Falka

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“	Blood on your hands, Falka, Blood on your dress. Burn, burn, Falka, and die, die in agony for your crimes!	„
	~ Children's song sung during the burning of the Saovine Christmas Eve dolls.

Falka, more commonly known as Bloody or Falka Bloody is one of the four overarching antagonists (alongside Usurper, Eredin and Gaunter O'Dimm) in the Witcher franchise.

She is the daughter of King Vridank of Redania and his first wife Beatrix of Kovir who was half-elf.

It is known throughout the north as a cruel, psychopathic and bloody rebellion on the northern continent causing hundreds or even thousands of casualties. This is because Falka lost control of everything due to her hatred, which caused a civil war over the entire northern continent. Falka was forever recorded as the criminal of the north where she was burned at the stake.

Biography[]

Past[]

Falka was born in 1130 into a royal family in Redania, the eldest child and only daughter of King Vridank of Redania and the first wife of the half-elf Beatrix of Kovir. As Falk's first child, she had the right to the throne, but she lost it due to the fact that both parents' marriage was inconvenient because hers was a beautiful and attractive woman, so the king preferred to marry the much more beautiful Cerro. Falka and her family left for Kovir where she spent her entire childhood and youth with her mother.

After Falka moved out with her mother, information about her youth was not revealed when Falka found out that her father gave the inheritance to the throne to his two sons who are half-brothers, taking away the rights to the throne of Falka, this made Falka decide to raise a rebellion to be on the throne of Redania.

Taking the throne of Redania and familicide[]

Three years after the marriage of King Goidemer of Temeria to Riannon, Falka launched the greatest rebellion in the history of the Northern Kingdoms to claim the Redanian throne. Some states of the northern kingdoms supported Falka from the Kovirian or Temerian nobility, even though the king of this country married a daughter adopted by a Redanian family because they initially thought it was right because she was fighting for her rights. If it wasn't for outside support from the nobility, her rebellion could have ended quickly and Falka herself could have been imprisoned, because the king of Vridank had poor relations with Kovir and Temeria who hated the Redanian king and were willing to sponsor her rebellions.

After Falka grew stronger with the Temerian and Kovirian nobility, Falka defeated every Redanian army, set fire to the fort and destroyed the magnate's castles. Falka, with her charisma, encouraged the townspeople to join her rebellion against the Redanian royal dynasty, and though she controlled herself where she was victorious over Redania and then ripped off her former hometown by killing her father, stepmother Cerro, and two half-brothers. Even though Falka cracked down on her hatred, she continued her rebellion by moving from Redania to neighboring Redanian kingdoms such as Temeria.

Falka's Rebellion[]

Falka, thanks to her new slogans and postulates motivating the peasants to her army through Falka's aggressive bloodlust and growing savagery, caused the mass murder of the Redanian nobility and when her rebellion brought to the northern kingdoms, a civil war began where it led to the death of hundreds to a thousand of humans and non-humans.

The results of Falka's cruel deeds and her rebellion are not revealed beyond his being flayed alive, which later wizards refer to as a wandering deed and the burning of his stronghold of Mirthe in Redania. In another, cruel and probably the last act of Falka, during the fight with Temeria, she accidentally kidnapped Goidemar's wife Riannon who was pregnant and then imprisoned in Houtborg Castle. Falka imprisoned Riannon in inhumane prison conditions which led to Riannon becoming a mentally unstable woman after giving birth to two children Amavet and Fiona who are twins.

Falka, knowing that she looks beautiful, uses it to convince her leaders and generals by having sex to gain their trust. In this way, her approach to gaining support meant that Falka fell pregnant and gave birth to a daughter, Adela. Falka dropped off her daughter with the children of the mentally broken Temerian queen Cerro for the sake of having her child nursed in the royal one.

Despite successfully spreading chaos thanks to a very large rebellion, Falka failed to defeat the united forces against her, where she was defeated and thrown into a cell. And Cerro herself, once the children left Falka's fortress, despite the successful release of Cerro by Falka, lost her mental stability, which she still has today.

Death[]

After the end of the bloody rebellion, a court was organized over Falka, where she was sentenced to death by burning alive at the stake for unimaginable crimes and atrocities on the northern continent. When the pyre was set on fire, Falka announces that a new destroyer will come who will take revenge on those who condemned her and complete her unfulfilled work.

Trivia[]

In The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, there is an alchemy potion called Falka's Blood, possibly named for its effects.
Falka's nickname Gvalch'ca means falcon in the Elvish language.

External Links[]

Falka on the Witcher Wiki

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