The idea behind creating witchers is pretty much the same as it is in the Continent's present-day: to engineer warriors who could take down the legendary monsters that normal soldiers were helpless to stop.

The practice of mutating witchers and training them to kill monsters began in the 10th century, first commissioned by many of the Continent's kings (and their court mages) who were trying to create an order of magic-using knights. Before witchers adopted a more fragmented existence, when the concept of witchers was first put into practice, there was only one faction: the Order of Witchers. The original Witcher 'school' wasn't actually a school at all. RELATED: The Witcher 3: All Gwent Hero Card Characters Explained There's a long, storied, and violent history accompanying the rise and steady decline of the witchers' race, and each faction has its own specializations, techniques, and stylized medallions identifying the school every witcher trained with. Witcher schools aren't canon to Andrzej Sapkowski's original Witcher books, but they're very much canon in the games-so, at the very least, it'd help those fans who play The Witcher games to know about each of the eight Witcher schools. Though many of the schools are mentioned in passing, there's actually some fascinating lore available in the more obscure codex entries of the games. While playing The Witcher games, it's made abundantly clear that Geralt's School of the Wolf is not the only witcher school out there on the Continent.

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