What is a Kitsu Witcher?

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A Kitsu witcher is a unique and powerful being, created by Deglan, a character in the Witcher universe, through an experiment that involved crossbreeding an elf mage with a mahr, a demon that feeds on its host’s madness, resulting in a being with vast powers of illusion and the ability to take on various forms, including that of a fox. The Kitsu witcher‘s story is intricately woven into the lore of the Witcher series, particularly in The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf, where her character plays a significant role in the events that unfold.

Frequently Asked Questions About Kitsu Witcher

General Questions

1. Is Kitsu an aguara? Kitsu is strikingly similar to a creature called the Aguara that appeared in Season of Storms, like Kitsu, this female creature wielded vast powers of illusion, and could even take on the form of a fox.
2. What happened to Kitsu Witcher? Reidrich, who’d been interested in crossbreeds for some time, tried to mix her with a mahr but the experiment failed and they thought she’d died and discarded her, instead, Kitsu had used her new mahr abilities to merely create the illusion that she’d died and escaped into the wilderness.
3. Why did Tetra work with Kitsu? She later returned to her den only to find it had all been caved in and her “child” lost in the collapse and Tetra waiting for her, Tetra then lied and told Kitsu that Vesemir had collapsed it and killed her daughter, resulting in Kitsu agreeing to assist Tetra in attacking the witchers’ keep, Kaer Morhen.

The Witcher Lore

4. What is a Mahr in Witcher? A mahr is a demon that feeds on its host’s madness, to further feed itself, it’ll cause the host discomfort and mental delusions to drive them further insane, a mahr is a fox-like gremlin with six legs like that of a spider.
5. Why is Geralt bald in Nightmare of the Wolf? His bald head likely reflects that extra amount of experimentation he underwent, as all his classmates still look the same.
6. Is Geralt mentioned in Nightmare of the Wolf? At the end of Nightmare of the Wolf, Vesemir finds the young witchers and tells them to make a decision, and this peculiar young boy tells him that people hate witchers, with Vesemir replying “there will always be another monster, Geralt”.

Characters and Relationships

7. Who is Tetra Gilcrest in The Witcher? Tetra Gilcrest was an Aretuzan trained sorceress who hailed from the lineage of the known first human mage Jan Bekker, due to the death of his mother at the hands of the Wolf School witcher known as Osmund is best known in history for being the cause of several pogroms against the witchers.
8. Why did Tetra hate witchers? Realizing her mother had been killed simply for the witcher’s greed, Tetra’s began to resent all witchers and as she grew up, spoke out for their eradication.
9. Who made Kitsu Witcher? Deglan admits to Vesemir to creating the monsters, including Kitsu, to protect their way of life and are alerted by Illyana of Tetra’s assault.

Witcher Physiology and Abilities

10. Why are Geralt’s eyes yellow but not other witchers? Geralt in general is much more heavily mutated than the rest of the Witchers, because they subjected him to further trials, it’s why his hair is white, and no one else’s is, and also why he’s generally stronger than other Witchers.
11. Why do Witcher eyes get black? When needed, with the help of a “cat potion,” he can enhance his vision so well that it expands his pupils completely, so that his entire eyes appear black, it is said that the process it takes to achieve such vision is incredibly painful.

Witcher Society and Culture

12. Why is there so little witchers? Witcher schools were founded and witchers were made to deal with them, the creation of witchers is an extremely tedious process as many young adepts die in the ‘Trial of Grasses‘ and in the ‘final change‘, even in their heyday, witchers were probably relatively rare.
13. What is the white wolf symbol in Geralt? Geralt’s Symbol: Gwynbleidd is an Elder Speech term for The White Wolf, a name many call Geralt, in all three Witcher games, this white wolf medallion/symbol can be seen in the user interface, surrounded by Geralt’s health and other metrics.

Reproduction and Relationships

14. Why can’t Yennefer get pregnant? Yennefer, like most sorceresses, is sterile and secretly sought a way of restoring her fertility, in the case of sorceresses, infertility comes as a consequence of magic, which has damaging effects on their reproductive system.
15. Did Geralt get Yennefer pregnant? With Ciri’s family now dead, Geralt is the only parent figure she has, and given that he’s a witcher, Ciri is the closest to a daughter that he can ever have, as he – as well as Yennefer – can’t have children.