Baptism of Fire
core novel 1996 The Witcher
Record
| Original title | Chrzest ognia |
|---|---|
| First published | 1996 |
| Original language |  PL |
| First English translation | 2014 |
| Translator | David French |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.26 (150,744 ratings, collected 2026-08-06) |
| Page count | 400 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780575090972 |
| First-edition publisher | superNOWA |
| First-edition country | PL |
Where it sits
- Universe: The Witcher
- Series: The Witcher core; position 5 of 9 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Andrzej Sapkowski
Notes
- Saga #3. Translator attribution via secondary sources.
- From the series record (The Witcher): Reading order: collections first (official superNOWA numbering), then the 5-novel saga, then standalones. Polish and English publication orders both differ from reading order.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series The Witcher: position 5 of 9: previous Time of Contempt (1995) · next The Tower of the Swallow (1997)
Sources
← The Witcher dossier · All universes
One of 3732 works in the Library. Fields without an identified source are omitted, never guessed.