World of the Witcher | Geography, History, Cultures (No Spoilers)
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- Опубликовано: 22 авг 2024
- A brief history and exploration of the World of the Witcher, including the realms, peoples and notable locations of the continent. Based on the Witcher series by Andrzej Sapkowski.
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I love the politics of The Witcher. The Netflix show leaves alot untold. I understand the general audience doesn't care but I love the world building.
I mean there aren't too much politics in season 1 because it was based on the first 2 books. But there will be more politics and worldbuilding in season 2. Beside in season 1 they made a good job establishing the lore.
@@donrog5035 True. The series is based on the first parts of the books and let's keep in mind the budget. Luckily the series has great reception so as time goes on it will have more world building. As it is it's just a fun series as must be enjoyed as such.
Your soooo smart bro. Wish us peasants had big boy brain like you . Very sad
@@chasedufty2406 I think a normal brain can comprehend tv show politics. Some people just are not interested.
@@WeGameHard ah yes, ppl doesn’t care about politics. Wonder how GoT got such large sucess.
I wish there's a Witcher 4 where we get to dive more into the politics and history of the lore as well as visit all the kingdoms or at least major ones.
There is one in the making
CDPR is working on a 4th witcher game
crazy how theres all of this world building and lore and it all takes place on this relatively small part of this continent... gives me thee same vibe as Game of Thrones having the most eastern part of Essos and the entire continent of Sothoryos be a big mystery to anyone in the main story, just shows how much more there is to these worlds we'll probably never see or know about, just like someone living in those worlds
And there may be even more continents in Game Of Thrones world.
Suggested Reading Order for the Witcher Books:
The Last Wish
*Season of Storms
Sword of Destiny
Blood of Elves
Time of Contempt
Baptism of Fire
Tower of the Swallow
Lady of the Lake
*Season of Storms
*Most of the events in Season of Storms happen around the time of the Last Wish, so you can read it as the second book if you want. However the Epilogue of SoS takes place after the events of all the books and reveals some interesting information. And since the main story in SoS is not integral to the main plot of the other books it is also acceptable to read it last.
*A Brief Note on Canon:*
Strictly speaking, canon for this universe is based solely on what the author has written or said. This includes the 5 main novels and 3 books of short stories, along with interviews and other writings like Dynasties, which contains his notes on certain royal families.
And while canon on this Channel will be similar, there will be some exceptions. So below I have outlined exactly what is considered Witcher canon for Civilization Ex.
Primary Canon:
This will be the main source of information for all videos. Almost all the information given will be from these sources.
Short Stories -
The Last Wish
Sword of Destiny
Season of Storms
Main Novels -
Blood of Elves
Time of Contempt
Baptism by Fire
Tower of the Swallow
Lady of the Lake
Other -
Andrzej Sapkowski Interviews
Assorted Andrzej Sapkowski Writings like "Dynasties"
Secondary Canon:
This will be from other books, non-netflix shows and movies, roleplay games and comics, written by authors other than Andrzej Sapkowski. These sources will only occasionally be used, and only when there is very little information about a certain topic.
For example, almost no information exists about Werebbubbs in Primary Canon, so some minor points about them are taken from secondary sources.
In the rare occasion when Secondary canon is used, I will say or write qualifying words like "maybe" or "possibly". These words indicate that the information is not from a primary source and therefore cannot be considered 100% accurate.
Tertiary Canon:
This will be from the CD Projekt Red games. These sources will almost never be used, however many of the drawings in these videos will be based on the games, though they will usually be blended with book descriptions.
For example, Dandelion's look is based on the games, but his hair color is from the books.
The Witcher
The Witcher 2
The Witcher 3
All Expansions and DLCs
Gwent Trading Card Game
Thronebreaker
TV Canon:
The Netflix shows and movies will never be used as sources in these videos, UNLESS the title specifically says it will.
For example, with every new season of the Witcher show I will make a season recap based on the last season which will exclusively feature show canon material.
Thank you for not using Netflix canon, it's an abomination!
Very well done. Good flow of history and physical path to follow. I also like the more esoteric points on display such as the primary currency in each nation (considering how highly detailed the author gets in terms of economics, this is a good reference).
Maybe its just me, but after watching this I kind of want a Witcher Strategy game where you play as the different races or kingdoms at different points within the worlds history.
Crusader kings 2 has a mod that does exactly that.
Thank you. This will be super helpful. I'm trying to run a homebrew Witcher campaign in dnd that'll be a collection of one shot hunts across the land so knowing stuff about all these nations is awesome.
This feels like a D&D world that just got turned into a book.
Read dragonlance they played a game and turned it into a book series
@@MrDadankness that was my thought
how?
Sapkowski was accused of precisely that when the books first came out and his response was along the lines of "Get a fucking grip, you illiterate god damned monkeys, and shut the hell up".
So I doubt it´s the case.
its called "fantasy" you dipshit
It's funny how the elves go on and on about how the continent belongs to them and yet the frigging Gnomes have been there longer than they have
Yup! They came over and slaughtered gnomes and dwarves, just like the humans would come and do to them. Ironic
Right of Conquest is a thing for societies before... well I think it was the fucking IN that officially ended it. To the Elves they did rule but are now defeated.
Toss a coin
Jokes aside, love you and your content.
This is so beautifully done. Thanks. I have just started the games and have been travelling putting the politics and history together. This puts everything in perspective too much to a point that even gwent makes sense now 😅
Thanks
Thanks it helped a lot
Can you please do Dune? It would be awesome with your style of videos 🙏
I will some day, probably when the sequel movie comes out.
@@CivilizationEx Glad to hear that. I'll be waiting impatiently. 😁🙏
@@CivilizationEx thank you!
@@CivilizationEx vibin
The lore must flow.
Why are the elves crying when they also did what the humans did.
It's implied that humans from a post 20th or 21st century Earth where the ones who found themselves brought into The Witcher world in the south of the continent around 1500 years before the novels. though I have not read them all yet and i am fairly new to the world of the Witcher, certain characters travelled to other dimensions at various points, including Ciri visiting a 20th century Earth among other periods.
The problem with the show is that they use expositional dialogue to give us the world building and politics. Rather than demonstrating said politics and showing us the world building it is just bluntly stated.
For example in the pilot episode the Queen of Cintra is sitting at banquet with her husband. Most of this conversation is them talking about nothing. They briefly mention Nilfgaard until one of her knights walk up and tells her that Nilfgaard is invading. This fails because it is just bluntly telling us what is going on in the world rather than showing us.
Let’s take Game of Thrones ( the early seasons of the show) in the pilot episode a Night’s Watch member is arrested for desertion and is to be executed. The reason why is told by Ned Stark after his wife asks if he has to. Ned tells her that he swore an oath. After executing him he has a talk with Bran who saw an execution for the first time. Ned asks if he understands why he did it. Bran says “Our way is the old way” w to which Ned replies with “The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.” From this we are shown the simplistic honor driven politics of the North.
When Ned Stark accepts the kings offer to be his hand he goes down south and throws himself into a nest of vipers. Ned Stark in Season One and the first book is out of his element and is killed by the end.
Had me at no spoilers.
Very well 🔥🐉🐲💥💥👍
Young Griff left the chat -_-
This video was awesome. I bet this took a shhhhhhhit ton of digging. Well done 10/10
It seems humans were more intelligent than elves because they came to the continent and just handed out L’s to the elves.
That’s why they call them L-vss.
Yeah the intelligence/power gap between the elves and humans in the Witcher world is a lot smaller than gap in the lord of the rings universe for example. They certainly were more advanced, especially when it came to architecture and magic. But they aren’t immortal know it all’s like LOTR
Actually Elves were defeated because of the slow growth of their populations grow slowly and the narrow span of time for reproduction in their long lives, while humans live up to 60s and female humans are fertile from 16 to 40s years the elves live for centuries, Avalc'h for instance is about 600 years old.
Zerrikania sounds like a lovely place
Great video!
I'm probably not the first to state this, but whatever. As with lots of things in this world, what we see, read, etc influences us. There are some similarities in the writing to other authors. Brotherhood of Sorcerers and the Lodge of Sorceresses, pretty similar goals as the Bene Gesserit from Dune universe. Aen Elle (aka the Wild Hunt elves) breeding program to create a super being from elder blood, very similar to the Kwisatz Haderach from Dune. I am willing to guess these literary concepts have even more ancient origins in older tales.
Easy to understand, thankyou!
very well done and helpful. THank you!
More Witcher!!!!?
Yes, more coming soon :)
Excellent job!!
very helpful if you want to read the books
Did falka have elder blood? I thought only Riannon had it, in which case the surviving triplet Fiona had to be Riannons daughter, because if she was Falkas how could Ciri have had the elder blood or am I missing something?
There are two variants of the gene, it's thoroughly explained in the Baptism of Fire during the meeting of the Lodge.
I like this channel, I will subscribe now
How come we dont know the name of the Usurper? the emperor of the biggest country in the continent??
Thanks for the video!
Emhyr removed his name from history think of it like the tienerman square massacre in China
So possibly (or PROBABLY), The Witcher takes place on an alien world (not Earth) whose original natural inhabitants were elves, dwarves & gnomes. Humans and other beings migrated to this world during the Conjunction Of Spheres, bringing with them remnants of the languages & cultures they remembered from Earth. This migration was 2- way, with scatterings of elves, dwarves, gnomes, and others finding themselves on Earth, which is where we get our foltktales & legends about them. Sound close?
Elves and dwarves were not original inhabitants, they also came to this word with the conjunction of the spheres. Gnomes were first then came Dwarves who helped them advance their civilisation. After dwarves came Elves who conquered their predecesors , then came humans and did the same thing to the elves
@@user-xm1gm1mg1j I stand corrected. Thank you 🙂
@@user-xm1gm1mg1j Wait a minute… The elves were in this world BEFORE the conjunction of the spheres. They might be relatively new to the continent, but not the WORLD. Unless there were several conjunctions of the spheres…🤔
@@wraith1701 there were many conjunctions for example vampires were brought by yet another conjunction
@@wraith1701 the elves came thru portals, and not the conjunction of the spheres. But yes there have been multiple conjunctions. You might read that the elves came over on boats, which was the original assumption of the characters in the early books, but later on is revealed they came thru portals
And I thought it is me not having read the novels or played the video games, being confused by the world building to the point that I believe 'who is who' is irrelevant.
Is there a list of immortal being or creatures other than vampires
Reminds me of Silmarillion
Nilfgaard might hate magic users. But at least they don't enact pogroms every year.
Are you going to cover the Wars of Nilfgaard and the Witcher 3 endings?
Nice video can you give some information about Ofier?
Unfortunately there is almost no info about them in the books.
The hells is with the white ships and elves. I swear it comes up in almost every elven history
It’s Northern European folklore. It’s not so much each fantasy franchise copying each other as much as them drawing from the same folklore for inspiration
Wiedźmin, or hexer. The latter is official name coined by Sapkowski.
I thought they found a way to open a portal back to the human world
Wait. Aedirn is just... Germany?
This map is middle earth with rising water levels and on a different scale
Aldersberg and Vengerberg definitely sound German. And it's just the German flag upside down :D
the main problem is they changed the appearance of many main characters from books and games
3:23 was Skellige called Skillige at a point or was that a typo?
Just a mistake, sorry.
finally, a worthy opponent for middle earth universe.
Meanwhile, ASoIaF
I doubt it, witcher universe is a very exciting plot indeed but middle earth universe is a complete set, it has its own culture, language, heritage its like a complete universe where as witcher stories are more like combination of brief fractions of stories. But it is as exciting as middle earth just not in the same level , i'd say the witcher and harry potter could be in the same plane.
This is a great video summary but you kinda missed the vran races that suggested to be the real native races of the continent.
These videos primarily explore the books as main canon, Vran are from secondary sources like the games.
@@CivilizationEx Eh... But Vran race is a literally from the books though, created by Andrej Sapkowski himself. It was even featured quite heavily in the old Polish Witcher comics, like "A Road with No Return"
@@crozraven As far as I know Sapkowski said he only considers books canon, so comics count as secondary canon on this channel.
Here is quote from him:
"All adaptations - movies, comics or games, including "The Witcher" - are only adaptations, they are completely separate feature films, the work of their creators."
And while the author did originally conceive of the Vran, he abandoned the idea when he started writing the actual Witcher books and short stories. Unless I missed something, the Vran are only mentioned in the A Road with No Return short story, which was not originally meant to be part of the Witcher world, and was later retconned in, and Vran origins are not mentioned. So while it is certainly arguable that the Vran exist in this world, I don't know of a primary canon source for their origins. If they are mentioned in the books and I missed it, please let me know where and I would be happy to check it out and adjust future videos accordingly. But at the moment I don't consider their origin story canon.
People who’ve unfortunately began the Netflix series…. Please, go pick up “The Last Wish”, and begin this amazing story! The 1st series was an utter failure to express basic concepts of the stories, and please PLEASE do it before season 2 puts a bad taste in your mouth.
The first season was a failure by what was omitted, the second just decided to destroy the story and start their own bullshit despite there being SO MUCH DEPTH to the world.
Bro the show is pretty good. They can’t fit that much world building into 8 hours per season dude calm down
@@huggleskuishy its a terrible witcher show and mediocre hollywood fantasy show
@@huggleskuishy They cannot fit much of worldbuilding so they populated it with utter bulshit. That in most cases is contradicting with what you can find in the books. While games expanded the witcher lore and keep to the canon, Netflix series is (I'm being generous right now) a witcher-like fantastic story at best.
The show is Netflix trying to use the witcher name to get views while just doing whatever the heck they want. It's nothing like the books.
You forgot Ophir !!!!!!
CivEx!!!
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Does anyone know if they have covered The King Killer Chronicles?
Unfortunately I don't but may someday.
Wait im confused on how ciri's life plays out could I get an explanation plse
I made a video about the Northern Wars and it has pretty much Ciri's entire life story laid out. Check it out if you're interested :)
@@CivilizationEx ive played the witcher 3 and I just started season 2 on the witcher netflix series and read the last wish but ive never seen the story about the 3 children and how ciri was involved I know pavetta was ciri's mother and emyr is her father if that is correct
@@ancientgolem8068 Yes that's right, pretty much everything about Ciri's story is told in the books, including her family lineage. My video on the Northern Wars lays it all out in order and ties it to the larger war going on.
Ironicaly race of vran was destroyed by elves, just to suffer same fate from humans.
please do some marvel
This looks so ridiculously similiar to lotr. That's fine because I enjoy both, but wow
It’s not at all. Big fan of both franchises. You do realize that the similarities they have are because they are both rooted in Northern European folklore, not because sapkowski was plagiarizing right?
How so exactly?
@@colinaudette291 it is influenced by tolkien which is completely fine
I thought it was more like Game of Thrones. The Northern Kingdoms are similar to the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros, Nilfgaard is a bit like Valyria and Skellige is similar to the iron islands. Only the witcher lore seems more fleshed out and richer. And the whole idea of elves and dwarves living peacefully in harmony with nature only to be violently driven away and extinguished when humans arrive is a trope both series heavily incorporate in their lore.
Not the details of the world building but the map itself, it looks like the Western portion of middle earth eith rising sea levels
This only made me more confused
Yet Netflix series made everything bland and boring
Black elves as a token in the show is just lazy. No we won’t show Ofir and it’s culture we will randomly spam black actors because ITS 2021!!! And we are libtarted, mailing Ofir would be too intelligent.
I really disagree with how you pronounce most names