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the witcher - "Season of Storms" epilogue explained


This is about the latest book from the "The Witcher" series, Season of Storms.


In the epilogue we can read (spoilers!):




Nimue suddenly felt euphoria, balanced by numbness and the other effects of suffering fear. It’s a dream, she thought. It seems to me a dream. Because this cannot be real.


‘What’s wrong? Are you okay?’


Nimue plucked up the courage.


‘This mare…’ in her excitement she had difficulty pronouncing her words. ‘This mare is named Roach. Because that is what you name every horse. Because you, are Geralt of Rivia. The Witcher, Geralt of Rivia.’


He looked at her for a long time. Silent. Nimue also remained silent, staring at the ground.


‘What is the year now?’


‘One thousand three hundred and…’ she lifted her surprised eyes. ‘One thousand three hundred and seventy-three after resurrection.‘


‘If that’s so,’ the white-haired man wiped his face with a gloved hand, ‘then Geralt of Rivia has been long dead. He died a hundred and five years ago.




And later some kind of confirmation:



‘But…’ she hesitated. ‘But a hundred years… How is it possible to… How! is it possible?’


‘Such questions,’ he interrupted her, still with a warm smile, ‘should not be asked by future adepts of Aretuza’.



And finally my question is, can anyone explain the ending?


Did Geralt not only survive but also stop aging? Or somehow the witchers' craft was not ruined and Nimue met a new young witcher? Maybe anyone has insights on this?



Answer



It is unclear, but its strongly suggested that this is indeed Geralt.


Now lets start from the end of your question: Witchers (just like wizards) age much, much slower: Geralt at some stage during the books says he is over 100, Yennefer if I remember right says in books that she is 94 (and at the beginning of the third "Witcher" game she would be exactly 100), old Vesemir is supposed to be older than the Kaer Morhen (in reality one could guess that he is about 200-300 years old if not more). Here is an interesting thread about age of main characters in "Witcher" series.



Now, on top of that please note that the "Season of Storms" is not continuation of games but the original book series,



which ends with Geralt and Yennefer living on their own island in Avalon (Ciri meets sir Galahd there)



that could also alter the speed of passing time in the original world. Please also note, that Ciri was able to travel in time - the very same Nimue has seen young Ciri when she was herself a teenager and later on when she was an older, powerful enchantress (this happens in the "Lady of the lake", where Nimue is researching the story of Geralt and Ciri). So it wouldn't be improbable if Ciri somehow moved Geralt in time as well.


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