, in an anti-anything-magical setting, who prophesied to a teen Cersei her own downfall. Cersei tries to ScrewDestiny all her life, grows to become a sharp-tongued queen and is part of Lannister Household, whose banner is a golden lion. Comes ''Series/TheWitcher2019'', where Jodhi plays a sharp-tongued queen who hates magic and anything that has to do with destiny, is nicknamed "The Lioness of Cintra", often wears golden gowns and the banner of her house is a golden lion too.
* AdaptationalBadass: Despite Calanthe's ferocious reputation in the novels (and the fact that Cintra is quite egalitarian when it comes to masculine/feminine roles in war), it was never explicitly stated that she actually led her armies herself in battle or that she was a particularly great swordswoman herself. This significant shift in her disposition (from political towards military brilliance) probably also affects her AdaptationalVillainy.
* AdaptationalVillainy: While Cintra seems to have prospered and remained secure under her rule, her reign also saw the purging of the elves and the subjugation of other southern territories. The establishment of this fact suggests Calanthe's (and by extension, Cintra's) imperialist expansion was known to most of the Continent. Thus, the invasion of Nilfgaard (and, by extension, the fall of her house) comes off less as a tragedy provoked by an ambitious, ascendant empire and more [[KickTheSonOfABitch a competing imperial power swallowing up Cintra]].
* AdaptationDyeJob: Brunette instead of blonde in the show.
* AdultFear: Her violent reaction to [[ParentalMarriageVeto Duny asking to marry Pavetta]] through the Law of Surprise was ''way'' out of proportion, but [[JerkassHasAPoint her husband made that decision without her OR Pavetta's consent.]] It may also be because outside of battle, she and Pavetta are STILL ultimately controlled by men.
* AesopAmnesia: Has chosen to ignore the results of the last time she decided to not honor the Law of Surprise and pays ''dearly'' for it when destiny refused to defend her kingdom from Nilfgaard's invasion.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: The queen of Cintra, and a deadly warrior as well.
* BadassNormal: Lacks the magical powers of her daughter and granddaughter, but still manages to be a LadyOfWar.
* BatmanGambit: When she and Geralt meet for the first time, she tries to hire him. This is because she is fully aware that Duny of Erlenwald would appear to claim Pavetta, and was banking that Geralt would kill Duny because of his monstrous looks. However, her plan backfires, because Geralt easily can tell that Duny was cursed with his bestial appearance and defends him when it turns out that Calanthe tried to circumvent the Law of Surprise.
* BattleCouple: Calanthe and Eist lead the defense of Cintra together.
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: Much like in the novels; while she's dying of her wounds, she throws herself out of a window in the midst of Nilfgaard's RapePillageAndBurn of her kingdom.
* BigNo: Happens two times in Season 1. Once, when Geralt claims the Law of Surprise for saving Duny's life, and once, when her husband, Eist, is killed.
* BirdsOfAFeather: {{Double Subverted|Trope}}. She initially believes she and Geralt are alike, being {{Blood Knight}}s who live for war. However, Geralt isn't those things once you get past his gruff exterior. Their real similarity lies in their [[ScrewDestiny hatred of fate]] controlling their lives.
* BloodKnight: She is shown in multiple instances to be very bored/irritated when she is not in the midst of battle. She even exalts the "simplicity of killing monsters" to Geralt, in contrast to how she is forced to appear more prim and proper as a queen.
* BloodSplatteredWarrior: She didn't bother bathing or changing clothes when she showed up at her daughter's betrothal party, having just squashed a revolt.
* AChildShallLeadThem: Became queen and was leading Cintra's war effort when she was roughly the same age as Ciri.
* CompositeCharacter: She borrows a few elements from Queen Meve who mostly appears in the books, like being a LadyOfWar leading her own armies and wearing golden plate armour.
* DeadpanSnarker: Of the foul-mouthed variety.
-->'''Jaskier, about to sing a ballad:''' She...\\
'''Queen Calanthe:''' No, no, no! A jig! You can save your bloody maudlin nonsense for my funeral.
* FantasyForbiddingMother: ZigZaggedTrope. It's shown that Calanthe is a bit more contemptuous of the Continent's superstitious customs and belief in destiny. The Law of Surprise seems to drive her hatred significantly, especially since it almost always involves her losing those she loves (such as Pavetta and Ciri). Furthermore, she (as her father before her) defied the Brotherhood of Sorcerers' attempt to inveigle a court mage in their kingdom. That said, she is not prejudicial towards magic (employing a druid such as Mousesack as a trusted adviser in her court), and is even aware that her family's bloodline has the potential for magical powers.
* FantasticRacism: Whether deeply-personal or culturally-inculcated, she clearly has little to no sympathy for non-humans. As shown, she has openly called for the death of Duny -- and then there's her primary role in the Great Cleansing of the elves. The only potential non-human she even deigns to interact with is Geralt himself—and only because, as a witcher, he's a fellow BloodKnight like herself.
* FatalFlaw: {{Pride}}. Calanthe's pride and overconfidence in her country's power and its alliance with Skellige make her belief that Nilfgaard wouldn't dare trying to attack Cintra, until Nilfgaard eventually invaded Cintra's borders. She also refused help from the advisers of the Brotherhood of Sorcerers for years, which might have helped her against Nilfgaard and Fringilla's sorcerers if a majority of the Brotherhood hadn't declared Cintra a lost cause.
* FeminineMotherTomboyishDaughter: Inversion. Due to her significant AdaptationalBadass, this becomes more apparent between her and her daughter Princess Pavetta. Whereas Pavetta looks every inch a PrincessClassic, Calanthe carries her LadyOfWar attitudes to violent and boisterous extremes.
* FrontlineGeneral: Whenever Cintra's armies are amassed and charging into battle, Calanthe is always the first in the frontline. She gets mortally wounded, [[DecapitatedArmy which ultimately renders Cintra more vulnerable to Nilfgaard's assault]].
* HeroicBSOD: According to Eist she went through one of these after Pavetta died. She was eventually able to pull herself out of it after several months of waking up screaming during the night.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Called out by Geralt, when she tries to make Geralt leave with someone else's daughter to keep her own granddaughter away from him.
* GutturalGrowler: Has a very deep, raspy voice, only suitable for a BloodKnight queen.
* TheLadette: She arrives late to her daughter's banquet roughed up from battle putting down a fringe town uprising (which involves blood splashes on her face and disheveled hair and armor) and possibly drunk from victorious revelry, and later chafes at having to wear a bodice when she dresses for the occasion. She also quite vocally states her dissatisfaction with courtly duties and prefers to be out battling.
* MamaBear: It's clear she truly loves both her daughter and granddaughter, and she's fiercely protective of them, especially when it comes to Ciri due to the fact she's all she has left of Pavetta. However, she does occasionally take it to KnightTemplarParent levels, such as trying to kill the man Pavetta loves for being cursed and going to a lot of effort to prevent Geralt from taking Ciri. In both cases, this backfires on her; Pavetta unleashes dangerous magic on everyone to protect Duny, which finally persuades her to accept the marriage, while refusing to give Ciri to Geralt causes her to become caught up in Nilfgaard's invasion without his protection.
* MarryForLove: Played with. She insists she agreed to marry Eist to "save [her] kingdom" via the alliance the marriage brought, but she's clearly [[HappilyMarried not unhappy]] about the situation.
* MuggleBornOfMages: Somewhat. It is implied that Cintra's bloodline (especially the women) usually tends to produce Sources, and her mother was one, but she wasn't. She almost thought Pavetta was non-magical as well, until her betrothal showed her powers manifesting. Ciri inherited her mother's magical powers. [[labelnote:From the books...]]The Elder blood runs in both Calanthe's mother's and father's side of the family, so her lack of power is even more noticeable in that context.[[/labelnote]]
* MyBelovedSmother: While not explicitly shown, Ciri's RebelliousPrincess streak leading her to sneak around in commoner's clothes suggests she herself feels limited/stifled by Calanthe's rearing of her. Ciri even emphasizes that it is quite unfair that she's still quite naive about the ways of the world when Calanthe was supposedly already fighting her first battle at that age. Considering Calanthe already lost Pavetta (Ciri's mother), [[AdultFear you can see where she's coming from]].
* NeverASelfMadeWoman: Calanthe defies this very hard. It is even explicitly mentioned that the reason she took so long to remarry was because she would rather not be under the shadow of a husband and enjoy real power herself. She eventually married a man who prefers to let his wife rule, which is exactly what she wanted.
* OlderThanTheyLook: We see Calanthe during the betrothal of her daughter, and then twelve years after when Ciri is already a teenager. She seems to have not aged that much at all, give or take her harder demeanor.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: She outlived her daughter, Pavetta, and spent months grieving. It's for this reason that she sheltered Ciri.
* ParentalSubstitute: Raised her granddaughter, Cirilla, with her husband, Eist, after Ciri's parents tragically died.
* PrideBeforeAFall: If the events of the series are taken chronologically, Calanthe begins the series at the height of her reputation, power, and imperial influence. We eventually see her embarrassed at her daughter's betrothal (though not without some consolation of her own), eventually lose that daughter in an accident, and then finally see her kingdom fall to a competing empire she has dismissed in the beginning.
* RedBaron: [[LadyOfWar The Lioness]] of Cintra.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Upon seeing Eist die, she goes into a screaming frenzy and attacks the Nilfgaardian forces more fiercely. [[RevengeBeforeReason Unfortunately,]] being blinded by rage leaves one open to attacks and she gets mortally injured in the attempt.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: With the viewer seeing Cintra for most of the first season, Calanthe is seen as the central royal character who engages in administration, diplomacy, and combat.
* ScrewDestiny: She tries to circumvent the Law of Surprise, which binds Duny of Erlenwald to her daughter, Pavetta, after the former saved her late husband's life. However, she eventually has to accept that YouCantFightFate and gives her blessing to her daughter's marriage. After her daughter's accidental death, however, she has hardened again and refuses to let Geralt, again by the Law of Surprise, have Ciri and take her to safety. First, she tries to have Geralt killed, then lies to him and tries to make him leave with a fake Ciri, and finally imprisons him, until Nilfgaard arrives.
* TeenPregnancy: According to the timeline, she was 18 when Pavetta was born.
* TemptingFate: Not only her repeatedly ignoring the Law of Surprise, her dismissing Nilfgaard as a pitiful backwater and openly insulting their nobles also comes to bite her hard a dozen years later.
* TraumaCongaLine: She undergoes two significant ones:
** First, the loss of Pavetta (and by extension, her husband Duny) at sea. King Eist notes that while she has emerged from this hardened and more determined, she did spend nights howling in grief.
** Second, and more tragically, her failing to prevent the invasion of Nilfgaard, ending with the fall of Cintra and her DrivenToSuicide.
* YoungConqueror: She won her first battle when she was Ciri's age.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:King Eist]]
!!King Eist Tuirseach
!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Björn Hlynur Haraldsson\\
'''Voiced by:''' Tommy Morgenstern (German), Armando Coria (Latin American Spanish)
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/witcher_eist.png]]
[[caption-width-right:250:''"You kill them, kill me."'']]
Eist is a noble from the isles of Skellige and the second husband of Queen Calanthe, and thus King of Cintra.
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* AesopAmnesia: Lampshaded. In the twelve years between Pavetta's betrothal (in Episode 4) and the invasion of Nilfgaard (in Episode 1), Eist has turned from a man who threw down with half the Cintran army to help Geralt protect Duny and support Destiny, into a man who locks Geralt up when he comes to claim the child Destiny gifted him. The reason for the change? [[PapaWolf He raised Ciri and loves her too much to risk her safety.]]
* AmazonChaser: His wife is a fearsome warrior queen.
* AmbiguousSituation: Despite being nominally 'king' of Cintra, it is never made clear if that is his actual title or if he's just [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_consort#King_consort prince consort]] (with all the [[TruthInTelevision historical subtext the phrase has]]), especially since it was explicitly noted Calanthe remains the 'senior' royal partner in the relationship.
* BattleCouple: Leads the defense of Cintra alongside Calanthe.
* CoolOldGuy: He's very laid-back, affable and capable of throwing down when required.
* DotingGrandparent: He dotes on his step-granddaughter, Cirilla, and has taught her things like how to win at knucklebones. He's also of the opinion that she should be taught about the harsh realities of leading Cintra.
* DirtyOldMan: He flirts with Queen Calanthe in front of his granddaughter, while his wife is swearing her subjects into fealty.
-->'''Eist:''' (''to Calanthe'') Could use with a bit of [[{{Pun}} "feel"]]-ty right now.\\
'''Ciri:''' [[ParentalSexualitySquick Gross.]]
* EveryoneHasStandards: He supports Duny and Geralt in their fight against Calanthe's men when the latter attempts to break the Law of Surprise.
* EyeScream: Dies with an arrow shot through his eye. Note that he [[HelmetsAreHardlyHeroic didn't wear his helmet when it happened]].
* FantasticRacism: His joke about how Calanthe would have killed the elves if she was taken as hostage by Filavandrel instead of Geralt in one of his adventures, shows that he has no problem with the slaughter of the elves.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Remember him honoring the Law of Surprise for Duny? Twelve years later, he refuses to do the same for Geralt, because the child of surprise is the granddaughter that he has helped raise.
* InLoveWithYourCarnage: He is all heart eyes for Calanthe every time she goes "fighting mode activated". He even maneuvers her into accepting his proposal in the middle of a melee.
* ModestRoyalty: Unlike his wife, he has no problem with Ciri going undercover to play games with peasant children.
* PapaWolf: Incredibly protective of Cirilla. He goes as far as to imprison Geralt, when Geralt refuses to give up on Ciri.
* ParentalSubstitute: Raised Ciri together with his wife Calanthe.
* SecondLove: He is this to Calanthe, whose husband has died before the start of the series. Since she is not yet over his death (or more accurately, she'd rather enjoy ruling on her own name first), she initially rejects Eist's proposal. The events of Pavetta's betrothal finally allow her to accept, with the additional benefit of securing the alliance with Skellige.
* UndyingLoyalty: He tells Geralt that he feels this way about Calanthe after watching her pull herself out of her grief over Pavetta's death.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Princess Pavetta]]
!!Princess Pavetta Fiona Elen
!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Gaia Mondadori\\
'''Voiced by:''' Mariana Santiago (Latin American Spanish)
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/witcher_pavetta.png]]
[[caption-width-right:250:''"Destiny intervened, and our hearts collided."'']]
The daughter of Queen Calanthe and the presumed heir to Cintra during the feast for her hand.
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* AgeGapRomance: Duny was old enough to save the life of Pavetta's father before she was even born, meaning there's a considerable age difference between them.
* BusCrash: Drowns off-screen after her child is born when her ship goes down.
* CallingTheOldWomanOut: Verbally chews out her mother for her genocide of the elves and for treating the slaughter of rebellious peasants as a game.
* DeadpanSnarker: In her EstablishingCharacterMoment, Pavetta's first spoken lines were to chew out the mighty Lioness of Cintra.
-->'''Pavetta:''' Perhaps I should have some starving serfs brought into the slaughter, then. Or I could decapitate some elves and have their heads hung about as a lesson to those who would defy me.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: She is a blonde princess who condemns her mother for the slaughter and mistreatment of the common folk and the elves.
* MarryForLove: Calanthe had an ArrangedMarriage lined up for her, but Pavetta wanted to marry Duny, whom she fell in love with not knowing that she was promised to him by the Law of Surprise. Calanthe initially resists, but relents once Pavetta unleashes her powers.
* NiceGirl: She's one of the few nobility to express concern for the lives of the common people, for starters.
* PowerIncontinence: Has strong latent magical power that she accidentally unleashes when she sees Duny almost getting killed. Her daughter inherited her mother's potential.
* PrincessClassic: She's a sweet, noncombatant princess who wants to marry for love, which contrasts with her fiercely independent and pragmatic BloodKnight mother.
* RecessiveSuperGenes: Pavetta's grandmother also had her ability, but it skipped her mother.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: She looks a lot like her daughter Cirilla, including having the exact same hair and eye colour.
* TeenPregnancy: According to [[https://www.witchernetflix.com/en-gb The Witcher timeline]], Pavetta was only 16 years old when she gave birth to Ciri. Given this is a medieval setting, Calanthe's lack of concern over her daughter's age is justified.
* TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening: [[spoiler: Seeing her own mother about to kill her true love in front of her results in a BigNo and a violent vortex of wind upending the whole room and everyone in it, with her and Duny levitating in the middle where the air is eerily calm, with her chanting in Elder the whole time.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Mousesack]]
!!Mousesack
!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Adam Levy\\
'''Voiced by:''' Atsuyoshi Miyazaki (Japanese), Humberto Solórzano (Latin American Spanish)
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/witcher_mousesack.png]]
[[caption-width-right:250:''"You can't outrun destiny just because you're terrified of it."'']]
A druid in the service of the royal house of Tuirseach of Skellige and later of Queen Calanthe. He is also an old acquaintance of Geralt's.
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* BarrierWarrior: When the Nilfgaardians are at the castle gates, Mousesack conjures a {{Deflector Shield|s}} that holds them off for several hours.
* CoolOldGuy: Mousesack is a powerful magician, an honest adviser to his liege lords, and one of the nicest people in the entire series.
* CourtMage: He is the ''de facto'' court mage of Cintra, despite the fact that he is a druid and not a member of the Brotherhood.
* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Despite being very much alive in both the original books and the video games, Mousesack dies early in the series when a doppler assassin hired by Cahir stabs him to death and assumes his form]].
* TheGoodChancellor: Unlike most sorcerers and sorceresses shown in the series, who tend to use their status as royal advisers mainly for their own benefit, Mousesack is genuinely loyal to Cintra and its royal family.
* IChooseToStay: Decided to stay with the Cintran royal family, after witnessing Princess Pavetta's magical potential, in the hope that TrainingTheGiftOfMagic would help with Pavetta's PowerIncontinence. Unfortunately, Pavetta died not too long after giving birth to Ciri.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: A wise, humble and courteous man who takes his duty to serve and protect his country very seriously. This puts him in stark contrast to the court mages of the Brotherhood, who are overwhelmingly shown to be self-centered, ruthless in their pursuit of power, and apathetic to the plights of the common people.
* YouShallNotPass: When the Nilfgaardians storm the royal palace, he stays behind and fends them off as long as he can to buy Ciri time to escape.
[[/folder]]
!!Temeria
[[folder:King Foltest]]
!!King Foltest
!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Shaun Dooley\\
'''Voiced by:''' Dennis Schmidt-Foß (German), Creator/HumbertoVelez (Latin American Spanish)
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/witcher_foltest.png]]
[[caption-width-right:250:''"For all it brightens, love casts long shadows."'']]
The king of Temeria. At first averse to Geralt, he eventually trusts in Triss Merigold's judgment and asks Geralt to lift the curse off of his niece, Adda.
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* AdaptationalUgliness: Foltest is young and fairly handsome in the books, here he is [[AgeLift middle-aged]] and overweight.
* AdiposeRex: He's [[JabbaTableManners introduced pigging out on meat]] after it is established that Temeria is suffering from winter and his subjects are in misery. It's later revealed this isn't exactly due to apathy/lack of concern for his subjects, and more because he's in the middle of depression and a major dilemma.
* BrotherSisterIncest: He was in love with his sister, Adda, whom he got pregnant and whose daughter, also named Adda, would be cursed to become a striga.
* TheCavalryArrivesLate: PlayedWith. He agrees to send troops to support the defenders at Sodden Hill and he actually keeps his word -- but Nilfgaard attacks early, so but his army arrives only after most of the battle is actually over. Yennefer's spell incinerated a significant part of the Nilfgaardian army just as he and his men join the battle. Nonetheless, his arrival basically ruins any chance the decimated Nilfgaard ans still have at taking Sodden, as they were expecting reinforcements around the same time.
* ConfirmedBachelor: The death of his love, his sister Adda, (and the supposed death of their unborn child) devastated him, which is why he never married anyone.
* {{Foil}}: To Geralt--both have a sort-of daughter who they ignore for years. But it's not to late for either of them to turn around and show up for them.
* PapaWolf: Refuses to allow anyone to harm the striga and only backs Geralt when he figures out that he intends to cure her.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: To his credit, he seems to have recovered his senses after the issue with his daughter is dealt with. He is the first to pledge alliance to the sorcerers fighting Nilfgaard at Sodden Hill.
* TreacheryCoverUp: To hide the fact that the monster that haunted the kingdom was his daughter born of incest, who was cursed by his courtier, Ostrit, to become a striga, he declares the deceased Ostrit to be a hero who sacrificed his life to kill the vukodlak. The miners then gather ore to build a statue for Ostrit.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ostrit]]
!!Lord Ostrit
!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Jason Thorpe
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/witcher_ostrit.png]]
[[caption-width-right:250:''"Her memory will not be sullied, not while I'm alive to protect it."'']]
A courtier in the court of Temeria, who has served the Temerian royal family for many years.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: Freely admits to cursing Adda and her daughter. In the short story the episode is based on, it’s left ambiguous if it was him or Foltest and Adda’s mother.
* EvilChancellor: Ostrit is a high-ranking courtier and adviser to King Foltest, but he has also spent the last decade to thoroughly ruin his king and the entire royal family, with no regards for the well-being of the kingdom altogether.
* FalseFriend: He appears to be a loyal subject and friend to his king, but quickly tries to frame Foltest for raping and murdering Adda, when Triss and Geralt confront him with the king's incestuous relationship with his sister. It's then revealed that ''Ostrit'' is to blame for Adda's death and her daughter's curse and that all he sought to do for the last decade was to ruin Foltest.
* GreenEyedMonster: Failing to win Princess Adda's heart (who's already occupied with her brother) turns him into an insidious one.
* IfICantHaveYou: Adda was not in love with Ostrit, preferring [[BrotherSisterIncest someone else socially-unacceptable instead]]... so he cursed her to death, which turned her daughter into a striga.
* KarmicDeath: He's killed by the monster he created.
* NeverMyFault: He wholeheartedly blames Foltest for the curse, completely ignoring that ''he'' cast it on Princess Adda and her unborn child to begin with. Even right before his death, while crying and begging, he tries to tell the striga it was all Foltest's fault.
* RationalizingTheOverkill: He has clearly deluded himself into thinking that whatever happened is ultimately Foltest's fault -- even the fact that Temeria is near civil war because of the troubles the striga is causing. Even worse is the fact that the person he cursed is ultimately the woman he claims to be in love with, and the TragicMonster that came out of it is an innocent child.
* StalkerWithACrush: It's eventually revealed he harbored unrequited feelings for Princess Adda -- to the point that he still sleeps in her abandoned bedroom. [[SpottingTheThread This clues Geralt]] into the fact that he is in fact the guilty party.
* UndignifiedDeath: Tied and bound to Adda's bed as bait, the striga -- who is implied to have realized that Ostrit is the person responsible for her condition -- stalks him first within the shadows [[KickTheSonOfABitch before ripping out his guts]].
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Rare instance of the villain not planning it beforehand: precisely because the reveal of the striga's circumstances would ruin/destabilise Temeria's royalty even more than it already has, Foltest and Triss decided to cast him as [[HeroicSacrifice the hero who gave his life]] to slay the rumoured vukodlak. He's still dead and unable to do more damage, so it's more of an irritation than a serious problem, but it does mean that the witcher's guild never gets to (publicly) restore its reputation in Temeria.
* VillainsWantMercy: Not unreasonably, he sought Geralt's protection and mercy after he is drawn into the fight with the striga as bait. However, because it is already established his actions ruined so many lives (especially the young princess turned into the striga), Geralt leaves him to his UndignifiedDeath.
* WouldHurtAChild: His curse ruined the younger Princess Adda from the womb, turning her into a striga.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Princess Adda]]
!!Princess Adda, daughter of King Foltest
!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Jade Croot
The daughter of King Foltest and his own sister, who was also named Adda. She is believed to have died in the womb alongside her mother, but was actually cursed and turned into a monstrous striga, who plagues Temeria at night.
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* AdaptationalDyeJob: After her curse is lifted in the books, her hair turns white as a side effect. While it is hard to see under the blood and dirt, it appears she is a brunette in the show.
* DeadGuyJunior: Her late mother was also named Adda.
* TheDreaded: As the monster that haunts Temeria, she is feared by its people to the point where they are willing to turn against their own king to get rid of her.
* {{Foil}}: To Yennefer. The show cuts back and forth between scenes in which each of them are transformed--screaming--from their "monstrous", hunch-backed states into normal-looking girls.
* HellIsThatNoise: The striga constantly lets out a hellish shriek, which is heard throughout the entire castle long before she even appears on screen.
* InbredAndEvil: She is the result of an incestous relationship between Foltest and his own sister. Though the incest itself had no part in her curse, she was nonetheless born as a striga, a feral monster until her curse was lifted.
* ItCanThink: There are moments which imply that the striga is by no means a feral, mindless monster of the kind Geralt fights regularly. She not only manages to ambush him and another witcher, both of whom have superhuman awareness of their surroundings, but she also seems to be intelligent enough to understand Ostrit or at least to realize that he is to blame for her curse. She also figures out that Geralt intends to keep her out of her coffin until her curse is lifted and freaks out when he prevents her from entering it.
* LeanAndMean: In her striga form, Adda towers over Geralt, but she is way thinner than him. It does not have a negative impact on her strength, however.
* LightningBruiser: As a striga, Adda is faster and stronger than any human could ever hope to be. She is a match even for a witcher, managing to kill one without him having any chance to fight back, while also coming closer to [[HeroKiller killing]] Geralt than any other opponent he faces in the entire first season of the series.
* MissingMom: The curse that turned her into a striga was actually put upon her mother, killing her before Adda was even born.
* MonstrousHumanoid: Her form as a striga, while still vaguely humanoid, is not the slightest bit human.
* OhCrap: When she realizes that Geralt managed to distract her until the sun is rising, she visibly begins to panic and tries to get back into her coffin. This only increases after the witcher seals her out, leaving her with no chance to get back before her curse is broken.
* TragicMonster: Adda is not actually an evil monster, but a tragically cursed human, who was turned into a striga before she was even born, in a curse that was intended to punish her father. She never had a chance to be anything more than a bloodthirsty beast until Geralt came to lift her curse.
* WildChild: Since she never received any sort of human education as a striga, she turns into a feral, but clearly terrified child, who needs a lot of support to get the same development as other children in her age.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: Her first action as a human is to lie still and appear to be dead or unconscious, so that when Geralt checks up on her, she manages to launch a surprise attack. Her clawing at his carotid as a human slip of a girl comes closer to sealing Geralt's fate from blood loss than any other monster.
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!!Lyria
[[folder: Queen Kalis]]
!!Queen Kalis
!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Isobel Laidler
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[[caption-width-right:250:''"People look at you for who you are, not for what you can give them."'']]
The young queen of Lyria and mother of several daughters, whose husband plots to have her killed for failing to bear him a son and heir.
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* AwfulWeddedLife: Kalis's marriage to the King of Lyria is not a happy one. He only cares about [[WantedASonInstead getting a son from her]], while she complains that he cares for his hounds more than he cares for her. This is even before he sends an assassin to kill her for failing to give him a son.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: At first, she has a pleasant conversation with Yennefer and encourages her in her worldview, while also doting on her infant daughter. Under stress, she reveals her true colours, as she becomes more snappy and mean-spirited the more exhausted Yennefer gets, eventually even trying to sacrifice her daughter to save her own life.
* BullyingADragon: Her insulting remarks towards Yennefer as their flight gets more desperate are more than just a little daring, considering Yennefer is the only one capable of giving her even the slightest hope at escaping the assassin. It is implied that her snapping is what eventually drives Yennefer to abandon her.
* ParentalNeglect: Though initially appearing as a doting mother, she actually cares so little for her daughter that she is willing to give her up to the assassin to bargain for her own life.
* UngratefulBastard: Yennefer conjures up several portals for her and Kalis to flee through, to the point of exhausting herself and nearly dying. Nonetheless, the moment she shows any sign of weakness, the queen begins to drop her nice façade and begins to yell at and insult her.
* SlashedThroat: After unsuccessfully pleading for her life, the assassin kills her by telekinetically slashing her throat with a knife.
* TooDumbToLive: Heaping abuse on the one and only person keeping her alive, as an implacable assassin is closing in on her, has [[MistreatmentInducedBetrayal the logical result one would expect]] and the queen is promptly killed.
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!!Redania
[[folder:King Vizimir]]
!! King Vizimir of Redania
!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Ed Birch\\
The King of the wealthy kingdom of Redania.
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* FantasticRacism: Orders the roundup and execution of all the elves in Redania.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: The other rulers of the Northern Kingdoms are weary of his ambitions and have meetings they don’t invite him to.
* PrinceCharmless: He spends almost every minute he is on-screen bitching and complaining to Dijkstra.
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[[folder:Dijkstra]]
!! Sigismund Dijkstra
!!!'''Portrayed by:''' [[Creator/GrahamMcTavish Graham [=McTavish=]]]\\
The Chief of Redanian Intelligence.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Instead of the portly figure he's known for in the games, here he has a MrFanservice physique.
* HyperCompetentSidekick: Dijkstra is a frighteningly effective operative in the service of an imbecile king. His EstablishingCharacterMoment has him foil an assassination attempt on Vizimir by his closest advisors by dispatching one with a throwing knife and forcing the other to drink the poisoned wine meant for Vizimir.
* TheSpymaster: He runs Redanian Intelligence, and is able to plant spies in places event the mages of the Brotherhood can’t.
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[[folder:Philippa]]
!! Philippa Eilhart
!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Cassie Clare\\
The sorcereress and advisor of King Vizimir.
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* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Can transform into a barn owl at will, and spends most of season 2 that way.
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