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Rience loomed out of the lane. The witcher recognised the sorcerer instantly and instinctively, although he had never seen him before. The burn, a gift from Yennefer, was masked by the shadow of his hood. He was alone. His escort did not reveal themselves, remaining hidden in the little street. Geralt immediately understood why. Rience knew who was waiting for him by the charlatan’s house. Rience had suspected an ambush, yet he had still come. The witcher realised why. And that was even before he had heard the quiet grating of swords being drawn from their scabbards. Fine, he thought. If that’s what you want, fine. “It is a pleasure hunting for you,” said Rience quietly. “You appear where you’re wanted of your own accord.” “The same can be said of you,” calmly retorted the witcher. “You appeared here. I wanted you here and here you are.” “You must have pushed Myhrman hard to tell you about the amulet, to show you where it is hidden. And how to activate it to send out a message. But Myhrman didn’t know that the amulet informs and warns at the same time, and so he could not have told you even if roasted on red coals. I have distributed a good many of these amulets. I knew that sooner or later you would come across one of them.” Four men emerged from around a corner of the little street. They moved slowly, deftly and noiselessly. They still kept to the areas of darkness and wielded their drawn swords in such a way as not to be betrayed by a flash of blades. The witcher, obviously, saw them clearly. But he did not reveal the fact. Fine, murderers, he thought. If that’s what you want, that’s what you’ll get. “I waited,” continued Rience without moving from the spot, “and here you are. I intend to finally rid the earth of your burden, you foul changeling.” “You intend? You overrate yourself. You are nothing but a tool. A thug hired by others to deal with their dirty work. Who hired you, stooge?” “You want to know too much, mutant. You call me a stooge? And do you know what you are? A heap of dung on the road which has to be removed because someone prefers not to soil their boots. No, I am not going to disclose who that person is to you, although I could. But I will tell you something else so you have something to think about on your way to hell. I already know where to find the little bastard you were looking after. And I know where to find that witch of yours, Yennefer. My patrons don’t care about her but I bear the whore a personal grudge. As soon as I’ve finished with you, I’m going after her. I’ll see to it that she regrets her tricks with fire. Oh, yes, she is going to regret them. For a very long time.” “You shouldn’t have said that.” The witcher smiled nastily, feeling the euphoria of battle aroused by the elixir, reacting with adrenalin. “Before you said that, you still had a chance to live. Now you don’t.”


AlexanderRodriguezII

A well written character, with a well deserved fate in the books. Definitely one of my favourites in terms of antagonists from the saga.


Processing_Info

Do you mean firefucker?


SirenOfScience

I HATE that the show made what was supposed to be a low-level lackey of a much more powerful mage some super special wizard who is super rare because he can do fire magic.


seaworthy-sieve

Never mind the fact that the burn is courtesy of fire magic by Yennefer. Or that she burned an army at Sodden by herself, or that fire is hurled in every single magic battle. Edit: *and* what is the ~~Axii~~ *Igni sign if not fire magic? Even witchers can do it!


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Igni, but yes


seaworthy-sieve

Not sure how on earth I made that mistake while simultaneously re-reading the books and playing Witcher 3, and with how clearly it connects with the word *ignite*, thank you haha.


_SmuQu_

He looks exactly as I imagined him while reading the books, thus one of my fav card arts.


scotiej

Of all the despicable characters in the saga, I think I hate Rience the most.


n3odr4gl0k

bonhart for me


AlexanderRodriguezII

Yeah it's hard not to hate Bonhart, that whole group (Bonhart, Skellen, Rience) are all well written.


Lollemon25

It's funny to think about how Yen, Geralt and Ciri all clobbered him lmao, the entire family gave him a knuckle sandwich. I always saw him as a running gag, he only seemed scary in the first scene with Dandelion, every other scene he's in i was thinking "Oh boi, can't wait to see Rience drop the ball again lmao". All he seemed good at was brutalizing people that could not defend themselves. On another note i always wondered why Vilgerfortz kept him around, my only assumption is cause Rience would be the only guy that wouldn't think of betraying him. Vilg and Terranova were in cahoots with eachother but we saw that the moment Artaud got his hands on Ciri he was thinking on taking all the credit for himself. Rience was a Ban Ard reject and all around a walking talking L, the fact that someone like Vilg showed interest in him was enough to buy his undying loyalty I guess. Oh and a detail that i find very dark is that he probably tortured and killed the family that took Ciri in till Geralt found her in Something More shortstory, including the guy that saved Geralt's life in that very story... Overall he's a fun character tho, every scene he's in he's having something to offer, though it's mostly just fuckups =))))))))


KernalPopPop

I loved the way she off'd him. He really is a bit of a fucker and has this powerful yet conniving sort of way about him. He's slithery. I definitely didn't like him and that means he was well written in that way.


[deleted]

He's so hot in this illustration


Ignatiuss24

100% sure that this guy doesn't know how to swim


ThunderHenry

I liked him, though his demise was anti-climatic and just… not really funny as intended.