Lydia van Bredevoort/Netflix series

Lydia was an anarchic sorceress with a mysterious employer who tasked her with finding Princess Cirilla, a high priority job for which she sought assistance from Rience.
==Biography==
===Freeing Rience===
Lydia visited Rience in his Cintran cell of ten years to inform him of Calanthe's death. Still, his conviction lived on, though she possessed the means to free him, but only if he agreed to Lydia's proposal: his freedom in exchange for hunting down Calanthe's granddaughter.Season 2, Episode 05: Turn Your Back
Rience returned to Lydia with a scarred face after having failed to track down Ciri, though he didn't return empty-handed. He had a vial of Ciri's blood in his possession, which he had no intentions of giving up. However, he was willing to negotiate: the vial of blood in exchange for an opportunity to meet Lydia's employer. She didn't make any promises, though she agreed to see what she could do and then told Rience that he'd need a crew if he intended to get in and out of the Temple of Melitele with Ciri.Season 2, Episode 06: Dear Friend...
===Scarred and Disfigured===
Rience had failed yet again to retrieve Ciri, at the cost of the Michelte brothers as well. Lydia reminded Rience that she only promised he'd meet her employer if he brought the girl. Having failed on his end, Rience agreed to allow Lydia to run tests on the vial of witcher mutagen containing Ciri's blood in hopes of convincing her employer to come. Lydia gladly performed a blood tracing ritual, but doing so with the witcher mutagen left her horribly disfigured and scarred.Season 2, Episode 07: Voleth Meir
Lydia and Rience met with her employer to discuss their plans to find Ciri moving forward.Season 2, Episode 08: Family
=== Pre-disfigured ===
With her jaw disfigured, Lydia uses an illusion spell to cover her wound, though this was only cosmetic and didn't fix her actual jaw, resorting to her having to communicate with others via telepathy. She later talked to Rience who decided to quit the job.
She later attended the night of the dance at Aretuza where it was revealed that Lydia's mysterious employer is the mage Vilgefortz, and who Lydia had an unrequited love for and would follow anywhere. While Vilgefortz didn't share the same feelings for her, he would give her small gifts, such as a set of earrings.
=== Death ===
Yennefer was running through Aretuza's tunnels to help Tissaia, but Lydia was waiting for her. Both started to fight and Lydia got the upper hand by strangling Yennefer with telekinesis but before she could kill her, Triss appeared behind her and with a magical vine tied Lydia. She told them both by telepathy that they could never stop Vilgefortz and that Ciri would be his prisoner. Yennefer, fed up with listening to her, used her magic to control one of the vines and broke Lydia's neck with them, killing her.
== References ==
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