Talk:Zdrada/@comment-29962309-20160917183738/@comment-178.149.17.207-20181005014832

In my mind it is quite simple, Massacre at Kaer Morhen devastated the witchers but order itself and at least one of their mages survived and tried to rebuild. All of the witchers we know of except Vesemir were trained decades after the massacre (also evident in Witcher 1 when he talks about these events) including Geralt (who in my mind is the same age Sapkowski was when he finished the books meaning 52 at the end of Saga and in his late 20s and early 30s at the beginning of short stories, not 100 years old. In this comic for example the group is very small and they do not train at the fortress. Both wolf and cat school are at their low point during the plot of the comic and try to integrate and negotiate with Kaedweni king Radovit (once again name makes sense because Kaedweni monarchs originated from Redania and broke from it). Then mages and druids convince the king that Witchers and their strongholds are a liability his enemies could use against him (also implied is witchers were at one time state funded enterprise),that their time is up because there are no more monsters but since they have too strong defences it would be best to lure them out and kill them in the open. So then Radovit decides Cats and Wolves should show him their prowess so he can decide which school to fund in his land as a setup for eliminating them. Then massacre happens and the school is on it's death throws. They attempt one final last time to rebuilt and this is Lambert's generation 25 years before the Blood of elves but alas their last mage dies and they are left in the state we see them when the books start.