At some point, Yennefer set herself up in the town of Rinde and, ignoring King Heribert's rules that no magic users could stay in Redania, openly practiced her magic and provided her magical services to clients by staying with Novigrad's ambassador, Beau Berrant, thus granting her asylum from the law while in the ambassador's home.

One morning, a witcher intruded on her sleep, revealing himself as Geralt of Rivia and that he needed her assistance in healing his friend, Dandelion, who had been afflicted by a djinn. After an initially rough greeting where Geralt responded sarcastically to her questions, Yennefer agreed to heal the bard, but she secretly made preparations in hopes of capturing the djinn, after Dandelion makes his final wish. When Geralt tried to stop her from using Dandelion, her spell took hold of the witcher, charming him to do her will against those on the town council who were against her.

After Geralt is arrested, she has Dandelion, now awakened teleported out into town with instructions to make his wish to free Geralt. Yennefer tried to capture the djinn, but it fought her, destroying a good part of Rinde in the struggle, not knowing that the djinn's master was not Dandelion, but in fact, Geralt, who still held one wish. Geralt arrived to see Yennefer struggle with her spell, and he tried to stop her, leading them to fight one another. She got the better of him, and he revealed to her that he was the one with the last wish that could free the djinn. Geralt knew that the moment he made a wish, Yennefer would be too weak to contain the djinn and it would kill her. So Geralt saved their lives, by wishing their fates were tied together. Yennefer was grateful to the witcher, willing to bind himself to her, and the two began a relationship.

The lady of Vengerberg was famous for her beauty, even though she was nearly a century old. Yennefer had locks of curly, raven black hair fragrant with lilac and gooseberry perfume, falling in a cascade of curls on her shapely shoulders. Her face was very pale, triangular in shape with a slightly receded chin. Her eyes were cold and sparkling with a remarkable violet penetrating gaze, in anger blazing with livid, blue-gray fire. Those very eyes also concealed wisdom and imperiousness. Yennefer's nose was slightly long, mouth was pale with thin and slightly crooked, soft, sweet with lipstick, proud lips. On her long and slender neck hung a black marigold with a star made of obsidian sparkling with a multitude of tiny diamonds embedded in it.

Yen had pronounced cheekbones, natural, slightly irregular eyebrows trimmed by hand and emphasized with charcoal, long eyelashes, and petite hands. Even in high-heeled shoes she wasn't tall, was beautiful but threatening, having incredibly thin and slender waist and slender legs.

She always dressed in black and white, at times wore stockings, wore frilled panties but never wore trivialities with underwire, she didn't need to. Her voice was resonant and mildly derisive. Her overall feminine shape was one of a twenty-year-old girl and she moved with a natural, unforced grace. She was a quarter-elf (meaning she had a quarter elven blood, in her case on her mother's side).

It is implied that her attractive looks were a product of magic and had been acquired during her training, as with most other sorceresses. Geralt notes how her shoulders are slightly lopsided and by the end of the story realizes that Yennefer used to be a hunchback. Nevertheless, his love for her does not diminish.

Yennefer traveled to the Temple of Melitele in Ellander and spoke to Nenneke about a cure for her infertility. While she was at the temple, she spent time looking around for Geralt, and after discovering he wasn't there confronted Nenneke and ended up quarrelling with her, before leaving the temple.

She fought at the Battle of Sodden Hill alongside other sorceresses and sorcerers from Brotherhood of Sorcerers. She was blinded during the battle by Fringilla Vigo, a Nilfgaardian sorceress. Her sight was later magically restored but she still bore the emotional scars.

After the Battle of Sodden Hill she became the member of the Council of Wizards.

After receiving a letter from Geralt, she traveled to the Temple of Melitele in Ellander to teach Ciri. Even though at the beginning the two of them didn't get along well, they later grew mother-daughter bond between themselves. Yennefer first taught Ciri about magic and how to harness chaos. She also helped her with stopping her nightmares for a while.

They left the temple to travel to Thanedd Island, where, according to Yennefer's plans, Ciri was supposed to start her studies at Aretuza, while she was going to attend the meeting of the Brotherhood of Sorcerers. They stopped in Gors Velen, city most famous for being close to Thanedd. There Yennefer visited Giancardi Bank and met up with Molnar Giancardi, who told her that someone was trying to acces her account in the Vivaldi Bank in Novigrad. Yennefer responded that she already knew who that was. They then discussed the economic growths and downs by which Molnar hinted that the northern kings might be preparing for war. Next up Yennefer carried out some bank transactions including sending money to the Temple of Melitele and the School of Aretuza for Ciri´s future studies.

When Ciri was on the tour through the city with Fabio Sachs, she got caught by Margarita Laux-Antille and Tissaia de Vries, who thought she was a runaway student from Aretuza. After meeting up with Yennefer, everything was settled and they spend the evening together in spa at The Silver Heron. They disscused mainly Ciri´s future studies along with other gossip, until Ciri ran away to see Geralt for the last time before commencing the studies at Aretuza. Yennefer followed her to Hirundum, which led to her reunion with Geralt after almost 4 years.

When Ciri wakes up the next day, Yennefer is seen in an orchard with Geralt arguing. They then made peace and forgave each other for their previous mistakes.

Thanedd Coup

Yennefer was acompanied to the banquet by Geralt. They conversed and Geralt told her he loves her, which was, according to Yen, the first time he told her that aloud. At the beginning of the banquet they talked to Sabrina Glevissig, her girlhood rival from studying at Aretuza, Philippa Eilhart, Sigismund Dijkstra and Triss Merigold. After Chapter of the Gift and the Art and Council of Wizards joined the banquet, Yennefer first told Geralt that since the Battle of Sodden Hill she is a member of the Council of Wizards. She harshly reminded Triss about her and Geralt being back together, and also told him that she knew about them and didn't want to hear another word about it. She than left the witcher to talk with Tissaia and Francesca Findabair.

Later that night, Yennefer and Geralt made love while staying in Aretuza. He than told her about his conversation with Vilgefortz.

During the night, the sorceresses and sorcerers allied with Nilfgaard were arrested by Philipa Eilhart and her complices. Yennefer's position was unknown, but she was pressumed by many to be one of the traitors. She brought Ciri to the Garstang meeting on order of Tissaia de Vries. Ciri, who had been put into trance to act as a medium, served as a proof, for she couldn't lie in trance. She confirmed the truth behind the attack in Dol Angra, where Demavend tried to use it to incite war against Nilfgaard. However, as it'd been a technical attack against the Empire, Emhyr's troops answered back and began to push into Aedirn and Lyria. She then further revealed that King Vizimir II had been assassinated last night.

When the fight in Garstang erupted, Ciri and Yennefer were attacked by elf, whom Yennefer stabbed with a knife. They ran away, but they needed to seperate. Yennefer told Ciri to go to Loxia and search for Margarita, for she will be safe there. She also told Ciri, she loves her.

During the fight, Francesca Findabair used artefact compression on her to smuggle her off the island, before Rience would find her.

Lodge of Sorceresses

She was kept in the jade figure for forty-seven days before Francesca freed her. Acording to the Queen of Elves, she was widely searched for and it was safer for her to stay that way. Even tough the artefact compression can be dangerous, Yennefer was alright. Francesca then told her everything that happened during the time she was compressended, including what happened to Geralt and Ciri. Yennefer was told that, beacuse she was missing, everyone considered her to be one of the Nilfgaard traitors. Francesca invitied her to join the Lodge and warned her to not act against the plan of the Lodge. She wanted Yennefer´s word for it, but Yen didn´t give it.

She teleported to Montecalvo with Francesca and Ida Emean aep Sivney. Many sorceresses, including Sabrina Glevissig, considered her Vilgefortz´s allie and she faced much hatred from her former colleagues. She recognized Fringilla Vigo as the one who blinded her during the Battle of Sodden Hill.

After Philippa Eilhart introduced her plan to marry prince Tankred Thyssen of Kovir with Ciri to create northern monarchy that would oppose Nilfgaard, Yennefer told everyone about Ciri´s life and powers. The sorceresses then diged into Ciri´s true potential as the child of the Elder Blood. Francesca told them the story of Lara Dorren aep Shiadhal. Together they unearthed the generations of Elder Blood gen being pass on to Ciri.

The Lodge then proceeded to talk about Ciri´s whereabouts, when Assire informed them that the emperor doesn´t have a girl with the Elder Blood, therefore Ciri. The Lodge thought Ciri must had been captured by Vilgefortz. After this information Yennefer became terrified, because Ciri was either in Vilgefortz´s captivity or went through the portal in Tor Lara and was pressumably dead or irrevocably lost. She deeply regretted what she pulled Ciri into.

During the pause she briefly talked to Triss and Francesca, but they left after a while for Yen was showing how much she wanted to be left alone. She was approached by Fringilla Vigo, who perhaps tried to apologize for her actions at the Sodden Hill.. They mentioned what both of them did to the other during the Battle, but they seemed at peace. Fringilla then told Yen, she knows about her planned escape and that it is very dangerous thanks to the magical blocade around the castle. But, as she stated, she would warn her not do it if they had been friends, but they weren´t.

Yennefer teleported out of the castle, thanks to the help of Fringilla Vigo, before the meeting resumed.

The Last Wish:

A pale triangular face, violet eyes and narrow, slightly contorted lips appeared beneath the black tresses...She had pretty shoulders, a shapely neck and, around it, a black velvet choker with a star-shaped jewel sparkling with diamonds.

pg. 226, The Last Wish

The sorceress finished fastening the straps of her slippers and stood up. Even in high heels, she wasn't impressively tall. She shook her hair which, he found, had retained its picturesque, dishevelled and curling disarray despite the furious combing.

pg. 232, The Last Wish

He saw her left shoulder, slightly higher than her right. Her nose, slightly too long. Her lips, a touch too narrow. Her chin, receding a little too much. Her brows a little too irregular. Her eyes. .. He saw too many details. Quite unnecessarily.

pg. 236, The Last Wish

Sword Of Destiny:

How ravishing she is, he thought. Everything about her is ravishing. And menacing. Those colors of hers; that contrast of black and white. Beauty and menace. Her raven-black, natural curls. Her cheekbones, pronounced, emphasising a wrinkle, which her smile – if she deigned to smile – created beside her mouth, wonderfully narrow and pale beneath her lipstick. Her eyebrows, wonderfully irregular, when she washed off the kohl that outlined them during the day. Her nose, exquisitely too long. Her delicate hands, wonderfully nervous, restless and adroit. Her waist, willowy and slender, emphasised by an excessively tightened belt. Slim legs, setting in motion the flowing shapes of her black skirt. Ravishing.

pg. 110, Sword of Destiny

She also possessed a very expertly stuffed unicorn, on whose back she liked to make love. Geralt was of the opinion that if there existed a place less suitable for having sex it was probably only the back of a live unicorn. Unlike him, who considered his bed a luxury and valued all the possible uses of that marvellous piece of furniture, Yennefer was capable of being extremely extravagant. Geralt recalled some pleasant moments spent with the sorceress on a sloping roof, in a tree hollow full of rotten wood, on a balcony (someone else's, to boot), on the railing of a bridge, in a wobbly boat on a rushing river and levitating thirty fathoms above the earth. But the unicorn was the worst. One happy day, however, the dummy broke beneath him, split and fell apart, supplying much amusement.

pgs. 102 - 103, Sword of Destiny

Blood Of Elves:

She looked him in the eyes and nodded her head lightly, making her glistening, black curls writhe and cascade down to her shoulders. She slipped the roast chicken onto a trencher and began dividing it skilfully. She used a knife and fork. Dandilion had only known one person, up until then, who could eat a chicken with a knife and fork as skilfully. Now he knew how, and from whom, Geralt had learnt the knack. Well, he thought, no wonder. After all, he did live with her for a year in Vengerberg and before he left her, she had instilled a number of strange things into him.

pg. 31, Blood of Elves

'The earth which we tread. The fire which does not go out within it. The water from which all life is born and without which life is not possible. The air we breathe. It is enough to stretch out one's hand to master them, to subjugate them. Magic is everywhere. It is in air, in water, in earth and in fire. And it is behind the door which the Conjunction of the Spheres has closed on us. From there, from behind the closed door, magic sometimes extends its hand to us. For us. You know that, don't you? You have already felt the touch of that magic, the touch of the hand from behind that door. That touch filled you with fear. Such a touch fills everyone with fear. Because there is Chaos and Order, Good and Evil in all of us. But it is possible and necessary to control it. This has to be learnt. And you will learn it, Ciri.

pg. 292, Blood of Elves

Time Of Contempt:

A blinding flash materialised into a transparent sphere, and inside it loomed a shape, assuming contours and shapes at frightening speed. Dandelion recognised it at once. He knew those wild, black curls and the obsidian star on a velvet ribbon. What he didn't know and had never seen before was the face. It was a face of rage and fury, the face of the goddess of vengeance, destruction and death.

pg. 100, Time of Contempt

The Tower of the Swallow:

Vilgefortz looked at the unconscious body being dragged across the floor towards the stairs that led into the dungeon. Then he looked up at Rience and Schirru. 'There is always a risk,' he said, 'that one of you falls into the hands of my enemies and is interrogated. I would like to believe that you would be as strong minded as her under the screws. Yes, I would like to believe that. But I do not.' Rience and Schirru remained silent. Vilgefortz turned again to the megascope, where an image appeared on the screen, produced by the giant crystal. 'That's all she located,' he said, pointing at the screen. 'I wanted Cirilla and she has given me the witcher. She did not have the empathic matrix of the girl, but when she became weak she gave me Geralt's. I would not have believed she had such deep feelings for him...'

The Tower of the Swallow

Seasons Of Storms:

Yennefer of Vengerberg, black-haired, dressed in black and white composition, brought to mind December morning.

Season of Storms