BiggusD1: Battle of Brenna modeled after Battle Of Grunwald of 15 century when joint forces won battle against Teutonic Orden

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Grunwald

Isambard: IIRC Sapkowski himself was against comparing Nilfgaard to Germany. In fact, German-sounding names are to be found in the North. Yennefer for example is from a city named Vengerberg.

I think that the Empire is more modeled after the Roman Empire. This of course does not relate to names or technology, but for example Nilfgaard is far more advanced than all the Northerners and is conquest-bound, autocratic as it is politically unstable. And it methods are just evergreen political ways of dealing with things.

Jamanticus: Yep, he survived the Trial of Grasses (the one where they give you mutagens) exceptionally well, which made them decide to use even more extreme mutagens on him. That's what turned his hair white. Also a good part of the reason why he's only been completely thrashed in single combat by one person, ever.

(spoiler)

That person was the sorcerer Vilgefortz. Not only an obscenely powerful and power-hungry mage, but a master of swordsmanship as well. Still, Geralt ended up killing him too in the end xP

Corylea: In TW1, Geralt says that no witcher has ever died of old age. Since they live such dangerous lives, usually some monster gets them, sometime, but their life span IS greatly extended.

In the journal entry for Vesemir, it says that he's so old that he may even pre-date Kaer Morhen ... which means that he's very old indeed.

When Geralt says that he's "too old" for something or the other, I don't get the sense that he's talking about physical aging; it's more a weariness of the spirit. He's still in fabulous shape, physically, except for the scars. But after 100 years of seeing people treat each other badly, after 100 years of being an outcast, after 100 years of killing monster after monster, his zest for living is less than it was when he was young.

cjrgreen: Sorceresses have access to health and beauty treatments that the rest of us don't even have the right to dream of :) And they're competitive about it.

Paul_cz: So is Geralt around 100 or 63?

Where did you get his time of being born?

BTW does anyone have a chronological order of the short stories?

Endrevius: Nowhere in saga or short stories is said how old Geralt is exactly, probably only Sapkowski knows that for sure. Speculationa are betwean 50-100.

And the first short story ever in Witchers universum was "A way Your're not coming back from"(or something like that "Droga, z której się nie wraca" in original). Its about how Geralt parents met if i remember well.

Paul_cz: Anyway, in the first The Witcher story, where Geralt lifts curse of Adda, Foltest looks to be 35. So I guess it takes place about 25 years before the game? Ciri should be like 21 during Witcher 2 IIRC, so I guess it makes sense...

Isambard: That's far too much. Please consider Dandelion's age. He is plain human (in terms of lifespan of course), and he is far from being old in both novels and games. And we know that by the time of lifting the curse from Adda, he was already known poet and Geralt's friend. We also know that the he titled his memoires "Half a Century of Poetry" because he intended to publish them when he reaches 50 years of age.

Also, Adda was 7 at the time the curse was lifted. How old is she at the time of the first game?

Isambard: Also, Adda was 7 at the time the curse was lifted. How old is she at the time of the first game?