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If you are looking for defense over speed, school of the bear is right for you. Being a member of the school of the bear, you know what quality armor is. You know that since you are slow, you are well protected, you can take a punch, but also you can give a punch. And if your opponent is running away, your advanced marksmanship with a crossbow will get everyone who runs away from you.
Short introduction History
School of the Bear was one of the known splinter fractions of the order created by Alzurand Cosimo Malaspina in the 10th century. They settled in the Amell Mountains and established contacts with dwarves and gnomes of this region.
At the peak of their power, they often traveled to Skellige, both due to its amount of monsters and the Islanders' mindset akin to their own.
The School ceased to function after the Bears failed a contract to destroy a cabal of vampires.
There are three generations of witchers coming from this school, while the third generation was experimental and there were only two members who survived Trails.
First Generation was composed of the 10 witchers including Gerd and Junod of Belhaven, originally living in a Bear Keep, but due to instability, they left the Keep.
The second generation was composed of 5 witchers also, and extensive marksmanship training was introduced.
The third generation was supposed to be also 10 witchers, but only two survived the Trials and blueprints were burned afterward. After the internal division of the school, some witchers bonded together and moved to Mons fort, where a third-generation finished training and additional mutations were used. Currently, only 3 witchers of the second generation and 2 witchers of the third generation are still alive. Rest is declared either dead or MIA.
The third generation of witchers from this school is made of two twins (brothers), who both survived trails and became witchers. Since they were experimental generation, new potions and elements were tested on them, most of them of the unknown origin. 8 kids died in a process, while two siblings survived. The whole project was regarded as a failure on every level. But when the testing in the field arrived, twins proved, that they are one of the most advanced witchers in the field.