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Birna Bran is the major antagonist in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt serving as the main antagonist of the Skellige arc. She is the wife of King Bran and the firstborn mother of Svanrige. Unlike other Skelligians, she despises Skellig traditions, believing that a fertile monarchy should rule this country, is power-hungry and wants her son to take over the Skellig throne by eliminating other candidates and then form an alliance with Nilfgaard.

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Early life[]

Birna Bran is the wife of King Bran of Skellige and the mother of Svanrige Tuirseach. Unlike her husband she has never been respected and her son was always considered weak-minded. She never respected the traditions of Skellige and saw the monarch system on Skellige as flawed and thought a king shouldn't be elected but that the line of the former king should inherit the throne. This clashed with the traditions of Skellige, where king's children don't inherit his power but the king's successor is chosen by nobles. Tp be chosen king, a candidate must have many fighting achievements and make lots of deals with nobles.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt[]

After the death of her husband King Bran, Birna once more showed her distaste for the tradition of Skellige. Normally, a king's wife would board the funeral boat with her deceased husband and would die with him when the boat was hit with a flaming arrow and turned into a pyre. Birna refused however. After the funeral, Birna plotted to have her son Svanrige elected the next king of Skellige. As Svanrige was considered weak, Birna planned to remove the other king candidates to the throne of Skellige. She intimidated a stuart of clan An Craite to poison drinks with a mixture that transforms drinkers into bears. That caused a massacre which eliminated competition for Svanrige to claim the throne. Blame for this fell Clan An Craite, as they were the host of the feast.

Geralt can help Cerys or Hjlamar in investigation of the massacre and reveal Birma was the mastermind behind the poisoning. Although she attempts to talk her way out of it, even her son Svanrige speaks against her, claiming that Birna told him to leave the hall shortly before the massacre. That convinces the jarls of Birna's guilt and they sentence her to die.

Birna's body can later be found chained to a rock on a small isle, confirmation of the jarls decision to execute her.

Journal entry[]

It can be difficult for a woman to gain the esteem of knights and warriors not accustomed to seeing female hands on the reins of power. It helps little when, like Birna, widow of King Bran of Skellige, the woman seeing power is filled with acrid disdain for her countrymen and their customs. One might argue that disdain is a valid reaction when, in the case of the passing of a man of power who embodies tradition, those customs call on her to follow along since outdated ritual and cast herself upon her husband's funeral pyre.

Justified or not, Birna's desire to rewrite age-old Skellige traditions put her at odds with the jarls and made it unlikely she would be remembered alongside Calanthe of Cintra or Meve of Lyria as a successful and revered ruler.

Birna likewise refused to hide her disgust with the custom of choosing a ruler by vote of the jarls. She dreamed of establishing a hereditary kingship in Skellige and thought the ideal dynasty to hold it was her own, starting with her and Bran's son, the young Svanrige.

In all probability it was this longing for power that drove Birna to concoct the conspiracy that ended in the massacre at Kaer Trolde.

The evidence gathered by Geralt and Cerys sealed Birna's fate.

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