I didn't mention two witchers, Brehen present in the Season of Storms Witcher Book and Kiyan the cat school witcher (although he was barely a witcher when we find him). Sorry about that it's the nature of less scripted content to miss very small details, although even naming all of the witchers isn't really necessary for the purpose of the video.
Just bought the books excited to start reading them!! But I've heard conflicting opinions on the order of reading them. Does it not matter for some or is it like Star Wars with a release order, chronological order and machette order?
Oliver Fachiri The Last Wish, Sword of Destiny, Blood of Elves, Time of Contempt, Baptism of Fire, Tower of the Swallow, Lady of the Lake, and Season of Storms in that order. It does matter what order you read them in
Villager: Something I’ve always wondered... What’ll you Witcher’s do once there’s no basilisks, leshens or giants around, eh?” The Witcher: Well, that’s a fine question, my good man. Now here’s the answer - as I see it... The world will always have a great need for very strong and highly capable men. And Witcher’s are such men... Witcher’s are the best monster slayers, man slayers and curse-breakers on the entire planet! 🌍 That they inhabit... A Witcher will always be able to find good, honest paying work or otherwise. Just look at what Letho alone was able to accomplish as an assassin. Or how Geralt defeated the very King of the Wild Hunt in single combat! Witcher’s can thrive as: 1. Bodyguards or Assassins. 2. Pirates or Bandits. 3. Super Soldiers or Super Spies. 4. Patrons or Kings! Witchers can live for centuries. Where as humans only live for a few decades! Which gives Witcher’s far more than enough time and head start on procuring great wealth, power and status. The life of the Witcher’s as told by the author of the books. And the makers of the video games. Is such absolute bullish!t!
@@oliviadoyle3623 It's like Bones said. Those first two books are short stories mostly unrelated to the saga but often mentioned. I highly recommend starting with them because they set up characters, their relations and some of those stories are important because they describe crucial elements for future development, for example how Ciri's parents got together and her destiny linked to Geralt's.
Peasants killed a witcher in Rivia, almost killed Gaetan and they took down a castle full of witchers. Peasants in the world of the witcher don't joke around.
I wonder how many peasants would have volunteered to sack a whole school of fucking witchers because as we all know that a single Witcher can take 15-20 people all alone and we all know before the sacking of Kaer Morhen there would have been more than a dozen or two witchers so did they just send the whole fucking army of peasants?
@@yashvardhantyagi0512 The surrounding areas of Kaer Morhen are full of skulls everywhere from the time they attacked the castle. So I guess at least 100 people attacked? The math doesn't add up though but more than than and sounds like way too much.
@@yashvardhantyagi0512 The thing is, when you start to scale up, things take on another dimension. If you have 20 witchers in the fortress with just a 1000 peasants besieging it, then stuff like random arrow fire and sending entire groups to go around the fort start changing the way war is fought. Simply having 100 or so archers would be enough to make sure that no witcher could poke their head out without risking becoming a pincushion.
Haha I just finished this mission with that guy impersonating a witcher at the cemetery hiding from a ghoul. Reminded me of Lord Jinroku the fake samurai in ghost of tsushima
That’s definitely my school, I spend too damn long doing all the side quests rather than finding ciri, not to mention hoarding as many gwent cards as possible
I want a game set in the golden age of witchers when kaer morhen was still populated and not a ruin...or play as a bear school witcher cus i love skellige awesome vid man i need to get back to the playthrough!
@@kyokushinavocadosoup3595 bear school witchers would often travel to skellige due to the high amount of monsters. If we did play as a bear witcher skellige would have a big role in the game
@@theone5576 I kind of don’t want them to anymore, with the shit show that was cyberpunk, how bad is this new Witcher game gonna be? Also I’m pretty sure a lot of the people who helped develop the Witcher games have now left CDPR
Peasant : "Well *I* didn't have nothin' to do with all that, that was a ploughin' long time ago witcher. Blame me ancestors. Will you do the job or not?"
The Gaetan mission highlights the whole “peasants are stupid” mantra. But you see it a ton, especially in Velen where literally everyone is a peasant. Essentially “they’re there when they need you”
It's also a different story to kill a Monster than a Witcher. While Witcher are highly skilled, especially obviously in forms of fighting which are usefull against Monsters (No shields, no formation, ... etc., focused on Speed and Agility) they seem to don't really have a "Military Drill" to it. Futhermore, they "sworn" to protect "Peasants". Futhermore, they are tangible - Not like a Ghost or so. In the Books and also on higher difficulty in Witcher 3, you actually need time as a Witcher for preperations and stuff. You don't just jump into a Monster hideout and say: Well, what do we have here? *looking in the inventory for the right Absurds and Oils to put on* While a Leshy can easily avoid Peasants and pick them out one by one - A Witcher, if he knows what about he's against, know how to counter those effects and skills ofa Leshy. They are basically Specialists - and Geralt (As main character) has anyway a big Plus.
Something important to note is that during the games (at least 2 and 3 I'm still playing through 1) there are major conflicts surrounding the regions Geralt travels through. War creates battles, battles create corspes, corpses draw monsters. They also destabilise regions allowing monsters that would normally be afraid of humans to attack them, with peasants and soldiers not rallying to defend themselves, especially so because soldiers are not protecting normal regions or culling monster populations. Also in the case of the Witcher 3, he journeys to Skellige, where witchers and locals have struggled to cull monsters given so many of them live underwater. So the games specifically draw us to settings where witchers are needed more than usual.
Also making a witcher is extremely costly. Only the trial of the grasses requires rare alchemical ingredients such as an albino bruxa tongue and a manticore poison gland. Now I've never seen an albino bruxa before and manticores are abysmally rare and almost impossible to kill. As for the choice you still require several mutagenic, toxic plants and fungi, which are also probably rare. And the trial of the dreams which I suspect is done via magic/sorcery rather than mutagens, but if that is the case then i doubt there are even any sorcerers that still know how to preform the trial.
True but i also thought geralt mentions that mages sometimes open portals to bring monsters. So aside witchers, mages were needed to supply them with alchemical ingredients and such
Also after the incident of kaer getting attacked vessemir was the only Witcher to survive that could teach and train kids which severely limited the recruiting they used to have with parents selling they kids off
Also not all boys survive the trial of grasses.There may have been a lot of boys enlisting to become a witcher but they simply died during the mutation process
I thought only one out of ten boys survive the training and mutations process! Plus all of the know witcher schools have been destroyed and the process to make new make new witchers. Witchers go after dangerous monsters and beasts so i would say a lot of have died out either by monsters or by mankind!
I’m pretty sure the canon ending is with Yennefer, but because CDPR are the lovely developers they are, they leave the ending up to the players opinion
Would love to see a witcher 4 which would include some kind of a new-coming of witchers. I'd love to see Kaer Morhen rebuilt and up and running. I don't think it will happen but i would love that
That would be sweet or Witchers from different continents; cause I find it hard to believe they only existed on one continent considering every content has its monsters which terrorize the locals. The beauty of this world is that you could so much with it.
Played the game to 100% recently I just LOVE the game and at the end I actually felt pretty empty like something was ripped from my heart because it was such a great Story and when Geralt smiles into the camera at the end of Blood and Wine I literally Cried
because they dont know how to create new witchers and dont want to create new witchers, yennefer does the trial of the grasses but thats just the first half of the mutating process
That’s only the School of the Wolf. While it’s been said that no school is currently training new witchers, there’s no proof of that. On the grand scheme of things, almost nothing is known of 5 of the witcher schools, and even less about the School of the Manticore. The only schools that we have confirmation that they aren’t training new witchers is Wolf and Viper. And that’s because they lost the knowledge and went extinct, respectively.
@@Engine33Truck they wouldn’t even really know because a Witcher meeting another on the Path would be pretty rare... and word doesn’t exactly travel quickly so there’s likely more Witchers being trained in a region we never go to, the lands are very large, who knows?
Like geralt said in the witcher 3. Defeat one group of bandits and new or worse ones will take their place. I think there might be another conjunction in the future.
@@abraxofficial read this article and others about this second conjuction, its from a noncanonical short story collection by some ukrainian and russian authors. Its called "Tales from the World of the Witcher" for those who are curious
Seeing as letho was so successful at his assigned task to kill kings I'd say witchers have more uses than just killing monsters, it does seem alot of people find that aspect useful aswell.
6:15 I think the reason why monsters aren't really a threat is cause of industrialization. As the Witcher universe develops and expands cities grow larger and people get packed in them while the wilderness stays outside
You say nearer the end of the video that they are needed IF an second conjuction happens. But didn't it actually happen already in witcher 3? Near the end of the main story when geralt and yen race to the tower in undvik there are ice giants, cyclopses and arachas coming out of portals and i think yen says that this is a second conjuction
Exactly my thought. I mean, it may have been only a few minutes, but if that kind of breach was happening everywhere, the monster population just jumped exponentially.
I don't think this is the case. If there is second conjuction at the end they would at least mention it somehow. And set up for a sequel. Maybe was just a little crack trough the different worlds an Ciri opened it to defeat the White frost.
I wish we could explore the other fortresses from the other witcher schools. Griffin, Feline, Ursine. Witcher 4 hopefully ;) 180+likes thank you all so much never expected it
Triss' internal monologs in Blood of Elves explain that the witchers of the wolf school still know how to prepare the mutations but you need a mage to administer them, or a sorceress if you're lucky, so they don't know what to do from that point on. it could be that the males who knew or studied specifically that were all killed during the keep attack, in TW3 the wolf school diagrams are kept by one male who teleported away from the keep but died cuz he was impaled or something idk but he didn't make it far even tho he was the only one to escape
Regarding a second conjonction of the sphere... Didn't that happened at the end of TW3 when a lot of monsters are coming out of portals on Skellige ? And if what happened on Skellige is a conjonction, is it possible that it happened around the world also ?
In The Witcher 3, Yennefer is only performing the first half which is meant to prepare the bodys for the mutagens. What is lost is the knowledge about the Mutagens.
At the end of Witcher 3 we see that when Ciri activates the mega portal. A bunch of monsters starts spawning on Undvik. And if you have the ciri wither ending you come to Vizima and witness many broken windows in the palace. Suggesting that her opening the portal made monsters spawn everywhere in the world. Just like in the explanation of witcher 3 prologues. 2 worlds went by each other and that's what gave birth to magic and monsters. Next Witcher game isn't going to be about Geralt, as far as I know. But it would be cool if the story was bout "The Last Witcher" and how he travels in search of the lost art of witcher making. I already thought of 3 endings for the thing. 1: The witcher dies. And the world is plunged into darkness. 2: The world learns how to deal with monsters. And so it doesn't need a witcher. The witcher dies peacefully in his bed. 3: The world is plunged into darkness. The witchers are reborn as a profession. And the cycle begins anew.
@@kyoza5069 I feel like meeting anyone from the old cast of characters that are not mentioned for the sake of fan service would ruin the story. I believe CD is trying to make something completely new.
I'm sure you have heard that Netflix is doing a prequel to The Witcher, it is supposed to be 1200 years in the past and follow the first Witcher. Hope that its decent and with good lore, wonder how it is gonna be told, as a story narrated by someone (for example, Vesemir telling it) or how will it be introduced.
Doing a prequel at this point is a bad move. The first season was hard to understand already with them switching back and forth from present and past especially to people who had no idea of the lore. They are doing a very bad job with this because it's not as good as it can be.
Indeed or take it all the way back to the beginning or Witchers of other continents. Either way this universe is so unique so may different paths are possible. Luckly for us its CDPR who holds all the rights on Witcher video games.
Ah well I assumed it was fine because if you hadn't played the game you wouldn't know it was him. Only after the spoiler warning do I show him on the pyre before being burned.
Enjoyed this video a lot, as for it not being ''as scripted'' that's totally fine! Casual videos like these are more relaxing to watch and a nice change. Keep up the awesome and good work mate!
If I remember correctly, in Tales of The Witcher it's mentioned that there's a second conjunction of spheres, and a whole new school pops up, the Cranes. I think it's said they use guns, too
Just wanted to say that I really like what you do on your channel man, the expansive universe of Witcher is truly fascinating and you can get lost in this lore for hours. Keep up the good work bro 👍🏻
Thinking about it, a second conjunction could be the theme of the next witcher game since the games aren't the direct adaptation of the books but its as unlikely.
You once mentioned doing a updated version of the Cat School video in "The Mad Witcher Kiyan" video I believe. Would definitely be behind you doing that for a future video!
Man I really wished the games would have included Coën. He was such a cool dude, and he was good friends with the Wolf-school Witchers (including Ciri). He is mentioned in Witcher 1 and you actually get his silver sword. But it would have been nice to see a flashback or even have a prequel game where he is present!
I'd at least like to see witchers from the other schools. We get 3 cat school witchers in the third game, one viper, and the obligatory surviving wolf school witchers, but see nothing of the manticore, bear, or griffin schools. At least a quest of Skellige that leads to meeting a bear witcher and forcing you to either give up the contract to him or fighting him to the death.
I really felt there was a missed opportunity at the end of Wild Hunt to have a 3rd Conjunction (or a 2nd, not sure what the video game timeline was) of the Spheres actually occur, as opposed to just a brief local phenomenon. I felt that would have set up a 4th game perfectly (even if it didnt star Geralt as they have said). All of a sudden the world is flooded with new and dangerous monsters, humanitys dominion is vulnerable and threatened and they once again find themselves in need of witchers. However the witchers are all but extinct, their schools destroyed, and their secrets lost. Perhaps you could play a witcher who is struggling to found a new school and uncover the secrets of the past, or witcher who has newly undergone the mutations at this fledgling school. Something like that. But too bad they just hand waved it away saying "oh there might be a couple new giants on Undvick, no biggie."
Maybe that would be the somewhat of the plot of the online witcher game if cdpr(probably didn't get it right) gets to making the witcher an online thing like they plan to
While I want to play the game in different ways, I find it so hard to let witchers die when I can prevent it. I do wish the witchers you save/let live would fight with you at Kaer Morhen though
Do you have plans to cover the Lormark War? There's a lot of story there, Aedir, Kedwen, Vandergrift, Seltkirk, Sabrina and her curse and how the curse was activated again, the mist we see in The Witcher 2, the Draug and all of that.
They said they didn't know how to fully create witchers, but they knew parts of the process for sure. They were trying to turn ciri into a witcher in the books. The trails of the grasses was mentioned a few times so that wasnt forgotten at all. As the guys who through such a thing, I highly doubt they will easily forget their experience. Can also explain why Leo isn't a full fledged witcher because he didn't go through the entire process. We all know there multiple trials needed to create a full witcher. Leo did have mutations just not all of them, otherwise he wouldn't have cat eyes.
I think it would be cool for the next game to be at the prime of the witcher days and should talk about the different schools. Also would have been cool in Geralts games to find old writings about witchers and their schools.
The witcher Netflix prequel is apparently going to cover a time before the fall of kar morhen when Monsters were more plentiful and Witcher’s were more needed and respected. I’m really hype to see something like that.
I understand the reasoning that they wouldn’t be useful if there’s no monsters around but surely any ruler with a brain cell could see they’d make some of the best bodyguards and/or assassins so maybe there could be a story line that follows that? I just think that’d be interesting to play out. Like, Ciri gets the crown of Nilfgaard and asks Geralt to stay close to her because she does trust anyone else
they were created to kill monsters, not to be mercenaries In addition, Geralt is doing very well in his vineyard: he has a house, a quiet life and a partner (in my case it is Yennefer)
Berengar can survive on Witcher 1 if you level up a lot. It happened to me. And i think he is the perfect carecter to play in the Witcher 4. CD should make W4 about Berengar. It is a perfect fit. You should do a vídeo about it.
Thanks Witcher George for the great content! Right on, following the narrativ of the movie “nightmare of the wolf” which I found inspiring as well, Khaer Morhe was attacked by a mob of mages, humans and monsters, all part of a political vendetta against the Witcher. On the other hand the Witchers were bringing new monsters in order for them to have more Contracts. Again the gray areas are beautifully filled in that narrative and I love where it goes. On the other side, I remember a mission in Witcher 2 where Khaer Morhen gets attacked by bandits as well. So there are multiple Lore events taking place that could have potentially led to the downfall of the Witchers. Regarding the mutations, we learn something new in the Witcher Season 2 where we find out that knowledge aswell as resources to craft mutations where gone. In the game on the other hand, I remember Gerald learns how to craft mutations, so he could start his own school…. Interesting paths, which one do you prefer/see legit?
I’ve played through this game 4 times since getting it last Feb 2020. Just finished up White Orchard and about ready to head towards the lady of wood. I’m watching videos and thought I have played through just about everything. NOPE! Still quests I haven’t known about. Love this game.
I always wanted to encounter Brehen in the Witcher 3, I dunno something about the Cat School psycho's are intriguing to me, it would be nice if there was a quest where he was committing atrocious acts and you get to stop and kill him. It's been a while since I watched your vids, but this one is good as always 👍 Godbless sir!
Just imagine in the future games Witcher schools be renovated and new schools be introduced to players and that the Witcher schools have connections to each other and stuff like this could be just amazing
Im watching this after the late expansion of Gwent the witcher card game event “Way of the Witcher” as they introduced to us a bunch of Witchers which gave me goosebumps that the next witcher game “hopefully the Witcher 4” will definitely talk about them and there backstory, so I guess there are a lot of Witchers around the Witcher world that are yet to be discovered
In my opinion I think that there are so much human conflict and wars that monsters are not part of the equation they more like stand in the way and since they have big armies they just get eliminated to get to their goal
Thanks for the great content,I'm such a big fan of this universe.It seems I just can't get enough,and you put a good bit of thought into what you discuss and it keeps my attention.Thsnks for all your hard work as I know video editing is not fun or easy.Cheers....
What helps in the demise of a witcher is being a witcher. I mean the line “a witcher never dies in his bed”. It’s no exaggeration. Once you become a witcher you’re destined for death. Walking the path is the path of monster extermination. But at what cost? Slaying for a fee, moving from place to place, you’re bound to become a target. Whether from the lowest peasant to the greediest of Kings or a monster contract gone wrong. It’s a life of death. And once the monsters are all gone, what would the humans turn to kill? Non humans and each other which was already a thing before witcher 3 and more prevalent in 3. A witcher may be this somewhat superhuman but in my eyes no stronger than 5 men. Eventually every witcher meets his end one way or another.
Also keep in mind that the world doesn't need witchers that much anymore. Mostly usual soldiers take over the job of killing monsters. So training new witchers is pretty much pointless. Also the process is pretty much terrifying not only for the children going through it, but also for witchers implementing the trial of the grasses. Noticeable by Vesemir in the witcher 3 while they try getting Avalach back.
You forgot to mention that a lot of monsters have no ill intentions. This would also illicit some people to brand witchers as nothing more than killers. Some examples : -Dopplers are almost gentle souls, probably to counterbalance the fact they'd all easily make efficient assassins. Course humans rarely realize this. -Trolls are generally pretty passive. In Skellige their fisticuffs champion is a troll. I would imagine a Witcher killing it would mar their reputation. -Succubi can often sway humans to their side, via magic or not. One of them met in-game is careful not to "drain" her "victims" to death, who probably appreciate her. -Vampires, specifically higher vampires. Their skills gained from their extended lifetimes can greatly benefit humanity. Like humans, some are evil, others not! -Dragons, whom are sentient and may be benevolent. Other draconids may also be sacred to druids, as they've basically the mentality of wild beasts; not evil. -Godlings are friendly but shy and help out those who live near them. They only ask for food, tools and respect in return. They look like kids, so would probably be considered by humans as children. So yeah, not all monsters are evil. Some are neutral (wild) or even good towards humans. It takes a witcher with a strong moral compass to hunt them without qualms, so I'm sure many innocents were sadly dispatched, marking the witchers for vengeance by some party.
what I want in Witcher 4: 1- the game is set after geralt's retirement in toussaint. 2- a second conjunction happens, new and more dangerous monsters appears. 3- geralt and eskel makes a deal with Gaunter O'Dimm (he comes back) and he teaches them how to make witchers 4- character creation 😁 5- go and try to unite the empires and make a big United city
The Trial of Grasses at least in the game is explained that it's in 2 parts: the first part is what we do to Uma- making the body susceptible for all of the witcher mutations; the second part is giving/ adding witcher mutations. Sure you could say that they red conned that the secrets of how to make witchers were gone by doing the first part in The Witcher 3, but I would argue the more important part is the second part. In Blood and Wine DLC there is a quest "Turn and Face the Strange" where Geralt learns that Moreau wanted to reverse the witcher mutations and he was making progress in reversing mutations (that he had given to them) in humans (test subjects, not 100% sure they were human), but when he tried that on his son (who was a witcher) it didn't work and he enhanced his mutations even more. So this means the mutations that witcher receive are more special than they appear. And maybe that knowledge is lost.
I can't remember since it's been a while since I read the books but wasn't there a conversation between Geralt and Dandelion about how Witchers have contributed to their own as the more contracts they take on the less business and demand they create for themselves
I would love to see a game that plays in the time, where the Schools of the witchers separat from each other - so the time of Arnaghad, Erland, Ivar and Gezras.
OK so we know that at one point the school of the wolf had somewhere around 40-60 active witchers before the peasant attack on kaer morhen and approximately 5-10 after. If we take that as a guess for the other schools past and present numbers that means that there are currently probably less then 60 witchers still alive. Let's be generous and double that to account for schools we may not even know about yet, so probably around 100-120. With most of, if not all, witcher keeps we know of either destroyed or abandoned that's very little to work with to even restart any of the schools. But that's not even considering the point of lost knowledge, equipment and there probably not being alot of sorcerers/sorceresses willing to help in the rebuilding process. The only way I could see it working under these circumstances is to create one unified witcher order where the training would function more like in star wars,as in every boy ( or potentially girl) learns all the basics, then they undergo the witcher trials and pick a school. They would then go out as a student to an elder witcher from that school to acompany them and learn that schools specifics for some time befor returning to the order to then go out on the path. Once they return they would then get there own student or start working as an instructor.
Even if monsters go extinct, the knowledge and experience that witchers have can still be used in so many jobs. Jad Karadin becoming a merchant, Cat School witchers and Letho becoming assassins, etc. Geralt shows that they have some knowledge in human anatomy, alchemy and herbalism and of course combat. The only problem would be people willing to hire them for these jobs
how about this for an idea? The Witcher Online. After the events of W3, one side wins the war, and there is a second conjunction. the victorious army(the North or the South) allows Witcher schools to flourish because of the second conjunction, and we get the best MMO RPG ever made. I know it's hopium, but can you imagine a multi-player, open world Witcher game?
Geralt perhaps can be an outstanding teacher for to trained more future Witchers at Kear Morhen after taking Vesemir’s place as the leader for the School of the Wolves.
I do believe there are several mentions throughout the games referring to Witchers as a dying breed. Considering how mages & witches are forced into hiding, witcher bases disappearing it's probably harder to do everything to train new ones. Considering how a decent proportion of witchers die during the actual trials & training, that makes them even rarer. Considering how the actually complete witchers can die during battle, old age, betrayal etc. Considering how actually getting orphans to train to become witchers are getting harder. Considering how if there are actual monsters that need witchers to be dealt with, which can't be solved by throwing troops at them, they probably just avoid those places if possible. Basically, witchers are a miniscule proportion of a miniscule proportion of a miniscule... you get the idea. They're extremely rare, hard to replace, impossible to replace on a big scale and not as useful as they used to be, so there's not as many supporters wanting more witchers so that makes it even harder.
In Novigrad there is a vampire, a succubus, and a nekker. If you go into the docks, there are drowners close by. There is a troll, drowners, and a water hag under Djikstras bath house and then you have the monsters you fight in the arena...so to say there are no monsters in Novigrad is false...and then you have your human "monsters", of which there is no shortage.
Yeah, poor Vesemir won't be able to keep up with the maintenance of and around Kaer Morhen ... Well, maybe he be able to participate in maintaining the local flora, I'm not overly familiar with that kinda thing 😉👍
I'd love a prequel Witcher game as a young geralt, see what the trial of the grasses is like first hand, feel the comradery between all the witchers and then once the trials were done showing what young geralt was like, failing that, a Witcher 4 where theres another conjunction, a massive increase of monsters and either play as ciri in that game or maybe geralt with a "here we go again" moment, play the whole game as geralt which ends in his death, then play the epilogue as ciri tieing up loose ends, a kind of red dead redemption 1 feel to it
Everything has its rules of being. In high fantasy books this is shown very well. Usually the side of economics and politics related to this is not shown, but it is.
Hey can you do an update in light of new info on the Manitcore, Viper, and Bear schools from the newer content in the Gwent game and the new Witcher game coming out
For every the witcher fan here. I read somewhere that Lambert and eskel joined geralt at his vineyard and stayed there with him at the end of the game.
would be cool if CDPR made a witcher spin off game like thronebreaker, where you play as a different character, probably a witcher from a different school but in the witcher 3 style. nice video.
Nah - not gone, they are after all using the trial of the grasses to bring that elf back (and Yen makes sure he survives, so in theory if given access to sorceresses they could multiply the successful candidates IMHO)
I believe in The Witcher 1 the mage from the Salamandra stole the mutagens needed to complete the part of the trial of the grasses that commes after the potions. If they weren’t stolen during that attack then it was during a previous attack.
Maybe. But this is not a solid sourse of income and I think not only witchers can lift curses. Mages can and they are not going anywhere, judging how Geralt is lifting more simple curses like the comon whaith. I think soneone can do it too.
I didn't mention two witchers, Brehen present in the Season of Storms Witcher Book and Kiyan the cat school witcher (although he was barely a witcher when we find him). Sorry about that it's the nature of less scripted content to miss very small details, although even naming all of the witchers isn't really necessary for the purpose of the video.
Just bought the books excited to start reading them!! But I've heard conflicting opinions on the order of reading them. Does it not matter for some or is it like Star Wars with a release order, chronological order and machette order?
Oliver Fachiri The Last Wish, Sword of Destiny, Blood of Elves, Time of Contempt, Baptism of Fire, Tower of the Swallow, Lady of the Lake, and Season of Storms in that order. It does matter what order you read them in
Villager: Something I’ve always wondered...
What’ll you Witcher’s do once there’s no basilisks, leshens or giants around, eh?”
The Witcher: Well, that’s a fine question, my good man. Now here’s the answer - as I see it...
The world will always have a great need for very strong and highly capable men. And Witcher’s are such men...
Witcher’s are the best monster slayers, man slayers and curse-breakers on the entire planet! 🌍 That they inhabit...
A Witcher will always be able to find good, honest paying work or otherwise.
Just look at what Letho alone was able to accomplish as an assassin.
Or how Geralt defeated the very King of the Wild Hunt in single combat!
Witcher’s can thrive as:
1. Bodyguards or Assassins.
2. Pirates or Bandits.
3. Super Soldiers or Super Spies.
4. Patrons or Kings!
Witchers can live for centuries. Where as humans only live for a few decades!
Which gives Witcher’s far more than enough time and head start on procuring great wealth, power and status.
The life of the Witcher’s as told by the author of the books. And the makers of the video games.
Is such absolute bullish!t!
@@oliviadoyle3623 It's like Bones said. Those first two books are short stories mostly unrelated to the saga but often mentioned. I highly recommend starting with them because they set up characters, their relations and some of those stories are important because they describe crucial elements for future development, for example how Ciri's parents got together and her destiny linked to Geralt's.
I hope you know that a lot of witchers died during the trials
Peasants killed a witcher in Rivia, almost killed Gaetan and they took down a castle full of witchers.
Peasants in the world of the witcher don't joke around.
I wonder how many peasants would have volunteered to sack a whole school of fucking witchers because as we all know that a single Witcher can take 15-20 people all alone and we all know before the sacking of Kaer Morhen there would have been more than a dozen or two witchers so did they just send the whole fucking army of peasants?
@@yashvardhantyagi0512 The surrounding areas of Kaer Morhen are full of skulls everywhere from the time they attacked the castle. So I guess at least 100 people attacked? The math doesn't add up though but more than than and sounds like way too much.
@@Witcherino maybe 500-800
@@yashvardhantyagi0512 The thing is, when you start to scale up, things take on another dimension. If you have 20 witchers in the fortress with just a 1000 peasants besieging it, then stuff like random arrow fire and sending entire groups to go around the fort start changing the way war is fought. Simply having 100 or so archers would be enough to make sure that no witcher could poke their head out without risking becoming a pincushion.
@@ocadioan Even with Quen or their signs?
You forget the most notorious school of the snail
Legend has it they are still creating their first witcher.
Could be a cool idea for gwent i guess as a kinda joke card
1 power, 2 shields and defender and destroys self in 2 turns
@@wafflingmean4477 The snails pace keeps you safe!
Haha I just finished this mission with that guy impersonating a witcher at the cemetery hiding from a ghoul. Reminded me of Lord Jinroku the fake samurai in ghost of tsushima
That’s definitely my school, I spend too damn long doing all the side quests rather than finding ciri, not to mention hoarding as many gwent cards as possible
I want a game set in the golden age of witchers when kaer morhen was still populated and not a ruin...or play as a bear school witcher cus i love skellige awesome vid man i need to get back to the playthrough!
Bear School Witchers arent from Skellige
@@kyokushinavocadosoup3595 bear school witchers would often travel to skellige due to the high amount of monsters. If we did play as a bear witcher skellige would have a big role in the game
Yep, we always seem to see the lasting fading bit of glory in so many works of fiction and games
Your wish is on process my good lad. Cdpr is developing a new witcher game
@@theone5576 I kind of don’t want them to anymore, with the shit show that was cyberpunk, how bad is this new Witcher game gonna be? Also I’m pretty sure a lot of the people who helped develop the Witcher games have now left CDPR
Peasants: Killed many witchers until they're numbers are dwindling.
Also Peasants: Need witchers to kill some beast in the woods.
Peasants are dumb... there is a reason they are Peasants.
Peasant : "Well *I* didn't have nothin' to do with all that, that was a ploughin' long time ago witcher. Blame me ancestors. Will you do the job or not?"
CJMK or is it the other way around?
The Gaetan mission highlights the whole “peasants are stupid” mantra. But you see it a ton, especially in Velen where literally everyone is a peasant. Essentially “they’re there when they need you”
It's also a different story to kill a Monster than a Witcher.
While Witcher are highly skilled, especially obviously in forms of fighting which are usefull against Monsters (No shields, no formation, ... etc., focused on Speed and Agility) they seem to don't really have a "Military Drill" to it. Futhermore, they "sworn" to protect "Peasants". Futhermore, they are tangible - Not like a Ghost or so.
In the Books and also on higher difficulty in Witcher 3, you actually need time as a Witcher for preperations and stuff. You don't just jump into a Monster hideout and say: Well, what do we have here? *looking in the inventory for the right Absurds and Oils to put on*
While a Leshy can easily avoid Peasants and pick them out one by one - A Witcher, if he knows what about he's against, know how to counter those effects and skills ofa Leshy.
They are basically Specialists - and Geralt (As main character) has anyway a big Plus.
Something important to note is that during the games (at least 2 and 3 I'm still playing through 1) there are major conflicts surrounding the regions Geralt travels through. War creates battles, battles create corspes, corpses draw monsters. They also destabilise regions allowing monsters that would normally be afraid of humans to attack them, with peasants and soldiers not rallying to defend themselves, especially so because soldiers are not protecting normal regions or culling monster populations. Also in the case of the Witcher 3, he journeys to Skellige, where witchers and locals have struggled to cull monsters given so many of them live underwater.
So the games specifically draw us to settings where witchers are needed more than usual.
so now the witchers follow war and not the path
Very good point. Like you can’t ride far through Velen without seeing some sort of catastrophic result of war.
Also making a witcher is extremely costly. Only the trial of the grasses requires rare alchemical ingredients such as an albino bruxa tongue and a manticore poison gland. Now I've never seen an albino bruxa before and manticores are abysmally rare and almost impossible to kill.
As for the choice you still require several mutagenic, toxic plants and fungi, which are also probably rare.
And the trial of the dreams which I suspect is done via magic/sorcery rather than mutagens, but if that is the case then i doubt there are even any sorcerers that still know how to preform the trial.
I can’t take you seriously with the shaggy profile.
@@blingblingboy7039 he’s right
True but i also thought geralt mentions that mages sometimes open portals to bring monsters. So aside witchers, mages were needed to supply them with alchemical ingredients and such
in TW1 they were pretty close ngl
Also after the incident of kaer getting attacked vessemir was the only Witcher to survive that could teach and train kids which severely limited the recruiting they used to have with parents selling they kids off
Also not all boys survive the trial of grasses.There may have been a lot of boys enlisting to become a witcher but they simply died during the mutation process
I thought only one out of ten boys survive the training and mutations process! Plus all of the know witcher schools have been destroyed and the process to make new make new witchers. Witchers go after dangerous monsters and beasts so i would say a lot of have died out either by monsters or by mankind!
John Richardson i believe it’s 4/10 :)
Tortured Masterpiece I think it’s 3/10. So yeah in that ball park.
and the fact that many of those who survive often die in their rookie years
%30 of the time, works every time.
Well, I know where Geralt is for sure, he's in Toussaint chilling with Yennefer.
or Triss
@@brandonk.4864 for me, always Triss, then they can move to Kovir.
Or Empress cirilla
Or his best friend dandelion
I’m pretty sure the canon ending is with Yennefer, but because CDPR are the lovely developers they are, they leave the ending up to the players opinion
I don't get why so many people love Yen so much, compared to Triss. Yen is just such a bitch and Triss is actually nice to Geralt.
Would love to see a witcher 4 which would include some kind of a new-coming of witchers. I'd love to see Kaer Morhen rebuilt and up and running. I don't think it will happen but i would love that
That would be sweet or Witchers from different continents; cause I find it hard to believe they only existed on one continent considering every content has its monsters which terrorize the locals. The beauty of this world is that you could so much with it.
@Riku yeah it doesn’t even have to be a new game just a dlc in the witcher 3 about restoring Kaer morhen and start training Witcher’s again
Guess Geralt's generation of witchers are the end of the line
good news, coz cdpr announced witcher 4 and shows a new school medallion, the school of the lynx
It’s cool to see someone who loves the Witcher as much as me I have over 600 hours in the Witcher 3 and I’m almost done with the books
Timmy Jones Love the Witcher !!! I have to get the books ASAP !
Played the game to 100% recently I just LOVE the game and at the end I actually felt pretty empty like something was ripped from my heart because it was such a great Story and when Geralt smiles into the camera at the end of Blood and Wine I literally Cried
Eleminationz-l- it sucks they probably won’t make another one
@@timmyjones8985 Well CDPR said they will bring out another witcher but a witcher without Geralt is no witcher
No Geralts story is done we need something fresh
because they dont know how to create new witchers and dont want to create new witchers, yennefer does the trial of the grasses but thats just the first half of the mutating process
That’s only the School of the Wolf. While it’s been said that no school is currently training new witchers, there’s no proof of that. On the grand scheme of things, almost nothing is known of 5 of the witcher schools, and even less about the School of the Manticore. The only schools that we have confirmation that they aren’t training new witchers is Wolf and Viper. And that’s because they lost the knowledge and went extinct, respectively.
@@Engine33Truck they wouldn’t even really know because a Witcher meeting another on the Path would be pretty rare... and word doesn’t exactly travel quickly so there’s likely more Witchers being trained in a region we never go to, the lands are very large, who knows?
Griffin school still producing new Witcher along with manticore
@@AJ-dx6bn No they aren't Kaer Seren was destroyed by an avalanche years before the games
Like geralt said in the witcher 3. Defeat one group of bandits and new or worse ones will take their place. I think there might be another conjunction in the future.
That would set up tw4 pretty well
@@whitegluestick6039 yeah if there was, it could maybe nerf some of ciris powers
witcher.fandom.com/wiki/Second_Conjunction
@@abraxofficial read this article and others about this second conjuction, its from a noncanonical short story collection by some ukrainian and russian authors. Its called "Tales from the World of the Witcher" for those who are curious
Seeing as letho was so successful at his assigned task to kill kings I'd say witchers have more uses than just killing monsters, it does seem alot of people find that aspect useful aswell.
That is whatthe witchers do from the school of the cat. Basically they're just bounty hunters
6:15 I think the reason why monsters aren't really a threat is cause of industrialization. As the Witcher universe develops and expands cities grow larger and people get packed in them while the wilderness stays outside
You say nearer the end of the video that they are needed IF an second conjuction happens. But didn't it actually happen already in witcher 3? Near the end of the main story when geralt and yen race to the tower in undvik there are ice giants, cyclopses and arachas coming out of portals and i think yen says that this is a second conjuction
Exactly my thought. I mean, it may have been only a few minutes, but if that kind of breach was happening everywhere, the monster population just jumped exponentially.
I don't think this is the case. If there is second conjuction at the end they would at least mention it somehow. And set up for a sequel. Maybe was just a little crack trough the different worlds an Ciri opened it to defeat the White frost.
I think that conjunction was isolated to Undvik and since it was stopped extremely quickly after it begun, not many monsters got through.
A second conjunction would be an amazing and quite horrifying experience, I want it to happen.
this vid made me want to play through the witcher 3 again
Do you really need a reason to play the Witcher 3 again after you finished it? Edit: you just start anew
Same, everyday is a good day to replay The Witcher 3. That game is amazing, my favorite game of all time.
the only thing I regret about selling my ps4 is not being able to play the Witcher again
Dam I'm re re playing the witcher and im here thinking about re playing it
lol, i think i re played the witcher like 4 times and just in one i did the bad ending, i just can't make Ciri sad
I wish we could explore the other fortresses from the other witcher schools. Griffin, Feline, Ursine. Witcher 4 hopefully ;)
180+likes thank you all so much never expected it
I don't think witcher 4 will be a thing
@@JudeAlvarez You don't what?
People might be scared because witcher 4 might never reach the peak as witcher 3 did
Same
@@yourdad5799 I THINK TW4 won't be a thing
It’s amazing how I’ve spent 2500 hours in this game and I still am interested in this game
Triss' internal monologs in Blood of Elves explain that the witchers of the wolf school still know how to prepare the mutations but you need a mage to administer them, or a sorceress if you're lucky, so they don't know what to do from that point on. it could be that the males who knew or studied specifically that were all killed during the keep attack, in TW3 the wolf school diagrams are kept by one male who teleported away from the keep but died cuz he was impaled or something idk but he didn't make it far even tho he was the only one to escape
Regarding a second conjonction of the sphere... Didn't that happened at the end of TW3 when a lot of monsters are coming out of portals on Skellige ? And if what happened on Skellige is a conjonction, is it possible that it happened around the world also ?
It was sealed on undvic but we don t know what happen to monsters that came from portals there
In The Witcher 3, Yennefer is only performing the first half which is meant to prepare the bodys for the mutagens. What is lost is the knowledge about the Mutagens.
At the end of Witcher 3 we see that when Ciri activates the mega portal. A bunch of monsters starts spawning on Undvik. And if you have the ciri wither ending you come to Vizima and witness many broken windows in the palace. Suggesting that her opening the portal made monsters spawn everywhere in the world. Just like in the explanation of witcher 3 prologues. 2 worlds went by each other and that's what gave birth to magic and monsters.
Next Witcher game isn't going to be about Geralt, as far as I know. But it would be cool if the story was bout "The Last Witcher" and how he travels in search of the lost art of witcher making. I already thought of 3 endings for the thing. 1: The witcher dies. And the world is plunged into darkness. 2: The world learns how to deal with monsters. And so it doesn't need a witcher. The witcher dies peacefully in his bed. 3: The world is plunged into darkness. The witchers are reborn as a profession. And the cycle begins anew.
Agreed. Maybe instead of Geralt, we could play as Ciri.
@@kyoza5069 I feel like meeting anyone from the old cast of characters that are not mentioned for the sake of fan service would ruin the story. I believe CD is trying to make something completely new.
It's impossible but imagine how comically strong Yen and Geralt's kid would be, being trained and working with Ciri.
They could do a Witcher 4 with new witcher's due to the conjunction of the sphere's happening at the end of the Witcher 3.
I rather have a witcher game that is sed in the golden age of the witchers
I'm sure you have heard that Netflix is doing a prequel to The Witcher, it is supposed to be 1200 years in the past and follow the first Witcher.
Hope that its decent and with good lore, wonder how it is gonna be told, as a story narrated by someone (for example, Vesemir telling it) or how will it be introduced.
MuzzySkeleton yeah I’m taking that whole day off to binge it all the way through!
Doing a prequel at this point is a bad move. The first season was hard to understand already with them switching back and forth from present and past especially to people who had no idea of the lore. They are doing a very bad job with this because it's not as good as it can be.
@Microwave Witcher 3 is after the books, which the series are based on. I would recommend you read them if you wanna know more
@@Darkstormsun9865 well it was a prequel and it was fucking amazing bro!! Go check it out. Waaaay better then that shitty show.
@@SupremeOracle i was talking about the Netflix live action series. The animation was its own thing.
Thanks for doing these, for someone who is interested in the Witcher, but has too many other hobbies and no time, this is helpful :)
Its nice to see someone still making Videos about this Beautiful game 🙏🏻
I'd love to play a new witcher game in the golden age of witchers. Hell even a witcher George game would be boss.
Indeed or take it all the way back to the beginning or Witchers of other continents. Either way this universe is so unique so may different paths are possible. Luckly for us its CDPR who holds all the rights on Witcher video games.
Kinda funny how you hide the spoiler of Vesimir dying and then show him on the funeral pyre! 😂😭
Ah well I assumed it was fine because if you hadn't played the game you wouldn't know it was him. Only after the spoiler warning do I show him on the pyre before being burned.
Kinda funny how you let out the spoiler yourself.
You just spoiled that for anyone who read this.
Enjoyed this video a lot, as for it not being ''as scripted'' that's totally fine! Casual videos like these are more relaxing to watch and a nice change. Keep up the awesome and good work mate!
If I remember correctly, in Tales of The Witcher it's mentioned that there's a second conjunction of spheres, and a whole new school pops up, the Cranes. I think it's said they use guns, too
Just wanted to say that I really like what you do on your channel man, the expansive universe of Witcher is truly fascinating and you can get lost in this lore for hours. Keep up the good work bro 👍🏻
Anthony K I get lost in that world so easy lol love it!
Thinking about it, a second conjunction could be the theme of the next witcher game since the games aren't the direct adaptation of the books but its as unlikely.
You once mentioned doing a updated version of the Cat School video in "The Mad Witcher Kiyan" video I believe. Would definitely be behind you doing that for a future video!
So would I. I get so confused on Cat School lore. It almost seems like there’s two different schools calling themselves the “Cat School”.
Man I really wished the games would have included Coën. He was such a cool dude, and he was good friends with the Wolf-school Witchers (including Ciri). He is mentioned in Witcher 1 and you actually get his silver sword. But it would have been nice to see a flashback or even have a prequel game where he is present!
I'd at least like to see witchers from the other schools. We get 3 cat school witchers in the third game, one viper, and the obligatory surviving wolf school witchers, but see nothing of the manticore, bear, or griffin schools. At least a quest of Skellige that leads to meeting a bear witcher and forcing you to either give up the contract to him or fighting him to the death.
I really felt there was a missed opportunity at the end of Wild Hunt to have a 3rd Conjunction (or a 2nd, not sure what the video game timeline was) of the Spheres actually occur, as opposed to just a brief local phenomenon. I felt that would have set up a 4th game perfectly (even if it didnt star Geralt as they have said). All of a sudden the world is flooded with new and dangerous monsters, humanitys dominion is vulnerable and threatened and they once again find themselves in need of witchers. However the witchers are all but extinct, their schools destroyed, and their secrets lost. Perhaps you could play a witcher who is struggling to found a new school and uncover the secrets of the past, or witcher who has newly undergone the mutations at this fledgling school. Something like that. But too bad they just hand waved it away saying "oh there might be a couple new giants on Undvick, no biggie."
Maybe that would be the somewhat of the plot of the online witcher game if cdpr(probably didn't get it right) gets to making the witcher an online thing like they plan to
We finally have George mentioning the Crane school. Huzzah!
While I want to play the game in different ways, I find it so hard to let witchers die when I can prevent it. I do wish the witchers you save/let live would fight with you at Kaer Morhen though
Do you have plans to cover the Lormark War? There's a lot of story there, Aedir, Kedwen, Vandergrift, Seltkirk, Sabrina and her curse and how the curse was activated again, the mist we see in The Witcher 2, the Draug and all of that.
lambert can´t even cook noodles, i refuse to believe he can kill a wyvern
They said they didn't know how to fully create witchers, but they knew parts of the process for sure. They were trying to turn ciri into a witcher in the books. The trails of the grasses was mentioned a few times so that wasnt forgotten at all. As the guys who through such a thing, I highly doubt they will easily forget their experience. Can also explain why Leo isn't a full fledged witcher because he didn't go through the entire process. We all know there multiple trials needed to create a full witcher. Leo did have mutations just not all of them, otherwise he wouldn't have cat eyes.
I think it would be cool for the next game to be at the prime of the witcher days and should talk about the different schools. Also would have been cool in Geralts games to find old writings about witchers and their schools.
5:13 mmmh, strange man sitting in the back :°
Not that many monsters he says yet I can't run 10 feet without a ghoul or drowner popping up 😂
I think u missed Brehen from the Season of Storms
The wiki says he died
You forgot the vampire conjunction
The witcher Netflix prequel is apparently going to cover a time before the fall of kar morhen when Monsters were more plentiful and Witcher’s were more needed and respected. I’m really hype to see something like that.
I understand the reasoning that they wouldn’t be useful if there’s no monsters around but surely any ruler with a brain cell could see they’d make some of the best bodyguards and/or assassins so maybe there could be a story line that follows that? I just think that’d be interesting to play out. Like, Ciri gets the crown of Nilfgaard and asks Geralt to stay close to her because she does trust anyone else
they were created to kill monsters, not to be mercenaries
In addition, Geralt is doing very well in his vineyard: he has a house, a quiet life and a partner (in my case it is Yennefer)
Berengar can survive on Witcher 1 if you level up a lot. It happened to me. And i think he is the perfect carecter to play in the Witcher 4. CD should make W4 about Berengar. It is a perfect fit. You should do a vídeo about it.
Thanks Witcher George for the great content! Right on, following the narrativ of the movie “nightmare of the wolf” which I found inspiring as well, Khaer Morhe was attacked by a mob of mages, humans and monsters, all part of a political vendetta against the Witcher. On the other hand the Witchers were bringing new monsters in order for them to have more Contracts. Again the gray areas are beautifully filled in that narrative and I love where it goes.
On the other side, I remember a mission in Witcher 2 where Khaer Morhen gets attacked by bandits as well. So there are multiple Lore events taking place that could have potentially led to the downfall of the Witchers.
Regarding the mutations, we learn something new in the Witcher Season 2 where we find out that knowledge aswell as resources to craft mutations where gone.
In the game on the other hand, I remember Gerald learns how to craft mutations, so he could start his own school….
Interesting paths, which one do you prefer/see legit?
I’ve played through this game 4 times since getting it last Feb 2020. Just finished up White Orchard and about ready to head towards the lady of wood. I’m watching videos and thought I have played through just about everything. NOPE! Still quests I haven’t known about. Love this game.
I always wanted to encounter Brehen in the Witcher 3, I dunno something about the Cat School psycho's are intriguing to me, it would be nice if there was a quest where he was committing atrocious acts and you get to stop and kill him. It's been a while since I watched your vids, but this one is good as always 👍 Godbless sir!
Thoroughly enjoy your lore videos WG. Think you’ve covered pretty much all my requests, but still....
Just imagine in the future games Witcher schools be renovated and new schools be introduced to players and that the Witcher schools have connections to each other and stuff like this could be just amazing
Im watching this after the late expansion of Gwent the witcher card game event “Way of the Witcher” as they introduced to us a bunch of Witchers which gave me goosebumps that the next witcher game “hopefully the Witcher 4” will definitely talk about them and there backstory, so I guess there are a lot of Witchers around the Witcher world that are yet to be discovered
In my opinion I think that there are so much human conflict and wars that monsters are not part of the equation they more like stand in the way and since they have big armies they just get eliminated to get to their goal
Thanks for the great content,I'm such a big fan of this universe.It seems I just can't get enough,and you put a good bit of thought into what you discuss and it keeps my attention.Thsnks for all your hard work as I know video editing is not fun or easy.Cheers....
love this kinda series. I hope you make like this more
We need another conjunction of spheres.😈
What helps in the demise of a witcher is being a witcher. I mean the line “a witcher never dies in his bed”. It’s no exaggeration. Once you become a witcher you’re destined for death. Walking the path is the path of monster extermination. But at what cost? Slaying for a fee, moving from place to place, you’re bound to become a target. Whether from the lowest peasant to the greediest of Kings or a monster contract gone wrong. It’s a life of death. And once the monsters are all gone, what would the humans turn to kill? Non humans and each other which was already a thing before witcher 3 and more prevalent in 3. A witcher may be this somewhat superhuman but in my eyes no stronger than 5 men. Eventually every witcher meets his end one way or another.
nonce
Zaznaczone kingdom come??
i love your witcher lore videos man!
Also keep in mind that the world doesn't need witchers that much anymore. Mostly usual soldiers take over the job of killing monsters. So training new witchers is pretty much pointless. Also the process is pretty much terrifying not only for the children going through it, but also for witchers implementing the trial of the grasses. Noticeable by Vesemir in the witcher 3 while they try getting Avalach back.
Eskel seemed open to talk about making new Witchers.
You forgot to mention that a lot of monsters have no ill intentions. This would also illicit some people to brand witchers as nothing more than killers. Some examples :
-Dopplers are almost gentle souls, probably to counterbalance the fact they'd all easily make efficient assassins. Course humans rarely realize this.
-Trolls are generally pretty passive. In Skellige their fisticuffs champion is a troll. I would imagine a Witcher killing it would mar their reputation.
-Succubi can often sway humans to their side, via magic or not. One of them met in-game is careful not to "drain" her "victims" to death, who probably appreciate her.
-Vampires, specifically higher vampires. Their skills gained from their extended lifetimes can greatly benefit humanity. Like humans, some are evil, others not!
-Dragons, whom are sentient and may be benevolent. Other draconids may also be sacred to druids, as they've basically the mentality of wild beasts; not evil.
-Godlings are friendly but shy and help out those who live near them. They only ask for food, tools and respect in return. They look like kids, so would probably be considered by humans as children.
So yeah, not all monsters are evil. Some are neutral (wild) or even good towards humans. It takes a witcher with a strong moral compass to hunt them without qualms, so I'm sure many innocents were sadly dispatched, marking the witchers for vengeance by some party.
A year later, but I personally think Nightmare of the Wolf did a nice job of the Sacking of Kaer Morhen.
kept thinking about it lol
what I want in Witcher 4:
1- the game is set after geralt's retirement in toussaint.
2- a second conjunction happens, new and more dangerous monsters appears.
3- geralt and eskel makes a deal with Gaunter O'Dimm (he comes back) and he teaches them how to make witchers
4- character creation 😁
5- go and try to unite the empires and make a big United city
Im pretty sure if geralt learnt anything during the whole game its to not make a deal with odimm.
The Trial of Grasses at least in the game is explained that it's in 2 parts: the first part is what we do to Uma- making the body susceptible for all of the witcher mutations; the second part is giving/ adding witcher mutations. Sure you could say that they red conned that the secrets of how to make witchers were gone by doing the first part in The Witcher 3, but I would argue the more important part is the second part. In Blood and Wine DLC there is a quest "Turn and Face the Strange" where Geralt learns that Moreau wanted to reverse the witcher mutations and he was making progress in reversing mutations (that he had given to them) in humans (test subjects, not 100% sure they were human), but when he tried that on his son (who was a witcher) it didn't work and he enhanced his mutations even more. So this means the mutations that witcher receive are more special than they appear. And maybe that knowledge is lost.
forgot witcher george :ooo
I can't remember since it's been a while since I read the books but wasn't there a conversation between Geralt and Dandelion about how Witchers have contributed to their own as the more contracts they take on the less business and demand they create for themselves
At the end of 3 there was another conjuction with monsters appearing everywhere,
Remember when Gerralt and Yen are riding to the tower
I would love to see a game that plays in the time, where the Schools of the witchers separat from each other - so the time of Arnaghad, Erland, Ivar and Gezras.
I’ve always wonder how OP an army of Witchers would be.
They would butcher one and another I guess
OK so we know that at one point the school of the wolf had somewhere around 40-60 active witchers before the peasant attack on kaer morhen and approximately 5-10 after. If we take that as a guess for the other schools past and present numbers that means that there are currently probably less then 60 witchers still alive. Let's be generous and double that to account for schools we may not even know about yet, so probably around 100-120. With most of, if not all, witcher keeps we know of either destroyed or abandoned that's very little to work with to even restart any of the schools. But that's not even considering the point of lost knowledge, equipment and there probably not being alot of sorcerers/sorceresses willing to help in the rebuilding process. The only way I could see it working under these circumstances is to create one unified witcher order where the training would function more like in star wars,as in every boy ( or potentially girl) learns all the basics, then they undergo the witcher trials and pick a school. They would then go out as a student to an elder witcher from that school to acompany them and learn that schools specifics for some time befor returning to the order to then go out on the path. Once they return they would then get there own student or start working as an instructor.
Even if monsters go extinct, the knowledge and experience that witchers have can still be used in so many jobs. Jad Karadin becoming a merchant, Cat School witchers and Letho becoming assassins, etc. Geralt shows that they have some knowledge in human anatomy, alchemy and herbalism and of course combat. The only problem would be people willing to hire them for these jobs
how about this for an idea? The Witcher Online. After the events of W3, one side wins the war, and there is a second conjunction. the victorious army(the North or the South) allows Witcher schools to flourish because of the second conjunction, and we get the best MMO RPG ever made. I know it's hopium, but can you imagine a multi-player, open world Witcher game?
From what I understand the School of the Manticore specialized in Magic. That being the case, maybe they still exist in Zaracania.
Geralt perhaps can be an outstanding teacher for to trained more future Witchers at Kear Morhen after taking Vesemir’s place as the leader for the School of the Wolves.
I do believe there are several mentions throughout the games referring to Witchers as a dying breed.
Considering how mages & witches are forced into hiding, witcher bases disappearing it's probably harder to do everything to train new ones.
Considering how a decent proportion of witchers die during the actual trials & training, that makes them even rarer.
Considering how the actually complete witchers can die during battle, old age, betrayal etc.
Considering how actually getting orphans to train to become witchers are getting harder.
Considering how if there are actual monsters that need witchers to be dealt with, which can't be solved by throwing troops at them, they probably just avoid those places if possible.
Basically, witchers are a miniscule proportion of a miniscule proportion of a miniscule... you get the idea. They're extremely rare, hard to replace, impossible to replace on a big scale and not as useful as they used to be, so there's not as many supporters wanting more witchers so that makes it even harder.
In Novigrad there is a vampire, a succubus, and a nekker. If you go into the docks, there are drowners close by.
There is a troll, drowners, and a water hag under Djikstras bath house and then you have the monsters you fight in the arena...so to say there are no monsters in Novigrad is false...and then you have your human "monsters", of which there is no shortage.
Thats just in there for the game. They have to add enemies to keep you engaged lol. Plus he meant monsters roaming close to the city.
Yeah, poor Vesemir won't be able to keep up with the maintenance of and around Kaer Morhen ... Well, maybe he be able to participate in maintaining the local flora, I'm not overly familiar with that kinda thing 😉👍
Just finished my 4th play through. Love the game so much
Eesh For reals !!! I’m playing it for a second time!
Do I spy a certain soul-stealing demon at 5:14 ?
He's always watching...
I'd love a prequel Witcher game as a young geralt, see what the trial of the grasses is like first hand, feel the comradery between all the witchers and then once the trials were done showing what young geralt was like, failing that, a Witcher 4 where theres another conjunction, a massive increase of monsters and either play as ciri in that game or maybe geralt with a "here we go again" moment, play the whole game as geralt which ends in his death, then play the epilogue as ciri tieing up loose ends, a kind of red dead redemption 1 feel to it
Well thought out and explained video, mate. Thank you.
This was a good one, but also sad. I'm really glad you did it.
Everything has its rules of being. In high fantasy books this is shown very well. Usually the side of economics and politics related to this is not shown, but it is.
Hey can you do an update in light of new info on the Manitcore, Viper, and Bear schools from the newer content in the Gwent game and the new Witcher game coming out
For every the witcher fan here.
I read somewhere that Lambert and eskel joined geralt at his vineyard and stayed there with him at the end of the game.
would be cool if CDPR made a witcher spin off game like thronebreaker, where you play as a different character, probably a witcher from a different school but in the witcher 3 style.
nice video.
They usualy aim for the big progects and spinoff is unlikely I think.
@@yourdad5799 well no because they've made gwent a standalone game and thronebreaker too, which isn't major.
@@moccus3466 Maybe you're right
Toss a coin to your witcher oh valley of plenty :(
Fucking enough
A bunch of people just throwing themselves at the enemy.
See: Russia circa WW1&2
Thats not true
@@romanhossin5538 yes it is
Nah - not gone, they are after all using the trial of the grasses to bring that elf back (and Yen makes sure he survives, so in theory if given access to sorceresses they could multiply the successful candidates IMHO)
I believe in The Witcher 1 the mage from the Salamandra stole the mutagens needed to complete the part of the trial of the grasses that commes after the potions. If they weren’t stolen during that attack then it was during a previous attack.
Imagine new game with second coungactoin geralt and eskal trying to rebuild school of wolf
Even if monsters go extinct, I don't think curses and ghosts will really disappear, and that's something a witcher can deal with
Maybe. But this is not a solid sourse of income and I think not only witchers can lift curses. Mages can and they are not going anywhere, judging how Geralt is lifting more simple curses like the comon whaith. I think soneone can do it too.
Great vid again, can't wait for the rest.
I've played witcher3 over 30 times,so I am taking a break until winter....then I'll start again,lol!
How do you not get bored? I mean there is many choises to make and things to do but 30 times?
@WitcherGeorge - there never were all that many to start with given they ate "recruited" via the Law of Surprise at least in the books.
Next Witcher game should def be about a young Vesemir during one of his past adventures