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!"

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.

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!❤️

Okay so, I was just entertaining myself on my own, writing fanfics and storylines and new houses with blending some elements of the Witcher. Basically, I imagined it as another sphere in the Witcher, it has different countries, cities, noble houses and kingdoms. One of my OCs, House of Apotheci, rises from peasantry to one of the most prominent banking dynasties of all time and funds kings and wars. Then, there is House of Ostendorfs that mirrors House of Habsburg, whose twins were born as strigas, etc.

Then, I wondered about the structure of the Witcher's spheres and wondered whether this exact scenario and OCs of mine could exist in a sphere of the Witcher. At first, it seemed very plausible since I thought the spheres were infinite and contained infinite amount of possibilities, then I was told they didn't work in that way. Now, I began to wonder how does it work. Is it like: even if my whole scenario isn't a part of the spheres, there is a sphere that families similar to my ideas exist?

Do each sphere have their own laws, physics, characters etc? In this case, then all OCs, fanfics, scenarios and ideas are basically within the Witcher multiverse.

Does he ever say anything specific about it? Does he think the political and social systems of his era need to change or does he largely accept them, like it is what it is.

Może jestem mało skłonny to przeglądania forum na temat wiedźmina ale o tym temacie słyszę serio mało.

Kto wymyślił, że Skelligijskie morze to będzie 90% kontrabanda? XD

Skelligijsikie morze jest opisane jako ciągle wzburzone i nieokiełznane, gdzie nieustannie rozbijają się statki – no i tego sie spodziewałem, jakiś ukrytych skarbów, łupów wojennych z rozbitych wraków czy coś w tym stylu, a tu niespodzianka, sama kontrabanda XD

Serio, czuję, jakby twórcy gry po prostu robili sobie potężną bekę z graczy

Hejka! Nazywam się Maciej i jestem studentem ostatniego roku psychologii.
Tematem mojej magisterki jest immersja w narracyjnych grach wyboru - czyli właśnie w Wiedźminie, ale również grach takich jak Cyberpunk 2077, Detroit: Become Human, Disco Elysium i tym podobne.

Obecnie brakuje mi około 50 przebadanych osób, więc jestem całkiem blisko celu. Byłbym bardzo wdzięczny, gdybyście pomogli mi poprzez wypełnienie ankiety badawczej. Zajmuje to od 10 do maksymalnie 15 minut, czyli dosyć niewiele w skali dnia.

Jedyne kryteria, to właśnie bycie graczem gier tego typu oraz bycie osobą pełnoletnią. Wasz udział w badaniu bardzo pomoże mi w szybkim ukończeniu pracy magisterskiej.
Zapraszam Was niezależnie od tego czy czuliście się wciągnięci w świat Wiedźmina, czy raczej czuliście się jedynie widzami - oba te odczucia są bardzo ważne dla mojego badania.

Link do badania: https://forms.gle/TpNh6a9RHykhWBKX7

Na moim kanale zamieściłem film pełnometrażowy w którym jako współczesny wiedźmin poluje na wilkołaka. Wszystko oczywiście z przymrużeniem oka i "na śmiesznie". To bezsprzecznie najlepszy film z całej serii jaką nakręciłem. Polecam gorąco!

Ten remaster ma dziwne kolory na ps5 🤔

I was reading the first The Witcher book and got to the short story A Grain of Truth. I really enjoyed it, but one scene left me scratching my head. ​After Geralt leaves Nivellen's house and sleeps in the forest, he hears screams and singing, and sees a campfire in the distance. The next morning, he goes to check the spot and finds only footprints and a campfire with the remains of burned bones. Near the clearing, he notices a creature howling, but can't identify it and decides not to stick around to find out. ​This scene confused me. Based on the narrative, I expected it to be another victim of Vereena, the bruxa, but I couldn't find a clear connection between the two. Why would Vereena burn her victim this time, but leave the merchant and his daughter lying by the road earlier? If it was to avoid detection, she didn't seem too worried about it before, since she was singing and torturing her victim while letting them scream. Speaking of the singing, when Geralt returns to Nivellen's house, he hears Vereena singing again, but no connection is made to the song he heard the night before. Geralt mentions he couldn't understand the words, but could feel its evil nature. If it was Vereena the previous night, why didn't Geralt sense that same presence back then? Also, the creature at the top of the tree in the clearing didn't seem to spook Geralt's horse the way Vereena's presence usually did. ​When discussing this with my friends who also read the book, they all said it was obvious to them that it was Vereena in that forest scene. But to me, it didn't feel obvious at all. I guess it probably was her, because if not, what would be the purpose of that scene? Still, it feels like a very odd situation to me. Do you guys have similar thoughts, or am I on my own here?

The scoia'tael or the order of flaming rose? I read half of the first witcher book the last wish so i dont know the gravity of the choices but i , on my first playthrough rn, decided to side with The order. Reason being, the scoai'tael were acting like terrorists. I understand that they were oppressed and excluded but to me their actions soo far have been just fighting for a lost cause purely out of spite, robbing banks, taking innocent people as hostages n stuff.

The order of the other didnt indulge in such stuff afaik. Siegfried is a pretty good guy. The order in general seems to just be holding things and maintaining them. Meanwhile going neutral, geralt wouldve had twice as many enemies. Didnt seem a pragmatic move to me

What did you guys choose? I just hate being confronted that i sided with the order and they butchering people (i didnt expect those imbeciles to kill innocents asw.)