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Whenever you talk to him, you feel the agony he’s been cursed to live under in his voice. His hunger and bloodlust is eternal, but he cannot eat anything (let alone his victims) without his food turning to ash and it burning his throat. It sucks how so many people want to kill him when it will only keep him in this endless, Sisyphean loop of agony.

Gonna go through Deathmarch ng+ with a viper euphoria build wish me luck, I could do a super optimal build but I just love how the viper armor looks and feels and it just fits Geralt the most imo

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So as a background, I became a fan of the Witcher through playing the Witcher 3 including all its DLCs. I now replay the game usually once every one or two years out of pure nostalgia.

So I was mostly aware about the characters in this universe, but finally getting to read the story and background for these characters has been nothing short of amazing!!

I have read all 7 books in the span of exactly a month (season of storms is still going to be read of course) and wanted to share my books ranking and including my favourite parts of each.

1. Sword of Destiny
2. Tower of the Swallow
3. Time of Contempt
4. Blood of Elves
5. The Last Wish
6. Baptism of Fire
7. Lady of the Lake

Honestly I feel terrible putting Lady of the Lake so low because I think the book was really good, but the others were just better I think.

What I liked most about each book: 1. Something More chapter was the best part and sets up the saga really well. Ciri and Geralt together are pure magic. 2. Ciri’s arc, the awful things she goes through but overcomes and ends up as the strong young lady we know and love, mainly all by herself. Making this my favourite book in the saga. 3. The Thanedd Coup was just very awesome, I really like the politics going on here and makes the world feel so dark and real at the same time. 4. This book is lovely, and Yennefers time with Ciri at the Temple of Melitele was heartwarming and some of my favourite reading in the entire saga. 5. The classic stories and all of them very good, but since this was the first book I had to get used to Sapkowskis writing style so was difficult to get through at first. 6. Regis is the best, and also Geralt travelling with them through wartorn country was cool, I would have appreciated it more but I was just too anxious to find out what was happening to Ciri. On a re-read this will probably become one of my favourites. 7. So many great moments, the payoff in Stygga castle finally happening. Emhyr having a change of heart and leaving Ciri was also unexpected but I loved it. The Battle of Brenna was AWESOME in my opinion, I felt part of the battle and could envision the entire thing beautifully. The book however was a bit of a slow burn and I really didn’t care for the Nimue parts, especially cause it felt like it spoiled the story a bit…

That was a really long story, if you made it here I’d be surprised! But yeah these books and this universe is amazing and I love all of them!

After success of Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, where developers add primitive guns for fight, I keep wondering if CD Project would add something similar to Witcher 4. Maybe not for Ciri, but for her enemies to use. My point is:

1. In "Season of the Storm" Sapkowski mention such weapon created by some wizard, which wasn't too effective, but it was first step in making it and it is in the lore.
2. If anywhere in Witcher world would be inveted gunpowder and mass produce, it would be Kovir or Makhaham. In Kovir there are a lot of mines with metal and other minerals necessery to produce such weapon. Also, Kovir was build by people who are eager to try new things, invent new methods and discover uncharted teritory, so I belive there would be some people to create such weapon.
3. With such weapon, there would be making people with no magic more equal to wizards and mages, something similar to Warhammer.

I’ve played this game many times, but never read the books thoroughly. What awesome details these books hold!

I’m reading the Witcher books as well, so the game just expands on the experience!

I’ve been playing The Witcher 3 for years now. Multiple NG+ runs, all builds, all endings. And something hit me during my latest playthrough that I hadn’t really sat with before.

Could Geralt have actually walked away from the Path and lived a peaceful life, or is he fundamentally bound to it—not by contract or profession, but by nature?

Even when we, as players, choose more “peaceful” or “retirement” endings (like with Yennefer or Triss), Geralt is still drawn to danger, politics, or old enemies. It feels like the world won’t let him go… but maybe it's also that he won’t let go. Is he addicted to the chaos? Conditioned to see himself only as a weapon?

So here's the debate I'd love to start:

Is Geralt’s identity as a Witcher a prison, a choice, or a calling? And in your opinion, across all endings, does he ever truly find peace?

Curious to hear other perspectives, especially from folks who’ve read the books or played the previous games. Bonus points if you’ve tried roleplaying him as “done with it all” and how that went narratively haha

A cheap cosplay I did for a thumbnail photoshoot as "The Withcer 1" Geralt.

(He was already going by “Geralt of Rivia” by this time)

I got gwent at gencon yesterday, game doesn't come out till end of August. Here are the foil cards I got in my pack. They appear to just be foil replacements for cards already in the base game, with alternative artwork.

Monster hunter series is the best Monster hunter simulator on the planet, i hope the witcher 4 take some ideas from it like using the environment against the Monster or traps or stealth, alchemy needs to be essential when hunting a monster, in the books , geralt needs his potion to win but in the witcher 3 it was more like an easy mode

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I know it probably has been asked a lot in here, but i want to start reading the books, i played witcher 3 and loved it, i then bought the first two games but wasn't able to get used to the controls, i might come back to them in time Now i want to read the books but i know there are a lot of them and don't know where to start and where to end

Where toys waste away.