Yennefer wakes up just as one is about to land and magically tosses it to safety. Fringilla orders some of her mage underlings to conjure up massive, raging fireballs-killing them in the process-which a Nilfgaardian catapult then hurls towards the keep. Cahir and Nilfgaard's resident mage Fringilla (a fellow student of Yen's at Aretuza, you may remember) decide to test the mages' defences. A field marshal tells Cahir that 50,000 troops are on their way from the freshly-razed city of Cintra, and that scouts have spotted the rebel mages fortifying the castle. Now we join the Nilfgaardians, camped near the keep. Tissaia disagrees: "You have so much left to give." She has no legacy to leave behind, no family. Later, Tissaia and Yennefer have a heart to heart. Yennefer finds a refugee woman making arrows, who talks about all the terrible things the Nilfgaardians have done to her-just to make doubly sure we know they're the bad guys. We even see the normally stoic, unamused Tissaia laughing and smiling. It's the night before the battle and Yennefer is wandering the battlements as the others drink and make merry below. As the Empire's soldiers march, the mages and refugees prepare for battle: lining up bows, fletching arrows, and filling little glass bottles with explosive, magic-infused blue rocks. In the castle the mages find tired-looking refugees, brutally driven from their homes by Nilfgaard. The keep guards the narrowest parts of the Yaruga River the only thing standing between Nilfgaard and the North. Then we're treated to an aerial shot of the keep: a crumbling castle perched on the edge of a deep, rocky canyon. Vilgefortz asks Yennefer why she came, but she doesn't seem to have an answer-at least not one she's willing to share. Tissaia tells Yennefer that Temeria and Kaedwen are joining the fight, and that they will have to fortify the keep until the armies arrive in two days. Nilfgaard has no choice but to move through the keep to continue its conquest of the Continent. They're travelling to an old Elven keep in Sodden: a place of great strategic importance. Of Banquets, Bastards, and Burials (opens in new tab)Ī rowboat moves through foggy water, loaded with the rebel mages from Aretuza-including Yennefer, Vilgefortz, Tissaia, and Triss. Prepare for The Witcher season 2 with all of our episode guides:Ĥ. "Not a happy ending after all," he grumbles as he slumps to the ground. Geralt manages to defeat the creatures, just, but notices a nasty, festering wound on his leg. He loses his sword and pulls one of their tongues out, using it as a makeshift weapon. Zombie-like creatures with glowing eyes rise from the dirt and attack the witcher. Then something stirs in the earth beneath him. Geralt says he's going back to Kaer Morhen-an old keep in the mountains of Kaedwen, where he was trained as a witcher long ago. He's a merchant, Yurga, and he's giving the dead a proper burial, not robbing them. He realises he's in Ciri's room and looks through her belongings-a storybook, a dress, a set of knucklebones-and we hear an echo of his promise to Calanthe from episode seven: "I will take her, protect her, and bring her back unharmed, I promise you that." Later, outside the city walls, Geralt bumps into a man he mistakes for a graverobber. We rejoin Geralt in Cintra, having just run his sword through a prophecy-spouting Nilfgaardian soldier.
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