While a question has been on fans' lips for years, the latest The Witcher book officially brings a shocking revelation on the subject.
Years after the last book, Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski has finally released a new The Witcher book titled The Crow's Crossroads. Released at the end of November, it focuses on the youth of our dear Geralt of Rivia and how he became the legendary sorcerer we know. So this new book officially reveals to us just how much this good old White Wolf traveled before he took his well-deserved retirement in The Witcher 3 Blood and Wine.
A final The Witcher book full of Riv-élations
For years, fans of The Witcher have debated Geralt's true age, which has never actually been stated. In the third work of CD Projekt RED games, he was easily considered a fifties. However, keep in mind that due to their mutations, Witchers age more slowly than normal people. However, we had to wait until the original author's final book had an answer officially set in stone.
This is how we find out that it is good old Geralt born in 1173 in the calendar of his universe. In The Witcher 3, our dear White Wolf is 61 years old.. Even if he doesn't do them, the Blood and Wine expansion shows a very tired sorcerer who had only one wish: to spend peaceful days alone or with the magician of his heart. Also note that when he sets his sights on Yennefer, she is technically 40 years older than him (and is originally a hunchback, very different from the beautiful raven-haired woman we know). Likewise, she obviously doesn't make them through her magic.
As in the books, CD Projekt RED's game trilogy ends with Geralt passing the torch to Ciri as the story's main protagonist. This was confirmed with the announcement of The Witcher 4, the first episode of a new saga with the young woman as the heroine. The game should be placed ” a few years after the events of the third opus “. We should therefore find a Geralt who is a little older. It remains to be seen to what extent the White Wolf has benefited from his retirement or not.
Source: Reddit
