Recaps

Arwen advanced in swordsmanship and alchemy, survived the Trial of Dreams, and gained water affinity after killing a Drowned Dead. Viris discovered Arwen could use magic and taught him the Healing Spell, just as his fellow apprentices waited for him at the arena.

• Vesemir tested the apprentices against drowners, and Arwen killed one with a training sword before taking Geralt’s silver sword to slay four more.
• Arwen learned alchemy from Viris, brewed a Swallow potion, and became her temporary assistant.
• Geralt taught Arwen the School of the Wolf swordsmanship, and Arwen passed the windmill challenge before defeating Aiken in a duel.
• During the Trial of Dreams, Arwen fought a swarm of drowners and killed the Drowned Dead underwater after Viris guided him.
• Arwen installed the Drowned Dead Mutagen and gained Low-Level Water Element Affinity, then sensed water elements through meditation.
• Viris tested Arwen’s mental power and taught him the Healing Spell, which he cast successfully to ease his ankle injury.
• Viris told Arwen that Paul and the others were waiting at the arena, where two lizards had been sent to face them.

Arwen survived the Trial of the Mountains, killed Old Spearhead, and became a witcher before leaving Kaer Morhen. Traveling under the name Raven, he reached White River Town and accepted a chance to investigate its nightly monster attacks.

• Vesemir challenged Arwen and the other apprentices to reach the Circle of Elements, and Arwen led his group through Killer Lake toward Old Spearhead’s cave.
• A Foglet disguised as Blyde lured Aiken away, and Arwen killed it before leading the apprentices into Old Spearhead’s cave.
• Old Spearhead trapped Aiken under rubble, so Arwen drew the cyclops away while the others continued toward the summit.
• Arwen used the Foglets attacking Old Spearhead to gain an opening, then killed the wounded cyclops and freed Aiken.
• Vesemir awarded Arwen, Aiken, Paul, Winston, and Horton their witcher medallions after they completed the trial.
• Vesemir revealed that Arwen was Arwin Thyssen and warned him that kings were hunting his family, then sent him away from Kaer Morhen.
• Arwen rescued Theodore Reed from vodyanoi, helped him bring his wagon to White River Town, and heard of a white-haired witcher named Gerald.
• Baron Leo Kramer offered Raven five hundred ducats to investigate the monster killing people at night, and Raven asked to inspect its latest victim.

Arwen killed Damian’s father after uncovering his role in the werewolf curse, then joined a wyvern hunt that ended in an ambush by Scoia’tael. He brought the wyvern to the Temple of Melitele, reunited with Nenneke, and learned that Holt was a former Kaer Morhen witcher living in Ban Flyn.

• Arwen tracked the werewolf to the alder woods, cured Damian with parsley, and learned that Baron Kremer had cursed his son and planned to kill them both.
• Arwen killed Baron Kremer, gave the baroness a letter exposing her husband’s affair, and rode away as Viscount Jennings and Marquis Luitpold plotted against him.
• Arwen killed ghouls near a village, collected their mutagen, and continued to Frankenthal, where he joined Glenn, Vaughn, Draco, and Mia Sinclair for a wyvern hunt.
• Arwen and the group killed a Royal Wyvern, but Glenn’s Scoia’tael allies ambushed them, killing Draco and Vaughn before Arwen and Mia escaped the attackers.
• Arwen and Mia brought the wyvern to the Temple of Melitele, where Arwen stopped a violent protest against the temple and exposed the paid agitators.
• Arwen reunited with Nenneke, learned that the temple planned to move to Temeria, and heard that Holt was a former Kaer Morhen witcher living in Rocamadour.
• Arwen rested at the temple, wrote a letter asking Holt or Geralt to visit, and meditated as his wolf-head medallion trembled near a magical nexus.

Arwen uncovered Atamont’s plot against the witchers and gathered allies to confront him, while a temple uprising and the Shoemaker Village murders exposed more dangers. The witchers battled Atamont and his golems, but Atamont escaped as Vesemir avenged Kaer Morhen and killed Grayson.

• Arwen fought the mob attacking the Temple of Melitele, captured Baron Marcus, and learned that Viscount Jennings had conspired with Atamont to destroy the temple before killing Jennings and Sienna.
• Arwen, Geralt, and Holt traced Atamont’s anti-witcher scheme to the young Earl’s murder, and Freyja agreed to restore the crystal mirror while they investigated the case.
• Arwen and Holt uncovered the truth from Mitchell Forrest’s ghost at Shoemaker Village, then killed Elder Xavier and the villagers who tried to murder them.
• Freyja confirmed that the dagger bore blood from Marquis Grafiakan’s line, and Arwen endured a dangerous Royal Wyvern salve transformation before challenging Atamont.
• Atamont revealed that he had turned Bernjof into a golem, but Arwen killed him and faced seven more golems as Geralt and the other witchers joined the battle.
• Atamont attacked Arwen with fire, but Vesemir disrupted his escape portal and cut off his arm before Atamont escaped using a teleportation amulet.
• Vesemir and the witchers used dimeritium bombs to weaken Atamont’s golems and magic, while Atamont fled and Vesemir killed Grayson.