Iola silently wakes Geralt at the temple of Melitele and the two make love without exchanging a word.

Geralt arrives in Wyzim, kills three tavern patrons who try to force him out, and is arrested by guards.

Geralt meets King Foltest and agrees to cure the striga princess rather than kill her, for 3000 orens.

Geralt prepares potions, uses Ostrit as bait for the striga, and locks himself inside her tomb until dawn.

The striga princess attacks Geralt after dawn but loses her strength and fully reverts to human form.

Geralt enters the beast Nivellen's magical mansion and stays as a guest after confirming Nivellen can touch silver.

Geralt accuses Vereena of being a bruxa plotting to transform Nivellen fully into a monster to rule the forest.

Geralt and Nivellen kill Vereena together, and Nivellen's curse immediately breaks, restoring his human appearance.

Geralt arrives in Blaviken with a dead kikimora and discovers the wizard Stregobor hiding under a false name.

Geralt fights and kills Renfri and her gang at the Blaviken market to prevent them from massacring hostages.

The townspeople of Blaviken throw stones at Geralt and exile him, branding him the Butcher of Blaviken.

Geralt attends Princess Pavetta's birthday banquet in Cintra, disguised as the nobleman Ravis of Fourhorn.

The armored Urcheon of Erlenwald arrives at the banquet and claims Princess Pavetta under the Law of Surprise.

Geralt and Dandelion accidentally release a powerful djinn from an ancient pot while fishing, gravely injuring Dandelion.

Geralt uses his last wish to save Yennefer from the djinn, and their fates become permanently bound together.

The Last Wish follows Geralt of Rivia, a witcher, as he moves from one dangerous job to the next while recovering at the temple of Melitele. He cures a cursed princess-turned-monster in Wyzim, exposes a vampiric creature preying on a cursed man in an enchanted forest, and is exiled from Blaviken after killing an assassin to protect innocent townspeople. At a royal banquet in Cintra, he becomes entangled in a prophecy involving a cursed knight and a princess, ultimately invoking the Law of Surprise to claim their unborn child. The collection closes when Geralt and his companion Dandelion accidentally unleash a djinn, drawing Geralt into a fateful encounter with the sorceress Yennefer. Geralt uses his last wish to save Yennefer's life, binding their destinies together forever.

The headline events of Geralt's monster-hunting adventures.

Nenneke examines and redresses Geralt's wounds at the temple, chastising him for letting the striga hurt him so badly.

Velerad reveals the striga's full origin: King Foltest fathered the creature through incest with his sister Adda.

Geralt meets the miller who survived a striga attack but has since lost his mind completely from the trauma.

Geralt battles the striga with silver weapons and forms a psychic link with her, redirecting her own hatred back at her.

Geralt finds two mutilated travelers near a forest road and investigates a nearby tower to track down the killer.

Geralt spots a girl with enormous black eyes silently watching him near Nivellen's tower before she vanishes at inhuman speed.

Two knights from Duke Hereward arrive at Nenneke's temple and demand Geralt's immediate departure, nearly coming to blows.

Renfri visits Geralt's room at night, shares her side of the story, and unexpectedly calls off her gang's planned assault.

Geralt learns that Renfri's gang member Civril was behind the Tridam hostage massacre and races to the market.

Dandelion arrives at Nenneke's temple to travel with Geralt, and the two reminisce about their first adventure together.

Geralt and Dandelion travel to Lower Posada and encounter the grain-stealing sylvan devil Torque for the first time.

The elf leader Filavandrel captures Geralt and Dandelion and argues that expanding humanity has irreparably destroyed elven civilization.

Yennefer heals Dandelion at the inn and secretly sets up a magical trap to summon and capture the djinn.

Geralt wakes in prison after Yennefer's spell forced him to violently attack a pawnbroker and an apothecary.

Iola takes Geralt's hand and collapses after glimpsing unspeakable horror in his future, leaving Nenneke shaken and begging him to stay.

This pool traces the crucial supporting events that give each of Geralt's adventures its texture and stakes. At Nenneke's temple, Geralt recovers from his striga wounds while knights arrive to pressure him into leaving, and his friend Dandelion eventually joins him there. In Wyzim, Geralt learns the striga's dark origins, interviews a traumatized survivor, and fights her with silver weapons before she finally breaks. His forest investigation near Nivellen's tower begins when he spots a strange girl watching him, while in Blaviken, a midnight conversation with Renfri and a crucial discovery about her gang's past force Geralt's hand. In the wider world, Geralt and Dandelion travel to a struggling village, encounter the devil Torque, and are captured by starving elves before escaping. The collection closes as Yennefer heals Dandelion at great cost to Geralt, the town erupts in chaos, and Iola's final terrible vision foreshadows the darkness ahead.

The significant moments that deepen and drive each story forward.

King Foltest privately tells Geralt he will not punish anyone who harms the striga princess in self-defense.

Ostrit confronts Geralt in the palace courtyard, offers a bribe to abandon the job, and attacks him using a supposedly anti-witcher stone.

Geralt discovers that Ostrit has been secretly funding efforts to keep the striga alive in order to destabilize Foltest's rule.

Nivellen confesses his dark past: forced by his gang to rape a priestess, he was cursed by her before she died.

Geralt hears screams in the night and finds warm ashes and charred bones, realizing Vereena has been secretly killing victims.

Stregobor begs Geralt to kill Renfri as the lesser evil, but Geralt firmly refuses to make a choice between two evils.

Geralt confesses to Iola that his first monsters were ordinary highway robbers and admits deep, unspoken regret about Yennefer.

Mousesack secretly arranges breadcrumb runes on the banquet table to silently pose a question to Geralt across the room.

Pavetta shocks the entire banquet hall by willingly consenting to Urcheon's claim and revealing their secret year-long romance.

Pavetta's suppressed magical powers erupt uncontrollably, hurling guests, chairs, and tables across the banquet hall.

Urcheon's curse permanently lifts at dawn when he remains fully human, confirming that Pavetta's love broke the spell.

Geralt invokes the Law of Surprise on Duny and Pavetta, claiming their unborn child as a child of destiny for witcher training.

Geralt and Nenneke gather rare elixir ingredients in a cave, and Geralt asks her to hold his payment in reserve for Yennefer.

Geralt realizes the djinn has been fulfilling his wishes all along, not Dandelion's, making it dangerously powerful against Yennefer.

Yennefer expresses astonishment at the nature of Geralt's final wish and admits she is unsure it is even possible, then they embrace.

This pool highlights the key moments where knowledge shifts, choices are made, and destinies are altered across the collection. In Wyzim, a series of revelations about Ostrit's treachery and Foltest's true intentions reshape Geralt's understanding of the job before him. In the forest, Nivellen's confession about his cursed past and the grim evidence of Vereena's killings push Geralt toward a confrontation he can no longer avoid. At the royal banquet in Cintra, secret communications, a shocking voluntary consent, and an eruption of wild magic force everyone to reckon with destiny and the Law of Surprise. Geralt's travels with Dandelion to the edge of the world and a quiet moment at Nenneke's cave deepen the mystery around Yennefer and the cost of a witcher's life. The collection's climax arrives when Geralt uncovers the djinn's true loyalties and must make a final, irreversible wish, sealing his bond with Yennefer in the aftermath of the tavern's destruction.