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I love the politics of The Witcher. The Netflix show leaves alot untold. I understand the general audience doesn't care but I love the world building.

crazy how theres all of this world building and lore and it all takes place on this relatively small part of this continent... gives me thee same vibe as Game of Thrones having the most eastern part of Essos and the entire continent of Sothoryos be a big mystery to anyone in the main story, just shows how much more there is to these worlds we'll probably never see or know about, just like someone living in those worlds

I wish there's a Witcher 4 where we get to dive more into the politics and history of the lore as well as visit all the kingdoms or at least major ones.

Suggested Reading Order for the Witcher Books: The Last Wish *Season of Storms Sword of Destiny Blood of Elves Time of Contempt Baptism of Fire Tower of the Swallow Lady of the Lake *Season of Storms *Most of the events in Season of Storms happen around the time of the Last Wish, so you can read it as the second book if you want. However the Epilogue of SoS takes place after the events of all the books and reveals some interesting information. And since the main story in SoS is not integral to the main plot of the other books it is also acceptable to read it last.

*A Brief Note on Canon:* Strictly speaking, canon for this universe is based solely on what the author has written or said. This includes the 5 main novels and 3 books of short stories, along with interviews and other writings like Dynasties, which contains his notes on certain royal families. And while canon on this Channel will be similar, there will be some exceptions. So below I have outlined exactly what is considered Witcher canon for Civilization Ex. Primary Canon: This will be the main source of information for all videos. Almost all the information given will be from these sources. Short Stories - The Last Wish Sword of Destiny Season of Storms Main Novels - Blood of Elves Time of Contempt Baptism by Fire Tower of the Swallow Lady of the Lake Other - Andrzej Sapkowski Interviews Assorted Andrzej Sapkowski Writings like "Dynasties" Secondary Canon: This will be from other books, non-netflix shows and movies, roleplay games and comics, written by authors other than Andrzej Sapkowski. These sources will only occasionally be used, and only when there is very little information about a certain topic. For example, almost no information exists about Werebbubbs in Primary Canon, so some minor points about them are taken from secondary sources. In the rare occasion when Secondary canon is used, I will say or write qualifying words like "maybe" or "possibly". These words indicate that the information is not from a primary source and therefore cannot be considered 100% accurate. Tertiary Canon: This will be from the CD Projekt Red games. These sources will almost never be used, however many of the drawings in these videos will be based on the games, though they will usually be blended with book descriptions. For example, Dandelion's look is based on the games, but his hair color is from the books. The Witcher The Witcher 2 The Witcher 3 All Expansions and DLCs Gwent Trading Card Game Thronebreaker TV Canon: The Netflix shows and movies will never be used as sources in these videos, UNLESS the title specifically says it will. For example, with every new season of the Witcher show I will make a season recap based on the last season which will exclusively feature show canon material.

Very well done. Good flow of history and physical path to follow. I also like the more esoteric points on display such as the primary currency in each nation (considering how highly detailed the author gets in terms of economics, this is a good reference).

Thank you. This will be super helpful. I'm trying to run a homebrew Witcher campaign in dnd that'll be a collection of one shot hunts across the land so knowing stuff about all these nations is awesome.

Maybe its just me, but after watching this I kind of want a Witcher Strategy game where you play as the different races or kingdoms at different points within the worlds history.

This video was awesome. I bet this took a shhhhhhhit ton of digging. Well done 10/10

Great video!

very well done and helpful. THank you!

Easy to understand, thankyou!

Thanks it helped a lot

This is so beautifully done. Thanks. I have just started the games and have been travelling putting the politics and history together. This puts everything in perspective too much to a point that even gwent makes sense now 😅 Thanks

This feels like a D&D world that just got turned into a book.

It's implied that humans from a post 20th or 21st century Earth where the ones who found themselves brought into The Witcher world in the south of the continent around 1500 years before the novels. though I have not read them all yet and i am fairly new to the world of the Witcher, certain characters travelled to other dimensions at various points, including Ciri visiting a 20th century Earth among other periods.

Toss a coin Jokes aside, love you and your content.

It's funny how the elves go on and on about how the continent belongs to them and yet the frigging Gnomes have been there longer than they have

The problem with the show is that they use expositional dialogue to give us the world building and politics. Rather than demonstrating said politics and showing us the world building it is just bluntly stated. For example in the pilot episode the Queen of Cintra is sitting at banquet with her husband. Most of this conversation is them talking about nothing. They briefly mention Nilfgaard until one of her knights walk up and tells her that Nilfgaard is invading. This fails because it is just bluntly telling us what is going on in the world rather than showing us. Let’s take Game of Thrones ( the early seasons of the show) in the pilot episode a Night’s Watch member is arrested for desertion and is to be executed. The reason why is told by Ned Stark after his wife asks if he has to. Ned tells her that he swore an oath. After executing him he has a talk with Bran who saw an execution for the first time. Ned asks if he understands why he did it. Bran says “Our way is the old way” w to which Ned replies with “The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.” From this we are shown the simplistic honor driven politics of the North. When Ned Stark accepts the kings offer to be his hand he goes down south and throws himself into a nest of vipers. Ned Stark in Season One and the first book is out of his element and is killed by the end.

Can you please do Dune? It would be awesome with your style of videos 🙏

Why are the elves crying when they also did what the humans did.

Very well 🔥🐉🐲💥💥👍

Excellent job!!

Had me at no spoilers.

Zerrikania sounds like a lovely place

I like this channel, I will subscribe now

Nice video can you give some information about Ofier?

I'm probably not the first to state this, but whatever. As with lots of things in this world, what we see, read, etc influences us. There are some similarities in the writing to other authors. Brotherhood of Sorcerers and the Lodge of Sorceresses, pretty similar goals as the Bene Gesserit from Dune universe. Aen Elle (aka the Wild Hunt elves) breeding program to create a super being from elder blood, very similar to the Kwisatz Haderach from Dune. I am willing to guess these literary concepts have even more ancient origins in older tales.

Are you going to cover the Wars of Nilfgaard and the Witcher 3 endings?

very helpful if you want to read the books

It seems humans were more intelligent than elves because they came to the continent and just handed out L’s to the elves.

Is there a list of immortal being or creatures other than vampires

More Witcher!!!!?

3:23 was Skellige called Skillige at a point or was that a typo?

Did falka have elder blood? I thought only Riannon had it, in which case the surviving triplet Fiona had to be Riannons daughter, because if she was Falkas how could Ciri have had the elder blood or am I missing something?

How come we dont know the name of the Usurper? the emperor of the biggest country in the continent?? Thanks for the video!

Does anyone know if they have covered The King Killer Chronicles?

And I thought it is me not having read the novels or played the video games, being confused by the world building to the point that I believe 'who is who' is irrelevant.

Reminds me of Silmarillion

Nilfgaard might hate magic users. But at least they don't enact pogroms every year.

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So possibly (or PROBABLY), The Witcher takes place on an alien world (not Earth) whose original natural inhabitants were elves, dwarves & gnomes. Humans and other beings migrated to this world during the Conjunction Of Spheres, bringing with them remnants of the languages & cultures they remembered from Earth. This migration was 2- way, with scatterings of elves, dwarves, gnomes, and others finding themselves on Earth, which is where we get our foltktales & legends about them. Sound close?

The hells is with the white ships and elves. I swear it comes up in almost every elven history

Wiedźmin, or hexer. The latter is official name coined by Sapkowski.

I thought they found a way to open a portal back to the human world

the main problem is they changed the appearance of many main characters from books and games

This is a great video summary but you kinda missed the vran races that suggested to be the real native races of the continent.

You forgot Ophir !!!!!!

please do some marvel

finally, a worthy opponent for middle earth universe.

Wait im confused on how ciri's life plays out could I get an explanation plse

Wait. Aedirn is just... Germany?

CivEx!!!

This looks so ridiculously similiar to lotr. That's fine because I enjoy both, but wow

Ironicaly race of vran was destroyed by elves, just to suffer same fate from humans.

This only made me more confused

I really disagree with how you pronounce most names

People who’ve unfortunately began the Netflix series…. Please, go pick up “The Last Wish”, and begin this amazing story! The 1st series was an utter failure to express basic concepts of the stories, and please PLEASE do it before season 2 puts a bad taste in your mouth. The first season was a failure by what was omitted, the second just decided to destroy the story and start their own bullshit despite there being SO MUCH DEPTH to the world.

Yet Netflix series made everything bland and boring

Black elves as a token in the show is just lazy. No we won’t show Ofir and it’s culture we will randomly spam black actors because ITS 2021!!! And we are libtarted, mailing Ofir would be too intelligent.