Okay, I remembered it being a thing but wasn’t 100% sure on the details. Been a while since I read the books. I remember it being a major thing with Yennefer, she was similarly infertile like Geralt and also wanted a child
The sorceresses in geralt’s mother’s generation were made sterile but not in a physical way, she figured out how to circumvent that and have Geralt. So in Yennefer’s generation Aretuza removed the womb from their graduates.
Wasn’t the same true for sorceresses
Geralt’s mother was a sorcereress. Sterility and birth defects are a side effect of long term magic use and alchemy but not 100%
Okay, I remembered it being a thing but wasn’t 100% sure on the details. Been a while since I read the books. I remember it being a major thing with Yennefer, she was similarly infertile like Geralt and also wanted a child
The sorceresses in geralt’s mother’s generation were made sterile but not in a physical way, she figured out how to circumvent that and have Geralt. So in Yennefer’s generation Aretuza removed the womb from their graduates.