The Witcher: The History Of Kaer Morhen

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Those who've played through The Witcher 3 are no strangers to the drafty halls of Kaer Morhen, the witcher stronghold that once served as training grounds for the likes of Geralt and his brethren. And more recently, fans of the Netflix series were introduced to the remote mountainous locale in The Witcher season two.

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However, the events that unfold in these adaptations are only considered part of the keep's recent history. Kaer Morhen's origins stem much further back than Geralt or even Vesemir's time.

Those who've read Andrzej Sapkowski's original work may recall the name "Kaer Morhen" is a mutated translation of "Caer a'Muirehen" in the Elder Speech, which reads "Keep of the Elder Sea." Sapkowski's novel, Blood of Elves explains the name pays homage to the ancient sea located nearby, as do the stones on which the keep is built, imprinted with the fossils of sea creatures that once dwelled there.

In CDPR's The Witcher 3, we learn that witchers camping in the surrounding mountains took up residence within the keep only after the humans had abandoned it, and thus the witcher school of the wolf was established.

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While Sapkowski's work doesn't openly reference other schools in the same way as CDPR does with The Cat School and the like, the books do acknowledge other witchers, such as Coën being a visiting witcher, not trained at Kaer Morhen, and both text and game canon depict the wolf medallions that mark witchers who were trained there.

Some of the keep's defining features include its remote locale in the Kaedwenian Mountains, accessible only by an easily missed mountain pass and encircled by a trail known to the