The Witcher: Why The School of the Cat is Infamous Among Witchers

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The School of the Cat is one of the most notorious in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. The player can learn of the feline Witchers and their actions through Geralt’s conversations with the likes of Lambert and Vesemir. There are also a number of opportunities to come across Witchers from the School of the Cat, though not all such encounters end peacefully.

The School of the Cat has been around in The Witcher world for a long time, and there’s a good reason why Witchers from other schools dislike their methods. From using unstable mutagens for their rituals to taking on assassination contracts, the infamy surrounding the Cat School is, to a certain extent, justified.

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The School of the Cat was a Witcher school created after a group of around 15 to 20 people broke away from the Order of Witchers. They were the third splinter group to form after the Bear and Viper Schools, and they established their headquarters in Stygga Castle in the kingdom of Ebbing. To win favor among the locals, the members of the new Witcher school offered their services as mercenaries, spies, and even assassins, which earned the respect of both the local peasantry and the nobles.

Though the feline Witchers’ reputation grew, trouble was brewing within the Cat School’s ranks. The mages who worked with the Cat School wanted to create a Witcher mutation that stripped a person of all their emotions. While they managed to do this with the first feline Witchers, the mages wanted to push the limits. A number of mutations were unsuccessful, however, as the experimental mutagens caused the would-be Witchers to acquire intensified emotions.

These powerful mages imprisoned the “failed” Witchers and conducted