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This article is about the dissolved elven kingdom in The Witcher: Blood Origin. For the later kingdom in the same general region, see Cintra. For the capital seat for both kingdoms, see Cintra (city). |
Xin'trea was a kingdom that, prior to the Conjunction of the Spheres, was stuck in a thousand year war with two other kingdoms on the Continent: Darwen and Pryshia.[1] It was located somewhere south of Pryshia.
History[]
Not much is known about the kingdom, though just prior to the Conjunction, it had been ruled over by King Darach whose family was guarded over by the Dog Clan. At one point, the king tried to recruit the Ghost Tribe to assist in the war, but they refused. As a result, Darach had the tribe's water supply poisoned, killing all of them save for one, Scían, and took their ancestral sword, Soulreaver, to display among his other trophies in his family's palace.
Darach himself soon met a fitting end, having been secretly poisoned by Fenrik, a mage apprentice loyal to the kingdom's Chief Sage, Balor.[2] After he died, his son, Alvitir, took over and tried to tour the streets where the lowborn resided but assassins secretly sent by Balor attacked. The assassins ultimately failed after one of the Dog Clan's warriors, Fjall Stoneheart, intervened to save Princess Merwyn.
Alvitir, wishing to end all the fighting as famine was hitting everyone, worked out a deal to have his sister Merwyn be married off to King Midir of Pryshia and to gift their mines in Sliabh Liath to Queen Neera of Darwen in return for peace, and all the kingdoms accepted.
However, when the monarchies showed up with their clans in Xin'trea to sign the treaty, all of them unknowingly walked into a trap as Merwyn, who had no intention of becoming a footnote in history, planned a coup. Everyone, including Alvitir and the Dog Clan, quickly met their ends when they were set upon by an otherworldly beast. Xin'trea was then merged into the Golden Empire under Empress Merwyn, with its capital becoming her seat of power.
Locations[]
- Xin'trea (capital)
- Sliabh Liath