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The witcher imdb5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() Yennefer opens her eyes and sees just that looking back at her in the mirror, if only for a brief moment, drawn from Yennefer's mind onto the mirror by Tissaia's magic. Tissaia instructs Yennefer to close her eyes and imagine the most powerful woman in the world. Yennefer has the power to free the "victim in the mirror" forever. ![]() Tissaia tells Yennefer that they remake themselves on their own terms. Tissaia finds Yennefer with the enchanter in preparation for initiation. So when Yennefer takes a broom and pushes them into the water, all of Aretuza lights up with magic. Tissaia took away their control, but they still have power. Tissaia instructs her to push them into the water. Nevertheless, she takes the opportunity to spy on Tissaia as she turns three of the initiates into eels. However, it's not her door that Tissaia knocks on. Yennefer listens for the knock as instructed. She did so successfully, and Tissaia dismisses her, referring to Yennefer by her actual name rather than "Piglet." Yennefer asks if this means she's ready to "ascend." Tissaia tells Yennefer to listen for the knock. This was a test orchestrated by Tissaia to see if Yennefer could control her emotions long enough to get it from him. Yennefer takes the flower she got from Istredd to Tissaia. It's their job to control chaos, not become it. Those who can control their emotions and those who let their emotions control them, Yennefer and Tissaia being the latter. Enraged by her own failures, Yennefer shoots the lightning at Tissaia, and she redirects it back into the sky. She raises her bottle and fails the lightning striking her and sending her across the room. After watching two initiates fail before her, Yennefer's up. This latest trial is to test their ability to control the ultimate expression of chaos. It's the most potent place on the continent, off limits to everyone except to the Brotherhood of Sorcerers. Tissaia later takes the initiates to Tor Lara to bottle lightning. Tissaia immediately identifies it, calling Yennefer out and berating her in front of the class. Telepathy should be taking place, however, after hours of analyzing her partner, Yennefer fails to determine her fear and lies to cover up her inadequacies. Several weeks have passed since Yennefer's arrival in Aretuza, and the initiates now sit across from each other during an exercise to determine their partner's greatest fear. Discouraged by her failed attempt, Yennefer flees the greenhouse. The remaining initiates follow her lead, with the exception of Yennefer, who is completely unable to move the stone in any manner. There is a give and take with magic, as Tissaia demonstrates by lifting the stone, but with the flowers in hand to represent what is taken as the flowers grow old and die. Only seconds after Fringilla lifts the stone, her hand rapidly ages and shrivels up. Fringilla is the first initiate to lift the stone, however, as demonstrated, magic comes at a price. They are to lift the stone without touching it. Before each of them sits a flower and a stone. They are conduits of chaos, although magic itself is the control of chaos. Tissaia explains the dangers of magic to them and how each one of them showed an aptitude for controlling it. Later, the greenhouse is occupied by several young ladies, who much like Yennefer, can tap into magic. Tissaia retorts that Yennefer wasn't taking control, she was losing it. Yennefer, however, wishes she had died, claiming that at least she would've had control over that. Tissaia heals Yennefer after she slit her wrists. Yennefer shatters the mirror in her room and grabs a shard of glass as she contemplates taking her own life. Yennefer is forcefully taken from her home in Vengerberg and locked in a room in Aretuza. Her mother objects, though it goes without answer, as does Yennefer's cry for help. Tissaia finds Yennefer and purchases her for four marks from her father, less than half the price of a pig. Tissaia de Vries recruits Yennefer from her home town of Vengerberg after Yennefer unintentionally portals to Aretuza briefly.
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