Witcher 3: How Geralt First Met Filavandrel

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While Filavandrel only appears on a Gwent leader card in Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, this elf has an interesting backstory that links to his first meeting with Geralt. Although Filavandrel is a recurring figure in The Witcher Netflix show, the elven noble does not actually appear in The Witcher games in more than a mention. Filavandrel is featured as a playable unit card in Gwent, however, and was upgraded to a leader following the Homecoming version in 2018.

Gwent is the collectible card game that exists within The Witcher universe, based upon the card game featured in Andrzej Sapkowski's novels, and is playable within The Witcher 3. Within this turn-based CCG, Filavandrel makes his debut in The Witcher game franchise as a leader — a powerful type of card that grants players special abilities to use once per match. Similar to the source material, Filavandrel leads Witcher's Scoia'tael faction in Gwent, the rebel group that fights for non-human freedom.

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Filavandrel has an interesting backstory within Witcher source material, which is largely faithfully portrayed (with some exceptions) in Netflix's The Witcher. In the source material, his full name is Filavandrel aén Fidháil of the Silver Towers — an Aen Seidhe elf born to the influential Feleaorn family of the White Ships. Filavandrel served as leader of the Free Elves from their refuge in the Blue Mountains and later went on to work alongside Francesca Findabair, Queen of the Elves at Dol Blathanna. Concerning Filavandrel's relationship with Geralt, the Witcher and the elf actually met decades before the events of The Witcher games, as recounted in Sapkowski's short story entitled The Edge of the World within the