School of the Cat

### Reason(s) for Extinction

School had bad reputation and their headquarters was captured by Nilfgaardian soldiers

###  Successor

School of the Fox
School of the Tiger ( splinter faction formed by exiles of the school )
School of the Lynx

## Key Personel

### Leader(s)

Kodan
Gezras of Leyda
Treyse
Guxart

## Area of Activity

### Headquarters

Stygga Castle (Originally)
Dyn Marv Caravan (up until extinction)

### Location

Ebbing (Originally)
Nomadic (up until extinction)

### Area(s) served

The Continent

The **School of the Cat** was the second school to be founded following the falling out of the Order of Witchers. Its founder Kodan founded the school with the intention that a witcher should take any contract including assassination as well as experimentation with dulling emotions further. The School was more or less dissolved in the year 1269 when Nilfgaardian soldiers captured the Dyn Marv Caravan effectively cutting off the school's capability of making new witchers. The School is succeeded by its splinter groups the School of the Fox and later the School of the Lynx.

## History

### Future Founder of the School of the Cat Kodan is born (941)

The boy who would become the witcher and founder of the **School of the Cat** Kodan is born.

### The predecessor of the School of the Cat, the Order of Witchers is founded (951)

The Order of Witchers is founded at the keep of Morgraig.

### The Order of Witchers falls to in fighting (970)

The **Order of Witchers** is dissolved as the actions of Arnaghad fracture the remaining witchers.

### The School of the Cat is founded (972)

Two years after the fracturing of the Order, former Order of Witchers member Kodan gathers up other likeminded witchers and founds the **School of the Cat** at Stygga Citadel in Ebbing, with the intention that witcher should take any contract including assassination as well as experimentation with dulling emotions further

### A schism happens among the School of the Cat witchers that would lead to the founding of the School of the Fox (1010)

The School of the Fox, arose after a determined group of Witchers of the School of the Wolf led by Velcal, who refused to accept the expulsion of several 'failed' Witchers, considering that they should give them a second opportunity.

A similar situation happened at the Cat School. Which, by coincidence of fate, led them to meet this particular group of Witchers from the other school and found a new school, based on those ideals of "second chances".

### A schism occurs in the School of the Cat (1100)

A schism occurs, Ayco and a few others leave the ranks of the Cats resulting in sometime later the School of the Rat's formation.

### Guxart joins the School of the Cat (1180s)

At some point of the late 1180s, the exiled School of the Griffin witcher Guxart met Treyse during the hunt. Treyse told him a story about how the Stygga Citadel fell during the Ebbinger siege and his heroic attempts to save Grandmaster Kodan from the inhuman witchers frayed from emotions. Touched by his words, Guxart proposed his help in rebuilding the school.

Guxart became the main teacher of the school, while Treyse, as the sole survivor of the siege of the original school, the formal leader. Joined by renegade mage Idarran of Ulivo, one of rejected Alzur's disciples who agreed to prepare first mutations, they decided that the new headquarters should be mobile, so that they could avoid any new pogrom. And so the Dyn Marv Caravan was created.

### The boy who would become Caldigi of Cidaris begins his training at Dyn Marv(1192)

A Cidarian aristocratic boy (10) by the name of **Caldigi Meric Avans** was picked up abandoned by his family in the wilderness and is taken to the Cat School to the Dyn Marv Caravan, a traveling troop of witchers who sold their skills to anyone who could pay, for any job. Many of Caldigi's trainers and proctors for the process worried he wouldn't take to the transformation due to rushing the timetable of his process and the somewhat soft lifestyle he had been accustomed to.

### The Indigo Prince Assassination (1201)

In the year 1201 **Merio** was the assassin in the "Indigo Prince Assassination". The Witcher killed the racist prince while he was out travelling.

From then on **Merio** was the most wanted Scoia'tael in the west part of the country. **Merio** ran away from the Nilfgaardian forces. His plan: to get past Nilfgaard's borders and travel to the non-human city people were talking about.

### Caldigi of Cidaris graduates from the School of the Cat (1202)

**Caldigi** graduated with full honors. Thus he officially became a recognized witcher of the School of the Cat. And in that same month, he would leave the caravan along with his other fellow graduates to start his first year in The Path.

### Guxart becomes Grandmaster following the Witcher Tournament (1210s-1220s)

After unofficially becoming the leader for the School of the Cat following the events of the Witcher Tournament, Guxart met Dyn Marv in one of their secret meeting places. When he arrived, he learnt that some of his students led by Aiden, Gaetan, Joël and Ivo Creygen had already started to trial and dispose of traitors who plotted against the Wolves. He arrived just in time to save Schrödinger from hanging, who was not willing to admit whether he supported the treason or not. As the eldest witcher and former master, he was granted Grandmastership and decided to allow Schrödinger stay. Those who were clearly guilty, including Brehen, Jad Karadin and Zamir, were exiled and banned from entering Dyn Marv ever again.

### Mozeh of Verden is born (1211)

The girl who would become Mozeh of Verden is born.

### A schism occurs at the School of the Cat (1229)

Outcast witchers from the School of the Cat found the School of the Tiger in the south of The Continent.

### Mozeh starts her training at Dyn Marv (1221-1231)

**Mozeh's** training over the next 10 years at Dyn Marv like other Cat Witchers, was unconventional when compared to the other Witcher schools. During her training Mozeh's friend and fellow trainee was murdered. During her training **Mozeh** spent most of her free time in the libraries of the caravan studying the monsters of the world and taking notes.

### Mozeh helps a mage (1237)

**Mozeh** is contracted by the mage Arrah of Verden to capture a Endrega Queen alive. Even though **Mozeh** thought her employer was obviously touched in the head for wanting the beast alive, **Mozeh** was successful and **Arrah** got **Mozeh** put on retainer with the Verdenian court for a while officially granting her the title 'of Verden' and promising the Witcheress a future favor.

### The Iello Massacre (1241)

In the year 1241, Brehen visited the town of Iello. In unclear circumstances, he engaged in a fight which erupted into bloody carnage. The amount of people killed made the event to be known as the Massacre of Iello, and Brehen gained his moniker.

### Brehen is banished from the School of the Cat (1242)

When Brehen returns the following winter, he finds he that other witchers find that the slaughter, while compared by some to the Butchery of Blaviken, was arguably much less justifiable and caused witcher schools (including his own to close) their doors before **Brehen**. In the case of his own school, it was also added to that during that time, his own apprentice, D´yaebl revealed the years of abuse that he had committed against her, something which, filled the patience of the Cats, causing them to expel him and force him to travel south in search of the other cats, previously exiled.

### Succubus Hunt (1243)

Mozeh ends up hunting a Succubus in the city of Brugge. It turned out her employer was to blame for it all and in the end Mozeh's employer refused to pay her.

### Geralt runs into Brehen (1250)

Initially **Brehen** was reveling at The Wild Boar and Stag inn, when he ran into and confronted (semi-famous at the time) School of the Wolf Geralt of Rivia, believing the Wolf wanted to "rob" him of King Foltest's generous contract in Vizima. **Brehen**, known for his wily ways, took a priestess for hostage intending to force Geralt to duel him. While initially emboldened by the fact that Geralt was not in possession of witcher swords, he lost his confidence when the weapons were quickly delivered to his opponent by a dwimveandra feasting at the tavern. After a short exchange of threats, **Brehen** backed down and released the hostage.

The conversation that followed, had **Brehen** implying that he was no longer welcome at the School of the Cat and him stating his belief that School of the Wolf acting grandmaster Vesemir had effectively issued a death sentence out on him. **Geralt** replied that this was not true and that witchers do not kill each other; however, was another Iello Massacre to happen, **Geralt** would be willing to break the rule, track the Cat down and kill him.

### Mozeh injures her face (1255)

It’s not uncommon for a Witcher’s body to become a patchwork of scars. **Mozeh** sustained a blow that disfigured her face in a skirmish against a mercenary group after her head. After that she wears an eye patch over her left eye and she now has a large scar across her face.

* November: Tubiel of Brenna is born.

### Guxart is murdered by Lexandre (1260s)

Grandmaster Guxart is murdered by Lexandre.

* Tubiel of Brenna, is forced to leave the Griffin School and taken to the Cats, to ask them for help with her mutations ( Eventually, she is not mutated ) and stays with them.

### Mozeh works with the Trobaritz Magdalene (1265)

**Mozeh** was forced to work with a Trobaritz during one of her contracts. After this event the two women have remained acquaintances.

### The Dyn Marv Caravan is captured by Nilfgaardian Soldiers and the School's effective extinction (1269)

School of the Cat witchers Axel and Cedric die defending the Dyn Marv Caravan from Nilfgaardian soldiers, Joël escapes and writes a note to Gaetan about the fall of the school as well as mentioning the questionable nature of Schrödinger survival.

* Brehen travels to the south of The Continent, joins the School of the Tiger and became its leader.

### Lexandre kills some of his fellow witchers and tries to sell grandmaster diagrams (1274)

Lexandre who showed disdain towards the witcher lifestyle. Ended up killing some of his fellow witchers in order to steal some of the grandmaster witcher diagrams in hopes of making enough money off of them to start a new life in the south. He ends up dying in Toussaint after a bad deal with the armorer, Bartolomé de Launay.

## Equipment

Feline Steel Sword- Base
Wielded by rank (and below)
Witcher/Witcheress

Appearance
A simple sword design featuring a pointed rain guard and a ridge worked up all the way to the tip of the blade, a thin bar set as the crossguard, a dark brown grip and a circular pommel featuring a cat head couped style.

Characteristics
This sword is made of ordinary steel and was constructed out of an leather straps, six iron ingots, a unit of ruby dust and a vial of monster saliva and was enchanted to increase the chances of causing bleeding on its target and to make a witcher gain more knowledge and skill when fighting humans and nonhumans.

Enhanced Feline Steel Sword
Wielded by rank (and below)
Adept Witcher/Adept Witcheress

Appearance
The sword is similar in appear to its base form its grip rewrapped with two leather straps, a metal ring bound around the center of the hilt and is separated halfway down by a metal ring. A fuller now runs along the length of the blade save for the last four inches. The quillons now feature a ball on the ends.

Characteristics
Using the base sword to build off of, this sword is reforged using two dark steel ingots, and was enchanted further using powdered monster tissue, another unit of ruby dust and a monster claw to increase the chances of causing bleeding on its target when compared to the base sword but the experience bonus a witcher gains when fighting humans and nonhumans is the same as the base level.

Superior Feline Steel Sword
Wielded by rank (and below)
Elite Witcher/Elite Witcheress

Appearance
The sword is similar in appear to its enhanced form but features a darker grip with two additional metal rings, one near the pommel and one near the crossguard and the quillons feature a series of ring now an inch away from the ends and tipped by a dull stud shape. The blade now is flamberge-like with waves 11/12ths from the tip to the crossguard.

Characteristics
Using the enhanced sword to build off of, this swords blade is melted and three dark ingots are added to the metal then reforged into the blade which is further reinforced and enchanted with a ruby and a monster tooth to increase the chances of causing bleeding and to make a witcher gain more knowledge and skill when fighting humans and nonhumans, the addition of new ingredients add a strange lucky effect to the blade which results in the sword more often higher levels of critical damage when hitting weak points.

Mastercrafted Feline Steel Sword
Wielded by rank (and below)
Master Witcher/Master Witcheress

Appearance
The blade now features a pitch black grip with metal sections, in three parts. Jagged edges 3/5ths up the bottom of the blade. The quillons now features clover-like ends.

Characteristics
This sword has been reinforced with two dimertium ingots, a flawless ruby and a monster bone and enchanted to increase the chances of causing bleeding and to make a witcher gain more knowledge and skill when fighting humans and nonhumans, the addition of new ingredients add a stronger strange lucky effect than the blade previous which results in the sword more often higher levels of critical damage when hitting weak points.

Grandmaster Feline Steel Sword
This sword was once only wielded by the Grandmaster or Grandmistress of the School of the Cat, its design diagram was only known to the Grandmaster Blacksmith/Armorer in Beauclair in the duchy of Toussaint (due to Lexandre stealing the diagrams and Geralt of Rivia giving them to blacksmith), and later to the personal smith of the Grandmaster in the employ of the School of the Lynx and the Fox through Lambert and Adalwulf of Aedirn respectively. Its design was later used toward designing the Grandmaster steel swords for both the schools of the Lynx and the Fox .

Appearance
The blade now features a single straight blade with a fuller that ran 11/12ths up the blade and is covered in runes 4/5ths up the blade. The sword now features a double side ring with three beads in the center. The quillons features a double ring ending with a ball.

Characteristics
This sword has been reinforced with incredibly two rare and expensive enriched dimeritium ingots, a sapphire and a unit of monster blood enchanting it to increase the chances of causing bleeding and to make a witcher gain more knowledge and skill when fighting humans and nonhumans, the addition of new ingredients add a stronger strange lucky effect than the blade previous which results in the sword more often higher levels of critical damage when hitting weak points. Its cutting power is increased making it easier to dismember a target. It also powers up the Aard sign when wielded increasing its intensity.

## Known Members

### Grandmasters

* Kodan (1st)
* Gezras of Leyda (2nd)
* Treyse (3rd)
* Guxart (4th)

### Witcheresses

* Casanna of Cintra
* Dragonfly
* D'yaebl
* Lena Gildenmane
* Mozeh of Verden
* Tubiel of Brenna
* Boadicea ( Witcheress )

## Notes

* This article for the **School of the Cat** is meant as an expansion for the creative works of the Witcher Fanon as such unless directly stated by a credible source connected to any of the canon sources (Sapkowski, CD Projekt Red, or Talsorian) all expansions in this article should not be counted as canon but thought of as fan made fanon.
* If you want to do a character of the Cat School, take into account the lore present in this article and add it in the list. It doesn't matter the writer tag.