Witcher Schools: School of The Griffin - Witcher Lore - Witcher Mythology - Witcher 3 lore
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- What is the school of the griffin? In this video I try my best to explain the history of the school of the griffin. I will go over prominent members and their history, the school of the griffins effect on the witcher games, George of Kagen, Jerome Moreau and many other school of the griffin witcher's! Be sure to like the video for more of the same and subscribe if you're new and love the witcher!
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Why does your voice sound so different than your more recent videos on your witcher 3 play throughs for example? Lol
Your videos are so unstructured and feel put together at the last minute if you knew the griffin school used two swords why didn't you just put it in the video you knob head
School of the Griffin: "Come on, guys, let's get our shit together!"
School of the Wolf: *Passed out, drunk, wearing ladies' frippery*
School of the Bear: *laughing at School of the Wolf, crying inside because only one person from his school came*
School of the Cat: *Sharpening a knife, muttering and giggling to himself in the corner*
School of the Viper: *Eating popcorn*
School of the Manticore: *forgot about the meeting, went to midnight mass*
Addendum
School of the Snail: *Eaten by ghouls*
The manticoe made me laugj more than then the others dunno why
School of the Crane: *didn't receive an invite*
@@Makarosc lol the other schools forgot they existed
School of the Gigolo: Too exhausted from having s.e.x with Triss and Ciri…..and the village peasant women under the hangman tree.
Everyone forgets the noble school of the snail
What I learned by looking up is that the Griffin school focused more on magic and less sword fighting as they made an advanced form of yrden that could hold a monster for hours and short teleportation and many other advanced signs
Ah it's interesting that they used yrden in that way, great fact man
WitcherGeorge thank and it was heavily implied that their school somewhere in Toussaint
I wish the video included this and more analysis of the school's different fighting styles
@@AdrianGonzalez-yl8nm According to the Witcher RPG (Tabletop RPG), witcher of griffin school is based on somewhere near the Blue mountain due to their heavy association with magic.
@@AdrianGonzalez-yl8nm Also they do develop their own unique form of fighting style called Viroledan Glaeddyv, in witcher 1 this was called group style; a sword form/fighting style that capable of enganging multiple opponent at once.
"My name is Peter from the griffin school."
Hey yen remembah when we met that cooky golden dragon?
(In a liverpool dialect) "Hello me name's george, ah'm a witcher and, y'know, I hunt those monsters, y'know"
This is a double joke because his last name is Griffin, and he is fat like the armor.
In Chris's voice: Hah-I, I'm Chris an' I'm a Griffin!
😐
I’d like Griffin armor if it didn’t make Geralt look like he’d spent too much time at the Vegalbuds
It's a breastplate form of armor (just like real armor). That curvature served to deflect arrows from penetrating and could also help to deflect blows from swords. If you look at him from the rear, the rear side of the armor is flat. The front is curved for the reasons I said, and well, you''re fighting is all wrong if you're taking blows from behind. ;)
I agree with you, because its whole bulge in normal armor improves the deflection of blows, but this armor in mainly made out of leather making the bulge completely useless
If you dye it Red and black it looks better.
@@dragoneer59 it goes with the stats bonus of 50 resistance to almost all damage type and bonus to sign damage I think. So lore wise it makes sense
What I gathered from the lore is basically:
Griffin School = Magic specialisation, somewhat knightly and heroic. Possibly linked to Toussaint.
Cat School = Swordsmanship specialisation, ties to the elves.
Wolf School = No specialisation, a sort of "jack of all trades" school.
Viper School = A school focused on gathering monster lore, a sort of "knowledge is power" -sort of school.
Bear School = Similar to wolf school, except they wear heavier armour and tend to not get along with each other.
Manticore School = Alchemy specialisation, founded somewhere in Zerrikania or elsewhere in the east.
The Manticore school also don't posses much influence outside of it's homebase
The griffin school is in Kovir and Poviss
Crane School = wear diving suits and specialize in hunting sea monsters with projectile weapons
Griffin school is also the only school that behave more like knightly order, being formed by first generation witchers from the time there is only single unified witcher school led by Alzur himself. Another point is that the entire school is geared toward preparation and intelligent planning, it is said in the new lorebook that the final test of Griffin school witcher is either taking the egg of griffin in stealth or reciting in full memory a magical book known as Liber Tenebraum. So this guy is pretty much green beret style super nerd.
So far Wolf and Griffin witchers are the one that filled with relatively normal and rather sane individual. Most other witchers are just straight sociopath crazed killer that only care about highest bid contract. Even the bear school
In the books the Witcher doesn’t tend to carry both swords at once and not all monsters are weak to silver. Like vampires. Vampires are not weak to silver. Regis talks about this in the books. He only needs his silver sword for specific monsters. Cursed beings for example: the striga. So a dragon could most definitely be killed by something other than silver. It’s mostly a game mechanic added to the witcher games. Otherwise we would rarely use the silver sword at all.
Metallurgy 101: Melting point of steel 1510 degrees Celsius (2750 degrees F), melting point of silver 961.8 degrees Celsius (1763 degrees F). If I had to fight a dragon, then I think I'd be taking the steel. ;)
Shadow Wright Also most Dragon scales would be to hard for silver swords.
Shadow Wright im pretty sure dragon fire would melt steel like butter in the microwave
Ryan Williamson a lot of the Relic "steel" swords in the Witcher 3 are made from Dimeritium. This could possibly be an alloy similar to Timascus (titanium that's been forged and folded multiple times to create layers, forming a superior metal). As it's implied in the game that Dimeritium is superior to steel, and much lighter (Just like titanium).
It’s still cool tho
I love the Griffin on my first new game+ I tried a paladin build putting most of my points in signs and sword play. Wish we could get a prequel set 500+ years prior to Geralt when all the schools were in their prime.
gphjr14 me too! If CD red ever makes another Witcher game I’d want a prequel set during Witcher prime time where u decided which school u start out with.
I REALLY hope they do. Imo if they do i think it could be much better then 3, which would be tough to do
or have the schools reemerge remember that the unseen elder says the portals will be opening soon in 100 to 300 years witchers have really long life spans remember that geralt is like an 100 years old himself. and when the portals reopened not only will the unseen elder be able to go back home like he wants but the monsters will be able to come though again
Signs and Sword is all we need tbh. Im playing on Death March have not needed any alchemy skills.
gphjr14 like a make your own character choose your school play style RPG
The witcher's code is more like guidelines than actual rules... =D
Craz3t0wn I was about to say that in the video but realised I'd almost be quoting pirates of the Caribbean haha
That's what I thought of immediately lol thought you were going to say it. Strange that Witchers are much like pirates =P
The witcher code is more like a very loose suggestion
There is no such thing as a witcher's code. Geralt made it up bc his costumer base is more attracted to people who follow a code
Thank God. I hate using cat
In one of the books Geralt openly said that there is no such thing as a "witcher's code". There is a general consent about some things, but no one ever bothered to actually compile a code of conduct from that.
He explained that it can make dealing with people sometimes easier, since a code is something that's respected. He can say that his code forbids him from doing something instead of saying that he doesn't want to do something.
It's not something he makes up on the spot to behave however he wants to, though (although he admitted of sometimes hiding behind the code). He actually set some rules for himself and tries to stick to that. You might be better off calling it 'principles' instead of 'code'.
Geralt said in the books that HE doesn't hunt dragons, but that doesn't really mean another witcher would be against it.
-Bandit- Geralt in general doesn’t hunt animals near extinction, tends to drive them away and killing them as a last resort
@@theArab__ Does that include monsters? Like the silver basilisk (or w/e the name was) from the witcher 3?
@@theArab__ like how he helps villentretenmerth, or in baptism of fire when he drives off the eyehead with loud noise rather than killing it since he says there only a few left alive
@@soleo2783 He only kills monsters that are an active threat to people, I guess regardless of if they are endangered or not. Dragons seem to usually not bother humans except for the occasional sheep stealing, so he doesn't kill them.
George killed a dragon, got his ass robbed, and then died.
“That’s Velen for you.”- Geralt of Rivia
Can't have shit in Gors Velen
The Griffin School gear is very elegant compared to the other witcher schools. It looks knightly. I believe they may be from Toussaint. Just a hunch.
Very possible!
only problem for me is that it makes geralt look fat
@@minimalisthobo7616 don't you mean THICC?
@@minimalisthobo7616 barrel chested is the words I would use to describe it, but I get your point
Raziel354 that’s DLC matherial= the Witcher 3: end him rightly!
The gryphon school is probably my favorite simply due to their emphasis on magic and being battle mages. Magic is so powerful but the magic schools are far too strict and difficult. We need some middle class wizards!
The one big gripe I have with the Witcher games is how all monsters are vulnerable to silver swords. In the books not all monsters were weak to silver, some were weak to steel or specifically meteorite steel. Also, anyone else think it's odd that you use silver swords on the wild hunt? They're not really wraiths, they're elves and you don't use silver swords on normal elf enemies like scoatel.
It is quiet strange, maybe silver swords have more of an affect against creatures that have experienced the conjunction of spheres? Unlikely, but I guess they had to make the game mechanics not to complicated so, they went for the simple one sword does one thing and the other does one thing haha.
The elves of the wild hunt are magically imbued to be bigger and stronger in the witcher 3 game but why would silver swords do anything to them other than being sharpened pieces of metal.
CDPR made an incredibly smart move changing a lot from the books, so it could better translate on game. If all the rules were followed from the books, the game would have crashed; much like it did with the more faithful, but still different, TW1.
The books might be great, but as a 100% faithful game they wouldn't be anywhere near as good as CDPR's Witcher series.
I always questioned why Geralt uses a silver sword against the Wild Hunt and Gryphons, but I guess a lot of monsters like necrophages could have the argument made about them that their origins lie in magic, and if silver is anti-magic or something it might make sense. Gryphons are classified as hybrids so maybe their origins lie in magical breeding, and the wild hunt has arguably been enhanced by magic (otherwise they'd just be normal elves). Yet vampires don't really seem magical in that sense though, just from a different world.
Serious answer: because in the game you fight the wild hunt elves along with their hounds, which would certainly be weaker to silver. So to keep you from having to constantly switch back and forth they just made wild hunt vulnerable to silver
The Griffin witcher in Toussaint is also referred to as a surprisingly sociable, friendly guy. In my mind, I drew some parallels with the vampiers, in regards to how different witcher schools prefer to react in regards to socializing with "normal" people:
- Griffin witchers are like Regis and, like him, break almost all stereotypes about them; they're fair, friendly, truthful and sociable
- Bear witchers are like Orianna(just without her abuse of kids for blood); they are somewhat sociable and friendly, but they're secretive
- Wolven witchers are like Dettlaff, when he is calm; generally hold more to themselves and are very direct, but also fair and truthful
- Cat witchers are like the Unseen Elder(sans his immense power and abilities); they're extremely solitary, very aggressive and very quick
- Manticore witchers are like the Novigrad vampire; very prone to internalized self-hatred and (as a result, maybe?) to religious nonesense(and religious extremism, I guess)
What about Viper witchers?
@@monkeycat6408 They're just bodybuilders
Vam-piere
"... needs a professional."
*casts Igni on a griffin*
PandaIndiana it’s op Use Igni when it’s sideways
On a royal griffin. It’d be a little more embarrassing if he used it on an arch-griffin as they are the ones with the immunity to fire
Damn, now I want to get back to playing The Witcher 3. I played the game through once, went back and played the first and second game and started the third all over again. I also recently finished the books, now I want to get back to the third one, I almost want to start from the first game again, now that I've read the books.
Haha go for it mate
Haragoth good lad!
Its a dangerous addiction
They might be based (were based probably) in Toussaint, given the armour style and knightly etiquette
Must say that "Dragon" in the painting seriously resembles a cockatrice a hell of a lot.
CD project red needs to put out a book going into more detail on pretty much everything added to the story with the games. I'd read it
My favorite school besides the Wolf
Lmao the confirmation of them using two swords killed me
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I just wish we were able to wear that badass cloak he wears in the cut scenes lol...
I started playing witcher 3 for the first time a few weeks ago and naturally gravitated towards the griffin school I love its level of defense but also it’s agility and boost in magic
Jerome (another griffin Witcher from the witcher 3) was also said to be quite likeable and that he seemed to be more human ( apparently he was more emotional) than most other witchers.
This world does not need a hero but needs a professional.
Geralt of fucking Rivia who uses a fire spell in a field of dry wheat
thelewis1997 me( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
thelewis1997 GERALT OF FUCKING RIVIA THATS WHO!!!! I'm kidding I hope you enjoyed the video
WitcherGeorge I did man quality content as always👍
*Proceeds to use Igni instead of Aard on a Griffin*
You said that you didn't know where the Griffin witcher school was located but wandering around in the game I came across a castle in the far south of Velen near the Crossroads. It has a marker called The Last Bastion. The majority of the castle is buried underground but to me it resembles Kaer Morhen. Seems to me to make sense to have a witcher school in the north (Kaer Morhen), and one in to the west in Velen (Last Bastion). Then maybe the cat was in the South near Toussaint? I haven't read the books yet so could be just a castle that suffered in a war in one of the books but I like to think it's a witcher school.
Bioware Geek the Viper is in the South in Nilfgaard and the Manticore is in the southeast in Zerrikania. The bear is probably skellige. The cat is an exception, because it's an offshoot of wolf (aborted mutated wolf students). I checked out that place and you could be right re griffin.
Most traits of the Griffin school to me scream Toussaint
great way to conclude the schools of the witcher. cant wait for the dragon video gotta be my favourite mythological creature because DRAGONS come on
My favorite dragon: Villentretenmerth.
I love this video cause Griffin Gear set will always be my favorite. Even though Geralt looks fat and chunky wearing that armor, I still adore it because of the almost 100% and exceeding Sign Intensity. I will always choose 100% burning any day of the week.
Just alt aard with the freezing mutation, and the enemy's either dead and in pieces, or just laying there waiting to be cut into pieces
@@pan_muffinek I much prefer the cat school set with the "cat school training" perk
@@dovahkiin_brasil idk i find fast attack builds extremely boring
I love you lad, your videos are great I'm so happy theres someone who talks about the witcher lore. Keep up the good work !
thanks mate
Videos about the characters will be interesting, I'm looking forward to them, anyway, good luck with it
Thanks man!
Great vid! Was super excited when I saw it was out. Best one out of all of them so far in my opinion. Keep it up!
thank you mate! means a lot
You find Jerome’s body when you’re looking for the grandmaster diagrams in the blood and wine expansion
Until the TV shows I never heard of the witcher, I really enjoyed the first series, as I'm a Game of thrones fan. It was well made and instantly I got hooked on it. With your wonderful videos I can learn more about the witcher world, thanks for your hard work I appreciate the work your doing keep it up 👍
Bro, keep going with this stuff! Really really interesting and well done videos. Monster and Character series r a must!
Thank you mate!
The Griffin school gear will always be my favorite simply because I use Signs all the time...Not sure if anyone else has mentioned this, but I'm pretty sure that Witcher George is loosely based on the legend of St. George and the Dragon, who was often depicted in medieval and Renaissance art: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_George_and_the_Dragon
Thanks to your videos I'm learning so much, thanks! This is definitely my favorite school 🔥♥️
Awesome, video. Keep it up. Keep it up. Can't wait for the next one.
About the School of the Griffin, there was even a suggestion that they were from the South. Very high standards in etiquette and their armor kinda resembles of a knight you might think that they were from Touissaint.
Good point mate !
I could see the Griffons originating in Touissant due to the St. George chivalric knight errant archetype. Of COURSE a Witcher of that culture would go single-handedly challenge a dragon!
WitcherGeorge Thanks! 👍😄
Tyler H For the Duchess! For Touissaint!
This armor set...
Getting an itch for all things Witcher again and going through NG+ on death march, about to listen to the first book again and found this channel and holy shit...I'm loving this keep up the great work!
Thank you man!
Great stuff! Keep it up!
If you track down the Griffin gear in Tousant, (I don’t remember how it’s spelled off the top of my head) you find out that Jerome was trapped in a cave by his father. He never found a way out and died there.
Loved the video bro!
After watching this and the Gaunter O'Dimm video i had to sub
thank you mate
Great post. Thanks for doing these.
Glad you like it man!
Another great video!
Amazing video is everything I was waiting for
Michael Kazmierczak thanks mate
My name is George. Was gonna start a Witcher George channel. Oh well. Great content Witcher George, especially this video about Witcher George.
I just started playing the Witcher a month ago... already beat the main quests for the 3rd game just bought the dlcs. I love the videos man an wish I found this game years ago!!
Wow, 3K subscribers?! Nice work!
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“The codes are move of what you’d call ‘guidelines’ than actual rules” - Barbossa.
Really enjoyed the schools series of videos!
Thank you man!
I come back to these videos sometimes and you mentioned how Griffin Witchers are likely "posh" I agree based on the Griffin armor especially Superior Master and Grand master compared to other Armors it looks more fancy or elegant compared to the other schools.
Can you do drowners lore? Btw congrats on 3,8k subs! :D
Sure! Thanks you mate
"This world doesn't need a hero. It needs a professional."
I love this quote so much.
A hero is a random guy who runs into a burning building and saves the screaming kid.
Professionals are the firemen who extinguish the fire, save everyone and minimise property damage.
Professionals > heroes.
One story says the school of the Griffin earned it's name from it's name from several members taking out a group of Griffins causes problems for people.
I like their armour, most realistic of the lot
Just found this video, Jerome died in Touissant in cave where he was teleported with his father for experiment i guess you find there grandmaster griffins armor schemes and also note where Jerome wrote that he killed his father (or deadly wounded) and so he locked him there with golem and no way to get out
Love the content
its my favorite school and grandmaster type of armour set is incredible....
2:15 I saw that painting on the wall in Kaer Morhen
Which is weird you'd think to find paintings about wolf school witchers or elves there
I naturally was drawn to the school of the griffin. My play style is the crusader/Paladin archetype in any RPG fantasy game. So naturally with out thinking I became a sword and sign build.
Papa george
Great video
Thank you mate
Griffen school ftw :D
Nice video, was looking forward to this one
Nice video.
I was looking for your wideo on the school of griffin, then i realised you haven't made one until now.
haha well I hope you enjoy it!
In the Book Szpony i kły (English unofficial translation Claws and Fangs), it's confirmed that Coën is from School of the Griffin.
Cool video keep going love from france 😘
Actually the School of the Griffin was the first Witcher school it was called the School of the Griffin after a knight who's nick name was Griffin
Just a heads up, The season of the Griffin just started in Gwent and the Witcher George is in it
They need to make an rpg style Witcher game where you can pick what school you want to come from. Would be awesome
Witcher thumbnail I jump right in 😀
In regards to Witcher's not hunting dragons, an interesting thought. The image of Witcher George fighting a dragon, the image looks more like a basilisk than a genuine dragon. Basilisks referred to as lesser dragons, not "proper dragons". Perhaps the story is referring to Witcher George fighting a Draconid, which a Basilisk is a member of, and that basilisks are usually green.
My favorite witcher school if I say so myself.
Finally! :P
PQ5 haha thanks mate
This armor set is awesome for signs
Hey, so I just did a contract in The Witcher 3 and in it the contract giver asks what school Geralt is from, there’s an option to tell him your from the school of the griffin. What’s up with that?
Hi George, do you know that there is new lore on witchers, particulary the favorite witcher school of Griffin. Just check the A witcher's Journal PNP rpg supplement. There is even good information regarding the period known as Golden Age of Witcher, it is basically the 2nd generation of witcher when the unified order of witcher collapse. The era is also coincidence with the incident between Lara Dorren (ciri ancestress) and the human mage that led to the elven-human conflict. What a fascinating game it would be if it set in this era!
My favorite school!! (In lore)
Ik everybody has said this but
A cool idea for a Witcher rpg/mmo is a game where all the Witcher schools are in their prime(either in the future or past) and you can create your character and decide what school they’re in and there can be a reward system where you can ask about your reward and maybe grow the Witcher school and there can be mechanics coming from that that can affect the ending
Maybe I'm the only one who would love to see a game where we play when the Witchers are in their prime and their traditions, craft, training, knowledge
If you go to Kaer Morhen there is a mural of the Witcher George. Geralt says “mounted witchering just never took off”
School of the Griffin is the equivalent of the "Paladin" role in other fantasy games. Honorable Warriors/Knights that use Holy/Magic against the evil.
Witcher George was using a steel sword but he probably made a oil to combat the dragon and probably relied heavily on signs.
The Witcher's Code is more what you'd call guidelines than actual rules~
good video
About the monster series I'd love to learn more about giant centipedes or anarcno..idk, the gigant frealy lightging past spiders
Are you ever gonna do School of the Crane?
I'd like to play these games now but im not sure of the game timeline, what is the sequence for the games? Been looking on steam.
Yeah, didn't have to read the notes. Just listened to this
The witcher series is my favourite games of all time the witcher 3 especially and the school of the Griffin is my favourite and the tale of George is brilliant
I love the tales too!
speaking of Gwent cards and turning George into one, i just realized theres a geralt card, a yennefer, ciri and triss and even Letho. but theres no eskel or lambert cards
i realy liked reading the witcher stories in treasure hunt quests. i recommed you to read all if you havent.
Griffin: the perfect school for me! And thank you for all the (fannish) lore.
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I meant "fannish" in a good way, as in, "taking a lot of trouble to go in-depth and be thoughtful about something more casual players might pass over." Okay, I'll stop before I swallow my foot up to the knee.
Imagine if one Witcher mastered the teachings from all the schools
Im pretty sure you can see Geromes Body in some kind of aparatus in the fathers workshop
The lighthouse plot is from a classic novel titled 'Jamaica Inn'.
The bit about silver; Silver has been long known to be a metal that cleanses evil probably in part because of it's actual anti-biotic and anti-fungal properties. People who do not have a good understanding of what disease is or alloy allergies will come up with a 'just so' story to explain why something works. In Myth and Folklore, silver has long been associated with wounding creatures of ill intent and/or tainted by evil. The Wild Hunt has a reputation for being 'unseelie' (unholy). 'Seelie' elves may not have been willing to indulge in certain practices that their 'unseelie' counterparts would (like wanting to hold Ciri hostage for the remainder of her days after lying to her that they would release her after she had become pregnant by one of their number) , which could explain the Wild Hunt's vulnerability to silver over other elves. The Wild Hunt in mythology is oftentimes led by Oberon, King of the 'unseelie' court, and they hunt humans for sport.
Ah good point about the anti-fungal properties, I actually own a pair of socks that use silver as a way to prevent athletes foot etc. But I think that putting if you put too much thought into it, it doesn't really make a lot of sense, I think the best thing to do, is just accept that silver works in the way it does, because the plot requires it to.
Jeroum i dont know how its written the Witcher from the quest which father you mentioned who wanted to cure him, he died in a cave because he left his equipment in the fort he entered the portal was teleported into the cave you can read his notes on the back of the grandmaster griffin schematics when you look for them in Touissaint.
Could be cool to see a witcher game where you created your own witcher and choose the school where your character his from