The Accidental Warlord And His Pack / Characters

This series has lots of characters, all of whom have somewhat different characterizations than in canon (largely due to the fact that it's an Alternate Universe).

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Main Cast

Jaskier

The former Viscount of Lettenhove, Jaskier, real name Julian Alfred Pankratz, was sent off as a human sacrifice to the Warlord of the North.

Adaptational Angst Upgrade: His original counterpart was certainly never sold off into sex slavery.
The Bard: What his initial purpose in Kaer Morhen was, and he continues to sing for the keep even after becoming Geralt's consort.
Beautiful Singing Voice: Is noted to have one by those around him, with the absence of it during suppertime being an indicator that things are off.
Beware the Silly Ones: Presents an air of being flamboyant and lovestruck to strangers, but put him in a tight spot and you'll regret it, as Agata and her co-conspirators quickly learned.
From Nobody to Nightmare: For Redania. Jaskier was sent off to be little more than a bedwarmer for Geralt and ending up becoming his Consort, one of the most powerful positions on the Continent.
Good Stepfather: For Ciri, being one of her main parental figures and the one she goes to for lessons in courtly manner and diplomacy.
Happily Adopted: He and Aubry are as close as brothers and refer to each other as such.
The Heart: For most of the Witchers around him. He's the one who clued Geralt and Eskel into their feelings for one another, and whenever he's unavailable (either because he's wounded or because he's traveling) his absence is keenly felt in Kaer Morhen.
Hot Consort: To Geralt.
Horny Bard: Jaskier notes that his reputation as being quite good in bed was made ere he reached Kaer Morhen, and he loves sex. He's said to near-constantly smell like lust.
The Matchmaker: For Marika and Griffin. Notable is that both of them asked for a matchmaking, rathet than being passive players.
Non-Action Guy: Jaskier notably doesn't kill or even wound anyone in the story, with that being the job of the witchers around him.
Polyamory: In a loving, dedicated relationship with Eskel and Geralt.
Silk Hiding Steel: A Rare Male Example. Jaskier is perfectly happy playing the role of nobility or Warlord's Consort, but he's crafty and quick in a fight.
Trauma Button: Sexual assault and abuse, especially in arranged marriages. He breaks down into hysterics after Livi comes to Kaer Morhen.
Wandering Minstrel: He dreamed of being one during his college days. Being romantically attached to Geralt, and thus far more at risk of being kidnapped or killed, put a damper on that plan.

Geralt

Geralt, the White Wolf, Warlord of the North, ruler of Kaedwen, Caingorn, Kovir, Temeria, Redania, and the top half of Aedirn.

Geralt is the leader of the Witchers, and features in most stories directly involving witchers as at least a supporting character.

Better as Friends: Geralt and Yennefer. They're still very close after their breakup, but no longer lovers.
The Chains of Commanding: He never wanted to be a Warlord, he merely wanted to stop monstrous men from abusing their people. He only stays Warlord because he knows the power vacuum caused by him abandoning that title would make everyone suffer.
The Dreaded: By everyone outside of his lands. He's nearly unstoppable by mortal means, he and the other Witchers don't follow the traditional means of war, and those under his command will stop at nothing to achieve his will.
The Good King: To everyone within his lands. The Wolflaw is fair, he ensures that threats are handled quickly and with little bloodshed, his servants are completely unafraid of him, and after a few years most of those under his command are fervently loyal.
Good Parents: To Ciri. Having the help of everyone in Kaer Morhen makes the job a lot easier.
The Leader: Of the witchers of Kaer Morhen, and of the Council.
The Magnificent: The witchers call him "White Wolf" as a sign of respect.
Nice Mean And In Between: Geralt is the "in between" to Eskel's "nice" and Lambert's "mean".
Not So Above It All: Milena is delighted and shocked to discover that under his stoic exterior Geralt hides a champion snarker. She starts getting along with him much better once she understands his often very understated sense of humor.
Polyamory: In a loving, dedicated relationship with Eskel and Jaskier.
Supernatural Gold Eyes: While all the witchers have unsettling yellow eyes Geralt's are noted time and again to be true gold, and feel like they're staring into your soul when he looks at people.
Try to Fit That on a Business Card: His full title of all his holdings is quite a mouthful.
White Wolves Are Special: The White Wolf, so called because he went trough the grasses twice and came out with his hair bleached stark white, is stronger and more powerful than any other witcher. He also leads them and is emperor in all but name of the north.

Eskel

Eskel Amber-Eyed

Eskel is Geralt's right-hand man and best friend.

Beware the Nice Ones: Eskel is perhaps the most easy going of the witchers, and is polite and kind were the others are crude or silent and stoic and stand-offish. He's also perhaps the most frightening and dangerous of all the witchers outside Geralt once he gets into a proper rage, as Temeria learned the very hard way.
Good Scars, Evil Scars: Has a set of nasty scars along his face that mar his otherwise handsome features. Apparently frightening to look at, but those who spend enough time with him soon grow used to it.
The Lancer: The coolheaded diplomat to Geralt's Brutal Honesty and taciturn nature.
The Magnificent: In Jaskier's songs, he's "Eskel Amber-Eyed" which becomes something of a title.
Nice Mean And In Between: Eskel is the "nice" to Lambert's "mean" and Geralt's "in between".
Number Two: To Geralt. He handles most of the smaller management around the keep and within the White Wolf's territory, while Geralt handles the larger-scale things.
Polyamory: In a loving, dedicated relationship with Jaskier and Geralt.
The Smart Guy: Of those in Geralt's council he's the one who handles most of the minutiae that requires running an empire. Even after Jan and Livi help take some of the burden off his shoulders he's still the main administrator.
Undying Loyalty: Had this for Geralt even before their Relationship Upgrade.

Ciri

Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon

Geralt's only child, Ciri is the princess of the White Wolf's empire and single most politically powerful person on the continent.

Bratty Half-Pint: Averted. She's a self-described menace, but the worst we ever see her do is use "the goose trick" on unsuspecting castle visitors. Overall she's simply very young and inexperienced, and so has an idealized view of things like war.
Happily Adopted: Ciri loves her father Geralt, and Jaskier and her "Uncle Eskel" and the way they raise her agrees with her immensely.
Mystical White Hair: Ciri has white-blond hair and is shaping up to be a powerful mage.
Pretty Princess Powerhouse: Ciri's training with the Witchers means she can best most non-Witchers in a fight, and she's only growing more powerful by the day.
Raised by the Community: Everyone in Kaer Morhen had a hand in raising Ciri, and they're all intensely protective of her.

The Witchers

The Witchers and Schools in General

Animal Motifs: Each has its own animal associated with it.
Grouped for Your Convenience: The Witchers are split into seven schools, each with it's own associated traits. Wolves are trying to do the right thing with deep seated anger at injustices, Cats are mercurial and like secrets and sneaking, Griffins are stronger than the other schools in magic and are polite and honorable, Vipers are stoic, crass, bristling with hidden daggers and favor desert biomes, Manticores are constantly experimenting with potions and poisons and group into smaller families of prides, Bears are usually larger than other Witchers, do not socialize much nor care for politics but are very protective of those few who are close to them, and Cranes are gadgeteer geniuses with a tendency to use ranged weapons and favoring the sea.
The Nose Knows: Can even smell emotions and when someone is lying.
Training from Hell: The Witcher life is still hard, even though Geralt has made it much easier.

School of the Wolf

The School of the Wolf is the oldest school, by dint of being the one that stuck to the old ways as the other schools split off, eventually moving to Kaer Morhen and choosing an animal name like the others.

Animal Motifs: Wolves. Honorable, but dangerous and unsettling and not often sweet or traditionally kind.

Rennes

Head of the School of the Wolf.

Lambert

One of Geralt's council. Consort to Milena.

Abusive Parents: Lambert's father was a violent alcoholic who beat Lambert and his mother.
Calling the Old Man Out: He tells the trainers their cruel teaching methods mean he wouldn't stop to piss on most of them if they were on fire, and only served to make him and plenty of the others to be taught by them hate them.
Hot-Blooded: Lambert's got a temper and quickly turns to violence, but reins in the physical urge to lash out when the only people around for him to potentially hurt are innocents, though he will fight other witchers just because he's pissed even if it's not with them.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's got a foul mouth and a hot temper, but it's never stopped him from doing the right thing. He cares just as much for Jaskier as the other Wolf witchers, even carrying him down a mountain after his feet began to bleed, and he turns into a simpering puppy whenever Milena is concerned.
Knight in Sour Armor: Lambert has grown mostly out of this as being a witcher has become better with Geralt's changes and the addition of Milena to his life, but he used to absolutely hate being a witcher and was not shy about being bitter and nasty about it even if he never shied away from the work.
Nice Mean And In Between: Lambert is the "mean" to Eskel's "nice" and Geralt's "in between".
Sir Swears-a-Lot: Has the foulest language in the cast, to the point where even when he's trying to tone it down he still manages to swear in three different languages.

Vesemir

Vesemir the Grey

Geralt's teacher and respected elder of the Wolf school.

In Spite of a Nail: Despite Astrogarus and Radowit's deadly tournament between the Cat and Wolf schools never happening with Guxart locked in a cell next to Vesemir the two still became fast friends.
My Greatest Failure: As in canon he still considers his participation in making and training new witchers to be horrible, distressing and shameful. In practical terms, it meant kidnapping young children, torturing them with potions, mutagens and magical rituals to recreate their bodies as witchers, and then subjecting those few who survived to equally lethal Training from Hell.
Parental Substitute: Vesemir is functionally Geralt's father and Ciri's grandfather.
Really 700 Years Old: Lambert figures Vesemir is around 300 or so, but he looks like a distinguished older gentleman, not elderly and certainly not over a hundred.
Team Dad: For Geralt and the other Wolf Witchers close to him, Vesemir was the closest thing they had to a father figure and remains their mentor and trusted advisor as adults.

Aubry

Big Brother Instinct: Towards Jaskier. When Geralt and Eskel aren't available Aubry takes over the role of protecting him, and Aubry was his main caretaker while Jaskier was de-aged.
Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: Inexplicifics has stated that her Aubry looks rather similar to Jason Momoa as Ronon Dex in Stargate Atlantis.
Happily Adopted: He and Jaskier are as close as brothers and refer to each other as such.
Kindhearted Cat Lover: One of the keep's kittens decides to brave the way Aubry smells like a predator to beg pets off him, and Aubry is astonished at how cute and soft it is, and adores the little fluff ball. Years later that same cat brings its own kittens to Aubry and, "Jaskier carefully never mentions the fact that Aubry nearly cried when the cat brought him kittens to hold."
Spared by the Adaptation: Astrogarus and Radowit's deadly tournament between the Cat and Wolf schools never happened, so Aubry was not killed in it.

Gweld

Battle Couple: He and Seritt have long been in a relationship and have fought many monsters together.
Opposites Attract: Gweld is sweet, easy-going and playful, often compared to a puppy, while the love of his life is the stabby stand-offish Seritt.
Spared by the Adaptation: Astrogarus and Radowit's deadly tournament between the Cat and Wolf schools never happened, so Astrogarus never used magic to force Gweld to attack Geralt and Geralt was not forced to kill him in self defense.

Barmin

Antiquated Linguistics: Barmin, who is among the oldest Witchers and has not updated the way he speaks with the times, talks in a much older fashion than the main characters.
Old Soldier: Barmin is the oldest living member of the Wolf School of Witchers.

Hemminks

Spared by the Adaptation: Astrogarus and Radowit's deadly tournament between the Cat and Wolf schools never happened, so Hemminks was not killed in it.

School of the Cat

Treyse

Head of the School of the Cat.

Cool Uncle: For his great-great-great-grandniece Mouse. The two bond quickly once she starts living at Kaer Morhen, and found the spying division together.
Spared by the Adaptation: Astrogarus and Radowit's deadly tournament between the Cat and Wolf schools never happened, so Treyse was not killed in it.
The Spymaster: He becomes the spymaster of Kaer Morhen after his great-great-great-grand niece points out that they need one.

Aiden

A Cat witcher and Lambert's best friend.

Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: inexplicifics has stated that her Aiden looks rather like Santiago Cabrera as Aramis in The Musketeers.
Happily Adopted: Even after being told the truth of what happened to his birth family, he still loves Cedric and Axel dearly, regarding them as the closest thing he has to parents.
Heterosexual Life-Partners: He and Lambert are as close as can be, and that bond only grows stronger as the two of them find lovers of their own.
Sickeningly Sweethearts: Is utterly besotted by Sasha, and has to be told multiple times to rein it in. Once they get together they're extremely cuddly, and Aiden never passes up an opportunity to shower Sasha in gifts.
Spared by the Adaptation: Jad has not betrayed and killed Aiden for enough cash to retire from being a witcher.
Third Wheel: To Milena and Lambert before he meets Sasha. Interestingly, the couple seems to prefer having Aiden around when they're not being physical, and he often sleeps in their room just to hear Milena's heartbeat.

Dragonfly

One of three (later four) female Witchers.

Butch Lesbian: Dragonfly is described as such, and is dating the much more conventionally feminine Livi.
Closet Key: Oliwia was so sheltered she didn't even know that women could prefer other women before fleeing, but she comes to understand what Dragonfly meant through her own growing affection and attraction to Dragonfly.
Sickeningly Sweethearts: With Livi. Dragonfly always has Livi in her lap if she can help it, and the two are constantly cuddling and kissing.

Cedric

A Cat Witcher.

Battle Couple: Cedric and Axel have long been lovers, and have accompanied each other on the Path since long before it was considered acceptable for Witchers to travel the Path anything but alone.
Big Brother Instinct: He was able to rescue Aiden when Axel went berserk, and continued to protect him until they managed to bring him home to Stygga Castle.
Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: inexplicifics has stated that her Cedric looks rather like Christian Kane as Eliot in Leverage.
Spared by the Adaptation: The attack on the Cat caravan never happened as the Cats moved to Kaer Morhen, so Cedric did not die side by side with Axel defending it.

Axel

Battle Couple: Cedric and Axel have long been lovers, and have accompanied each other on the Path since long before it was considered acceptable for Witchers to travel the Path anything but alone.
Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: Inexplicifics has stated that her Axel looks similar to Booboo Stewart.
My Greatest Failure: His rage after seeing Cedric fall caused him to go into a berserker rage and slaughter a caravan of innocent people he'd previously bonded with, orphaning and traumatizing Aiden.
Spared by the Adaptation: The attack on the Cat caravan never happened as the Cats moved to Kaer Morhen, so Axel did not die side by side with Cedric defending it.

Kiyan

Spared by the Adaptation: Kiyan has not been abducted, tortured and experimented on by Ireneus var Steingard forcing Geralt to kill him in self defense, and given that he now patrols with a group it would be quite difficult for the cruel mage to manage such a feat.

Guxart

In Spite of a Nail: Despite Astrogarus and Radowit's deadly tournament between the Cat and Wolf schools never happening with Guxart locked in a cell next to Vesemir the two still became fast friends.

School of the Griffin

Keldar

Head of the School of the Griffin.

Coën

Adopting the Abused: While Renfri is still Fredefalk's legal child Fredefalk has no more say in her upbringing and has abandoned her. Coën takes her under his wing and becomes her new father in all but name.
Knight in Shining Armor: Coën is pointed at as an example of what knights think they are, the heroic humble knight of stories save for not having noble blood nor having been knighted.

Roland

One of the younger Griffin witchers.

Puppy Love: He and Julita quickly fall head over heels for each other.

School of the Viper

Ivar Evil-Eye

Head of the School of the Viper.

Aloof Ally: The other witchers note that Ivar is not easy to work with.
Hidden Weapons: Vipers love hidden knives, and have essentially filled the keep with them. When Jan asked Ivar to do something about it before a hidden knife hurt a servant, Ivar fixed the problem by telling his school to be sure to put a sheath on the knives they stash around the keep.
Our Founder: Ivar is the founder and master of the School of the Viper, having broken away from the School of the Bear.

Auckes

Battle Couple: Zofia has been in a relationship with Auckes for twenty years or so by the time Milena arrives in Kaer Morhen, and they have attended several battles side by side.
Only Sane Man: Auckes is perhaps the steadiest of the Vipers, calm in most situations, patient, good at adapting quickly and asking pertinent questions rather than being hobbled down by the unexpected. He still tends to find Serrit and Letho's oddities bewildering on occasion, but doesn't let it ruffle him at all.
Spared by the Adaptation: As the Vipers came north they avoided their school's destruction by Nilfgaard, and Auckes did not become a doomed assassin of northern kings trying to save them. He still amusingly took part in killing several northern kings, but in a very different context as part of an army fighting and putting down monsters in positions of power and without leaving behind a power vacuum.

Serrit

Battle Couple: She and Gweld have been meeting up for sex for decades and occasionally going on hunts together. Gweld had been in love with her for decades before Serrit realized her own feelings for him had grown into love and asked Eskel to put her on the roster to aways go with Gweld on hunts. Gweld had put her name as his preferred partner in Eskel's books long before but Eskel would only put pairs together if both requested it.
Blade Enthusiast: While all vipers are generalized as having a love of knives Serrit's particular love of knives and how quick she is to stab those who have offended her is prominently depicted.
Devious Daggers: Her school's association with knives and daggers is due to their past as one o the schools willing to take contracts on humans and their once dangerous, cold and untrustworthy reputation.
Hates Small Talk: Serrit has absolutely no patience for small talk, even with those she's close to she'll leave a conversation if it's dragging into such.
Opposites Attract: Gweld is sweet, easy-going and playful, often compared to a puppy, while the love of his life is the stabby stand-offish Seritt.
Spared by the Adaptation: As the Vipers came north they avoided their school's destruction by Nilfgaard, and Serrit did not become a doomed assassin of northern kings trying to save them. She still amusingly took part in killing several northern kings, but in a very different context as part of an army fighting and putting down monsters in positions of power and without leaving behind a power vacuum.
Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Serrit is short with everyone in most every situation, but she alternates between being civil and tactile with those she cares for and threatening to or just going ahead and stabbing people for even mild offenses. She does generally only stab other Witchers or being annoying tough, as she realizes humans are a bit more fragile.
Trans Tribulations: Serrit takes decades of being uncomfortable in her skin before she realizes the reason she's so interested in women and feminine things despite having no romantic or sexual attraction to them is because she feels more like a woman than a man, and even longer to come out to her kin.

Letho

Badass and Child Duo: Letho, whom even some other witchers are a bit terrified by, spends a lot of Julita's younger years carrying her around while he does tasks he feels he can keep her safe during.
Bald Head of Toughness: Letho is a witcher, which automatically makes him stronger and more skilled than most humans, and is bald.
Bald of Evil: While Letho is not evil, merely cold and pragmatic, his school has a reputation as heartless killers and his appearance helped back up such thoughts in any who believed him an example of his school's supposed heartlessness.
Cool Uncle: To Letho's utter surprise Julita chooses him to be her beloved uncle after he saves her from the Ladies of the woods. He ends up being the one to give her her first knife and teaching her how to cuss among other things which make him quite fun for her to hang out with as she grows.
Face of a Thug: Letho is well aware he looks like a giant intimidating scarred brute.
Hates Small Talk: Letho is very quiet and has no patience for small talk, tough he'll put up with a bit for the sake of the very few people he holds close.
Not So Stoic: He's rather befuddled by Julita's decision to name him her uncle, and privately touched when Jan assures him that he trusts him with is daughter and would be honored to consider him her uncle.
Professional Killer: In his past he killed for coin or over disagreements, one of many reasons he does not feel qualified to watch a small child.

School of the Manticore

Merten

Head of the School of the Manticore.

Battle Couple: Merten and Leocadie are two of the most accomplished witchers of their school, and have long been lovers.

Leocadie

A Manticore witcher.

Battle Couple: Merten and Leocadie are two of the most accomplished witchers of their school, and have long been lovers.

Aren

A Manticore witcher who was captured and tortured for many years before being rescued and brought home to Kaer Morhen.

Badass in Distress: Aren is as tough as any witcher, but he can't escape from a powerful mage and has been restrained and experimented on for twenty years.
Cold-Blooded Torture: Aren was captured shorty before Geralt brought the clans together and spent over a decade being tortured by mages trying to figure out the secret to making Witchers.
Dented Iron: His time being tortured and starved means that he'll likely never be as strong as a witcher needs to be ever again, but he's still a witcher, and is able to behead a man with one swing of his sword.
Family of Choice: With the Mantikittens and Sasha.
Good Parents: As good as circumstances allow. He's protective of his girls, makes sure that they're safe whenever he can, enforces proper boundaries, and encourages them to find their own paths in life.
Mental Health Recovery Arc: After being imprisoned for years, experimented on, and tortured, Aren is back in Kaer Morhen for safety and is slowly getting better with the help of everyone around him.
Papa Wolf: Aren loves the Mantikittens as if they were his flesh and blood, and he'll endure anything to make sure they're safe and healthy, even agreeing to let Triss check him with magic if it means the girls could be better off.
Trauma Button: Mages and anything to do with them after what he's been through.

Maja

The oldest of the Mantikittens.

Badass Bureaucrat: Maja is still a witcher, but she wants to train under Jan and run the household of Kaer Morhen after he retires.
Extremely Protective Child: She's more soft-spoken than Zia about it, but she's fiercely defensive with Aren and loves him dearly.
Family of Choice: With the other Mantikittens, Aren, and later Sasha.
Happily Adopted: Aren is a good father to the Mantikittens and they all love him dearly.
Rape as Backstory: Mentioned off-handedly in one story as something she endured before her False Grasses. It clearly upsets her, but she's recovering and healthier now.
Trauma Button: Mages, a trait shared with all her pride.

Zia

The second-oldest of the Mantikittens.

Big Sister Instinct: Is ready to throw hands with anyone who threatens her sisters.
Extremely Protective Child: Won't hesitate to start tearing skin if anyone threatens Aren.
Family of Choice: With the other Mantikittens, Aren, and later Sasha.
Happily Adopted: Aren is a good father to the Mantikittens and they all love him dearly.
Sir Swears-a-Lot: Swears the most of the kittens and about as much as Lambert.
Trauma Button: Mages, a trait shared with all her pride.

Elena

The second-youngest of the Mantikittens.

Extremely Protective Child: Just like her sisters, Elena will go for the throat if anyone threatens Aren.
Family of Choice: With the other Mantikittens, Aren, and later Sasha.
Happily Adopted: Aren is a good father to the Mantikittens and they all love him dearly.
Proper Lady: Milena is Elena's main female role model and who she seeks to emulate.
Trauma Button: Mages, a trait shared with all her pride.

Ada

The youngest of the Mantikittens.

Baby Of The Bunch: The youngest of Aren's daughters.
Extremely Protective Child: Her being the youngest does nothing to detract from her protectiveness over Aren.
Family of Choice: With the other Mantikittens, Aren, and later Sasha.
Happily Adopted: Aren is a good father to the Mantikittens and they all love him dearly.
Trauma Button: Mages, a trait shared with all her pride.

School of the Bear

Artek

Head of the School of the Bear.

Esra

A Bear witcher.

Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: inexplicifics has stated that Esra looks rather like Brent Burns as Skane in Vikings.
Fire-Forged Friends: Esra is much more approachable than most of his school, and going trough a few bad hunts with his patrol group—consisting of Esra, Gerring, Byrtel and Kyril—has ensured that they're very close and stick together even in Kaer Morhen. Having to watch Byrtel nearly die and the others get badly injured when surprised by a bullvore after a hard hunt helped make Esra stick around more than other members of his famously distant and stand offish school do.
Good Stepfather: To the Mantikittens.
Mercy Kill: Esra considered giving Byrtel a mercy strike after he got tramped with deadly internal injuries that would kill him slowly and painfully, before deciding that since they had an emergency beacon they should go ahead and use it and do their best to stay alive rater than living like Witchers did prior to the schools regrouping.
No One Gets Left Behind: In a huge change from the leanings of his school Esra realized that with the Warlords resources this is possible, and in the face of a teammate fain to injuries and asking to be left to die a rather traditional Witcher's death Esra chose a new philosophy; to use the resources at hand to do everything possible to keep his team alive.

School of the Crane

Stefan

Head of the School of the Crane.

Byrtel

A Crane witcher.

Face Death with Dignity: Narrowly Averted. Byrtel had calmly accepted that he was going to die painfully of the injuries the bullvore had inflicted on him, only for Esra to surprise him by getting the mage's help to save him.
Fire-Forged Friends: After nearly dying in a hard patrol, and having Esra surprise him by using their emergency signal to get medical aid is Byrtel is very close with his patrol group consisting of Esra, Gerring, Byrtel and Kyril.

Konrad

Sorcerers and Sorceresses

Yennefer of Vengerberg

The chief sorceress of Kaer Morhen.

Amicable Exes: With Geralt, to the point where she happily helps raise his daughter.
Better as Friends: Her and Geralt were in a romantic relationship that went very poorly, but are good friends by the time Jaskier arrives in Kaer Morhen.
Boring, but Practical: Her spell enchanting the rooms of Kaer Morhen to be noise-dampening. As Eskel points out, her many other amazing feats could theoretically be imitated or supplemented by witcher lifestyles- the portals just replace long marches, the healing only speeds up their natural metabolism and if not they're used to dying, and they can kill enemies easily enough- but her spell is the one thing that they can't do, and it drastically improves their lives by making it so that their enhanced senses don't keep them from a restful sleep.
Parental Substitute: Is the closest thing to a mother that Ciri has.
Vitriolic Best Buds: She and Jaskier are often sniping at each other, but it's clear that they only do so due to lack of other targets and clearly love and respect each other.

Triss Marigold

The sorceress in charge of potions.

The Medic: Her primary job in the keep.

Lytta

Asshole Victim: Out of her lust for power Lytta betrays Yen and Geralt and nearly assassinates Geralt, having him shot with ten crossbow bolts as he comes through a portal. Yen rips her apart and decorates the battlements with her corpse.

Non-Magic users of Kaer Morhen

Jan Kelner

The steward of Kaer Morhen.

Good Parents: Walked to Kaer Morhen after being heavily flogged by his former lord to beg them to save his daughter. Once they're both settled in Kaer Morhen he shows himself to be patient, dutiful, and warm with her, encouraging her to seek connections with her Uncle Letho and celebrating her graduation into a master baker.
The Mourning After: Jan was very in love with his wife Roza, who was killed by the Ladies of the woods when she tried to find Julita and the other children. Even a decade later he refuses to take anyone else to his bed, despite there being several interested witchers, and is at peace knowing that he will eventually get to join her in death.
Original Character: Jan is not from any existing Witcher media and is an inexplicifics creation.
Papa Wolf: Despite believing his own daughter dead, he made the long and arduous trek to Kaer Morhen from Leyda while suffering from a nasty beating, promising to pay anything the Witchers asked for as long as they avenged his daughter and ensured no other family suffered like his had.
Reasonable Authority Figure: Jan is calm and level headed in the face of some of the Witchers more outrageous antics, and good at finding soutions to minor crises among the servants.
Small Parent, Huge Child: Jan is 5'7" and Julita was taller than him by the time she turned sixteen.

Julita Kelner

Jan's daughter, who grows to become an apprentice, and then master, baker.

Original Character: Julita is not from any existing Witcher media and is an inexplicifics creation.
Protectorate: Her uncle Letho would happily stab or kill anything, including any witcher, who harms her in any way, and given that he's terrifying even to most other witchers this keeps her very well protected.
Small Parent, Huge Child: Jan is 5'7" and Julita was taller than him by the time she turned sixteen.

Zofia

Zofia is a former mercenary who swore her sword to the Wolf after Geralt killed the king who killed her beloved sister.

The Alcoholic: Zofia was essentially trying to kill herself drinking for two years after her sister died, before she heard the king responsible was dead and decided to dedicate herself to the Wolf. She still gets urges sometimes to drink far too much, but distracts herself from them with Auckes.
Badass Teacher: She is one of the very few human warriors that can come close to keeping up with witchers in battle and becomes Shrike's instructor in swordsmanship.
Badass Normal: Zofia is one of the best fighters in her former mercenary troop, and is the first human to swear their sword to Geralt and fight alongside Witchers. While she knows she is not as fast or strong as them she's still very skilled and constantly pushes herself to improve.
Battle Couple: Zofia has been in a relationship with Auckes for twenty years or so by the time Milena arrives in Kaer Morhen, and they have attended several battles side by side.
Despair Event Horizon: Zofia loses her will to live after Anna is murdered, becomes cold at work and stops having friendships, and goes from The Teetotaler to The Alcoholic.
Drowning My Sorrows: Zofia became an alcoholic after her sister's murder.
Due to the Dead: Finds her sister's corpse after Anna was raped and murdered and builds a magnificent cairn to bury her in, giving the girl's dowry to the huntsman who helped her find Anna's body.
Heartbroken Badass: Zofia is broken for years by Anna's violent death, and her inability to avenge it. It takes decades of healing, finding a lover in Auckes and an honorary sister in Milena, for the pain to fade and her heart to heal.
Massive Numbered Siblings: Zofia is the eldest of at least seven kids, not counting those who died as infants before being named.
Older Than They Look: Since she started sleeping with Auckes she's been healing faster and has not only stopped aging, but almost feels younger due to her improved health and immune system. Zofia is forty-six when she meets Milena, who guesses her age to be thirty, only not guessing her to be younger because of the experience Zofia carries herself with.
Original Character: Zofia is not from any existing Witcher media and is an inexplicifics creation.
Outliving One's Offspring: While Anna was not her daughter, she was Zofia's baby sister whom she raised without any help or support, and was acknowledged as Zofia's daughter. She died when she was seventeen and her death drives Zofia for the rest of her life.
Promotion to Parent: Zofia raised her little sister Anna, and Anna's mother was surprised Anna even survived her first year.
Sour Outside, Sad Inside: After Anna's murder Zofia stopped socializing with the other mercenaries in her troop and became cold and entirely unapproachable off the job.
The Teetotaler: Before Anna was killed Zofia refused to drink in order to save up as much coin as possible for her sister's dowry. Once Anna dies she throws it all away and becomes The Alcoholic.
Tragic Keepsake: Zofia keeps a lock of Anna's golden hair when she buries her sister.
Undying Loyalty: To Geralt, as the man who killed her sister's murderer.

Marlene de Trastamara

Head cook of Kaer Morhen.

Supreme Chef: Her cooking makes the Witcers very appreciative of her, and is regularly commented on as marvelous by visitors and newcomers to Kaer Morhen.

Yaevinn

An elven historian.

Redania

Milena de Roggeven

Animal Motifs: Swans. Swans are the Roggeven crest, and Milena exemplifies most aspects of the bird- she's pretty and rather dainty-looking, with an even temper and a calm attitude, but piss her off and she quickly shows herself to be dangerous, having killed Princess Agata with a single strike.
Beware the Nice Ones: Milena is kind and sweet, with a talent for taming those around her, and she's adored by those around her for her gentle attitude. She's also been taking lessons with her lover in how to handle a dagger, and manages to kill a princess after being abducted.
Brainy Brunette: Milena is a clever and quick witted brunette.
Harp of Femininity: Mentions being trained with a lap harp, but it isn't one of her real hobbies.
Hidden Weapons: After Lambert gives her a series of gifts and some training Milena wears a pair of daggers hidden beneath her skirts. She also has a hidden backup dagger and hides lock-picks in her hair.
Kindhearted Cat Lover: Milena is an absolute sweetheart, and when Lambert learns she gave up a kitten she'd raised to protect it from her father he arranges for her to be given a kitten the next time a cat in Kaer Morhen has a litter. She adores it.
Original Character: Milena is not from any existing Witcher media and is an inexplicifics creation.
Sickeningly Sweethearts: With Lambert. The two are constantly touching and kissing, and they're absolutely gone on each other.
Textile Work Is Feminine: Milena loves embroidery and it was one of the things she was able to partake in at court as an acceptable pastime for a noblewoman.

Vizimir

King Vizimir of Redania

The king of Redania. Executed after his crimes are discovered.

Faux Affably Evil: Puts on airs of being a kindly ruler, but those around him know exactly what kind of man he is.
Karma Houdini Warranty: Got away with his many crimes for years, including sending Jaskier as a Sex Slave to Kaer Morhen, allowing his uncle to abuse the women of his province along with murdering his brides, and torturing a witcher to try and make his own army of them. It's only once Sasha inherits Velen that the king's crimes are exposed enough for him to lose his head.
Too Dumb to Live: Where to start?! Sends a Sex Slave to a man who started his career killing men who committed such crimes, tries to arrange a marriage between his grandson and Princess Ciri after being told that Ciri would choose her own husband, keeps marrying off girls to his uncle who keeps murdering his brides, and to top it all off has been secretly imprisoning a witcher and torturing him to try and create girl-witchers for unknown reasons. The only reason he lived so long is that Geralt didn't want to add more land to his holdings.

Duke Velen

Duke Aleksander of Velen

Abhorrent Admirer: Duke Velen is a Dirty Old Man who regularly rapes and murders the young women and girls in Velen and is known at court to have beaten three wives to death. He was in talks to marry Milena because her father wanted the boost in prestige and power of marrying one of is daughters into the king's family and later Oliwia flees starving and with her feet bleeding to Kaer Morhen to escape being married to him.
Dirty Old Man: Duke Velen is an elderly man and favored cousin of the king who regularly rapes the young women of his estate and is known to have beaten his three younger wives to death.

Adelina

Queen Adelina of Redania

The former queen, now the Lady Senseschal of Redania.

Reasonable Authority Figure: One of the reasons the new king Dawid keeps her around is for her skill in organizing a household.

Marika de Roggeven

The middle daughter of the Roggeven family.

Calling the Old Man Out: Rips into her parents for favoring Marta and showing callous disregard for Milena when Marta has repeatedly dragged the Roggeven name through the mud, while Milena managed to find a good match for herself and a place as a lady-in-waiting to the heir of the most powerful court on the continent.
The High Queen: To Temeria. Marika is calm, beautiful, even-handed, and capable of leading a recently-gutted court through political turmoil.
Nice to the Waiter: Heeds her lady-in-waiting Kasia's words in all things and is unfailingly polite to the few servants who choose to leave with her for Kaer Morhen. They're all exceedingly loyal to her as a result.
Perfectly Arranged Marriage: Marika loves having a husband who actually values and listens to her opinions and expertise, and they quickly fall in love.
Reasonable Authority Figure: To those under her. She listens to Kasia when her maidservant gives her advice, treats her ladies-in-waiting well, and helps organize the court of Temeria into something resembling efficiency.

Marta de Roggeven

The eldest daughter of the Roggeven family.—-

Even Evil Has Standards: For all of Marta's many, many, many flaws, she refuses to let Sabrina and Agata hurt her baby sister when they have her captured, arguing that she is not to be harmed.
Politically Incorrect Villain: Calls her sister a whore for being in a committed relationship with a witcher, and tries to send her to a convent.
Too Dumb to Live: After seeing exactly what happens to those who threaten Jaskier, and the wrath of witchers when what they love is threatened, she decides to team up with Princess Agata in kidnapping her sister and Jaskier with the intent of ransoming Geralt. It's only her sister's mercy that spares her a quick death.

Aleksander

Happily Adopted: By Aren's pride, and the Manticore school as a whole. He clearly loves his little sisters dearly, and they love him in return.
In-Series Nickname: Prefers to be called Sasha by those close to him.
Lessons in Sophistication: His eventual job in Kaer Morhen is teaching the witchers how to navigate being nobility.
Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Aleksander betrays his king and country when he finds the torture chamber beneath his grandfather's estate, and the Witcher imprisoned and tortured there. Even knowing it will likely get him killed he can't leave such a horrific injustice be.
Sickeningly Sweethearts: With Aiden. The two aren't quite as bad as Milena and Lambert, but they're constantly cuddling, and Aiden always has a gift or two for Sasha.
Trauma Button: Mages in general, and mind-control magick in specific. It takes him being deathly ill to agree to Triss treating him.

Oliwia Bartol

Oliwia Bartol, Baroness of Denesle

Damsel in Distress: Oliwia is a sheltered noblewoman fleeing an arranged marriage to a murderous Dirty Old Man, who begs the aid of Dragonfly and her patrol group when she is injured and starving and unable to keep going on her own.
In-Series Nickname: Prefers to be called Livi by those close to her.
Runaway Fiancé: Oliwia fled her engagement to the reviled Duke Velen.
Sickeningly Sweethearts: With Dragonfly.
Small Role, Big Impact: All Livi did was run away from her horrible arranged marriage. However, the shock of losing a bride was enough to kill Lord Velen, which led to Sasha inheriting the Velen estate, which led to him discovering the False Trials and contacting Milena, which in turn led to the fall of Redania and the expanding of Geralt's empire.

Count de Lettenhove

Abusive Parents: Jaskier's father starts by selling his son into sex slavery, but later fics reveal he was horrible to Jaskier even as a small child.
Pimping the Offspring: The Count trades away Jaskier into sex slavery as tribute, where he expects his son to be raped to death, for more political power and prestige at court

Dawid

King Dawid of Redania

The current king of Redania after Vizimir was executed for his crimes.

Reasonable Authority Figure: He keeps Lady Adelina around as an advisor and household manager because he needs her skills in the coming days.

Priscilla

Self-Applied Nickname: Calls herself Callonetta while performing.

Cintra

Calanthe

Queen Calanthe of Cintra

Eist Tuirseach

Pavetta

Princess Pavetta of Cintra

Driven to Suicide: After Dunny revealed his true colors and identity and was going to use Pavetta to legitimize his takeover of Cintra Pavetta threw herself from his ship in a storm so that their marriage, which was now all but a sham in her eyes, could not be used against her family and kingdom.
Walking Spoiler: Any further information about her can be found under Elen an Craite's folder.

Temeria

Henselt

King Henselt of Temeria

Even Evil Has Loved Ones: For as awful a man as Henselt is, he clearly loved Agata, and his revenge on Geralt is motivated in no small part by Agata's death.
Misplaced Retribution: He attempts to have Geralt assassinated, when it was Milena who killed his daughter.
Outliving One's Offspring: His daughter Agata died a short while before he did, and it's her death that motivates him to try and kill Geralt.
Papa Wolf: His attack on the White Wolf is motivated in large part by the death of his daughter.
Too Dumb to Live: The man orders for Geralt to be assassinated. In front of his entire witcher army.

Agata

Princess Agata of Temeria

Abhorrent Admirer: Princess Agata is a Spoiled Brat who is only attempting to court Geralt because she wants the power of the position of being his wife and is unable to see that not everything is about her. Geralt is repulsed by her.
Murder the Hypotenuse: Attempted on Jaskier multiple times. It doesn't work, partially because Geralt was never interested in her in the first place.
Too Dumb to Live: First she stabs the Warlord's beloved in his home hoping that he'd die, for no reason other than spite. After infuriating the Witcers once and barely escaping with her life under orders to take vows as a nun she leaves the convent to kidnap Milena and Jaskier to get back at Geralt and Jaskier for "humiliating" her and with somewhat insane thoughts of regaining her former power. She's killed by Milena for it.
Ungrateful Bastard: Agata, who would have been executed for her crimes at Kaer Morhen by any other monarch, decides that losing her status in the line of succession and Jaskier getting the position she wanted is such a horrific insult that she needs to kill Jaskier and cow the Warlord, instead of being grateful the Warlord let her leave with her life the first time she tried to kill his beloved.

Sabrina Glevissig

Too Dumb to Live: Allies herself with her exiled princess against her king's wishes to try and plot against the White Wolf, including against the many sorcerers who swear fealty to him. Unsurprisingly she fails and is killed.

Griffin

King Griffin of Temeria

The current king of Temeria, after Henselt was executed for trying to kill the White Wolf. Husband to Marika.

The Chains of Commanding: Griffin never wanted to be king, but took up the mantle so that no one worse would. Even once he's got his feet under him and can manage Temeria, it's still exhausting and difficult.
From Rags To Royalty: Went from being a baron in a backwater province best known for their pork products to king of Temeria.
The Good King: To Temeria. After most of the upper nobility is slain, Griffin takes control of the situation and puts everything to rights.
Perfectly Arranged Marriage: Griffin very much values a wife who knows how to be courtly and run a royal household, and they later fall in love.

Tara

Princess Tarasque of Temeria

In-Series Nickname: Prefers to be called Tara.

Phoenix

Princess Phoenix of Temeria

In-Series Nickname: Prefers to be called Nix.
Tomboy Princess: Is repeatedly described as a wildling, who hates being confined or courtly and much prefers running around the wilderness and hunting whatever she can.

Kaedwen

Liliana

Liliana of Daevon

The spymaster-in-training of Kaer Morhen.

Celibate Hero: Mousr has no interest in romance or children, which is why she wanted to go to Kaer Morhen so badly, as being in their service would protect her from marriage offers.
In-Series Nickname: Prefers to be called Mouse by those close to her.
The Spymaster: She becomes the assistant spymaster of Kaer Morhen after she points out that they need one.

Skellige

Crach an Craite

Second Love: Is this to Elen.

Elen an Craite

Faking the Dead: After accidentally surviving her suicide attempt Pavetta takes up a new name and lets everyone believe her dead, to protect her family and kingdom which were incidentally the same reasons she'd been Driven to Suicide.
Happily Married: To Crach.
Spared by the Adaptation: Pavetta escapes and lives, unlike her fate in cannon.

Cerys an Craite

Aedirn

Kovir

Caingorn

Grzegorz

Prince Grzegorz of Caingorn

The Ghost: Referred to plenty, especially during Shrike's introductory tale, but never himself appears

Creyden

Renfri

Renfri Princess of Creyden

Apocalypse Maiden: Stregobor claims Renfri's curse will doom the world. The witchers quickly shut this down.
Assassin Outclassin': Renfri manages to kill the man her stepmother hired to kill her when the creep tries to rape her before finishing her off.
Bleed 'Em and Weep: After killing her would-be rapist Renfri breaks down in tears at what she's been through.
Damsel out of Distress: Renfri kills the man trying to rape her, and escapes Stregobor into the dwarven tunnels all by herself. She then walks all the way to Kaer Morhen to beg the Warord's mercy with the troop of dwarves accompanying her, and manages to earn the Warlord's protection.
Earn Your Happy Ending: Renfri's spent most of her life being abused and neglected, with it culminating in her stepmother's assassin trying to rape and kill her, and then a wizard threatening to have her executed for murder after she defends herself. She walks miles to beg mercy from the White Wolf, and stands her ground even when she doesn't know if she'll be spared. For her courage she manages to free herself of her abusive family and find a new family in Kaer Morhen.
Girl in the Tower: When Renfri could not be sent into the woods to hide from visitors she was locked in her high tower, supposedly so that her curse wouldn't interfere with anything.
Important Haircut: Renfri asks Gilmeth to cut off her braid, to symbolize cutting ties with her family and living as Shrike for the time being.
Self-Applied Nickname: Calls herself Shrike while on the run, and then keeps it as her preferred name.
Spared by the Adaptation: Escapes and lives, unlike her fate in cannon.

Fredefalk

Prince Fredefalk of Creyden

Disappeared Dad: Fredefalk is almost always away in Hengfors with Prince Grzegorz, leaving his second wife Aridea to raise the children and run Creyden.
The Lost Lenore: Prince Fredefalk was broken by the death of his first wife, and can't stand to be in Yspaden because Renfri looks so much like her mother.
Parental Abandonment: Can't stand to look at his daughter because she looks like his dead wife, so spends all his time away with Prince Grzegorz.

Aridea

Aridea of Creyden

The queen of Creyden and Renfri's Wicked Stepmother.

Ambition Is Evil: Lady Aridea wants more political power for herself and her eldest natural born child, including wanting the freedom to treat non-human sentients like animals.
Asshole Victim: Aridea was a horrid Wicked Stepmother who abused her stepdaughter throughout her life, then tried to sell her to Stregobor and when that didn't work hired a creep to kill her. She is also bigoted towards non-humans and initiated prejudicial policies against them and had a bunch of soldiers sworn into her care until they could return home poisoned and thrown in a lime pit, breaking not only her own oath but Coën's and Geralt's as well. No one sheds a tear when the witchers execute her.
Bad Boss: Lady Aridea's moods are unpredictable and dangerous for those in her employ, and she beats servants over minor infractions.
Big Bad: Shares this role with Stregobor in That Which Is Born Out Of Agony.
Didn't Think This Through: Lady Aridea gave her word to send the soldiers on home, then killed them all. Apparenty she did't think it might get back to her overlord that all the men she had promised to give succor to dissapeared instead.
Fantastic Racism: Aridea despises non-humans, and despite the steep consequences for nobility treating them as less than human in the Warlord's lands she initiated prejudicial policies against dwarves and calls them "greedy little moles" when questioned.
God Save Us from the Queen!: Aridea is a cruel, bigoted and murderous woman who is functionally regent of Creyden while her husband abandons his duties.
Tampering with Food and Drink: Aridea put rat poison in the food for the soldiers from Kovir she was meant to send home, killing all of them.
Too Dumb to Live: Murders soldiers the witchers promised amnesty to, then lied about it to their faces.
Villainous Breakdown: Aridea flips out after Eskel forces her to tell the truth of her actions, tryin to demand punishment for him, before she slowly realizes that her crimes are going to get her killed.
Wicked Stepmother: Aridea abused her stepdaughter throughout her childhood, then tried to sell her to Stregobor and when that didn't work hired a creep to kill her all because she wanted her own child to be Fredefalk's heir.
Would Hurt a Child: Aridea has spent Renfri's entire life abusing her, culminating in hiring a man to kill her.

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