Renfri
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Renfri was the daughter of Fredefalk, the duke of Creyden, and the stepdaughter of Aridea.
Renfri was born under the Black Sun, and this worried her stepmother, who contacted the Council of Wizards. One of them came to Creyden, and performed tests, observed the girl as best he could without drawing Fredefalk's attention.
The wizard came to the conclusion that the girl was indeed cursed, and together with Aridea, they planned to get rid of her.
A huntsman was supposed to take the girl into the woods, kill her and bring back her heart and liver. Instead, Renfri killed him by pushing a brooch into his brain while he had his pants down.
After that, the girl fled, going hungry and cold when she couldn't steal, swindle or sell herself for food and shelter.
In about four years, she had gained notoriety, and was called Shrike because of her penchant for impaling her victims. She had also reached Mahakam and lived with a band of seven gnomes. Meanwhile, Aridea had hired assassins to kill the girl, but each one of them failed, time and again.
Shrike and her band robbed merchants, until one day when the gnomes argued amongst themselves so fervently none of them made it out alive. A moment later, Renfri met the wizard who'd been in Creyden again. He cast a spell on her, turned her into mountain crystal and buried her in the gnomes' mine.
However, a prince found her, and revived her, took her home with him. Not long afterwards, Renfri left that kingdom with fresh blood on her hands.
She began hunting for the wizard, and found him, too. He fled, she pursued, surrounding herself with a new band.
Finally, in Blaviken, Renfri came the closest she ever did to getting her revenge. Alas, her plans were foiled, and she died at the end of the witcher Geralt's blade.
[edit] Movie and TV Series
Unlike in the short story The Lesser Evil, in which Renfri's hair was described as 'straw-coloured', in the movie and tv-series her hair is very dark.
Also unlike in the books, Geralt first met her when she was struggling with three armored men ordered to kill her by her stepmother, Aridea. The men claimed she was a mutant and a witch. She fled the fight as soon as she could, leaving a dagger in the throat of one of the men and Geralt trying to save himself.
Later, Geralt met her again and after travelling together for a while, she joined the band of seven gnomes. Geralt left her with them, as per her wishes.
Years later, their paths crossed again when Renfri had put together a band of her own and spread terror and fear, amidst rumours of having murdered her father, stepmother and half-brothers. She burnt the temple of Melitele in Ellander as per Falwick's orders. As in the book, she died in a duel with Geralt in Blaviken.
Played by Weronika Pelczyńska as a child, and Kinga Ilgner as an adult.
[edit] Episodes
- 3: "Człowiek - pierwsze spotkanie" (Human - First Meeting)
- 9: "Świątynia Melitele" (The Temple of Melitele)
- 10: "Mniejsze zło" (The Lesser Evil)
- 11: "Jaskier" (Dandelion)
