Vesemir's History
Vesemir (b. 1095) is a witcher and Geralt of Rivia's mentor.
Early Life
Vesemir was born into the role of a servant, like his father, and carried out duties on a Kaedwen estate to a noble family. However, even by 1100, he dreamed of fantasies and being rich beyond his wildest imagination. He also hung out with a fellow servant on the estate, Illyana, who he had a crush on.
The lady of the estate had started to go insane and so Vesemir and Illyana were sent to the market to buy blue gum to alleviate the madness. Wanting some honey cake but having no money to do so, the two hatched a plan to steal the herb with Vesemir causing a distraction to lure the merchant away from his stall by stealing some other goods and ran to the cake stand, only to then lay down the merchant's goods while paying for a cake and leaving. The two then met back up to enjoy their success when they were approached by Deglan, who saw what they did. However, he wasn't interested in turning them in as much as meeting the ailing noblewoman as he recognized what blue gum was for but knew it was a monster causing the madness, something a witcher was more suited to deal with and also meant a good payout.
After bringing Deglan to the estate who confirmed it was a mahr, he began to lay out traps to get rid of it and told everyone to leave the room before he started the fight. Vesemir asked to stay to watch and Deglan allowed it, but ordered him to try and capture the mahr if he was going to be in the room. Despite it being a rather intense event and failing to capture the mahr alive, Vesemir was hooked and on seeing how much money the witcher had made, asked Deglan to take him to be trained as a witcher. However Deglan refused to do so but gave Vesemir a few coins for his assistance before leaving.
The next day, as Vesemir and Illyana hung out, he brought up about wanting a better role than as a servant for his life. However, Illyana was content with her position, as they could be homeless and have no food at all, and her dreams of having a lake house were just that: a dream. Shortly after, as all the servants slept, Vesemir saw one an elderly servant just returning to his cot from a long day's work and resolved to leave to try and become a witcher, leaving a cake at Illyana's cot as his goodbye as she slept.
Joining the Witchers
Vesemir soon made his way to Kaer Morhen and was taken in and trained alongside the other boys there. However, he soon learned most didn't choose to go there like he had, but had been given to the school as the result of being a Law of Surprise child, like Tomas. During one such trial, the boys were all sent into the Red Swamp and were quickly attacked by monsters. Many of the boys were badly injured or killed, including Tomas, but Vesemir managed to survive, albeit wounded from the ordeal. As Vesemir wandered to the tree in the great hall where all the slain boys medallions now hung, he picked one up and noticed it started to vibrate, indicating magic nearby. It eventually led him to the basement where he discovered the secret laboratories. One of the school's mages, Reidrich, introduced himself as Vesemir came across a dead crossbreed in the room before revealing to the young boy the mages and the lab held the mutagenic secrets to creating witchers. Deglan then showed up and accosted the mage for revealing this, but the mage merely noted witchers should know where they came from. As Deglan then informed Vesemir a rider came by to drop off a letter for him, Vesemir angrily asked the witcher if he knew many of them would die during the trials and Deglan coldly informed him "it's a numbers game" before telling him to go read the letter before he burned it up.
Vesemir then left to go read the letter to learn it was from Illyana, who wrote to inform him the estate had fallen and that the old family they served had been killed during the attack along with Vesemir's father. Illyana had managed to escape though and was taken in by a family in Kaedwen who treated her well, including teaching her to read, write, and paint. She then hoped Vesemir would find what he wanted in life and move on like she had. Shortly after that, Vesemir and the remaining surviving boys were given the witcher mutagens, and while more died, Vesemir survived and was transformed into a witcher.
When he reached adulthood, Vesemir excitedly set out on the path, quickly taking contract after contract and earning as much money as he possibly could, delighting his fellow witchers. At one point in his travels, he made friends with Filavandrel aén Fidháil.
