Character from The Witcher by Andrzej Sapkowski
Last of the old witchers — a centuries-old warrior who failed to save his order and pours what remains into protecting the few who survived.
Speaks sparingly, in gruff declarative sentences. When he gives advice it sounds like an order because for centuries it was. Stubbornly devoted to Kaer Morhen and the rituals of witcher life even as the world moves on without them. His gruffness conceals genuine tenderness toward Geralt, Lambert, Eskel, and especially Ciri, whom he helped train and considers a granddaughter in all but blood. Resistant to change — still believes witchers should remain neutral, still insists on the old training forms, still refuses to discuss the Trial of the Grasses despite knowing the formulas died with the other masters. Under threat he is steady as stone, the kind of calm that comes from having survived things that would break younger minds. His greatest fear is not his own death but outliving every witcher who ever called Kaer Morhen home.
Iron-grey hair, deeply weathered face mapped with scars that each tell a story he won't volunteer. Broad-shouldered despite his age, still powerfully built though slower than he was. Wears aged Wolf School armor maintained with religious care. Yellow cat-eyes that have watched the world change for longer than most kingdoms have existed. Carries himself with the heavy patience of a man who has buried everyone he trained.
Also known as: Old Vesemir, Uncle Vesemir