Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-26222852-20150319173634/@comment-26222852-20150721134617

As all the post-communist countries, not just Slovakia. Though the beauty of the country itslef, it's people and ot's culture kinda blurres the post-communist effect, looking from the turist's point of view. If I could pick two cities where to make the Witcher, I'd pick Bratislava, Slovakia, Maribor, Slovenia, and maybe Krakow...and Trier, Germany...All three of the cities have that medieval mystical allure I find fascinating, and do make a great film footage. Also the Cachtice castle in Slovakia, home of the notorious countess Erzsebeth Battory, would be my pick for the Foltest's old palace where Geralt lifts a curse from his sister Adda...Never mind it's a ruin, with the right effects...

Barnes would make a good Cahir, and Kutcher is how I imagined Foltyarna, but Fimmel has a more elven face, and with dark loose hair and a huge scar all over his face would score an Oscar for the guerille rebel fighter elf. Both exellent choices though, congrats! Liam Neeson is extremely badass and hot, great performer, I only doubt he would ever accept playing a bad guy, that villain such as Bonhart, since he is always "a hero archetype"...

Did you know that the only slavic word in English is a vampire, derived from Serbian word "vampir" or slovak "upir"? And the only norse word in English is a Viking, for the English called the Scandinavians "The Norse"? (once again Sapkowski's historical reference where the Nilfgaardians call the northerners "The Nordlings"...)

Not being comfortable displaying my whereabouts online (you sure are), here's a sort of a riddle:

I am of full Slavic descent (little mingled with other of course), my family coming from a city on the borders between the East and the West. Where do I originate from? :)

You should check out "The Hussite Trilogy" by Sapkowski too, a real historical novel about hussite wars-Narrenturm, Warriors of God, Lux perpetua...Only it hasn't been translated into English, if you read any of these languages other than English, it's available in German, Spanish, Polish, Czech, and Russian...Should you read German, you just cruise from your city to Wien and buy it there, coming back for dinner...:) :) :) And GOT, neverminding the nihilism, a thrilling story indeed.