Tissaia de Vries is one of the oldest warlocks still alive in the world after the group of Alzur and Cosimo.
Although he is a high-level warlock like Yennefer and others, his strength has already far exceeded that of Yennefer.
Just one step away from the legendary warlock.
Now, although she has relieved Aretuza of her important responsibilities, she has handed it over to her student Margarita Laux-Antille as the dean.
But she is not a hands-off shopkeeper who doesn't care about anything. She is still caring about Aretuza and the students in the college in her own way.
Although they are not at the same time or place, Tissaia's philosophy coincides with that of School of the Wolf's great mentor Vesemir.
Tissaia also does not want Aretuza to be involved in the whirlpool of political struggles, and he is even less willing to see his students being used by the ambitions and desires of the northern kings and making unnecessary sacrifices.
But how can it be so simple to maintain neutrality among the northern countries?
Aretuza Academy is located in Goos·Velen, and Goos·Velen is in the territory of Kingdom of Temeria.
The current king of Temeria, Foltest, is quite friendly to Aretuza, and has never made any rude request to force Aretuza Academy to fight for him.
But Temeria's neighboring country, the king of Redania, King Vizimir who has the title of "Justice", is not like Foltest.
He has sent envoys to the Aretuza Academy several times, expressing tactfully that he hopes to use generous treatment to help the college solve the problem of "unemployment upon graduation".
But they were all blocked by Tissaia and Margarita Laux-Antille for various reasons.
However, she and Margarita Laux-Antille were not willing to anger King Vizimir, so they exchanged some benefits with Redania in other aspects.
Lest King Vizimir think that Aretuza has completely turned to Temeria.
But as time goes by, Tissaia finds more and more that it is increasingly difficult to maintain neutrality among the northern countries.
With the economic downturn, the lives of people in various countries have become more and more difficult, and the increase in Engel's coefficient has led to the gradual increase in people's resentment and hostility.
Social conflicts have gradually surfaced and become more intense.
Of course the kings also realized this.
They just don't care about the poor people, but they are not blind enough to ignore the numerous crises.
However, the way the kings solved the crisis was something that even Tissaia, who had lived for hundreds of years, could not have imagined.
They obviously have many ways.
But he chose the worst move.
In order to maintain their own position, externally they provoke friction and disputes among countries, and internally they direct the conflicts to the non-human races at home, in order to divert the attention of the domestic people from the successive failures of governance and the widening gap between the rich and the poor.
Over the years, Northern Kingdoms, although no war has broken out, small-scale border conflicts have continued one after another.
As an old man who lived hundreds of years ago, the current world is really rotten.
Faced with such a situation, Tissaia can't control it and doesn't want to.
She just wants to protect the ideal land of Aretuza and keep her students away from disputes and power struggles that make people have brain hemorrhages just by looking at them.
At this time, she suddenly discovered that the little girl Triss (Tissaia's perspective), who was inexperienced in the world, ran to the Aretuza Academy much more frequently.
Of course, Tissaia does not mean that female students who have graduated cannot come back.
Just not that often.
Tissaia noticed something was wrong and deliberately came into contact with Triss.
Then he easily learned the name and deeds of Lynn from Triss's mouth.
As a purple old woman who has lived for hundreds of years, Tissaia is keenly aware that this demon hunter named Lynn is not simple.
That's why she came to meet him before he left Novigrad.
I just want to have a good understanding of whether the other party has the potential to be an ally.
Seeing that Tissaia's expression didn't look fake, and being familiar with the plot, Lynn knew Tissaia's character and nature.
He thought about it and said.
"Brotherhood of Sorcerers looks great on the surface, but in fact its situation has reached a very dangerous point."
"How do you say this?"
"Ms. Tissaia, the current dean of the Aretuza Academy... if I remember correctly, it is Margarita Laux-Antille Laux Antille, am I right?"
Although I don't know why, the topic suddenly changed from Brotherhood of Sorcerers to the Aretuza Academy, but Tissaia still nodded. "That's right."
Lynn smiled and said, "I heard Aretuza that when you were still the dean, the atmosphere in the entire college was very serious and old-fashioned. But after Ms. Margarita Laux-Antille took over from you, the atmosphere changed."
Tissaia frowned, becoming more and more confused.
"What exactly do you want to say? Please express your point of view directly?"
Lynn spread his hands and said, "What I want to say is very simple. Let me ask you a question now. If Aretuza Academy now has a consultant, no matter what the college does, it must first consult that consultant's opinion. What would you think?"
Tissaia is also a sorceress who has lived for hundreds of years, so she immediately understood what Lynn meant.
He is using Aretuza Academy to allude to Northern Kingdoms, and using consultant to allude to Brotherhood of Sorcerers.
"It's not appropriate for you to give an example, because the royal advisors sent by Brotherhood of Sorcerers to the northern kings will only provide opinions on magic and will not participate in palace politics."
"Is that really true?" Lynn cleared his throat.
He picked up the glass and took a sip of rose wine.
If you want to talk to me about this, then I won't be sleepy.
As a person who became a chef after graduation, he studied history in college.
Lynn talks about it as if it were a rare edition.
"Six Years' War ended in 836 through the mediation of "the White" Raffard, and a peace agreement was signed in Brugge."
"Temeria supported by Raffard benefited from the war, and many princes and dukes of small countries who stood on the opposite side of Temeria were forced to leave their countries."
""The White" After Raffard died, Temeria's king Abdank also passed away soon."
"Due to Abdank's intellectual disability, he left no heir."
"The nobles in Temeria started a longer conflict over the issue of succession to the throne. This conflict lasted until the 11th century. Because it was so long and the people could not see the end, it was also called Endless War."
"Then, this war seemed to continue until the world was destroyed. Endless War ended in the hands of the legendary warlock Alzur."