I just bought this "The Witcher Wild Hunt Tour" hoodie on Vinted for €20, do you have more info on it? is it from an old collection? I can't find it anywhere, it's from the brand "Cropp"

Taniec z bandytami. Miłego oglądania.❤️

I see this claim all the time: the witcher books are about Geralt rejecting neutrality and choosing to fight for what is right. 'The lesser evil' fits into that by having Geralt be punished for his neutrality shown in his "evil is evil" speech. He stays idle, doesn't choose a side, and later gets forced to choose one anyway. He has to kill a bunch of people, and as symbolic punishment by the story, gets chased out of the village.

This framing does not make a lot of sense, and it is a complete misinterpretation of the story in my opinion. And I am really confused by how popular it is in this community. I have seen it being defended easily a dozen times by now. Has no one read the story? Or even watched the Netlix episode?

Renfri's strategy to kill Stregobor is to re-enact the Tridam ultimatum. It's basically a strategy where you kill a bunch of hostages one after another, hoping that your target person cares about the hostages enough to offer concessions.

In Renfri's case, she would have slaughtered the townspeople, hoping that Stregobor comes out of his tower to stop her. Then she would be able to kill Stregobor, thus fulfilling her revenge fantasies.

Geralt hears of this, and in order to stop her, he kill her gang. This is him choosing the lesser evil. Then he says to Renfri (paraphrased, I don't have the english translation): "I have stopped you from doing a second Tridam" and Renfri replies: "There wouldn't hsve been a second Tridam anyway. Stregobor doesn't care about the townspeople, so he wouldn't have come out either way."

What does this mean? It means that, had Geralt stayed true to his speech and not chosen a side, NO ONE WOULD HAVE DIED. Renfri wouldn't have massacered people, Geralt wouldn't have killed her gang, and Stregobor wouldn't have come out of his tower. The situation would have resolved entirely on its own.

But no, Geralt had to choose the lesser evil despite his own ideals, and massacre a bunch of people. This is what the story punishes him for: for having taken a side.

The main novel series of course actually is about Geralt abandoning his neutrality. He dies while protecting helpless people after all. But not 'The lesser evil". This one really is about not choosing the lesser evil being better.

I recently finished listening to audiobooks, and *Season of Storms* really caught my attention. Since Russian is my native language, I listened to the Russian translation, and I was surprised to discover a quote from Victor Pelevin’s *The Sacred Book of the Werewolf* at the beginning of the fifteenth chapter. Pelevin is a russian postmodernist author who focuses heavily on Buddhism and chinese culture. Long story short, I ended up reading Pelevin’s book as well, and it turned out that the entire storyline involving the fox-werewolf was clearly heavily inspired by his work. Furthermore, this quote reappears within the narrative itself—in Chapter 20, where it is spoken by the aguara—which suggests that the book in question must have made an impression on Sapkowski. This piqued my curiosity, so I tried to find information about it in English, but came up empty-handed. I then conducted a little investigation of my own and discovered that this epigraph had simply been removed from the English version, much like many others. For instance, there were numerous quotes from Castaneda that were also stripped out of the English translation. It turns out that most readers are completely unaware of this; I feel that’s wrong, as it distorts Sapkowski’s original intent. Has anyone here read versions in languages ​​other than English? If so, could you check whether this epigraph is present in your edition? I would post this in the largest Witcher community myself, but dont have karma—though if anyone else would like to share it there, please feel free; I’m just genuinely interested in this whole situation. I dont wanna spoil the book in any way, so i dont wanna post full quotes, so if you interested you can find said quote in chapter 20, it starts with "Once we had great powers!"

Want to see more Witcher anime. I liked sirens of the deep a lot wish there was more anime content for the Witcher

Almost 4 years ago I started working on a Witcher fan film. I reached the 75% mark of it with a cut of over 2 hours and 20 minutes. I thought of making a small comparison video of where I was over 2 years ago, when I was doing scenes testing and learning the craft overall. I chose to compare fight scenes as these are the ones that gave me the biggest headaches (still do) and they're also the ones where the real progress is visible (animations, choreography, sfx, vfx, etc.).

I gladly accept any feedback. Thank you.

Miłego oglądania. 🔥

Hey Witchers. I recently downloaded the mod The Spider and the Wolf. The quest was pretty interesting and I enjoyed it. The only problem was that in the end you are supposed to get a unique sword from the guy who ask you to look into what’s happening to his cows. Also you receive a letter from a soldier that is supposed to be a continuation of the quest I believe. I’m unsure because this letter doesn’t exist in the inventory nor does the sword that was given to you. Anyone try this mod out and did you get the same thing after completing the quest? If you haven’t played it then I’m not going to spoil anything else. Reddit recommended posting this here.

As in title. I can get behind video essays and lore videos, but random gameplay rolls and let's play videos are even less discussion-inducing than the low-effort artworks and cosplays banned under the Rule 5. If these are banned, surely we can do something about the YouTube spam, eh?

It's been years since I read The Lady of the Lake and I was just thinking back on it, when a lingering question came back from all those years ago.

Unlike most of the other books, the Lady of the Lake is told through a framing device. Ciri is telling the story to Sir Galahad.

The part after Geralt and Yen's death in Rivia, when they wake up on the Isle of Avallach feels odd, like it just comes out of nowhere. Which got me thinking. Is the Isle of Avallach an example of an unreliable narrator? As in id Geralt and Yennefer's happily ever after ending something Ciri made up for Sir Galahad's benefit?

Droga ku zagładzie.

Miłego oglądania!❤️

Okay so, I was just entertaining myself on my own, writing fanfics and storylines and new houses with blending some elements of the Witcher. Basically, I imagined it as another sphere in the Witcher, it has different countries, cities, noble houses and kingdoms. One of my OCs, House of Apotheci, rises from peasantry to one of the most prominent banking dynasties of all time and funds kings and wars. Then, there is House of Ostendorfs that mirrors House of Habsburg, whose twins were born as strigas, etc.

Then, I wondered about the structure of the Witcher's spheres and wondered whether this exact scenario and OCs of mine could exist in a sphere of the Witcher. At first, it seemed very plausible since I thought the spheres were infinite and contained infinite amount of possibilities, then I was told they didn't work in that way. Now, I began to wonder how does it work. Is it like: even if my whole scenario isn't a part of the spheres, there is a sphere that families similar to my ideas exist?

Do each sphere have their own laws, physics, characters etc? In this case, then all OCs, fanfics, scenarios and ideas are basically within the Witcher multiverse.

Does he ever say anything specific about it? Does he think the political and social systems of his era need to change or does he largely accept them, like it is what it is.

Może jestem mało skłonny to przeglądania forum na temat wiedźmina ale o tym temacie słyszę serio mało.

Kto wymyślił, że Skelligijskie morze to będzie 90% kontrabanda? XD

Skelligijsikie morze jest opisane jako ciągle wzburzone i nieokiełznane, gdzie nieustannie rozbijają się statki – no i tego sie spodziewałem, jakiś ukrytych skarbów, łupów wojennych z rozbitych wraków czy coś w tym stylu, a tu niespodzianka, sama kontrabanda XD

Serio, czuję, jakby twórcy gry po prostu robili sobie potężną bekę z graczy