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Character Information
Name: Geralt of Rivia
Canon: The Witcher (Netflix adaptation)
Canon Point: Mid-1x08 (dream state with his mother)
Age: 103 (appears mid-30s)
History: Canon | Interactive timeline. (The first season follows his story over approx. 30 years through the course of 8 episodes.)
Personality:
On the surface, Geralt appears to be simple in nature: he kills monsters, he gets paid, and that's all there is to his life. He often declines to pick sides, claims he won't meddle in the politics of kings and queens, and his only consistent companion is his horse, as he prefers to keep to himself. He makes no effort to dissuade the rumors that Witchers like himself have no capacity for human emotions or love. Few things elicit more than a glance from him, including insults and threats on his life. To many, he can come off as unapproachable, without social finesse, and inhuman in his lack of outward emotions.
Deep down, Geralt is more complicated than he's willing to let on. Geralt as a boy is shown to be the opposite of who we see in present day: cheerful, chatty, and, most notably, dreams of becoming a knight. Several characters bring up the concept of him being a knight (ironically and yet not), which Geralt never responds to but which suggests some remnant of this desire lives on inside him. Though time and experience has made him grow jaded to the notion that honorable knights exist—and if they do, he's certainly not one of them—Geralt finds himself coming to people's rescue even when there's no money involved and when it risks his life: from Yennefer to the princess in Temeria to Jaskier to a random merchant on the road, he's gotten involved in saving or helping all of them with little benefit to himself. He won't admit it, but there's a part of him that won't let him turn his back on those who need it.
At his core, Geralt is a survivor, but he's also a protector, and these two tendencies can come into conflict. We see this in the defining Blaviken incident. Though he wants to help the princess Renfri and tries to, when it comes down to it, Geralt decides that he won't keep trying to save someone who doesn't want to be saved at the expense of his own life and ends up being the one to kill her. This event becomes one of the key driving forces in his life from here on out: decades later, he still regrets the princess he couldn't save and seeks to make up for it, first curing a cursed princess and then looking for Ciri, the princess of Cintra and his accidentally claimed Child of Surprise. He keeps Renfri's brooch on the hilt of his sword. It's a reminder, according to one interview, that getting involved with others "will always lead to his own personal pain." And yet, it happens again and again. The characters call it Destiny, something Geralt doesn't believe in. Whatever it is, Geralt finds himself constantly getting involved and picking a side no matter how much he tries to avoid it. This is one of the major things that gets him in trouble: wanting to keep to himself, letting others sort their conflicts out on their own, and in the end not being able to fully step away. He doesn't believe he has the right to judge, seeing as he's got plenty of blood on his hands. At the same time, no one can go through life completely neutral. Often, not making any choice is a choice in and of itself that can have lasting consequences. It's a lesson Geralt is beginning to learn but has yet to fully absorb.
His desire to not get involved does not mean he is a pacifist, however. He might try to avoid spilling blood, but when push comes to shove, he's willing to kill men just as much as he's willing to kill monsters. At one point he doesn't hesitate to use a man as bait for a monster. The man arguably deserved it, but his death was certainly avoidable. Geralt just chose to sacrifice him as a tool. Still, Geralt avoids trouble where he can. He's more likely to pack up and leave a tense situation behind before it turns into an all-out fight. People already don't like him and his kind. He prefers not to stir up any unnecessary bad blood. As he says to the elves about humans, he's learned to live with them so that he can live. Ultimately, Geralt's morals can be summed up as complex and contradictory: a mix of wanting to do the right thing, wanting to live his life in peace, and the occasional darker desire to see those who wronged him or others get their due. Coupled with his complicated history, Geralt can be predictable if you're the rare person who sees right through him and a wildcard if you only see him as a Witcher out for coin.
Anyone who meets him will tell you he's also not much of a talker, though Geralt isn't hesitant to speak by any means and he's got a pretty dry humor (It's onion, he informs Jaskier, when Jaskier tells him he smells of death and destiny). He's just a straightforward man and prefers not to waste words where he doesn't have to. We do see that when he's prompted, he has no trouble exchanging words with a queen while he sits with her during a banquet (1x04). While he obviously isn't fond of court decorum or anything related to royalty, he's entered that world before and is familiar enough to hold his own, though there's always an edge to his interactions with them due to how forthcoming he is (he Hey's the queen at one point). He's not beholden to any ruler, after all. He doesn't go out of his way to be insulting (unless he doesn't like you or you've caught him in a sour mood), but he doesn't mince his words, either.
On that note, Geralt can be blunt to a fault. He'll say what's on his mind, even to those he considers closest to him. Point in case: confirming that he definitely thinks Yennefer will be a bad mother and telling her she can't bring a child into this life they lead. He may or may not be wrong, technically, and is not trying to be deliberately cruel, but at the same time, his intentions don't negate the impact of his words. Even when it comes to his own best interests, Geralt can't help saying the truth: he tells Ciri's grandfather that if he senses she's in danger by being in Cintra, he will come back and take her, period, and promptly gets arrested for this when he could've just, you know. Not said that and left. His stubbornness and willfulness gives him an edge when he's working, but it can get him into trouble plenty, too.
He's extremely guarded, as well. Witchers have always been hated and feared by most, so he's grown used to being alone and is wary of meeting new people. His mother leaving him as a child to undergo the painful and near-fatal trials to turn him into a Witcher has undoubtedly given him some abandonment issues. The rare times he allows people into his life, he keeps them at arm's length, or pushes them away if he feels them getting too close. He avoids acknowledging that Jaskier is a friend after even a full decade of being friends; it's clear he cares for him, seeing as he was willing to do just about anything to save him and expressed regret over their argument when Jaskier was mortally injured. His ability to display that care openly, however, is stunted at best. He's learning (even just the fact that he accepts Jaskier as a regular companion on his travels says a lot, for someone who's spent the past 100 years alone) but it's slow progress. In short, Geralt does not make it easy to become nor stay friends with him. Him taking his anger out on Jaskier suggests that when Geralt is pushed to losing his tight grip on his stony exterior, he has little ability to process his emotions properly and will lash out at even his best friend.
The only person Geralt really puts his walls down around a little is Yennefer. The first time they meet, we see him being a bit flirty (for him, anyway) and he appears to enjoy her wit. While she rejects his help, Geralt tries and successfully saves her life regardless by making a wish that's hinted to have bound their fates in some way. They grow closer through a rocky on-again, off-again relationship. Neither of them are committed to the other, but when their paths cross, there's something there between them. In a rare moment of vulnerability, Geralt openly admits she's important to him and tells her that he misses her when she leaves. In Yennefer, he sees a sort of kinship: someone who also wasn't given a choice to become what they are and with the weight of decades behind them. Perhaps that's why her rejection genuinely upsets him: he's never allowed anyone in close enough to hurt him like that, and when he does, it backfires. As a result, Geralt may have retreated a bit into himself again by 1x08: after driving Jaskier off with unfairly harsh words and after he believes he's failed to successfully save Ciri, he decides to simply return home to Kaer Morhen, giving up once more on companionship, interfering with others' lives, and doing the right thing. When a passing merchant attempts to enlist his help to bury the dead left behind, telling him they deserve better, Geralt declines, replying, I'm not better. Time may allow him to open up again, but for now his walls have inched back up.
Abilities & Skills:
Abilities
Skills
Inventory/Companions:
Inventory
*He'll obviously no longer be able to wear the original due to his monster choice, but I'd like him to eventually find a way in order to do so, either w/ help from another witch player or by just having a non-silver, non-magical replica made, if that's okay!
Companions
A chestnut mare, named Roach.
Choice: Monster (Turnskin; wolf)
Reason: Geralt is known as the White Wolf in his canon, and belongs to the Witcher School of the Wolf, so this is the most fitting for him. In addition, I wanted to play with how he'll react when undergoing additional physical changes after he's already been through a series of them as a result of his (pretty traumatic) transformation into a Witcher as a child.
Sample: Here.
Name: Noa
Age: 30
Contact:
Other Characters: N/A
Character Information
Name: Geralt of Rivia
Canon: The Witcher (Netflix adaptation)
Canon Point: Mid-1x08 (dream state with his mother)
Age: 103 (appears mid-30s)
History: Canon | Interactive timeline. (The first season follows his story over approx. 30 years through the course of 8 episodes.)
Personality:
On the surface, Geralt appears to be simple in nature: he kills monsters, he gets paid, and that's all there is to his life. He often declines to pick sides, claims he won't meddle in the politics of kings and queens, and his only consistent companion is his horse, as he prefers to keep to himself. He makes no effort to dissuade the rumors that Witchers like himself have no capacity for human emotions or love. Few things elicit more than a glance from him, including insults and threats on his life. To many, he can come off as unapproachable, without social finesse, and inhuman in his lack of outward emotions.
Deep down, Geralt is more complicated than he's willing to let on. Geralt as a boy is shown to be the opposite of who we see in present day: cheerful, chatty, and, most notably, dreams of becoming a knight. Several characters bring up the concept of him being a knight (ironically and yet not), which Geralt never responds to but which suggests some remnant of this desire lives on inside him. Though time and experience has made him grow jaded to the notion that honorable knights exist—and if they do, he's certainly not one of them—Geralt finds himself coming to people's rescue even when there's no money involved and when it risks his life: from Yennefer to the princess in Temeria to Jaskier to a random merchant on the road, he's gotten involved in saving or helping all of them with little benefit to himself. He won't admit it, but there's a part of him that won't let him turn his back on those who need it.
At his core, Geralt is a survivor, but he's also a protector, and these two tendencies can come into conflict. We see this in the defining Blaviken incident. Though he wants to help the princess Renfri and tries to, when it comes down to it, Geralt decides that he won't keep trying to save someone who doesn't want to be saved at the expense of his own life and ends up being the one to kill her. This event becomes one of the key driving forces in his life from here on out: decades later, he still regrets the princess he couldn't save and seeks to make up for it, first curing a cursed princess and then looking for Ciri, the princess of Cintra and his accidentally claimed Child of Surprise. He keeps Renfri's brooch on the hilt of his sword. It's a reminder, according to one interview, that getting involved with others "will always lead to his own personal pain." And yet, it happens again and again. The characters call it Destiny, something Geralt doesn't believe in. Whatever it is, Geralt finds himself constantly getting involved and picking a side no matter how much he tries to avoid it. This is one of the major things that gets him in trouble: wanting to keep to himself, letting others sort their conflicts out on their own, and in the end not being able to fully step away. He doesn't believe he has the right to judge, seeing as he's got plenty of blood on his hands. At the same time, no one can go through life completely neutral. Often, not making any choice is a choice in and of itself that can have lasting consequences. It's a lesson Geralt is beginning to learn but has yet to fully absorb.
His desire to not get involved does not mean he is a pacifist, however. He might try to avoid spilling blood, but when push comes to shove, he's willing to kill men just as much as he's willing to kill monsters. At one point he doesn't hesitate to use a man as bait for a monster. The man arguably deserved it, but his death was certainly avoidable. Geralt just chose to sacrifice him as a tool. Still, Geralt avoids trouble where he can. He's more likely to pack up and leave a tense situation behind before it turns into an all-out fight. People already don't like him and his kind. He prefers not to stir up any unnecessary bad blood. As he says to the elves about humans, he's learned to live with them so that he can live. Ultimately, Geralt's morals can be summed up as complex and contradictory: a mix of wanting to do the right thing, wanting to live his life in peace, and the occasional darker desire to see those who wronged him or others get their due. Coupled with his complicated history, Geralt can be predictable if you're the rare person who sees right through him and a wildcard if you only see him as a Witcher out for coin.
Anyone who meets him will tell you he's also not much of a talker, though Geralt isn't hesitant to speak by any means and he's got a pretty dry humor (It's onion, he informs Jaskier, when Jaskier tells him he smells of death and destiny). He's just a straightforward man and prefers not to waste words where he doesn't have to. We do see that when he's prompted, he has no trouble exchanging words with a queen while he sits with her during a banquet (1x04). While he obviously isn't fond of court decorum or anything related to royalty, he's entered that world before and is familiar enough to hold his own, though there's always an edge to his interactions with them due to how forthcoming he is (he Hey's the queen at one point). He's not beholden to any ruler, after all. He doesn't go out of his way to be insulting (unless he doesn't like you or you've caught him in a sour mood), but he doesn't mince his words, either.
On that note, Geralt can be blunt to a fault. He'll say what's on his mind, even to those he considers closest to him. Point in case: confirming that he definitely thinks Yennefer will be a bad mother and telling her she can't bring a child into this life they lead. He may or may not be wrong, technically, and is not trying to be deliberately cruel, but at the same time, his intentions don't negate the impact of his words. Even when it comes to his own best interests, Geralt can't help saying the truth: he tells Ciri's grandfather that if he senses she's in danger by being in Cintra, he will come back and take her, period, and promptly gets arrested for this when he could've just, you know. Not said that and left. His stubbornness and willfulness gives him an edge when he's working, but it can get him into trouble plenty, too.
He's extremely guarded, as well. Witchers have always been hated and feared by most, so he's grown used to being alone and is wary of meeting new people. His mother leaving him as a child to undergo the painful and near-fatal trials to turn him into a Witcher has undoubtedly given him some abandonment issues. The rare times he allows people into his life, he keeps them at arm's length, or pushes them away if he feels them getting too close. He avoids acknowledging that Jaskier is a friend after even a full decade of being friends; it's clear he cares for him, seeing as he was willing to do just about anything to save him and expressed regret over their argument when Jaskier was mortally injured. His ability to display that care openly, however, is stunted at best. He's learning (even just the fact that he accepts Jaskier as a regular companion on his travels says a lot, for someone who's spent the past 100 years alone) but it's slow progress. In short, Geralt does not make it easy to become nor stay friends with him. Him taking his anger out on Jaskier suggests that when Geralt is pushed to losing his tight grip on his stony exterior, he has little ability to process his emotions properly and will lash out at even his best friend.
The only person Geralt really puts his walls down around a little is Yennefer. The first time they meet, we see him being a bit flirty (for him, anyway) and he appears to enjoy her wit. While she rejects his help, Geralt tries and successfully saves her life regardless by making a wish that's hinted to have bound their fates in some way. They grow closer through a rocky on-again, off-again relationship. Neither of them are committed to the other, but when their paths cross, there's something there between them. In a rare moment of vulnerability, Geralt openly admits she's important to him and tells her that he misses her when she leaves. In Yennefer, he sees a sort of kinship: someone who also wasn't given a choice to become what they are and with the weight of decades behind them. Perhaps that's why her rejection genuinely upsets him: he's never allowed anyone in close enough to hurt him like that, and when he does, it backfires. As a result, Geralt may have retreated a bit into himself again by 1x08: after driving Jaskier off with unfairly harsh words and after he believes he's failed to successfully save Ciri, he decides to simply return home to Kaer Morhen, giving up once more on companionship, interfering with others' lives, and doing the right thing. When a passing merchant attempts to enlist his help to bury the dead left behind, telling him they deserve better, Geralt declines, replying, I'm not better. Time may allow him to open up again, but for now his walls have inched back up.
Abilities & Skills:
Abilities
- enhanced strength, speed, and endurance. the mutations that created him were specifically designed for him to fight monsters much stronger and faster than a normal human. this makes him a formidable foe, but he's not invincible and rough fights can leave him deeply wounded.
- enhanced senses such as hearing and smell. his sense of smell is sensitive enough to identify someone by their scent alone and he's capable of seeing in the dark (as he's never seen using a light source at night).
- can ingest potions to enhance his abilities further; these would poison or kill a human if they tried to drink it. Though there are few specifics, it seems to allow him to fight longer and endure more, as well as increase the power of his signs (the minor magic that Witchers use). They wear off after a time. He also has healing potions that help with his already quick healing abilities.
- minor magic known as signs. Although there are several in the books, I'll cover only the ones portrayed on the show thus far:
- Aard, a physical force that's capable of pushing people back or breaking weak structures.
- Yrden, a basic magical barrier, strong enough to hold back a monster but it can be broken and will wear off after a time. Can also be used to seal doors.
- Axii, minor mind control. He can do things like tell someone to leave a town or a room. He can't give complicated instructions or hold them under his control for an extended period. It is much closer to a hypnotic suggestion than full on taking over.
- not an inherent ability, but he wears a medallion that can sense some magical activity such as a spell being cast nearby.
Skills
- sword fighting. Geralt has been trained since he was a boy in various weaponry and combat for monster hunting, but a sword is his weapon of choice.
- comprehensive knowledge of monsters, magic, and other species (as they exist within his own world).
- skilled hunter and tracker, horse riding, and other survivalist skills. He spends his entire life on the road, and often makes his home in the woods and mountains.
- knows Elder Speech, used by the elves and by mages for spells, as he's capable of understanding a curse as it is spoken (1x03). Elder Speech is based on Celtic languages, with some Germanic influences, so it's quite similar to what's being used in Aefenglom.
- varied knowledge of plants, herbs, and alchemy due to his use of Witcher potions
- meditation. We see him meditate during his time in the Cintran dungeons
Inventory/Companions:
Inventory
- clothes
- 1 silver sword
- 1 steel sword
- 1 silver wolf head medallion*
- 1 leather bag containing:
- his potions
- a dagger
- a change of clothes
- sharpening stone
- silver knuckles
*He'll obviously no longer be able to wear the original due to his monster choice, but I'd like him to eventually find a way in order to do so, either w/ help from another witch player or by just having a non-silver, non-magical replica made, if that's okay!
Companions
A chestnut mare, named Roach.
Choice: Monster (Turnskin; wolf)
Reason: Geralt is known as the White Wolf in his canon, and belongs to the Witcher School of the Wolf, so this is the most fitting for him. In addition, I wanted to play with how he'll react when undergoing additional physical changes after he's already been through a series of them as a result of his (pretty traumatic) transformation into a Witcher as a child.
Sample: Here.