Perkel
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We never really understood the motives of the Wild Hunt. Ok, so they conquered their home world - got it, understood. What is their interest in Geralt's world again? What did they want with Ciri? Did they want the White Frost to come? I remember something about that from the ending of Witcher 1, but can't remember much.
After looking into the other endings, I'm glad I killed the spirit now, even though it meant the children died and Anna went insane. I spent most of the game regretting my choice, I was sure there was a better alternative, and it was nice to know that actually, I probably chose the best of two bad options.
Wild Hunt is just a name.
What is White Frost ?
Why Eredin killed his king ?
Why he seeks Ciri ?
Who is Lara Doren and why she was important ?
What is role of Avallah ?
Why unicorns ?
First TW lore is much like planescape. There are unknown number of different worlds or planes or dimensions.
White frost is end of the world state. Each of worlds in that lore will sooner or later will freeze. Sapkowski probably adapted our realistic end of the world to lore. Our own universe will die like that.
So first there was a world from which Elves originate. I think (as it is not said in books) their world headed toward white frost and in same world was occupied with unicorns which have natural ability to cross dimensions. So they probably struck deal with them and crossed to other world starting new civilization.
Unicorns and elves "worked" together and they managed to took a hold of other worlds including Geralt world. Problem is that Elves became conquerors which was not something unicorns liked. So unicorns tried to bail out. Elves naturally didn't want that so they probably tried to enslave them. Thus elves made war with unicorns and ultimately lost ability to travel worlds and from that time they are in conflict with them.
Sages on other hand, caste of elves with really huge power and weird abilites managed to learn ability to travel worlds but they are not able to do that freely thus rendering moving army to other world impossible.
So with that you have trapped elves in different worlds and White Frost being end of them sooner or later.
Here comes Lara Doren part.
Elven sages managed through pairing of different elves to create really powerful sage gen and product of that was Lara Doren.
Problem was that Lara Doren lived in human world and she fell in love in human wizard. Later she gave birth to girl and soon died due to humans hate.
So Elves plans again failed. Child of Lara was in humans hands then and they thought that it's gene will vanish. But it didn't. Due to incest mainly thanks to human sorceress who picked up experiment later it only strengthened itself. Later due kids being royalty they didn't have ability to do pairing and lost interest.
Then comes calanthe, pavetta and finally ciri. Pavetta due to probably being child from incest already strongly manifested itself which raised few eyebrows and this probably led to Duny aka Emhyr her husband to have plan in which his dauther will become his wife and will give birth to his son as in some prophecy.
Due to Avallah sheningans and Vilgefortz plot Ciri reaches En Elle world where she meets Avallah. She is treated good but soon realized she is a prisoner. Which at this point it should be obvious why she was held prisoner.
She was made to be Kings of En Elle mistress and bear child which will later allow En Elle elves to again travel and conquer worlds.
Here comes Eredin part of this story.
En Elle king tried few times to do something with her but problem was that for En Elle elves mating with human is like for us mating with dog. So king failed to do his thing. So Eredin being general in army being more level headed guy proposed himself as substitute which would be much better option for her. Gave Ciri poison which she had to add to king drink.
She did that, king died. Eredin then tried to claim her as she escaped from palace but failed as unicorns war party looked for battle with elves. She managed to escape.
So now you have Eredin as king which is much more focused on trying to conquer new worlds thus why he acts as Wild Hunt commander and seeks Ciri in her world.
Wild Hunt itself is basically slave hunting party. They hunt slaves to work in En Elle world.
Avallah himsef is a bit weirdo and a fag. It is highly probable that he was to be Lara Doren partner or she was even his daughter before her affair with human mage and he was probably in love with her.
This is why he sort of plays dual role. He tried to help his race but at the same time he doesn't want to hurt Ciri as she is kin to woman he loved or cared about.