Vilgefortz of Roggeveen: The Witcher Character Analysis

Race: Human

Transcendent: Sorcerer

Sex: Male

Faction: Brotherhood of Sorcerers

Rating: 8.4

Alignment: Lawful Evil

Arena Status: Active (S3)

Vilgefortz of Roggeveen stands as one of the most dangerous and intellectually formidable figures in the Witcher saga, a man whose ambition eclipses kings and whose magical ability rivals the greatest sorcerers of his age. Though remembered publicly as a celebrated war hero and statesman, the truth beneath that cultivated legend is far darker. His life charts the trajectory of a gutter-born orphan who clawed his way into the highest magical circles, then attempted to reshape the political and metaphysical order of the Continent itself. His presence looms most heavily in the novels during the events surrounding the Thanedd coup and the later hunt for Ciri, where he emerges not merely as a political conspirator, but as a central architect of catastrophe. Spoilers follow.

Vilgefortz of Roggeveen

Rathma: Diablo Character Analysis

Race: Nephalem / Firstborn

Sex: Male

Faction: Priests of Rathma

Rating: 8.6

Alignment: Lawful Neutral

Arena Status: Active (S3)

Rathma is remembered as the Firstborn nephalem of Sanctuary and the figure most closely associated with the necromantic tradition later formalized as the Priests of Rathma. In the modern era of Sanctuary’s history, his name functions less like a mere historical footnote and more like a doctrinal cornerstone, invoked as protection, warning, and proof that the Cycle can be studied without being broken. The faith-language around him is deliberate, almost liturgical in tone, as in the oft-cited line: “Let the wisdom of Rathma protect us from those that would do us harm.”

Rathma, Keeper of Balance

Philippa Eilhart: The Witcher Character Analysis

Race: Human

Transcendent: Sorceress

Sex: Female

Faction: Brotherhood of Sorcerers / Lodge of Sorceresses / Redania

Rating: 8.3

Alignment: Lawful Neutral

Arena Status: Active (S3)

Philippa Eilhart occupies a rare narrative space in The Witcher: she is neither wandering hero nor tragic victim, neither courtly ornament nor mere antagonist. She is power that understands itself as power. Where many mages posture as advisors, scholars, or reluctant servants of kings, Philippa speaks the truth others conceal. “We wish to rule, yes. Where is the fault in that?” she declares in The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings. It is not bluster. It is doctrine.

Philippa Eilhart, Lady of Monteclavo

Cregan Stark: A Song of Ice and Fire Character Analysis

Race: Northmen

Sex: Male

Faction: House Stark

Rating: 6.4

Alignment: Lawful Neutral

Arena Status: Active (S3)

Cregan Stark stands apart in the history of the Seven Kingdoms as a figure whose power was never rooted in dragons, prophecy, or sorcery, but in will, reputation, and an uncompromising conception of justice. Known in his youth as the Wolf of the North and later remembered as the Old Man of the North, Cregan Stark ruled Winterfell for decades during one of the most turbulent eras in Targaryen history. His brief but decisive intervention at the end of the Dance of the Dragons, remembered as the Hour of the Wolf, left an imprint on Westerosi memory far out of proportion to the short span of days in which it unfolded.

Cregan Stark, the Wolf of the North

Whisper: Black Company Character Analysis

Race: Human (Rust)

Transcendent: Taken

Sex: Female

Faction: Circle of Eighteen / Rebels / The Empire

Rating: 7.3

Alignment: Lawful Evil

Arena Status: Active (S3)

Whisper occupies a singular and unsettling place in the history of the northern wars, standing at the crossroads between rebellion and empire, autonomy and enslavement, brilliance and ruin. To Croaker, who knew her first as an enemy and later as something far worse, she was unforgettable in contradiction. “Whisper replied in a melodious voice that did not at all fit the wide, hard, homely woman,” he writes. “She sounded seventeen and gorgeous, looked forty-five and like she had been around the world three times.” That dissonance, between appearance and effect, between seeming and reality, defines Whisper’s entire arc. She was never merely a sorceress, nor only a general. She was a strategist of rare talent, a political operator of dangerous subtlety, and ultimately the most prominent example of what it meant to be Taken against one’s will.

General Whisper