We learn that Kitsu kidnapped and experimented on dozens of other elven girls in her attempt to create more hybrids like herself. Tetra tries to kill a young elven girl because the girl was turned into a hybrid (an elven man takes an arrow to the hand to protect the girl). In the ruins of an elven city, we see several elven skeletons with swords still sticking out of them. We see the remnants of previous wars between humans and elves, in which the elves were decimated (and we learn dwarves have also been destroyed by humans). Mages and witchers go to war (with the former backed up by armed guards and a mob of villagers). And when two knights pick a fight with Vesemir and his buddy in a pub, the witchers kill them. Others take up jobs as mercenaries for the better pay. We hear that one witcher collected a bounty by killing an unfaithful husband. The witchers do their part to destroy these creatures, slicing and dicing with their swords, knives and magic, but even then, theyвЂ™re sometimes overrun.Д«ut the witchers donвЂ™t limit themselves to just killing monsters. And despite being animated, the blood and gore we see here (e.g., some bodies are decapitated, others have organs hanging loose) is quite unsettling. People are quite literally ripped apart by monsters-including several children. And they do so with an eagerness that suggests they enjoy killing more than helping people. Use of the term вЂњgodsвЂќ suggests Kaedwen is a pagan society.ДЄ witcherвЂ™s sole purpose in life is to rid the land of the monsters. A boy sings a song about an enchanted bracelet. A witcher performs an exorcism on a woman. Someone tells a story about a witcher who tricked a priest into believing a sorceress had cursed him. They sometimes drink a potion to amp up their abilities (it turns their eyes and veins black).

Witchers wear medallions that vibrate and hum when monsters are near. It is suggested that necromancy plays a part in the creation of witchers (and VesemirвЂ™s friend tells him to find his вЂњrebirthвЂќ). We hear about other instances of alchemy. Other monsters can shape-shift and possess people. She uses this power to control creatures and to trick Vesemir into killing his friend. So she wants to wipe out their order and the mages who assist them.ДЄn elven woman named Kitsu is crossbred with a monster to give her incredible powers of illusion. Tetra believes that witchers are staging monster attacks to make a quick coin.

But purists, like Tetra, consider the creation of witchers through alchemy (a blend of science and magic) to be a dark and blasphemous ritual.

Mages and witchers alike can cast spells-some for good and some for evil. But when a new hybrid monster starts slaughtering the people of Kaedwen, itвЂ™ll require some cooperation between Vesemir and Tetra to rid the land of this foul beast. Vesemir certainly found the adventure-after all, thereвЂ™s always another monster-but the glory? Not so much. Now, heвЂ™s known as a вЂњswashbuckling witcher for hire, priced only for the foulest of creatures.вЂќ He voluntarily joined the witchers when he was a child, searching for adventure and glory. And it doesnвЂ™t help that witchers have a bad reputation for swindling innocent people out of their moneyвЂ¦ But if Tetra had her druthers, sheвЂ™d wipe the earth clean of all these monster-human hybrids called witchers. TheyвЂ™re the only creatures capable of killing the monsters that roam the land. Or so it is according to Tetra Gilchrist, a mage claiming to be a descendant of the first mages to inhabit the lands of Kaedwen.ДЄlas, Tetra and the rest of the world are stuck with them for now. There is no place amidst honest men for them.вЂќ True diabolical creatures, fit only for killing.

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