Geralt of Rivia

Template:Character infoboxTemplate:BigQuote Geralt of Rivia (Polish: Geralt z Rivii) is a witcher and the main protagonist of the Witcher series by Andrzej Sapkowski and its adaptations (including The Witcher, The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt videogames). Like all Witchers, Geralt is a monster hunter for-hire. He possesses superhuman abilities, and is a master swordsman. During the Trial of the Grasses, Geralt exhibited unusual tolerance for the mutagens that grant Witchers their abilities. 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.

Geralt is also known as Gwynbleidd, meaning "White Wolf" in Elder Speech. He was given this alias by the dryads. He is also called the Butcher of Blaviken.

Geralt's first name was bestowed on him by Visenna, his mother. However, despite his surname, Geralt does not hail from Rivia. In actuality, he grew up in the Witcher keep Kaer Morhen in the realm of Kaedwen.

Geralt's first choice of name was "Geralt Roger Eric du Haute-Bellegarde," a choice that was dismissed by his mentor Vesemir as silly and pretentious. In the end, Geralt chose the name "of Rivia" as a more practical alternative. Geralt adopted a Rivian accent to enhance the authenticity of his chosen name. At one point, Queen Meve of Lyria knighted Geralt for his valour in the Battle for the Bridge on the Yaruga, and granted him the formal title "of Rivia," a boon which the Witcher found highly amusing. Geralt's granted title elevates him above a commoner and formally affords him knightly status.

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Who is Geralt of Rivia?

Geralt of Rivia is a character from The Witcher series. He was born as the son of the sorceress Visenna and the warrior Korin. He was trained to become a Witcher and underwent experimental mutations that granted him enhanced abilities.

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What is Geralt's nickname?

Geralt has a number of nicknames, with the more well known ones being "White Wolf" (also called "Gwynbleidd" in Elder Speech) and Butch of Blaviken.

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Who trained Geralt to become a Witcher?

Geralt was trained by his mentor Vesemir, who he regarded as a father figure.

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What is Geralt's profession?

Geralt is a monster slayer for hire. He travels the world on his horse named Roach, taking contracts to slay monsters and protect the innocent.

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What is the Trial of The Grasses?

The Trial of The Grasses was a painful process that used a mysterious mixture of plants, elixirs, and other unknown ingredients to modify the physiology of young witcher adepts to make them fully fledged witchers in terms of reflexes and heightened senses. However, this process caused so much strain on an adept's body, only about 3 to 4 out of every 10 adepts survived, with the rest dying in agony.

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Biography

File:Geralt komiks 1.JPG Geralt in the comic book, drawn by Bogusław Polch

Geralt is the son of the sorceress Visenna and, presumably, the warrior Korin. Shortly after his birth, Geralt was taken by his mother to the Wolf School, the Kaer Morhen stronghold. There, Geralt was trained and made to be a Witcher. He survived the many ravaging mutations required to grant Witchers their abilities, and passed the Trial of the Grasses, Geralt's training and physical modifications afford him superhuman physical and mental abilities, including heightened reflexes, increased speed, great strength and enhanced hearing.

Due to his excellent success in training, Geralt was selected for additional mutation experiments. He is the only Witcher to have survived these experiments. His stark white hair is a side effect of these additional mutations. After finishing His Witcher training, Geralt embarked into the world on a horse named Roach, a name he would bestow on every one of his later horses. Thus, he became a monster slayer for hire.

At one point, Geralt demanded the unborn child of princess Pavetta and her husband Duny as a reward for his services. The child was born a girl, and Geralt refused her. However, fate caused Geralt and the girl, Cirilla, to cross paths three times. Eventually, Geralt took the girl as his ward, following the death of her grandmother, Queen Calanthe. Now, he loves her as his own daughter.

Geralt's best friend is Dandelion the bard, and his lover and romantic love is Yennefer.

Personality

Geralt's personality and character is largely left up to the choices of the player. He is by nature a loner and an outcast, with a ruthless streak to him that makes him extremely dangerous when provoked (or when the appropriate dialogue choices are made by the player). Despite his outwardly cold nature, Dandelion notes that behind his exterior lies a fiercely loyal friend, and a man of good humor and giver of sound advice. Geralt is shown in the books and games to have many good friends all over the Northern Realms, such as Caldemeyn of Blaviken, Zoltan Chivay, and of course Dandelion. Geralt is also shown to be extremely adept at defusing difficult situations in the video games, and as a man who would much sooner have everyone return home than to draw his sword. His experience of at least 97 years in the world makes him a world-weary man, often expressing disdain and veiled insults to those he considers cruel, foolish, etc.

Geralt is consistently shown as fiercely loyal to his friends. Depending on player choice, he risks Temeria's future to save Triss Merigold from the Nilfgaardians. In The Edge of the World, he was shown requesting Scoia'tael to spare Dandelion and kill only himself.

The Hexer

Michał Żebrowski as Geralt in The Hexer movie

In The Hexer movie and TV series, the major role of Geralt as an adult was played by Michał Żebrowski, but a younger Geralt was portrayed by Maciej Łagodziński. Both the series and the movie were based largely on the previously published short stories, taking a few liberties here and there with the narrative.

Naturally, Geralt appears in all thirteen episodes of the series and is the protagonist of the film.

The Witcher

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In the English version of the game, Geralt is voiced by Doug Cockle and in the Polish version by Jacek Rozenek.

After seemingly having been killed by a mob during a pogrom of non-humans at the end of the Witcher saga, Geralt returns to life with no recollection of the details of his sudden reappearance or the intervening five years. He is rescued by the last remaining witchers in the world and taken back to Kaer Morhen. There, he is drawn into a complicated conspiracy concerning the witchers, their secrets and the nefarious forces who are after that knowledge.

Geralt pursues the mysterious Salamandra, and in the process meets many people from his past, as well as new acquaintances who either require the witcher's help, or offer their own in his quest to regain his identity.

Journal entry

A book entitled "The Rivian Pogrom" claims that Geralt, known also as the White Wolf, died during a massacre of non-humans. The pogrom took place in the city of Rivia just after the war with Nilfgaard. Geralt was killed by an angry mob when he tried to defend the oppressed. The sorceress Triss Merigold and the dwarf Zoltan Chivay witnessed his death. The witcher's body was never found.

The bard Dandelion recounts the adventures of the witcher Geralt in his ballads. After reading them, one may conclude that the White Wolf was the most famous witcher of his time. He actively participated in many historical events, such as the mage rebellion on Thanedd Island. Dandelion's poems are mostly devoted to Geralt's fights against monsters, the numerous romantic entanglements for which he is famous, and to his love for a certain sorceress.

Some years ago, Geralt of Rivia came to King Foltest's court in search of work. He obtained a contract to free the monarch's daughter Adda from a spell which had turned her into a striga, or to kill her if all else failed. The witcher managed to free the girl from the spell, and discovered that one of the courtiers had been responsible for the curse.

The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings

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Journal Entry

Behold our hero: subjected to mutations and rigorous sword and sorcery training as a child, he has become a superhuman monster slayer. Always penniless and often disdained by those whom he protects, he wanders the world seeking work. Fate has little mercy for him, piling obstacles in his way, yet he trudges on. He has more scruples than a beggaring bum has fleas. Doubts haunt him even when a band of ruffians, knives drawn, approaches him on the highway. Is he a good man? I do not think so. Does he try to maintain his humanity? I believe he does.

You must know that Geralt of Rivia died once already, or at least everyone thought him dead. During a massacre in Rivia, he sought to defend nonhumans and fell to overwhelming odds. Placed in a boat, he floated into the mist, into a realm where he finally found peace. Not for long. Because of forces to mentioned later, Geralt returned just in time to defend the witchers' ancient home fortress, and then embarked on a mission to recover the secrets stolen from it. Along the way he took part in a Scoia'tael uprising, shattered a powerful criminal organization, and killed the Grand Master of the Order of the Flaming Rose. All the while his fame as a lover grew. Well, that's Geralt for you. As if all this wasn't enough, he then foiled the attempted assassination of King Foltest of Temeria and became one of the monarch's most trusted men.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

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Geralt as he appears in witcher 3

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The third installment of the trilogy will, like its predecessors, follow Geralt through his final adventure. Following the events of Witcher 2, Geralt has regained his memory of the past and prepares to embark on a new journey. In Witcher 3, Geralt is on the search for the only person he considers kin, Ciri. Along his journey, Geralt must face the Wild Hunt in order to protect the people he cares about. In the new open world, Geralt will have the opportunity to complete quests both part of the main story and side quests. He will also interact with old friends Dandelion and Vesemir along with potential lovers Triss Merigold and Yennefer.

Armor concepts for Geralt in the Witcher 3

Concept art of Geralt in the Witcher 3

Journal Entry

Many cannot fathom the friendship Geralt of Rivia and I, Dandelion, have shared all these years. When we first began breaking bread together, spiteful tongues said he'd be better off cutting my throat and dumping my body in a hollow tree - before I provoked someone else into doing the same to us both. Those individuals spoke out of pure jealousy, for Geralt was my dearest friend, a fact which he gave ample evidence of on numerous occasions.

I could say a great deal about that world-famous monster hunter, the man known in Elder Speech as Gwynbleidd, or, in our younger (yet no less noble) tongue, as the White Wolf. For Geralt of Rivia is a truly exceptional individual. A brief encounter might tempt one to label him a mere swinger of swords, a simple monster-catcher, a rough-and-tumble practitioner of a dirty trade - but peer closer and you will soon discover he is a man of unplumbed depths, unique views and vast, world-spanning experience.

On the surface, he is introverted, tight-lipped, one might even say gruff, but underneath lies an overflowing sea of goodwill, good humor, and an honest readiness to help his friends, be it with a bit of sound advice or the masterful application of his blade.

Trivia

• Geralt's name in the Elder Speech, Gwynbleidd, is very similar to the Welsh translation of "white wolf", which is blaidd gwyn.
• Most of The Witcher 2 promotional screenshots or artwork featuring Geralt display a fairly different model, an early design, even the cover of the game doesn't use the in game model for Geralt. A different model was planned to replace Geralt's face from The Witcher, but due to protests in Poland, CDP edited the old model and placed it into the game.
• CD Projekt RED revealed in a Q&A on Raptr that the first publishing offer they got for The Witcher was on the condition that they made Geralt female, amongst other changes.
• A grown up Everett—styling himself as Julius Cudera—once challenged Geralt to a fight. Geralt used the Sign of Aard on Julius's testicles, rendering the latter sterile. Up to this day, Julius still asserts his superiority over others out of a blatant sense of insecurity and mental instability.

Gallery

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In other languages

Flag	Language	Geralt
	Polish (original)	Geralt z Rivii
	Bulgarian	Гералт от Ривия Geralt ot Riviya
	Czech	Geralt z Rivie
	English	Geralt of Rivia
	Estonian	Riivimaa Geralt
	Finnish	Geralt Rivialainen
	French	Geralt de Riv
	German	Geralt von Riva
	Greek	Γκέραλτ της Ριβίης Gkéralt ti̱s Rivíi̱s
	Hungarian	Ríviai Geralt
	Italian	Geralt di Rivia
	Latvian	Geralts no Rivijas
	Lithuanian	Geraltas iš Rivijos
	Farsi (Persian)	گرالت از (اهل) رِویا
	Dutch	Geralt van Rivia
	Russian	Геральт из Ривии Geralt iz Rivii
	Serbian	Гералт од Ривије Geralt od Rivije
	Slovak	Geralt z Rivie
	Slovenian	Geralt iz Rivie
	Spanish	Gerald de Rivia
	Swedish	Geralt av Rivia
	Turkish	Rivialı Geralt
	Ukrainian	Ґеральт з Рівії Geralt z Riviyi
	Chinese Simplified	利维亚的杰洛特 Lì wéi yǎ de jié luò tè
Romanian Flag	Romanian	Geralt din Rivia
Brazilian Flag	Brazilian Portuguese	Geralt de Rivia
	Croatian	Geralt od Rivije
	Macedonian	Гералт од Ривија Geralt od Rivija
	Arabic	جيرالت من ريفيا