Before leaving, she finds Auberron dying after drinking an aphrodisiac given to him by Eredin. The unicorns reveal she can bypass the barrier by boat. She is confronted by unicorns, among them Ihuarraquax, who she had saved (in The Time of Contempt). However, Eredin Breacc Glas, the commander of a cavalry unit, tells Ciri that she will never escape.Įventually, Ciri tries to escape on her horse, Kelpie, but the barrier stops her. Avallac'h assures her that once she bears the child, she will be returned to her time. Ciri reluctantly agrees, but Auberon fails to perform several times. Avallac'h explains that Ciri possesses a gene engineered to make her child the most powerful magic-user in history, to save the world from an impending cataclysm. A magical barrier prevents her from leaving, and she is told by the sage Avallac'h that to leave, she must bear the child of their king, Auberon. Geralt overhears Vilgefortz's location from Skellen, and he and his party leave Toussaint, except Dandelion, who stays with his lover, Duchess Anna Henrietta.Īfter the events of the previous novel, Ciri was teleported to a foreign world ruled by the Aen Elle elves, under occasional attacks by unicorns, where time flows differently. Geralt's latest contract has him eavesdrop a meeting between Skellen and rebellious nobles, plotting the Emperor's overthrow. Geralt is distracted by monster-hunting and an affair with the Duchess's court sorceress, Fringilla Vigo, a member of the Lodge of Sorceresses. Geralt and his company - Dandelion, Regis, Milva, Angoulême, and Cahir - relax in the duchy of Toussaint. In the present, Stefan Skellen, the coroner of Nilfgaard, is working with the sorcerer Vilgefortz, who has imprisoned the sorceress Yennefer. Condwiramurs's has clairvoyant dreams, stimulated by studying paintings and other images of the story. Parallel to this, years after the main story, the sorceress Condwiramurs, is apprenticed to Nimue, the Lady of the Lake, to study the legend of Geralt and Ciri.

Ciri recounts her story to him, warning that it does not have a happy ending. Sir Galahad, King Arthur's knight, stumbles upon Ciri bathing.

It is a sequel to the fourth Witcher novel, The Tower of Swallows. The Lady of the Lake ( Polish original title: Pani Jeziora) is the fifth and final novel in the Witcher Saga written by Polish fantasy writer Andrzej Sapkowski, first published in Poland in 1999.

Lady of the Lake by Andrzej Sapkowski