I somehow didn't quite understand it. What does it mean that she is his surprise child? He's sterile, so she can't be his biological daughter, can she? In addition, Ciri's mother loved the hedgehog type.
Sorry, I didn't quite get along and feel a bit stupid:,)
hope for quick replies ^^
She is his foster daughter. He also took her in and raised her.
Ah alright then. So is her biological father the hedgehog knight? And why is Geralt actually her foster father?
https://hexer.fandom.com/wiki/Ciri
No. Ciri's father is Emperor Emhyr. For Geralt she is the foster daughter.
Ahh thanks. Now everything makes sense.
I'm not an expert in the field now. But I understood that if you owe someone a favor, that is, if you saved someone or if you are guilty of someone, then you don't have to give them something directly, but you get a "surprise" that is determined by fate?! Well, and there this one Hedgehog Geralt owes something to the two fates, that is, from ciri and Geralt. Joar XD
In a different situation, maybe there could have been a house or a treasure or a country or something.
Well, it's just my idea
You don't have to feel stupid: that's really only explained in the books. In the series it all happens a bit quickly. It's easy to miss an explanation.
The "Law of Surprise", or "Law of Surprise" in the English translation, is an old custom in the world of Geralt: Whoever owes a debt to someone, but can't pay it financially or in any other way, can offer to get rid of his guilt about the "Law of Surprise".
The debtor thereby either promises to give the creditor what he already has but which he does not yet know about. Or the first thing he encounters when he returns home.
The law of surprise also occurs in both forms in different fairy tales. This is how the servant promises the Cinderella, as a gift, what he can easily see on the way.
In the story of the Witcher, Ciri becomes a "surprise child" because Pavetta had not yet told her Duny that she was pregnant. The unborn child (Ciri) is what Duny has, but he doesn't know about yet.
So Duny is the father, not Geralt. About the law of surprise, he and Ciri are connected "by fate". As a result, he feels responsible for her, even if it doesn't suit him and he actually didn't want to.
