Right after this, soldiers under Radowit's command surrounded the witchers and started to kill them all, but Geralt was able to escape on horseback, causing Radowit to put a bounty on his head. As they came to that realization however, a druid put a mind control spell upon Gweld which made him violently attack Geralt, forcing Geralt to kill his friend with a sword through the chest. In the first round, Geralt and Gweld faced off, slowly realizing while they were fighting that the whole tournament was a ruse. Later on, the Wolf School and the Cat School had a tournament between them, organized by King Radowit II who secretly plotted with the Cat School to kill the witchers from the Wolf School. Aideen then unbound Geralt and left him to return to his master. They then left and came across some Cat School witchers training and wrestling. He was helped out of his binds by the elf Aideen, where they went to look at the non-human reservation to find the camp had been attacked by vrans.
#GERALT OF RIVIA BODY TRIAL#
Geralt was eventually put through the Trial of Forest Eyes, where he was left tied up in the woods and blindfolded and needed to return to the keep by the morning or he would fail. The following is considered comics canon only and may contradict Andrzej Sapkowski's works.ĭuring his training at the witcher school, he made friends with several students, such as Gweld and Eskel, and was trained by Vesemir in harsh conditions, one in which resulted in a student dying. The pair laughed at its antics until they were discovered by Vesemir who punished them with a leather strap. One time, they captured a large forest bumblebee and tied it to a jug. He soon met his fellow classmate Eskel and the two became good friends and as close as brothers. Geralt was trained by his mentor Vesemir whom he came to regard as a father-figure. This resulted in his hair turning white and received the nickname 'White Wolf'. After displaying unusual tolerance, Geralt was selected to further experimental mutations which granted him considerably greater strength, speed, endurance, resilience, healing, senses, complete immunity to diseases and conventional poisons, and extreme resistance to pain. There, Geralt was made and trained to become a Witcher.Īs a child, he was subjected to the Trial of The Grasses, he managed to survive the many blistering mutations required to grant Witcher's their abilities. Shortly after his birth, his mother left him with the School of the Wolf at the stronghold of Kaer Morhen. Geralt was born as the son of the sorceress Visenna and presumably, the warrior Korin. 1.3 Dealing with Eskel's Child Surprise.Later, Queen Meve of Lyria knighted him for his valor in the Battle for the Bridge on the Yaruga conferring on him the formal title "of Rivia", which amused him. "Of Rivia" was a more practical alternative and Geralt even went so far as to adopt a Rivian accent to appear more authentic. As his first choice, Geralt chose "Geralt Roger Eric du Haute-Bellegarde", but this choice was dismissed by Vesemir as silly and pretentious, so "Geralt" was all that remained of his chosen name. In the interest of appearing more trustworthy to potential clients, young witchers were encouraged to make up surnames for themselves by master Vesemir. After being left with the witchers by his mother, Visenna, he grew up in their keep of Kaer Morhen in the realm of Kaedwen. Accordingly, Geralt was subjected to further experimental mutagens which rendered his hair white and may have given him greater speed, strength, and stamina than his fellow witchers.ĭespite his title, Geralt did not hail from the city of Rivia. He loved the sorceress Yennefer, considered the love of his life despite their tumultuous relationship, and became Ciri's adoptive father.ĭuring the Trial of the Grasses, Geralt exhibited unusual tolerance for the mutagens that grant witchers their abilities. Geralt of Rivia was a legendary witcher of the School of the Wolf active throughout the 13th century.