Witcher The History Of Kaer Morhen - Witcher Lore - Witcher Mythology - Witcher 3 Lore
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ย. 2024
- In this video I go over all the major events at Kaer Morhen, from it's creation to it's destruction. I cover everything up to the games and discuss the origins of it's name amongst other things. I also talk about all residents that have lived their, including the school of the wolf and other guests.
When you play the scavenger quest for the wolven gear you actually have to go to a cave. Then in that cave you could see the tables and the mutagens used for creating witchers in the trial of grasses. Geralt even scorns the equipment in disgust as you examine them. Geralt also mentions when you enter the cave that that was where the first wolf school trials were held before they built the fortress so it would probably be a good assumption that the keep was built by the witchers or at least for the witchers. And in fact when you go around the map in kaer morhen valley you get to go through a lot of other ruined structures and these were actually used by the witchers when there were still a lot of them. In fact one of the quests you can recieve in that map is a quest named “The Witcher’s Forge” where in a mine that was depleted centuries before the game(as mentioned by geralt) there still lies an ancient forge built by a mage for the witchers to use and you can find mastercrafted wolven gear and a fire elemental who was actually used as a spirit of the forge which the mage used to make the witchers armor better. When you get to the forge you find out that the fire elemental is still alive and tells you that the forge belongs to “Ranvid” and as Geralt recognizes the name he then tries to inform the elemental that Ranvid of Tor Carnned(not sure of spelling sorry) is dead and was impaled at the stake during Falka’s Rebellion.
That’s all i can say about what i found in the witcher 3 hope it helps
I actually just went on a treasure hunt spree the last couple of days and completed those same quests you mentioned, I love how rich the lore is in this series
How does one get the witcher forge quest? I've seen it come up on screen before but only after killing the fire elemental and it ends as soon as it starts.
as far as I know, the whole quest is killing the fire elemental and examining the forge, then promptly destroying it, where you will find some chests and collect the wolven armor diagram and finding the master crafted wolven chest armor. which you probably already knew, but It does end rather quickly.
Huh. I never examined the forge. All that happens when I play it is the quest pops up on screen when I kill the fire elemental but cannot be tracked and doesn't appear in the log. Maybe it's a bug with the ps4 version? Oh well. Doesn't look like I missed much.
You're not wrong, however, any chance for free master armor and crafting material is to good to pass up
I remember walking around Kaer Morhen and seeing houses like little villages around the many fortresses and liked to think that at some point humans lived there and Co existed with witchers. Say that's where the servants and caretakers lived as when you are a witcher you are always on the path so when you go home you dont want to see a huge mess after months on the road. Instead you had servants cleaning, cooking, and making sure the garden is kept and nothing breaks while the witchers are away. But as time passed views changed and eventually those people came to hate and fear them and that lead to the uprising.
Great idea mate!
Yea, they had non witchers doing research for them. Doing the Wolven gear scavenger quests takes you to plenty of those ruins and you can read the journals/panic'ed notes of the afraid and dying researchers who helped adapt old gear schematics, some literally just finishing the schemas as the horde of rioters could be seen in the distance from their torches. Im on my 1st playthrough and this is still very fresh in my mind. lol but my point is that they most definitely had non witchers working for them, not even if they had all 40 trainees doing chores 24/7 could maintain all that. They had to have their own little community. Probably even a brothel lol.
Considering the reclusive nature of Witcher’s it wouldn’t surprise me for them to have decided to live outside of the castle. Not to mention there would be some with surrogate families. So much unexplored lore...
If I was a one of those witchers at that time I would knock that uprising down real quick and very hard.
This is the second most beautiful and aesthetic place of the game after Toussaint.
Almost reported this accedently , i was so shocked u didn’t name skellige. (Relax just my personal take on it, toussant takes my third place)
I heard somewhere that Kaer Morhen was built by elves, but elves abandon it and later mages Alzur and Cosimo who created witchers needed some secret space to work and so they went there and created the witcher school of the wolf
Mixer cool info, didn't know that
Somewhere in books is that elves don't build fortifications at all.
As Sie Jac allready stated, elven didnt built fortifications at all, cause there was no need for it before the conjunction. Many human citys and towns are build upon elven ruins tough. it could possibly be that an old elven city was used as foundation for kaer morhen
Here's what I'm guessing about Kaer Morhen: it was an ancient fortress that, due to shifting trade routes or borders, lost its strategic importance, and the witchers simply took it over. The world was definitely far more populated in ages past, and you can see evidence of this everywhere.
@@siejac7894 That's because elves are stupid
I actually started reading the books and replaying the games because of your videos, made me realise how much I missed haha. Awesome work mate!
Thank you man! Enjoy the books!
If it wasnt for the peasants and the schools downfall, imagine what would have happened in the battle of Kaer Morhen in the witcher. A whole keep of witchers vs eredin and his wild hunt. That would have been insane and eredins ass would have gotten kicked and vesemir wouldnt die
I really do wonder how people come up with such creative stories that feel so complete.
A bunch of starving peasants, lol. Starving Peasants > Wild Hunt
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Well a peasant killed geralt so....
These peasants had help from mages. Without them they wouldn't have been able to do it.
Even the best of fighters can be overwhelmed by a large number of people. Also, they knew the hunt was coming and was able to plan and prepare. I highly doubt the peasants cordially told them they would be attacking the next day.
@@harisuddin7755 ur right I forgot to take the mages in account. Knowing mages they probably made the starving peasants cannon fodder while they did the real work.
The fortress wasn't actually made for witchers but for the mages, warriors and teachers who made and trained witchers initially but after time those whom are not witcher wern't needed so the witchers took over
Hello! I'm new to The Witcher series. I'm currently playing The Witcher 3. I'll be diving into the books soon. I love your vids! They really help me understand the world of the Witcher and make my experience more rich and full! Thanks you!
When I first got into the Witcher (jumped into TW3 with no context), I remember thinking there would be many other witchers at Kaer Morhen. It was so depressing to see a huge castle only being used by four people, and poor old Vesemir trying to maintain it all by himself. I'd love for TW4 to go back and show us the wolf school in its prime, when everything was fresh and full of life instead of crumbling and empty.
I would rather have Witcher 4 where you create your own Witcher and select what school you go to and it dramatically changes the game where if you choose the cat school, you could be straight up evil and sadistic, but I imagine if that’d be too expensive and big for the game then go to the the wolf school automatically after the trial of grasses and train with vesemir and ranvid and maybe see a young Geralt eventually. Ciri and geralts story is done. Leave them alone.
I would certainly love to see them in the next game, or atleast have them play a role.
Considering the ambitious nature of their new game, even without having played it, I assume if anyone could pull that off they could. For example, Bethesda had the money to do it with F4 but lacked the integrity. CDPR has both and I know that I won’t be disappointed no matter what.
tHE WILL NOT BE A WICHER4,because its a trilogy.
maybe a game about another witcher or mage.
but it wouldnt be named wicher4
I would like to choose a school but i'm fine with not creating yout own character
Young witchers were trained at the Bastion!! I think it's a good idea to wait until witchers 'earned' the castle, kinda helps foster the loyalty the guys felt, but if they felt such loyalty why was it allowed to fall to ruins?
It wasn't so much "allowed" as inevitable. After the slaughter, during which the castle was heavily damaged by the mages, there were only a handful of Wolf-school witchers left. Too few to properly rebuild and maintain a castle of that size, which most of them realized. Only Vesemir really tried, and the others indulged him by helping as they could, wintering there only out of loyalty to Vesemir, who refused to abandon the place.
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Leo dies I believe very early on in Witcher 1 when a mage working with salamandra attacks kaer morhen in order to steal mutation secrets, salamandra riles up locals and a large force along with a screecher beast attack.
Leo was not a full witcher at the time of his death and was preparing for his trial of the grasses.
I think the elves (the wild hunt dimension ones) made a lot of the castle (just like kaer moren) before they left the dimension and then humans took over... Over time leading to witchers inhabiting some.
Elves don't build fortications, human take elves cities and fortificate them.
@@siejac7894 Elves are dumb and weak. Elves are smart but at the same time also dumb. Elves are smart because they make less war than humans but they are dumb because they don't build fortifications and reproduce Elven children.
The Wild Hunt are different type of elves than the elves living in the world of the humans
@@catholicracialist776 wild hunt more like worrior part and witcher world like blind peace lovers
I'd let Letho to live there at Kaer Morhen during Vesemir funeral.
I would like to see Gerald or riverbottom or any rando witcheroo come and rebuild kare more hmm and kickstart a fresh batch for games to come
Haha yeah in Skyrim i had to search up on TH-cam to find the entrance to find the Dawnguard valley
actually, witchers have been revived after the second conjunction
The School of The Crane is one of the schools made after it. They use an early form of guns.
Where is this info from?
@@harisuddin7755 Curious as well
Reply so I can know where
@@harisuddin7755 up his ass I guess..
@@hackerman5207 witcher.fandom.com/wiki/School_of_the_Crane thats what i could find on that but i dont know if the origin of the info is cannon
I love your content and you have amazing videos in the channel, I just have a question, How did you get the game to look so amazing? i mean the texture and the physic, Are you using Mob?
Me right after winning the lotto: look I built kaer morhen 🤣
Here for my Witcher dose ♥️ btw love your videos mate👍
Man it would be awesome of the next Witcher game (there better be one!) allowed you to be NOT Geralt/Ciri and actually be a new and up and coming Witcher from the School of your choice. Would possibly allow for a bit of a class system, Bear-Tanks, Cat-Rogues, Griffin-Casters, Wolf-trap/bomb/generalist, etc. etc. I REALLY REALLY hope they do something like this. We've basically only explored one portion of a single continent on an entire planet full of amazing potential. C'mon CD Projekt RED do it!
That would be cool!
I know this video is bit old but it would have been cool if you mentioned a theory of where the mutations took place in the caves north of Kear Morhean before it was built, sorry if I chopped that name. But the old Bastion is close the the caves where there are three sad alberts' and a small laboratory where they made potions, and there is actually a list of 6 or so kids and only one survived to make it to training but he was messed up after the trial
The only good thing Netflix did for the witcher was hiring Henry Caville and the anime type movie following Vesemir. How the witchers get wipes out is awesome but kinda sad
There is a Netflix animation series regarding the this topic ..the Witcher Nightmare of the wolf ..highly recommended !!
I would have thought the witchers would have terrored the peasants when they came, unless there was literally hundreds
Thousands, more like.
Deadass you have geralt easily slaughtering dozens at a time even peasants in velen mention they seen witchers kill tens without breaking a sweat how do sixty witchers manage to get massacred plus the said mage taking care of the mutations etc
So in the german version is a book or something like that were you can read that the name of the fortress means "alte Festung am Meer" translated "old fortess at the see/ocean
could you do toussaint and nilfgaard
That will definitely come up! Thanks for the suggestion!
pleasure:)
300 subs already, your growing fast
Haha, thanks man
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Im praying they continue the witcher games
I want, when CDPR continues the Witcher, which I’m guessing will be in “Game” lore further in the future, for the Keep to be restored and for more Witcher’s to be trained there.
Wouldn’t really make sense. The ways in which Witchers are made are rightly considered barbaric and there’s no need for a mass resurgence of Witchers. It would be a senseless cruelty in the canon.
@@patrickhughes9304
Also Geralt, Eskel and Lambert wouldn't be part of it. Even Vesemir was only half hearted in his wish to continue the Witcher's Legacy and to be honest most of that came from his nostalgia.
As they tried to break Uma's curse it was made clear how horrible the process is and if you find the Cave where they made the first Witchers Geralt is pretty pissed about it all.
kaer also means castle in old welsh
Thanks for this ^-^
Is it possible to use command codes or cheats to see in to the basement or behind the locked doors at Kaer Morhen? The doors you that you cant normally open or the places you cant get into?...
I was still playing the game just curious but the history and because of no spoiler warning by 30 seconds in i was giving a huge spoiler so thanks
"KAER MORHAN" Means : keep of the sea of yore
Check out Predjamski Grad. That’s where the show will take place.
The witcher has taken a lot of old norse stuff and from sweden and norway Lofoten for example.
No. It's a Slavic game. Not a germanic
Catholic Racialist still references to norse culture, skellige mainly with freya as one of their gods for example
Pretty sure Kaer is a welsh word. I think it means castle but i could be wrong
Quick Theory, it's pretty canon that monster's are more rare nowadays than they used to be, which may also be why Witchers are portrayed as having issues getting paid and keeping a good stock of money. (Seen by Geralt's conversation with The School of The Cat's Witcher, can't remember his name. But in The Witcher III.) So maybe before, when witchers were created from necessity, the pure amount of monsters allowed them to take enough jobs to gain enough money to build Kaer Morhen. Or maybe when they were 'just coming out', by slaying so many beasts maybe they were rewarded with the Castle. (As you said) But having this previous great wealth would also be another thematic of The Witcher's 'fall from grace' that's so heavily focused on in the games with them being pariahed (or even killed, in this video's case.) But going from once-rich people who'd earned it by blood and silver to scavenging workers who're forced to travel great distances to find a consistent income of jobs, and thus, money. It would play that whole "nobility rested in a castle, great warrior" to "wandering destitute ronin soldier who fights for their own aims/cause" and it'd definitely be a thematic I can get behind.
Caer is welsh for stronghold
Isn´t it possible that Kaer Morhen is an old Elven Fortification that was abondened? I mean, the Witchers could have improved the defenses over time.
I suppose so, you never know!
What about the witcher forge with the earth and fire elemental in it?
I could make a video exploring those little secrets, good idea!
I love this video.
Still love it.
Please can someone explain how a bunch of peasant and a handleful of mages destroyed a keep meant to destroy monsters on a calamity level... It still doesn't make sense. Maybe I should just read the books. Unless all witchers we're weak
they need to remake witcher 1 (resident evil type remake )
Wait there is already a tv series on the world of the witcher? I know there's a netflix series coming but I didn't think there was already one?
It's called the hexer!
WitcherGeorge I've got to watch that! Cheers. Great videos btw, I love absorbing myself into the world of the witcher. These law vids are great.
dont watch it, its pure garbage
Mor = Sea in Kernewek (Cornish) ;)
I think now we know how the witchers perished Deglan was making mutated monsters with help of mages to make witchers earn more coin because monsters were dying and witchers were going out of business. So Tetra with Kitsu attacked and laid waste to Kaer Morhen but Vesemir with Lady Zerbst and few children one of them being Geralt got out
I would love to see Ciri continue the legacy, merging every other school and creating one big school known as the "School of The Witcher" as a place to acquire great knowledge and hone your fighting skills, open to every young children who had been abandoned or just feel like becoming a badass. The students wouldn't have to go through the trials, witchers still would take contracts but monsters would have gone extinct by now so they are like professional knights for hire. Geralt can be the old cool witcher like Vesemir and Yen can be the teacher of everything magical.
I Hope they will rejuwinate the witchers and their schools and add New ones. Or just build up on the ones we have.
Actually Kaer Means Fortress!!!
I still dont know how peasants can massacre witchers, uno a witcher that can deal with monsters that can destroy whole towns and yet some peasants managed to kill most of the witchers...like wtf how, I would understand if like 10000 fully armed soldiers did it, but peasants with pitchforks and clubs??? C'mon now
It was a lot of peasants and the where mages involed in the attack the Witchers were overwhelmed by brute magic force and in numbers.
@@iWhat1337 yeah but if they have dimithrium\antimagic bombs...
@@iWhat1337 That still doesn't make any sense. A single witcher can literally demolish army of trained soldiers enough to turn the entire battle (proof:Battle of the bridge). But bunch of untrained peasants can defeat witchers? Thats stupid.
Make vidies about triss!
Good idea!
yeah I want to know more about Triss like where she came from and why her hair red or why is she so beatiful. I know there's too little story to tell about her but I believe there's more! :)
Thanks I really love it!
Don't know why you don't mention Wales more in you're Witcher videos,as the Elvin language in the game is mostly Welsh,and most of the characters in the game are Welsh voice actors,also k isn't in the Welsh alphabet and ddinas is the Welsh word for city. "Ddinas morhen"
Very similar ,I talked about it more in my witcher schools extra info vid
Watching in 2021?
I think i recall from playin all 3 games (not reading the books or anything) that some mages ploted to defeat and vanish the witcher because they realized they could be such a danger to their schemes, so they sent an specific mage to write this letters and disguise as peasant to rise their anger and discontent against the witchers and kaer morhen... i think
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Homie please add a spoiler warning for these videos on god🙏🙏
To me what really would be interesting would be for the next witcher game would be based in the hey day of the witchers like if you played as vesemirs teacher or someone before I can't remember who his teacher is but the story leads up to the peasant revolt at kaer Morhen I would love to see the kaer Morhen at its best quality and form that would be badass
Ryan Harrell or maybe you play a young witcher, who becomes a good of vesemir Haha, awesome suggestion mate
WitcherGeorge thanks man I just found your channel today I absolutely love the witcher I bought all the books but I am yet to read them lol your lore videos have helped me out quite alot I hope for there to be more witcher videos from you keep up the great work george
Maybe a witcher game from the perspective of one of the first witchers when monsters were prominent through out the world and there was danger around every corner, and the public don't know or have even less information about witchers so they could treat you more like monsters than a stranger and so forth.
I want to play as Hieronymus
@@okami5925 i wanted to play as Barmin or Rennes, or maybe Vesemirs story or Berengar
I always love the view around Kaer Morhen, secret locations and all the side quests around there
It's awesome!
It surprises me that the witchers didn't pick up on the peasants growing hatred and leave
@ParangLima IKR. If I was a witcher I would fanatically start taking out the enemy leader ship so they can't launch any attacks at Kaer Morhen anymore. Also I would order non-witchers to repair the fortress
@@catholicracialist776 ikr i would have slain those bitches for destroying the castle and the fellow witchers and then try to convince the ones left to pitch up some coin to repair. Even letho would have been interested
Yeah well
All non witchers mostly are assholes to witchers
So...yeah The Cat school actually has the right idea if you think about it
Watch the animated movie on Netflix it shows the sacking of Kaer Morhen they didn’t knoe
Most cities and castles belonged to the Eldar races. Humans took them by force or when the inhabitants fled.
A discussion on reddit about Eskel, actually mentioned Kaer Morhen, as far as a possible premise for a future Witcher game, now that Geralt's story is over. What about another witcher finding the abandoned keep, and deciding to restore the 'School of the Wolf', and finding recruits. Possibly an interaction between Geralt of Rivia and/or Letho of Gulet, who may or may not live there. Although the 10 year Witcher anniversary video by CDPR, insinuated that Geralt retired at Corvo Bianco.
Nice theory!
@@WitcherGeorge: Thanks. Great video on Kaer Morhen, as well.
It could have choice like
Ciri becomes witcher- she is now the trainer at the witcher school
Ciri becomes the empress- helps restore the ruins in and around Kaer Morhen and maybe also hire mages and elves for that
Ciri dies- becomes the inspiration for the school, the she wolf mascot of the school
Awsome video thank you witcher good luck on the path
thank you mate
The elder speech form of kaer morhen can be applied to a character from the Witcher franchise, Gwynbleidd, which is translated to english as White Wolf.
The books and therefore the games were perfectly chosen in terms of timeframe. The Witchers remind me of Jedi or Halo Spartans, and they're depicted as like relics of a dying age, once powerful and self governing, now few and vulnerable to the power of kingdoms.
The wild hunt attacked Kier Morhen before Gerald lost his memory
ah nice
Logan White Kaer* Geralt*
auto correct on a phone sorry*
also the salamandra in the first game
Monstrum is probably based on the Malleus Maleficarum, or 'Hammer of the Witches', which is a 15th century book on how to identify and hunt witches.
So they must have been attacked by at least 500 peasants to take out around 25 witchers, I assume...
@Whiterun Guard imagine if the amount of peasants you killed would matter to change the storyline, like you can also go to the tower and help hieronymous and also others and that would change the story by them not losing the secrets and making witchers.
We don't know the exact numbers but we know it was an army of peasants (hundreds or thousands) led by mages who laid siege to the fort. It was pre meditated and planned.
Nice video, though you forgot about Hieronymus and Chird, they lived there and helped Elgar to create the Wolven Gear
Whoops!
I don't think they actually helped ELgar, as he was long dead, but discovered his work and were recreating it.
On another note, it seems to me that Hieronymus was actually responsible for the attack that destroyed the school. Mages had aroused the peasantry against the witchers, but the location of Kaer Morhen was a closely-held secret at that time. How did they learn where to go? If you do the Greenhouse Effect quest, you find a letter from Hieronymus to a sorceress (on whom he was apparently sweet) where he says he will reveal the location to her because he trusts her, though he had sworn never to do so. Perhaps his trust was misplaced and that is how the mages learned the location of the school.
Leo was gonna be a witcher he was about to get the proper mutations then they got stolen in the witcher 1
You said the real life in your speechs and i want to say that the both is real life in there world
kaer comes from elder speech caer and caer in welsh means fortress or keep
If I ever come across a large sum of money I will create Kaer Morhen.
My favorite place other than Unvik
Just out of curiosity, I'd love a Witcher game where Gerald and yennefer sacsefully have a child. You know Gerald drinking that potion in the second game and yannefer researching in how to be fertil. Imagin playing their son or daughter
In a more advanced continent.
I think that it could have been built by a king as payment for being saved by a Witcher. (The king) "thank you for saving me, and delivering me to my castle! How could I ever repay you?" (The Witcher) "I could use a castle of my own!"
Or maybe it was the law of surprise.
If you put your markee over Kaer Morhen it says it means "Keaper of sea and yore"
You should do a video of Kaer Seren, where School of the Griffin is situated.
the Gameplay is from xbox or pc with controller?
And im super glad for Witcher Lore ;)
Pc! Thanks mate!
witcher 1 is lininier like witcher 2
Pretty much, there is also stuff to do, but far less then 3.
W1 gameplay would have been awesome
That it would
Love your vids m8
Thank you mate
you just earned a sub
thank you man
Give spoiler warnings man jeezuz
sorry!
The title says "Witcher - History of Kaer Morhen" and "Witcher (3) Lore".... so one might expect that the vid contains spoilers....