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You mistake stars reflected in a pond for the night sky.
~ Vilgefortz's most famous quote.
You invariably desire to row upstream and piss into the wind. It had to end badly. Know today, here, in Stygga Castle, you have pissed into a hurricane.
~ Vilgefortz to Geralt during their final fight.

Vilgefortz is the secondary antagonist of the Witcher book series and a major antagonist in its Netflix television adaptation. He first appears in the second book Blood of Elves. He was a member of the Chapter of Sorcerers, but he conspired with Emhyr var Emreis, the emperor of Nilfgaard.

He is portrayed by Mahesh Jadu in the Netflix adaptation.

Biography[]

Past[]

Vilgefortz, despite his nickname as Vilgefortz of Roggeveen, was born in the capital of Kovir Lan Exeter. When Vilgefortz was born, he never met his parents because they threw him out as a baby in the streets of Lan Exeter where he was found by druids of the Circle of Kovir. In his youth, he grew up in Kovir's circle of druids where he was trained to be a druid, but in a certain ritual where his magical powers accidentally manifested, one thesis of one of his biological parents was a sorcerer. After manifesting his powers, Vilgefortz found out one of his parents was one of the mages, causing him resentment and hatred of the sorcerers' society, although he was offered to train his abilities, but Vilgefortz rudely refused, striving to be a mercenary.

When Vilgefortz became a mercenary, he left the Druids of the Kovirian circle, although the details of his career Vilgefortz's mercenaries are rudimentary, but it is known that he murdered, assaulted, robbed and raped until he even broke the royal laws, which forced Vilgefortz to flee to the edge of the world to avoid noose.

At some point he met a woman who was a sorceress and fell in love with her, however the woman Vilgefortz had a crush on turned out to be callous and selfish then left him causing Vilgefortz a void. After Vilgefortz was betrayed by a woman, he felt hatred for her that he compared her to his mother, so not wanting to be left to his fate again, he decided to become a hate wizard.

Alliance with Emhyr[]

At some point after the events of A Question of Price, Vilgefortz learned that the Cintrian prince of Duny, who is actually a crowned outcast from Nilfgaard named Emhyr var Emreis. So Vilgefortz approached Emhyr where he manipulated that he was a Nilfgaardian emissary wanting to restore the Emhyr family back to the Nilfgaardian throne by offering him help and also revealed to him the prophecy about the white Cold that would start an ice age that would lead to the end of the world the only person who could hold it was Ciri daughter of Emhyr and she would rule the whole world with your elder blood. Ciri's elder blood is a very important target for Vilgefortz because it has powerful magical inherent abilities that could take over the world.

When Emhyr finally decided that he wanted to return back to Nilfgaard, he also wanted to take his daughter and wife with him, so Vilgefortz came up with a plan to create a great teleporter that would suck in the ocean off the coast of the Skellige Islands to Vilgefortz's stronghold, Stygga citadel in Nilfgaard. The ship was indeed hauled in, but Pavetta, sensing that Emhyr was up to something, smuggled Ciri off board earlier.

Before Vilgefortz brought Emhyr's ship to Nilfgaard, Pavetta died in a drowning and Emhyr himself was furious with Vilgefortz for activating the teleport after Pavetta fell overboard. After Emhyr was brought to Nilfgaard, relations between Emhyr and Vilgefortz cooled down and he helped Emhyr ascend the throne of Nilfgaard by usurping the Usurper.

When Emhyr became the full emperor of Nilfgaard, Vilgefortz began to climb the ranks of the northern magicians. Secretly, Vilgefortz conducted brutal and hideous experiments on young women in his stronghold of Stygga by removing embryos or uteruses from pregnant women to develop a method of artificially inseminating women and removing the placenta. He wanted to do it on Ciri whose placenta and blood gave Vilgefortz easy control over the older blood.

When Emhyr begins to expand his empire by conquering other countries like Cintra and attempting to conquer the northern continent, Vilgefortz became the leader of the northern magicians at the Battle of Sodden. The mages under Vilgefortz's command include: Philippa Eilhart, Yennefer of Vengerberg, Triss Merigold, Artaud Terranova, Francesca Findabair, Vanilla, Gorazd, Spotted Axel, Fercart, Yoel, and Lytta Neyd known as Coral. During the Battle of Sodden, 13 magicians died, but the magicians from the Northern Kingdoms managed to defeat the Nilfgaardians, so they had to admit defeat. When Emhyr signed a peace treaty which is generally considered to be the work of Vilgefortz, he had to end the First Northern War.

At Thanedd Island[]

Geralt first met Vilgefortz at the Island Thanedd, where Vilgefortz wants to talk to him in private. Vilgefortz told him about his past, that he was raised by druids after the death of his parents, and that he only became a mage when he was a grown man. He himself recalled being ashamed of the things he has done, including robbing people and killing. At the end, he was running to the other end of the world from the executioner's axe. There, he met a woman. He had a short romance with her, yet later he left her to join the mages. He offered Geralt to become a mage as well, though Geralt denied him. Vilgefortz then told him that he would need to take sides soon.

This happened earlier than Geralt expected. Unbeknownst to him, the banquet preceding the reunion on Thanedd began quietly enough with mages discussing their alliances with either the Northern Kingdoms or Nilfgaard, or professing neutrality, but things soon began to heat up.

Mages employed by Nilfgaard, led by Vilgefortz, had planned a sneak attack on their northern counterparts. The Northern supporters caught wind of the treachery and quietly tried to restrain the enemy mages before the plan could be executed, with the help of Dijkstra and his men. 

However, due to the actions of Tissaia de Vries (who was acting only in a manner she considered fair and impartial) he broke free and a battle between the mages of both fractions began. Vilgefortz followed Ciri to the Tor Lara, but he crossed paths with Geralt, who stood between him and Ciri. Vilgefortz materialized an iron staff inside his hands. Believing Vilgefortz to be easily beatable, Geralt engaged in a fight with the mage, but was brutally beaten and almost killed by Vilgefortz. Vilgefortz only let Geralt live because he wanted to catch upt to Ciri and told Geralt to see it as a lecture. Vilgefortz then went to the Tor Lara but when Ciri used the portal inside the tower blew up, the resulting blast disfigures Vilgefortz' face and costs him an eye. Vilgefortz retreated, not only hunted by the Northern Kingdoms and the newly founded Lodge of Sorceresses, but also by Nilfgaard because he betrayed Emhyr by delivering a false Ciri (needing the true one for himself).

Continuing his plans[]

Unable to contact Nilfgaard again because he sent Emhyr a false Ciri, Vilgefortz instead sends his apprentice, Rience to contact Stefan Skellen, who alongside a group of conspirators plans to kill the emperor. Skellen, his group and Rience continue hunting down Ciri (thought opposed to Skellen, Rience wants to capture Ciri alive). During the journey Rience stays in contact with Vilgefortz through a magical communication device but at one point the device malfunctions, which leads to Rience and Skellen believing that Vilgefortz has given them up, although he is just not able to contact them. Ironically, the device starts working again just after Ciri has ambushed the group on an icy lake, leading to the deaths of Rience and almost all of Skellen's men.

After Yennefer has sailed from Skellige into the teleporter of Vilgefortz, she falls into the mages hands. Vilgefortz imprisons her at Castle Stygga, where Yennefer sees that the explosion of Tor Lara caused grave injuries to Vilgefortz, scarring and burning half of his face and destroying one of his eyes (although he was in the process of magically regrowing it).

Ciri later appeared at Stygga to save Yennefer, but was captured and imprisoned by Vilgefortz. Vilgefortz told her that as many others, he wanted to use her blood but unlike the others, he didn't plan to make a son with her but wanted to use the powers on himself and Ciri wouldn't need to be alive for it.

Showdown at Castle Stygga[]

However, before Vilgefortz could continue his plans, he was alarmed that Geralt and his companions had arrived at the castle. Vilgefortz left the room to assist Bonhart and Skellen in the fight. Fights broke out in many parts of the castle. Vilgefortz encountered both Geralt and Yennefer, fighting the latter in a magical duel and almost killing her. However, before he can kill Yennefer, Geralts vampire companion Regis intervenes, scratching Vilgefortz just under his newly created eye. In return, Vilgefortz rips the vampire apart with his bare hands and then burns the body, melting him and almost killing him. Geralt then fights Vilgefortz. Unbeknownst to Vilgefortz, Geralt uses an amulet which creates an illusion of Geralt. Vilgefortz knocks the false Geralt to the ground and delivers the finishing blow, but is perplexed when the attack goes right through him. Realising he has been tricked, Vilgefortz tries to attack the place where he believes the true Geralt to be, but is cut down by the witcher. Before dying, Vilgefortz madly screams Geralts name and is then finished off.

After the battle, Yennefer remarks that she was only able to fight Vilgefortz for so long because his coordination was off due to his injured eye.

Appearance[]

Vilgefortz is a tall, handsome man of beautiful and imposing physique somewhere around the age of 35 with noble features and a convincing voice. He has gray eyes and dark long hair on his face. However, after the assassination attempt on Thanedd, Vilgefortz was severely mauled by the left side of his face, neck, and chest, and he also lost his left eye.

Quotes[]

I'm not surprised at Yennefer... She is a woman and thus an evolutionary inferior creature, governed by hormonal chaos. But you, Geralt, are not only a man who is sensible by nature, but also a mutant, invulnerable to emotions.
~ Vilgefortz to Geralt explaining why he thinks women are inferior and why men are the dominant ones.
The nature does not have the knowledge of the philosophical thought, Geralt of Rivia. Us, mages, can and have to do whatever we can to comprehend its gentle threads... And then it shows us its power...
~ Vilgefortz

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