Right there with you dude seems most of our filmmakers and TV show creators these days are more interested in trying to push some kind of an agenda or message and are creative and morally bankrupt

I'm out of the loop, is it bad?

@@aloelover6012 if you enjoy the book and game lore then you’ll hate it I reckon lol

@@WiseFish Oh man, yep, that answers my question lmao

Great video. Thought I might say though that the expulsion of elves from the contintinent was also a result of their hubris, in their habit to not build walls in their settlements (a detail not included in Blood origins go figure). Would also have been interesting to have some mention of the Black Seidhe, part ancestors to nilfgaardians (unless you'd mention them in a nilfgaard lore video).

Elves don't dress and love like humans?

@@dylansearcy3966 his point is they neglected their entire culture and identity, made them humans with pointy ears only

​@Smitty Werben Jagger Man Jensen The "Viking" elves irked me the most. Somehow these alien creatures with a deep cultural obsession over Magic, evolve with a group exactly as the humans. Netflix's lack of creativity never ceases to surprise me.

Don't mention that abomination 😭😭 I still got ptsd from what they did to the elves in that show!!

WE WUZ ELVEZ N SHEEEEIT!

Shat out is a great summary and description

Same, it's what drew me here even though I know this lore already, but Blood Origins was painful enough to listen to the real deal again.

Had to be done lol thanks for watching

@@WiseFish These books and its lore really deserve this much care and attention, especially more so when it's something that's as culturally celebrated as The Witcher. Admittedly, the only good thing I can say about Netflix's disrespectful attempt at a prequel is that your video on the history of Witchers came into my recommendations because of it, and consequently all your other lore breakdowns on other video games as well. Do keep up the brilliant work my good man, your presentations really do these stories justice. 👍👍

You see how they portrayed Eradin? Smh

@@getcrunk117 black? 🤣

@@getcrunk117 yeah I hadn’t read the books or played the games so I got fooled into thinking he was good lmao 🤣

well said

Some did, others didn't and unfortunately, thoses who didn't were the futur of elven kind. Even so, thoses who did hide to wait their hour were starving in the Blues Mountains.

Elves in Warhammer are very distainful of humanity and have good reason, if they didn't have the huge power differential humans would give them the same trouble as in the Witcher world. Wood elves have forests that move around and mess with invaders and dark and high elves have far away lands near impossible to reach.

@@amh9494 As I said they are not 100% friendly with each other as much of their relationship is mainly through trade and their share hatred towards chaos and other threats. I never said they're sweet on each other just content.

Witcher elven relation are much better in the south

@@SimpleNobody2420 I didn't say you were wrong with anything just that if they were for example pushed together into the old world then it would be just like Witcher

Witcher elves in many ways are pretty Tolkien-esque :), they are also heavily inspired by Celtic mythology as well as having very Celtic culture and language :), they of course also have unique traits and some differences (for example the Aen Seidhe and Aen Elle seem to have some lifespan and are not truly immortal like Tolkien elves, witcher elves live for hundreds of years and remain youthful looking but still)...such a shame that netflix really screwed up with the elves in their live action shows. Depicting the elven civilization could have been interesting if done lore faithfully.

Elves are basically always the same. Like dwarves, dragons and humans. The characteristics are quite stereotypical.

@@saymyname2417 That's good. That's the point. The different fantasy races in fiction are representations of concepts. There can be variations within these concepts, but if they stray too far they become vague and unsatisfying. Something like the Netflix show did, making the "elves" just humans with pointy ears and nothing else.

@@LordEsel88 - I see what you mean and you're not wrong. But what I also see and read its hat we get the same old story told over and over again. Sure in different gowns and colours but it's always the same old and people have been influenced to accept the stereotypical roles of the prospective races. And that of the humans is never a good one while monsters, dragons and elves are always depicted in a positive role and that of victims. Which is one reason many people have adopted the trope of "the real monsters are the humans". Despite world devouring, sun blocking, genocidal, serial killing, sociopathic atrocities. It is unfathomable to me.

@@saymyname2417 I agree with you about the trope of "humans are the real monsters". That concept is overused today.

Honestly, Aen elle are more like the dark eldar, being both tall and conquorers of worlds.

@@MrNuclearturtle they are the Witcher equivalent of Dark Elves, but I meant physically.

It actually began before, approximatively 1000 years before the Conjunction when the Elves that will become the Aen Seidhes separated from the other elves to live in the Witcher world while the reste settled in Elfland (no, the name isn't Tir na lia, that is the name of their capitale, not the name of their world which is actually unknown). The distinction is honestly superficial, particurlarly before the Conjunction but here it is.

@@efaristi9737 source? I wanna read it

@@wahidhassani689 Unfortunately, it's a mix of facts and of deductions. Sapkowski is a great writer but his work has some gap. Specifically on the History part. Most of the written history concern human history since the First Landing, Little is known about elf history and even less about the other races. We know by Yarpen in Blood of Elves that elves arrived on the Continent a thoussand years before the humans. It's not clear to which Era he refer to, if he mean 1000 years before the Conjunction, moment where humans enter the witcher world or 1000 years before the First Landing, when the humans finally arrive on the continent. I think the first one theory is correct because elves and humans came over sea and elves couldn't travel between worlds after the Conjunction. So it's likely they would have met eachothers and the elves wouldn't have forgotten about them, yet, at the First Landing, it was, as far as i can tell, the first time they met. Avalla'ch and Auberon in the Lady of the Lake affirm that the Aen Elle settled in their own world a long time ago before the Conjunction. So there was already two tribes, barely differents but two nonetheless. And it's implied the Aen Elle already called themselves that at that time. In the same book, Avalla'ch speak about Ard Gaeth, the Great Eternal Door, that the elves used to travel between world and that they lost that power during the Conjunction so the two tribes cannot have split after the Conjunction. Likely, they used it to still meet eachother and thus their cultures were still widely similars but it was not possible after the CS. It's actually not clear from which world the Elves came from. We know it's not Elfland because the Aen Elle affirmed coming from another world and settled there. It's doubtful it's the Witcher world but it's actually not impossible: The Dwarves talk about the first time they come on the continent, not about the first time they came into this world. Only the games speak of the Aen Undod, the first elves before they split into two tribes. So i guess it depends if you also consider the games canon. I hope i gave you some answers.

wow, you found even more errors than me :D mad respect for your knowledge of this franchise

@@DofDGlory That's how i know i'm passionated about something, because i want to learn everything there is to learn about it XD. Thank you^^

In lady of the lake Ciri meets an unicorn that tells her that his race got tricked by the elves to open a portal to a new world and tacking it over by murdering and enslaving the population wich probably were humans.

@@erik1925 Which unicon? i have reviewed all conversations that Ciri has with unicorns in Lady of the Lake, the Elders, Ihuarraquax... None of them says that the Aen Elle used them to conquer the world of Tir na Lia but confirmed on the contrary that the elves posessed long ago control over a mystic gate that allowed them to travel between worlds. Not to mention, we know that even after the Conjunction, some elves still posess the power to jump between though at a lesser degree. That doesn't make much sense in my opinion, the Aen Elle conquered their world long before the Conjunction, so it can't be Earth or there wouldn't be no humans to invade the Witcher world and they can't come from another world since it's before the Conjunction so it's quite weird.

For real, this video is just full of elven propaganda talking points

They hardly prospered, if you look at what happened up to the third age... The third age was merely further depicting the decline of the elven species. Only franchise that comes to mind where elves actually prosper is the elder scrolls

@@DofDGlory I disagree. They had pretty good settlements and kingdoms in LOTR. Sure they weren’t at their peak prosperity, they live like kings compared to Witcher and dragon age elves.

​@@stephen8805 what kingdoms?! by the time the story of lotr took place even lindon was lost... only things remaining of the once powerful noldor and telerin were a depopulated lindon led by one of gil-galads former officers, a small enclave in the misty mountains led by another of his officers and some remaining noldor, sindar and nandor in the woods^^ the last kingdom were the woodland realms with thranduil as the last remaining elven king and they could barely hold mirkwood... not much of a difference to dol blathana really

@@DofDGlory You know what I mean. They have at least some sort of civilisation in middle Earth they can be proud to live in and not be street rats and nomads like they are in the Witcher and dragon age.

@@stephen8805 In the Witcher some of elves also have their own land. After the 2nd war with Nilfgaard, Emhyr gave back Dol Blathana (Valley of Flowers) to elves where they made their own country ruled by Francesca Findabair.

Yes. And they also acted like dicks towrds the older races. It was olny after they got their asses kicked by the humans they were all "oh we old races must stick together".

@@richardaubrecht2822 they genocide the lizard people and took their cities, the Aen Elle just trick unicorns into opening gates into other worlds to get slaves, because is canon that elves cannot farm

Me: 'Shrugs', "Well its not that insane of a theory."

Make it black and make it gay, pretty much the entire agenda of contemporary writers, and it's boring af.

I love the blood of elves personally and yeah they’re all on audible, in my country anyways

@@WiseFish U.S.?

@@peterversionone u can find them on youtube i think

kzfaq.info/sun/PLYAzBRIkMHUJKAyP_6jS3mJLfY36xWDOa

You can find some of them on KZfaq and they are indeed on Audible. I would read them in order of course but they are fantastic imo. If you love Geralt and company and love the world and lore then you will love them.

When they don’t want to acknowledge the original material they loose all my respect. Seems Netflix writers just have a snobbyness to them where they think they can make it better or something

@@WiseFish I personally can't fault it entirely on Netflix. They pretty much approve everyone for everything. It's the producers/writers wanting to do their own spin on already established property that's the real issue. If you're gonna divulge so far from the materials you're basing your story from, you might as well just create your own IP. But they won't because they rely on the coattails of other's success and popularity. And shows how little popularity they believe their "writing" would have had with people if they actually did. The Witcher is just the biggest and latest victim of this practice lately.

@@djktsjytej sadly, even the upcoming live-action adaptation for The Last of Us may fall victim to this as well, given the downright dismissive takes the showrunner has for video games. Halo, Resident Evil, Lord of the Rings, the Witcher, Monster Hunter, etc.; these pop culture icons are being handed off to people that have no respect for the source material, too pigheaded to even consider that stories told through mediums they look down on (video games, comics, animated media) are just as effective at delivering compelling narratives as traditional ones. It's a genuinely sad state to see them in, and quite frankly it's so much safer to ignore any adaptations going forward. We've been burned too often already to trust them with these IPs.

Finally lol

Dlaczego?

@@siejac7894 to tak jakby ktoś chciał powiedzieć "kary" zamiast "samochody", źle brzmi jest niepoprawnie a w obu językach są odpowiednie słowa

@@Riva_Bear Pogrom jest słowem w języku angielskim, zapożyczonym z polskiego.

The reason why the first humans were so intolerant against the elves is because the Aen Elle took over the human world by tricking the unicorns and killing almost everyone. (Thats the reason unicorns hate elves and they need Ciri because unicorns won't open another portal for them) After discovering that they got tricked the unicorns helped the remaining humans to settle in a new world that sadly was inhabited by the Aen Seidhe. Ofcourse the Aen Seidhe weren't the ones responsible for this genocide but tell that to someone who lost literally everything they knew.

@@erik1925yup! Surprised that wasn’t mentioned in the video. It adds a lot of nuance.

There there, take some asprin, you'll get over it :)