FrenzyAren

What made you even consider this?

Correct, that was a mistake.

This is the emblem and I'm pretty sure I used this picture all the way back when I first introduced the shadow ring.

Yeah, it’s the first reason lmao, it got painful sometimes.

If you think it's stupid weakness that's your opinion and it's fine but I have to clarify this very important point. Again, silver swords/weapons really are not that common in The Witcher universe, and silver itself is not some universal “instant weakness” for monsters the way the games can make it seem. The games exaggerate their importance heavily for gameplay purposes. In the lore (books), monsters are also far less common than they appear in the games. If the world were actually as overrun as the gameplay suggests, civilization would barely function. Most ordinary people, soldiers, and even bandits are fighting humans far more often than monsters, so carrying an expensive silver sword would usually be pointless. In the books, they are rare enough that special craftsmen are mentioned for making them properly. Witchers themselves do not even carry both swords on their backs all the time like in the games. Geralt only takes out the silver sword in specific situations where a creature is actually so vulnerable to it beacause many monsters do not strictly require silver to kill them. Silver is simply more effective against certain creatures, especially magical or cursed ones. There are even professional monster hunters in the books who do not use silver weapons at all. A skilled fighter with normal weapons, fire, traps, or preparation can still kill monsters. So the idea that “This weakness is bad because it is common weakness” is just wrong. And it does not really fit the lore. They are expensive and specialized weapons meant for Witchers who are the only ones who actively hunt Monsters, not standard equipment for armies or common folk. Either way, if someone still thinks silver weaknesses are stupid, that is completely fine. That is just a personal opinion about the setting especially those who only played the games.

Silver is not a common weakness, only Witchers use silver swords, nobody actually uses silver or would expect a witcher to be weak to silver. you might say it is a common weakness because monsters are weak to it.

In a way, yes.

I'd say this is on the level of real-life media.

Quite literally in another Kingdom..

Them being in Temeria has nothing to do with hunting. to understand it better, The Second Northern War ended only a year ago, in 1268, with an uneasy truce between Nilfgaard and the Northern Kingdoms, a conflict most would still consider a Northern victory. But the current timeline is 1269, and despite the peace, Emperor Emhyr has not abandoned the search for his daughter If anything, the Empire’s fragile political situation has made finding Ciri more important than ever and Emhyr is not a fool. He knows Geralt is tied to Ciri through the Law of Surprise, and Yennefer warned Geralt in previous chapters that the Emperor may eventually turn his attention toward Kaer Morhen, Nilfgaard may be far to the south, but distance means little to a ruler with imperial resources. Emhyr could hire spies, mercenaries, even witchers, to track her down. That is why Geralt traveled to Temeria alongside Ciri, where trusted contacts of his were gathering intelligence on Nilfgaard and the Emperor’s movements. He needed to verify the threat himself while keeping Ciri close, because Kaer Morhen no longer feels like the untouchable sanctuary it once was.