Each of Vilgefortz's decisions had the power to send tremors across the globe. He did not have the time to play the role of a father, even if Olivia was like a daughter to him.
Therefore, he asked this of his personal assistant, secretary Lydia van Bredevoort.[1]
Lydia was a sorceress and talented painter. In the hallowed hallways hung her landscape paintings, one of them being a painting of a date between Cregennan of Lod and Lara Dorren. [2] These were the ancestors of Ciri and Olivia. Ciri's "elder's blood" had been inherited from the demon sorceress Lara.
Lydia had survived an experiment accident at a hefty price of major burns, a fragmented chin and spot variation between her pharynx and larynx. However, she had turned down the regeneration incantation while maintaining her normal appearance with the Magic of Illusion.
