Best Short The Witcher Fanfics
The Witcher novellas — 10k to 50k words, polished and contained. Curated from AO3 and ranked by kudos.
Top 20 Short The Witcher Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. Mid-length The Witcher fics — 10,000–50,000 words.
Ciri Science and the Idiot syndrome
by TinyThoughts
Ciri: I need you to wear this tonight.Jaskier: Again? Wasn’t last week enough?Ciri: it’s for science. I need more data.And thus the Idiot Syndrome testings starts.
The Last Gate Found
by ArchOfImagine
Jaskier never planned on being a father. Especially not to his best friend’s child.Now he’s running from the ashes of Cintra, keeping a tiny princess safe, muddied, and full of energy, all while navigating tavern gigs, tricky magic, and a druid who thinks he knows best.With a cheeky, distant presenc
Sound of Me
by Caedes12
Jaskier was supposed to be a distraction. A loud distraction to give Geralt and the others time to run. He did not expect to survive it. He did not expect Nilfgaard to keep him.
Stream On
by Chlorokin
Even though he and Jaskier have been seeing each other exclusively for a few months now, it still sends a thrill through Geralt any time he realizes he is actually dating the semi-famous streamer, JaskierTheBard.They spend time together, game together, and just have fun together.Geralt has never bee
Grief Is Like Glitter (Oh, What a Mess It Makes)
by I_luv_Nightwing
He slid from the saddle without a sound. His hand went to the silver sword, though his instincts already whispered it wasn’t a monster.It was human. Geralt crouched low, pushing aside a tangle of ferns.And there — half-hidden against the roots of an oak, curled in on himself — lay Jaskier. The bard
Something In The Shadows
by sequelseagull
Jaskier built his career on monster legends, travelling the country as the host of a cryptid documentary series, chasing things that probably don't exist into places he probably shouldn't be. Geralt is his bodyguard, hired to keep him alive through increasingly unwise filming decisions. What Jaskier
Raised By Wolves
by SheegothBait
Eskel and Geralt eliminate some troublesome drowners and find a newly-deceased man in their nest. They track his path back to the the house he lived in, hoping to find a little coin in the job.What they find instead is one very dirty, very unruly, and very lonely child...and a chance to change his h
Oh No! My Bard! It's Broken!
by QueenOf_Hearts
Several years after The Mountain (TM) Jaskier gets himself kidnapped by someone looking for Geralt and Ciri. He dosen't have a good time. Geralt, meanwhile, is also not having a good time. The obligatory post mountain(break-up) angst and eventual comfort because I have yet to unlock the hurt no comf
Magic Mountain
by Pipefish
Geralt set the rag aside and picked up a small tin of ointment.“There are only two kinds of time one can distinguish,” he said, opening the tin, scooping out some salve with two fingers. “The kind of time you want to hold onto, and the kind you want to leave behind.”---------------------------------
The Last Dance
by EmoElysium
25 years ago, your father summoned a Witcher to deal with the wraith that plagued the village water well.25 years ago, a dark-haired stranger bearing a wolf medallion answered the call. As was tradition, the man invoked the Law of Surprise as payment for the contract he completed.25 years ago, you w
A Fallen Star Will Be Thy Fate
by Tauress
Geralt and Yennefer are enjoying an utterly boring retirement in the idyllic Toussaint countryside, getting soft from the lack of constant threats on their lives. When the two decide to take a trip to Oxenfurt for a simple shopping excursion and haunted house contract, they find a certain letter at
The Mix-Up
by comebackcas
Ciri was alone, miserable, and hellbent on avoiding her family when a strange young man dropped out of a portal in the woods.“Oh! Hello! I’m Jack.” Chasing Jack through a portal, Dean and Cas find themselves trapped in a bizarre universe with yellow-eyed hunters who call themselves Witchers and flir
Anything For Her
by 13Daisygirl
Vilgefortz has betrayed the brotherhood. Tissaia has no one left to trust. No one, but Yennefer.
Family and Pack
by kikanawj
With so much poised to change across the Wolflands, Jagoda comes into contact with more of her family, more of her pack. But all of them are not of the same mind in regards to her new alliances. Excerpt: "I'm sure you have a… lot of questions for me," Jagoda says gently. "Aunt Bernie did." Her mothe
If He Were the Last Man on the Continent
by The_Colour_Yellow
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that inheritance law is a right fucking nightmare.” Due to a series of unfortunate circumstances, Geralt, Jaskier, Lambert and Voltehre have only a handful of years left to get themselves hitched before they lose the deed to Jaskier’s estate and find themselve
God's Champion in Witcher's realm.
by Asistis_55
Gabriel Belmont the Champion of God finds himself into a new realm, after being pulled here by mischief. His mission still remains, he will have to find the last piece of the God Mask no matter what.Now he will have to team up with a cocky witcherThis fic is different from the other fics that have b
The Witch And Her Broken Pack
by BrainlessHimbo
The wolves of Kaer Morhen have their own private rituals, ones they would never share with outsiders, for Witchers pleasure is a luxury they don’t deserve. Left to their own devices they ruin themselves on cold stone, coat their cocks in wax and nettles and hump like beasts until they break. When Ye
Lilacs and Fire
by Azuraloulen
On his journey back to Toussaint Geralt takes on a contract to clear a cave of a monster. No one who ever saw it survived to tell the tale so the services of a witcher are needed.But when he enters the beasts lair it quickly becomes much more diffcult than a tough fight with the silver blade.In the
Strange What Desire Will Make Foolish People Do
by waywacht
Geralt and Yennefer are colleagues who have been seeing each other, solely for pleasure. Unfortunately for them, they may have caught feelings. They both know but they are super insecure and in denial and they are a mega mess. They make up reasons as to why they are definitely NOT in love and they a
A Nilfgaardian tale
by AmayaYoura
The true heir to the throne of Nilfgaard returns at last to the side of her father, but, Cirilla returns as lady Fiona wife of Cahir Mawr Dyffryn aep Ceallach and cousin of princess Cirilla. A journey full of conspiracies, truths and shocking changes is to be expected before the truth of the real
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This list of 20short The Witcher fanfics spans 570,109 total words. Kudos range from 5 on the newest entries to 1,247 on the most established. Most entries are ongoing works, so subscribe on AO3 for update notifications. The most common rating is Explicit (8 of 20 fics).
Recurring tags across this list: Good Parent Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia · Inspired by The Accidental Warlord and His Pack Series - inexplicifics · Famous Jaskier | Dandelion · Past Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia/Yennefer z Vengerbergu | Yennefer of Vengerberg · Protective Yennefer z Vengerbergu | Yennefer of Vengerberg.
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