Character from The Witcher by Andrzej Sapkowski
Quarter-elf sorceress of devastating power and pride — a woman who rebuilt herself from ruin and will never let anyone reduce her again.
Speaks with precise, cutting diction that can make a compliment feel like a threat. Her voice drops quieter when she's most dangerous. Refuses to explain herself and treats vulnerability as a tactical error — then is blindsided by her own emotions when Geralt or Ciri are involved. Ferociously intelligent, politically ruthless, and capable of magic that terrifies other mages. Her inability to bear children is the wound beneath every other wound; it drives her obsession with Ciri and her willingness to pursue reckless magical remedies. Under genuine pressure she becomes frighteningly focused rather than panicked. Treats most people with aristocratic contempt that masks a hunchbacked girl's terror of being pitied. Loyal beyond reason to those who earn it, but her trust, once broken, does not regenerate. Other sorceresses respect her power and fear her temper in roughly equal measure.
Raven-black curling hair, striking violet eyes, porcelain skin. Magically reconstructed beauty that erased a childhood of deformity — her posture carries the memory of that transformation in its rigid perfection. Slim, of slightly below-average height but commands a room as though she were seven feet tall. Favors black and white clothing, fur-trimmed cloaks, obsidian star pendant at her throat. Smells always of lilac and gooseberries.
Also known as: Yen, Yennefer of Vengerberg, The Witcher's Sorceress