The Witcher 3: 7 Book Stories All Wild Hunt Fans Should Read
3. The Eternal Fire
What It’s About: In Novigrad, Geralt runs into Dandelion as the latter is having a tiff with a woman he seduced and was unfaithful to, the deviant little scamp. The two meet with the halfling merchant Dainty Biberveldt, only for a doppleganger of Dainty, albeit filthy, to walk in.
It emerges the clean Dainty is a shape-shifting doppler named Dudu who has sold the horses of the real Dainty whilst impersonating him for the last three days. Dainty is furious for the losses Dudu has incurred, having sunk the money from the horses into other ventures.
Dainty takes on Dudu as a business partner the guise of being cousins thanks to the incredibly sizeable returns on Dudu's investments.
Why You Should Read It: Novigrad is of course such a huge part of Wild Hunt that it’s beautiful to see how much of that translated out the books and into the game.
It’s a sordid, messy city that stinks of its own corruption and decay, though not as quite as much as it is when we see it torn apart by war hungry kings and xenophobic religous zealots in Wild Hunt.
We also learn how Geralt became familiar with the doppler Dudu, central to the Novigrad portion of Wild Hunt’s plot. Like a few other characters, his background with the witcher is only ever explored in his in-game biography and vaguely through conversation.
Like with Yennefer, it’s very nice to get this base to touch in on.