Yennefer has won over many fans with her depiction in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. She's powerful, headstrong, and by far one of the sassiest characters in the entire game. In fact, it’s safe to say that her banter with Geralt often makes for some of the funniest moments.
While this is by no means a comprehensive list of Yennefer’s best lines, these are among the most memorable. Whether it’s threatening Geralt, sarcastically rattling off horrific ingredients for a necromancy spell, or giving her true love a hard time, here are Yennefer’s cheekiest moments.
10 Red Hair On The Bed
It’s safe to say that Geralt is one hundred percent a womanizer. Between his promiscuous ways and a faulty memory, he’s found himself in the dog house with Yennefer for sleeping with her best friend Triss. It’s something she’s quick to remind him of and give him grief over.
One sassy moment comes when Geralt asks her why she’s choosing to sleep on the cold stone instead of the luxurious bed and she responds with this, “Frankly I’d prefer a chill to bedding littered with red hair.”
9 Dull Jests
In the middle of a particularly rough day Yennefer is trying to study a crystal and having a hard time. Her frustrations come to a boil as she starts destroying furniture, such as the aforementioned bed, and nearly brings the tower down in a nasty explosion that gets Geralt’s attention.
When Geralt razzes her about it Yennefer huffily dismisses his attempts at humor with a not so subtle razz of her own, “Geralt I’m not in the mood for jests. Especially dull ones.”
8 Breathtaking View
Unwillingly to handle any more of Geralt’s jokes and pestering, Yennefer teleports him several feet above the lake outside to get him out of her hair and, no doubt give herself a bright spot on a dark day. When Geralt swims back to shore and hikes back up to the tower soaking wet, she’s clearly pleased with herself.
Instead of letting her have the win Geralt shrugs it off saying the view was rather breathtaking and he enjoyed it. This sets Yennefer off and she gives this sassy, but equally chilling line, “Perhaps I should’ve teleported you two miles higher? Breathtaking, that view! To die for, really.”
7 Meeting Yennefer
In the player's first few moments being properly acquainted with Yennefer in The Witcher 3, they get a taste of her fiery personality. Geralt had just been through a short skirmish with some neighborhood thugs that ended with a severed head and bloody clothes.
Though Yennefer is glad to see him, she comments on his unsightly appearance, “It’s good to see you, Geralt. I…I’d even embrace you…were you not covered in blood.”
6 Filthy Dream
As Geralt, Yennefer, and the armored escort ride towards the city, Geralt attempts to strike up a conversation with Yennefer. It’s already an amusing moment given Geralt is so awkward with intimate social situations.
To start off the conversation he brings up that he had a dream about Yennefer to which she responds with amusement, “Knowing you it was probably filthy.” Something Geralt quickly admits was the case, at least for the start of the dream.
5 Unicorns
No this isn’t the infamous part of the game you’re thinking of, but a much tamer and more humorous moment. After ‘borrowing’ the mask of Uroboros, the druids aren’t happy with her wanting to use it, considering the mask only has one use before plummeting the islands into the sea.
While Geralt tries to reason with them, Yennefer sneaks away and uses it, causing Foglets to be summoned to the area. After dispatching the Foglets Geralt confronts Yennefer asking what they were, to which she replies cheekily, “Unicorns?”
4 Inhumanly Beautiful
Yennefer is certainly a woman with many talents, and you better believe she knows this. While investigating Freya’s Garden, Geralt quickly finds evidence of a skirmish and tell-tale markings left by a werewolf.
He points out the bloodstains that are readily obvious to his Witcher eyes and then asks Yennefer the sorceress if she sees it too. Dripping with sarcasm and condescension she replies with, “I may be inhumanly beautiful, but I don’t have super human senses.”
3 I Like To Stare
Geralt discovers a cave, as well as a series of gates and levers leading to an underground cavern where a mortally wounded Craven had sought shelter. In that same cave, they come across the body of Skjall.
Yennefer realizes they can still extract information from Skjall about Ciri’s whereabouts, but to do so would require necromancy -- a forbidden practice that tortures the target of the spell, even in death. Rather than reveal her horrible plan when Geralt asks if she even has one, she uses a bit of sass to deflect, “No I just like to stare at rotting flesh.”
2 Eye Of Newt
While witchers are skilled in magic they certainly aren’t experts, let alone in the ways of necromancy. As Geralt tries to gather more information about what it would take to bring Skjall back temporarily to get the information, he asks Yennefer what they need to perform the ritual.
Sarcastically she toys with him for a moment by rattling off a ridiculous, unsettling, and somewhat familiar recipe of ingredients needed for the spell, “The blood of a newborn, a virgin’s tongue, and the eye of a newt.”
1 Tall Dark Stranger
After introducing Geralt to Udalryk and his fortune-teller, Geralt becomes a little curious about the fortune teller’s abilities and asks him to read their future. The fortune-teller pauses a moment, and after divining their path forward, gives a bleak summary of what he saw.
He claims that the one they seek is destined to meet a horrible demise. Yennefer, clearly not buying it, gives perhaps the sassiest burn to both the fortune teller and Geralt in the same moment, “So I won’t meet a tall dark stranger? Guess I’ll just have to content myself with you Geralt.”