The Witcher (S01)
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In February 2020, Netflix announced Kim Bodnia had been cast as Vesemir, an experienced witcher and a mentor to Geralt.[47] Other additions included Kristofer Hivju,[48] Yasen Atour,[49] Agnes Born, Paul Bullion, Thue Ersted Rasmussen,[50] Aisha Fabienne Ross, and Mecia Simson.[47] In September 2020, it was announced that Basil Eidenbenz would replace Rasmussen in the role of Eskel.[51] In November 2020, Rebecca Hanssen was announced for the role of Queen Meve.[52]
In January 2020, Netflix announced an animated spin-off film titled The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf, focusing on the origin story of Geralt's mentor and fellow witcher Vesemir. Lauren Schmidt Hissrich and Beau DeMayo worked on the film, with production by Studio Mir.[152] It was released on August 23, 2021.[153]
Later on when Geralt enters the town of Blaviken, he crosses paths with Renfri, the ill-fated princess on-the-run. After a brief conversation, Geralt is lured away and eventually meets the mage, Stregobor, who seeks to hire Geralt for his help in killing Renfri. Though the mage tries to persuade Geralt, the stubborn witcher refuses and goes about his business. Later on, he bumps into Renfri yet again and she asks him to take out her adversary, Stregobor the mage. Not picking sides, Geralt refuses to help Renfri either and gives her the advice that she should move on with her life, both physically and mentally.
Netflix's The Witcher season 1 featured plenty of magical beasts, and here is every creature included in the show so far. Based on the popular book series and video game franchise, The Witcher season 1 debuted on Netflix in 2019 and quickly became a big hit. The show stars Henry Cavill as Geralt of Rivia, one of the most skilled fighters and killers in the world, also known as the White Wolf. His specialty as a witcher is slaying monsters, and The Witcher included plenty of it.
Death is actually a huge part of becoming a witcher. In addition to that first trial, potential witchers have to survive the Trial of the Dreams, the Trial of the Mountains, and the Trial of the Sword. As the anime prequel Nightmare of the Wolf showed, all of these trials are dangerous and often end with the horrific death of young boys. So yeah. Geralt (Henry Cavill) is an even bigger badass than you thought.
But the lack of new recruits has to do with another life lost during this fight. In addition to all of these professional and student witchers, the mages who oversaw the mutation process were also killed. Because witchers only know the most basic forms of magic and because the instructions for the mutation process had been passed down from specific mages, the information needed to make new witchers was lost. When the timeline of The Witcher starts, no one knows how to create new witchers.
Geralt is a witcher: a mutant who fights monsters for gold. He's the gruff-but-secretly-sweet type who usually puts up with the bellyaching of Jaskier, a bard who follows him turning his adventures into songs, and the schemes of Yennefer, a powerful sorceress who enters and exits his story as she pursues her own ends.
?An expansionist empire called Nilfgaard (black armor, cultish) sacks Cintra, killing Queen Calanthe and the rest of Princess Ciri's family. Using mysterious, newfound powers she can't control, however, Ciri escapes, and wanders off in search of the famous witcher Geralt, who her grandmother told her to seek out.
Geralt, our leading man, is a witcher. They're humans who have (kind of) voluntarily undergone dangerous mutations and imbibe supernatural potions to give them special powers like being able to see in the dark, hence the spooky eyes. Within this world, they are widely hated and distrusted, but also fulfill a vital role as travelling, freelance monster hunters. You get spit on and shouted at until there's a banshee in someone's outhouse, then they're coming to you on their knees with a coin in hand. In season 2, we'll be meeting some other witchers, including Geralt's teacher Vesemir, and learning a bit more about their history and training methods.
She has some kind of special powers that aren't those of a mage or a witcher, like being able to scream and create an earthquake, that she doesn't really understand. Nilfgaard seems dead set on getting a hold of her, partly for reasons that haven't yet been revealed. She'll be starting her training as a Witcher in season two.
Finally, the preuqel spin-off mini series "The Witcher: Blood Origin" was released on December 25th 2022, and was given the worst reviews on Rotten Tomatoes yet: 32% on the Tomatometer and a mere 13% Audience Score at the time of this article's writing. This time, both critics and audiences united on the Rotten Tomatoes site ( _witcher_blood_origin/s01) against two parts of the series: the writing and its "show original" elements. The Witcher Blood Origin tells the story of seven warriors leading an uprising against an empire headed by elves Merwyn (Mirren Mack) and Balor (Lenny Henry), the Conjunction of the Spheres- an event that stranded both monsters and humans in the Conitnent of the Witcher-, and the creation of the first witcher- a caste of mutants whose abilities are enhanced so that they can fight monsters. In doing so, the writers massively retconed pre-established lore from the book series regarding the Conjucntion and the first Witchers and, as the critics have said, fell short in making the new events, and show as a whole, offer an enjoyable viewing experience. 781b155fdc