What was Geralt's law of surprise?

Law of Surprise, a custom as old as humanity itself, is the price a man who saves another can demand. It is a request for something which neither the saviour nor the saved knows the nature of, until the saved man returns home.
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Is Ciri Geralts daughter by Law of surprise?

First of all, Ciri is obviously not Geralt's biological daughter but in legal terms, he is technically her father or guardian. This all stems from the Law of Surprise, which Geralt invoked after saving the life of Ciri's actual father, a knight named Duny, not knowing what it would entail at the time.
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Why is Ciri destined to Geralt?

Ciri was bound to Geralt by the “law of surprise” promise her father Duny (Bart Edwards) made to the witcher for saving his life.
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Is the Law of surprise always a child?

Here's how The Witcher wiki describes the Law of Surprise: The Law of Surprise is a custom as old as humanity itself. The Law dictates that a man saved by another is expected to offer to his savior a boon whose nature is unknown to one or both parties.
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What did Geralt promise?

Involving Geralt of Rivia

King Roegner of Cintra, as a reward to Urcheon of Erlenwald, promised him "whatever he had left at home without knowing or expecting it".
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The Witcher: The Law Of Surprise Explained



How did Geralt get Pavetta pregnant?

After assisting Duny, the knight offers Geralt a reward. Much to the shock of those in the room, Geralt claims the Law of Surprise, leading him to claim Pavetta and Duny's unborn child. Despite being invoked twice, the Netflix show never defines the Law of Surprise.
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What happens when Geralt claimed Law of surprise?

Based on the Law of Surprise, the child belongs to the witcher, becoming the Unexpected Child to whom the witcher is bound by Destiny. Many Unexpected Children were brought to Kaer Morhen, where they were then raised and trained to be witchers.
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Why does the child belong to Geralt?

Because Geralt evoked the law, it means their baby, Ciri, is now owed to him as a “child of surprise.” While Geralt refuses to claim Ciri as his payment, the law ultimately ties their fates together.
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What was Geralt's last wish?

Geralt wished to die alongside Yennefer. Since a djinn can't kill its own master, this wish would provide a nice loophole that would save Yennefer's life and also ensure that Geralt and Yennefer's lives are bound together until their very ends.
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What's so special about Ciri?

Ciri will, in addition to being magically powerful, become one of the most powerful individuals in the world as a result of this. Though Geralt will normally only make a little difference in people's lives, Ciri has the power to transform the world with a single word or stroke of a pen.
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Who is Ciri's love interest?

Season three of The Witcher is set to introduce Mistle, a love interest for Ciri from the original series of novels. Mistle will be portrayed by Christelle Elwin, a relative newcomer best known for her roles in Bloods and the upcoming Netflix drama Half Bad, based on the young-adult novels by Sally Green.
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Does Ciri marry Geralt?

Ciri, when she is in the woods with the young girl, says she learned how to fight from her father, Geralt. Geralt, in turn, views Ciri as his daughter, as does Yennefer. … [Geralt and Ciri] are not lovers, nor are they in love with each other.”
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Does Geralt have a child with Yennefer?

In fact, in the novels (and in the show) both Yennefer and Geralt are incapable of having biological children. For Geralt, the show affords him a wide landscape of emotions — his story isn't pegged to his ability to father children.
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Can Ciri have a child?

Since Ciri never underwent the witcher mutations, she's very much fertile and can bear children.
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How was Ciri conceived?

After Geralt of Rivia helped lift Duny's curse, Duny asked what reward the witcher would like and Geralt invoked the Law of Surprise, as it turned out Pavetta was pregnant with Ciri, unbeknownst to Duny.
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Why is Ciri called a child surprise?

As a result, the law sometimes results in an unborn child being served up as payment, because the father didn't know his wife/lover/mistress was pregnant — this is a child surprise, like Ciri.
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Is Ciri a Witcher?

Ciri does undergo intense training to become a Witcher herself. She doesn't become a full-fledged Witcher during the events of Season 2. However, if Season 3 follows Ciri's fate in the books, she does eventually become a Witcher.
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Why was Duny cursed?

Duny had been cursed at the age of 13 by a mage hired by a usurper of the Nilfgaardian throne. Duny's real father, Fergus var Emreis, had refused to cooperate with the plot and so was tortured but this did not break him, so the usurpers decided to get at the emperor through his son. This is where the curse came in.
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Who did Yennefer sleep with?

12 GERALT'S ATROCITY: Sleeping With Yennefer Without Making Any Commitments. During the event in Kaer Trolde where the room starts filling up with gas, Geralt has the option to get into Yennefer's quarters and sleep with her. The scene that ensues is easily one of the most iconic moments in gaming history.
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Does Yennefer get her fertility back?

The enchanter explained to her that there's a price to pay: to be reborn, she would bear no more, and so he removed her reproductive organs. Later on in the series, Yennefer tried different methods to regain her fertility, such as attempting to obtain a dragon's egg, but to no success.
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Who is the strongest in the Witcher?

1. Ciri. Ciri is the de facto strongest character in the Witcher.
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Can witchers have babies?

While it makes them powerful, the mutations also leave Witchers sterile and unable to have children which is why their most common way of recruiting trainees is through “the law of surprise,” a tradition they invoke when payment cannot be made, claiming something the person in their debt doesn't know they have.
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Why does the Nilfgaard want Ciri?

Now, Ciri, given her family background, has Elder Blood, which grants her powers, and it was prophesized that her child would be the ruler of the world. This means that Nilfgaard is so desperate to catch Ciri because Emhyr wants her to bear his child, something Calanthe would have never approved of.
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