What curse did Emhyr have?

When the usurper managed to take over the power in the kingdom, he gave the order to capture and torture Emhyr's father and also ended his cooperation with the conspirators. The usurper, wanting to break Fergus mentally, ordered a mage named Braatena to put a curse on Emhyr that turns into a hedgehog-like creature.
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How was Emhyr cursed?

As explained in the books, Emhyr is the son of the former Nilfgaardian king Fergus, but his father was overthrown when he was only a teenager. As part of the coup, the usurper had a sorcerer curse Emhyr, resulting in him turning into an anthropomorphic hedgehog during the day and back into his human form at night.
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Why does Emhyr burn the portraits?

Ciri's father has been the White Flame all along. But, he doesn't want anyone to know it. In the Season 3 premiere, Emhyr sets fire to the Cintran royal portraits, destroying anything that can prove his past as Duny and his paternal connection to Ciri. Clearly, Emhyr is playing the long game.
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What did Emhyr do to Pavetta?

However, Pavetta learned of his plans and smuggled Ciri out of the ship before they sailed. After an argument on board, Emhyr pushed Pavetta overboard, and the only thing left was to fake his death as Duny and return to Nilfgaard as Emhyr.
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How did Emhyr become the White Flame?

Following all the power struggles around the throne, Emhyr had all of his dead political enemies disinterred and used their gravestones to pave his ballroom, earning him the nickname "The White Flame Dancing on the Barrows of his Enemies" or in Elder Speech, Deithwen Addan yn Carn aep Morvudd.
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What was Duny Curse?

Early life. When Geralt first met Duny, he claimed to have been cursed since birth, never knowing the reason for it, nor who had cast the spell. From midnight to dawn, he was a normal man, but from dawn, he turned into a creature with a bristly muzzle which resembled something like a cross between a hedgehog and a boar ...
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How did Duny marry Pavetta?

Anyway, Calanthe has big plans for her daughter's hand in marriage, until a knight named Duny (Bart Edwards) — a charming gentleman with the head of a hedgehog — arrives to claim Pavetta as his bride, and he invokes something called the Law of Surprise to do so.
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Why did Pavetta float?

As her previously dormant powers emerged, creating a whirlwind around the pair, Pavetta began to speak in Elder Speech to Duny and they float up into the air, oblivious to the increasing destruction the whirlwind was causing outside their protective bubble.
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Who killed Pavetta?

In fact, Vilgefortz had been conspiring with Duny to bring both Pavetta and Ciri to Nilfgaard. Pavetta ultimately figured out Duny's plans and arranged to leave Ciri behind with her grandmother, much to Duny's ire. The two then argued and she fell overboard and drowned.
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Why does Emhyr hate Geralt?

The premise of the question is false. Emhyr both likes and respects Geralt. He did intend to make him and Yenefer take their own lives, to cover up their knowledge of Ciri's true identity as his daughter, but in the end, did not go through with it.
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How did Pavetta get pregnant?

For example, Duny was ignorant that he had impregnated Pavetta with his child until Geralt invoked the Law of Surprise, which is key to Geralt's right to the child. Had Duny been informed by Pavetta prior to that interaction, he'd still be in custody of the child.
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Why was Pavetta so powerful?

However, a couple of generations later, two people with these less impressive genes had a child together. The result was Calanthe, aka Ciri's grandmother, who had the main version of the Elder Blood running through her veins. She then passed it down to her daughter Pavetta, who gave it to Ciri.
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Did Emhyr really want to marry his daughter?

Yes, but then Geralt got in his way. Emhyr wanted Ciri *really* badly, and because of Geralt, he couldn't have her. Geralt had successfully hidden Ciri away in the Northern Realms for many years, which Emhyr discovered when a Nilf spy overheard a ballad by Dandelion that confirmed as much.
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Why does Pavetta vomit?

Pressed into making a decision Geralt claims the law of surprise and Pavetta vomits. She's pregnant, but Geralt does not want to have a bond with that child.
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Does Yennefer sleep with Emhyr?

no. she said that their goals made for strange bedfellows meaning, they follow the same path for a while but have a different outcome. I didn't take it "literally" like that. Then again it's Yen, nothing would surprise me from her.
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Who killed Emhyr?

His fate depends on the player's choices - Emhyr can be murdered by his own nation or win the war and give the Temerians their country on the basis of vassalage.
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Why did Calanthe jump out the window?

Eventually Nilfgaard succeeded in breaking through though and in turn the people inside helped kill each other rather than surrender. Calanthe asked for one of them to help kill her, but none had the courage, so she jumped out one of the tower's windows instead, ending her own life.
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Did Calanthe have powers?

Even though queen Calanthe has no magic powers, she still does a great job of ruling her kingdom since she's a great warrior and strategist. She also employs Mousesack who serves her and her family as a sorcerer, as it seems to be the tradition in the world of The Witcher.
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Why does Ciri's dad want to marry her?

For instance, book Ciri isn't really the chosen one. She's still special, but it's her child who is prophesied to stop the White Frost and rule most of the world. Naturally, that sort of power is intriguing to a man like Emhyr. So, he intends to impregnate his own daughter.
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What happens to the Vilgefortz face?

Vilgefortz only let Geralt live because he wanted to catch upt to Ciri and told Geralt to see it as a lecture. Vilgefortz then went to the Tor Lara but when Ciri used the portal inside the tower blew up, the resulting blast disfigures Vilgefortz' face and costs him an eye.
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How old was Ciri when Pavetta died?

Before she came to live with Geralt, thanks to the Law of Surprise, Ciri was raised by her parents, Pavetta and Dunny, who died at sea before she turned five, and then entrusted to the care of her grandmother.
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Did Geralt know Pavetta was pregnant?

In the books, Geralt knew that Ciri's mother Pavetta was pregnant and deliberately invoked the Law of Surprise in order to gain custody of Pavetta's child because he wanted to train the child as a new Witcher. In fairly typical fantasy fashion, he wanted an adopted child to carry on his own line of work.
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What did Duny do to Pavetta?

Duny intended to reclaim his birthright as the Emperor of Nilfgaard. Because he knew that Calanthe would interfere, he tried to fake his, Pavetta, and Ciri's deaths. Pavetta found out about his plans, and smuggled Cirilla back to Cintra. When Duny discovered what Pavetta had done, he murdered her.
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Did Pavetta have the same powers as Ciri?

Did Pavetta and Calanthe have the same abilities as Ciri? - Quora. Pavetta did however it skipped Calanthe. The power they have is because of their blood lines, without spoiling it they are the descendants of an ancient mystical bloodline that skips generations and manifests in women of the line.
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Does Cirilla have elven blood?

She's learned that Ciri is part elf, the child of Elder Blood foretold in an ancient elven curse meant to bring vengeance upon the humans.
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