Point of View

The point of view of The Last Wish: Introducing the Witcher is through a third person omniscient narrator. The narration focuses mainly on the actions taking place in each adventure and the dialogue and interactions between characters. There is not much investigation into the inner thoughts and feelings of each character. The narrator follows Geralt exclusively; there is no scene that he is not present in. Any event in The Last Wish which is not directly experienced by Geralt is related to him by the person that experienced it.

We know only how Geralt feels by what he says to other people. There are a few times where the narrator mentions that Geralt is withholding something, like in the case with the genie’s seal, hinting to the reader that what he says and does may not reveal all about him. He is shown to...