猎魔士长篇5：湖之主 (1999)

《湖中女士》(Pani Jeziora) 是波兰奇幻作家安杰伊·萨普科夫斯基的《猎魔人》系列中第五部长篇小说，1999年由SuperNowa出版。

情节

在古代不列颠，骑士加拉哈德无意间遇到在湖中洗澡的希里，希里给他讲述了自己的故事，并警告说故事的结局不好。

在上一部小说的故事最后，希里被传送到精灵的世界，并遇到了先知阿瓦拉克。她发现每次骑马出去，总会回到出发的湖边。先知解释说为了回到自己的世界，希里必须给精灵国王奥伯伦生个孩子。希里不情愿地答应了，但奥伯伦几次都没有成功。在之前救过的独角兽的帮助下，她找到了离开的方法，并发现奥伯伦被骑兵队长艾瑞丁毒死了。

回到自己的世界后，希里来到威戈福特兹的城堡，想要营救叶奈法，不过被抓住了。杰洛特一行人也赶到城堡，在打斗中，米尔瓦、安古蓝、卡西尔、雷吉斯被杀，希里杀死了邦纳特，杰洛特杀死了威戈福特兹，并和希里、叶奈法团聚。

尼弗伽德帝国的皇帝恩希尔带兵赶到，杰洛特认出他是希里的父亲。恩希尔打算和希里结婚并生下预言中能拯救世界的强大后代。为了避免希里知道他们是父女，他逼迫杰洛特和叶奈法自杀，但之后改变了主意。

杰洛特和矮人朋友们在利维亚相聚。当地爆发了反对非人类的暴动，为了保护矮人朋友，他被草叉杀死，叶奈法为了救他也力竭而亡。希里和朋友们把他们放到一艘旧船上，她自己也上了船，三个人消失在浓雾之中。之后杰洛特和叶奈法在未知的某地（猜测是阿瓦隆）醒来。

加拉哈德问这是否是故事的结局，希里说她不希望故事像这样结束。加拉哈德邀请希里去卡美洛，希里同意了，两人牵手同行。

改编

在游戏巫师3：狂猎中的一个主线任务中，杰洛特会给艾瑞丁的一个副官展示艾瑞丁杀死奥伯伦的情景，从而使这名副官不再为艾瑞丁工作。

The Lady of the Lake (Polish: Pani Jeziora) is the fifth novel in The Witcher series and the final in the original Witcher Saga, written by Polish fantasy writer Andrzej Sapkowski, first published in Poland in 1999. It is a sequel to the fourth Witcher novel, The Tower of the Swallow.

Plot

King Arthur's knight Sir Galahad stumbles upon Ciri bathing by a lake in ancient Britain. Ciri tells him her story, warning that it does not have a happy ending.

In the Northern Kingdoms centuries after the main story, the sorceress Condwiramurs is apprenticed to Nimue, the Lady of the Lake, to study the legend of Geralt and Ciri. Condwiramurs has clairvoyant dreams and recovers many scenes about them.

Through the events of The Tower of the Swallow, Ciri portalled to the world of the Aen Elle elves, who have clashes with unicorns. Her dreams reveal more about her talents, as well her loved ones' troubles, but a magical barrier imprisons her. The sage Avallac'h explains that as Lara Dorren's last descendant, the Elven-designed engineered gene she carries will make her child the most powerful magic-user in history, able to save the world from a prophesied cataclysm, and that Ciri must bear this child with their king, Auberon. Ciri reluctantly agrees, but Auberon fails to perform several times. Avallac'h assures her that once she bears the child, she will be returned to her own time. However, Eredin Breacc Glas, the commander of a cavalry unit, tells Ciri they will never let her go.

Back on the Continent, many still search for the vanished Ciri. Stefan Skellen, the coroner of Nilfgaard, along with bounty hunter Leo Bonhart, join the sorcerer Vilgefortz in Stygga Castle in Ebbing where he has tortured and manipulated the sorceress Yennefer for information. Further North, after many attempts to find Ciri, and believing that Yennefer betrayed them, Geralt and his company – Dandelion, Regis, Milva, Angoulême, and Cahir – winter in the duchy of Toussaint, ruled by the Duchess Anna Henrietta, Dandelion's lover. Geralt is distracted by monster-hunting and an affair with the Duchess's cousin, the Nilfgaardian sorceress Fringilla Vigo, a member of the Lodge of Sorceresses whose secret mission is to delay him so they can find Ciri first. Then Geralt overhears a meeting between Skellen and Nilfgaardian nobles plotting to overthrow Emperor Emhyr that mentions Vilgefortz's location and that Yennefer is his victim-prisoner. Dandelion stays behind as Geralt and the others leave.

Ciri tries to escape on her horse Kelpie but the barrier stops her. She is confronted by unicorns, but the unicorn Ihuarraquax, who she previously saved, vouches for her. The unicorns reveal she can bypass the barrier by boat. Before leaving, she finds Auberon dying after overdosing on an aphrodisiac Eredin gave him, stays with him until he dies, then steals a boat. Eredin confronts her but she escapes to join Ihuarraquax, the other unicorns and Kelpie. Eredin and his riders give chase and they battle with the unicorns. Ihuarraquax helps her jump worlds but the riders catch up with them so he stays behind to let Ciri escape. After jumping between several worlds and times without finding her own, she meets Nimue and Condwiramurs in the far future, who conjure the right portal for her.

Throughout, the decisive battle of Brenna between the allied Northern Kingdoms and the invading army of Nilfgaard is narrated from various points of view, primarily by Jarre, a scribe from Melitele's temple, and "Rusty", a halfling field surgeon. The Nilfgaardians are eventually routed by Redanian forces. Nilfgaard is forced back across its original border and sues for peace. Jarre writes his memoirs in his old age. Rusty dies in a pandemic of "red death" (which Ciri accidentally caused while jumping across time and space).