School of the Wolf

School of the Wolf symbol

Deglan (during the periods when Barmin was absent for various reasons. Shared leadership )
Rennes
Vesemir

### Notable member(s)

Geralt of Rivia
Eskel
Lambert
Elgar
Adalwulf of Aedirn
Keitan
 Oleck of Ban Gleán

## Area of Activity

### Area(s) served

Northen Kingdoms and Nilfgaardian Empire

The **School of the Wolf** was a school of witchers headquartered at Kaer Morhen in Kaedwen. It was founded in the year 980 by Barmin and was officially dissolved in the winter of 1272 following the death of the witcher Vesemir. The School is succeeded by its splinter groups the School of the Fox and later the School of the Lynx

## School Timeline

#### Foundation by Barmin (1000)

The Order of Witchers had almost completely splintered, only a small group of witchers remained in its keep after the third group of witchers had left to build their own school. These last witchers led by Barmin left Morgraig twenty years after the fracturing and travelled east. They decided to settle in the north in the caves of the Morhen Valley. Barmin makes it the school's intention of creating a well-rounded and trained, truly professional Witcher. The witchers find the abandoned elven keep of Kaer Morhen. This same year Vesemir is born, it is unknown when he joins but it is probably in his late childhood.

### A schism occurs within the School of the Wolf (1010)

During an expulsion of several 'failed witchers', a group of witchers lead by former Griffin turned Wolf Velcal decide to leave, resulting in the founding of the School of the Fox.

Second Generation (1020-1040)
 Currently no portrait
* Was working on the Wolf School Gear Project

Third Generation
(1040-1060)
* Sword Instructor

Fourth Generation (1060-1080)

Fifth Generation (1080-1100)
* Part of Vesemir's generation
* An instructor at Kaer Morhen during Geralt's training
 See Link
* Fifth Generation Wolf School Witcher
* The Swan of Poviss contract
* Would become the fencing instructor following the Pogram
* Last Informal Grandmaster
so sometime between 1080-1100 AR to his death in 1272 AR

### The Seventh Generation starts their training. The boy who would become Adalwulf of Aedirn arrives at Kaer Morhen and begins his training (1131)

Upon his arrival to the keep he was put with the other Witcher novices at the time, Adalwulf was allowed to keep certain items of his past like his doll and lucky token as they were viewed as negligible towards interference with his training. Like most potential Witcher apprentice groups, **Adalwulf** was placed with a large group of other boys which were viewed and trained as a unit. Before undergoing his mutations, **Adalwulf** and the other trainees were under the care of the instructor Varin at the bastion, Varin's training was ruthless on the boys especially the youngest of the group Razan. Between lessons to improve their stamina and breathing techniques, Varin had the boys run the 'Witchers Trail' also known as 'The Killer'. Adalwulf paced himself with Razan, making sure the younger trainee didn't get hurt though this earned him the disdain of a lot of the other trainees who thought him trying to slack off in his training. Adalwulf also befriended Abbas who was made fun of by the other boys for his taupe colored skin as well as his strange foreign language and accent. The boys were drilled in fencing with meteorite steel swords, horseriding, martial techniques and monster lore. Varin had no favorites only viewing the boys as dull knives needing to be sharpened into something useful. See Seventh Generation for their fates.

Eight Generation (1140-1160)

### Kaer Morhen Pogrom (1170)

A massive attack on Kaer Morhen by an enraged mob led by a group of mages, priests and peasants who used propaganda to whisk dissent for the profession into a frenzy. Most of the witchers present at the keep were killed. Though the pogrom was condemned, the school never regained its full functionality. Vesemir and the trainees at the time were the only survivors, any others were not present at the keep at the time. \*Conflicting accounts place this group of trainees as Geralt's group or the group before it.\*

Ninth Generation (1160-1180)

### Witcher Tournament (1210s -1220s)

King Radowit II however, under the influence of his court mage Astrogarus and druids, perceived revival of the witcher schools as a threat to his rule. His manipulations made Grandmaster Treyse of the Cats engage in a plot against the Wolves – during the Witcher Tournament, he and some of the students under his influence ambushed the unaware Wolves. After most of the Wolves died, the King ordered soldiers to kill the Cats as well.

11th Generation (1200-1220)

### Training the Last Batch of Full Witchers ( 1230s )

*TBA*

12th and final generation (1220-1230s)
 See Link

### Dealing with Eskel's Child Surprise (1232)

In the fall of 1232, Geralt decided to return to Kaer Morhen early but along the way, his horse was killed by wolves, and he encountered several Caingornese camps. He stopped at one to meet Prince Merwin Ademeyn and the sorceress Sabrina Glevissig, as well as the dwarf Merton Bringgs. They had a proposition for Geralt but before Sabrina could discuss it, a pack of wolves attacked them. After they were killed, Geralt then talked to Sabrina who discussed the symptoms of the Curse of the Black Sun, who eventually turned the conversation to Merwin's sister, Deidre Ademeyn, who was in Kaer Morhen and having been born during an eclipse. Sabrina asked Geralt to retrieve her from the keep so she could give Deidre to the Council of Mages to be studied, and hopefully find a cure to the curse.

As Geralt left the tent, he was approached by Merwin, who showed him a scroll from King Henselt of Kaedwen, who told him that Merwin was under the protection of Kaedwen and anyone defying Merwin defied the kingdom. Shortly after in the woods Geralt met Lambert, who had just killed some wolves and explained that Merton Bringgs and his group of dwarves had tried to enter the keep, but Lambert caught them. As Geralt entered the keep, he found Vesemir who informed him that Deidre had returned a couple days earlier, running from her envious brother and an evil sorceress, and that Eskel had told him that Deidre was actually his surprise child from about 20 years ago. Vesemir then told Geralt to go look for Eskel.

Geralt soon found Eskel, who explained how Deidre had become his surprise child, but ultimately hadn't decided if he should hand her over to Sabrina or not. The two then made their way back to Vesemir, who decided the 4 should vote on it, with it coming down to Geralt's choice as Eskel chose to trust whatever his fellow witcher decided.

Geralt and Eskel convinced Deidre to go with them to the camp where the prince and the sorceress were. Once there though, despite Deidre agreing she'd give up any claim to the throne and any titles and estates like her brother wanted, Sabrina then tried to have Merton arrest her. In the ensuing chaos, Deidre struck Eskel, causing deep facial scars, and killed Merton with her sword but Sabrina escaped through a portal. The witchers then entered a fight with Merwin's group before Geralt followed Deidre into Sabrina's tent where he found Deidre, Sabrina, and Merwin. Merwin asked Geralt to kill Deidre, but she pleaded for her life saying she didn't mean to hurt Eskel. Geralt then tried to convince Deidre to let her anger towards Sabrina and her brother go, as that was best for everyone.

Geralt made Sabrina leave: Geralt told the sorceress that her magic was useless and that she should just leave, which she did. Merwin and Deidre forgave each other and left for Caingorn.

The rest of the winter at Kaer Morhen passed more peacefully and Geralt left come spring to continue his trade.

### Extinction (Aka The Battle of Kaer Morhen) (1272)

The School was ultimately abandoned following the death of Vesemir at the hands of the Wild Hunt General Imlerith, the members Geralt of Rivia, Eskel, and Lambert attended the funeral.

The following winter (1273) In the spring Adalwulf ran into fellow Wolf Witcher **Eskel** who was on his way to join up with the School of the Manticore in Zerrikania. **Eskel** told the older witcher about the Battle of Kaer Morhen, the death of **Vesemir** and the dissolution of the Witcher School. **Adalwulf** resolved to visit the keep with his sisters and his lover Aine to emotionally deal with the loss of his foster father **Vesemir**. **Adalwulf** found the spot they held the funeral and was so overcome with grief, in that moment that 'The Source' made him enter a trance and gave him a vision. **Adalwulf** spoke in an otherworldly, metallic voice the voice of '**The Source**' speaking of a Second Conjunction of the Spheres and the others that would periodically follow after, how witchers would be all that truly stood between man and monster, that bridged the gap, that Witchers would become the guardians of the balance and the eventual brokers of peace between sentient races across the Spiral. **Adalwulf** resolved right then and there to see the Witchers' Guild properly restored, he asked for his sisters help over the winter they searched the valley gathering and copying what they could from the records of the School and the various other sites around the valley, fondly telling his sisters and lover about his time among the Wolves and his time at Kaer Morhen.

### Mages

* Dagobert Sulla [Status unknown]
* Reidrich [Unknown status, presumed dead]
* Laran [Unknown status, presumed dead]
* Voskold [Unknown status, presumed dead]
* Freldde Meengenir [Unknown status, presumed dead]
* Vercurt [Unknown status, presumed dead]
* Joran Lart [Unknown status, presumed dead]
* Vedrod Gule [Unknown status, presumed dead]
* Vincent [Unknown status, presumed dead]

### Affiliated

* Gwain (School of the Raven) [Status unknown]
* Everad (School of the Lion) [Unknown status, presumed dead]
* Ciri [Unknown status, presumed alive with different appearances over time]
* Coën † (School of the Griffin) [Died at the Battle of Brenna]
* Triss Merigold [Status unknown ]
* Yennefer of Vengerberg [Status unknown]
* Ralezi Detz [Unknown status, presumed dead]
* Itran Grynkerild [Unknown status, presumed dead]
* Nydrena [Unknown status, presumed dead]
* Merek (School of the Rhino) [Unknown status, presumed dead]
* Rart [Unknown status, presumed dead]
* Ethas [Unknown status, presumed dead]
* Mardaidor [Unknown status, presumed dead]
* Aitern [Unknown status, presumed dead]

## Characteristics

Witchers of the school of the Wolf focused on honing their sword skills above all else and having even skill sets overall, the primary sword style taught and practiced at Kaer Morhen the Temerian Devil was devised by Temerian landsknechts, simple men. It is a style that works best against heavy, armored opponents and did the most damage out of the three school shared witcher sword styles.

### School Sword Style: The Temerian Devil

The original steel sword style variation started from a overhead grip favoring pulling the sword behind and while leaping slicing downward for a strong cleaving cut before returning into the overhead grip.

The original silver sword style variation started from grip closer to the head as if preparing for a lunge before implementing a spinning leap into a downward cleaving cut afterwards returning to the pre-lunge grip stance.

### School Gear: Wolven Gear

The school had plans for a set of rank based medium weight armor made of leather, chainmail and eventually pieces of plate armor to help future witchers on the path this project was run by the witcher Elgar, though few if any got to actually wear the armor as he died before circulating the armor through the school. Adalwulf of Aedirn as well as the famed Geralt of Rivia wore their school armor at one point during their careers. The former made a point to wear his until the fall of his school as a sign of loyalty to his wolven family.

The swords of the school such as the silver sword featured an intricate pommel of two serpentine wolf heads which intertwine around each other while the steel sword featured a round pommel and the guard which at the higher tiers turns into a twisted S-shaped crossguard.

### Mutations

The mutations at Kaer Morhen since the most is known about the school than any other school, were considered to be the average for witcher mutations until further research was done by researchers.

### School Member Behavior

In essence Wolves operated differently to the solo working bears and would occasionally team up with their brothers/sisters on contracts, and were received a little better than the Bears but not as well as the Griffins.

## Equipment

Wolven Steel Sword- Base
Wielded by rank (and below)[1]
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, its quillon make a gentle sideways S-shape, a mahogany colored grip and a circular pommel featuring the school's wolf head design.

Characteristics
This sword is made out of leather straps, two steel ingots, a monster eye and a monster brain and was enchanted to slightly increase the intensity of the the witcher's Aard sign, give the wielder more stamina, as well as increasing chances of causing bleeding on its target and to make a witcher gain more knowledge and skill when fighting humans and nonhumans.

Enhanced Wolven 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 a leather straps, a metal ring bound around the center of the hilt which is now green 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 are the same as the base sword.

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, and a monster claw to slightly increase the intensity of the the witcher's Aard sign, give the wielder more stamina, as well as increasing chances of causing bleeding on its target and to make a witcher gain more knowledge and skill when fighting humans and nonhumans.

Superior Wolven 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 dark brown grip with two additional metal rings, one near the pommel and one near the cross-guard and the quillons are now thicker and the cross-guard is blocky. The blade now features a blood-grove 4/5ths from the cross-guard up.

Characteristics
Using the enhanced sword to build off of, this swords blade is melted and three dark steel ingots are added to the metal then reforged into the blade which is further reinforced and enchanted with a vial of monster blood and a unit of monster feather to slightly increase the intensity of the the witcher's Aard sign, give the wielder more stamina, as well as increasing chances of causing bleeding on its target and to make a witcher gain more knowledge and skill when fighting humans and nonhumans.

Mastercrafted Wolven 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. The blade's fuller now features runes 7/8ths of the way up the sword. The quillons are now twisted along.

Characteristics
This sword has been reinforced with two dimeritium ingots, a monster and the vocal cords of a siren then enchanted to slightly increase the intensity of the the witcher's signs, give the wielder more stamina, as well as increasing chances of causing bleeding on its target and to make a witcher gain more knowledge and skill when fighting humans and nonhumans.

Grandmaster Wolven Steel Sword
This sword was once only wielded by the Grandmaster or Grandmistress of the School of the Wolf, its design diagram was only known to the Grandmaster Blacksmith/Armorer in the city of Beauclair in the Nilfgaardian duchy of Toussaint, 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 ruby and a unit of monster essence enchanting it to slightly increase the intensity of the the witcher's signs, give the wielder more stamina, as well as increasing chances of causing bleeding on its target and to make a witcher gain more knowledge and skill when fighting humans and nonhumans.
Wolven Silver Sword- Base
Wielded by rank (and below)
Witcher/Witcheress

Appearance
A simple sword design featuring a v-shaped quillon and a ridge worked up all the way to the tip of the blade, , a brown colored grip and an intricate pommel featuring a pair of intertwining sepentine wolf heads.

Characteristics
This sword is made out of leather straps, three silver ingots, a unit of Fifth Essence and a monster brain, it was enchanted to slightly increase the intensity of the the witcher's signs, increases the wielder ability to  gain adrenline for advanced witcher sword techniques like Rend and Whirl, as well as increasing chances of causing bleeding on its target and to make a witcher gain more knowledge and skill when fighting monsters.

Enhanced Wolven Silver 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 a leather straps, a metal ring bound around the center of the hilt which is now a lighter brown and is seperated halfway down by a metal ring. A fuller now runs six inches from the base of the blade. The quillons are now a more pronounced lightning like shape.

Characteristics
Using the base sword to build off of, this sword is rebuilt with two leather straps. two meteorite silver ingots, and was enchanted further using a monster egg and tongue, to further increase the intensity of the the witcher's Aard sign, increases the wielder ability to  gain adrenline for advanced witcher sword techniques like Rend and Whirl, as well as increasing chances of causing bleeding on its target and to make a witcher gain more knowledge and skill when fighting monsters.

Superior Wolven Silver Sword
Wielded by rank (and below)
Elite Witcher/Elite Witcheress

Appearance
The sword is similar in appear to its enhanced form but features a black grip  with two additional metal rings, one near the pommel and one near the crossguard its grip rewrapped with a leather scraps. The quillons are the same shape as its previous incarnation. The blade now features a bloodgrove 4/5ths from the crossguard up.

Characteristics
Using the enhanced sword to build off of, this swords blade is melted and an dimertium ingot is added to the metal then reforged into the blade which is further reinforced and enchanted with a vial of monster blood and a unit of powdered monster tissue to further increase the intensity of the the witcher's Aard sign, increases the wielder ability to gain adrenline for advanced witcher sword techniques like Rend and Whirl, more easily cause critical hits as well as increasing chances of causing bleeding on its target and to make a witcher gain more knowledge and skill when fighting monsters.

Mastercrafted Wolven Silver 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 (including a ring guard at the hilt). The blade has a double spiked out section near the hilt and a fuller white features runes 7/8ths of the way up the sword. The quillons are now more circular.

Characteristics
This sword has been reinforced with two dimertium ingots, a monster feather and a monster heart then enchanted to slightly increase the intensity of the the witcher's signs, increases the wielder ability to gain adrenline for advanced witcher sword techniques like Rend and Whirl, more easily cause critical hits as well as increasing chances of causing bleeding on its target and to make a witcher gain more knowledge and skill when fighting monsters.

Grandmaster Wolven Silver Sword
This sword was once only wielded by the Grandmaster or Grandmistress of the School of the Wolf, its design diagram was only known to the Grandmaster Blacksmith/Armorer in Beauclair in the duchy of Toussaint, 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 2/5ths up the blade. The sword now features a quillons with a lightning bolt pattern by squared off at the ends.

Characteristics
This sword has been reinforced with incredibly two rare and expensive enriched dimeritium ingots, a ruby and a unit of poweder monster essence enchanting it to slightly increase the intensity of the the witcher's signs, increases the wielder ability to gain adrenline for advanced witcher sword techniques like Rend and Whirl, more easily cause critical hits as well as increasing chances of causing bleeding on its target and to make a witcher gain more knowledge and skill when fighting monsters.

## Differences to other Witcher Schools

* The Wolves ran training exercised where blunt crossbow bolts were fired at the witcher apprentices so they could learn to parry them with their swords.

## Notes

* This article for the **School of the Wolf** 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.
* Merek's adaptation of the Common Fanon is simple. He could be a witcher of the School of the Rhino, atypical like Ivo and Cervin in the School of the Bear. That after the extinction of the Rhinos, he ended up fleeing to the North and taking refuge in Kaer Morhen.
* Gwain's adaptation of Fanon Common is simple. The actor struck me as similar to the OC of Garvan we have on the site. Perhaps they could be the same character? And have a compound name, like noble names or Hispanic names.
* Everad's adaptation of the Common Fanon would put him as a witcher of the School of the Lion who would travel to the North for some reason ( probably, some diplomatic question involving Zangvebar ) Although personally, I'd rather him be another witcher who went through Kaer Morhen ( the first of the southernmost schools ) who was investigating the School of the Tiger and their evil actions, or something similar.
* In the Common Fanon, there is a big difference with respect to the CD PROJEKT canon, and is that, Brehen does not die because of the Striga, but Remus from the Netflix series but adapted. This is so, because of the potential of the Cat of Iello, and also to give a justification to Berengar to stay with the Wolves, and remain a Witcher, even though he is supposed to "hate" it. All of this, then, was due to his friendship with Remus. Which, after his death, would give more weight to Berengar's motivation to join the Salamandra and betray the Wolves.
* If you want to do a character of the Wolf School, take into account the lore present in this article and add it in the list. It don't matter the writer tag.