Leo Bonhart

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Leo Bonhart – a human headhunter, assasin, previously a professional soldier. Known for his professionalism and expensive. He found pleasure in watching brutal scenes and inflicting pain to others. He possessed three witcher medallions, depicting the heads of a wolf, a cat and a gryphon, and claimed to have killed their previous owners.

Bonhart was hired by Stefan Skellen to kill Ciri and by baron Casadei to capture her alive. Bonhart killed the Rats band to which Ciri belonged and cut off their heads after their deaths. He neither killed Ciri, nor brought her to baron Casadei, therefore not fullfilling his contracts. He imprisoned her for some time, beating her, mistreating and forcing to kill on the arena in Claremont, which belonged to his cousin Houvenaghel. Ciri escaped when Bonhart was in the village of Goworożec together with Skellen and Rience. Bonhart then killed Neratin Ceka, and Skellen seriously wounded Ciri, who hid and healed at the hermitage of Vysogota of Corvo. together with Skellen and Rience, Bonhart tried to hunt her down at the order of Vilgefortz. Eventually, she escaped to Tor Zirael.

At the Stygga castle, Bonhart killed Cahir Mawr Dyffryn aep Ceallach, and then he himself died at the hand of Ciri, whom he loved in his sadistic and inhuman way.

[edit] In The Witcher computer game

In The Witcher, Bonhart is mentioned by Jean-Pierre when you first meet him in the swamp. According to Jean-Pierre, "Old Leo" was a witcher slayer and is known as a legend, witchers and mages were no match for him.