Neilva Lorelei Hunter

**Neilva Lorelei Hunter** was a happily married Redanian noblewoman who lived in the Free City of Novigrad. Her eldest brother became the Witcher of the School of the Bear known as Sustor of Redania. **Neilva** grew up in a noble manor with servants to wait on her, but she was always expected to behave and impress. Each of her siblings took a different path in life; **Neilva** inherited the family manor and fortune.

## Early life (1226 - 1242)

Before **Neilva** was born her eldest sibling and the heir to the family Sustor was taken by a Witcher of the School of the Bear (Razan of Cintra) at the age of five to train at Haern Caduch for a life debt owed by her father.

The family's second son **Semrac** ended up joining the military ranks and voluntarily gave up his claim to the family title.

Neilva's younger brother **Isra** became a merchant and since he can't stand being around his sister is rarely at the family home.

The fifth child a sister named **Aeva** enrolled to become a doctor.

The sixth and final child a sister named **Glasha** becomes a craftsman often selling her wares through her brother Isra.

## Neilva reunites with her brother, Sustor (1243)

Now a Witcher, **Sustor** shows up at the family estate to ask for help with raising a child named Trode he acquired through the Law of Surprise, not trusting her safety at Haern Caduch. Sustor's parents turn him away but **Neilva** his sister agrees to help him raise the girl. **Sustor** begins to base himself around Novigrad for the next few years to watch over her.

## Neilva acquires a debt (1244)

As a test of her worthiness, **Lord Oliver Hunter** has a 18 year old **Neilva** owe a debt collector a debt of 600 crowns. **Neilva** pays off the debt and becomes the heir to the family fortune.

## Sustor departs with Trode (1248)

**Sustor** decides now that **Trode** is five, she can start travelling. **Neilva** is sad to see the two go and lets them know they are always welcome to come back to visit or stay.

## Neilva acquires a witcher's favor (1251)

A witcher owes a favor to **Neilva.** She encountered a witcher at some point and managed to garner a favor from them.

## Sustor is imprisoned and Trode comes to live with Neilva (1255)

**Trode** shows up at the Hunter estate one day telling **Neilva** that **Sustor** had been imprisoned. **Neilva** takes in the twelve year old who gets a job apprenticing to Éibhear Hattori. **Neilva** starts an investigation into the charges on her brother and after a year is able to get the charges cleared. **Trode** is happy to see her foster father and refuses to leave his side after they are reunited. The pair leave a few days later, back on the Path.

## Neilva enters into a happy relationship (1261)

**Neilva** is courted by and marries **Duke** **Wolfhard Of Novigrad**, one of the higher nobles of the Novigrad area. Raising her social status to Duchess. The two nobles are quite happy together often doting on the other when together.

## Neilva befriends a Duke (1267)

While frequenting a tavern Neilva ran into another member of nobility Agloval, the duke of Bremervoord. The two nobles hit it off and became friends.

## Neilva befriends a peasant woman (1269)

**Neilva** became bound by bond with a peasant woman named Yava (78) when the two women were trapped together during a monster attack. **Yava** ended up chasing off the monster with her staff-fighting skills. **Neilva** then meets and is smitten with Yava's daughter, **Carria**. **Yava** and **Neilva** then regularly visit each other, often with **Carria** in tow.

## Friends

### Agloval

A fellow noble friend of Neilva, the Duke Agolval considers Neilva to be his friend.

### Yava

The woman Neilva considers to be her best friend is the peasant woman **Yava**, the two are very close to one another.

#### **Carria**

The object of maternal affection and foster niece, Carria is a young peasant girl as well as the daughter of Neilva's best friend **Yava**.

#### Adalwulf of Aedirn

Though they haven't met Neilva considers the witcher Adalwulf to be her friend by proxy through Yava.

## Relatives

### Siblings

#### Sustor Roderick-Turner Hunter

Neilva's eldest brother who became a witcher of the School of the Bear.

##### Trode

Neilva's foster niece through Sustor. She became a talented blacksmith.

## Personality and Traits

She believes it is important to be respectful of tradition and she is honest to a fault.

She believes independence is lonely - its better to be part of a group.

Despite a few of her siblings disliking her, she always has a place ready for them at the family manor and she adores company.

Standing 5' 10" tall, this woman has a overly sensitive feel about her. A particularly notable feature is her has perfectly manicured nails.

She has a round face with a round chin, a small nose, and very thin lips. Her brown eyes are puffy and she has angular eyebrows.

Her wavy dark brown and gray hair is tied in a long braid.

She wears vermilion eyeliner. She has long arms, a short torso, a typical waist, bony hips, and strong legs.

She usually wears the height of extravagance when it comes to clothes - the finest silks, furs, and jewelry. Typical fare for a well-off noble. Unless needed to wear something unorthodox.

## Trivia

* **Neilva** is an NPC created in the Witcher TTRPG for Adalwulf of Aedirn's campaign.

## Notes

* **Neilva** is a pure fanon creation as such there is no official proof of her existence in the Witcher works outside the fanon community.