The Reluctant Knight-Errant

Geralt of Rivia and the Age That Distrusts Heroes

“People”—Geralt turned his head— “like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their wives, starve an old woman, when they kill a trapped fox with an axe or riddle the last existing unicorn with arrows, they like to think that the Bane entering cottages at daybreak is …