Tissaia de Vries quotes from The Witcher

Tissaia de Vries

Chaos is the most dangerous thing in this world. It's all around us all the time. Volatile and powerful. But... each one of you showed an aptitude for channeling it. Your conduit moment created a new ripple in chaos, reaching me here in Aretuza.

Tissaia de Vries

Magic is organizing chaos. And while oceans of mystery remain, we have deduced that this requires two things. Balance and control. Without them, chaos will kill you.

Tissaia de Vries

There is no conjuring something from nothing. There is a give and there is a take.

Tissaia de Vries

Sometimes a flower is just a flower. And the best thing it can do for us is to die.

Tissaia de Vries

You take weeks to lift your stone. You can't bend water. You struggle to perform the simplest physical tasks. And now you lie to me? Your worst fear makes such sense. Even if you were a beauty, still no one would love you.

Yennefer

You should've let me die. At least I had control over that.

Tissaia de Vries

Oh that's adorable, piglet. You weren't taking control. You were losing it.

Tissaia de Vries

What you did there was pathetic and dangerous.

Yennefer

Felt pretty powerful to me.

Tissaia de Vries

There are mages like Sabrina who ignore their emotions. And then there are mages like us who are consumed by them.

Yennefer

Like us...

Tissaia

We will fortify the keep until they arrive. That's the strategy.

Yennefer

A military strategy. We're mages, damn powerful ones.

Does Nilfgaard really believe they can take the whole continent?

Yennefer

They've been collecting soldiers, occupying territories, letting loose their beliefs like an epidemic. Istredd was telling me.

You saw Is?

Yennefer

I saw it first hand in Nazair. Nilfgaard take people down to their worst, then give them something to cling to. Even if it's shitty ale.

Tissaia

That's why we're here. Because sometimes it's not shitty ale. Sometimes it's a bed in a pigpen. You have to make a choice to fight back.

Tissaia

The ale won't disappoint. We should enjoy it while we can.

Yennefer

It's the first thing Nilfgaard will destroy.

Tissaia

Must you always be so fatalistic?

Yennefer

It's only appropriate, seeing as we might die.

Tissaia

All the more reason to live tonight.

Yennefer

Mmm, like you.

Tissaia

So, are you ready? To die?

Yennefer

Yes, I've lived two or three lifetimes already.

Tissaia

But you haven't been satisfied in any of them.

Yennefer

I've tried. But I've no legacy to leave behind. No family. It's time to accept that life has no more to give.

Tissaia

(Pauses before walking away) You still have so much left to give.

Yennefer

You're alive.

Tissaia

(Weakly) Yennefer...

Yennefer

Sabrina needs your help. We all do. (Tissaia falls to the ground) No, no! The Northern Kingdoms are close. We can't give up. You... you saved me. I won't ever forget that.

Tissaia

It's your turn... to save these people, this Continent. This is your legacy.

Tissaia

You can! Everything you have ever felt, everything you've buried... Forget the bottle. Let your chaos explode.