You are Geralt of Rivia, mercenary monster slayer. The Lodge was rehabilitated, remembered as 'the Great Lodge', and its deceased members elevated into sainthood and martyrdom. Winner of over 250 Game of the Year awards, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is a story-driven, open world adventure set in a dark fantasy universe. Many rulers of the time like Emhyr var Emreis and Radovid V were not fond of mages and did nothing to stop the hunts, occasionally using them for their goals instead.ĭuring the 14th and 15th centuries, this period and the Northern Wars were labelled as a Dark Age by the academies. At first, it sent the Order of the Flaming Rose but later formed the witch hunters. Led by Hierarch Cyrus Engelkind Hemmelfart, the Church of the Eternal Fire in Novigrad wasted no time.

However, the truth is that they were provoked by zealous clergy with Archpriest Willemer, who purposefully incited hate towards magic, in charge. To trigger this quest you need to complete The Nilfgaardian Connection. Īccording to the Encyclopaedia Maxima Mundi, a Nilfgaardian tome full of propaganda, the hunts started over a passage from the Ithlinne's Prophecy about The Destroyer being wrongly interpreted. The Witcher 3 Walkthrough, Part Six: Hunting a Witch. In the Northern Kingdoms, the hunts went hand in hand with nonhuman persecutions and, if they managed to catch any, fanatical doppler hunts. This was accompanied by the destruction of sorceresses' images, carried out very diligently and thoroughly within the Nilfgaardian Empire. Most victims were impaled, burned at the stake, or tortured to death during the interrogations. The witch hunts were a series of bloody events lasting from 1272 to 1276, during which a number of sorcerers and sorceresses, including the Lodge and other magic organizations, as well as other allegedly 'objectionable' mages, were killed.

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