Jaskier then insults the guy and almost gets beaten up when one of the elves goads him into a fight instead. He tries to distract the dockhand so that they can sneak aboard the boat to Cintra, but Jaskier can’t just let it go when the dockhand says that he’s not really into one of his songs. Later, he travels with Yennefer, Cahir, and the elves, including Dara (Wilson Mbomio), Ciri’s companion from season 1, to the docks. They share their heartbreak over losing Geralt, and Jaskier tells Yennefer why he’s become the Sandpiper – he knows that persecuting the elves is a slippery slope that could lead to the persecution of anyone considered “other” by the powers that be and wants to do the right thing while he still can. It turns out that the mysterious Sandpiper is the Continent’s favorite bard, Jaskier, and his performances serve as a cover for elves to move safely through the town at night.Īfter a rendition of his new song “Burn Butcher Burn,” which is absolutely a breakup song about Geralt, Jaskier and Yennefer reconnect over drinks.

They’re told to wait in the storeroom, but Yennefer hears a familiar voice and has to go investigate. In Oxenfurt, Yennefer and Cahir find themselves in a tavern on their journey to find the Sandpiper. Hoping to gain safe passage to Cintra, Yennefer and Cahir track down a smuggler known as the Sandpiper, who has been helping elves flee the North. With the Brotherhood of Sorcerers and the Northern Kingdoms after them, Yennefer and Cahir flee to Oxenfurt, where elves are being persecuted and forced to flee. Powerless after the Battle of Sodden, Yennefer goes along with their plan until the last minute, freeing Cahir because she didn’t want to kill him and thought he could help her. In order to prove her fealty to the Brotherhood, Yennefer must execute Cahir in front of the Northern Kings. While Tissaia (MyAnna Buring) and Triss (Anna Shaffer) are happy to see her alive, others like Stregobor (Lars Mikkelsen) are wary of her disappearance, believing that Yennefer has shifted alliances due to her Elven blood. He is unsure of Fringilla’s new alliance at first, but after she threatens him by killing four of the White Flame’s generals, he pledges to vouch for her leadership skills when Emperor Emhyr arrives.Īfter her first encounter with Voleth Meir, Yennefer leaves Fringilla and the elves and returns to Aretuza. After Cahir (Eamon Farren) escapes the mages, he returns to Cintra. Fringilla agrees, desperate to help her kind and provide a real home for her incoming child, potentially the first full-blooded Elf born in years.įringilla’s alliance with the elves makes the North uneasy and leads to an increase in prejudice against them. Fringilla offers the elves safe haven in their ancestral home of Cintra in exchange for alliance to Nilfgaard, believing it will garner her favor with Emperor Emhyr (Bart Edwards). There, they uncover the prison of Voleth Meir (Ania Marson), also known as the Deathless Mother, a demon who seeks to use their pain to grow stronger.įringilla and Francesca don’t realize Voleth Meir’s true intentions, and enter into an alliance at her behest, believing that it will help them reach their true desires. After Yennefer and Fringilla reveal that they’ve been having similar visions of cloaked figures, Francesca agrees to let them accompany her to the dig site. Francesca has been having visions of a figure cloaked in white, who she believes to be the Elven prophet Ithlinne. On the road back to Cintra, the two mages are captured by Francesca (Mecia Simson) and her loyal Elven warriors who are excavating a nearby monolith.

Originally thought to be dead after the Battle of Sodden, Yennefer is revealed to be alive and a prisoner of Fringilla (Mimî M.

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