Triss Merigold Main Characters

Journal Description

I always considered it a point of particular pride to count Triss Merigold of Maribor among my closest and dearest friends. This exceptionally talented sorceress was a shining star of her profession, the former mage advisor to King Foltest, and a famous hero of the Battle of Sodden, known as the Fourteenth of the Hill. Yet in no way did she resemble her often unbearably haughty sisters in magic. Her deft mind, warm smile and considerable personal charm had always won over even the hardest of hearts.

Though my personal relations with Triss never ventured beyond the fraternal, Geralt of Rivia at one point found her allure irresistible. From then on the two shared feelings that ran far deeper than a superficial and fleeting fancy.

Yennefer told Geralt that Triss had recently taken up residence in the Free City of Novigrad.

It seemed Triss had gone into hiding from the so-called witch hunters persecuting magic wielders in the city, turning to one of the leaders of the local underworld for protection.

After a bit of a run-around Geralt found the sorceress, who had indeed entered into an arrangement with the so-called King of Beggars. She paid for his protection by providing magic services to his organization. Though Triss did not know anything about Ciri and her stay in Novigrad, she promised to do all within her power to aid Geralt’s search.

Though theoretically Triss and Geralt had ended their romance half a year earlier, it was clear the feelings they felt for each other had not vanished so easily. To deal with this, the sorceress pretended that nothing had happened and the witcher, as is his wont, sheepishly masked his feelings with a mix of hesitant interest and fake indifference. It must be said that both of them handled the situation quite awkwardly.

The plan to get close to Caleb Menge that Triss presented to the witcher was very risky and placed her in great danger. The sorceress knew, however, that Ciri’s life might be on the line, and so did not hesitate for even a moment.

The sorceress’ laugh, the look in her cornflower blue eyes, the memory of enchanting moments spent together - all that surely weighed on Geralt’s decision to kiss Triss in the Vegelbuds’ garden. And though their moment of sweet oblivion lasted briefly, it breathed a gale’s worth of new life into the feelings between them.

Triss and Geralt had been through thick and thin together, but on that fateful day, on the wind-swept Novigrad docks, they bid their final farewells. She sailed off for Kovir, while he stayed and choked on the smoke wafting off the pyres of Novigrad.

Yet Geralt and Triss in fact met again, at Kaer Morhen. Triss had come on Yennefer’s request to help defend Ciri, whom she had always treated as a younger sister.

Though Triss and Geralt said their final goodbyes on that wind-swept Novigrad dock, in the end the sorceress decided not to leave for Kovir after all. She knew that when Geralt asked her to stay, the witcher was opening up his heart to her for the first time.

Geralt and Triss met again at Kaer Morhen. Triss arrived there at the witcher’s behest to help defend Ciri, whom she had always treated as a younger sister.

Not for the first time Geralt showed what a babe in the wilderness he was in matters involving the fairer sex. For while I can say from experience that there are indeed women who will willingly share a man with their best friend, when trying that with women to whom one has declared true and undying love, things tend to turn out differently.

Toying with Triss’ feelings ended in humiliation for Geralt - a fate which, I must admit, he thoroughly deserved.