Which Witcher School Are You? [The Lore Of Every Witcher School] 

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School of the Donkey

What, there's school of failures at *The Witcher 3* game ? I'm new bro and haven't watch the series bcs too addicted to the game, damn it's so fucking great game.

​@@darkerpath No they're joking (also don't watch the show if you don't want your brain fried)

Well said! Griffin school practically is probably one of the nicest schools to be a part of but Bear school do just look badass

If they are so smart, i'll give them the question to answer: WHAT IS THE SPEED VELOCITY OF UNLADEN CIRI?!

​@@KnightwhotillrecentlysaidNIis it a young ciri or adult ciri 🤔

@@ryanjohnston3229 I dont know that. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh

Agreed!❤❤

You are probably a 300 pound man in a overall

I love the idea but I wish that they made the armor look better ok the witcher 3

Tell me precisely what you mean.

@@Pazzystar ? That in fantasy settings i find the archetype of a warrior who also uses magic to be the coolest and most compelling? As opposed to a cloth wearing pure mage archetype or a sneaky rogue/thief.

Me too

They also have a habit of shit talking nobles, so much so that the Bears have a reputation as 'firebrands' according the Gwent lore page on the School of the Cat.

same lol

In reality we would all be starving farmers

Cat for me. Being able to slaughter an entire village is already hard for a witcher (geralt was slain by a pitchfork, if i remember correctly. Qed.) That power and skill with a sword is incredible. And the signs... i mean, they have an amulett, so they know the basics. And as long as you are not dead you can always improve. And i just like cats.

​@@juliusnebulus7303lol Geralt wasn't simply stabbed with a pitchfork, he kiIIed over 40 protesters easily until he showed mercy to 1 who then stabbed him with a pitchfork after Geralt refused to fight him. Slaughtering an entire village is one of the easiest things to do for any witcher from any school.

@@FriendwithNoName7 but unlike the other schools who are trained with basic morals, most cat school trainees don't have this weakbess called mercy.

@@juliusnebulus7303 Viper school witchers for their final test have to kiII their pet wich they had to take care of for over 10 years. Viper school witchers are trained to not show mercy at all. I would say viper school witchers and cat school witchers are both without mercy.

Leaning also more to the School of the wolf

True

And then killed everyone, also innocent villagers who had nothing to do with it. Leaving only a little girl to tell the tale.

​@@Google-Usernamethats true but they ganged up on him in a barn then stuck a bloody forkpitch in his gut after lying and tricking him. then he had to drink some posion to be able to defend himself that made him ACCIDENTLY (we know that to be true as he just drunk the potion with purpose to heal himself faster to defend himself not to hurt the entire village) go berserk. We don't know the true extent of witcher potions except for the fact that they are deadly to humans. So he might have accidently drank too much. Its terrible that he killed innocent people but tbf its not on him at all. Remember they call geralt the butcher of blaviken for something along those lines. It is unfair to witchers what they endure for something they totally did not want in the first place.

⁠​⁠@@thiernodiallo9369to be fair, Geralt was killing bad people in Blaviken, the townsfolk just didn't know that

Anyone else think the Cat and Viper school are basically the same thing?

Yeah the whole snake shape really makes it look odd compared to the others. In some cases it's been depicted as a snake head but its so inconsistent

It is stranger to have unified medallion designs in various Witcher Schools scattered across the medieval era Continent. Our modern countries can't even use he same date format or metric system.

@@bindair_dundat When schools of witchers split up founding members of the new school will likely bring up the first three or four generations of the new school likely passing on whatever preferences and traditions they valued from the old school, including preferences on medallion design.

I seen someone do a custom snake head medallion for the viper school that matched the design astatic of the other medallions. It was defiantly cooler.

@@bindair_dundat yet you can see many commonalities in flags and heraldry... To me it makes perfect sense that Schools named after an animal use the animal's head as a symbol consistently.

As someone who was bron and raised in a desert, School of the Manticore sounda very appealing to me

The Bears wasn't either. In the Gwent lore for their keep Haern Caduch, its said they could have slaughtered the peasants that came to attack them, but chose to disband rather than engage in slaughter.

Signs aren't magic. Wow

@@Pazzystar sorry that I am not a Witcher Lore perfectionist but signs are literally defined as “simple magic spells”. Wow.

@@Pazzystar Explain to me with a straight face how that shit doesn't count as magic.

In game, with the master Griffin Armor set, the sign intensity you re able to reach and the fact that you Can cast 2 spells super fast, you nearly don t need your Swords if you don t want to. Even in max difficulty the game becomes too easy against common monsters.

The bears were more the ones who allowed their Witchers to create their own techniques and morality, since they shrugged off any kind of code, and in cases like Ivo of Belhaven, would train Witchers who didnt desire to use heavy armor in tactics of other schools. Their whole deal was autonomy.

I would love to see a school of the capybara. Not sure they'd last long against a rampaging werewolf or group of rotfiends however

@@LoreTours I don't know. They chill wait jaguars and camen

so......hippies?

@@qkeptz have you ever seen a hippie lift weight?

@@GreenGnoblinI Mean I Cant Say No..

The Bear set offers good protection but the signs becomes too weak for me to truly enjoy it.

You've been through the trials of grasses physically?

@@ericweber5942 that's what I'm wondering. So you're a sterile, mutated human killing machine who will outlive us all, and because you are viper you're probably a murdering psycho? Also, did you have to raise a pet and then kill it? Because that's some cult stuff honestly.

​@@ericweber5942trial of grasses huh? That's what you call smoking weed these days?

To me it sounds like the Cat and Viper schools are kind of similar

@@BiggChinese These are just my thoughts but I don't think they're as similar as people make 'em out to be. They both value discretion and stealth in the work maybe, but that's about where I'd say they split. The two schools have verily different moral's/principles. Cat's are more ruthless and out for blood while Vipers are a bit more orderly and conducted. Another way to look at it is that Cat's enjoy killing while Vipers are just very numb to it. In terms of combat, Cat's rely a fair bit more on stealth (they don't want to be seen at all), while Vipers rely more on planning and execution (risking being seen if it gets the job done more efficiently) which usually offers more opportunity for stealth some some schools, but they are also more willing (than the Cat's) to straight up fight too, when needed. At least it seems that way to me. I also think that Cat's have been more loose with what jobs they're willing to take for a long time, whereas Vipers (usually) try to stick to monster hunting more like the Wolves and Bears do aside from around the time of Geralt's story line. It's only really then that the Viper school started become assassins in an attempt to keep their school going. None of this is stated but just by what I've seen in their each school's lore, it's the conclusions I've come to.

Well technicly, if you would like to be a jack of all trades, then you should choose wolf as it is a school of balance. Griffon is more sign/magic/knowledge orientated.

School of the Griffin is not a jack of all trades since they are far better in magic than the rest

Ofc you value intelligence, you're not white so you've never had any of it.

The bears combined strength, skill, and sign knowledge, pushing the quen shield far beyond the power of even the griffins, so I'm picking them. Also they emphasized autonomy and freedom rather than a strict code, which, we know from the Gwent spinoff, required the Griffins to hunt dragons as "their knightly duty", despite dragons being sentient and mostly just wanting to be left in peace, meaning the Griffins were a bit hypocritical

I'd love to just be the scholar in a witcher school. Studying monster science and writing about the experiences of the other witchers coming back from hunts.

The best way to defeat the hunt is to say the word "IT", so he must have known that before

Nice, good combo!

Yeah they didn't do a great job of representing the world, some of its alright, but most of it just feels like a generic fantasy show rather than the Witcher

mine will be a black chinese jewish non binary trans vegan woman

​@@antonioespinoza2551OMG! OMG! OMG! Sameeee💅💅🤣

@@antonioespinoza2551 I CAN'T BREED

That would be a good addition. It'll be interesting to see if we're back as Geralt or creating our own characters

@@LoreTours It would be more interesting Seeing Geralt taking Up Vesemirs Mantel as the Grandmaster of The Wolf School and teaching us how to Be Witchers 🔥

Ursine armour definitely looked the most badass

Hunters perhaps

- Snail : ???

I'm with you other than viper. I'd switch it up with cat.

like you could transfer schools 😭

@@Docmain3 sure, let's start a new school. I recomend it being named the schoolf Vampire. They are strong generalists, very good at stealth and prominent in mystical arts.

@@jurekovacic1739school of the bats?

@@jam2394 Why bat? Isn't Vampire allowed?

If you use quen often, the Bears might be more your speed. They pushed the quen sign beyond even the Griffin's capabilities, and are willing to train their students in the styles of other schools, like with Ivo of Belhaven, since they favor autonomy above all else.

@donovanboyle5949 that would be the case, but I also prefer light attacks and being nimble most of the time. I use quen mostly to heal myself and to block attacks that are too difficult to dodge.

@@devon596 Then yeah, Bears definitely. Like I said, Witchers like Ivo of Belhaven, despite coming from the bear school, wanted to be trained to fight like a Viper or Cat Witcher, and the Bears allowed that.

@donovanboyle5949 ohhhh, well then yeah, a bear with cat style combat would be ideal.

@@devon596 yeah the Bears' whole deal was autonomy and self reliance. Back when there was just one Witcher school, the early Griffins tried to enforce their knightly virtues on all Witchers, and the Bears railed against such "outdated traditions". Tensions rose till a series of fights broke out and the Bears left to form their own school based on the idea that Witchers shouldn't be asked to do more than kill monsters for coin, and not be forced to follow a specific philosophy. In the case of Ivo, that belief extended to their own fighting tactics. Ivo is said to be a perfect Bear Witcher despite not fighting like them, since it was his solitary attitude that made him a perfect example of the Bears.

I think the reason archery is overlooked in most witcher schools is their weakness against tough monsters. Griffin witchers often use silver tipped darts and crossbow arrows tho.

An archery focused school would be sick. What Medallion would you think would fit a school like that, eh? Maybe a school of the Elk, or Owl?

@@goofistmcnutty3280 Eagle? eagle eyes? any animal with good vision can work tho

Yeah, Viper realized what Wolf overlooked: Politics & Religion are monsters, or at least too often turn into monstrosity.

That reference was only for one Witcher mainly. The reference was made to Gaetan a side quest character in the Witcher 3. Gaetan is a cat Witcher who took a contract to kill a leshen, he completed it but the alderman only offered him 12 gold a very small sum of money for what he did. He objected and they said they had hidden more gold in a barn. When Gaetan got there though it was an ambush and they were going to try and kill him the alderman and most of the peasants. So Gaetan lost is and in a bid to survive started killing rapidly. Before he knew it he had slaughtered a good portion of the village. Anyways, it wasn’t because of the low pay, he slaughtered the village defending himself. Just like Geralt did in Blaviken.

@@narcisis4147 i wouldn't compare that situatian with the one geralt faced in blaviken. Geralt fought and killed bandits in an attempt to impede a carnage to take place, ironically and so bitterly, that was exactly what caused the carnage, since it apparently would not have taken place like he feared it would without his interference. Gaetan, at first, acted in means of self defense, and killed the 3 men that were actively trying to kill him, then however stepped out of the barn and began a killing spree. A lot tried to flee, but he still mowed them down, perhaps also because he feared that they would rat him out, since there is a bounty on all cat school witchers and the villagers most likely tried to hand him in from the moment, they realized he is from the cat school, since the edlerman of the village was particulary well off, wich is something you can find out rummaging the village, in this quest. I also let him live, and probably always will be, but the situations geralt and gaetan found themselves in are still vastly different from each other.

I'm not sure but i think the school of the manticore use a lot of alchemy

​@@Max-nj9ks you are correct, the school of the Manticore was heavily based on alchemy, the Griffin were more along the lines of the mages of the witchers.

They also had brains! They pushed the quen defensive spell far beyond any other school!

The Griffins also had a reputation as dragon hunters according to the standalone Gwent game, seeing it as a knightly duty. Many mages hate the hunting of dragons since they're sentient, and mostly innocent, just wanting to be left alone.

Such premise basically "The Witcher: Old World" (also a tabletop game)

It could be kinda cool to see a new order of Witchers, greater in number but no longer superpowered, using technology and tactics to face the monsters spewed forth by another conjunction of the spheres

Understandable, I'm fond of the Bear School too

Well, the Bears were more the master of the quen, pushing it beyond what even the Griffins could do. Also, those knightly virtues required the Griffins to hunt dragons, who are sentient, mostly innocent, and just want to be left alone. In the Gwent standalone game whenever you play a Griffin Witcher they'll shout "To slay dragons is our knightly duty!"

@@donovanboyle5949 bear armors are all about adrenaline points & heavy strikes though. Griffin armors are all about sign intensity aka magic signs usage. It's literally armors for battle mage build & with highest elemental resist stats. Idk where do you get such lore of Griffin Witcher must hunt dragon to be "knightly," especially when griffin school is one of the school that uphold the OG discipline & principal of witcher order. The wiki literally said Griffin witchers are some of the most strict to uphold neutrality & taking many consideration of killing dragons, unlike witchers from other schools that had nothing against killing dragons. the wiki lore basically saying it's against what you claimed bruh... Also, what specific gwent witcher card that you claimed to have such shouting? All I remember griffin witcher cards shouts "for honor!" or study the magic stuffs... (played it long time ago)

@@crozraven For some reason it kept giving my last comment an error, so here we go again, if it happens twice sorry to spam. The Griffin Witcher Mentor will sometimes shout "To slay Dragons! Tis our Knightly duty" when played". Some websites have lists of the voicelines. Also George of Kagen. Also the Bears were rather adaptable. Since they believed in autonomy, they sometimes trained students in other fighting styles if they requested, like Ivo of Belhaven fighting like a Cat Witcher.

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The bears did have very good magic knowledge. They pushed the quen spell well beyond any other school.

It might be a cross between cat and wolf school tactics, given lynxes are felines that occupy the same niche as wolves and Ciri was trained much like a cat school witcher, with a cat school medallion.

The lynx school was created by Lambert, if i remember correctly

Witcheress aren't possible because women produce less adrenaline than men. So while only 30% of the boys survive the trial of the grasses, no girl will, simply because of biology.

Dont forget about king