Tissaia, Yennefer and others in “Unfinished Business”

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.