Tamara Strenger

The Bloody Baron’s nineteen-year-old daughter, who escaped her father’s rages and joined Oxenfurt’s witch hunters to rescue her mother.

Tamara Strenger is the only surviving child of Phillip Strenger, the Bloody Baron, and his wife Anna. Her childhood was mostly fear. Her earliest memories are of a drunken father sprawled in the mud, and for years she hid under her bed while he smashed furniture and beat her mother. She was glad whenever a new war took him away. A few bright moments survived, such as a cloth doll named Clara her father made after she admired Triss Merigold in Vizima, and a carefree day with her mother on the banks of the Ina.

Tamara Strenger in The Witcher 3
By nineteen, Tamara had quietly turned to the faith of the Eternal Fire, keeping a secret shrine in a locked room beneath Crow’s Perch. After a violent row that left her pregnant mother miscarrying, the two women fled. Along the way a fiend seized Anna and carried her into Crookback Bog, while Tamara escaped to Oxenfurt, where the fisherman Voytek’s brother took her in.

During Family Matters, Geralt can track her down in Oxenfurt. She is curt at first, then tells him plainly what life with her father was like and refuses to go home. Instead she has joined the witch hunters, hoping they will help her reach her mother, and she is escorted by the level-headed hunter Graden. If the Baron gave Geralt her old doll, she shows no interest in it.

What happens to Tamara?
Tamara survives whatever you choose, but Return to Crookback Bog decides how she parts with her parents. She arrives at the orphanage with her band of hunters and, to her surprise, finds her father there too. If Anna has only lost her mind, Tamara wants to go with her, but Graden reminds her of her new duties. She makes her father swear to care for Anna, and privately she appreciates the gesture.

If the Crones have turned Anna into a hag, Geralt must choose the right doll to break the curse. With the right one, Anna briefly becomes herself again and asks Tamara to remember their day on the Ina before she dies. With the wrong one, Anna burns and Tamara rages at both Geralt and her father. Either way, she returns to Oxenfurt with Graden.