The Witcher season 3 saw Yennefer of Vengerberg (Anya Chalotra) facing some truly dangerous threats, and here’s what happens to the powerful sorceress after season 3. Netflix’s The Witcher has made various changes to Andrzej Sapkowski’s books, many of these very controversial, especially those made to Yennefer’s story in season 2. Yennefer became the most divisive character in The Witcher season 2, so season 3 had a lot of fixing to do, and while it didn’t fully succeed, it definitely gave the sorceress a much better and fitting story.
The Witcher season 3 finally saw Geralt, Ciri, and Yennefer together, as they did their best to hide and stay safe as half the Continent is going after Ciri. Yennefer did her best to train Ciri, but at the same time, she tried to make things right with the Brotherhood of Sorcerers, though little did she know that their biggest threat was part of the Brotherhood. The events of The Witcher season 3 will change the course of Yennefer’s story in future seasons, and here’s what happens to her after The Witcher season 3 and Time of Contempt, the novel it’s based on.
10 Yennefer, Geralt, & Ciri Are Separated Again
As mentioned above, Geralt, Ciri, and Yennefer are finally together in The Witcher season 3, but unfortunately, that doesn’t last for long. During the Thanedd Coup, Yennefer and Geralt fight off the Scoia’tael while Ciri escapes, taking refuge at the Tower of Gulls. Things get more and more complicated for the witcher, the princess, and the sorceress following the Thanedd incident, and a long time (and a lot of trouble for each of them) es before they reunite for good.
9 Yennefer Is Transformed Into A Jade Statuette By sca
During the fight against the Scoia’tael at Thanedd, Yennefer comes across sca Findabair. Although the elven queen let the Scoia’tael in during the Thanedd Coup and sided with Nilfgaard, she doesn’t fully agree with them, and knows Rience has a personal vendetta against Yennefer. In order to save the sorceress, sca captures Yennefer through an artifact compression spell, resulting in Yennefer becoming a jade figurine that sca carries with her, safely smuggling her off the island. Yennefer spends 47 days as a jade statuette before sca finally frees her.
8 Yennefer Is Brought To The Lodge of Sorceresses (But Escapes Thanks To Fringilla)
Three months after the Thanedd Coup and the end of the Brotherhood of Sorcerers, sca gathers a group of sorceresses that becomes known as the Lodge of Sorceresses. sca frees Yennefer and tells her everything that has happened since she was compressed. Yennefer is now considered a Nilfgaard traitor, and sca invites her to the Lodge, though warns her to not act against their plans. Through the Lodge, Yennefer learns their plan to marry Ciri to prince Tankred Thyssen of Kovir and becomes terrified. With seemingly no way out, Yennefer is, surprisingly, helped by Fringilla, who tells her how to create a portal that allows her to escape so she can find Ciri.
7 Yennefer Is Captured (& Tortured) By Vilgefortz
Yennefer’s teleporting leads her to Skellige, where she waits for Crach an Craite and asks for his help to find Vilgefortz. After communicating with Triss and learning that she is now loyal to the Lodge and that Yennefer is seen as a traitor, Yennefer tracks Vilgefortz to a dangerous part of the sea beyond Skellige. The sorceress heads into the abyss when an unnatural storm teleports the ship and everyone on it, and so she ends up in Stygga Castle, Vilgefortz’s main hideout. Unfortunately, Yennefer is quickly captured, and she’s tortured in order to get information from her.
Vilgefortz tries to convince Yennefer of Geralt and Ciri’s deaths in order to break her, and she later meets bounty hunter Leo Bonhart, who tells her how he captured Ciri and forced her to fight and kill, as well as how he killed a couple of witchers. Yennefer never breaks, but in the meantime, Geralt believes that Yennefer has betrayed them.
6 Ciri Tries To Negotiate Yennefer’s Freedom
After returning to her correct world, Ciri arrives at Stygga Castle to save Yennefer and tries to negotiate her freedom. As she was unable to find Geralt, Ciri knows that Yennefer is at great risk without her help, so she offers herself in exchange for Yennefer’s freedom… but Vilgefortz laughs and imprisons the princess. Vilgefortz’s reason to imprison Ciri is that he plans to inseminate her to claim the prophesied magic , so he isn’t going to miss the chance of capturing her when she arrives by her own will.
5 Yennefer Is Freed By Geralt
Luckily for Ciri and Yennefer, Geralt arrives right on time to rescue them. Geralt overhears a meeting between Skellen and Nilfgaardian nobles who are plotting to overthrow the White Flame, and in their conversation, they mention Vilgefortz’s location and that Yennefer is his prisoner. Geralt and his new companions (minus Jaskier, who stays behind) then travel to Stygga Castle to save Yennefer and Ciri. Geralt and the group storm the castle, and though he frees Yennefer, his companions Milva and Angoulême are killed. Though weakened, Yennefer s Geralt, but they come across Vilgefortz.
Geralt and Yennefer fight the mage, who overpowers Yennefer and breaks her bones, but she’s saved by Regis, one of Geralt’s companions, though he’s soon killed. After Geralt finally kills Vilgefortz, they find Ciri and they finally reunite, but they have a couple more enemies to get rid of. Their only exit is blocked by Stefan Skellen and his agents, but they are all stopped by none other than the Emperor and his forces.
4 Yennefer & Geralt Are Almost Killed By The White Flame
Geralt recognizes Emhyr as Ciri’s father, and learns of his plans to impregnate Ciri and rule the Continent. Emhyr realizes that the has to execute Geralt and Yennefer in order for his plan to work, as Geralt recognized them and Yennefer knows the genealogy, so he offers them the chance of committing suicide together by slitting their wrists in the bath. Geralt and Yennefer agree to it and prepare to die, saying goodbye to Ciri and Yennefer making Emhyr promise not to hurt Ciri or make her cry. However, when Geralt and Yennefer call for the guard to bring them a knife, they find Ciri answering the door. As it turns out, Emhyr sees Ciri crying over the loss of the only parents she ever had, and that’s enough for him to change his mind about everything and let them go.
3 Yennefer & Ciri Confront The Lodge of Sorceresses
Now free, Yennefer and Ciri are ed by the Lodge of Sorceresses, who demands to speak to both. Yennefer arrives first and is later ed by Ciri, and together they confront the Lodge for everything that happened. The Lodge explains their plan to Ciri, with Yennefer trying to cast her vote to let Ciri see Geralt and inform him of her situation, but Yennefer isn’t allowed to vote as she isn’t part of the Lodge. The sorceresses eventually vote in Ciri’s favor, and so Yennefer takes Ciri to see Geralt in Rivia, with Triss Merigold accompanying them.
2 Yennefer Tries To Save Geralt, But Fails
Once in Rivia, they find a riot and Geralt severely wounded. Yennefer is attacked but uses her powers to defend herself, and along with Triss, conjures a storm to disperse the rioters, but Geralt is on the verge of death. Yennefer uses all her magic to heal Geralt, but it’s too much for her and she loses consciousness. Ciri’s unicorn friend, Ihuarraquax, arrives and channels his power through Ciri to heal Geralt, and when he points at a boat, Ciri takes the bodies of her adopted family and puts them on the boat.
1 Yennefer’s Fate Is Left Ambiguous By Ciri
The events of The Lady of the Lake are told by Ciri as she shares it with a knight named Sir Galahad, and she leaves the fates of Yennefer and Geralt ambiguous. After putting their bodies on the boat, Ciri takes off into the lake, and as she tells her tale, she says she could claim that it ends with Geralt and Yennefer waking up in an unknown location and getting married sometime later, and she’s visibly sad while saying all this. It’s up to the reader to decide if Geralt and Yennefer got their happy ending in The Witcher or if Ciri’s tale is a metaphor for their arrival in the afterlife.
