Geralt discovers the plan and defeats Renfri and her gang. She and her gang plan to hold the townspeople hostage until Stregobor leaves his protected tower to face Renfri. Renfri escaped and took revenge on everyone involved-only Stregobor remains on her list. While Renfri was a child, Stregobor identified her as a mutant guided by the prophecy of a magic mirror, Renfri’s stepmother ordered her death.
The wizard is hiding from Renfri, a brutal assassin. In “The Lesser Evil,” loosely based on “Snow White,” Geralt randomly runs into Stregobor, a wizard he once knew. Geralt and Nivellen defeat the bruxa, and Nivellen returns to human form.
However, the creature is in fact a vampiric bruxa attempting to turn Nivellen fully into a monster so they can rule the forest together.
Now, Nivellen lives with what Geralt initially believes to be a rusalka, a sea creature who dislikes humans. In retribution, she cursed him to look like a monster. He was still young, so the other gang members quickly took over and ramped up their antics to heinous proportions, at one point forcing Nivellen to rape a priestess. “A Grain of Truth” is modeled loosely on “Beauty and the Beast.” Nivellen, the son of a wealthy thief, had to take over his father’s gang when his father died in a revenge attack. Geralt lures the striga from her tomb and locks himself inside until dawn, at which point the striga reverts to a 14-year-old girl. A sorcerer told her father, now the king, that the striga spell is not permanent the king is looking for someone who can restore his daughter rather than kill her. 14 years ago, the then-prince’s infant daughter died however, seven years later, she rose from the grave as a monstrous striga and has been terrorizing the town ever since. In the first full chapter, “The Witcher,” Geralt arrives in Wyzim in response to an advertisement for witchers and sorcerers. The collection consists of six novella-length stories and seven interstitial chapters forming a seventh, expository story titled “The Voice of Reason.”
This guide uses the Kindle version of the Orbit Books edition. The Last Wish was first translated into English in 2007 by Danusia Stok.
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