Talk:Yaevinn/@comment-44784880-20200116015756

Holy crap! All this hate for Yaevinn! Well, my first experience with the Witcher was with the Witcher game. I didn't even know about the books until a while later. I've just recently finished the first game for the second time as I am also delving into book 2 of the series, have also recently finished Thronebreaker, and am in Flotsam in The Witcher 2. So I am really getting into it all right now.

Two things:

1) I haven't read through the books as of yet, and didn't know about Yaevinn but I have sided with him and the Scoia'tael in both runs. If I had known he had killed babies, as in what some here have written, then I wouldn't have sided with him. He seemed idealistic, and decent enough in the game.

2) Canon issues between the books and the games. I keep seeing people write about this. This is a fictional world created by the author, and while he has done great work with the books, he did sign off and allow CDPR to continue his legacy and world in the video games.

We aren't members of a religion here guys, we can take what we want in the games as canon just as much as the books themselves. CDPR may not be perfect, and some can criticize them over their decision for not having Yaevinn, Shani, or Iorweth in subsequent games, but they have brought us the Witcher games, and did one hell of a good job for their company size and the time they came out. At least they haven't self destructed such as what Bioware is currently doing. CDPR is the top RPG company on the planet right now, with Cyberpunk 2076 just 3 months away from release, and The Witcher 2, and 3 breaking records and being considered the best RPGs out there.

For those who do not know it, either the President or Prime Minister of Poland gave a copy of The Witcher 2 to Obama as a gift representing their nation back around 2012 when he came over to the USA for a visit.

Also the fact that the vast majority of us are even here at this Fandom wiki because of the video games is very telling.

So all things considered, I am not dumping on the author, but his works along with the Witcher video games are all canon in my eyes, and the video games do not need to be take as not-the true Witcher. Sorry, but they are both the true Witcher experience to me, and say what you want, but I think this also goes for most people who love the video games too.