TL;DR Summary of the Story from the Books and the First Two Games (Meant for Newcomers to Witcher 3)

By Grady

WARNING: This guide contains massive spoilers of the Witcher saga and the first two Witcher games!



This tl;dr version (or perhaps not so tl;dr after all) of Geralt's story is especially meant for those who are starting Witcher 3 without having ever read the books or played the previous 2 Witcher games. It mainly contains stories from the books so it may also be helpful to those who have played all 3 games. I tried to summarize most of the story into short bulleted points. It does not contain everything, and it lacks a lot of detail. The main reason I'm posting this is that around a year ago I was in the same position where I wanted to be briefed before starting Witcher 3, and to date I have never found all this info jumbled up together in one place. I liked Witcher 3's story and lore so much that I spent a lot ("a lot" is an understatement) of time reading about Geralt's past, watching cutscenes from all 3 games etc. And I still see a lot of comments by people confused about Geralt's story. So I decided to post this here in hopes of helping some people understand better. I've also posted this guide on the /r/witcher subreddit, where it got a lot of feedback and minor corrections from other people in the Witcher community. This is the final, corrected version.