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The Witcher:

is a chain of six myth novels and 15 quick tales written through Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski. It's The Story of  "witcher," Geralt of Rivia."witchers" are beast hunters who broaden supernatural abilties at a younger age to struggle fare wild beasts and monsters. The Witcher started with a titular 1986 quick tale that Sapkowski entered right into a opposition held through Fantastyka mag, marking his debut as an writer. Due to reader demand, Sapkowski wrote 14 greater tales earlier than beginning a chain of novels in 1994. Known as The Witcher Saga, he wrote one ee-e book a 12 months till the 5th and very last installment in 1999. A standalone prequel novel, Season of Storms, turned into posted in 2013.

The books had been defined as having a cult following in Poland and Central and Eastern European nations. They had been translated into 37 languages and offered over 15 million copies international as of December 2019. They have additionally been tailored right into a movie,  tv collection, a trilogy of video video games, and a photo novel collection. The video video games had been even greater a hit, with greater than 50 million copies offered as of May 2020.

**-Background : 

The tales are set on an unnamed Continent, which turned into settled numerous thousand years in advance through elves from remote places. When they arrived, the elves encountered gnomes and dwarves. After a battle among the elves and dwarves, the dwarves retreated into the mountains, and the elves settled withinside the plains and forests. Human colonists arrived approximately 5 hundred years earlier than the occasions withinside the tales, igniting a chain of wars. The human beings have been successful and have become dominant; the non-human races, now taken into consideration 2nd-magnificence citizens, regularly stay in small ghettos inside human settlements. Those now no longer constrained to the ghettos stay in wasteland areas now no longer but claimed through human beings. Other races at the Continent are halflings and dryads; werewolves and vampires regarded after a mystical occasion called the Conjunction of the Spheres.

During the centuries previous the tales, maximum of the Continent's southern areas had been taken over through the Nilfgaard Empire; the north belongs to the fragmented Northern Kingdoms. The Witcher saga takes region withinside the aftermath of the primary predominant battle among the Nilfgaard Empire and the Northern Kingdoms, with a 2nd battle starting withinside the center of the collection.

**-Major characters:

Geralt of Rivia, additionally called Gwynbleidd and the Butcher of Blaviken, is the protagonist of the collection and its variations. A witcher who travels the Continent and makes a residing searching monsters that plague the land. He is connected to Ciri through future. Péter Apor argues that he embodies the "neo-liberal anti-politics" spirit of the Polish famous way of life of the 1990s. Geralt has been performed through Michał Żebrowski withinside the Polish suggests and movies. Currently he's performed through Henry Cavill withinside the Netflix collection ''The Witcher.

Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon, additionally called the Lion Cub of Cintra, Child of the Elder Blood, Falka, and the Lady of Time and Space, is the princess of Cintra, daughter of Pavetta and Duny and granddaughter of Queen Calanthe. She is likewise Geralt's future and followed daughter, round whom an awful lot of the plot is centered. Ciri is a descendant of Lara Dorren and has the Elder blood, which offers her get right of entry to to powers that permit her to move area and time. Ciri has ashen gray hair and inexperienced emerald eyes, a trait that runs in her family. In the Polish 2002 movie and 2002 TV collection, she turned into performed through.

first regarded withinside the series of quick tales, The Last Wish, proposing withinside the quick tale of the equal name. She is a effective sorceress, is a mom determine to Ciri, and will become Geralt's lover. In the Polish 2002 movie and 2002 TV collection, she turned into performed through Grażyna Wolszczak.

Dandelion is a poet, minstrel, bard and Geralt's excellent friend. The Polish phrase jaskier refers back to the Buttercup flower. Some of his greater well-known ballads have been approximately the connection among Geralt and Yennefer. By the time of the saga, he's already in his 40s aleven though it's miles stated that he seems to be in his 30s and is on occasion fallacious for an elf. He accompanies Geralt in lots of quick tales and finally ends up becoming a member of his hansa at the same time as looking for Ciri. He is performed through Joey Batey in The Witcher TV collection. In the 2001 Polish Wiedźmin movie, he turned into performed through Zbigniew Zamachowski.

of Maribor, a sorceress and a chum of Geralt and Yennefer. She took care of Ciri for a while and is like an older sister to her. She turned into a member of the Lodge of Sorceresses. Triss is in love with Geralt. The photograph of Triss Merigold from The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings regarded as cowl woman withinside the Polish version of Playboy in May 2011. She additionally regarded in a stay version calendar for the sport in Russia.

 

**-Geography:

Although no map of the universe created through Sapkowski has been launched, enthusiasts have created numerous maps. According to Sapkowski, the prevailing maps are "normally accurate", and he makes use of a model created through Czech translator Stanislav Komárek.

 

The Continent may be divided into 4 areas. The Northern Kingdoms includes Aedirn, Cidaris, Cintra, Hengfors League, Kaedwen, Kerack, Kovir and Poviss, Lyria and Rivia, Redania, Temeria and Verden and numerous minor duchies and principalities which includes Bremervoord or Ellander. The Nilfgaard Empire occupies maximum of the place south of the Northern Kingdoms. The japanese a part of the Continent, which includes the Korath desert, Zerrikania, Hakland and the Fiery Mountains, is normally unknown. The ee-e book collection mentions remote places nations with whom the Northern Kingdoms trade, which includes Zangvebar, Ofir, Hannu and Barsa.

 

**-Language:

Sapkowski created a language for the collection called Elder Speech, primarily based totally on Welsh, English, French, Irish, Latin and different languages. Dialects are spoken at the Skellige Islands and in Nilfgaard. In an interview, Sapkowski defined that he desired the language to be moderately legible to a reader, to keep away from footnotes. As he stated: "In my ee-e book, I do now no longer need for an orc telling to some other orc 'Burbatuluk grabataluk!' to be provided with a footnote: 'Shut the door, do not permit the flies in!'

 

**-Chronology:

*-The Road with No Return - untranslated

*-A Grain of Truth

*-The Lesser Evil

*-The Edge of the World

*-The Last Wish"

*-A Question of Price

*-Season of Storms

*-The Witcher

*-The Voice of Reason

*-The Bounds of Reason

*-A Shard of Ice

*-Eternal Flame

*-A Little Sacrifice

*-Sword of Destiny

*-Something More

*-Blood of Elves

*-Time of Contempt

*-Baptism of Fire

*-The Tower of the Swallow

*-The Lady of the Lake

*-Epilogue to the Season of Storms

*-Something Ends, Something Begins" - untranslated

**-Translations:

The tales and novels had been translated into 37 languages international. In his ee-e book 2005 ee-e book-interview Historia i Fantastyka Sapkowski cited that the phrase "witcher" is a herbal male model of the English phrase "witch", and implied that the similarity among the ones  phrases, in addition to among the German terms, turned into the foundation coining wiedźmin as a brand new Polish phrase. Hexe and Hexer are the German phrases for lady and male 'witch' respectively. and Danusia Stok used it in her translation of Ostatnie życzenie that turned into posted the equal 12 months. Michael Kandel but used "spellmaker" in his 2010 translation of "Wiedźmin" quick tale for A Book of Polish Monsters anthology.

**-Adaptations :

As many variations of The Witcher works are primarily based totally on tales now no longer written through Sapkowski, it's been counseled The Witcher has emerge as a shared universe.

 

**-Comic books:

From 1993 to 1995, Sapkowski's tales have been tailored into six comedian books through Maciej Parowski, Bogusław Polch and Sapkowski:

Droga bez powrotu – Based on the fast tale "Droga, z której się nie wraca"

Geralt – Based on the fast tale "Wiedźmin"

Mniejsze zło – Based on the fast tale with the equal title

Ostatnie życzenie – Based on the fast tale with the equal title

Granica możliwości – Based on the fast tale with the equal title

Zdrada – Based on an "unused concept for a quick tale"

In 2013, Dark Horse Comics introduced a comedian ee-e book collection known as The Witcher, primarily based totally at the video-sport collection and made in collaboration with CD Projekt Red. It started publishing in 2014. Most of the tales are primarily based totally on authentic plots now no longer written through Sapkowski.

**-Film and TV :

The Witcher turned into tailored right into a 2001 movie and a 2002 TV collection, each titled The Hexer and directed through Marek Brodzki. Michał Żebrowski portrayed Geralt in each. In numerous interviews, Sapkowski has criticized those display screen variations: "I can solution simplest with a unmarried phrase, an obscene, albeit a quick one."

In 2015, Platige Image deliberate an American movie edition of the radical collection to reach in 2017. In May 2017, they introduced that they could be generating  The Witcher TV collection in cooperation with Netflix and Sean Daniel Company, with Tomasz Bagiński as one of the administrators and Sapkowski as a innovative consultant. Created through Lauren Schmidt Hissrich, it stars Henry Cavill as Geralt. On October 10, 2018, it turned into introduced that Freya Allan and Anya Chalotra have been solid as primary lady characters, Ciri and Yennefer. The first season turned into launched on December 20, 2019, with all 8 episodes to be had. A 2nd season turned into introduced on November 13, 2019. The predicted launch date for the second one season is December 17, 2021, proposing some of the equal characters and a few new stars.

Netflix launched an lively movie, The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf, on August 23, 2021, with their TV collection showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich as manufacturer and creator BeAu DeMayo, and animation supplied through Studio Mir.

A stay-motion prequel collection, The Witcher: Blood Origin, turned into introduced through Netflix in July 2020, set 1200 years earlier than Geralt's time to expose the beginning of the Witchers. The prequel is likewise being advanced through Hissrich.

**-Games:

1-Board video games: 

A tabletop role-gambling sport primarily based totally on Sapkowski's books, Wiedźmin: Gra Wyobraźni, turned into posted through MAG in 2001. Another tabletop sport primarily based totally at the video video games, produced through R. Talsorian Games, turned into deliberate for launch in 2016 however turned into behind schedule and subsequently launched in August 2018.

CD Projekt Red and Fantasy Flight Games launched The Witcher Adventure Game, a board sport designed through Ignacy Trzewiczek, in 2014 in bodily and virtual forms. The virtual model is to be had on Windows, OS X, Android and iOS.

The board sport The Witcher: Old World turned into introduced in February 2021. Designed through Łukasz Woźniak and produced through Go on Board in partnership with CD Projekt Red, the sport is about prequel to the primary online game collection with deck constructing and role-gambling elements. In May 2021, the sport raised greater than $three million on Kickstarter and turned into deliberate to be shipped in June 2022.

2- Card video games: 

In 2007, Kuźnia Gier advanced  card video games primarily based totally on CD Projekt's The Witcher online game. One, Wiedźmin: Przygodowa Gra Karciana, turned into posted through Kuźnia Gier; the different, Wiedźmin: Promocyjna Gra Karciana turned into brought to the collector's version of The Witcher in a few nations.

3-Video video games: 

In 2007, a online game advanced through CD Projekt Red turned into launched, The Witcher. A sequel, The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, turned into launched in 2011 through the equal team. The very last sport of the trilogy, The Witcher three: Wild Hunt, turned into launched in 2015. Sapkowski had no involvement with the video video games, giving the studio license to create a very new tale the usage of his characters. They have been additionally extraordinarily a hit commercially, promoting greater than 50 million copies as of May 2020, over 30 million copies being from The Witcher three: Wild Hunt alone.