From the arduous training of Witchers, he becomes a master swordfighter and learns how to use the Signs, simple spells used by the witchers.ĭespite his name, Geralt does not come from Rivia (although he learns how to mimic a Rivian accent and is later knighted for services to the queen of Rivia): young witchers are encouraged to make up surnames for themselves by master Vesemir, to make their names sound more trustworthy. Because of his pale skin and white hair, he is also known in the Elder Speech as "Gwynbleidd" (close to the Welsh translation "Blaidd Gwyn" ), the White Wolf. This encourages his makers to perform even more dangerous experimental procedures on him, making him lose all body pigmentation. He resists the "changes" brought on by the Trial of Grasses better than most. Geralt survives mutations during the Trial of the Grasses, thanks to which he gains various witcher traits: high resistance to injury, poison, and diseases, as well as slowed aging, but also infertility all witchers are infertile. Shortly after being born, Geralt's mother, Visenna, gives him away to undergo training and, eventually, become a witcher at Kaer Morhen – the stronghold of the witchers. In television adaptations, he is portrayed by Michał Żebrowski in The Hexer film and TV series, while Henry Cavill portrays the character in Netflix's The Witcher TV series. Geralt of Rivia is also the protagonist in CD Projekt Red's series of video games based on The Witcher.
He was described by Péter Apor as a character embodying "the neo-liberal anti-politics" spirit of the Polish popular culture of the 1990s, following his debut in the books. He is a magically enhanced monster-hunter known as a "witcher", who possesses supernatural abilities due to his mutations. Geralt of Rivia ( Polish: Geralt z Rivii) is a fictional character and the protagonist of The Witcher series of short stories and novels by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski. Henry Cavill as Geralt in the television series The Witcher
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