After a brief interaction with this new group of employees, Guilliman discovered...
The Skelligers, as the legends claimed, were mostly stoic, impulsive, and not very articulate.
They were like unyielding rocks in the sea, enduring the battering of wind and waves, yet remaining steadfast.
To put it nicely, this personality was 'frank and forthright'; to put it less kindly, it was'stubbornly simple-minded'.
However, as a boss, Guilliman actually preferred such employees.
Because even if he were doing something wrong or bad, his'stubbornly simple-minded' subordinates would follow him into the fray; their loyalty was quite high.
Loyalty, in most cases, is more important than ability.
It was still early morning, and he led the group directly to the Hairy Bear Inn, booking the entire establishment and filling all the tables with good wine and delicious food.
Only this place in the Temple Quarter was spacious enough to host over a dozen strong men at once.
It wasn't that he was stingy or unwilling to treat his new employees to a good meal during their first meeting.
It was just that if he brought this group of fully armed strong men into the Commercial District or the wealthy areas where nobles and rich merchants gathered...
They might be mistaken for suspicious armed individuals and arrested by soldiers, or at the very least, charged with disturbing the peace.
At the dining table...
Guilliman specifically arranged for Blackbeard, his Witcher uncle, and his two companions to sit at his table, beginning a casual chat among fellow Witchers.
He was quite curious about the situation of the Bear School.
After all, in the official game lore, only two Bear School Witchers were explicitly mentioned during this time period.
One was named Ged, an upright and brave Bear School Witcher who once carried out missions in the Skellige Isles, ultimately sacrificing himself in a battle against Nilfgaardian mercenaries.
His story is celebrated in "The Witcher Ged's Song" and he is one of the important representatives of the Bear School.
The other was named Junod, a physically strong Bear School Witcher.
He took on a dangerous commission due to gambling debts and was eventually killed by a giant centipede in the underground tunnels of Toussaint.
His remains can be found in the game's "Grandmaster Bear School Gear" scavenger hunt quest.
Apart from these two, most other Bear School Witchers either lived in seclusion, or were scattered in other parts of the Northern Continent, acting as mercenaries.
Regarding the Witchers of the Bear School, there is a widely circulated saying.
That is, the Bear School's mutations cause Bear School Witchers to lose their sensibility, or human emotions, and their personalities become extremely utilitarian, similar to a state of extreme rationality.
It is said that the once prosperous Bear School, after the disappearance of its founder Anahard, eventually disintegrated due to such utilitarian and emotionally detached personalities.
Initially, Guilliman also held this idea when chatting with the three Bear School Witchers.
However, after getting to know each other, he realized that this rumor was indeed an exaggerated claim made by those commoners or nobles to slander Witchers.
Blackbeard Zord's uncle was Ged, the Ged of the Bear School, who appeared in the game.
At this time, he had not yet accepted the mission that would lead to his death, and the Nilfgaardian army had not yet conquered the Skellige Isles.
He was a very forthright man, fond of drinking and bragging, and when happy, he would sing loudly without restraint, somewhat resembling the personality of some dwarves.
If Bear School Witchers had no emotions, then how could Ged have traveled hundreds of miles to Vizima because of a letter, responding to his nephew's summons?
Nor would he have single-handedly taken on an entire pirate crew and risked killing hundreds of pirates to rescue his nephew.
As for the other two Bear School Witchers who followed Ged, one was named Robar, and the other was named Snow, both of whom were easy-going individuals, perhaps a case of birds of a feather flocking together.
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