Witcher Schools: School of The Manticore - Witcher Lore - Witcher Mythology - Witcher 3 lore 

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Geralt wearing the Manticore gear in W1 is game cannon according to W3. When you're in the dialog with the grand master smith and your asking about the hints for the different gear, Geralt comments that he once wore some Manticore gear.

I like to think that we can learn a lot about the various Witcher schools and their philosophies by examining the stats and bonuses their armour grants its wearer in game (especially when upgraded to the grandmaster level). These philosophies are further supported by the representative animals or mascots from which the schools get their names, each having its own strengths, specialties, and characteristics. The Cat school set is light and flexible making it perfectly suited to quick precise strikes and agile fighting (hence, increased critical hit chance, damage and the chance to apply a bleeding effect.) This makes the gear ideal for assassins and rogue-like witchers. The School of the Bear equipment on the other hand, is much heavier and durable; emphasizing hard-hitting strong attacks and defence, capable of absorbing lots of damage. Similarly it's bonuses apply to quen-shields. This armour is meant for a hardened warrior who craves the thrill and ferocity of battle (hence it's increased adrenaline point gain). This philosophy seems to align with the culture and traditions of Skellige which embody honour and glory through combat perhaps hinting at the origin or location of the bear school caste. The Wolf School gear gives all-round bonuses making it a jack of all trades set. Versatile and adaptable, Wolf School armour allows its wearer to be a fierce and flexible fighter. This makes me believe that the wolf school witchers employed knowledge and techniques from many different practices to create a hybridized combat style. It's grandmaster bonuses allows the wearer to apply multiple blade oils to your swords and throw bombs quickly, demonstrating the versatility and practicality of this set. The Griffin School gear grants bonuses to magical abilities such as signs. The armour itself has a much more polished and elegant look compared to many of the more rugged Witcher sets. Being made of thick metal plates and adorned with decorative tassels and emblems the Griffin set looks quite similar to the armour worn by a knight. This makes me believe that the witchers from this school were a more regal and "noble" academic group, specializing in the study of magic and spells much like the sorcerers and mages of the world. The Manticore set grants bonuses to alchemical skills such as high toxicity tolerance and extra potion charges. Geralt describes manticores as "one of the worlds oldest and deadliest monsters" and their resemblance is said to be of a cross between a lion, bat, and scorpion with a tail capable of injecting toxins into its prey. I imagine that the Manticore School was an ancient Witcher school focused on the study and development of arcanea and elixirs such as potions, decoctions, and mutagens. Those are just some of my thoughts on the matter. As always, George your video was fantastic. I absolutely love all the lore and stories of the Witcher universe and it is with good reason that it is one of my favourite franchises of all time. I really hope that we eventually get more information about the various Witcher schools in a future game or other medium. Until then, keep up the great work!!

I love how many schools CD Projekt Red added and none of them really feel out of place

2:45 Lol Solitude from Skyrim in the background

As much as I have loved everything Witcher and CDPR has done, I was surprised and disappointed they didn’t put a few Manticores in B&W. One for a contract and one in the wild.

Vesemirs armor looks more like griffin armor than anything else

I always liked the Manticore treasure hunt more than most of the other BaW Witcher gear hunts. The Wolf hunt is in 2 rooms of the same place, where as the Manticore hunt takes you on a journey all across the map. It’s quite fun.

Manticore is from Persian Mythology, it literally mean man eater.

What was Merton doing in Solitude?

Manticore Armour is hands down the best armour in the Witcher 3 because of it’s toxicity stats along with a toxicity build you become unstoppable and able to kill monsters 20-30 levels above you

The quest where you meet the Reavers us probably one of my favorite sociable moments in this game. Those dudes were like a bunch of big brothers. I wish I could have done another quest with them.

Nice to see you grow in subscribers every single video I come back to. I remember seeing your subcount when I first saw your videos and I was pleasantly suprised about your quality of your videos. Keep it up!

I would love to see the concept of creating your own Witcher come up for the next Witcher game. Maybe have others make cameos, but not as headmasters or anything. More like you get say track and fight a few monsters with Gerralt, or something in that ball park. Maybe you are questing during Witcher 2 or 3 time or even it's after those events and the events of the book. You have been created along with a handfull of new Witchers to help fight some big beast or evil or just a turn that the World has taken. Ciri has proclaimed it to be done as she has taken over the Nilfgardian Kindgdom. Or maybe by choosing your school, you choose your starting spot and we see all different parts of the land this time. Could be super cool, but a huge under taking too!

Thanks for the witcher vids they are great keep the great content coming.

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Glad I could be your 6,000th like for this man! Love your channel!

My favorite school. I love using alchemy and bombs.

When you do new game +, the manticore armor is upgraded. It has a back chainmail cuirass over the leather jerkin, which I believe is an homage to the ‘ravens armor’ (or whatever his name was) you can get in the first game.

Yay another witcher school lore you make cool lore vids man keep up the good work

U ever consider doing a Witcher versus series? Like Vernon Roche vs Zoltan.. Etc, might be an interesting series

At the start of the grandmaster witcher sets quest when you talk to the armorsmith and ask him about the School of the Manticore, Geralt mentions he used an armor designed from that school "a long time ago" which further confirms it as the armor he used in witcher 1. I thought I was the only one who noticed!

These are really good. Keep it up. Maybe a play through at some point

Love your content, keep it up man :)

fantastic lore video man!! loved it im a massive fan of this game.. left u a sub bro

Great content keep continuous on witcher lore

Great video!

I hope that in the future CDP Red returns to the Witcher series and expands on the world by exploring the far eastern regions of Zerikania and Hakkland, as well as the far north of Kovir and Povis. Who else would want to see a school of the Wolverine complete with a few Xmen Easter eggs?

The best looking grandmaster armor for sure and I never could finish my bear set I was focusing on without white gull. Perfect.

The appearance of the armor changes in NG+

I would really like to see more about these witcher schools, hopefully they make another game.

Keep it up dude 💙

I find Mertens story the most fascinating out of all the other witchers who left all the diagrams

hey another rad vid, this is my fav school other then bear, i love the armor set dyed all black

Yeah, those armors that Lambert and Eskel wear aren't witcher armors, since the official witcher armors have specialized diagrams and upgrade diagrams. Also, the gear that Geralt wears at the beginning of Wild Hunt is considered "hunting gear", but is, in fact, a basic form of the viper school gear.

Man this game is great. And my friends are really missing out on Singleplayer games. They used to play COD and FIFA and GTA. Npw they play FIFA 19 and a little bit GTA online. But then don't enjoy singleplayer games. They say they're boring and don't feel like doing all the quests. I enjoy both Multiplayer games such as COD and Singleplayer games like Assassin's creed, The Witcher and Skyrim, Red Dead Redemption 2 (Campaign)

This is my personal favorite school

considering there isn't a lot of info on school of the manticore you did a good job

2:45, that's Skyrim

Good video men keep going like that

I think that a Witcher game where it is a completely new story and you create your own character and choose which witcher school you want to go to and upgrade your character accordingly or even blending different techniques from varies schools into one character. But that is just what i think.

Of all the witcher school medallions,I think the Manticore have the best looking one

Love it thanks man

Thank god, you have no idea how happy I am to have found this channel

School of the Snail next, please? ;)

A Manticore. What a badass monster to base the tittle on.

I was thinking about a new school called School of the Wraith. The witchers in the school learn very powerful magic, like superhuman speed or teleporting. And instead of carrying swords and drawing them, they could just summon one in their hand. They would wear light armor, since there aren't any schools that wear such armor, other than the Feline School. They would deal with humans much easier, as a plain bandit can't wield magic. However when it comes to deal with, for example, an Elementa class monster, like a golem, they would have to use combat skills to survive. It would also be cool if they could mix signs. Like Aard Igni, which knocks the enemy down and burn them. Or Axii Quen, which protects you, and if someone or something touches it they would be under the Axii effect. However their armor is quite weak, so you can be killed easily if you don't use your powers.

Greeaaat ! While wolf looks best, this is def 2nd on my list. Btw what is the awesome music?

1:42 that is SO cool

Damn i do rly think we could use an expansion in Zerrikania, Kovir to just expand the world and story,

I wonder if the hermit the baron talks about at the end of his quest was this witcher...

What bugs me about this set is that when looking at what's visually present in the armour, this set shouldn't be classified as medium armour. Especially when you compare it to the actual supposed light armour of the game (feline set) and you see a lot more actual armour pieces on the feline set, which include mail sleeves that technically speaking should weigh down a lot more, than on the manticore set. Even when comparing the NG+ legendary sets there's less armour on the manticore set than on the feline set. I'd also argue the same for the wolven set and the New Moon armour set from Hearts of Stone.

2:47 thats Solitude my boi!!

Whats the armor you're using in skyrim at 2:45 ?

2:45 Holy crap he traveled to Nirn, that's impressive

A Great vid

Hey nice video I know its late but the mantocore armor has two looks one is the normal one the other is the legendary manicure armore in ng+ that has chaimale on it

You get a different-looking set of the school of manticore armor in New game plus

Is there any more schools?

But why didn't you mention the legendary version? Has some mail on it which could make it better.

Isnt the armor set garelt wears in the beginning of witcher 3 from the school of the viper?

Read beautifully from the wiki

I like that the outfit is Geralt’s from the first game

Wait, Are you telling me that that redguard dude is a witcher of the manticore school? What if the dragonborn was a witcher all along?

2:45 - did you take that picture in Solitude, by any chance?

I know this is late but maybe the grandmaster version of the manticore armor is the legendary new game plus variation one?

Good for Merten. He found religion and didn't have a doomed fate.

Is Ciri's alt outfit manicure or wolf variant? I can't tell but it derives from one of them it looks like.

My favorite Armor for B@W was the Manticore one

This is my new favorite armor set after they took away my ursine hair tuck

Who is the actor behind the voice in the beginning cutscene? He sounds so familiar.

What was that clip at the beginning from?

Do we actually meet the manticore school witcher in tw3 or no, also, I'm on my second playthrough and want to meet as many witchers as I can because I only actually saw 1 outside of the wolf school in that playthrough, so how many witchers can you actually meet in the game?

Missing the advanced manticore armor found in NG+ were the top is chainmail

Is there any info on what kind of combat this school specialised in, like the school of the Griffin where specialised in using signs the school of the bear specialised in physical combat what did this school specialise in

There is a manticore set I found out in witcher iii but can only be obtained at lvl 100 it’s called legendary manticore set I have it

2:43 starting lore of the school

School of the Wolf video coming?

I hope if they make a multillayer online witcher universe. You can join one of the schools. When you master it you go to Kaer Mohen. And if you want to become an elite you go to geralt who lives in the woods and is 400 years old.

Nice and sexy looking armor. In W3 maybe the nicest you can wear. Manticore school made witcher world much more rich.

So what was this then that I heard about the hole in the wall of kaer morhen because of assassin's of some sort then? Did both peasants and assassin's try to get rid of the school of the wolf?

the witcher ttrpg (in the game conan with CDPR) has a a lot more lore in the witchers journal and in a free pdf on the website

2:48 is that solitude from Skyrim with Witcher mods?

At 2.44 that witcher has a symbol on his shoulder gaurd is it just me or doesn't the thieves guild master armoer from skyrim have the same symbol

Jad Karadin: “They say no witcher has ever died in his bed, I aim to be the first” Merten: *Hold my Witcher gear*

2:45 he looks more like a member of the Thieves Guild tbh.

What was that. Merten in solitude ? Is he the son of Mercer ?

What's that part in the beginning from?

Manticore: Imma umnumnum you. Geralt: *hmmm bacon*

I know I'm late but did no one notice when he showed the Witcher he was in solitude from Skyrim

When you show a picture of murtan or however you spell it, you show an image of Skyrim, in solitude...

I know the Witchers themselves hate the idea of more Witchers being made but what if someone else used a Djinn to obtain the lost knowledge to create them again? A few Mages actually seemed interested in Witchers so it wouldn’t surprise me. It would be interesting to see this happen in the next Witcher game, maybe some grand event happens populating the world with to many many monsters like another conjunction of the spheres or something.

I know I'm late to the party but I don't think that the fact that manyicore armor looks like the armor from witcher 1 is a coincidence, the whole dlc was referring to the oryginal witcher and that armor was just the cherry on the top

Another cool fact is that the original idea of the first witcher game of CD Projekt in 2003 would have focused on the school of the manticore. Geralt would have been a side character and the main protagonist would have been a female witcher named Mika. Go to this video to see the GamePressures video on it. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MhlNUvveuUk.html

Welp... I didn't know about this in the Dlc 🥴

Shoutout to my nephew's dad Corey Gibbs

In new game+ there’s a different variant

They should make a game, where you actually play as a Witcher from one of the schools that aren’t well known. As the viper, manticore, or bear.

2:48 is that solitude

Merten didn't die did he?