

Injured or not, Geralt has a rescue mission on his hands.

It's an impossible situation in which to find one girl-Ciri, the heiress to the throne of Cintra-until a rumor places her in the Niflgaard court, preparing to marry the Emperor. While war rages across the lands, the future of magic is under threat and those sorcerers who survive are determined to protect it. But now that dark times have fallen upon the world, Geralt is helpless until he has recovered. The Witcher is supposed to be a guardian of the innocent, a protector of those in need, a defender against powerful and dangerous monsters that prey on men in dark times. The Wizards Guild has been shattered by a coup, an uprising that has left Geralt seriously injured. The Witcher: Baptism of Fire In the aftermath of ToC, the story adopts a more DnD-esque style alongside its political intrigue as Geralt forms an unlikely party of comrades in his search for Ciri, making for the most entertaining story of the series so far. A deadly coup within the Wizard's Guild leaves the Witcher, Geralt of Rivia, gravely injured, and his ward Ciri missing in the third novel of Andrzej Sapkowski's groundbreaking epic fantasy series that inspired the hit Netflix show and the blockbuster video games.
