Recaps

Dick survived the destruction of the Witcher Order, confronted Ruiwen and Master, and recovered the School of the Lynx’s formula from Kayn. He returned to Kaer Morhen, accepted the role of grandmaster, and began rebuilding the Order with its surviving members and returning allies.

• Master poisoned the witchers and revealed his plan to control the Order, but Ruiwen arrived with monsters under her command and began the siege of Kaer Morhen.
• The battle devastated the Order, and Dick found Beier and many others dead before discovering that Ruiwen had killed the young witchers and Aode.
• Gabriel showed Dick the memories behind Ruiwen’s hatred, and Ruiwen died after asking Gabriel to spare him, and Master then severed Dick’s arm and stabbed him.
• Dick healed enough to kill Master, rescued the living young witchers from the burning keep, and later found Beier alive beneath the fallen.
• Dick tracked Alexander to No Man’s Land, spared a transformed family, and refused Kayn’s offer to help found the School of the Viper, and Kayn gave him the Grasses Decoction formulas instead.
• Dick returned the School of the Lynx’s formula to Aode and was briefly drawn into a vision of the original owner’s past and the Witcher Order’s destruction.
• Dick agreed to become grandmaster as Aode and Beier planned the Order’s reconstruction, and Geralt, Ibu, Vesemir, and other allies returned to Kaer Morhen.
• The survivors honored the fallen at the cemetery, and Dick urged them to keep fighting darkness as they rebuilt the Order.

Dick joined Queen Meve’s campaign against Manslayer after confronting Brownie and the nobles responsible for the attack on Kaer Morhen. He killed Manslayer, rescued Xiya from her uncontrolled flames, and the story left Queen Meve considering a risky operation to calm Prince James.

• Barbara and West brought Queen Meve’s supplies to Kaer Morhen, and Dick agreed to join the campaign with Geralt and Vesemir after demanding terms for the Witcher Order’s support.
• Dick met Xiya at Queen Meve’s banquet, then killed Earl Kofi, Earl Mann, Marquis Zubac, and Brownie when they confronted him.
• Queen Meve stripped Prince James of his powers and confined him, while Dick and Barbara discussed ways to conceal Kaer Morhen’s entrances.
• Pipi warned Dick that Burd III’s shaman was turning prisoners into Cobra Sacrificers, and Dick joined the battle after it began ahead of schedule.
• Burd III broke through Queen Meve’s cavalry as Cobra Sacrificers and bear-form berserkers attacked the allied forces, while Dick, Xiya, and the witchers fought to support Duke Amara.
• Dick defeated Burd III, overcame the purple lynx that emerged from his corpse, and gained a new purple sword after the battle.
• Dick returned to the burning camp and held Xiya until her flames went out, then carried her toward the carriage as Barbara asked to return to the Magic Academy.
• Prince James raved about Brownie and blamed Dick, and Queen Meve agreed to consider Doctor Anson’s ice-assisted frontal lobotomy to calm him.

Dick investigated the monster in the Great Inland Lake, rejected Vigo’s coup plan, and returned to the Magic Academy as Xiya prepared to confront the curse behind her fire magic. The ritual opened a breach to the Nine Hells, and Dick faced an Abyssal Infernal while the sorcerers protected Xiya.

• Queen Meve hid her worsening illness as Anson operated on James, while a letter warned that the Panda Continent’s nations would invoke Article 11 over the witch’s advent.
• Vigo taught summoning magic, and Mary asked him to investigate drowners near Ravenstern City while Dick stayed with the unconscious Xiya.
• Xiya woke and urged Dick to kill the monster in the Great Inland Lake, where Dick followed an ambergris-smeared blood trail and fought Drowners and Elder Drowners.
• Dick found the deep-sea priest Chris, defeated him after Chris animated statues, and escaped the collapsing ruin before Medusa appeared and gave Dick Underwater Breathing.
• Dick returned to the Magic Academy, learned more about Madigan’s prophecy and Barbara’s role in Xiya’s origins, and promised Queen Meve to protect Luca and preserve peace.
• Vigo revealed his plan to incapacitate the banquet guests and force Meve to name his chosen heir, but Dick defeated him in the desert and persuaded him to build support among the D'Shar Tribes instead.
• Mary warned that Xiya’s curse might come from an ancient demon, and Dick studied Dante’s account of the Nine Hells before Xiya gave him a storage medallion containing their photograph.
• Mary and the sorcerers began a ritual to redirect Xiya’s curse to its maker, but Imps and an Abyssal Infernal emerged from the formation, and Mary sent the warlocks to protect Xiya while Dick fought the demon.

Dick took Xiya toward Noldor Forest to seek a cure for her curse while nations, mercenaries, and the Church pursued them. Lady Diana's divine water failed to remove the curse, and Dick promised to marry Xiya.

• Ker stopped the hellhound heads from devouring Dick's group after sensing something unusual about Xiya, healed Headmistress Mary, and withdrew.
• Dick learned that Diana's Moonwell might dispel Xiya's curse and accepted Emperor Marius's demand that he and Xiya face pursuit together.
• Dick departed with Xiya and killed their pursuers, including Straw Hat, Steel Fang, and Lame One, while Xiya's fiery power worsened.
• Dick survived Church ambushes and forced Tatum to concede their duel, securing passage into the Mist Swamp after Kebi reported Queen Meve's death.
• Dick and Xiya fought the Lord of the Mist Swamp until its explosion hurled them into an underground pit and left Xiya injured.
• Dick won Yuejiqi's wager by finding his reflection in a filled bronze basin, securing passage near Noldor Forest and Yuejiqi's banishment.
• Dick rescued Filia from mercenaries and reached Lady Diana, who identified an immense aura from the Nine Hells within Xiya.
• Lady Diana failed to remove Xiya's curse with the Moonwell's final divine water, and Dick promised to grant Xiya's wish to marry him.