Talk:Ciri/@comment-172.222.247.4-20181015041748/@comment-80.29.108.216-20181018114241

AH, that explains it. I didn't play Blood and Wine, or the other DLC. The game is rather well-made, but the inevitable association with the Witcher novels made it a painful experience for me. I didn't want to put myself through more of the same thing. So, you made the right choice about what to experience first, if the books or the games. I couldn't, because I started reading the novels when they were originally published, long before the games were made.

I’ve investigated the subject, and apparently it was only a mistranslation. There’s no mention of her drinking black blood in the original (Polish) version.

Book Geralt is also about justice and saving people, no matter what he himself would say about the subject and his typical talk of neutrality. And, of course, if somebody harms a person important to him, they can consider themselves fucking dead. But that doesn’t mean the games got his personality right. I mean, there are many characters with those traits, but only one of them is really Geralt of Rivia. Know what I mean?

As for him being adorable… well, this is a tiny bit of a spoiler, but after meeting Yennefer, Geralt brushes up his vocabulary and starts to talk in a more elegant manner. Thinking he could impress her with that or something. Jaskier/Dandelion points it up to him, even. Much later that when it happens, but still, it makes for a really funny scene.

Also, because I forgot at the time: when did she take a witcher potion? As far as I know, she only makes some oil to fight the werewolf boss, right?

P. D. If you know Polish, you should read the original. If not, the second best choice is the Spanish translation. The English one is... rather poor. Misses a lot of nuance, and in there peasants talk the same way as more educated people, when in the original and the spanish version, a person's way of talking fit with their position and education.