You are an elven. Your brothers drove you out of the camp. You have recently been living alone in the forest, trying to survive.

One day, trying to sneak into the market square on a dark night in Novigrad, you are caught by the guards. They take off your hood and put a dagger to your ear try to cut it off when you suddenly hear someone's voice

Leave this elven alone...

You see a white-haired witcher with two swords