Lodge of Sorceresses Forms
A shadow council shaping the fate of kings through magic and intrigue.
The Lodge of Sorceresses is founded in Baptism of Fire. Three months after the collapse of the Brotherhood of Sorcerers in the Thanedd incident, Philippa Eilhart gathers a group of sorceresses and proposes the founding of a new organization.
Lore & Background
Philippa claims that, rather than act as advisors to various monarchs, their magical abilities make them best qualified to rule themselves. The only way the nobility of the Northern Kingdoms would accept such rule is if they were all unified under a single monarch with both royal blood and magical ability; for example, Ciri. Philippa asks Yennefer to help the Lodge, as her knowledge is essential to finding Ciri, but the Nilfgaardian sorceress Fringilla Vigo helps Yennefer escape so that she can find Ciri on her own.
Reader's Guide
In The Tower of the Swallow, the newly formed Lodge has begun to establish Kovir as a nation sympathetic to magic, under its control. In The Lady of the Lake, the Lodge plans for Ciri to become the mistress of Prince Tankred, the Kovirian heir, and to bear the prophesied child that they will raise; Philippa Eilhart casts the decisive vote in favour of letting Ciri go to meet Geralt in Rivia. The attempt of Philippa and the rest of the Lodge, except Yennefer, to use Ciri as a political tool to create a state run by mages fails.
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