Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-26222852-20150319173634/@comment-26222852-20150718125016

Fine, since you are kind of obsessed with beauty, then Kate Beckinsale is the dreamy Yennefer and Olga Kyrilenko Triss Merigold, and Henry Cavill Vilgefortz, and Monica Bellucci Philippa Eilehart, and Jim Caviezel Geralt. Might as well choose Angelina Jolie for Yennefer and Brad Pitt for Geralt, but that's exaggarating, just kidding.. of course, beauty is a relative opinion, it is you right to imagine them godly beautiful (these actors certainly are ;) )

But wouldn't too much beauty spoil the potential movie, making it too fantastic and kind of superficial? Even in the Game of Thrones and LOTR actors are not insanely beautiful ( for example for Cersei many would suggest Charlize Theron, but instead there is Lena Headey, half less attractive, but with great and proven acting abilities). It's ok of course, though I always imagined it kinda dark like The Black Death, where the most beautiful woman if any, is Melisandre from GOT, and The Pillars of the Earth, The White Queen, GOT where the most beautiful woman is Lena Headey... A fantasy in a real middle-age background and scene making...

If Saskia is really Borch's little dragon, I would sure like to see her, especially with some story evolving around her in a classical Sapkowski manner.

Glad you like Eva Green. I imagine her as Sile (is this the correct spelling, or is it a French name? In the English version of the book it is spelled as Sile, perhaps it is not correct, but never mind) as she is mature, mystical, with a very obvious occult aura around her, could portray malice and is strict in clothing, jewelery and promiscuity, unlike other sorceresses. Then again, she is the oldest, so her strictness and maturity would sure prevail over others', though it doesn't seem so for she, as others, displays herself as an attractive young woman. She was kind of like that in the King Arthur series where she played Morrigan, Morgaine, whatever.

All the participants of Battle at Brenna caught my attention, as well as Natalis, Adam "Adiu" Pangratte, Julia Abatemarco, count Daniel Echevery, and Meno Kuhorn. I find the description very alluring especially told through Yareey's eyes and through the eyes of the healers (including Marty Sodergren, didn't have any idea for her). I imagine the great Battle at Brenna somewhat like in LOTR, where the battle itself would be half of the movie, but that's just me. All of their destinies caught my attention, not forgeting Rayla of Lyria.

Oesterlen is not just a great diplomat, but a very skilled manipulator, a spy with the smile with the knowledge of law and latin language (though classical aristocratic education at the time). Altough these are all features of a diplomat, besides being a servant to Emhyr, he is first of all a skilled aristocrat who would stop at nothing as to keep his own position in every power struggle and every change of regime. When he plays surprised, he is actually acting, as too he is on the just side, would say something like "Outrageous!" for Skellen's actions, though he himself would betray Emhyr were he calculated it as the best option for his own position and titles. Nobody really knows what he is up to, though Emhyr trusts him completely, he is a two-faced agent, somewhat like Varys from GOT, but dressed in an educated aristocrat. Just saying, he caught my attention. There is a trailer from the game W2 (told you I've seen only trailers) which describes the events after the battle at Brenna when the Ciri already inhabits another world with Galahad) where Oesterlen subtly and tactically asks Geralt to spy for him. See here:

P.S. From which slavic country do you come from? Are you of slavic descent or living there? (sorry if making myself an aggressive communicator, you intriguied me now). Sure liked my description of Slavic customs, right? (if you don't want to answer, can I guess where you are from :) :) :) ??? )