Details about the world of THE WITCHER 3

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the world
The events of the series occur on the so-called Continent, a land inhabited by humans, dwarves (dwarves), goblins (Gnomes), and elves. Humans are the dominant and ruling race on the continent, who are divided between the northern kingdoms and the Nilfgaard Empire in the south. The relationship between Nilfgaard and the kingdoms of the north is often turbulent, as the two fought numerous wars in Nilfgaard's attempt to control the northern continent.

The third war between the two occurred during the events of Witcher 2, where the Nilfgaard Emperor recruited Witchers from the Snake School to destabilize the North (more on that later). It is not yet clear what the outcome of the Third War is, and it is certain that Witcher 3 will explain the details of the war further.

In addition to the factions mentioned, the continent is inhabited by various kinds of ferocious and ferocious monsters that attack the continent's inhabitants. Monsters were not always on the continent, but they came during the events of an abnormal ancient event called Conjunction of Spheres. The fusion led to the conflict of the different worlds in the universe, while the monsters moved from different fabricated worlds to the continent. These strange monsters spread panic across the continent, where their citizens were forced to hire those who kill the monsters. That's where the Witchers come in.
Monsters hunted.
The Witchers are, in short, monster hunters, and their profession became necessary as monsters spread on the continent. The Witchers were selected as young because of their skill in fighting or magic, and then undergo rigorous exercises in martial arts and magic, and are subjected to chemical and genetic transformations. They conclude their exercises with a magic process called Trial of Grasses. Few pass through this final process, but those who choose to become a Witchers with high combat skills, superhuman speed and flexibility, rapid healing ability, and immunity from various pandemics.
There are four Witchers schools - School of the Wolf, The Cat School, The Griffin School and The Viper - and the difference between them is where their base is. The Wolf School is to which Geralt belongs and is located in the Northern Kingdoms. We don't know much about cat and eagle schools because of their low visibility in The Witcher stories. Snake School first appeared in Witcher 2. Snake School is located in the Nilfgaard Empire, but the school collapsed many years ago (we don't know why it collapsed) and the rest of its members formed the Kingslayers. This group works for Nilfgaard to assassinate the northern kings and destabilize the region, and in return the emperor promised to rebuild their school in Nilfgaard.

Because of the abnormal abilities of the Witchers, people see them as both fear and hatred, seeing them as greedy mercenaries at best and non-human mutants at their worst. This hatred of the Witchers led to a mob attack on the Witchers' Kaer Morhen Fort and killed everyone there. Only a handful of Witchers escaped the massacre, but with the destruction of their fortress they lost the tools to train and transform new Witchers, thus beginning the gradual extinction of the Witchers profession.
Elves
The elves came to the continent long before humans came, but after dwarves and real estate. Due to their ambitious nature, the elves were able to dominate and govern the continent. Elves were masters of the continent until humans came. Some say that humans came to the continent after their world was destroyed in a world merger. At first the elves paid no attention to humans, and looked at them inferiorly. Soon, however, humans were able to establish their own kingdoms, which invaded and controlled the kingdoms of the elves, negating their lands and kingdoms.

The elves, of course, did not accept this, and there were frequent clashes between the elves ruling human beings, especially in the northern kingdoms, which treated the elves and dwarves unjustly and brutally. This eventually led to the formation of the Scoia'tel group, a band of revolutionary elves whose aim is to drive people out of the continent and restore glory to the commissions.

This is the story of elves on the continent, but there is another group of elves living in another world away from the continent, and this group is called Aen Elle. We do not know much about the Aen Elle and their relationship with the continents, but we know that in the past, they had enormous magical powers that allowed them to travel through time and space easily, which enabled them to visit any world they want easily. But the merger of the worlds deprived them of this power and weakened their magic. The Aen Elle did not accept that, and they recovered their lost power. The secret of their recovery lies in Elder Blood

The Elder Blood
Elder Blood is the genes that Aen Elle has made to regain strength. A fairy woman named Lara Dorren was chosen to carry Elder Blood in her veins, and it was predicted that she would marry a man from Aen Elle and bring back the magical powers, but Lara had another avenue, as she loved a human man named Cregennan of Lod. Cregennan was killed by some fanatical humans for his love for a fairy mirror. Soon Lara died after him, but before her death she gave birth to the daughter of a daughter Cregennan. Here comes Ciri, the white-haired girl we see to Gantt Geralt in Witcher 3.

 

Ciri hails from the Lara and Cregennan dynasty, carrying Elder Blood in her veins. Ciri is also the daughter of the present Nilfgaard emperor, but was adopted by Geralt as a child in exchange for her father's recovery from a serious illness. Geralt took the girl Ciri to the fortress of Kaer Morhen to be converted to Witcher. Ciri underwent Witchers (but not transitions) and worked witchcraft by a witch named Yennefer who became her mother (more on Yennefer in the next section).

As already mentioned, Ciri carries Elder Blood, which means that she can move through the worlds easily, and her adventures take her away from Geralt and Yennefer to the various universe worlds, including that of Jean Aen Elle. But now Ciri returns with Geralt and Yennefer in Witcher 3, but this time the Wild Hunt is chasing her.

Wild Hunt
An army of great ghosts that appears from the sky suddenly to terrorize the peoples of the continent and kidnap its inhabitants, these are Wild Hunt. No one knows what their nature is and what their goal is. Few have returned after being abducted by the Wild Hunt, and who have spoken of taking them to a strange world where time is slowly passing, and returning to their world to see the age gone by all those who knew him.