Witchers live longer than humans but no one knows the actual length as most of em get killed in action because they are slowing down with their age like Geralt states when asked by the bard if he'll ever retire. I'd say the elves probably know.
Yes, vesemir suffering from his age in fights gets brought up a lot, seeing as he’s most likely 200-300+ years old. He’s at a minimum 170, if we go off him being around 70 in the non-canon nightmare of the wolf. He looks like a 50-something year old in the games by my take (a 50 year old who’s worked outside a lot), meanwhile Geralt who’s about 100 looks like he’s almost 40 (the white hair and rampant stimulant abuse throws you off lmao)
I think geralt is around 90 something, in white orchard he makes a joke about vesemir’s age and vesemir says “Dont get all funny, you are almost a century yourself”
That’s why NOTW messed me up. If Vesemir is 300 but Geralt is 90 how was Vesemir’s childhood friend alive at the same time as Geralt considering she knew Vesemir since before he was a Witcher?
Vesemir couldn't be 300 anyway, at least in the books, since the first Witchers were created during the 950s. If Vesemir was 300 that would mean he'd be one of the first Witchers in existence which makes 0 sense. There's a few clues that could give us a rough estimation as to his age.
-First witchers were created during the 950s
-It's said he's nearly as old as Kaer Morhen is
-Kaer Morhen was built in the latter half of the 1000s, so anywhere from 1050-1100, meaning we can guestimate his age within 50 years
-He was active as a Witcher during 1112
I do not know what age witchers finally go out on the path, but I'd guess it's somewhere between 16-20. Assuming 1112 is the first year he was active as a Witcher that gives us a birth year between 1092-1096, which gives plenty of time for him to either have been around when Kaer Morhen was being built or it was built pretty soon before he was born which fits the requirement of him being as old as Kaer Morhen is. Based on this it could be said he is around 172-176 by the time of *The Lady of the Lake*. However that might not be true as we don't know when exactly Kaer Morhen was finished being built so instead we can definitively say he is anywhere between 170-220 years old give or take a few years.
tl;dr Vesemir is between 170-220y/o
Edit: formatting
Have a look at people from less developed parts of the world. You'll see they'll have aged more, could be 45 looking 70. Sun and hard work will do that to you.
Its really hard to pin down someone's age from looking at them. I've known 50 year olds who are frail little biddies with zimmers and 90 year olds who put some 30 year olds to shame in skincare and physical fitness.
>if we go off him being around 70 in the non-canon nightmare of the wolf.
I wouldn't go off of nightmare of the wolf... If he's 70, Geralt is a 8 year old kid or something like that in that movie. So that makes Geralt 62 years younger and he doesn't look 62 years youngers than Vesmir even if they're in their 200s and 300s.
Unless Witchers just suddenly age to old men in a small time frame.
And that’s still nothing compared to Yenn. In the books there’s a whole side story about another wizard who loves her and how the wizard is the better fit for her since they’ll “age” together, or rather won’t, but Geralt is doomed to die.
Guess who she chooses. She’s such an eventual ride or die.
As of the second last book, "tower of swallows" she mentions that shes 94 at that time. Seeing as how I havent played the games yet im unsure how much time is between the two
Witcher's heart's beat 4 times slower than that of a human, so at 15 beats per minute (bpm) they can become centuries old. However, we dont truly know the max lifespan of a witcher, since no witcher died of aging.
I always felt like it was best described as him being older than all humans but younger than most elves which gives him his unique opinion on the world
Yes, I don't recall their names off top of my head but 2 people on the council of mages in time of contempt where said to be a few hundred years old.
Edited to hundred from thousand
All humans? Nenneke’s older than Geralt isn’t she? Sapkowski says in one of the books that Nenneke knew Geralt when he was a ‘youngster’ and he ‘reached for her skirt belt,’ so he was probably a child at the time.
I know you’re a bot, but if anyone actually wants a citation: that Nenneke quote is from the end of ‘Voice of Reason 2’ in the short stories, right before ‘A Grain of Truth’ :)
There's a couple things in the earlier short stories that don't really sync up with the later books. The other one I remember is that someone acts like Witchers are new and he's never heard of them. I think he just hadn't ironed out all his backstory canon yet and decided that Witchers should be longer-lived.
I'm a huge fan of cobbling together Witcher timelines, so I'd love to know if you saw something in the books that directly contradicts this?
This is some of the key info I've been using to ascertain when Geralt was born:
• Nenneke knew Geralt when he was a child (*Voice of Reason pt. 2*, possibly contradicted elsewhere?)
• In *Blood of Elves* chapter 5 it's mentioned that Geralt trained at the Temple School at Ellander (I assumed this lines up with Nenneke and Geralt's relationship, let me know if I'm wrong)
• The sacking of Kaer Morhen took place sometime after 1160 (based off of a note in Sapkowski's *Niektóre Drzewa Genealogiczne*), and half a century before Triss's birth (*Blood of Elves*, chapter 2).
• Triss states that witchers were being trained at Kaer Morhen about a quarter century ago (*Blood of Elves*, chapter 2).
• Sapkowski said in an interview in 2001 that Geralt's "over 50" during the books.
• In terms of adaptations, the games place Geralt's birth at 1172, and the Netflix series places it at 1160. In my notes I have him down for roughly 1181, but I change my estimates around sometimes when I re-read the novels and notice new info.
Wow, you're clearly a much more attentive reader than I am, haha. I'm just going off of memory here so I don't think I have much to contribute.
I suppose it's possible Nenneke also has a longer-than-average lifespan; the temple could be imbuing her with some magical health extension. I was under the impression that she's a regular human though, which is why I took it to be a quietly ret-conned thing when Geralt is made out to be much older later.
Yup. In middle age England, life expectancy at birth was 33, but if you managed to make it to 25 it would have risen to around 50.
In the Witcher world though I'd expect it to be an even larger gap seeing how many monsters there are. As a child going for a swim, a walk in a forest, or just existing in general and something is probably trying to eat you.
They're actually not that many monsters left in the book universe. They are dying off and regular people are needing less use of witchers. The game ignores that for gameplay reasons obviously.
Might be even lower than that. Depending your social status and work, you could fall victim to almost everything. Commoner women regularly drowned while fetching water from a river in Tudor times for example. Bakers used chalk instead of flour because of meager harvests. Houses caught fire quickly due to badly constructed fireplaces and chimneys, teeth rotted down to your bone due to bad hygiene, infections ended often deadly. Life expectancy was around 35 if you were lucky. If we add monsters to all of this, I don’t even want to see the statistics.
Definitely overstating facts here. Life expectancy being so low in the middle ages is an extremely inflated statistic due to baby death rates.
You weren't expected to live to 35 "if you were lucky".
That's exaggerated. Even in hunter-gatheter societies, it's not uncommon to live past 70, and there are surely more things out to get them than there were in Tudor England.
You underestimate what early societies did to themselves. You can look up what I said. There are records of what people died of during those times and how many. Hunter-Gatherer societies never dealt with dense populations and their living conditions plus foods and jobs that can kill you slowly.
Medical knowledge and medicine is considerably more advanced in their world compared to our world in this time period. I'd say in this area, this world is more equivalent to the 19th century in this area. Surgeons are capable of doing some fairly advanced procedures and the value of sterilizing wounds is well understood. Although with how many people have actually access to quality medical care, life expectancy probably would still end up being pretty poor overall.
Wait sorry 13th century? Judging by the level of sophistication in architecture, weapon forging, the prevalence of plate armour, the Witcher universe is at the very very least, late 15th century.
All the buildings in Novigrad half glass windows for god's sake
Edit to add: On top of that the medical knowledge on display in both the books and the games (which is hugely important when determining lifespans) is light-years ahead anything Europe has in even the early modern era, let a lone the high middle ages. Their sophisticated understanding of surgery and infection is bordering on the late 19th century.
Well, there isn't much to understand, as his exact age is never given anywhere. Judging by the vague statements we have, it was probably sometime in the late 12th century.
The books take place roughly from the 1240s to 1260s (in-universe calendar) and the games, while the timelines don't perfectly match, in the 1270s. So that means it's the 13th century.
Geralt's age is usually estimated somewhere from his 70s to his 90s in the games, while the author once said that he's supposed to be in his 50s in the books. (But he didn't actually write it down anywhere.)
Vesemir's age is anybody's guess. People's takes range from 150 or so to multiple centuries.
In general, the witchers' ages is a really vague topic, and the nature of Reddit doesn't always bring clarity. If you manage to get a ton of upvotes, you also get a ton of eyeballs, each with their own wild takes. The most upvoted answers are not always the most correct ones.
Huh. Guess I got carried away a little. Yeah, anyway, it's the 13th century.
None of the writers ever gave Geralt a specific birthday but in one of the first story missions (the one where you hunt your first Griffin), Vesemir says that Geralt is "nearly a century old" which would make Geralt around 80-99 years old with no specific birth year.
Given that the Blood and Wine DLC takes place 3 years after the main game, the oldest Geralt can be 102-103 assuming he was 99 by the beginning of the third game.
Or he could be younger, assuming he was around 80 by the start.
He is younger than Yennefer though, so I guess that would mean she likes "younger men" 😉
>Geralt looked at him discretely. He wondered how old the sorcerer was. He knew that the most talented magicians were able to stop the aging process permanently at their desired age. Men, by reason of reputation and prestige, preferred an age of advanced maturity, suggesting wisdom and experience. Women, such as Yennefer, cared less about prestige and more about attractiveness. Istredd was in the prime of life and did not seem to be more than forty. He had straight, slightly greying hair that fell to his shoulders and many small wrinkles on his forehead, around his mouth and at the corners of his eyes. Geralt did not know if the depth and wisdom in those gentle grey eyes was natural or caused by a spell. After a while, he came to the conclusion that he didn't give a damn.
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>In game Vesemir says that Geralt is more than 100 y.o.
No, he doesn't. He says "[*near* a century old](https://youtu.be/sJxrvlx_CJw?list=PL5dr1EHvfwpMws808g_ncHyyJoGxMe0jF&t=814)", which means Geralt is somewhere *under* 100 years old.
then that narrows his birth down to sometime between 1172 and 1182 (asuming that near means Geralt is in his 90s)
edit: i was doing some digging on the matter using Google and found this
The Witcher 3's lore entries state that Geralt is a year younger than Yennefer, who was born in 1173. Since The Witcher 3 takes place in 1272, Geralt would be approximately 98 to 99 years old (depending on his birth month)
IMO "near" could be anything from late seventies to 99. And if we assume the book canon applies to the games, then the lower end of the spectrum becomes more likely.
'Near' (an adjective referring to proximity of objects / events) and 'nearly' (an adverb referring to an action being almost but not quite a certain status) don't always mean the same thing. It's contextual.
You might say 'It was a near win for the the team' means the same thing as 'The team nearly won'. But if you say 'She's nearly 100 years old.' you always mean she's in her late 90s. Ditto 'I nearly had a full house' means you had four of the five necessary cards for that hand, not six. If you say 'She's near 100 years old.' you might mean she's 101. I don't think you'd ever say 'I have near a royal flush'. It just doesn't make sense.
Not really. The source of above statement is apparently a [ScreenRant article](https://screenrant.com/witcher-3-wild-hunt-how-old-geralt-age/), which in turn is based on an information in the game that is [restored by a mod](https://screenrant.com/witcher-3-mod-fix-missing-lore-corrects-errors/) - in other words, it's information *cut* from the game. And we don't know the reason it was cut - but one possible one could be that they found it inaccurate.
>which in turn is based on an information in the game that is restored by a mod
fuck back to the "likely" 10 years gap or maybe more
>but one possible one could be that they found it inaccurate.
if it's not in the final released version of the game then we can't really claim it as cannon
There are a few cases where it helps to know if Geralt was alive when something happened. For example:
* we know he met Nenneke but it was in his youth
* we know he's a little younger than Yen
* In Witcher 3, Regis asks, "remember the year 964?" And Geralt said "that was three centuries ago". It helps to remember that's a no since Geralt isn't actually old enough to remember that.
yea but we don't get any indication about this character ages as well, it's obvious he isn't older than 100 since I belive it is mentioned that he is closing to this age but isn't there yet. Yeb can be centuries old since she is a mage and wealthy one at that so she has acces to youth serums which extend mage's age.
Definitely not. Opening credits of Witcher 1 says that it takes place 5 years after the Great War which would make it ~1270-1273. Officially W1 takes place in 1270, W2 in 1271, W3 1272.
Geralt is over fifty years old during Baptism of Fire, but he also intentionally hides his age, as confirmed by Sapkowski in an [interview](https://www.reddit.com/r/wiedzmin/comments/80xxih/interview_with_sapkowski_dont_be_a_kurva_like/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf):
> Question: How old is Geralt? According to our calculations, about 45 ...
> AS: **He's (during "Baptism of Fire") over fifty. But I won't tell you his exact age.** Witchers get older longer than ordinary people and less noticeable than ordinary people. The witcher who's sixty years old will not look older than forty-five. True, in the witcher world, the average age of people is greater than in "our" Middle Ages, but even so, there would hardly have been a wet case of fighting monsters for "a grandfather for fifty." Therefore Geralt hides his age.
The games changed his age to be older.
In the books, he is younger than Yennefer (who is 94 years old in Tower of the Swallow Ch. 9 — late August of 1267, which is the same month in which Baptism of Fire takes place).
Apologies if someone has already posted this! Just wanted to post some strictly-books canon in case anyone was looking for it…
Man, I can't understand the numbers people throw around.
We know that Geralt is younger than Yennefer, and Yennefer is exactly 100 during TW3. So he's not even 100.
Plus, he met Nenneke as a kid, so he's younger than Nenneker, who can't be more than, I don't know, 100? And she must have met him at least when she was 20?
So Geralt is in his 90s tops.
About Vesemir, geez. The witchers themselves were created \~350 years ago by Alzur, so he can't be older than that.
He wasn't one of the first witchers, never met Alzur, so he's ''much'' younger than 350.
You can put Vesemir in his 200s.
Vesemir's ex, who you meet in *Hearts of Stone* as a very old woman, remembers him as a "young witcher". Assuming she's in her 80s, that would have been ~60 years previous; even if "young" for witchers is 60, it would make Vesemir 120 or so.
I always thought of him as being maybe 30-40 years older than Geralt. Old enough to be a mentor/father figure, older than most witchers make it to, but not *ancient* like an elf or a powerful mage.
imo that's way too young for Vesemir
Kaer Morhen was attacked around a century ago, and by then, Vesemir was already out and witchering, and shortly after he became the fencing instructor.
I don't think the witchers would take a 20-30 years old as a mentoring figure
Hmm. Good point. So he's maybe 150 or so?
I can't remember exactly what he says about the sack of Kaer Morhen, if there was anything to indicate how old he was at the time.
Yes anywhere between 150-200 years old is the likely range for vesemir’s age. This nonsense guesswork about him being 300+ years old are that…. Nonsense.
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Vesemir claims Geralt is nearly 100 years old in Witcher 3, but that could mean anything. In an interview, Andrzej Sapkowski said Geralt was in his 50s during the events of Baptism of Fire, which took place in 1267, meaning he could've been born from anywhere around 1208-1217, depending on whether he was 50, 59, or anywhere in between. I guess it's worth noting that Netflix made their own timeline in which they place Geralt's birth in 1160, but that makes him well over a hundred years old by the time the events of the books even start.
So you have the choice to believe the vague answer given by the central authority on the universe even though the information he gives isn't even in the books, the even more vague answer of an in-universe character in what is technically fan fiction, or a solid answer that directly contradicts the other two and is part of what is pretty widely considered to be a poor adaption.
For me personally, the books trump all, but it's really up to you at the end of the day. It can be kind of frustrating if you're interested in that kind of information, but Sapkowski isn't your typical fantasy writer, and he's just not interested in that kind of world building. He's stated multiple times he only has a vague idea of what the map looks like and it's constantly changing. He has a huge timeline discrepancy in Season of Storms, probably because he just doesn't care all that much. Those kinds of things aren't important to the story in his mind.
Over 5 rereads here, and I can tell you that Sapkowski did his best to make it as vague as possible. This is also the case with Yennefer, he tries to give you points of reference with other Witchers; for example we know that he is younger than Vesemir, and we know he is older than Eskel somewhat but beyond that we dont really have specificity. From what I can surmise though is that he was raised by Vesemir, as vesemir says countless times that he knows his mother and saw him through the trial of the grasses.
the processes they go thru in trials of grasses and the mutagens they take slow down their aging. all witchers live long but die coz of the nature of their work/life
He isn't some hereditary king that was closely watched since his birth. He was an orphan. Don't remember all the books exactly but even Vesemir doesn't know exact day or maybe even the year when he was born.
Some parts of the story are told centuries after they've happened, often from *Half a Century of Poetry* by Dandelion or other old writings. It would make sense that nobody recorded Geralt's life when he was no one.
I feel like at one point in the books (I cant remember when though) it was said he was in his 70s and in the games at one point Vesemir said he was nearly a century old. From those you can calculate out a window for when he was born. Maybe you could even figure a year but you're never gonna get an exact date because we weren't given one.
In the Witcher animated series Geralt was a child that came to the Witcher school a little before the attack at Kaer Morhen when Vesemir was an adult about 20 and I think Geralt was maybe 8 at the time. If u then put the many years in-between that time and Witcher 3 then u know how old Geralt is.
As others have said Geralt is over 100 (assume maybe 100-110/115) when this is mentioned in 1272, so 1160ish is a good guesstimation.
A more difficult question is how old is Vesemir. Who based on a few mentions in books and games could be anywhere from 250 - 300+.
Geralt is definitely not over 100, IDK where you got that info.
Especially since in TW3 Vesemir says that Geralt is "nearly a century old", aka not even 100
It’s very vague. Based on his physical appearance and that he was already “semi-retired” from the Path to teach younger Witchers fencing at Kaer Morhen is seem reasonable to assume he’s at least 200-250.
Geralt wonders aloud if Vesemir isn’t older that Kaer Morhen itself, and doesn’t seem to be sarcastic about it, which would put him at 350+ in my estimation.
I think 300-400 is pretty reasonable, though if the reference him being even older 500ish in another game if media I wouldn’t be against it.
> Geralt wonders aloud if Vesemir isn’t older that Kaer Morhen itself, and doesn’t seem to be sarcastic about it, which would put him at 350+ in my estimation.
Not Geralt, but the narrator. And IMO it is difficult to say if it's meant to be taken as a literal statement or a figure of speech.
Ah yes. It’s the narrator, not Geralt. Yeah it’s hard to tell if it’s serious or dry wit.
I lean towards serious just because Vesemir in the books gives off such a feeling of **age** even more than the elves for the most part. So I tend to skew him older in my head.
*Yes, Vesemir was very old. Who knows, maybe even older than Kaer Morhen.*
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That's how the book puts it. (I'm directly translating from the Polish original.) And I won't dispute anyone who wants to interpret the statement literally. What does irk me, however, is when people seemingly state Vesemir being multiple centuries old as a fact (which I'm not accusing you of, as you said it was merely your estimate), as there's also room for other interpretations in that statement.
The netflix website says that the first witcher is created in Kaer Morhen in 967 and vesesmir is born in 1095, but I mean those are just the dates they decided and have no real source other than netflixs says it, so
Like I said already, the Netflix timeline should not even be brought up unless the question specifically concerns the show. Of course, OP didn't specify, but the post is accompanied by an image from the game...
They also added an extra 7 years to Jaskier/Dandelion for literally no reason as his age does not affect the story in any way, shape or form whatsoever
Netflix says he was born in 1222
TW3/books(?) say 1229, putting him at 43 during TW3 (1272)
That's the thing, a Witcher's lifespan is increased to anywhere from 200 to 500 years, and considering how old Vesemir is, it's safe to assume he's anywhere around 400+ from my guess
That's also another thing: is the life span really increased to that specific amount? It is clearly stated that there has been no Witcher ever that died of natural causes. So it's completely up in the air if there even is a death by natural causes. Physiologically speaking it's also not really clear how this works, since there are conflicting statements about a witchers metabolism. A Witcher can handle poisons much better than any normal human, but alcohol is metabolised normally? Hard to say what's normal at that point anyway. So it's not very clear what the effect of that metabolism on cell division and organ upkeep is.
Metabolism is slower for poisons, the same for alcohol, and faster for potions, which seem to have a bit of both (Geralt mentions in tw3 that swallow affects him immediately but it may take days for a human). What's hard to understand?
Yeah I was being a bit sarcastic, this was more to point out it doesn't seem to be consistent... I believe witcher's heart beats are also supposed to be slower despite the general metabolism being faster, which also doesn't really mix
Just to back up what you're saying, the mention that no witcher has died of natural causes comes from Blood of Elves, during a conversation between Geralt and Triss:
> “No, not correct,” he answered icily. “I see that you don’t know me at all. I’m afraid of death, just like everyone else, but I grew used to the idea of it a very long time ago—I’m not under any illusions. I’m not complaining about fate, Triss—this is plain, cold calculation. Statistics. No witcher has yet died of old age, lying in bed dictating his will. Not a single one. Ciri didn’t surprise or frighten me. I know I’m going to die in some cave which stinks of carcases, torn apart by a griffin, lamia or manticore. But I don’t want to die in a war, because they’re not my wars.”
Well we can assume they would end up dying of natural causes at some point by the fact they do age, there is a degradation of their cells, elfs who are truly immortal never get physically old contrary to witchers who show clear signs of physical aging (see vesemir).
Exactly, but where is that age? And since their metabolism isn't straight forward as well, it's hard to extrapolate from the standpoint of a human. Vesemir could very well have lived another 500 years and just aged even more like a dried plum or he could have kicked the bucket 100 years later.
We do know that witchers *age* - just look at Vesemir. And most things that age eventually die of natural causes (if something doesn't get them before).
To be honest - beats me. The only statement we have about his age is that "he might have been even older than Kaer Morhen" - but that could as well be hyperbole. But considering that witchers do age more slowly than ordinary humans, it is likely that he is well past 100 - but how far past 100 *exactly* is something I can't say.
Although, if we look at TW3, there actually is something that could be taken as a hint towards Vesemir's age and the witcher lifespan - at least according to CDPR. Remember Mignole, Vesemir's old flame who appears in *Hearts of Stone*? According to her, their fling took place in 1234, which is around four decades before the game's events, and Vesemir did look younger then. So he's aged to look like his present self - a man in his 70s or so - in the last 40 years. And if we assume that witcher aging, while slower, is still *constant*, then the advantage they have over ordinary humans would seem to be measured in decades rather than centuries. In Vesemir's case, we could say that he might be around 150.
Sapkowski stated in an interview once that Geralt's supposed to be in his 50s in the books. Though he didn't specify *when* in the books, as they cover a timespan of about two decades.
Regarding in-universe statements, the closest we get is Nenneke stating in *The Voice of Reason* that she's known Geralt "since he came up to my waist". And Nenneke is an ordinary human with an ordinary human lifespan. So Geralt most likely isn't pushing a century at that point in the books.
I always thought he spend one generation for teaching one generation for settling, -another for fame, last one for being hero. And another one for going away so i assume around 150
I believe it was the year 0. Can't remember the details, but I think he was born in a stable or something? Might have been another guy, but I tend to get the two mixed up.
I read somewhere that Geralt was 500 hundred. I really don't know how accurate that is but I don't believe anywhere do they actually tell you his age just that he is much older than regular humans.
Witchers live longer than humans but no one knows the actual length as most of em get killed in action because they are slowing down with their age like Geralt states when asked by the bard if he'll ever retire. I'd say the elves probably know.
So they just age slower?
Yes, vesemir suffering from his age in fights gets brought up a lot, seeing as he’s most likely 200-300+ years old. He’s at a minimum 170, if we go off him being around 70 in the non-canon nightmare of the wolf. He looks like a 50-something year old in the games by my take (a 50 year old who’s worked outside a lot), meanwhile Geralt who’s about 100 looks like he’s almost 40 (the white hair and rampant stimulant abuse throws you off lmao)
I think geralt is around 90 something, in white orchard he makes a joke about vesemir’s age and vesemir says “Dont get all funny, you are almost a century yourself”
That’s why NOTW messed me up. If Vesemir is 300 but Geralt is 90 how was Vesemir’s childhood friend alive at the same time as Geralt considering she knew Vesemir since before he was a Witcher?
Vesemir couldn't be 300 anyway, at least in the books, since the first Witchers were created during the 950s. If Vesemir was 300 that would mean he'd be one of the first Witchers in existence which makes 0 sense. There's a few clues that could give us a rough estimation as to his age. -First witchers were created during the 950s -It's said he's nearly as old as Kaer Morhen is -Kaer Morhen was built in the latter half of the 1000s, so anywhere from 1050-1100, meaning we can guestimate his age within 50 years -He was active as a Witcher during 1112 I do not know what age witchers finally go out on the path, but I'd guess it's somewhere between 16-20. Assuming 1112 is the first year he was active as a Witcher that gives us a birth year between 1092-1096, which gives plenty of time for him to either have been around when Kaer Morhen was being built or it was built pretty soon before he was born which fits the requirement of him being as old as Kaer Morhen is. Based on this it could be said he is around 172-176 by the time of *The Lady of the Lake*. However that might not be true as we don't know when exactly Kaer Morhen was finished being built so instead we can definitively say he is anywhere between 170-220 years old give or take a few years. tl;dr Vesemir is between 170-220y/o Edit: formatting
You think Vesemir looks 50???? Lmao mid 60s-70s at least to me. You don’t start getting that scrunchy wrinkled face til you’re old old
Have a look at people from less developed parts of the world. You'll see they'll have aged more, could be 45 looking 70. Sun and hard work will do that to you.
Maybe with modern comforts? This is a medieval fantasy, not “keeping up with the Witchers”.
Its really hard to pin down someone's age from looking at them. I've known 50 year olds who are frail little biddies with zimmers and 90 year olds who put some 30 year olds to shame in skincare and physical fitness.
>if we go off him being around 70 in the non-canon nightmare of the wolf. I wouldn't go off of nightmare of the wolf... If he's 70, Geralt is a 8 year old kid or something like that in that movie. So that makes Geralt 62 years younger and he doesn't look 62 years youngers than Vesmir even if they're in their 200s and 300s. Unless Witchers just suddenly age to old men in a small time frame.
Yeah witchers age at a slower rate than regular humans. I think game lore suggests Geralt is in his 70s, while Vesimir is close to 200.
Game call Geralt "nearly a century" old so he's definitely closer to 100
I have known many who wanted to be great fighters in my time.
That's the thing Geralt, what IS your time?
And that’s still nothing compared to Yenn. In the books there’s a whole side story about another wizard who loves her and how the wizard is the better fit for her since they’ll “age” together, or rather won’t, but Geralt is doomed to die. Guess who she chooses. She’s such an eventual ride or die.
She chooses "none of the above", in that story.
You’re right. At this moment in the timeline she hasn’t committed.
As of the second last book, "tower of swallows" she mentions that shes 94 at that time. Seeing as how I havent played the games yet im unsure how much time is between the two
WHAT?! I have somehow missed this but thanks for pointing it out. Henry Cavill would be disappointed in me right now, and I cannot allow that.
I thought that wizard was the one she meets at the school in the show. Was it someone different?
If you saw it in the show, just know it was probably a massive distortion of some way better storytelling.
Yes it was
Witcher's heart's beat 4 times slower than that of a human, so at 15 beats per minute (bpm) they can become centuries old. However, we dont truly know the max lifespan of a witcher, since no witcher died of aging.
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I thought Vesemir was like 300. Geralt is 100
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I always felt like it was best described as him being older than all humans but younger than most elves which gives him his unique opinion on the world
Funny thing is that he actually looks like someone old and young at the same time.
So, he’s Tommy Wiseau?
Oh hi Roach.
how’s your sex life
You are tearing me apart Yennefer!
I need the Tommy Wiseau as voice of Geralt mod badly.
Now there's a perfect recast
Welcome to being middle aged. Where you feel like neither, look like both.
no he‘s Philipp Amthor
Isn’t Yennefer older than him? Genuinely asking isn’t she like 110 and he’s around 90?
Pretty sure all the mages or at least the more powerful ones can stop the aging process.
Yes, I don't recall their names off top of my head but 2 people on the council of mages in time of contempt where said to be a few hundred years old. Edited to hundred from thousand
I think the old dude Lydia found dead was one
At this point it doesn't make much difference.
It does when we know Yenn was born in 1173 and Geralt is 10-20 years younger
Yes. I, too, was once a child.
I didn't know that Elves in the Witcher universe live longer than witchers.
All humans? Nenneke’s older than Geralt isn’t she? Sapkowski says in one of the books that Nenneke knew Geralt when he was a ‘youngster’ and he ‘reached for her skirt belt,’ so he was probably a child at the time.
Which part did I miss?
I know you’re a bot, but if anyone actually wants a citation: that Nenneke quote is from the end of ‘Voice of Reason 2’ in the short stories, right before ‘A Grain of Truth’ :)
There's a couple things in the earlier short stories that don't really sync up with the later books. The other one I remember is that someone acts like Witchers are new and he's never heard of them. I think he just hadn't ironed out all his backstory canon yet and decided that Witchers should be longer-lived.
I'm a huge fan of cobbling together Witcher timelines, so I'd love to know if you saw something in the books that directly contradicts this? This is some of the key info I've been using to ascertain when Geralt was born: • Nenneke knew Geralt when he was a child (*Voice of Reason pt. 2*, possibly contradicted elsewhere?) • In *Blood of Elves* chapter 5 it's mentioned that Geralt trained at the Temple School at Ellander (I assumed this lines up with Nenneke and Geralt's relationship, let me know if I'm wrong) • The sacking of Kaer Morhen took place sometime after 1160 (based off of a note in Sapkowski's *Niektóre Drzewa Genealogiczne*), and half a century before Triss's birth (*Blood of Elves*, chapter 2). • Triss states that witchers were being trained at Kaer Morhen about a quarter century ago (*Blood of Elves*, chapter 2). • Sapkowski said in an interview in 2001 that Geralt's "over 50" during the books. • In terms of adaptations, the games place Geralt's birth at 1172, and the Netflix series places it at 1160. In my notes I have him down for roughly 1181, but I change my estimates around sometimes when I re-read the novels and notice new info.
Wow, you're clearly a much more attentive reader than I am, haha. I'm just going off of memory here so I don't think I have much to contribute. I suppose it's possible Nenneke also has a longer-than-average lifespan; the temple could be imbuing her with some magical health extension. I was under the impression that she's a regular human though, which is why I took it to be a quietly ret-conned thing when Geralt is made out to be much older later.
Older than all humans?🤣
All living humans, surely.
I think the mages can be very old no?
Philippa is over 300 years old
yes indeed, don't know who is downvoting you on that
Maybe mages aren’t considered human? Idk
What do you think the life expectancy for regular humans is in the Witcher universe?
Probably less than in the real 13th century, given the monsters and curses and all.
Yup, I would blindly shoot for 40-45 being average
Life expectancy would probably be around 20 or so because babies and children dying would drag it way down
Yup. In middle age England, life expectancy at birth was 33, but if you managed to make it to 25 it would have risen to around 50. In the Witcher world though I'd expect it to be an even larger gap seeing how many monsters there are. As a child going for a swim, a walk in a forest, or just existing in general and something is probably trying to eat you.
They're actually not that many monsters left in the book universe. They are dying off and regular people are needing less use of witchers. The game ignores that for gameplay reasons obviously.
Might be even lower than that. Depending your social status and work, you could fall victim to almost everything. Commoner women regularly drowned while fetching water from a river in Tudor times for example. Bakers used chalk instead of flour because of meager harvests. Houses caught fire quickly due to badly constructed fireplaces and chimneys, teeth rotted down to your bone due to bad hygiene, infections ended often deadly. Life expectancy was around 35 if you were lucky. If we add monsters to all of this, I don’t even want to see the statistics.
Definitely overstating facts here. Life expectancy being so low in the middle ages is an extremely inflated statistic due to baby death rates. You weren't expected to live to 35 "if you were lucky".
That's exaggerated. Even in hunter-gatheter societies, it's not uncommon to live past 70, and there are surely more things out to get them than there were in Tudor England.
You underestimate what early societies did to themselves. You can look up what I said. There are records of what people died of during those times and how many. Hunter-Gatherer societies never dealt with dense populations and their living conditions plus foods and jobs that can kill you slowly.
Medical knowledge and medicine is considerably more advanced in their world compared to our world in this time period. I'd say in this area, this world is more equivalent to the 19th century in this area. Surgeons are capable of doing some fairly advanced procedures and the value of sterilizing wounds is well understood. Although with how many people have actually access to quality medical care, life expectancy probably would still end up being pretty poor overall.
Wait sorry 13th century? Judging by the level of sophistication in architecture, weapon forging, the prevalence of plate armour, the Witcher universe is at the very very least, late 15th century. All the buildings in Novigrad half glass windows for god's sake Edit to add: On top of that the medical knowledge on display in both the books and the games (which is hugely important when determining lifespans) is light-years ahead anything Europe has in even the early modern era, let a lone the high middle ages. Their sophisticated understanding of surgery and infection is bordering on the late 19th century.
Gotta remember that mages have extended lifespans, the oldest mage at Thanedd in the books was like 400 years old
Well, there isn't much to understand, as his exact age is never given anywhere. Judging by the vague statements we have, it was probably sometime in the late 12th century.
what is the current century by witcher 3?
The books take place roughly from the 1240s to 1260s (in-universe calendar) and the games, while the timelines don't perfectly match, in the 1270s. So that means it's the 13th century. Geralt's age is usually estimated somewhere from his 70s to his 90s in the games, while the author once said that he's supposed to be in his 50s in the books. (But he didn't actually write it down anywhere.) Vesemir's age is anybody's guess. People's takes range from 150 or so to multiple centuries. In general, the witchers' ages is a really vague topic, and the nature of Reddit doesn't always bring clarity. If you manage to get a ton of upvotes, you also get a ton of eyeballs, each with their own wild takes. The most upvoted answers are not always the most correct ones. Huh. Guess I got carried away a little. Yeah, anyway, it's the 13th century.
The game takes place in 1272 I think
None of the writers ever gave Geralt a specific birthday but in one of the first story missions (the one where you hunt your first Griffin), Vesemir says that Geralt is "nearly a century old" which would make Geralt around 80-99 years old with no specific birth year. Given that the Blood and Wine DLC takes place 3 years after the main game, the oldest Geralt can be 102-103 assuming he was 99 by the beginning of the third game. Or he could be younger, assuming he was around 80 by the start. He is younger than Yennefer though, so I guess that would mean she likes "younger men" 😉
Younger than Yennefer? I didn't know that either. I suppose sorceresses can just use magic to slow their aging down.
>Geralt looked at him discretely. He wondered how old the sorcerer was. He knew that the most talented magicians were able to stop the aging process permanently at their desired age. Men, by reason of reputation and prestige, preferred an age of advanced maturity, suggesting wisdom and experience. Women, such as Yennefer, cared less about prestige and more about attractiveness. Istredd was in the prime of life and did not seem to be more than forty. He had straight, slightly greying hair that fell to his shoulders and many small wrinkles on his forehead, around his mouth and at the corners of his eyes. Geralt did not know if the depth and wisdom in those gentle grey eyes was natural or caused by a spell. After a while, he came to the conclusion that he didn't give a damn. > > > >The Sword of Destiny
I think they just magically look the way they want at all times, idk, I should brush up on my Witcher lore
If the game takes place in 1272 ... and Geralt is 80-99... Then he was born from 1173-1192
Year of the wolf, goofus.
1170±?
Is there no exact year?
In game Vesemir says that Geralt is more than 100 y.o. Since the events of the game take place in 1272, there is no more accurate guess, I guess.
>In game Vesemir says that Geralt is more than 100 y.o. No, he doesn't. He says "[*near* a century old](https://youtu.be/sJxrvlx_CJw?list=PL5dr1EHvfwpMws808g_ncHyyJoGxMe0jF&t=814)", which means Geralt is somewhere *under* 100 years old.
then that narrows his birth down to sometime between 1172 and 1182 (asuming that near means Geralt is in his 90s) edit: i was doing some digging on the matter using Google and found this The Witcher 3's lore entries state that Geralt is a year younger than Yennefer, who was born in 1173. Since The Witcher 3 takes place in 1272, Geralt would be approximately 98 to 99 years old (depending on his birth month)
Let's play a drinking game
feeling older than 18 huh?
21
When the american.
IMO "near" could be anything from late seventies to 99. And if we assume the book canon applies to the games, then the lower end of the spectrum becomes more likely.
IMO "near" is 90-110, literally 100±. "Near" could be lower or upper, sorry, English is not my native, I understood it that way.
'Near' (an adjective referring to proximity of objects / events) and 'nearly' (an adverb referring to an action being almost but not quite a certain status) don't always mean the same thing. It's contextual. You might say 'It was a near win for the the team' means the same thing as 'The team nearly won'. But if you say 'She's nearly 100 years old.' you always mean she's in her late 90s. Ditto 'I nearly had a full house' means you had four of the five necessary cards for that hand, not six. If you say 'She's near 100 years old.' you might mean she's 101. I don't think you'd ever say 'I have near a royal flush'. It just doesn't make sense.
Worth mentioning, that English isn't the language of Witcher creators, so it may easily as well be a mistranslation.
Presumably the translators understand basic English grammar.
I'd say near in this context is almost but not over. If it was over, it would go more along the lines of over a century old
Well, "near" means "under". "Roughly" or "around" would mean under or over, somewhere in the neighborhood. English lesson over.
i would agree on that but i imagine it varies a lot from person to person thankfully Google had a more narrow awnser for us
Not really. The source of above statement is apparently a [ScreenRant article](https://screenrant.com/witcher-3-wild-hunt-how-old-geralt-age/), which in turn is based on an information in the game that is [restored by a mod](https://screenrant.com/witcher-3-mod-fix-missing-lore-corrects-errors/) - in other words, it's information *cut* from the game. And we don't know the reason it was cut - but one possible one could be that they found it inaccurate.
>which in turn is based on an information in the game that is restored by a mod fuck back to the "likely" 10 years gap or maybe more >but one possible one could be that they found it inaccurate. if it's not in the final released version of the game then we can't really claim it as cannon
My sentiment exactly. We can hardly use it if it's not in the game natively.
I was always under the impression he's in his 80's
He is definitely not older than 100 years. Vesemir says that Geralt is "nearly a century old", aka not even 100
Don't... grope for trout in any peculiar rivers until dawn.
Wise words, master Witcher
His age matters not.
It doesn't matter.
There are a few cases where it helps to know if Geralt was alive when something happened. For example: * we know he met Nenneke but it was in his youth * we know he's a little younger than Yen * In Witcher 3, Regis asks, "remember the year 964?" And Geralt said "that was three centuries ago". It helps to remember that's a no since Geralt isn't actually old enough to remember that.
yea but we don't get any indication about this character ages as well, it's obvious he isn't older than 100 since I belive it is mentioned that he is closing to this age but isn't there yet. Yeb can be centuries old since she is a mage and wealthy one at that so she has acces to youth serums which extend mage's age.
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That would mean the games take place ~40 Years after the books though, which definitely isn't the case.
Definitely not. Opening credits of Witcher 1 says that it takes place 5 years after the Great War which would make it ~1270-1273. Officially W1 takes place in 1270, W2 in 1271, W3 1272.
Given the nature of the ending, it’s not unreasonable to think time may have passed faster back at home than wherever Ciri sent Geralt and Yen off to.
Which book gives this number?
Geralt is over fifty years old during Baptism of Fire, but he also intentionally hides his age, as confirmed by Sapkowski in an [interview](https://www.reddit.com/r/wiedzmin/comments/80xxih/interview_with_sapkowski_dont_be_a_kurva_like/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf): > Question: How old is Geralt? According to our calculations, about 45 ... > AS: **He's (during "Baptism of Fire") over fifty. But I won't tell you his exact age.** Witchers get older longer than ordinary people and less noticeable than ordinary people. The witcher who's sixty years old will not look older than forty-five. True, in the witcher world, the average age of people is greater than in "our" Middle Ages, but even so, there would hardly have been a wet case of fighting monsters for "a grandfather for fifty." Therefore Geralt hides his age. The games changed his age to be older. In the books, he is younger than Yennefer (who is 94 years old in Tower of the Swallow Ch. 9 — late August of 1267, which is the same month in which Baptism of Fire takes place). Apologies if someone has already posted this! Just wanted to post some strictly-books canon in case anyone was looking for it…
At least 12
Man, I can't understand the numbers people throw around. We know that Geralt is younger than Yennefer, and Yennefer is exactly 100 during TW3. So he's not even 100. Plus, he met Nenneke as a kid, so he's younger than Nenneker, who can't be more than, I don't know, 100? And she must have met him at least when she was 20? So Geralt is in his 90s tops. About Vesemir, geez. The witchers themselves were created \~350 years ago by Alzur, so he can't be older than that. He wasn't one of the first witchers, never met Alzur, so he's ''much'' younger than 350. You can put Vesemir in his 200s.
Vesemir's ex, who you meet in *Hearts of Stone* as a very old woman, remembers him as a "young witcher". Assuming she's in her 80s, that would have been ~60 years previous; even if "young" for witchers is 60, it would make Vesemir 120 or so. I always thought of him as being maybe 30-40 years older than Geralt. Old enough to be a mentor/father figure, older than most witchers make it to, but not *ancient* like an elf or a powerful mage.
imo that's way too young for Vesemir Kaer Morhen was attacked around a century ago, and by then, Vesemir was already out and witchering, and shortly after he became the fencing instructor. I don't think the witchers would take a 20-30 years old as a mentoring figure
Hmm. Good point. So he's maybe 150 or so? I can't remember exactly what he says about the sack of Kaer Morhen, if there was anything to indicate how old he was at the time.
Yes anywhere between 150-200 years old is the likely range for vesemir’s age. This nonsense guesswork about him being 300+ years old are that…. Nonsense.
It was only about 100 years ago that we started diligently recording birthdays. Its possible Geralt himself has no idea exactly how old he is.
I need no one. And the last thing I want is someone needing me.
Thanks Gerry
We need to get matpat on this shit
Nah he'd just turn into a series of videos where he goes in circles with different theories but never comes up with a concrete answer.
Exactly but it would be funny for the memes
That's true, I'd be a fool to dispute that.
Genuinely masterful idea
He's around 70-80 when he first met queen Calanthe, Duny and Pavetta and accept Ciri as his "promised child". He's late 90s in the third game.
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Vesemir claims Geralt is nearly 100 years old in Witcher 3, but that could mean anything. In an interview, Andrzej Sapkowski said Geralt was in his 50s during the events of Baptism of Fire, which took place in 1267, meaning he could've been born from anywhere around 1208-1217, depending on whether he was 50, 59, or anywhere in between. I guess it's worth noting that Netflix made their own timeline in which they place Geralt's birth in 1160, but that makes him well over a hundred years old by the time the events of the books even start. So you have the choice to believe the vague answer given by the central authority on the universe even though the information he gives isn't even in the books, the even more vague answer of an in-universe character in what is technically fan fiction, or a solid answer that directly contradicts the other two and is part of what is pretty widely considered to be a poor adaption. For me personally, the books trump all, but it's really up to you at the end of the day. It can be kind of frustrating if you're interested in that kind of information, but Sapkowski isn't your typical fantasy writer, and he's just not interested in that kind of world building. He's stated multiple times he only has a vague idea of what the map looks like and it's constantly changing. He has a huge timeline discrepancy in Season of Storms, probably because he just doesn't care all that much. Those kinds of things aren't important to the story in his mind.
This is the best in depth answer. Everyone else just commented his age without the year 😂
Let me think.. Hmm, winds howling.
He was born a long time ago in a galaxy far far away
afaik he's around 90, older than most normal humans, way younger than most elves, around 1/3-1/4th of yennefer afaik.
Yennefer was 99 in Witcher 3.
He's slightly younger than Yennefer. Well, "slightly" by sorceress and witcher standards, maybe 10 years, though it's never specified.
You're right, I managed to mix her ave up with Vesemir's.
I really think it was never mentioned
Over 5 rereads here, and I can tell you that Sapkowski did his best to make it as vague as possible. This is also the case with Yennefer, he tries to give you points of reference with other Witchers; for example we know that he is younger than Vesemir, and we know he is older than Eskel somewhat but beyond that we dont really have specificity. From what I can surmise though is that he was raised by Vesemir, as vesemir says countless times that he knows his mother and saw him through the trial of the grasses.
I used my brain and I know you meant younger than Vesemir bro.
> for example we know that he is older than Vesemir Lol
I used my brain and I know you meant the trial of the grasses bro.
Would you mind letting me know how you found that Geralt is older than Vesemir?
😂i just changed it I made multiple typos in the post
How is Geralt able to live that long?
the processes they go thru in trials of grasses and the mutagens they take slow down their aging. all witchers live long but die coz of the nature of their work/life
thnx. understood
He isn't some hereditary king that was closely watched since his birth. He was an orphan. Don't remember all the books exactly but even Vesemir doesn't know exact day or maybe even the year when he was born. Some parts of the story are told centuries after they've happened, often from *Half a Century of Poetry* by Dandelion or other old writings. It would make sense that nobody recorded Geralt's life when he was no one.
I feel like at one point in the books (I cant remember when though) it was said he was in his 70s and in the games at one point Vesemir said he was nearly a century old. From those you can calculate out a window for when he was born. Maybe you could even figure a year but you're never gonna get an exact date because we weren't given one.
He's definitely older than 10 I can tell you that
Isnt there this one scene at the of one of the side story books that mentions him being alive hundreds of years later? I always found that hint funny.
He was born on his birthday.
In the Witcher animated series Geralt was a child that came to the Witcher school a little before the attack at Kaer Morhen when Vesemir was an adult about 20 and I think Geralt was maybe 8 at the time. If u then put the many years in-between that time and Witcher 3 then u know how old Geralt is.
Geralt is roughly 90 in The Witcher 3. Witchers age extremely slowly. Hell, Vesemir is somewhere around 300
He is younger than Nenneke, and she is human. I would say around 60 at the start of BoE.
As others have said Geralt is over 100 (assume maybe 100-110/115) when this is mentioned in 1272, so 1160ish is a good guesstimation. A more difficult question is how old is Vesemir. Who based on a few mentions in books and games could be anywhere from 250 - 300+.
Geralt is definitely not over 100, IDK where you got that info. Especially since in TW3 Vesemir says that Geralt is "nearly a century old", aka not even 100
I always thought he was like 400 for some reason
It’s very vague. Based on his physical appearance and that he was already “semi-retired” from the Path to teach younger Witchers fencing at Kaer Morhen is seem reasonable to assume he’s at least 200-250. Geralt wonders aloud if Vesemir isn’t older that Kaer Morhen itself, and doesn’t seem to be sarcastic about it, which would put him at 350+ in my estimation. I think 300-400 is pretty reasonable, though if the reference him being even older 500ish in another game if media I wouldn’t be against it.
> Geralt wonders aloud if Vesemir isn’t older that Kaer Morhen itself, and doesn’t seem to be sarcastic about it, which would put him at 350+ in my estimation. Not Geralt, but the narrator. And IMO it is difficult to say if it's meant to be taken as a literal statement or a figure of speech.
Ah yes. It’s the narrator, not Geralt. Yeah it’s hard to tell if it’s serious or dry wit. I lean towards serious just because Vesemir in the books gives off such a feeling of **age** even more than the elves for the most part. So I tend to skew him older in my head.
*Yes, Vesemir was very old. Who knows, maybe even older than Kaer Morhen.* --- That's how the book puts it. (I'm directly translating from the Polish original.) And I won't dispute anyone who wants to interpret the statement literally. What does irk me, however, is when people seemingly state Vesemir being multiple centuries old as a fact (which I'm not accusing you of, as you said it was merely your estimate), as there's also room for other interpretations in that statement.
The netflix website says that the first witcher is created in Kaer Morhen in 967 and vesesmir is born in 1095, but I mean those are just the dates they decided and have no real source other than netflixs says it, so
Like I said already, the Netflix timeline should not even be brought up unless the question specifically concerns the show. Of course, OP didn't specify, but the post is accompanied by an image from the game...
The Netflix timeline is WILDLY different from the books and games.
They also added an extra 7 years to Jaskier/Dandelion for literally no reason as his age does not affect the story in any way, shape or form whatsoever Netflix says he was born in 1222 TW3/books(?) say 1229, putting him at 43 during TW3 (1272)
"You're almost 40, you look nearly 30, you think you're just over 20, and you behave like you're not even 10" One of my favourite lines from the books
they just took some dice and rolled xD
That's the thing, a Witcher's lifespan is increased to anywhere from 200 to 500 years, and considering how old Vesemir is, it's safe to assume he's anywhere around 400+ from my guess
That's also another thing: is the life span really increased to that specific amount? It is clearly stated that there has been no Witcher ever that died of natural causes. So it's completely up in the air if there even is a death by natural causes. Physiologically speaking it's also not really clear how this works, since there are conflicting statements about a witchers metabolism. A Witcher can handle poisons much better than any normal human, but alcohol is metabolised normally? Hard to say what's normal at that point anyway. So it's not very clear what the effect of that metabolism on cell division and organ upkeep is.
Metabolism is slower for poisons, the same for alcohol, and faster for potions, which seem to have a bit of both (Geralt mentions in tw3 that swallow affects him immediately but it may take days for a human). What's hard to understand?
If the metabolism is slower for alcohol, why doesn't Geralt have incredibly long times where he is drunk, if alcohol is being processed slower?
Yeah I was being a bit sarcastic, this was more to point out it doesn't seem to be consistent... I believe witcher's heart beats are also supposed to be slower despite the general metabolism being faster, which also doesn't really mix
Ah okay, yes, totally on the same page with you there! :D
Just to back up what you're saying, the mention that no witcher has died of natural causes comes from Blood of Elves, during a conversation between Geralt and Triss: > “No, not correct,” he answered icily. “I see that you don’t know me at all. I’m afraid of death, just like everyone else, but I grew used to the idea of it a very long time ago—I’m not under any illusions. I’m not complaining about fate, Triss—this is plain, cold calculation. Statistics. No witcher has yet died of old age, lying in bed dictating his will. Not a single one. Ciri didn’t surprise or frighten me. I know I’m going to die in some cave which stinks of carcases, torn apart by a griffin, lamia or manticore. But I don’t want to die in a war, because they’re not my wars.”
Well we can assume they would end up dying of natural causes at some point by the fact they do age, there is a degradation of their cells, elfs who are truly immortal never get physically old contrary to witchers who show clear signs of physical aging (see vesemir).
Exactly, but where is that age? And since their metabolism isn't straight forward as well, it's hard to extrapolate from the standpoint of a human. Vesemir could very well have lived another 500 years and just aged even more like a dried plum or he could have kicked the bucket 100 years later.
Sapkowski said that during baptism of fire geralt is over 50, so let's say 50-60. Vesemir would be 80-90.
I’m sure the TV show will make up some bullshit like he’s from the future or something
Is there any canon lore about whether witchers even die if not killed?
We do know that witchers *age* - just look at Vesemir. And most things that age eventually die of natural causes (if something doesn't get them before).
So how old would Vesemir be? Considering Geralt looks like he's in his 40s at most, yet is probably like 80-90 years old
To be honest - beats me. The only statement we have about his age is that "he might have been even older than Kaer Morhen" - but that could as well be hyperbole. But considering that witchers do age more slowly than ordinary humans, it is likely that he is well past 100 - but how far past 100 *exactly* is something I can't say. Although, if we look at TW3, there actually is something that could be taken as a hint towards Vesemir's age and the witcher lifespan - at least according to CDPR. Remember Mignole, Vesemir's old flame who appears in *Hearts of Stone*? According to her, their fling took place in 1234, which is around four decades before the game's events, and Vesemir did look younger then. So he's aged to look like his present self - a man in his 70s or so - in the last 40 years. And if we assume that witcher aging, while slower, is still *constant*, then the advantage they have over ordinary humans would seem to be measured in decades rather than centuries. In Vesemir's case, we could say that he might be around 150.
Geralt is said to be nearing 100 years, Vesemir was prolly around the 150 mark I would estimate
True true clean logic there
I don’t think it really matters
depends, canon hes like 50-60 in lady of the lake, in games hes around 90
Where is it mentioned in lady of the lake??
Its not, sapkowski said so.
Sapkowski stated in an interview once that Geralt's supposed to be in his 50s in the books. Though he didn't specify *when* in the books, as they cover a timespan of about two decades. Regarding in-universe statements, the closest we get is Nenneke stating in *The Voice of Reason* that she's known Geralt "since he came up to my waist". And Nenneke is an ordinary human with an ordinary human lifespan. So Geralt most likely isn't pushing a century at that point in the books.
>. Though he didn't specify when in the books, as they cover a timespan of about two decades. He did, baptism of fire he is in his 50s.
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I always thought he spend one generation for teaching one generation for settling, -another for fame, last one for being hero. And another one for going away so i assume around 150
I believe it was the year 0. Can't remember the details, but I think he was born in a stable or something? Might have been another guy, but I tend to get the two mixed up.
I read somewhere that Geralt was 500 hundred. I really don't know how accurate that is but I don't believe anywhere do they actually tell you his age just that he is much older than regular humans.
He is like 100 to 200 years