All posts by Mechemik

Then you should have clarified that it was your personal opinion in the original post's message. You're not the only one who's frustrated with how the show didn't stick to the books, but it comes across as ignorant to then try and self-proclaim it's fan fic and trying to say it shouldn't be listed. As disappointing as it is, it's still official information pertaining to the Witcher, and as this wiki is focused on providing all official information regarding the IP in one place, we've mitigated it as best we can given the circumstances (like splitting off Netflix characters to their own pages, noting discrepancies where it doesn't make sense to have its own page, etc.).

You seem to be misunderstanding what fan fic is vs. what makes something official/has licensing. For example, someone can write their own fan fic about anything out there (Witcher, Marvel comics, K-pop bands, etc.) but that doesn't make it official. What makes it official is them getting the rights to use that IP (usually via the original author/whoever holds the rights of it), which Netflix did. It's in the same boat as the Hexer movie and show: they don't get talked about a lot, but that doesn't make them any less official simply because it didn't go well (to put it lightly).

Where are you seeing it include Netflix information? If you mean the bullet point within the Notes, that's in the proper area. It wouldn't make sense to create a separate page for a note like that. And as annoying as it is, Netflix is still considered an official part of the Witcher lore, however loose it is.

There were 2 battles in that war that happened in Sodden: the first one isn't as well known/referenced as much. That was the one the North lost. The second battle (Sodden Hill) is the more well known one and the one the North won but at the loss of 13 mages.

The real issue is that Netflix tends to focus too much on making one-dimensional villains. The books and games see a lot of morally gray characters and nuance, but we don't really see that with NotW. They just wanted to create a simple villain to focus on as they couldn't use Kitsu (who was the tragic, misled char).

@Atlas D. Aeradon witchers still need to eat to survive. Food costs money. So unless you're a farmer witcher, you're going to need to make money to survive, even if just to buy food. And as most of society shuns witchers (Nilfgaard even goes as far as banning them from entering cities) your job occupations are very limited. Lambert also remarks on this/why he's so bitter about his lot in life (he still walks the Path because he can't really do anything else). So while you may go "well nothing is forcing me to hunt monsters" the fact is, there's a reason you don't see many witchers in occupations that don't involve just that. Basically, the odds are not in your favor to do something other than killing monsters or mercenary work when society is prejudiced against you.

@Atlas D. Aeradon the issue isn't so much not having to hunt monsters as it is the fact that most of society shuns them, treating them with disdain and contempt to the point many wouldn't be able to find work doing anything else (unless you count assassins like the Cat School). A witcher might be able to settle down for a solitary life (like as a farmer maybe) but there's a reason you hardly see any witchers in other professions outside of ones that require killing.

Yes, it became difficult to keep an eye on those, so ultimately the comments were turned off and just had everything moved over here to Discuss instead.

Yes, we allow all the Gwent artwork (standalone and in-game Witcher ones). Just make sure you put the file information template and fill out the info like the rest, thanks!

Considering the last main Witcher game came out in 2015, many aren't happy with the Netflix version of the series, and the next anticipated game doesn't have a lot of info yet, activity ebbs and flows, just like other wikis when there's a lull in releases.

Another user asked awhile back so I uploaded it here

https://witcher.fandom.com/wiki/File:CDPR_gwent_Aug_2020_launch.jpg

There's nothing in the books that indicates it being debunked. The thing that went on with Mistle (which was rape) doesn't belie the fact that Ciri can still be attracted to women (which the author appears to have intentionally left open-ended). Also keep in mind what bisexuality is: it's being attracted to both both males and females, or to more than one gender. It doesn't mean she only bats for one side. The devs played into this as well by even making it an option for Ciri to say she prefers women in the sauna and her rose tattoo.

Keep in that mind that just because someone is highly charismatic and can make themselves likable to a particular group doesn't necessarily make them a decent person (or at least decent to others). You just have to look at a lot of cult leaders, certain con artists, narcissists, and large personalities to see that. Also a lot of characters, including Gerd, don't have their full history revealed to us so we can only go by what's given and this is pretty common: the devs almost always give just part of the puzzle pieces to us, but rarely the complete picture.

In this case, Gerd didn't leave behind any sort of journal to give insight into his actions (maybe he was justified in insulting the Arcsea duchess, maybe not) so we can only go by the two accounts given of his pre-Skellige travels via two people who were on the duchess' side. We don't even have any info to contradict if the duchess' father was really bad or not to see if there was any ambiguity to Gerd's actions. Also remember that the arrest warrant for Gerd included "any persons providing him shelter will be considered complicit in his crimes" and so they saw those who let him stay at the inn as helping a criminal in their eyes (which the knight confirmed in his letter "Some sought to protect him, treating the traitorous man as a companion in arms. We therefore showed them no mercy and burned the inn to the ground"). Doesn't necessarily make it honorable, but not like any sane person would waltz into a building with people you just saw being buddies with the one you're after and go "hey, are you guys knowingly helping the criminal, Gerd? Because we're trying to arrest him." That's just asking to be killed right there.

In essence, unless there's something that causes ambiguity or reasonable doubt, we take the in-game info at its word. For instance, if the duchess had been mentioned by a neutral 3rd party for committing atrocities, or that her father had actually been a great leader and hadn't been killing innocent people, this could have brought valuable insight into Gerd's actions and make it seem more likely that he wasn't a criminal for siding with the duchess' father. But as we don't have any of that and nothing else brings it into question, we can only assume that Gerd sided with a corrupt leader and when that leader was overthrown, ran to Skellige (which many viewed as pirates and bandits, so now paints Gerd in those same colors, making the situation worse if he really wasn't a criminal as he could have just run off to any other kingdom that wasn't allied with Arcsea instead and been safe that way).

Book canon wise, it's never stated what his original hair color was

@Jiriu the fairy tale meaning Sapkowski pulled quite a few elements from these when writing (Renfri, Nivellen, etc.). It's also implied in the original Polish that Emhyr married the fake Ciri more out of love than political reasons, so it's not far fetched for Sapkowski to have a "love conquers all" when it came to Lara ending up with a human instead of Avallac'h, as the latter was implied to be more of an arranged marriage/coupling than out of love.

While not 100% confirmed, it is heavily implied when Auberon calls her his daughter in Lady of the Lake (when he briefly mistook Ciri as Lara). Also considering that the author himself originally had Ciri with so many abilities (CDPR even made a bit of a jab at it in the first game with an innkeeper telling her story to Geralt as a princess who was also a witcher and sorceress) it's not hard to see that him pairing an Aen Elle princess off to a human like a fairy tale.

I think also, while we have some leeway in the games with regards to choices, the devs still tried to set some restrictions to align with book Geralt's character, who didn't partake in drugs that we know of.

Only if Witcher related :)

Leaving a note here for past and any possible future comments: we already have several threads going on in Discussions of people venting over the Netflix show that you can go post in (as long as you keep it civil). Please refrain from spilling that over into other threads where the OP is trying to focus on something positive about it instead, thanks!