School of the Cat

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The School of the Cat is one of the schools of witchers.

Background

The Cats (or Felines) were witchers who developed fighting styles focusing on speed, precision, and agility. As a result, Cat school witchers as well as their equipment do not deal a lot of raw damage, but can inflict deadly critical hits. By extension, their gear was designed to maximize flexibility and provide the greatest possible range of motion.

Unfortunately, members of the Cat school proved as flexible in terms of morals and politics as their armor. Over time, they became pariahs even among their fellow witchers, due to taking contracts on humans as well as monsters. Geralt of Rivia states repeatedly in novels that witchers don't accept money for killing people, as they were made to combat monsters. One of the possible reasons for that was the mutation process, which tended to create an abnormal number of psychotic witchers. Regardless of the reasons, they are known to have betrayed the Wolf School and led to the massacre during the tournament.

Geralt encountered Brehen, a witcher of the school, while Bonhart slew another. The fallen witcher's medallion was claimed by Ciri at Stygga.

Curiously, it appears the Cats were the only school to accept women as witcher candidates. There are also speculations that the school was founded by member of elven culture group Aen Seidhe but the truth is that founders were originally abortively-mutated, fallen witchers who had been banished from Kaer Morhen.

Students of the Cat School

In the books:

• Brehen

In the comics:

• Guxart
• Treyse

In the The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt:

• Aiden (mentioned by Lambert)
• Axel (mentioned in a letter to Gaetan)
• Cedric (mentioned in the letter)
• Gaetan
• Jad Karadin
• Joël (author of the letter to Gaetan)
• Kiyan
• Schrödinger (mentioned in the letter)
• Lexandre (mentioned in Blood and Wine)

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Though the Cat School remains largely mentioned-only in third game the quest Where the Cat and Wolf Play... has Geralt chance upon a Witcher of the Cat School named Gaetan. In the same game there is also set of Cat School Gear called ''Feline Armor'', which can be crafted and upgraded. The diagrams can be found through the scavenger hunts.

Trivia

• The above letter mentioning Witcher, Schrödinger, is an Easter Egg referencing the "Schrödinger's Cat" quantum mechanical thought experiment.

Other witcher schools

• Wolf School
• Griffin School
• Viper School
• Bear School
• Manticore School