Chronological order of The Witcher

By Michał ‘mina86’ Nazarewicz
Updated on 31st of October 2025
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Last updated in October 2025. See updates below for a full list of changes.

Ever since Witcher games took off the franchise skyrocketed in popularity. Books, comics, TV show, games, more comics, another TV show… The story of Geralt and his marry company has been told in so many ways that it’s becoming a wee bit hard to keep track of chronology of all the events; especially across different forms of media.

In this article I’ve collected all official Witcher works ordering them in chronological order. To avoid any confusion, let me state up front that if you’re new to the franchise or haven’t read the books yet this list might not be for you. If you’re looking for the order to read the books in, I’ve prepared a separate article which describes that.

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Canons

This compilation includes the following works:

Books denotes the main story as written by Andrzej Sapkowski.
CD Projekt Red (or CDPR) denotes canon of The Witcher video games.
Dark Horse (or D H) denotes canon of the comic books published by Dark Horse.
Netflix denotes continuity of the Netflix TV series and all related spin-offs.
P&P denotes canon of the comic books by Bogusław Połch and Maciej Parowski. They are faithful adaptations of the short stories with additional issue The Betrayal.
Hexer denotes the Polish TV series Wiedźmin released in 2002.

In the table below, a crossed out name of the cannon indicates that the work is part of given publication category, but does not constitute part of the lore. Those entries are included for reference and additional commentary.

CD Projekt Red

I’ve decided to err on the side of including things in the CDPR canon unless there’s an explicit contradiction. The canon includes all the games (not only the main series), accompanying stories and promotional videos.

There’s a discussion as to whether CDPR canon even exists since player can take choices in the game leading to different outcome. Fortunately, this doesn’t affect chronology which this article is concerned with. For example, no matter who player chose to romance, the Corvo Bianco comic book happens after the Blood and Wine expansion.

Dark Horse

Dark Horse publishes comic books in two relevant series: ‘Andrzej Sapkowski’s The Witcher’ and ‘The Witcher’. The former consists faithful adaptations of respective short stories. The latter includes new stories set in video game universe.

In general, I classify all those comics as being part of the video game cannon (since they are published in cooperation with CDPR), but for easy of filtering I’ve put them into separate category.

Netflix

The first season of the Netflix show presents split timelines. Each episode can have up to three arcs, one for each of the main characters: Geralt, Ciri and Yennefer. Each person’s stories are presented in chronological order, however events between the timelines don’t always line up. For example, the second episode shows Yennefer in the year 1206, Geralt in 1240 and Ciri in 1263. The entries of episodes of the first season have names of the character indicating whose arc it refers to. For example, the second episode has three separate entries: S01E02 (Yen), S01E02 (Geralt) and S01E02 (Ciri).

Dates of the events are taken from i) its official website which used to be located at witchernetflix.com (but was taken down in January 2025); and ii) Plunge into the Continent’s History with the Official ‘Witcher’ Timeline article on Tudum (Netflix’s official news hub).

Disclaimer

Dates and chronology aren’t always consistent even within a single canon. A common example is Ciri’s date of birth which can be interpreted differently based on different parts of the books.

Furthermore, because of episodic nature of some of the stories, it’s not always possible to place them in relation to other events. For example, A Grain of Truth could take place at any point in Geralt’s life. Similarly, many of the Dark Horse comic books could be shuffled without introducing inconsistencies.

Lastly, dates of events between canons aren’t consistent. For example, Geralt and Yennefer meet in 1248 in the books but in 1256 in the Netflix show. The compilation orders entries by ‘events’ rather than by dates.

The chronology

To distinguish different forms of media (books, games, shows etc) the following icons are used next to the titles to identify what they refer to:

📜 — short story / 📕 — novel / 🖌 — comic book
🕹 — video game / 📱 — mobile game / 🎲 — board game or TTRPG
📺 — television series / 🎬 — film / ア — animated film / 🎥 — cinematic trailer

Canon	Title		Year	Notes
Netflix	📺	Blood Origin	3
CDPR	🕹	GWENT: Rogue Mage	950s	Starts ‘hundreds of years before […] witchers were roaming the Continent’. However, Vladimir Tortsov, game’s director, explains that they ‘do not treat this expansion as an official addition to The Witcher lore,’^citation
CDPR	📜	Aretuza Story		Starts soon before Tissaia de Vries enrols at Aretuza. In chapter 12 the narrator mentions meeting Galanthea, ‘a young bard’, putting the story before Alzur’s Story.
CDPR	📜	Alzur’s Story		Also known as Wayfarers at the Crossroads, takes place during lifetime of Madoc who was one of the first witchers.
CDPR	🎲	The Witcher TRPG: A Witcher’s Journal
CDPR	🎲	Witcher: Old World
Netflix	ア	Nightmare of the Wolf (beginning)	1107–09	The film has two distinct parts. The beginning takes place decades before Geralt’s birth when Deglan recruits Vesemir.
Books	📜	A Road with No Return		A non-canon story with the main character having the same name as Geralt’s mother. It’s sometimes discussed in context of Witcher books (vide reading order article).
P&P	🖌	A Road with No Return		Adaptation of A Road with No Return. In Polish uses slightly different title.
Netflix	ア	Nightmare of the Wolf (ending)	1165	The film has two distinct parts. The ending takes place when Kaer Morhen is attacked and Geralt is five years old.
Hexer	📺	E01: Dzieciństwo		Depicts Geralt at seven years old.
P&P	🖌	The Betrayal		The story happens with Geralt still training at Kaer Morhen.
Hexer	📺	E02: Nauka		Depicts Geralt’s graduation from Kaer Morhen.
Hexer	📺	E03: Człowiek — pierwsze spotkanie		Takes place immediately after Geralt’s graduation. Contains minor elements of The Lesser Evil and The Voice of Reason.
CDPR	📱	Crimson Trail		The game takes place soon after Geralt finishes his training.
CDPR	🖌	The Legend of Yennefer	1173–1266	Not a comic book per se but series of images depicting important events in Yennefer’s life starting from birth in 1173 until ending up at Malus Island in 1268 (which corresponds to ending of the books).
CDPR	🖌	The Tale of Triss	1221–70	Not a comic book per se but series of images depicting important events in Triss’ life starting from birth in 1221 until meeting Geralt in 1270 at the beginning of The Witcher game.
Netflix	📺	S01E02: Four Marks (Yen)	1206	Yennefer is sold and attends Aretuza.
Netflix	📺	S01E03: Betrayer Moon (Yen)	1210	Yennefer graduates the academy.
Books	📕	Crossroads of Ravens	1229–31	Prequel to other books and short stories. Year is stated explicitly in chapter five and the story goes over at least two winters.
Books	📜	A Grain of Truth
D H	🖌	A Grain of Truth		Part of ‘Andrzej Sapkowski’s The Witcher’ series.
Books	📜	The Lesser Evil
P&P	🖌	The Lesser Evil
D H	🖌	The Lesser Evil		Part of ‘Andrzej Sapkowski’s The Witcher’ series.
D H	🖌	Vol. 1: House of Glass		Geralt speaks of lack of emotions, friends or love which makes me things this happens before The Edge of the World.
Netflix	📺	S01E01: The End’s Beginning (Geralt)	1231	Based on The Lesser Evil. Geralt gets the moniker of the Butcher of Blaviken.
CDPR	🕹	The Price of Neutrality	1232	Part of ‘The Witcher: Enhanced Edition’. Based on The Lesser Evil.
D H	🖌	Kiddo		Included as bonus content of The Witcher 3.
CDPR	📜	The Witcher and the Bard		Takes place immediately before The Edge of the World and describes Geralt and Jaskier meeting for the first time.
Books	📜	The Edge of the World	1248	Geralt and Jaskier meet for the first time.
D H	🖌	The Edge of the World	1248	Geralt and Jaskier meet for the first time. Part of ‘Andrzej Sapkowski’s The Witcher’ series.
Netflix	📺	S01E02: Four Marks (Geralt)	1240	Based on The Edge of the World. Geralt and Jaskier meet.
Netflix	📺	S01E04: Of Banquets, Bastards and Burials (Yen)	1240	Escorting royals, Yennefer is ambushed and escapes as the only survivor.
Netflix	📺	S01E03: Betrayer Moon (Geralt)	1243	Based on The Witcher. Geralt lifts the striga’s curse.
Netflix	📺	S01E04: Of Banquets, Bastards and Burials (Geralt)	1249	Based on A Question of Price. Geralt attends banquet at Cintra and eventually invokes the Law of Surprise.
Books	📜	The Last Wish	1248	Geralt and Yennefer meet for the first time. Happens in 1245 in CDPR timeline.^citation
P&P	🖌	The Last Wish	1248	Geralt and Yennefer meet for the first time.
Netflix	📺	S01E05: Bottled Appetites (Geralt & Yen)	1256	Based on The Last Wish. Geralt and Yennefer meet and their fate is entwined.
Netflix	ア	Sirens of the Deep	ca. 1261	Based on A Little Sacrifice.^citation ‘Given that Sirens wraps up with Geralt and Jaskier heading towards Caingorn, the movie probably takes place closer to Episode 6 than Episode 5. “Rare Species” is set in this region, and Geralt and Jaskier’s journey likely didn’t last more than a year. Therefore, Sirens of the Deep is probably set in 1261, or even early 1262.’^citation
Books	📕	Season of Storms	ca. 1250	1245 based on a letter in Interludium before chapter nine, but that’s inconsistent in relation to other books. Note that some of the interlude chapters and the epilogue occur 127 years later (see Interludium before chapter fifteen).
D H	🖌	Vol. 2: Fox Children		Based on chapters 14–15 of Season of Storms.
Books	📜	A Question of Price	1251
D H	🖌	A Question of Price	1251	Part of ‘Andrzej Sapkowski’s The Witcher’ series.
Books	📜	The Witcher	1252
CDPR	🎥	The Witcher teaser	1252
D H	🖌	The Witcher	1252	Part of ‘Andrzej Sapkowski’s The Witcher’ series.
P&P	🖌	Geralt	1252	Adaptation of The Witcher under a different title.
Books	📜	The Voice of Reason	1252	Framing story of The Last Wish book, happens soon after The Witcher story.
CDPR	🕹	Side Effects	1253	Part of ‘The Witcher: Enhanced Edition’ set one year after The Witcher short story.
Books	📜	The Bounds of Reason	1253	The first story in The Sword of Destiny book. Stories in the book happen in order. Happens in 1248 in CDPR timeline.^citation
P&P	🖌	The Bounds of Reason	1253
Netflix	📺	S01E06: Rare Species (Geralt & Yen)	1262	Based on The Bounds of Reason. Geralt and Yennefer join hunt for a dragon.
Hexer	📺	E04: Smok		Based on The Bounds of Reason.
Books	📜	A Shard of Ice
Hexer	📺	E05: Okruch lodu		Based on A Shard of Ice.
Hexer	📺	E06: Calanthe		Based on A Question of Price.
Books	📜	The Eternal Fire
Hexer	📺	E07: Dolina Kwiatów		Based on The Eternal Fire and The Edge of the World.
Books	📜	A Little Sacrifice
Books	📜	The Sword of Destiny
CDPR	📜	Meditations by the Fire		While the story happens in 1273, one year after events of The Witcher 3, it is Ciri describing significant events of her past from meeting Geralt in Brokilon till Bonhart’s death.
CDPR	🖌	Reasons of State	1262	Included as an animated comic book with The Witcher 3.
Books	📜	Something More	1264
CDPR	🖌	The Little Witcher	1264–65	Takes place with Ciri at Kaer Morhen raised by Geralt and Yennefer. The humorous stories aren’t lore-accurate, e.g. Yennefer (rather than Triss) is in Kaer Morhen.
Netflix	📺	S01E07: Before a Fall (Geralt)	1263	Geralt returns to Cintra to claim Ciri.
Netflix	📺	S01E07: Before a Fall (Yen)	1263	Yennefer joins the Brotherhood of Sorcerers at Aretuza.
Netflix	📺	S01E01–07 (Ciri)	1263–64	Episode 4 based on The Sword of Destiny. Episode 7 based on Something More.
Netflix	📺	S01E08: Much More	1264	Based on Something More. In this episode all timelines converge. Geralt and Ciri meet after the Cintra massacre. Yennefer is taken prisoner.
Hexer	📺	E08: Rozdroże		Based on The Witcher with elements from The Voice of Reason and Something More.
Hexer	📺	E09: Świątynia Melitele		Contains elements of The Voice of Reason.
Hexer	📺	E10: Mniejsze zło		Based on The Lesser Evil.
Hexer	📺	E11: Jaskier		Contains elements of The Lesser Evil.
Hexer	📺	E12: Falwick
Hexer	📺	E13: Ciri		Contains elements of Something More.
Netflix	📺	S02E01: A Grain of Truth	1265	Based on A Grain of Truth. Geralt and Ciri meet Nivellen.
Books	📕	Blood of Elves	1265–67	Time span of the books is vague; could be 1266–67 which would push earlier events a year later.
Books	📕	Time of Contempt	1267
Netflix	📺	S02E02–08	1265–66	Loosely based on Blood of Elves and parts of Time of Contempt.
Netflix	📺	S03
Books	📕	Baptism of Fire	1267
Netflix	🎬	The Rats: A Witcher Tale		‘The Rats: A Witcher Tale is set just before the group crosses paths with Ciri at the end of Season 3.’^citation
Netflix	📺	S04
Books	📕	The Tower of the Swallow	1267–68
Books	📕	Lady of the Lake	1268
Netflix	📺	S05		Coming some time in the future.
CDPR	🕹	Thronebreaker: Witcher Stories	1267–68	The game takes place concurrently to the saga. Chapters 1–2 happen concurrently to chapters 4–5 of Time of Contempt. Chapter 3 happens around chapter 3 and chapter 4 happens concurrently with chapter 7 of Baptism of Fire. Chapter 5 happens concurrently with chapters 6–8 and epilogue happens before chapter 9 of Lady of the Lake.
Books	📜	Something Ends, Something Begins		Non-canon even though written by Sapkowski and includes characters of the saga (vide reading order article).
CDPR	📜	Novigrad Confidential: The Journal of Walter Veritas	late 1260s/early 1270s	The story takes place some time after the Syndicate was formed. There’s not enough information to exactly pinpoint it.
CDPR	🕹	The Witcher	1270	Per intro cut-scene, ‘the year 1270 — five years after the Great War.’^citation However, ‘five years aftter the Great War’ would make it 1273. This is widely accepted as a mistake^citation by the game developers who took a source which claimed Lady of the Lake takes place is 1265.
CDPR	🕹	The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings	1271
CDPR	🎲	The Witcher Adventure Game		A board game later adapted to a video game format.
CDPR	🎲	The Witcher TRPG
CDPR	🖌	Matters of Conscience	1271	Happens after Geralt deals with Letho in The Witcher 2. Assumes Iorveth path and dragon being spared. Released as part of Hearts of Stone expansion.
D H	🖌	Killing Monsters		Happens as Geralt travels with Vesemir just before The Witcher 3 before actions of the cinematic. Released as a bonus content of the Blood and Wine expansion.
CDPR	🎥	Killing Monsters		Happens as Geralt travels with Vesemir just before The Witcher 3.
CDPR	🕹	The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	1272
CDPR	🕹	Hearts of Stone		Dwarfs at the end of the main game mention meeting Master Mirror, i.e. Gaunter O’Dimm, which implies the extension happens afterwards.
D H	🖌	Vol. 6: Witch's Lament		Happens ‘waaaay before Fading Memories, could happen between quests during Wild Hunt but also something that happened after The Lesser Evil.’^citation
D H	🖌	Vol. 7: The Ballad of Two Wolves		There are no concrete references which let pinpoint when this story happened other than Jaskier using the phrase ‘Witch’s Lament.’
D H	🖌	Vol. 3: Curse of Crows		Assumes Ciri becoming a witcher and romance with Yennefer.
D H	🖌	Vol. 4: Of Flesh and Flame		Directly references events of Hearts of Stone.
D H	🖌	Once Upon a Time in the Woods
D H	🖌	Frog Kiss
D H	🖌	Vol. 8: Wild Animals
CDPR	📜	Regis’ story by Dettlaff		Takes place soon after Regis’ resurrection and includes Dettlaff. As such it happens before Blood and Wine expansion.
CDPR	🕹	Blood and Wine	1275
CDPR	🎥	A Night to Remember	1275	Shows Geralt and Orianna after the events of Blood and Wine.^citation I am classifying it as non-canon because Orianna is a high vampire whereas in the cinematic she’s no stronger than a bruxa, plus Geralt (as a non-vampire) cannot kill her which he seems to do in the cinematic.
D H	🖌	Vol. 9: Corvo Bianco		Takes place with Geralt trying to make wine at Corvo Bianco, thus happens after Blood and Wine.
D H	🖌	Vol. 10: The Bear and the Butterfly
D H	🖌	Vol. 11: Blood Stone		Issue #1 (of 4) to release in January 2026. Tentatively putting it after Vol. 10.
CDPR	🎥	Celebrating the 10th anniversary of The Witcher		In-universe promotional cinematic taking place some time after Blood and Wine expansion. Not canon considering characters breaking the fourth.
D H	🖌	Vol. 5: Fading Memories		‘It’s after DLCs.’^citation
CDPR	🕹	The Witcher 4		The game takes place after the previous trilogy with Ciri as the protagonist.
CDPR	📜	Dandelion’s Story		Takes place after Dandelion retires from adventuring and takes position as a professor at Oxenfurt.
D H	🖌	The Witcher: Ronin		Alternate universe inspired by Edo-period Japan.

Acknowledgments & Updates

Thanks to acbagel for providing further information on Reddit and in comments below; and S1lver1us for pointing out order of Alzur’s and Aretuza stories. Furthermore, in some cases of ambiguity regarding books and CDPR timelines, I’ve resorted to looking at Witcher fandom wiki.

If you’ve noticed any discrepancies with the chronology or missing entries, please do share in comments below. This document is continuously updated to address issues and include new works. Past changes include:

October 2025: Added The Rats film released alongside season 4 of the Netflix series and added year for Sirens of the Deep.
October 2025: Firstly, added missing The Little Witcher comic book, added upcoming Blood Stone comic book, added upcoming season 4 and 5 of Netflix show. Secondly, separated Dark Horse comic books into their own canon for ease of filtering.
September 2025: Most importantly, added missing Dark Horse comic books: Once Upon a Time in the Woods, Frog Kiss, The Ballad of Two Wolves, The Lesser Evil, Wild Animals, The Edge of the World, Corvo Bianco, A Question of Price and The Bear and the Butterfly. Secondly, added links for all the works and put each work in its own row.
June 2025: Added the Witcher IV.
April 2025: Fixed Aretuza and Alzur’s stories order as argued by S1lver1us in comments.
March 2025: Noted that the Netflix show’s website is no longer functional.
January 2025: Added Netflix’ Sirens of the Deep.
May 2024: Added journey stories from GWENT game.
November 2024: Added Crossroads of Ravens.