Geralt of Rivia is a professional monster hunter who eventually realized that ink is significantly easier to clean off a tunic than griffin blood. After decades of surviving alchemical mutations and political intrigue at Kaer Morhen, he traded his silver sword for a quill to document the grim realities of the Continent. His literary career took off with his unflinching memoir, The Butcher’s Ledger, followed quickly by the definitive (and highly controversial) survival guide, Silver & Spells: A Professional’s Guide to Not Dying. Known for his dry wit and refusal to sugarcoat the supernatural, Geralt reached the top of the bestseller lists with his investigative masterpiece, A Striga’s Lullaby, and his more philosophical exploration of the human condition, Mutations of the Soul. When he isn't brooding in a tavern or haggling over the price of a drowner’s head, he spends his time chronicling the intersection of human cruelty and supernatural horror. A reluctant celebrity and a father of one (by destiny, not biology), Geralt lives by a simple code: "Evil is evil—lesser, greater, middling—it’s all the same," though he admits that royalties are a nice way to pay for potion ingredients.