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Fringilla Vigo was a Nilfgaardian sorceress and a member of the Lodge of Sorceresses along with her fellow countrywoman, Assire var Anahid. She was also the second cousin of Anna Henrietta of Toussaint. During the First Northern War Fringilla fought for Nilfgaard at the Battle of Sodden Hill where she blinded Yennefer who was fighting on the opposing side.
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Biography
In Nilfgaard, Fringilla was approached by Assire var Anahid who offered her the chance to become a member of the Lodge of Sorceresses. While initially surprised by Assire's appearance, since Assire never really put effort into her appearance before, Assire pointed out that Fringilla had always been one to put effort into her own looks, noting that among Nilfgaardian mages Fringilla didn't care about their stereotypes (as Nilfgaard believed mages that focused on their looks were superficial). The two southern sorceresses then discussed events at Nilfgaard's court before preparing to meet the Lodge.
The two teleported to Montecalvo, where they met the other members of the Lodge. However, when a reluctant Yennefer appeared with Francesca and Ida, Yennefer immediately recognized Fringilla, as the two fought on opposite sides in the Battle of Sodden Hill. Using this to her advantage, Fringilla was able to talk to Yennefer alone during a break in the meeting and, knowing Yennefer was trying to escape to get to Ciri, gave her hints on how to get around Montecalvo's impenetrable barrier.
Toussaint
Later on, while visiting Anna Henrietta in Toussaint, Geralt and company fortuitously crossed paths with Fringilla. She quickly became romantically involved with Geralt to both try and get valuable information from him and pause his search for Ciri under the Lodge's orders, as they had their own plans laid out for Ciri. While this plan worked for a time so that the mountain passes became obstructed by snow and impassable, Geralt never managed to get Yennefer out of his mind, even going so far as to utter her name instead of Fringilla’s in moments of passion. Despite this, to keep him there as long as possible, she gave Geralt a magic amulet to somewhat replace his lost witcher medallion so he could preoccupy himself with contracts.
In early January, Angoulême began to talk to Fringilla about how to convince Geralt to let her to continue traveling with him when they finally set out again, but Regis corrected the young girl, clearly seeing that the sorceress' only thought was to keep the witcher from leaving. Fringilla and the vampire then debated back and forth, with Fringilla claiming she'd helped Geralt more than the group and he wouldn't dare leave her, to which Regis responded that she was wrong and right now Geralt was merely in a dream state, but would soon wake up to reality and eventually continue his travels to find Ciri.
Sure enough, Geralt returned from a contract he'd taken and told the company to pack up and get ready to leave soon. However Fringilla, realizing something was amiss, was waiting in the horse stables and confronted Geralt before he could leave. Knowing the only reason he was leaving now was because he had information regarding where Vilgefortz was, she at first tried to beg him to stay, saying she thought she loved him. When this didn't work though, Fringilla eventually offered to trade information. She then revealed not only was Yennefer innocent, having never betrayed Geralt or Ciri, but Yennefer had taken a daring risk to rescue Ciri but fell into Vilgefortz's hands, her status unknown but had certainly been tortured. Before Geralt told her what he learned, she asked him to have sex with her one last time as his goodbye. Afterwards, Geralt told her that Vilgefortz's hideout was at Rhys-Rhun Castle before taking off.
Locating Ciri
With this information, Fringilla reported to the Lodge that they had won and would certainly get there before Geralt could arrive in April on horseback. The Lodge then set plans into motion to attack the castle and take Vilgefortz alive. However, on the night they attacked, Fringilla and the rest of the Lodge watched through a magical image as the ones they sent quickly realized the location was a deception: nobody had been there in 50 some years. With Fringilla stunned and unable to understand what occurred, the other sorceresses had to fill her in: she'd been lied to and given a false location.
Humiliated by this, Fringilla concocted a magical cream to keep her face from blushing, no matter how embarrassed she was, which she wore during subsequent Lodge meetings. By early April, she and the rest of the Lodge learned the real location had been Stygga Castle, but were too late as Geralt had reunited with Ciri and Yennefer.
Despite this setback, the Lodge managed to convince Ciri to meet with them beginning of June, with all the members in attendance. However, when it came up at the end of the meeting that Ciri wished to go say goodbye to Geralt, the Lodge members were split on this idea. Some felt it was too sentimental while others believed that Ciri would keep her word and return, so they put it to a vote. For her part, Fringilla voted to let Ciri go, both out of respect for Ciri and for Geralt, who risked everything to save Ciri and thus she felt shouldn't be denied a meeting with his adoptive daughter.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Imprisoned by Emperor Emhyr var Emreis himself, due to her treasonous connections with the Lodge, Fringilla was sought after by her former associates, along with Geralt, in their bid to defy and defeat the Wild Hunt near Undvik on Skellige Islands.
Journal entry
- Emperor Emhyr had once presented the mages of Nilfgaard with a simple choice: either serve their country unquestioningly or die in prison.
- Fringilla Vigo, a mistress of magic holding office in the vassal duchy of Toussaint, refused both options and instead joined the infamous Lodge of Sorceresses, whose aim was to stand up to the dictates of kings and emperors. These bold ambitions were never fulfilled, however, and Fringilla Vigo lived in fear that her ties to this subversive organization would be discovered and she would meet a quick end at the hands of the emperor's executioners.
- One must mention here that Geralt first met Fringilla at the ducal palace in Beauclair many years ago, when we were there enjoying the hospitality of my one-time love, Duchess Anna Henrietta. The witcher, always a sucker for sorceresses, conjoined with Madame Vigo during this time in a quite lively relationship that surely was no cause of joy for Triss or Yennefer.
- All indications were that Fringilla had been arrested and remained in a Nilfgaardian prison, undoubtedly awaiting execution for acts of high treason.
- She was later released, however, thanks to a bargain Yennefer had struck with Emhyr.
Associated quests
Bugs
- In The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, completing High Stakes while having at least heard Sasha's proposal is supposed to unlock an additional conversation with Fringilla Vigo if you talk to her after Veni Vidi Vigo. However, an internal event doesn't register and prevents that from happening. With console commands enabled, you can do this manually with the following: addfact(sq306_completed).
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Footnotes
- ↑ Fringilla is described as "ghastly pale" when confronted by Yen at Lodge meeting; this is due to Fringilla's embarrassment at her failure in obtaining the location of Vilgefortz's hideout from Geralt.
References
- ↑ The Lady of the Lake
- ↑ In Polish version Fringilla Vigo is called Artorius' "bratanica", which means "brother's daughter".
- ↑ Blood and Wine expansion
External links
See the GWENT standalone game version card: Fringilla Vigo
