Warning: minor spoilers for The Witcher season 3 Half 1.

Though The Witcher season 3 largely focuses on the hunt for Ciri, it didn’t go away monsters behind, and right here’s each monster Geralt and firm encountered in season 3. The universe of The Witcher is sort of intensive and wealthy, with people, elves, dwarves, mages, and extra coexisting together with quite a lot of creatures and monsters, that are the rationale why witchers exist. Over the course of three seasons, Geralt has been seen battling all sorts of monsters, and although a few of them nearly defeated him, he continues to make a residing out of killing monsters.

Following the occasions of The Witcher season 2, season 3 sees Geralt, Ciri, and Yennefer on the run as half the Continent is in search of them with the aim of capturing Ciri. Due to this, The Witcher season 3 focuses totally on Geralt, Ciri, and Yennefer’s efforts to cover and keep secure, however that doesn’t imply it forgot about this world’s monsters. Geralt got here throughout a few monsters in season 3 that go from traditional fantasy creatures to some actually terrifying creations that took Geralt without warning. Listed here are all 5 monsters in The Witcher season 3.

5 Jackapace

The primary monster viewers met in The Witcher season 3 is a jackapace. This creature is unique to the Netflix TV collection, so there’s no details about it within the books and video video games. The jackapace was launched within the first episode of season 3, the place an unknown man was protecting a jackapace prisoner. The person defined to his helper, an elf, that the jackapace is bred to trace down elves, which is why it reacted violently when the elf acquired near the door to feed it. Apparently, jackapaces are fed with meat, maybe human meat, and on condition that they’re bred to trace down elves, these monsters are most probably a remnant of the time when elves and people had been at battle with one another.

Jackapaces are blind, in order that they use their sense of odor to sense their environment, and naturally, to find their targets. The physique of a jackapace resembles that of an armadillo, because it’s capable of curve up in a ball both to maneuver sooner or assault its victims. Rience knew all this and requested to make use of the jackapace to trace Ciri, and for that, he used the vial with Ciri’s blood that he stole from Kaer Morhen in The Witcher season 2. Sadly for the jackapace, Ciri was no simple goal, and Yennefer and Geralt used their respective expertise to kill the monster.

4 Flesh Monster

Netflix’s The Witcher has seen quite a lot of monsters, both from the books, video video games, or unique creations for the collection, and season 3 noticed one of many present’s most horrifying creatures. When Codringher and Fenn instructed Geralt that the mage who was backing Rience resided in Citadel Vuilpanne, Geralt traveled there to see if he may kill Rience. What Geralt wasn’t relying on was discovering out that the “highly effective mage” backing Rience had been kidnapping younger girls and experimenting with them. First, Geralt got here throughout three disembodied feminine heads held up by strands of flesh, and the ladies requested him to assist them and never harm them. Geralt later discovered a bodily unhurt lady named Theryn, who claimed to be Ciri.

As Geralt tried to flee with Theryn, he was stopped by an enormous, spider-like monster that turned out to be fabricated from the our bodies of various girls, together with these whose heads had been hanging from the partitions. The heads appeared to have some management over their our bodies and the monster and tried to cease Geralt and Theryn from leaving. Geralt ultimately defeated the monster by killing every physique it was fabricated from, which in flip killed the heads, and he left Vuilpanne with Theryn. It’s unknown why the mage’s experiments included dismembering our bodies and making a monster with them, however that is by far some of the ugly creatures in Netflix’s The Witcher.

3 Otto The Werewolf

When Geralt took Theryn to Anika, a druid and buddy of his mom, he got here throughout Otto, an outdated acquaintance of his who’s now residing with Anika. Otto defined to Jaskier that he’s truly a werewolf, and that’s how he and Geralt met. Otto was bitten by a werewolf through the plague of ‘21, as he fled into the wilderness to isolate himself in hopes to keep away from the illness, however he was attacked by a werewolf. Geralt was employed to kill him, however as an alternative, the witcher discovered an answer to his drawback: a medallion that, so long as he retains it near him, stops him from remodeling right into a monster.

When Theryn awakened and went right into a trance, she attacked Anika and Geralt, and she or he pulled the medallion from Otto, who started to rework. Geralt acquired the medallion again and gave it to Otto, stopping his full transformation. Not like the jackapace and the flesh monster, werewolves are a part of the Witcher books and video video games, and those that are born as werewolves are capable of management their shapeshifting talents, whereas these cursed or bitten remodel solely through the full moon (although that doesn’t appear to be Otto’s case in Netflix’s The Witcher).

2 Wyvern

When Ciri was escorted round city by Fabio Sachs, they attended a sideshow the place a basilisk was, supposedly, going to be proven. Nevertheless, as Ciri had already skilled with Geralt and different witchers in Kaer Morhen, Ciri instantly knew that the creature the person was protecting within the cage wasn’t a basilisk, and it was truly a wyvern. Ciri known as him out in entrance of the entire viewers, and the wyvern was unintentionally knocked free from its cage. Similar to werewolves, wyverns are a part of the broader Witcher universe, and they’re present in each books and video video games.

Wyverns are endangered creatures, they usually have snake-like necks, lengthy tails that finish in a venomous trident, and are coated in darkish scales. Wyverns even have wings, and due to their sharp enamel, they’ll simply snatch their prey whereas flying and carry it off to their nests. The wyvern the person was protecting was truly a child, and whereas Ciri was doing her greatest to defend it, as soon as it was freed it attacked Ciri and different members of the viewers. Ciri had no alternative however to kill the wyvern, after which she shortly ran away with Fabio Sachs to keep away from drawing much more consideration to herself.

1 Aeschna

After Ciri and Geralt reunited following Ciri’s escape from Yennefer and the ladies of Aretuza, the princess and the witcher met with Jaskier to journey to Thanedd Island. The three had been touring on a ship, however the captain refused to sail as there was a monster within the water. Geralt and Ciri made a cope with the captain to do away with the monster, and as soon as on board, Ciri appropriately deduced that they had been about to battle an aeschna, which was unintentionally drawn to the boat by the music of Valdo Marx and firm.

An aeschna (also referred to as glustyworp) is a water creature with ten paws with sharp claws and jaws like cut-saws. The mixed efforts of Ciri and Geralt allowed them to defeat the aeschna with none of the passengers of the boat dying, although a few of them had been injured. Similar to the wyvern and the werewolf, the aeschna may be present in The Witcher books and video video games.