History Literature / BloodOfElves

* AnimalWrongsGroup: The aformentioned biologist also dislikes the idea of killing rare animals (including rare animals that routinely eat people), which is pretty much a witcher's trade.

* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Ciri gets a diet of mushrooms and special leaves by the Witchers which don't give her super-strength but make her insanely strong and fast for a teenager. This, combined with her TrainingFromHell, makes her ridiculously skilled even as a child.

* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Ciri gets a diet of mushrooms and special leaves by the Witchers which don't give her super-strength but make her insanely strong and fast for a teenager.

* AudienceReactions: Much of the first chapter is dealing with the various perspectives on Dandelion's ballad, which turns into a near-riot.

* LooseLipsSinkShips: Dandelion unwittingly reveals the survival of Ciri (who has many enemies) due to incorporating it into a ballad.

After TheKingdom of Cintra was razed by TheEmpire of Nilfgaard in the previous book, the orphaned Cintran princess Cirilla is picked up by Geralt, her destined guardian. Safe at the witchers' stronghold Kaer Morhen, she receives combat training from the witchers. However, Ciri turns out to be [[OracularUrchin even less ordinary]]. The witchers call upon the sorceress Triss Merigold for help, who soon realises the cause of the problem: Ciri is a latent magician, a Source. As such, she has to be tutored by someone more competent -- like Yennefer, Geralt's former lover. Meanwhile, prophecies emerge that link the lost Cintran princess to unimaginable destruction, so everyone [[MacGuffinGirl starts searching for Ciri really hard]].

* AnimalWrongsGroup: The above-mentioned biologist also dislikes the idea of killing rare animals (including rare animals that routinely eat people), which is pretty much a witcher's trade.

* BullyingADragon: a team of SiblingsInCrime is hired to take out Geralt. In no time the three of them are killed, and the maimed fourth gets a CoupDeGrace. Notably they weren't GenreBlind on taking on a witcher, but that they didn't expect the man they were hired to kill, a business like any other day, would turn out to be a witcher.
* ThickerThanWater: the local kings' favourite saying, apparently. Also applies in the case of Crach an Craite, for whom this is a reason to keep at the war with Nilfgaard.

* TrainingFromHell: not only a witcher's training was meant for boys, not girls, it was meant for mutation-enhanced boys who were tough enough to survive the mutation process. Ciri undergoes it only because that's the only way of raising children witchers know. It will be insanely useful later.

* TrainingFromHell: not only a witcher's training was meant for boys, not girls, it was meant for mutation-enhanced boys who were tough enough to survive the mutation process. Ciri undergoes it only because that's the only way of raising children witchers know. It will be insanely useful better.

* TrainingFromHell: not only a witcher's training was meant for boys, not girls, it was meant for mutation-enhanced boys who were tough enough to survive the mutation process.

* AnimalWrongsGroup: he also dislikes the idea of killing rare animals (including rare animals that routinely eat people), which is pretty much a witcher's trade.

The third book in TheWitcher series by Andrzej Sapkowski, originally in Polish but translated to English. It is the first full-size novel in the series, as well as the first installment of the "Blood of the Elves Saga"/"Geralt and Ciri Saga".

After TheKingdom of Cintra was razed by TheEmpire of Niflgaard in the previous book, the orphaned Cintran princess Cirilla is picked up by Geralt, her destined guardian. Safe at the witchers' stronghold Kaer Morhen, she receives combat training from the witchers. However, Ciri turns out to be [[OracularUrchin even less ordinary]]. The witchers call upon the sorceress Triss Merigold for help, who soon realises the cause of the problem: Ciri is a latent magician, a Source. As such, she has to be tutored by someone more competent -- like Yennefer, Geralt's former lover. Meanwhile, prophecies emerge that link the lost Cintran princess to unimaginable destruction, so everyone [[MacGuffinGirl starts searching for Ciri really hard]].

** AnimalWrongsGroup: he also dislikes the idea of killing rare animals (including rare animals that routinely eat people), which is pretty much a witcher's trade.

After TheKingdom of Cintra was razed by TheEmpire of Niflgaard in the previous book, the orphaned Cintran princess Cirilla is picked up by Geralt, her destined guardian. At Kaer Morhen, she receives combat training from the witchers, then receives magical tutoring from the sorceress Triss Merigold. Meanwhile, prophecies emerge that link the lost Cintran princess to unimaginable destruction, so everyone [[MacGuffinGirl starts searching for Ciri really hard]].

* AnimalWrongsGroup: represented by a scholar who dislikes the idea of killing rare animals, which is pretty much a witcher's trade.

After TheKingdom of Cintra was razed by TheEmpire of Niflgaard, the orphaned Cintran princess Cirilla is picked up by Geralt, her destined guardian. At Kaer Morhen, she receives combat training from the witchers, then receives magical tutoring from the sorceress Triss Merigold. Meanwhile, prophecies emerge that link the lost Cintran princess to unimaginable destruction, so everyone [[MacGuffinGirl starts searching for Ciri really hard]].