RE: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | I haven't played an RPG in a very long time.
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Alright, it's time to go full nerd on ya xD
So there are multiple school of witchers. The Schools all specalize in certain combat stances, and have different morals. For instance the School of the Cat all turned into Assassins during the events of the second game. But one thing remains true for all "Witchers" and that's they slay monsters for money.
Witchers were originally created to fight off the monsters that spilled into that world during something called the conjunction of spheres which had portals from other worlds opening up.
Witchers are created through magic and potions ( you'll learn a bit of it later in the game). Witchers would get children, usually through the law of surprise, and train them at their respective strongholds. Their training was grusome and the majority of the kids would die before they underwent the mutations to become witchers, however the way to create witchers was lost long ago, which is why they're a dying breed. Even if a witcher survives their trails as a kid, they can still die while undergoing the final mutations.
The mutations allows them to drink the potions they create, heal faster then the regular person, and generally make them into a somewhat super human.
The whole mutation process is called the Trail of Grasses.
Geralt is called the White Wolf because he is from The School of the Wolf and has White hair. The reason he has white hair isn't because he is old but is because during the trail of grasses, he underwent so well, that they decided to do more tests on him. This here caused his hair to turn white.
Nilfgard is a different Kingdom, or well was. The emperor of Nilfgard always had a thing for conquering the other realms. At the end of TW2 the Emperor marched against the nothern realm capturing a few of them including Tameria. Tameria was easy to capture because thanks to his manipulation of the Witchers from School of the Cat, Tameria was without a king.
In the start of TW3 you are in a part of Tameria that has been captured by Nilfgard, which is why there's a scene at the in when the innkeeper is told by a drunk to take down the tamerian lillies.
And no problem! I love explaining stuff like this :) Just don't mind my grammar.
You'll also come to a point later on where you'll meet the emperor and he'll ask you a few questions about certain characters.
Letho is the Antigonist of the second game. A witcher from the school of the cat.
Roche is a part of the Tamerian Special Forces, and is a side character in the second game. At a certain point you can either decide to go with him or Ivoreth.
Ivoreth is a Scoia'tael ( A group of Elves and Dwarves who are a "terrorist" group)
Roche and Ivoreth play big parts in the second game. If you have the chance to play TW2, you should take it as IMO TW3 is a really poor game to jump into if it's your first witcher game, as it referencing quite a bit of stuff that happens in the previous games.
Yoo, that's why in one of the dialogues Geralt asked a lady if there was a payment for killing Griffin that was in that city. I have a feeling that we will do it sooner.
When you say that the School of the Cat all became assassins, do you mean witch killers or assassins in general?
This sounds pretty complicated to be honest haha. You mean Witchers are creations? That's pretty curious, but I feel like if I keep asking I'll end up eating quite a few spoilers. Since you say I'll soon find out in the game, then I'd rather let the TW3 story begin to enlighten me.
Did you play TW3 recently? Amazing that you remember this detail, I think it was a blue colored shield with 2 swords (my memory is not that good). Coincidentally that same gentleman is the same one that appears in the last screenshot after getting beaten up XD.
It's amazing how much I'm missing out on by not playing the previous games, but it sounds like there's still a lot of things I need to learn. I wish I had the heart to decide to play TW2 first, but I'm pretty sure I'll end up abandoning both games if I feel overwhelmed haha.
Again, thanks so much for giving me more background on the story, it's awesome that you summed it up in a few comments haha.
Yup, the witchers are creations. They're humans that become mutated during the Trail of Grasses, which is why people refer to witchers as mutant.
And the last time I played a full playthrough of TW3 was years ago. But I loved the game so much I platted the base game, then bought the GOTY edition ( NA version) platted that, and bought the european version but lost my password for that account. I currently have it bought on Steam, but I'm waiting until I get a 3080 to play it.
Oh, and yeah, they become straight up assassins. But to be fair, they were manipulated by the Emperor of Nilfgard. To prepare for his invasions of the northern Realms, the emperor made a deal with the School of the Cat that if they killed the kings of these realms that he would (IIRC) allow them to rebuild the school of the viper which was pretty much wiped out ( and my bad, Letho and the turned assassins are that from the school of the viper, not the school of the cat)