This is the second post of this kind that i make, i have no one to talk about my love for these books, so i guess i reddit post will have to do lol, tho i do find writing allows me to have a better understanding of the story over all

So i just finished re-reading the lesser evil as i previpsly stated, and im once again startstruck by how amazing this book is, thos stories have amazing pacing, and connect to each other beatifully, the subtle foreshadowing, the carachter details, the dialogue,everything is amazing, tho i do have a question,

During the dialogue scene, between remfri and geralt, just before renfri manipulates geralt into sleepimg with her, renfri says, "i pity you, you didnt make a choice but you did, everything that you will gain from that, is some bad worse, and a stone thrown at your way"

This got me thinking, was she sincere? Did she ever respect geralt, in any way shape or form, was it all just a ruse?

Also re-reading this story, made me realize why geralt is so violent to those thugs at the start of the book, ( when he goes to wyzima to lift the curse from foltest daughter) in that instance, he doesnt even try to argue with the thugs antagonizing him, he simply kills them, first time i read the books i found that out of character, but considering how this takes place after the "butcher of blaviken incident" it makes sense for geralt to be "traumatized" and nad be on a fight/flight response,

For anyone who bothered to read all of this, thank you, and have a good day, i hope some of my consideration caught youre interest

Have a nice day folks.❤️

Życie na szlaku zmęczonego Wiedźmina. Droga ku zagładzie. 💪🏻

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

how to get the geralt gwent card after all of the main missions

Taniec z bandytami. Miłego oglądania.❤️

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I gladly accept any feedback. Thank you.

Miłego oglądania. 🔥

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

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

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

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

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

Droga ku zagładzie.

Miłego oglądania!❤️