Who the fuck is Ferrant de Lettenhove and also a summary of Season of Storms. (I made this for @hollowedpie, but like, it’s good information and it got way longer than I was anticipating so I’m posting it here).
As I’ve said, there’s not much that’s said about Ferrant in the canon, and Season of Storms is kind of a mess in terms of plot. Someone on Reddit summarized it best: “Geralt heads into a place where he gets framed for a crime, his swords get taken, shacks up with three sorceress, gets beaten up by some smelly women, eats a lot of food, and takes on a contract that ends up being vastly more complicated than it first appears.”
So for a quick summary of Season of Storms (with minimal spoilers):
Geralt goes to Kerack and honestly? I don’t remember why. It is is one of the tiny Northern Kingdoms that’s so unimportant its literally just one town.
He gets framed for a crime, jailed, attacked in jail (by guys who were paid to provoke him into a fight), then gets out on bond (we later find out it was Coral who paid his bond).
While on bond he goes to get his swords back only to discover that they had been taken from the official lockup that had been holding them.
In the middle of fighting the guards who were supposed to be protecting his swords (they attacked him), Dandelion shows up with his cousin Ferrant in tow
Ferrant is the Royal Instigator (aka Investigator) of Kerack and he’s the one investigating the swords
Some more stuff happens. Geralt bangs a sorceress named Coral. Wizards are doing Bad Shit and trying to blame Geralt. Geralt’s trial is pending. The loyal monarchy is having a succession crisis. All Geralt wants is his fucking swords back.
Eventually it comes out that the local was the one to create trumped up charges against Geralt, using Ferrant to forge documents
Coral was also involved in this. So she arranged for him to be jailed and also arranged for him to be bailed out. And he still fucked her.
Geralt’s attack in jail may or may not have been because of Ferrant. It’s either Ferrant or Coral who paid the men to provoke Geralt, but Sapko never says.
My blog canon: Ferrant arranged the attack not realizing it was Dandelion’s friend.
Lots more stuff happens. Really, this book is a fucking narrative disaster. Dandelion buys a fake sword for Geralt (who is still just trying to get his fucking swords back).
There’s a royal wedding. Dandelion is captured and threatened by some guys who want to use Geralt (I don’t even remember what for). Geralt saves him. Ferrant shows up and is like ‘we better tell the king that there’s guys trying to assassinate him’
The king gets killed. Ferrant is accused of being involved in the plot. He tells Geralt to take Dandelion and run when the king is about to torture him (Ferrant) for information.
This is the last we see of Ferrant, and his fate in canon is unknown.
My blog canon: Ferrant survived his torture, although he was expecting Geralt to rescue him, and eventually went back to his job working for the guy that tortured him like the moron he is.
In the background of all this, Yennefer casually buys Geralt’s swords when the thieves auctioned them off and mailed them to him.
On Dandelion and Ferrant’s relationship:
Dandelion apparently stops in to visit Ferrant from time to time “as you would a relative” and he seems to live with Ferrant during these visits (this is never outright stated, but it’s hinted).
Dandelion says that Ferrant is “the son of my father’s brother” and then says nothing else about their family.
Ferrant will only refer to Dandelion as “Julian” although he is fully aware of his aliases.
The cousins are very fond of one another:
Ferrant willingly gave himself up to torture to allow Geralt a chance to escape with Dandelion.
Geralt makes it very plain that he's only nice to Ferrant out of respect for what he means to Dandelion.
Dandelion thinks very highly of Ferrant and his investigative abilities and his “army of narcs, spies, and informants”
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