[ Too many tales that don't mean anything, obscuring reality. And to Geralt, stripped of its language of prophecy and doom, what Jon describes simply sounds like reanimation on a vast scale. Not monsters, exactly, but magic. Something close to what Hector is capable of. It's necromancy but not in the way of raising the dead back into life. Rather, it's turning them into another beast altogether.
He hums, thoughtful. Witchers do not take contracts upon entire armies of the magically animated undead. That's past the scope of what he does. ] You'd need a mage or two to counteract magic that powerful.
[ However mages and druids might operate in Jon's world. It's all distant theory, anyhow. Jon's here, so walking corpses and Night Kings, much like Nilfgaard's marching army, will have to wait. They have more immediate concerns. ]
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[ Too many tales that don't mean anything, obscuring reality. And to Geralt, stripped of its language of prophecy and doom, what Jon describes simply sounds like reanimation on a vast scale. Not monsters, exactly, but magic. Something close to what Hector is capable of. It's necromancy but not in the way of raising the dead back into life. Rather, it's turning them into another beast altogether.
He hums, thoughtful. Witchers do not take contracts upon entire armies of the magically animated undead. That's past the scope of what he does. ] You'd need a mage or two to counteract magic that powerful.
[ However mages and druids might operate in Jon's world. It's all distant theory, anyhow. Jon's here, so walking corpses and Night Kings, much like Nilfgaard's marching army, will have to wait. They have more immediate concerns. ]