Edwyn of Maecht

Edwyn also known by his title of Skellige or of Toussaint is a renowned Witcher of the School of the Bear and is well known across most of the North and some of Nilfgaard. He is said to be a man of great height and even greater strength and fighting ability. Even other Witchers tend to not cross his path as he is known to dislike his own kind.

History
Edwyn was born over one hundred and fifty years within a fishing village in the Skellige Isles. All Edwyn ever knew was his life as a Witcher, as he was given to a traveling Bear Witcher by his mother when he was only two years of age, as she couldn’t take care of him due to her being young and barely a woman. It was either let him starve in her arms, or give him a chance of life in the form of the life of a Witcher. It was a gamble that surprisingly paid off.

Upon being taken to the fortress of the Bear School as a toddler, he was raised harshly by his mentors and peers until time came for his mutations. Oddly enough, Edwyn took extremely well and out of the twenty or so children that were subjected to the mutations specific to the Bear School, him and only one other survived, a Witcher named Ivo. As the youngster grew, he grew very tall with Edwyns height towering over his teachers and the grandmaster of his school which earned him the title of ‘The Demon Bear’. The smaller swords of the Witcher school were not to his liking and therefore he required certain lengths of bastard swords and greatswords in order to use them properly.

A Bear in Toussaint
Edwyn originally was contacted by one Sigismund Djikstra, the Chancellor of the newly formed Free State of Redania, a republic that had formed in the ashes of the now defunct Redanian monarchy. Djikstra had asked Edwyn to wipe out several noble houses within the kingdom of Cintra in order to destabilize further the already destabilized region in order for a full scale Redanian invasion and annexation. Originally Edwyn was going to happily accept the Chancellors terms, though one small detail put him off of the contract entirely, despite Djikstra offering to give Edwyn a salary that most royalty would drool at. He wanted Edwyn to kill even the children of the noble houses that were targets, to which the Witcher replied with ' "Its not honorable or fun to kill cubs." '

Frustrated with the bear Witcher's denial of his contract, Djikstra banished Edwyn from his sight. Only two weeks later it seemed that fate had placed him within the serene and mostly peaceful Duchy of Toussaint. As luck would have it, the current reigning monarch there, Anna-Henrietta, required the aid of someone of his skill set to rid the duchy of a rather large faction of bandits. Though as Anna and Edwyn would soon find out, it wasn't a simple band of bandits. It was an entire coalition that had plans of destabilizing her Duchy and planned on taking the life of the Duchess as well. Though a new arrival soon showed their face in the form of a Witcher of the School of the Wolf named Cirilla.

Edwyn immediately despised the female Witcher and even had plans to kill her the moment the Duchess stopped paying attention, as Witchers of the Bear School tend to react violently when meeting members of other Schools. Though it seemed fate had other plans and over time the pair fell madly in love with one another. Anna-Henrietta rewarded Edwyn with Belgaard Vineyard, a renowned vineyard of the Duchy and one that would make anyone who owned it very wealthy. His last request from Anna was to have Cirilla's name placed on the deed, signaling their love and his request for her to move in with him.