Who is Tissaia de Vries in The Witcher?
The rectoress · Mages & Aretuza
Tissaia de Vries (The rectoress) is a character in The Witcher, part of Mages & Aretuza. Tissaia de Vries runs Aretuza's academy with a glacier's warmth and a surgeon's standards — the rectoress who buys broken girls for four marks and forges the ones who survive into the Continent's sorceresses. She sees in Yennefer her finest raw material and worst discipline case, a judgment she expresses through decades of demanding more. Tissaia's severity is the visible part; what it protects is not.
When does Tissaia de Vries first appear?
Tissaia de Vries first appears in Season 1, Episode 2 (“Four Marks”) of The Witcher (2019–, Netflix).
Who is Tissaia de Vries connected to?
Relationships already established when Tissaia de Vries first appears — nothing from later episodes.
- Yennefer of Vengerberg — Rectoress and her hardest case
Which group does Tissaia de Vries belong to?
By the time Tissaia de Vries appears, Mages & Aretuza also includes Yennefer of Vengerberg, Fringilla Vigo.
Who else is introduced in this episode?
- Yennefer of Vengerberg — The sorceress who paid full price
- Jaskier — The bard with one good song
- Fringilla Vigo — Nilfgaard's true believer
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