Eberhartt of Rivia

Eberhartt of Rivia was a reserved and grim adept of magic active in Novigrad who specialized in healing. He usually wore wrinkled and old clothing, always smoothly shaven with a short haircut.

Biography
In his field, Eberhartt had many competitors and the fact that he required almost unreasonable fees combined with his dark personality caused the mage to have fewer customers than he potentially could. He wasn't in touch with any other mage-healer or medic aside from Doctor Bertrand Wirtz with whom he shared a scholarly passion for unconventional medicine. They spent long hours discussing researches, scientific disputes and consulting on difficult cases of patients. The two also often rode off to Wirtz's village residence where, as they claimed, they worked on something groundbreaking. The truth was that they experimented on werewolves to find a cure for lycanthropy.

Indeed, Eberhartt was greatly interested in lycanthropy as a whole and always looked for a solution to this peculiarity. Cause of his obsession is quite simple: he was a werewolf too. He became one at the age of twenty, studying at the Ban Ard Academy for a fourth year by then. Masters decided to turn him into an experimental rabbit but he managed to flee. After years he finally settled in Novigrad where he found it easy to blend in. Together with Doctor Wirtz, he discovered a medicament that stopped the physical transformation. Nevertheless, he still had attacks of madness and bloodthirst during the full moon. For this reason, Eberhartt always spent this time in the residence, chained to a bed with a throat full of sleeping pills and dwarven mercenaries guarding him at all time.