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This article is about the witcher. For the peasant in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, see Gerd (peasant). |
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Send as many lackeys as you like. I'll send them all back in pieces. |  | |
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Gerd was a legendary witcher-adventurer from the School of the Bear.
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Biography[]
Conflict in Arcsea[]
Gerd was summoned to the duchy of Arcsea by Helena Lange-Haare, the heiress to the ducal throne, who sought his help in removing her father from the throne he had unlawfully seized. However, Gerd insulted Helena with his rude behavior and ultimately declined her offer. Despite the atrocities and deaths caused by the usurper, Gerd chose to ally with him, committing various crimes in his service. In a surprising turn of events, Helena successfully overthrew her father and issued a warrant for Gerd's arrest, with a bounty of 300 Arcsea denars.[1] Gerd fled to the Skellige Isles, eventually arriving on the island of Ard Skellig.
Time in Skellige[]
Upon arriving on Ard Skellig, Gerd encountered locals pleading for help with a dragon that was terrorizing an area near some Elven ruins. Gerd ventured to the ruins and successfully slew the beast, smiling as it drew its last breath.[2] Shortly after, he was contracted by Jorgen Iron Hand to eliminate a siren that had been attacking people in a cave in the northwestern part of Spikeroog. After dealing with the dragon, Gerd sailed to An Skellig and arrived at Fort Tuirseach on the first day of summer, where his appearance brought much joy to all in the castle. He quickly befriended the jarl of An Skellig, Torgeir the Red, after the two shared a barrel of mead. They began hunting together and hosting feasts.
Torgeir soon asked Gerd to rid them of a striga that had made its lair in the ruins of Etnir. Moved by the jarl's plea, Gerd accepted the contract but explained that he first needed to complete his prior commitment to Jorgen Iron Hand. The jarl paid Gerd with a pouch of coins and offered one of his men, Olven, to serve as a guide and, if necessary, a fighting companion. Gerd thanked him and entrusted his prized armor diagrams to the jarl as a promise of his return.[3]
Gerd and Olven sailed to Spikeroog, arriving at the cave infested with sirens. The creatures attacked the men but were swiftly dispatched by Gerd, who used his crossbow to bring them down before finishing them off. After the battle, they made camp in the cave, but by dawn, Olven had died, leaving behind a letter to one Ingeborga Kalebsdotter, admiring the witcher's battle prowess and noting that he had copied Gerd's crossbow diagram.[4]
After completing the contract and taking the siren's head, Gerd returned to a well-known tavern near Fyresdal on Ard Skellig. There, he collected his reward, spent the night drinking, telling tales, and playing gwent with Jorgen and the innkeep. Unfortunately, he lost half his reward and his steel sword diagram to the innkeep in a game of Gwent.[5]
Later that night, a knight from Arcsea, Chalimir, and his men came for Gerd at the inn, setting it ablaze and reducing it to the ruins that remain today. The witcher escaped and made his way to the ruined Fort Etnir to fulfill his contract with the jarl. However, his pursuers caught up with him there. Gerd managed to kill five of them, mortally wound Chalimir, and bring down the fort's roof on them using magic. However, he left behind his silver sword diagram, which his pursuers found after he fled.[6]
Gerd eventually returned to Jarl Torgeir in An Skellig. Shortly thereafter, bandits and Nilfgaardian bounty hunters, paid by the Nilfgaardians, besieged the jarl's castle with catapults. Castle Tuirseach crumbled and fell into ruin, taking with it Jarl Torgeir, his men, and the witcher Gerd.[7]
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