Leo Bonhart was a bounty hunter, the most feared mercenary who hunted witchers for fun.
Biography[]
At some point in his life, Leo Bonhart became a mercenary, and he became so good at it that he became feared throughout the empire. He pushed this further, wanting to become known as the greatest swordsman in history. To prove this, he began hunting and killing witchers. Later, he became a bounty hunter.
Hired to exterminate some Rats[]
A lone witcher, from the School of the Griffin, approaches Leo, who was tending to his horse, and remarks that the witcher got his invitation, that a witcher was wanted. The two fight, and Leo easily overpowers the witcher to the point of mocking and torturing the witcher. Leo's fun ends when Stefan Skellen appears before him and hires him to eliminate the group of thieves known as the Rats and the newly recruited known as Falka.
The Rats would learn that a bounty was placed on their heads by the Baron of Casadei, for their actions toward his daughter, but also that Leo was also after them. Around that same time, Leo entered a tattoo parlor where Ciri had slain three bounty hunters and found a woman mourning the loss of one of the three hunters, who was her husband. Leo initially shows sympathy toward the woman, but he killed her because she was ruining his concentration. Examining the bodies of the three dead bounty hunters, Leo mentally visualizes how the bounty hunters died and notes that they never stood a chance against their opponent. Before leaving the place, Leo wonders who this Falka was.
One night, while drinking in a bar, Leo overheard some guards mentioning having seen the Rats and the woman young called Falka, who had brutally killed some guards after the group kidnapped a child. Leo approached them and demanded to know where the Rats might have gone, but the guards refused to tell him. Bonhart led them out into an alley and killed them all, including the last one, to whom Leo demanded one last time where to find the Rats. The guard said he would look for Hotspurn, but succumbed to his wound before he could told him his location.
So Bonhart had an advantage over his reward. With Hotspurn, he planned for the trader to set a trap for the Rats, luring them to him to Jealousy, though Ciri separated from the group after becoming angry and learning they'd been doing work for Nilfgaard.
Attracting Ciri[]
As planned, Leo waited for the Rats at the inn where he was staying. They shouted for Bonhart to come out. Bonhart emerged, smiling, excited to get the show going. Leo explained that they had a good reward for being dead, but if they were alive, they would offer a much greater reward. He then gave them the choice of doing it the easy way or the hard way, but the Rats, thinking they could defeat him, chose the hard way, and Leo accepted with excitement. Then Bonhart asked about Ciri, but the Rats didn't tell him anything, and he went downstairs.
Leo draws his sword and begins to hum. He approaches the Rats and says, "Let the music begin," and the Rats turn against Bonhart. But none of them can stand against him, and Bonhart kills them one by one, mocking them as he advances. Kayleigh and Mistle are the last ones left. He orders Kayleigh to tell him where Ciri is, promising to spare his life, but Kayleigh says nothing and tries to throw an explosive rock at him. Leo notices, cuts open his abdomen, and places the rock in the wound, killing him. Mistle tries to attack him, but he easily dodges and kills the last Rat. They all lie dead on the ground, and just in time, Ciri arrives, having been unable to reach her friends in time.
Ciri cries with rage upon seeing her friends killed, and she attacks Leo. The two engage in a fierce sword fight, but Ciri is unable to kill Leo and leaves her unconscious on the ground as she stares at the dying Mistle, who calls her by her true name.
Leo tied Ciri up and left her alive to force her to witness him decapitating her friends and her dead girlfriend and placing their heads in a barrel, while Ciri cried for them.
Notes[]
- Unlike most mercenaries and bounty hunters, Leo isn't motivated by money or anger, but rather to prove he's the greatest fighter.
- He carries around medallions of all the witchers he's killed.
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