Schirrú

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	Oh... How lovely it burns.
- Schirrú, Gwent: The Witcher Card Game Audio version: Media:Schirrú voice line.ogg

Schirrú (d. 1267) was a half-elf assassin, sought for manslaughter in Dorian by Codringher and Fenn. He hired the Nightingale gang to kill Geralt. He was also one of Vilgefortz's secret agents and partly responsible for the murders of both Codringher and Fenn.^[1]

Biography[]

Working for Rience[]

On the last night of June 1267, Schirrú, Millet and Nazarian, on the orders of Rience, went to Dorian, to Codringher and Fenn's detective agency. After Codringher answered the door and pretended to be a halfwit servant, Schirrú used a magic scroll to bind his hand and stabbed him in the belly twice. The three assassins entered the agency, and after Jacob Fenn killed Millet, Schirrú knocked the jurist out of his wheelchair onto the ground. As Fenn struggled around, the half-elf found information on Ciri and used the oil and lecterns to burn Fenn alive, along with destroying his agency.^[1]

The notes however talked of a false Cirilla, who the two detectives had located for the purpose of tricking the Imperials into believing they had the true heir to Cintra. Schirrú and Nazarian kidnapped the girl, and on the 3rd of July took her to Nastrog, posing as Rience and Count Cahir aep Ceallach to deceive Godyvron Pitcairn, the commander of the garrison who sent her onto Loc Grim to Emperor Emhyr.^[1]

Hunting Geralt[]

After giving Emperor Emhyr the false Ciri. He and Rience hid out in Stygga Castle with Vilgefortz. During their time, Yennefer had arrived via teleportation hurricane becoming their prisoner. Schirrú participated in nearly beating Yennefer to death with Rience, until his master intervened telling them he needed her alive to help him find Ciri. The pair brought the sorceress to a room, where she was strapped in a special chair that would torture her for the location of Ciri. The torture was partial unsuccessful in giving Vilgefortz Ciri, he was given the location of Geralt of Rivia. Schirrú volunteered to find and kill the Witcher, claiming he had "family" near the area Geralt and his hanse were travelling in.

After departing on his mission, Schirrú hired a gang of mercenaries lead by a man named Homer Straggen a.k.a. Nightingale. He paid them a handsome fee for their services and told them he would pay them again if they found Geralt. Taking refuge in the Rialto Mines, Schirrú waited for Geralt to arrive. Eventually, the half-elf got his wish and the witcher, along with Cahir, and a former Nightgale member named Angouleme had arrived. The trio lied to the half-elf saying they had killed Geralt and his friends, and took the witcher's hand and his medallion as a token. They then claimed a raccoon ate the severed hand and presented Geralt's medallion. Schirrú immediately knew the three were lying and held Angouleme at knife point demanding the two surrender otherwise he would kill the girl. Both Geralt and Cahir comply, and shortly after Nightingale arrives with the rest of the gang.

Schirrú gleefully tells Geralt he took absolute pleasure in killing Codringher and Fenn. The half-elf then promises the witcher a slow and painful death. However, just as Schirrú was about to make good on that promise, a group of guerilla freedom fighters called the Free Slopes suddenly began attacking the mine. The battle killed a good sum of the members of Nightingale and had wounded others including Cahir. Schirrú along with Homer and the surviving members of the Nightingale gang escaped, but so did Geralt, Cahir, and Angouleme.

Death[]

He was captured by the Caed Myrkvid druids for trespassing in their sacred grove and burned alive inside a Wicker hag, together with Homer Straggen and other members of the Nightingale gang. This act was apparently a precedent for the Caed Myrkvid druids but it was lifted directly from people's superstitions about their practices and was meant to serve as an example for future intruders.