05:49 Geralt is drinking a potion called "Black blood" which is making his blood poisonous for all Vampire species. (Witchers are imune to most poisons, so it would realy take a lot to poison a witcher) 06:04 Witchers have a natural night vision, thanks to their mutation they get those "cat eyes" there is alos a potion named "Cat" that gives you extra night vision in total darkness. 06:12 The Witcher medallion is not only a guild symbol but also enchanted, so it twitches whenever danger is emerging or magic is casted. 06:23 Geralt is using a so called "Moon dust" which is mixed with silver. Silver is especially damaging to monsters, so it sticks with an invisible monster and weakens it. 06:45 Geralt uses the "Quen" sign, a simple magic sign that produces an energy shield. There are also other Signs like "Igni" that produces fire (Like we have seen with the Griffin) and "Ard" which is simply a "Force pushback" like we have seen in the Killing Monsters Trailer. 06:58 The Vampire bites Geralt, and since Geralt drank the Black blood potion, she now poisens herself and makes her even weaker. 07:34 That's Ard again 07:50 And a Silver Bolt in the back, just to be sure. 08:08 The Butcher Hook is used to hang trophies on it. Normaly a Witcher would cut a trophy from a killed monster as prove of the kill for their client.
@@shamsmehdi3725 No one cares about your response, seeing as you don't have anything useful to add, at all. He provided useful details which explain things a bit, while you're just blowing out useless hot air.
@@mithshude They are. Oriana sings this song when Geralt visits her. Also he told her he will come back for her. This is why they know each other in the trailer.
The "sheriff's badge" is a gold sunburst, the national symbol of the Nilfgaardian Empire. The Kingdom of Redania has a silver eagle on a red field. Temeria has three fleur-de-lys lilies on a blue field.
The games and the netflix series are both based on the Polish book series. A witcher is a human that has been mutated and trained to hunt monsters for gold as a profession. The setting is medieval with magic and fantasy based themes, yet the world is very dark and full of evil. The woman in the last trailer is a species of vampire and incredibly powerful. Through their mutations witchers are able to consume potions and mixtures that can strengthen them, but most of these potions are lethal to ordinary humans. The potion used in the vampire fight is called Black Blood, it is a high risk high reward kind of thing. As it requires the user to get bitten for it to have an effect.
yep, as we say "Wódka i słowiańska magia" about how the witcher 3 came to be, the world is based on europe, and i can say one thing, no matter what, Polish version is better.Every monster here is based on myths from all over Poland and its neighbours(except germany)
The witcher are trained fighter against everything unnatural like gryphons, demons, undead, ghosts..... Witchers have different kind of runespells to power them self up a bit or hurt the enemy like a kinetic push, body shield, a firewave.... They drink potions to power themself up but they poison themself with this too. To all other these potions are only poison with no other effect. The witcher "guild" is hunted down by an old enemy of mankind called "the wild hunt". Most humans hate witchers too but tolerate them more or less.
To clear things up a bit: Witchers are not just trained fighters. They are mutated humans, who are taken as children by different Witcher schools. After they complete their combat training and studying different monster and magical lore, they undergo the Trial of the Grasses. They are injected with different potions and magical herbs. It is said to be excruciatingly painful, and I believe the statistic is that only 3 out of 10 children survive this process. If they survive, they wake up with enhanced senses, increased strength, agility and stamina, as well as a bunch of other benefits. The trade-off is, most Witchers lose the majority of their sense of emotion. Their spells are called Signs. They are very simple but effective spells they can cast by just making a specific movement with their hand and fingers. The potions they drink are toxic to humans, but Witchers have a very high resistance to them, and their metabolism is way higher than a human's. Most potions will outright kill a human if they aren't a Witcher. The potion Geralt drank in the cinematic that made his blood "poison" is called Black Blood. It isn't poison to Geralt, it's poison to Vampires and Ghouls.
@Hauke Holst Some of the "unnaturals" came to the witcher world, when two worlds overlapped and they came through "dimensional portals", like the vampires.
@@Evravon i know. I played the games too but its not helpfull to get to much into detail. I know that it is a hellish and deadly training with the mutation and poisons. Only 1 of 10 kids survive the training. These are all details they dont really need to get an overall view about what happend in the trailer. And the signs they use are not related to old things like alchemy or runes? The sugn Igni is related to ignis - an alchemic symbol of fire and these are based on runes. Not everybody knows alchemy or signs related things. But almost everybody has seen runes in there life even if they dont know it.
@@Exocrime I didn't say anything about them not being related to runes. I just said they are called Signs. They are the only form of magic "spells" Witchers are capable of using.
Actually the witcher schools were not hunted down by the wild hunt... They were destroyed by the people out of fear. The wild hunt is an enemy of Geralt not of the witchers themselves.
Witcher 3 was the best game i ever played - there is no good and evil but the „good“ ending still feels perfect - its not phantasy its a completely magical phantasy world that feels like real life with real problems
He’s a monster hunter. They pay him to hunt monsters that they’d die trying to kill. Also, the bird was a griffin, and the girl was a bruxa, a special type of vampire 😁😁😁😁
In the last vid, the woman is actually a vampire type called a Bruxa, usually they can pass as human females, but when turned they can go invisible and are very hard to detect. (In the Witcher World there are about 8 different types of vampiric monsters, some of which are in monster form all the time.) The "potion" he drinks before he goes into the barn is called Black Blood; it essentially renders a Witcher's blood toxic to a vampire. They drink it, they get pain and damage. (Only a Witcher can use most potions...an unmutated human would probably die fairly quickly.) The glass sphere he throws up in the barn is one of several "bombs" Witchers use. Kinda like grenades. It's probably Moon Dust, a concoction containing silver shards that makes an invisible monster visible who is vulnerable to silver. Most monsters are hurt by silver; that's why Witchers carry two swords, one steel for use against humans and beasts and one which is coated with silver for use against monsters. A steel sword doesn't do as much damage against a monster. A silver sword can kill beasts or humans but it's not as strong as a steel sword; but the silver coating does powerful damage to a monster. Steel is for humans, dwarves, elves, wolves, bears. Silver is for undead, golems, trolls, vampires and specters.
That "deer head" is the head of a "leshen." This is a sort of "nature monster"...it can control its size, can summon wolves to aid it, can cause tree roots and branches to entangle its enemies, can go invisible and pop up at different points. Think of it as a monster that can inhabit and control forests and the natural elements in a forest; you'll only find them in forests. Gamewise it's one of the more dangerous monsters, but once you kill it, it doesn't "look" that dangerous. It can hurt you itself but it can also manipulate all the elements of a forest to fight against you.
The 3rd Trailer is titled "A Night to Remember" and the vampire was a species known as a "Bruxa", which are particularly fast, agile. experts and camouflaging their presence, and very hard to destroy. It is partially based one one specific story in the Witcher books, where Geralt encounters a Bruxa but is unaware of it, until he realises (leaving the place) how nervous his horse Roach seemed from the moment he arrived at the farmstead.
Witchers can cast a shield, a circular trap, fire, mind control and a telekinetic blast. A witchers medalion is there to alert others that he's a witcher and, more importantly, it starts jittering when there's magic in the vicinity. A witcher is a mutant, trained and mutated from childhood to have superior reflexes and strength, who hunts all magical beings for coin. When magic arrived into the world, wizards experimented on children and made witchers to deal with all the magical beings that appeared. Now though, witchers are seen as an insult to humanity.
Geralt of Rivia is a Witcher, a mutated human who has heightened senses, strength, speed, and knowledgeable on monsters, basic magic called signs, and a knowledge on how to brew potions and make bombs. The mutations have also given them cat like eyes. There used to be hundreds of witchers but after humans started viewing them as monsters and freaks, they stopped making and training more witchers so now theres only a handful. There are several types of witcher schools called the Griffin, Viper, Bear, Cat, and Wolf which Geralt hails from. Each school gives fully fledged witchers a medallion of their school (Geralt has a wolf head) that vibrates when danger is close by. A Witcher also carries 2 swords, steel for humans and silver for monsters. Witchers hunt an assortment of monsters from Vampires, Wraiths, and Ghouls to monsters so hideous you wouldn't be able to imagine them until you've see them. Geralt of Rivia is the best known Witcher due to his participation in several events important to history and his friend, Dandelion, a poet having used his story to make his own music and poems. Geralt also went through further mutations after his general witcher mutations which gives him the white hair but also making him faster, stronger, and more resilient than other witchers.
For the last video, she is not a witch, but a vampire. Geralt knew against this kind of creature you need to drink the ''black blood'' potion to protect you againt bite. :3
Not just any kind of vampire, but a Bruxa, a higher Vampire of considerable power and intelligence, way above the lesser ones, 2nd only to the real Vampire MVPs the HIGH Vampire. Usually appearing as a normal human woman, but dont get in their way and have them turn their true selfs out, coz thats most likely the last you'll see. The Bomb btw is Moon Dust, taking away the invisibility and transformative abilities by littering the creature with silver particles. About the "Black Blood" Potion.: No its not to protect against the bite, its to be bitten and poisoning and weaken the vampire drinking that spiked blood.
In this game and the original novel, a witcher is a monster hunter, a mutant, can use some basic magic for defense and offense called signs, , have knowledge of curse lifting ritual, but they’re not a witch/ mage/ sorcerer, mage is a mage and a witcher is a witcher, oh and what he drank on that cinematic trailer is a potion called black blood, it make his blood lethal to any blood sucking monsters, and what he fought was a bruxa, a type of vampire
Geralt is a Witcher, which in simple terms a Human who underwent forced mutation to gain the necessary strength to become a monster hunter. They use a variety of potions and tools and basic utility spells in the process. You guys were spot on in the third trailer, the potion he drank before entering the barn was called the Black Blood potion, which poisons his own blood as a counter measure to monsters that will drink blood such as the vampire he was fighting.
There are sorcerers and sorceresses in this world who are closer to what we would consider "witches." A Witcher is a person who has been trained from childhood (between 7 to 9 years old) in specific martial arts, alchemy to produce potions and oils which can heighten his senses and strength, and has been "mutated" to give him extended lifespan, strength, senses such as hearing. Only about 3 out of 10 children survive the mutation process. More are maimed or killed undergoing the physical training. The do have five very limited powers you could call "magic" or "spells." Witchers call these "signs." The part in the first trailer where Geralt knocks the guy back with a wave of his hand is the Aard sign, a kind of force blow that can knock things back or knock through walls or doors. The fire he uses in the 2nd is called Igni and can be single blasts or at higher levels sort of a flamethrower effect. There is Quen, which is a protective force field a Witcher can throw over himself to protect him from physical or magical attacks. There is Yrden, where a Witcher casts a circle of temporary runes on the ground around himself...it slows and can damage monsters and can also weaken undead creatures such as specters or golems. The last Sign is Axii, which is a limited mind control power. It can induce a target to do what the Witcher tells him to do, or in combat it can stun or befuddle an enemy so the Witcher can attack him when he's not alert. At higher levels, Axii can actually cause an enemy to temporarily switch sides and fight on the Witcher's side for a brief period. The Signs are magic, but they're like firecrackers compared to the heavy artillery a Sorceress can use.
That woman is a sub-type of vampire called bruxa, theres a bunch of em ranging from bestial nonsentient animals to highly cultured and sophisticated ones that can pass as human. Witchers go through certain alchemical rituals that mutate them so that their body can tolerate these potions, it would ordinarily kill a person. That thing in the beginning isnt a deer but a monster called a fiend.
The Netflix series is accurate based on the Witcher books by the Polish author Andrzei Sapkowski and most of the episodes are based on short stories or parts of novels he wrote. The Witcher video games (there have been three, The Witcher, Witcher 2, Assassin of Kings, and The Witcher 3, the Wild Hunt.) The Netflix series, while based on the books, was probably set forward because of the really hardcore success of the games as well as the books. Henry Cavell, who plays Geralt in the series is a rabid fan of the games. When he heard Netflix was going to do a series, he went all out to get the part. There is some talk that Mark Hamill may take the part of Vesemir in the next season, the oldest Witcher of the Wolf School, who taught Geralt the trade. (There are several Witcher "schools." Geralt was taught in the Wolf school, medium armor and a balance of Witcher skills. There is the Bear School, very heavy armor and more into martial arts, the Viper school, more into potions, poisons and lighter weapons, The Griffin School, medium armor and heavy into signs, and the School of the Cat...which as far as lore goes is the only school that trained Elves as well as humans and has sort of degraded from just monster hunters into part time assassins; the Cats aren't popular with regular people or other Witchers. There is also a Manticore school but that is pretty much extinct.)
Geralts line in the killing monsters cinematic illustrates the world of the witcher incredibly well. they just came back from a hunt, they killed a monster that was bothering and killing townsfolk and destroying trade routes, they received their payment. yet the one's paying them are inflicting needless pain for 'looting' 'cannibalism' 'and killing the wounded' which indicate she looted a battlefield killing every almost dead soldier she came across for water, food, things to sell. flesh to eat.. she lives in a world torn by war and on the very brink of total destruction, she had no other choice if she wants to live. as we all do. when they see this, Vesemir says to Geralt 'take the reward and lets go' as if to say 'this is not why we came here for, we already did our job'' but to Geralt, 'Evil is Evil, lesser, greater, midling, makes no difference'' To Geralt, the soldiers that just payed him are none different then the deadly monster he just defeated. no less evil, no more. ''The degree is arbitrary, the definition is blurred' you can interpret the last line how you wish ^^ cause thats what you do in the game, you choose as Geralt. in a world thats filled to the brim with choice, misfortune, chance, and victory, flogged and torn by war. what would you choose?
The game is actually based on a series of short stories and novels from a polish writer named Andrzej Sapkowski. The game itself is mostly set after the events of the books. Witchers are humans who have been mutated through magical means and they are essentially mercenaries who fight monsters for money. They are hated because of their supposed greed as well as being created by magic. Magic is considered taboo by many in this universe. And many of the monsters in the books and games are based on Polish folklore, which is incredibly cool.
Geralt is a Witcher, a professional monster slayer. Whenever there is a supernatural monster of some sort that ordinary soldiers or humans can't kill or would take heavy casualties doing so, they hire a Witcher, who has been trained since childhood to know the weaknesses of different kinds of monsters and the best ways to deal with them. That head that gets dropped is probably that of a monster called a leshen, an elder monster that can control wolves and such, affect trees and is pretty powerful...not just a deer. Witchers don't take sides so much in the war torn lands...they just take contracts. In this case it appears the witcher has been given a contract by the forces of Nilfgaard, one of the more powerful nations. The guys they come upon are Nilfgaardian troops operating in Velen...sort of a no-mans-land between their own Empire and that of Redania. The woman is probably just a normal person who happens to be a citizen of one of the lesser kingdoms. Whether she is guilty of those crimes they guy is listing is academic...she's not on their side so they just list the things she may or may not have done as an excuse to string her up or beat her to death. "Death by hanging or torment." to use his words. Geralt has done the job he was hired to do and gotten paid...but he's a neutral...just because he worked for Nilfgaard doesn't mean he has to ignore an atrocity as he passes by.
Its actually a popular fantasy novel series in Poland by Andrej Sapowski..It WAS made into a tv series in the 90's for Polish audiences only..but it wasnt that great The games came out later..mostly on PC ( Rise of the white wolf, Assassin's of kings) but was released mostly to console ( Xbox, Playstation) a lot later. The latest game (Witcher 3), is one of the best games of 2015 and possibly one of the best open world games of all time.. Henry Cavill currently plays Geralt in the Netflix Adaptation.
1. geralt is a witcher, a purposefully mutated human, who gets trained to hunt monsters like vampires, fiends, griffons, basilisks etc. so yeah, witchers are something like headhunters for monsters for those monsters witchers use silver swords, as silver is wounding against monsters. geralt has a special moral codex, that he helps humans against thugs too, but also protects the "monsters" if they are innocent. silver is for monsters, steel for the other kind of monsters. his "badge" is an amulet, wich is enchanted to detect magic and also tells everybody that he is a witcher. witchers are latent magic users and can use certain magic signs like Aard in the 1. cinematic. also witchers are shunned by society, as they are no longer seen as human. they are treated worse than beggars and often people who engaged a witcher try to cheat him on his payment. 2. the games are a sequel to the book series by sapkovski, a polish book author. those books are now turned into a netflix series
many people think witchers are witches or witch hunters but theyre not. they were once humans who went through intense training and chemical enhancements to give them super strength and abilities. they were made specifically to hunt monsters.
You guys need to check out the witcher show and witcher 2 trailers! Particularly the witcher 2 intro cinematic. To answer your question about the show, both the game and the show are based on the books as common source material. However they each have their own interpretations, with the witcher 3 mostly telling new stories in the universe, and the series adapting the stories from the books.
The Witcher 3 is a peculiar continuation of the plot of books that was write by CD Projekt Red developers. Story that occurred after the death of Geralt.
The games take place after the books, they are not 1 to 1 adaptation, sort of continuation, but you won't feel lost without one or the other. The tv series mixes very well all kinds of timelines, backgrounds, concepts and events from that world so the viewer can understand and enjoy all aspects of the general story and the characters without the need to know anything beforehand about it and I think it does a really good job of representing the atmosphere and the feel of the Witcher as a whole. Liked it a lot.
Witcher 101 :) Witchers are chosen as children (because child kidnapping is okay apparently) and trained for several years. At a certain age, they undergo a ritual that mutates their bodies giving them certain abilities. Enhanced reflexes, the ability to withstand poisons that would kill most people, low light vision (hence the cat eyes) and a brooding, gravelly voice being the main ones. It also strips them of emotion. Most don't survive, but the few that do go on to become monster hunters and sex machines. They also have various basic 'magical' abilities, called signs (I can't remember the names off the top of my head), such as a force push style concussive blast, a magic shield, a fire blast, a magic circle that can trap or slow down bad guys (vampires, ghosts etc) and a 'hypnotic' spell that can turn enemies into allies for a time. They're basically scary jedi :) Largely seen as freaks and outcasts, witchers perform contracts for those who can pay them to kill monsters, witches (although many witches in the games are good and even ploughable), vampires, ghosts etc. They carry two swords. One is a basic sword for killing humans and unfortunate wildlife for lunch, the other a silver sword, for killing magical beings like monsters, vampires, voldemort etc. So in the first video: Geralt (the main character in the games) and his mentor Vesimir are returning from hunting a beasty (not a deer) to find several soldiers from the Nilfgaard Empire (who presumably hired them) stringing up some unfortunate woman (Nilfgaarians are nasty imperialist types), so Geralt decides to help her by going all Ezio and giving them a tickle with his knife. In the second: Geralt has been hired to kill a vampire with big boobs and after she disappears into the barn, he drinks a potion to make his blood poisonous to her. He goes inside and throws a silver bomb (silver is used against monster types remember) to make her visible. Fight fight fight, she nibbles his jugular and then dies from the poison, slowly rotting away into Kim Kardashian in the sun. Not read the books, but the games (especially the third) are outstanding and the series is also good. This concludes your course. For homework, please write a 1,000 word essay entitled 'Geralt, the magical brooding murder hippy'. I expect it on my desk no later than Friday :)
Incase it wasn’t said. A Witcher is not a witch but a hunter of monsters such as vampires, werewolves and other things like that. They take a potion that gives them the yellow eyes or are they silver.
That very last one, she was a Greater Vampire. The Witchers are genetically modified with magic and other things to become the ultimate predators of all beasts and paranormal beings. The woman at the start is singing a song all Monster Mothers sing to their children at night. The Witcher is their version of the Boogie Man. Witchers are the things that come during night or day to come hunt and murder them. The song is a warning to Monster Children to beware the Witcher, if you think one is after you you need to hide as deep underground as you can get and stay dead silent and pray they keep walking past and don't come after you. DO NOT go up against one, your death will be swift.
Basicly Geralt is a monster hunter and the potions he use is more of a boost to his tactics against his enemies, he is immune to them cause of his training into the witcher arts ,the song from the last video is called Lullaby of woe ruclips.net/video/JFUsPfuwjpw/видео.html and i guess its the lullaby monsters sing to their kids :P
'Witchers' are kind of like magical super soldiers mutated alchemically to kill monsters for pay. The Wild Hunt is essentially like a myth about death and the end of time. I won't spoil what it means exactly, but the Wild Hunt are also the main antogonists of the 3rd Witcher game.
So to clarify things: The "law enforcement" guys were from Nilfgaard, an invading country in that land, Velen. They're soldiers that took it upon themselves to do some extra "law enforcement". The "deer head" was from a creature called a Fiend, or a Chort, a very large deer like creature that doesn't care for humans much The "light power" that he used on the other guy is called "Aard" basically like Force Push from Star Wars. It's a simple spell that Witchers learn to use. A "Witcher" is a mutated human being, basically a superhuman trained in the behavior and hunting of monsters. They're also trained in basic magic like "Aard" and the fire spell you saw "Igni." They aren't the same as Witches, despite the name. Witches are women mages of a certain kind, while a Witcher is a specific sort of creature, a human or elf that has been forcefully evolved through magic and alchemy. The Woman the main character was fighting is a "Bruxa" or a kind of "lesser" vampire, though she is very old and experienced, therefore more powerful than most. The potion he drank is called "The Black Blood", a potion which makes his blood poisonous to vampires, as you saw in the video. The bomb he threw is called "Moon Dust", basically silver splinters that stick to monsters and make them visible.
"Witchers" are trained monster hunters for hire. For gold they take out monsters normal soldiers or people cannot handle. They are highly trained and taught the weaknesses and strengths of the various monsters that haunt their world. And they're almost supermen... trained from childhood, first in martial arts and eventually undergoing magical and chemical treatments that greatly enhance their abilities, strength and stamina. Only about half of them make it to the chemical bit and 7 out of ten of those don't survive. And most don't survive their first "contract" after they graduate.
I would never consider myself a knowledgable witcher fan, I got the witcher 3 on xbox live gold for free, and just gave it a shot when I was bored, and I got sucked in for months, it was incredible, and to see people react to this now is pretty great.
Despite the name, Witchers are neither Witches nor Witch Hunters. They are humans that went through rigorous training and genetic mutations (that gives them, amongst other things, heightened senses and improved physical capabilties, a boost to their immune system and accelerated healing) to become effective monster hunters. And that's basically what they do - they travel the land, looking for jobs killing monsters and other abnormalities. They can also use very basic magic spells (like that telekinetic blast seen in the first short, but also fire magic or protective shields) and they use potions to boost their combat prowess even further or to give them some sort of edge in a fight (like the potion of Black Blood seen here in the last short, that makes his blood poisonous and acts as a counter/trap against monsters that drink blood). And in their fights, they use on of two swords - steel against humans, silver against monsters.
The series is a blend of the games and the books to a point, but the game series is considered a masterpiece. Geralt of RIvia is the Characters name that kills the men. He is a WItcher "Monster hunter" mutant created to do this. He has the habit of stepping into situations where people are mistreated. He is also known as the White Wolf for his white hair and the guild he belongs to as in Witcher School of the Wolf. He is the most famous of Witcher's, he is well accomplished in fighting styles and honestly a true bad ass in his own right. They use bombs, oils, potions and signs in their fighting and the monsters he hunts are contracts local villages and even some kingdoms pay bounties for, hence the head he turns in. The second Witcher is Vessimeer his mentor and leader of the School of the Wolf. There are several types of schools but the wolf is more famous due to Giralt's fame.
Henry Cavil plays Geralt the Witcher in the Netflix series, which is based more on the novels than this game. Interesting not is that Cavil was a huge fan of this GAME, so much so that when he heard Netflix was planning a series he went all out to get the part of Geralt.
They are called witchers because they are monster hunters for money Witchers are people who have magic, sure, but that comes from things like their training and the potions they consume, which are technically poisonous to most people.They carry two swords one made of steel and one made of pure silver for fighting monsters think(Warlock a male Witch)
You're not far off with calling him a "head hunter." I'm pretty sure you meant bounty hunter, which is essentially what he does, though his targets are literal monsters, like fiends, griffons, and vampires to name a few.
Witchers were once humans that go through many trials....one such trial is the trial of grasses. They consume potions and herbs that will either kill them or help them become witchers....giving them near immunity to poisons. In the games you can overdose idk about the books though. They are also faster,stronger,smarter and live longer than humans in Witcher 3 Gearlt is 90 i think?
The books are actually brilliant! There are 7 books. 5 books the pentalogy are a connected story. And 2 books are short stories (netflix show basicly contains many short stories)
By the way, the first trailer is inadequate The girl whom they wanted to hang was accused of murder, cannibalism and other things (the sentence is read). Geralt saved the killer and cannibal and killed ordinary soldiers who performed their duty)))
Netflix show is based on the books the games actually all take place after the last book the netflix adaptation is working its way from the start to the end of the books and if it continues to go good then there gonna do the games. The parts of the books the show covers is nearly dead on accurate. But they take alot of creative liberty with things the books dont cover but just says happend. Like big time lapses and stuff. My only fear is the creative libertys in these parts the books dont cover may derail the books some how...
You guys should react to some more game cinematics (would be amazing). There were already so many, how would Hellgate of London sound like? Unpopular old game with many Bugs, but cool scenes
witchers are humans who were taken as children and given special potions called mutagens. changed their bodies upping resistances had to go through trials as well. after effect is they become no longer virile . i could continue more but instead i recommend you read the books first then play the games :) for games at least wild hunt
Witcher is not witch-hunter.Witch-woman,witcher-man.Witcher is semi-magician warrior.Warrior-protector.He is protecting humans against monsters.And this woman-monster is brooksa.Kind of vampire.Regards from Poland.
Rather than going on about the whats and whys, I'll just recommend you try the games. You can go for Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt without having played any previous games, some things might make less sense but won't hold the experience back. If you play on PC, the choices and outcomes from Witcher and Witcher 2 travels with you to form the base for the events of Witcher 3. If you play on console or don't want to get involved with previous games before getting in to W3, you'll get a set of questions early in the game and depending on how you answer them you set specific events in motion the same way you would by transferring save files from the previous games but will not necessarily understand the context as well. Tl;dr: Play the game. All will be made clear and you will have some of the very best experience of gaming you'll ever know. Guaranteed.
i kinda bit my lip when they said "maybe he just payed him to kill some deer.." hmmmm thats a fiend... its like a deer and hulk had a child... like a giant walking mass of muscle... but yeah i know you guys dont know about that but still.. i kinda want you to react to see it in combat.
A witcher is a monster hunter created by subjecting young boys to torturous magical rituals to mutate their bodies to give the super human qualities. They are also given extensive sword training and education on the various different species of monsters that inhabit the world and a variety of herbs and recipes for creating potions that only witchers, with their mutated stomachs, can survive and benefit from.
Witchers are mutated monster hunters who have been trained since their childhood. That's why he can drink the potions that strengthen him but have incredibly harmful effects on other beings.
He’s a witcher which are humans mutated to hunt monsters, those guys he killed could be perfectly legit and just assholes or completely full of shit, we don’t know. The woman in the second trailer is a type of vampire and the potion he drank made his blood poison to her
The witchers hunt monsters, fiends, vampires, ghosts and the like. The guys in the first video paid him for the kill of the monster, the dear looking thing
Witchers are children that are either promised as a reward to other witchers in lieu of payment for services rendered, or unwanted children abandoned by the roadside by parents who can't afford to feed another child. They are trained, and if successful they will undergo a mutation process that can claim their lives if unsuccessful. The mutation process is in order to heighten their senses and healing abilities. Their role is to study and hunt monsters that have bled into the world through an event known as the conjunction. They are hired by people to undertake these dangerous hunts by people who are plagued by these creatures, and that is how they earn their living. Creatures that are from the conjunction have a weakness to silver which is why the witchers carry 2 swords. One is made of silver. But because of their mutations many other people in the world hate them through their fear and ignorance and they are often persecuted and reviled by the very people they are sworn to protect from abominations. It's a thankless and hard life.
Witchers are monster-hunters created using a technique created by witches. Compared to witches and sorcerors, witcher magic is pretty weak. For many reasons, including the fact that over 2/3 of children taken to become witchers die in the process, nobody is making witchers anymore. But the monsters are still out there, and when normal people try to kill monsters, they usually end up making things worse.
The witcher 3 is really an amazing game, where you can easily spent 100 hours in playtime. Every minute is worth it! The books are good also, i can recommend it for everyone who is interested in fantasy storys. It's from a polish author so it's also inspired from polish fantasy tales. I really like them. Greetings from germany. 😁
Really great react guy's!! One new subs! You need to react to the Star Wars : The Old Republic cinematic video game! They have like 7 videos with a time line and a really good storytelling in these trailers!:)
Best part about this reaction, to me, is that they thought the Fiend head Geralt threw on the ground was a deer. lol.
The Witcher 3 - Deer Hunt .
To be fair if u dont know anything about the Witcher 3 universe then most ppl would make that mistake.
Maybe one with CWD.
It looked like a small fiend head though. Lol
Yep that fiend's head is kinda small, so that's a deer HAHAHA
05:49 Geralt is drinking a potion called "Black blood" which is making his blood poisonous for all Vampire species. (Witchers are imune to most poisons, so it would realy take a lot to poison a witcher)
06:04 Witchers have a natural night vision, thanks to their mutation they get those "cat eyes" there is alos a potion named "Cat" that gives you extra night vision in total darkness.
06:12 The Witcher medallion is not only a guild symbol but also enchanted, so it twitches whenever danger is emerging or magic is casted.
06:23 Geralt is using a so called "Moon dust" which is mixed with silver. Silver is especially damaging to monsters, so it sticks with an invisible monster and weakens it.
06:45 Geralt uses the "Quen" sign, a simple magic sign that produces an energy shield. There are also other Signs like "Igni" that produces fire (Like we have seen with the Griffin) and "Ard" which is simply a "Force pushback" like we have seen in the Killing Monsters Trailer.
06:58 The Vampire bites Geralt, and since Geralt drank the Black blood potion, she now poisens herself and makes her even weaker.
07:34 That's Ard again
07:50 And a Silver Bolt in the back, just to be sure.
08:08 The Butcher Hook is used to hang trophies on it. Normaly a Witcher would cut a trophy from a killed monster as prove of the kill for their client.
OK NERD! (no one cares about your essay)
what I love about witcher powers is it takes a LOT to get him/her drunk
@@shamsmehdi3725 No one cares about your response, seeing as you don't have anything useful to add, at all. He provided useful details which explain things a bit, while you're just blowing out useless hot air.
shams mehdi you seemed to care enough to make a comment about it
@@lorgrenbenirus leave him just be, just dont feed the troll.
I love how the monsters sing a lullaby about witchers to scare their children.
thats a story from the DLC, the trailer get a new meaning after you finish the blood and wine and go thru a specific arc there
@@Kasanow from what i understand, the trailer and the quest arent the same person/monster even though they look very much alike
@@mithshude that is Orianna in the last DLC Clip. Same Greater Vampire as in the story.
@@mithshude They are. Oriana sings this song when Geralt visits her. Also he told her he will come back for her. This is why they know each other in the trailer.
They don't
the witcher 3 is by far one of the best games ever made.
far above all its peers.
The "sheriff's badge" is a gold sunburst, the national symbol of the Nilfgaardian Empire. The Kingdom of Redania has a silver eagle on a red field. Temeria has three fleur-de-lys lilies on a blue field.
All of the kingdoms are messed up but screw nilfgaard and Redania
The games and the netflix series are both based on the Polish book series. A witcher is a human that has been mutated and trained to hunt monsters for gold as a profession.
The setting is medieval with magic and fantasy based themes, yet the world is very dark and full of evil. The woman in the last trailer is a species of vampire and incredibly powerful.
Through their mutations witchers are able to consume potions and mixtures that can strengthen them, but most of these potions are lethal to ordinary humans.
The potion used in the vampire fight is called Black Blood, it is a high risk high reward kind of thing. As it requires the user to get bitten for it to have an effect.
yep, as we say "Wódka i słowiańska magia" about how the witcher 3 came to be, the world is based on europe, and i can say one thing, no matter what, Polish version is better.Every monster here is based on myths from all over Poland and its neighbours(except germany)
The witcher are trained fighter against everything unnatural like gryphons, demons, undead, ghosts.....
Witchers have different kind of runespells to power them self up a bit or hurt the enemy like a kinetic push, body shield, a firewave....
They drink potions to power themself up but they poison themself with this too. To all other these potions are only poison with no other effect.
The witcher "guild" is hunted down by an old enemy of mankind called "the wild hunt".
Most humans hate witchers too but tolerate them more or less.
To clear things up a bit:
Witchers are not just trained fighters. They are mutated humans, who are taken as children by different Witcher schools. After they complete their combat training and studying different monster and magical lore, they undergo the Trial of the Grasses. They are injected with different potions and magical herbs. It is said to be excruciatingly painful, and I believe the statistic is that only 3 out of 10 children survive this process. If they survive, they wake up with enhanced senses, increased strength, agility and stamina, as well as a bunch of other benefits. The trade-off is, most Witchers lose the majority of their sense of emotion.
Their spells are called Signs. They are very simple but effective spells they can cast by just making a specific movement with their hand and fingers.
The potions they drink are toxic to humans, but Witchers have a very high resistance to them, and their metabolism is way higher than a human's. Most potions will outright kill a human if they aren't a Witcher. The potion Geralt drank in the cinematic that made his blood "poison" is called Black Blood. It isn't poison to Geralt, it's poison to Vampires and Ghouls.
@Hauke Holst Some of the "unnaturals" came to the witcher world, when two worlds overlapped and they came through "dimensional portals", like the vampires.
@@Evravon i know. I played the games too but its not helpfull to get to much into detail.
I know that it is a hellish and deadly training with the mutation and poisons. Only 1 of 10 kids survive the training.
These are all details they dont really need to get an overall view about what happend in the trailer.
And the signs they use are not related to old things like alchemy or runes?
The sugn Igni is related to ignis - an alchemic symbol of fire and these are based on runes. Not everybody knows alchemy or signs related things. But almost everybody has seen runes in there life even if they dont know it.
@@Exocrime I didn't say anything about them not being related to runes. I just said they are called Signs. They are the only form of magic "spells" Witchers are capable of using.
Actually the witcher schools were not hunted down by the wild hunt... They were destroyed by the people out of fear. The wild hunt is an enemy of Geralt not of the witchers themselves.
Witcher 3 was the best game i ever played - there is no good and evil but the „good“ ending still feels perfect - its not phantasy its a completely magical phantasy world that feels like real life with real problems
A DEER. its so much more than that xD
Its an annoying to kill monster "deer" if you want to put like that but if you (not you @datydabom ) want to know more play the game
The "sword of destiny trailer" gives a little bit of backstory
is that the one with Gob Bleuth? Sword of destiny trick?
He’s a monster hunter. They pay him to hunt monsters that they’d die trying to kill. Also, the bird was a griffin, and the girl was a bruxa, a special type of vampire 😁😁😁😁
In the last vid, the woman is actually a vampire type called a Bruxa, usually they can pass as human females, but when turned they can go invisible and are very hard to detect. (In the Witcher World there are about 8 different types of vampiric monsters, some of which are in monster form all the time.) The "potion" he drinks before he goes into the barn is called Black Blood; it essentially renders a Witcher's blood toxic to a vampire. They drink it, they get pain and damage. (Only a Witcher can use most potions...an unmutated human would probably die fairly quickly.) The glass sphere he throws up in the barn is one of several "bombs" Witchers use. Kinda like grenades. It's probably Moon Dust, a concoction containing silver shards that makes an invisible monster visible who is vulnerable to silver. Most monsters are hurt by silver; that's why Witchers carry two swords, one steel for use against humans and beasts and one which is coated with silver for use against monsters. A steel sword doesn't do as much damage against a monster. A silver sword can kill beasts or humans but it's not as strong as a steel sword; but the silver coating does powerful damage to a monster. Steel is for humans, dwarves, elves, wolves, bears. Silver is for undead, golems, trolls, vampires and specters.
Did you look at the so called "deers" head:)? Does that look like a normal deer to you:)?
absolutly! sharp teeth, three eyes looks like the average deer to me... XD
@Leon Russell thx captain obvious... ;-)
@Leon Russell UNO revers card!
Chernobyl deer
That "deer head" is the head of a "leshen." This is a sort of "nature monster"...it can control its size, can summon wolves to aid it, can cause tree roots and branches to entangle its enemies, can go invisible and pop up at different points. Think of it as a monster that can inhabit and control forests and the natural elements in a forest; you'll only find them in forests. Gamewise it's one of the more dangerous monsters, but once you kill it, it doesn't "look" that dangerous. It can hurt you itself but it can also manipulate all the elements of a forest to fight against you.
The 3rd Trailer is titled "A Night to Remember" and the vampire was a species known as a "Bruxa", which are particularly fast, agile. experts and camouflaging their presence, and very hard to destroy. It is partially based one one specific story in the Witcher books, where Geralt encounters a Bruxa but is unaware of it, until he realises (leaving the place) how nervous his horse Roach seemed from the moment he arrived at the farmstead.
Witchers can cast a shield, a circular trap, fire, mind control and a telekinetic blast.
A witchers medalion is there to alert others that he's a witcher and, more importantly, it starts jittering when there's magic in the vicinity.
A witcher is a mutant, trained and mutated from childhood to have superior reflexes and strength, who hunts all magical beings for coin.
When magic arrived into the world, wizards experimented on children and made witchers to deal with all the magical beings that appeared. Now though, witchers are seen as an insult to humanity.
Geralt of Rivia is a Witcher, a mutated human who has heightened senses, strength, speed, and knowledgeable on monsters, basic magic called signs, and a knowledge on how to brew potions and make bombs. The mutations have also given them cat like eyes. There used to be hundreds of witchers but after humans started viewing them as monsters and freaks, they stopped making and training more witchers so now theres only a handful. There are several types of witcher schools called the Griffin, Viper, Bear, Cat, and Wolf which Geralt hails from. Each school gives fully fledged witchers a medallion of their school (Geralt has a wolf head) that vibrates when danger is close by. A Witcher also carries 2 swords, steel for humans and silver for monsters. Witchers hunt an assortment of monsters from Vampires, Wraiths, and Ghouls to monsters so hideous you wouldn't be able to imagine them until you've see them. Geralt of Rivia is the best known Witcher due to his participation in several events important to history and his friend, Dandelion, a poet having used his story to make his own music and poems. Geralt also went through further mutations after his general witcher mutations which gives him the white hair but also making him faster, stronger, and more resilient than other witchers.
"almost looked like he had a sheriff's badge on"
*shakes*
For the last video, she is not a witch, but a vampire. Geralt knew against this kind of creature you need to drink the ''black blood'' potion to protect you againt bite. :3
Not just any kind of vampire, but a Bruxa, a higher Vampire of considerable power and intelligence, way above the lesser ones, 2nd only to the real Vampire MVPs the HIGH Vampire.
Usually appearing as a normal human woman, but dont get in their way and have them turn their true selfs out, coz thats most likely the last you'll see.
The Bomb btw is Moon Dust, taking away the invisibility and transformative abilities by littering the creature with silver particles.
About the "Black Blood" Potion.: No its not to protect against the bite, its to be bitten and poisoning and weaken the vampire drinking that spiked blood.
SOME TYPE OF DEER. i need to watch them play the game. "Dragon flies over" oh hey look some kind of bird idk
In this game and the original novel, a witcher is a monster hunter, a mutant, can use some basic magic for defense and offense called signs, , have knowledge of curse lifting ritual, but they’re not a witch/ mage/ sorcerer, mage is a mage and a witcher is a witcher, oh and what he drank on that cinematic trailer is a potion called black blood, it make his blood lethal to any blood sucking monsters, and what he fought was a bruxa, a type of vampire
Geralt is a Witcher, which in simple terms a Human who underwent forced mutation to gain the necessary strength to become a monster hunter. They use a variety of potions and tools and basic utility spells in the process. You guys were spot on in the third trailer, the potion he drank before entering the barn was called the Black Blood potion, which poisons his own blood as a counter measure to monsters that will drink blood such as the vampire he was fighting.
There are sorcerers and sorceresses in this world who are closer to what we would consider "witches." A Witcher is a person who has been trained from childhood (between 7 to 9 years old) in specific martial arts, alchemy to produce potions and oils which can heighten his senses and strength, and has been "mutated" to give him extended lifespan, strength, senses such as hearing. Only about 3 out of 10 children survive the mutation process. More are maimed or killed undergoing the physical training. The do have five very limited powers you could call "magic" or "spells." Witchers call these "signs." The part in the first trailer where Geralt knocks the guy back with a wave of his hand is the Aard sign, a kind of force blow that can knock things back or knock through walls or doors. The fire he uses in the 2nd is called Igni and can be single blasts or at higher levels sort of a flamethrower effect. There is Quen, which is a protective force field a Witcher can throw over himself to protect him from physical or magical attacks. There is Yrden, where a Witcher casts a circle of temporary runes on the ground around himself...it slows and can damage monsters and can also weaken undead creatures such as specters or golems. The last Sign is Axii, which is a limited mind control power. It can induce a target to do what the Witcher tells him to do, or in combat it can stun or befuddle an enemy so the Witcher can attack him when he's not alert. At higher levels, Axii can actually cause an enemy to temporarily switch sides and fight on the Witcher's side for a brief period. The Signs are magic, but they're like firecrackers compared to the heavy artillery a Sorceress can use.
That "deer" at the beginning was a LESHEN or a FIEND lol. The Vampire is a Bruxa. The potion he took was Black Blood. Deadly to vampires.
That woman is a sub-type of vampire called bruxa, theres a bunch of em ranging from bestial nonsentient animals to highly cultured and sophisticated ones that can pass as human. Witchers go through certain alchemical rituals that mutate them so that their body can tolerate these potions, it would ordinarily kill a person. That thing in the beginning isnt a deer but a monster called a fiend.
The Netflix series is accurate based on the Witcher books by the Polish author Andrzei Sapkowski and most of the episodes are based on short stories or parts of novels he wrote. The Witcher video games (there have been three, The Witcher, Witcher 2, Assassin of Kings, and The Witcher 3, the Wild Hunt.) The Netflix series, while based on the books, was probably set forward because of the really hardcore success of the games as well as the books. Henry Cavell, who plays Geralt in the series is a rabid fan of the games. When he heard Netflix was going to do a series, he went all out to get the part. There is some talk that Mark Hamill may take the part of Vesemir in the next season, the oldest Witcher of the Wolf School, who taught Geralt the trade. (There are several Witcher "schools." Geralt was taught in the Wolf school, medium armor and a balance of Witcher skills. There is the Bear School, very heavy armor and more into martial arts, the Viper school, more into potions, poisons and lighter weapons, The Griffin School, medium armor and heavy into signs, and the School of the Cat...which as far as lore goes is the only school that trained Elves as well as humans and has sort of degraded from just monster hunters into part time assassins; the Cats aren't popular with regular people or other Witchers. There is also a Manticore school but that is pretty much extinct.)
1:40 damn I can't stop laughin' when he thinks it's a deer lmao
Geralts line in the killing monsters cinematic illustrates the world of the witcher incredibly well. they just came back from a hunt, they killed a monster that was bothering and killing townsfolk and destroying trade routes, they received their payment. yet the one's paying them are inflicting needless pain for 'looting' 'cannibalism' 'and killing the wounded' which indicate she looted a battlefield killing every almost dead soldier she came across for water, food, things to sell. flesh to eat.. she lives in a world torn by war and on the very brink of total destruction, she had no other choice if she wants to live. as we all do. when they see this, Vesemir says to Geralt 'take the reward and lets go' as if to say 'this is not why we came here for, we already did our job'' but to Geralt, 'Evil is Evil, lesser, greater, midling, makes no difference'' To Geralt, the soldiers that just payed him are none different then the deadly monster he just defeated. no less evil, no more. ''The degree is arbitrary, the definition is blurred' you can interpret the last line how you wish ^^ cause thats what you do in the game, you choose as Geralt. in a world thats filled to the brim with choice, misfortune, chance, and victory, flogged and torn by war. what would you choose?
The game is actually based on a series of short stories and novels from a polish writer named Andrzej Sapkowski. The game itself is mostly set after the events of the books. Witchers are humans who have been mutated through magical means and they are essentially mercenaries who fight monsters for money. They are hated because of their supposed greed as well as being created by magic. Magic is considered taboo by many in this universe. And many of the monsters in the books and games are based on Polish folklore, which is incredibly cool.
Geralt is a Witcher, a professional monster slayer. Whenever there is a supernatural monster of some sort that ordinary soldiers or humans can't kill or would take heavy casualties doing so, they hire a Witcher, who has been trained since childhood to know the weaknesses of different kinds of monsters and the best ways to deal with them. That head that gets dropped is probably that of a monster called a leshen, an elder monster that can control wolves and such, affect trees and is pretty powerful...not just a deer. Witchers don't take sides so much in the war torn lands...they just take contracts. In this case it appears the witcher has been given a contract by the forces of Nilfgaard, one of the more powerful nations. The guys they come upon are Nilfgaardian troops operating in Velen...sort of a no-mans-land between their own Empire and that of Redania. The woman is probably just a normal person who happens to be a citizen of one of the lesser kingdoms. Whether she is guilty of those crimes they guy is listing is academic...she's not on their side so they just list the things she may or may not have done as an excuse to string her up or beat her to death. "Death by hanging or torment." to use his words. Geralt has done the job he was hired to do and gotten paid...but he's a neutral...just because he worked for Nilfgaard doesn't mean he has to ignore an atrocity as he passes by.
Its actually a popular fantasy novel series in Poland by Andrej Sapowski..It WAS made into a tv series in the 90's for Polish audiences only..but it wasnt that great
The games came out later..mostly on PC ( Rise of the white wolf, Assassin's of kings) but was released mostly to console ( Xbox, Playstation) a lot later.
The latest game (Witcher 3), is one of the best games of 2015 and possibly one of the best open world games of all time..
Henry Cavill currently plays Geralt in the Netflix Adaptation.
1. geralt is a witcher, a purposefully mutated human, who gets trained to hunt monsters like vampires, fiends, griffons, basilisks etc.
so yeah, witchers are something like headhunters for monsters
for those monsters witchers use silver swords, as silver is wounding against monsters.
geralt has a special moral codex, that he helps humans against thugs too, but also protects the "monsters" if they are innocent.
silver is for monsters, steel for the other kind of monsters.
his "badge" is an amulet, wich is enchanted to detect magic and also tells everybody that he is a witcher.
witchers are latent magic users and can use certain magic signs like Aard in the 1. cinematic.
also witchers are shunned by society, as they are no longer seen as human. they are treated worse than beggars and often people who engaged a witcher try to cheat him on his payment.
2. the games are a sequel to the book series by sapkovski, a polish book author. those books are now turned into a netflix series
That's not a deer, thats fiend. A very dangerous and powerful monster.
many people think witchers are witches or witch hunters but theyre not. they were once humans who went through intense training and chemical enhancements to give them super strength and abilities. they were made specifically to hunt monsters.
1:25 That is not a head of a deer - that is a head of a bies (fiend), a very dangerous and aggressive monster, usually present on fields and in woods.
You guys need to check out the witcher show and witcher 2 trailers! Particularly the witcher 2 intro cinematic. To answer your question about the show, both the game and the show are based on the books as common source material. However they each have their own interpretations, with the witcher 3 mostly telling new stories in the universe, and the series adapting the stories from the books.
The Witcher 3 is a peculiar continuation of the plot of books that was write by CD Projekt Red developers. Story that occurred after the death of Geralt.
The games take place after the books, they are not 1 to 1 adaptation, sort of continuation, but you won't feel lost without one or the other. The tv series mixes very well all kinds of timelines, backgrounds, concepts and events from that world so the viewer can understand and enjoy all aspects of the general story and the characters without the need to know anything beforehand about it and I think it does a really good job of representing the atmosphere and the feel of the Witcher as a whole. Liked it a lot.
Witcher 101 :)
Witchers are chosen as children (because child kidnapping is okay apparently) and trained for several years. At a certain age, they undergo a ritual that mutates their bodies giving them certain abilities. Enhanced reflexes, the ability to withstand poisons that would kill most people, low light vision (hence the cat eyes) and a brooding, gravelly voice being the main ones. It also strips them of emotion. Most don't survive, but the few that do go on to become monster hunters and sex machines. They also have various basic 'magical' abilities, called signs (I can't remember the names off the top of my head), such as a force push style concussive blast, a magic shield, a fire blast, a magic circle that can trap or slow down bad guys (vampires, ghosts etc) and a 'hypnotic' spell that can turn enemies into allies for a time. They're basically scary jedi :)
Largely seen as freaks and outcasts, witchers perform contracts for those who can pay them to kill monsters, witches (although many witches in the games are good and even ploughable), vampires, ghosts etc. They carry two swords. One is a basic sword for killing humans and unfortunate wildlife for lunch, the other a silver sword, for killing magical beings like monsters, vampires, voldemort etc.
So in the first video:
Geralt (the main character in the games) and his mentor Vesimir are returning from hunting a beasty (not a deer) to find several soldiers from the Nilfgaard Empire (who presumably hired them) stringing up some unfortunate woman (Nilfgaarians are nasty imperialist types), so Geralt decides to help her by going all Ezio and giving them a tickle with his knife.
In the second:
Geralt has been hired to kill a vampire with big boobs and after she disappears into the barn, he drinks a potion to make his blood poisonous to her. He goes inside and throws a silver bomb (silver is used against monster types remember) to make her visible. Fight fight fight, she nibbles his jugular and then dies from the poison, slowly rotting away into Kim Kardashian in the sun.
Not read the books, but the games (especially the third) are outstanding and the series is also good.
This concludes your course. For homework, please write a 1,000 word essay entitled 'Geralt, the magical brooding murder hippy'. I expect it on my desk no later than Friday :)
Incase it wasn’t said. A Witcher is not a witch but a hunter of monsters such as vampires, werewolves and other things like that. They take a potion that gives them the yellow eyes or are they silver.
That very last one, she was a Greater Vampire. The Witchers are genetically modified with magic and other things to become the ultimate predators of all beasts and paranormal beings. The woman at the start is singing a song all Monster Mothers sing to their children at night. The Witcher is their version of the Boogie Man. Witchers are the things that come during night or day to come hunt and murder them. The song is a warning to Monster Children to beware the Witcher, if you think one is after you you need to hide as deep underground as you can get and stay dead silent and pray they keep walking past and don't come after you. DO NOT go up against one, your death will be swift.
Basicly Geralt is a monster hunter and the potions he use is more of a boost to his tactics against his enemies, he is immune to them cause of his training into the witcher arts ,the song from the last video is called Lullaby of woe ruclips.net/video/JFUsPfuwjpw/видео.html and i guess its the lullaby monsters sing to their kids :P
'Witchers' are kind of like magical super soldiers mutated alchemically to kill monsters for pay. The Wild Hunt is essentially like a myth about death and the end of time. I won't spoil what it means exactly, but the Wild Hunt are also the main antogonists of the 3rd Witcher game.
So to clarify things:
The "law enforcement" guys were from Nilfgaard, an invading country in that land, Velen. They're soldiers that took it upon themselves to do some extra "law enforcement".
The "deer head" was from a creature called a Fiend, or a Chort, a very large deer like creature that doesn't care for humans much
The "light power" that he used on the other guy is called "Aard" basically like Force Push from Star Wars. It's a simple spell that Witchers learn to use.
A "Witcher" is a mutated human being, basically a superhuman trained in the behavior and hunting of monsters. They're also trained in basic magic like "Aard" and the fire spell you saw "Igni." They aren't the same as Witches, despite the name. Witches are women mages of a certain kind, while a Witcher is a specific sort of creature, a human or elf that has been forcefully evolved through magic and alchemy.
The Woman the main character was fighting is a "Bruxa" or a kind of "lesser" vampire, though she is very old and experienced, therefore more powerful than most.
The potion he drank is called "The Black Blood", a potion which makes his blood poisonous to vampires, as you saw in the video.
The bomb he threw is called "Moon Dust", basically silver splinters that stick to monsters and make them visible.
"Witchers" are trained monster hunters for hire. For gold they take out monsters normal soldiers or people cannot handle. They are highly trained and taught the weaknesses and strengths of the various monsters that haunt their world. And they're almost supermen... trained from childhood, first in martial arts and eventually undergoing magical and chemical treatments that greatly enhance their abilities, strength and stamina. Only about half of them make it to the chemical bit and 7 out of ten of those don't survive. And most don't survive their first "contract" after they graduate.
I would never consider myself a knowledgable witcher fan, I got the witcher 3 on xbox live gold for free, and just gave it a shot when I was bored, and I got sucked in for months, it was incredible, and to see people react to this now is pretty great.
Despite the name, Witchers are neither Witches nor Witch Hunters. They are humans that went through rigorous training and genetic mutations (that gives them, amongst other things, heightened senses and improved physical capabilties, a boost to their immune system and accelerated healing) to become effective monster hunters. And that's basically what they do - they travel the land, looking for jobs killing monsters and other abnormalities. They can also use very basic magic spells (like that telekinetic blast seen in the first short, but also fire magic or protective shields) and they use potions to boost their combat prowess even further or to give them some sort of edge in a fight (like the potion of Black Blood seen here in the last short, that makes his blood poisonous and acts as a counter/trap against monsters that drink blood). And in their fights, they use on of two swords - steel against humans, silver against monsters.
The series is a blend of the games and the books to a point, but the game series is considered a masterpiece. Geralt of RIvia is the Characters name that kills the men. He is a WItcher "Monster hunter" mutant created to do this. He has the habit of stepping into situations where people are mistreated. He is also known as the White Wolf for his white hair and the guild he belongs to as in Witcher School of the Wolf. He is the most famous of Witcher's, he is well accomplished in fighting styles and honestly a true bad ass in his own right. They use bombs, oils, potions and signs in their fighting and the monsters he hunts are contracts local villages and even some kingdoms pay bounties for, hence the head he turns in. The second Witcher is Vessimeer his mentor and leader of the School of the Wolf. There are several types of schools but the wolf is more famous due to Giralt's fame.
The Witcher Netflix series is actually based off the orginal Polish book series. The games take place after the books.
Henry Cavil plays Geralt the Witcher in the Netflix series, which is based more on the novels than this game. Interesting not is that Cavil was a huge fan of this GAME, so much so that when he heard Netflix was planning a series he went all out to get the part of Geralt.
You actually missed the "close your eyes" line, one of the strongest in this trailer I think
They are called witchers because they are monster hunters for money Witchers are people who have magic, sure, but that comes from things like their training and the potions they consume, which are technically poisonous to most people.They carry two swords one made of steel and one made of pure silver for fighting monsters think(Warlock a male Witch)
Series were actually first but not at Netflix. There are polish version of the story long before game.
You're not far off with calling him a "head hunter." I'm pretty sure you meant bounty hunter, which is essentially what he does, though his targets are literal monsters, like fiends, griffons, and vampires to name a few.
Witchers were once humans that go through many trials....one such trial is the trial of grasses. They consume potions and herbs that will either kill them or help them become witchers....giving them near immunity to poisons. In the games you can overdose idk about the books though. They are also faster,stronger,smarter and live longer than humans in Witcher 3 Gearlt is 90 i think?
All the youtubers : oh it's a deer
Me : it's a god damn fiend !!!!
He turned his blood into a super acid like the Alien(s). We do see it burn the ground when it hits.
The review series " zero punctuation" explained it pretty well too.
The books are actually brilliant! There are 7 books. 5 books the pentalogy are a connected story. And 2 books are short stories (netflix show basicly contains many short stories)
By the way, the first trailer is inadequate
The girl whom they wanted to hang was accused of murder, cannibalism and other things (the sentence is read). Geralt saved the killer and cannibal and killed ordinary soldiers who performed their duty)))
From their perspective it was right, from his perspective it was right, all that matter is the only one who is allowed to judge it are the ones alive
I have a question for you guys. Are you interested in playing the game after watching the trailers? It's a great game.
Great reaction 🤘😎👍
Netflix show is based on the books the games actually all take place after the last book the netflix adaptation is working its way from the start to the end of the books and if it continues to go good then there gonna do the games. The parts of the books the show covers is nearly dead on accurate. But they take alot of creative liberty with things the books dont cover but just says happend. Like big time lapses and stuff. My only fear is the creative libertys in these parts the books dont cover may derail the books some how...
You guys should react to some more game cinematics (would be amazing).
There were already so many, how would Hellgate of London sound like? Unpopular old game with many Bugs, but cool scenes
the thing that looks like a badge is the sun of nilfgard. its on all soldiers of nilfgard armour
witchers are humans who were taken as children and given special potions called mutagens. changed their bodies upping resistances had to go through trials as well. after effect is they become no longer virile . i could continue more but instead i recommend you read the books first then play the games :) for games at least wild hunt
Headhunter? Close. Monster hunter, professional. Highly trained and highly mutated for all manner of benefits.
Check out the first cinematic of the Witcher 3 Wild Hunt. It’s comic book style but it explains what a Witcher is.
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Here is a link to the animated cinematic.
Witcher is not witch-hunter.Witch-woman,witcher-man.Witcher is semi-magician warrior.Warrior-protector.He is protecting humans against monsters.And this woman-monster is brooksa.Kind of vampire.Regards from Poland.
Rather than going on about the whats and whys, I'll just recommend you try the games. You can go for Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt without having played any previous games, some things might make less sense but won't hold the experience back. If you play on PC, the choices and outcomes from Witcher and Witcher 2 travels with you to form the base for the events of Witcher 3. If you play on console or don't want to get involved with previous games before getting in to W3, you'll get a set of questions early in the game and depending on how you answer them you set specific events in motion the same way you would by transferring save files from the previous games but will not necessarily understand the context as well.
Tl;dr: Play the game. All will be made clear and you will have some of the very best experience of gaming you'll ever know. Guaranteed.
i kinda bit my lip when they said "maybe he just payed him to kill some deer.." hmmmm thats a fiend... its like a deer and hulk had a child... like a giant walking mass of muscle... but yeah i know you guys dont know about that but still.. i kinda want you to react to see it in combat.
A witcher is a monster hunter created by subjecting young boys to torturous magical rituals to mutate their bodies to give the super human qualities. They are also given extensive sword training and education on the various different species of monsters that inhabit the world and a variety of herbs and recipes for creating potions that only witchers, with their mutated stomachs, can survive and benefit from.
The deer head is a mister in the witcher called a friend so they were payed to hunt that, they're much worse than they look 😂😅
The Witcher holds 2 swords.
The of them is a silver sword and is for monsters and the other one is for humans but BOTH are for monsters.
He’s a Witch hunter. He just has the power to take them down.
Спасибо за реакцию!)
Witchers are mutated monster hunters who have been trained since their childhood. That's why he can drink the potions that strengthen him but have incredibly harmful effects on other beings.
He’s a witcher which are humans mutated to hunt monsters, those guys he killed could be perfectly legit and just assholes or completely full of shit, we don’t know. The woman in the second trailer is a type of vampire and the potion he drank made his blood poison to her
The witchers hunt monsters, fiends, vampires, ghosts and the like. The guys in the first video paid him for the kill of the monster, the dear looking thing
I love that this man called that thing a deer. 🤣 you must live by Chernobyl if your deer look like that! Lol love you guys though
Witchers are children that are either promised as a reward to other witchers in lieu of payment for services rendered, or unwanted children abandoned by the roadside by parents who can't afford to feed another child. They are trained, and if successful they will undergo a mutation process that can claim their lives if unsuccessful. The mutation process is in order to heighten their senses and healing abilities. Their role is to study and hunt monsters that have bled into the world through an event known as the conjunction. They are hired by people to undertake these dangerous hunts by people who are plagued by these creatures, and that is how they earn their living. Creatures that are from the conjunction have a weakness to silver which is why the witchers carry 2 swords. One is made of silver. But because of their mutations many other people in the world hate them through their fear and ignorance and they are often persecuted and reviled by the very people they are sworn to protect from abominations. It's a thankless and hard life.
Witcher's have a really high metabolism so they can drink very toxic potions
Witchers are monster-hunters created using a technique created by witches. Compared to witches and sorcerors, witcher magic is pretty weak. For many reasons, including the fact that over 2/3 of children taken to become witchers die in the process, nobody is making witchers anymore. But the monsters are still out there, and when normal people try to kill monsters, they usually end up making things worse.
Man wither is great I used to watch the polish tv show when I was a kid it was low budget but still great story
The witcher 3 is really an amazing game, where you can easily spent 100 hours in playtime. Every minute is worth it! The books are good also, i can recommend it for everyone who is interested in fantasy storys. It's from a polish author so it's also inspired from polish fantasy tales. I really like them. Greetings from germany. 😁
Witcher3/Wiedźmin3 was also called pc killer for some time
Even do not compare netflix crap to this masterpiece.
You guys should react to the netflix show, it's really good
I love watching normies get introduced to this really cool universe
Greetings from Poland ;)
A witam i dołączam do powitania
4:21 ... I think she meant to say bounty hunter. which would be accurate
That's not a deer. That is a monster.
If you think that head looked like a deer, then you've never left the city have you? Lol😂👍
the potion he drank made his blood poisonous to her ;)
Killing monsters & A night to remember :p
Wishing we could see CyberPunk 2077 commercials of this caliber too. Same company afterall.
Yeah, given the production values that went into the witcher trailers, the Cyberpunk ones make it look a bit like an indie game :/
tbh CDPR made books popular if the game wasn't made books would never be so popular
And the best way to think of a witcher is a Jedi on roids in medieval times who hunt monsters
Really great react guy's!! One new subs! You need to react to the Star Wars : The Old Republic cinematic video game! They have like 7 videos with a time line and a really good storytelling in these trailers!:)
This game has nothing to do with witchcraft.
What do you call the witches of crookback bog? Or the harem of sexy sorceresses?
@@KiIowatt lol
Yennefer the one and only good choice
yea that wasn't a deer head it was a fiend head (a powerful monster)
Games and TV show are based on books by Andrzej Sapkowski
You guys should react to the elder scrolls cinematic trailers. They're really really good. 👌🏼