BEFORE YOU READ, this is spoiler free. I discovered The Witcher because a friend of mine told me to watch the netflix series. So I did, but later on I discovered that in the series a lot changes, so now I'm looking forward to watch the gameplay of the 3 games and probably read the books too! And to make the stories for all the Crusaders, I did a lot of researches that took me like 3 whole days XD So basically if there are some incorrects statements, it's because I don't know a lot. Feel free to correct me if you want! Now, you can click the "read more" button ;) Enjoy!
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Jotaro from Daevon
Jotaro was only a child when he, the baker Holly and the bard Sadao were at the Blue Mountains trying to return to their home in Daevon.
They had taken a break from the long walk, but Jotaro was a very curious child and so he decided to explore the area a bit.
The thick snow and the strong wind increased by the minutes, not making him realize that he strayed too far from his parents, getting lost.
He kept walking to find them, until he lost his strength and fell to the ground. He woke up in an unknown place, surrounded by some adults and other children of his own age.
That place was Kaer Morhen, one of the places where Witchers were mutated and trained. As he regained consciousness, he heard the adults say absurd things: they were assuming that his parents had abandoned him or if they were looking for him they would've died because of the sudden heavy storm.
Once fully recovered, Jotaro said that he was from Daevon and that he was lost, that his parents were sure looking for him. The storm was too strong to go looking for them, so they decided to do it once it calmed down. But when they did, they found no one either at the mountains or in Daevon.
By now Jotaro was considered to be an orphan, and therefore became one of the people that saved him, a Witcher, growing up and training to kill monsters around the continent. Since then, Jotaro has never visited Daevon because of the pain of the loss of his parents.
Alexandra from Blaviken
Alexandra is the daughter of the merchant Michael of Blaviken and his housewife Isabella. The night of her birth was one of the many nights Michael and Isabella quarreled, leaving the woman alone at home while the man was hanging around all night doing who knows what.
This time, however, it was the last time to all of this.
That same night happened that there was also an eclipse, making the newborn baby become "cursed by the Black Sun". Michael was one of the strong supporters of this curse, so Isabella knew that if he knew of her birth he would've immediately have the child imprisoned, so she decided to escape, letting only her best friend know of her disappearance.
She found herself wandering in the vicinity of the Buina River when she saw a house, and decided to try to enter in it. Inside was the carpenter Touma who, seeing that she had a baby girl in her arms, didn't hesitate to let her in. Isabella started living in that house and the two fell in love, growing Alexandra together and never returning to Blaviken.
In 17 years Michael had some affairs with several women, including Isabella's widowed best friend, who accidentally mentioned the birth of his daughter during the Black Sun.
Michael threatened to kill her if she didn't tell him where Isabella had gone, and so the scared woman told him everything. Michael decided to pay a bunch of men to get some help, and some time after they found a house on the banks of the Buina River.
They tried to break in, only giving Alexandra time to hide. Once inside, Michael threatened to burn the house down with them inside if they didn't give him his daughter, so Alexandra came out and gave herself to him and his men only to be locked up in a tower. After Alexandra was taken away, the couple's possessions were stolen, causing them to fall into poverty.
How Jotaro and Alexandra met
Two months passed from the imprisonment of Alexandra, now thought dead by her mother and stepfather.
Touma had heard of a kikimora wandering in a nearby swamp and that anyone who killed it would've earned some money. So he decided to carry out this very dangerous mission, ending up badly injured.
He was saved by a man in black armor, killing the kikimora and taking its head. The man put Touma on his horse, also black, and had themselves taken to the house of the wounded man.
Isabella let him in and immediately began to heal her lover's wounds. After that, Isabella also took care of the man who saved Touma's life, exchanging a few words in the meantime. The man said his name was Jotaro and that he was nearby for the same reason as Touma, but now knowing that they were in a bad economic condition he decided to withdraw the money and then give it to the couple.
Isabella and Touma were grateful for his compassion and courage and wanted to repay him with something, but having practically nothing they proposed to him to accept the Law of Surprise.
Jotaro hesitated at first but when he finally agreed, his surprise immediately came bursting from the door. It was Alexandra, wounded and out of breath, who had managed to escape from the tower and the tortures.
Isabella and Touma couldn't believe their eyes, not expecting such an arrival. After a lot of tears of joy, they realized that Alexandra was now destined to leave with Jotaro. Staying with him would have been safer anyway, since not too late the tower guards would've noticed Alexandra's disappearance, and so the next day the two set off on horseback away from Blaviken.
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The group formed after about two years from Alexandra and Jotaro's first meeting.
Joseph from Beauclair
Joseph is a famous winemaker in Toussaint, married to the weaver Suzi Q. and they had gone to visit someone at Daevon.
They were riding their horses when they saw in the distance a black horse with on the back a man in a black armor and a young woman with long, dark red hair going in the same direction as they were.
Joseph continued to stare at the man, who, bewildered, accelerated the horse's pace. Before he could leave though, Joseph stopped the man to get a better look at him. His turquoise eyes and thick black hair made him feel like a bond between them had grown tighter.
Joseph asked him if by any chance he had a star-shaped birthmark at the base of his neck, to which Jotaro said yes. Joseph could not believe it, because Jotaro was his grandson that went missing about 22 years ago at the Blue Mountains.
As Jotaro tried to remember who he was, Joseph pulled his horse close to his and hugged him tightly. Jotaro somehow recognized his hug, which he returned with a lighter one; same for his grandmother.
Joseph later told him that he was going to visit his parents, and Jotaro was shocked. He thought they had died in the storm while they were trying to find him.
Joseph in turn was shocked by what his grandson told him, looking forward to having them meet again after a long time. So he took both him and his surprise girl to the Witcher's birthplace, where he reunited with his parents believed to be dead for a long period of time.
Despite this, Jotaro decided to continue his life as a Witcher, with the difference that from that day his grandfather occasionally joined his adventures.
He still has to understand how he finds them every time...
Jean-Pierre from Novigrad
Jean-Pierre is a bard from Novigrad who was always around looking for inspiration for his sung poems.
Sometimes he was alone, while others he followed people who seemed to have interesting lives, taking the nickname "singing barnacle".
Most of the time he was chased away by the latter, being considered annoying and invasive with his excessive talking and wanting to know the business of others.
One day he'd decide to follow a Novigrad guard who patrolled the territory at night on horseback, angering him with his questions. So the guard had a plan: the bard seemed too distracted from speaking to see where he was going, and so he took him away from Novigrad.
Once they had gone far enough, the guard sent the horse off at top speed towards the city and ran away. Jean-Pierre was unable to keep up with him and so he soon found himself alone in the middle of the forest in the dark of night. There were signs indicating the ways to the different castles around, but it was too dark to read the names.
As he wandered around trying to return to Novigrad, he saw the light of a bonfire in the distance accompanied by a female voice.
Jean-Pierre decided to get closer and saw that there were two people around the light source. He was delighted to see someone in that situation, and therefore did not hesitate to join them.
After some uncertainty in sharing their names with the stranger, the two figures presented themselves with the names of Jotaro and Alexandra. The girl was the one who exchanged most of the words with the bard, recounting her past experiences at that time with the Witcher and his fights.
Once dawn broke, all three went to Novigrad and when Jotaro and Alexandra had to leave, Jean-Pierre invited himself into their adventures to transcribe them as songs.
Noriaki from Liddertal and Muhammad from Ofir
Noriaki is originally from Liddertal and from an early age he demonstrated various magical abilities, so his parents enrolled him in the school of magic Gweison Haul.
But when he was tested at the age of 7, he was not deemed capable enough to attend the next years of school, so after teaching him the basic skills he was sent home, with the possibility of being recalled in the future.
Noriaki felt a little down in the dumps after this, as he was very excited to be attending this school. He remained with the hope of being called in the future for many years to his teens, but that invitation never came.
During these years, however, Noriaki became passionate about creating potions, and one day when he was looking for a certain plant, he met another wizard. His name is Muhammad and he came from Ofir. He had attended Hakam Academy boys' school of magic and was a potions enthusiast too, just like Noriaki.
Muhammad was a researcher and therefore traveled frequently, and Noriaki saw this as an opportunity for him. He then spoke to his family about it and, after Muhammad's confirmation, Noriaki became his assistant during their travels.
One day they searched for a Bryonia plant in the Armush Mountains, but were suddenly attacked by a manticore. Being taken aback, Muhammad was wounded and Noriaki had to protect him.
But he wasn't an experienced wizard like him, he was helpless. But luckily both were saved by a small group of people, led by a Witcher. Once the manticore was killed, one of the group members recognized Muhammad's face. It was Joseph, who said he had known him since he came to visit Toussaint some time ago.
After Muhammad recovered, Joseph, knowing that the two traveled everywhere like them, proposed that they join the group. Muhammad and Noriaki agreed, becoming the wizards and alchemists of the group.
Yanyu from Asheberg
Yanyu was born in Asheberg from a poor couple, made up of a human named Dawei and a Dryad named Ah Cy.
She didn't get to know her parents well, as they had to abandon her at a young age. The couple did not have enough money to eat and so they tried to steal something, but they were discovered.
Ah Cy not being human, she already had the hate of Asheberg's civilization against, so when they found out she was trying to steal they didn't hesitate to kill her along with her partner.
The couple tried to escape from the guards, but failed. But before they got caught, they managed to get little Yanyu to safety by having her carried away by the current of the Dyphne River, that connectet to the Pontar River.
Luckily the little girl was picked up by an old woman from White Bridge, who adopted her and raised her safely. Luckily Yanyu didn't have much of a Dryad's traits, apart from the pointy ears that the old lady mistook for an elf's and always told the girl to hide them with a hood.
After 16 years, the old lady died of old age and Yanyu was left alone. She had grown up with the knowledge that she was an elf, so she decided to leave for the south, where tolerance for non-humans was better than that of the north.
She found herself walking through Brokilon Forest, when suddenly an arrow was shot in front of her feet, causing her to fall backwards. From the fall, her hood fell back down revealing her pointy ears.
Whoever had fired that arrow came out into the open, revealing herself to be a green-skinned Dryad, who then brought Yanyu to the others of her kind. The oldest among them explained the origins of Dryads to her and recognized that Yanyu was one too but not from her ears, but from her sweat that smelled of willow leaves.
Yanyu then decided to stick with her fellows, learning various magical skills, until she met the Witcher group. They had gone to Brokilon to pay back one of the Dryads who helped the Witcher in the past, and Yanyu was immediately curious about them. So she decided to leave the forest, secretly following the group.
When they caught her, Yanyu just said that she was interested in what they were doing and that if she could join them.
After some hesitation and suspicion, they gave in and finally the Dryad Yanyu joined the group.
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I downloaded the map from this reddit , then I simply edited it from my stories :)
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HDJSSNEJSNSKA I have to reblog this because I have one more pic to put, that is their outfits NGNGNGBG
BUT ANYWAY! I really hope you liked it, because MMMM I fell in love with this au, and because as I said this took me 3 whole days to made, but it was very interesting to make all of the researches! I had some difficulties, both with the researches and even with the drawings, but oh well it's done now XDD
Have a nice day/night my dudes, remember to stay hydrated and love yourself ;)💖💖💖
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