While viewing an exotic menagerie, Ciri inadvertently provokes a disturbance, and escapes using a magic amulet Yennefer gave her in case of emergency. While Yennefer is talking business with a dwarven banker in Gors Velen, she allows Ciri to see the city, escorted by one of the banker's young employees. Yennefer plans to enroll Ciri at the Aretuza school of magic on Thanedd Island, while attending a conference of mages there. At the same time, Yennefer takes Ciri from the Temple in Ellander to Gors Velen. Geralt consults with a lawyer, Codhringer, to discover the identity of the unknown mage trying to capture Ciri. Unbeknownst to them, the Emperor of Nilfgaard is aware of their plans and preparing his own. Plot įollowing their secret conclave in Blood of Elves, the monarchs of the Northern Kingdoms are secretly preparing to create a pretext for war with Nilfgaard. It is a sequel to the first Witcher novel Blood of Elves and is followed by Baptism of Fire.

Time of Contempt ( Polish original title: Czas pogardy, early title was translated less literally as Time of Anger) is the second novel in the Witcher Saga written by Polish fantasy writer Andrzej Sapkowski, first published 1995 in Polish, and 2013 in English (under the title The Time of Contempt).

2013 ( Gollancz, Orbit Books) (English).

Blood of Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski