Johnny

A cheerful, chatty godling from Velen’s swamps who helps Geralt reach the Crones once the witcher gets his stolen voice back.

Johnny is a godling, a rare and mostly shy woodland creature that looks like a small child with huge, bright yellow eyes. He has spent his whole life in the swamps of Velen and is a good deal older than he looks. Kind-hearted to a fault, he is a regular visitor at the Crookback Bog orphanage, where he digs up and eats snails with the boy Travik and sings for the old woman the children call Gran. He has helped her more than once without asking anything in return, finding little Yagna when she got lost and breaking Genny’s fever.

Johnny in The Witcher 3
Geralt first hears of Johnny from the orphans during Ladies of the Wood and half suspects he is an imaginary friend. He turns out to be very real, but he has lost his voice and cannot answer a single question. Geralt follows him through the drowner-infested bog and fetches a bottle from a nest on a cliff. Once Johnny uncorks it, his voice returns and he will not stop talking. He tells Geralt he saw Ciri running toward the orphanage, and since Gran will not speak to strangers, he talks her into putting Geralt in touch with the Ladies of the Wood.

His good heart costs him later. In Return to Crookback Bog, if the Crones have turned Gran into a monster, Geralt finds Johnny sleeping at a small camp away from his burrow. He explains that the Crones took a lock of Gran’s hair down to the cellar before she changed, and that when he begged them to spare her, they turned their anger on him and filled the area around his burrow with monsters.

Johnny at Bald Mountain
Geralt and Ciri run into Johnny again on the road to Bald Mountain during the Bald Mountain quest. The Crones have given him an invitation he could not refuse, but he means to leave as soon as he can. Before he goes, he warns that the Ladies will accept Ciri but not Geralt and tells the witchers how to reach the peak where Imlerith is celebrating. If Geralt drove the godling Sara out of the house in Novigrad during Novigrad Dreaming, she is with him. The two have become friends, and Johnny forgives the witcher’s harsh treatment of her, since otherwise they would never have met.