Demon hunter's original name in Poland is Vidmin, which is a new word. In the story, it is described by magicians as a person with some limited magical ability, but it is somewhat contemptuous and derogatory. English witcher is also a new word, and its root is changed from witch.
Magic hunters are usually made up of abandoned children, some abandoned by their parents and some orphaned by war. For this reason, magic hunters were framed for kidnapping children, so as to expand the number and cultivate the next generation of cults. According to the different fighting methods, magic and equipment, there are wolf, cat, bear, Griffin, flying lion monster, poisonous snake and other schools. Geralt, the protagonist, is the wolf faction.
And each school has its own college, mostly in mysterious mountains, steep cliffs, islands in deep water and other isolated places. Apprentices can get accommodation in the college and accept the knowledge of fencing, dharma printing, alchemy, monsters and so on guided by hunters' predecessors.
The elders and representatives of different hunter colleges will form a guild together, so although there is usually no communication between schools, they are interdependent and quite United in the general direction. At present, as of 1273, there is no known school to train magic hunters due to the closure of schools and the lack of mages.
Becoming a formal demon hunter needs to go through several stages of test:
1, "Choice"-At this stage, apprentices have to decide whether to accept the life of a demon hunter, and those who agree will receive special diet and physical training, but many people will not be able to stand it at this stage, and more seriously, they will die of heart and liver failure or lose their minds. Some survivors also have extreme psychological violence.
2. "grass trial"-the most important link, after eating the decoction extracted from an alchemist, the body function began to change greatly, but a large number of apprentices could not bear to die at this stage, or their bodies did not mutate.
3. Dream Trial —— The practice based on grass trial has changed the body structure, strengthened the hunter's eyes and body, thus increasing the night vision ability and cultivating physical fitness beyond the average person, but it will also lose fertility at this stage.
4. "Trial of the Mountain"-Only apprentices who can't stand the "trial of grass" will accept this kind of trial, so that elders and predecessors can determine whether they still remember everything they learned before the "trial of grass" stage.