Keira Metz Secondary Characters

Journal Description

Geralt first met Keira Metz when she literally dropped on top of him out of nowhere. During the infamous coup on Thanedd Island, Keira was defenestrated and nearly landed right on the witcher’s head. The next time Geralt saw her, in the swamps of Velen, was shocking in a different way - the luxury-loving sorceress was the last person he expected to see in such a grim and barren place.

Geralt later learned the reason for this, and Keira’s fate gave him ample fodder for contemplating the cruel whimsies of the wheel of fortune. Once the esteemed advisor to the now late King Foltest, she had been chased out of Temeria when she lost that ruler’s trust. Later she joined the Lodge of Sorceresses, which earned her the hatred of Redania’s king and Nilfgaard’s emperor alike. Because of this, she had gone deep undercover, posing as a cunning woman, a village witch of sorts, deep in the Velen boondocks. It was not at all difficult to tell that she despised every minute of this.

Keira quickly seized on the witcher as an impromptu assistant. In return for showing him where a certain mysterious elf dwelled, she asked Geralt to help her retrieve a magic lamp from the nearby elven ruins.

lifting the curse from the tower on Fyke Isle. Curses and favors being what Geralt does best, he obliged.

Keira had never stopped longing for the luster of life at a royal court. Thatch-roofed huts could hardly compare to elegant ballrooms and palace gardens. One day she decided to organize an interlude from Velen’s grim atmosphere by treating herself to a sumptuous meal.

Acquiring the refined ingredients proved less trouble than finding an appropriate dinner partner - that is, until Geralt showed up. The witcher gladly accepted the sorceress’ invitation -and continued saying yes all evening.

Keira had never stopped longing for the luster of life at a royal court. Thatch-roofed huts could hardly compare to elegant ballrooms and palace gardens. One day she decided to organize an interlude from Velen’s grim atmosphere by treating herself to a sumptuous meal.

Acquiring the refined ingredients proved less trouble than finding an appropriate dinner partner - that is, until Geralt showed up. The witcher gladly accepted the sorceress’ invitation for dinner - but, showing unusual restraint, turned down her other, decidedly unambiguous propositions.

Sadly, an evening that started out so nicely ended quite unfortunately for the witcher. Keira put him to sleep with a secretly-cast spell. Clearly, she wanted to hide something from him…

It turned out that Keira had played the witcher like a well-tuned harp, strumming all the right chords to keep him occupied while she stole the mage Alexander’s notes from Fyke Isle. She was planning to use the notes as a bargaining chip while making a deal with Radovid. His plague research could be her ticket back to life without lice, ticks and omnipresent filth.

Though her planned move was as stupid as it was risky, Keira was deaf to all Geralt’s arguments. In the end he had to admit he had no right to stop her, and so Keira left, taking Alexander’s notes with her.

In the end Geralt succeeded in squelching Keira’s mad plan to bargain with a man whose favorite negotiating tools were red-hot pincers and burning pyres. Keira changed her destination from Oxenfurt to the decidedly safer confines of Kaer Morhen.

Keira was determined to get her way, but Geralt could not allow her to carry out her plans. Both refused to budge, leading to a fight in which Keira Metz lost her life.

During the battle for Kaer Morhen Keira fought bravely against Eredin’s minions and saved Lambert from certain death.

Later it turned out that fighting side by side had forged a bond between Keira and Lambert and they decided to continue developing it after the battle was over. This confirmed my theory that witchers and sorceresses clearly share some mystical mutual attraction.

Sadly the sorceress’ desperate plans fell apart in the face of Radovid’s cruel madness. Keira Metz shared the unhappy fate of so many of her fellow mages and was executed on Radovid’s orders.

Geralt never found out why Keira had cast that spell, nor why she had expressed such an interest in Fyke Isle. Her execution, however, gave indisputable proof that her plan, whatever it was, ended in failure.