#Sapkowski

[meanpersonaart]

Based on the post I made a while ago:

I feel like Regis is just silly fella. Also higher vampires love shiny things like their lesser cousins and you can fascinate a higher vampire with a piece of jewelry

(I chose yarrow (common yarrow) beacause It grows everywhere here and in Polish the name is krwawnik and it relates to blood (krew- blood) haha funny.)

#emiel regis #the witcher #witcher #witcher books #emiel regis rohellec terzieff de godefroy #baptism of fire #andrzej sapkowski #sapkowski #dandelion #jaskier #geralt of rivia #milva witcher #milva #geralt #wiedzmin #wiedźmin

[gemsbokk]

so I've been getting into the angstier side of the witcher

#the witcher #witcher #yennefer of vengerberg #witcher art #yennefer #geralt #geralt of rivia #witcher geralt #wiedźmin #wiedzmin #sapkowski #the last wish #sword of destiny #drawing #art #digital art #original art #my art #medieval #wolf #white wolf #fantasy #fantasy art #dark art #dark fantasy #dark fantasy art

[ariunleashed]

Sapkowski was a Soviet spy.

This is not a joke. This is an interview with José María Faraldo, the official translator of The Witcher books in Spain and friend of Sapkowski. I attach the original video in Spanish, it is uploaded on the official YouTube channel of the publisher that publishes the books in Spain.

Random history, for me is so funny that this old guy was a soviet spy lol

#wiedzmin #the witcher #sapkowski #andrzej sapkowski #soviet #geralt of rivia #witcher #cd projekt red #ciri #yennefer of vengerberg #jaskier

[definitely-not-iorveth]

a couple days ago, a stream featuring andrzej sapkowski came out, supposedly announcing a new book in the witcher series (see link below).

i've watched it, and personally, considering the context, i would reign in my enthusiasm until some kind of official announcement.

i'm including the notes of what he speaks about, for anyone interested.

the first short story started with the title: a male form of the polish word wiedźma (witch) doesn't exist, so sapkowski came up with one. the idea for the story came afterwards.

the first short story was supposed to be a one-time thing. he never expected to write a continuation.

he didn't do any research for the witcher books beforehand because 1/ it's a fantasy book, so he's allowed some leeway & 2/ he already accumulated a lot of knowledge throughout his life by the time he started writing. some research on things was needed during the process, but not a lot of it.

he did do beforehand research for a different, more historical series he wrote afterwards (trylogia husycka).

he once again stresses that the book series is not based specifically on slavic mythology - that was something made up by journalists. he took inspiration from various mythologies indiscriminately, and the plot was more important to him than using any specific sources.

he doesn't remember how many short stories he wrote for the witcher.

back when he started, there was no point in sending manuscripts to publishing houses, because the publishers were not interested in polish fantasy books, preferring the foreign ones. instead, an aspiring writer's best bet would be to send a short story to fantastyka (means fantasy, but only as a literary genre), a magazine that published fantasy & sci fi short stories. at some point he got tired of publishing short stories though, and he sent his manuscript in (he says he doesn't remember what book that was). it was successful, and it encouraged more authors to do the same.

he regrets writing under his real name and not under a literary pseudonym.

nilfgaard's similarities to ancient rome are accidental, and nilfgaard should not be interpreted as based on it. sapko came up with it as an aggressive fantasy nation that wants to take over the world, with no deeper meaning behind it.

first map created for the witcher was the work of the czech translator, and most subsequent maps were based on it (or, as sapko puts it, stolen.) "why i never created a map? pettiness." all fantasy books of the time had a map, so he decided his wouldn't have. and so it doesn't.

the witcher comics were parowski's idea (a witcher fan & comic book author). sapkowski didn't participate in its creation. he tried to give his input about the drawings at first, but the artist basically told him to go fuck himself.

he has a cat

he used to be a senior sales representative, and it gave him some knowledge about sales, banking, currencies and economy which he was able to work into the plot of his stories

he reads at least 50 books per year. of recent works, he recommends madeline miller's circe, steven king's two new books, v.e. schwab's the invisible life of addie larue, peng shepherd's the cartographers, herve le telier's the anomaly, r.f. kuang's babel, holly black's book of night. he considers the above the literary events and fantasy milestones of the past few years.

his commentary on people who study and analyze the witcher and its themes: "they come up with things i never could have come up with." he claims he never assigned any specific philosophy or meaning to his works, but he's happy to read the works of people who do.

he says he didn't base any of his characters on himself in any way. at the same time, his opinion is that it's difficult to write a character that doesn't retain some of the author's qualities. however, the characters are in their own setting and their own story. in his words, "you don't write books about yourself. you write books about characters that you come up with, and you give them their own qualities. […] who cares who i am? the reader is interested in who the witcher is, or who the other characters are."

when asked why geralt is different than the other witchers (more sensitive, kinder), he responds that it's because he's a made up character that's supposed to be interesting for the reader, so he needs to be distinguishable from others. a book is supposed to be interesting, and creating an interesting character is one of the ways to achieve it.

when asked why the smell of yennefer's perfume is so specific, he just says that he made it up and perfume like that doesn't exist.

witchers, although they use magic, are a completely separate group from the sorcerers in the book. there are no common points between them. witchers are also not a reference to any specific mythological archetypes or characters.

he doesn't like announcing what he's doing, because he changes his mind a lot, and doesn't always finish what he starts.

he does say that he is working on a new witcher book and that it should come out within the next year or a couple. considering the context of his words, however, i would consider it as more of a 'maybe' than an actual announcement.

#witcher #the witcher #wiedźmin #witcher book series #the witcher book series #andrzej sapkowski #sapkowski #Youtube

[domjordanillustration]

geralt of rivia

#geralt #geralt of rivia #witcher #andrzej sapkowski #fan art #fantasy art #illustration #white wolf #butcher of blaviken #sapkowski

[mask131]

Why, oh why must each big or successful fantasy series or work be overtaken by the extreme-right, racist nationalist, and other prejudiced fascists? 

You have Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, the ur-work for all the fantasy works that the extreme-right and other massively-prejudiced people heralded as their emblem and banner. A supposedly “purely European (White) work” truly depicting the “evil of Arabs and Jews and Black people” and where no good character should be of color, and where all non-white-European coded characters are inhuman or subhuman... 

... Which becomes really sadly funny when you know that Tolkien was a fervent enemy of the Nazis and their ideology, as much on the battleground that in terms of scholar work ; that while he did embrace the oversimplification typical of old Norse saga and Greek epics, he was sincerely bothered - as a Christian who believed in the natural goodness in every mortal and the possibility of redemption and free will for everyone - that people could interpret his work as “Some species are born bad and evil and that’s just their nature” ; and that while he did depict the only characters of true “color” being killed as nameless hordes of enemy at the end, he also explicitely placed scenes where they are humanized, taken pity on, and where he clearly highlights that these scenes are meant to depict the horror and tragedy of war, of conflict between humans torn apart by absurd and evil reasons, instead of any “racial attack”. (No need to tell you these scenes tend to be rolled under the carpet by the neo-Nazi supporters of Tolkien’s work - because yes, there ARE neo-Nazi fans of the Lord of the Rings, which is an anti-Nazi work written by a famous enemy of the Nazis!)

You have Terry Pratchett’s Discworld, and the recent attempt after his death by transphobes to take over his books and claim sir Pratchett would have been against transgenders...

... When Terry Pratchett literaly wrote dozens of books highlighting through subtle, clever and humoristic metaphors (and, as time went by, less subtle and more obvious and blunt plot points), how queerness and transness was something that existed, that was natural, and that needed to be embraced and supported. 

You have the Witcher, that is being praised by nasty people as being a purely Polish work, exclusively about Polish people and Polish culture, and that thus should only be for white people and about white people ; the same people that love how it “embraces” and “supports” the traditional, old-time values, and use a lot of “pure” in their speech. 

... When in fact The Witcher is a work that purposefully blurs time eras and various cultures (including non-European works) because Sapkowski’s intentions were never to make a “purely Polish work” ; and it is also a work where the author subtly (or not so subtly) criticizes the political right-movement, conservative groups and so called “supporters of the Slavic culture” (who mostly are just fantasizing a supposed “old Slavic society and culture” that never truly existed beyond minds that clearly did not read actual history books). I won’t even mention how Sapkowski is not a fan at all of “historical realism” in magical and fantasy worlds, and openly rejects this logic by purposefully having anachronisms or having modern scientific notions (like genetic mutation) be widespread and well-known in his “medieval” setting. 

The list could go on and on. I’ll just keep however these three most highlighted examples, because they are very telling. 

It is almost as if the racist fans of the early 20th century fantasy pulps - those of Lovecraft and Conan the Barbarian and the like - had survived throughout the decades, gaining an unnaturaly long life clinging to the outdated and badly-aging tropes, stereotyped plots and cultural references, and acted today like some sort of perverted racist, transphobes, homophobes liches, only here to soil and corrupt everything they touch with their blind, prejudiced, hateful and idiotic poison... 

#fantasy #racism in fantasy #racism in literature #anti-racism in fantasy #racists in fandoms #racists in fantasy #tolkien #terry pratchett #the lord of the rings #discworld #politics in fantasy #the witcher #sapkowski

[schweizercomics]

"Perhaps we ought to get out of here, Dandelion. You can come back when she calms down."

#Witcher #The Witcher #Dandelion #Witcher Dandelion #Jaskier #Witcher Jaskier #Geralt Jaskier #Andrzej Sapkowski #Sapkowski #Witcher Fanart #Jaskier Fanart #Dandelion Fanart

[detournementsmineurs]

Mirren Mack habillée en Iris van Herpen dans “The Witcher : L'Héritage du Sang” mini-série de Declan de Barra et Lauren Schmidt Hissrich - préquelle de la série “The Witcher” tirée de l'univers des romans épnoymes d'Andrzej Sapkowski (1986-2013) - juin 2023.

#films #fairies #style #dentelle #VanHerpen #Mack #DeBarra #SchmidtHissrich #Sapkowski

[cha-mij]

Old Irish Mythology: Tír na nÓg is the "Land of Youth"

Willow (1988): Tír Asleen - the oldest and most prestigious of the Daikini kingdoms.

Lady of the Lake (7th Witcher Novel) (1999) and Witcher 3 (2014): Tír ná Lia - homeworld of the Aen Elle branch of elves.

I know Elder Speech was based on a mixture of Welsh and Irish but the question is was Sapkowski also influenced by Willow? I think almost certainly yes.

#willow 1988 #willow #tir asleen #tir na lia #tia na nog #witcher #lady of the lake #the witcher #witcher 3 #elder speach #andrzej sapkowski #sapkowski #witcher series #hen llinge

[thepunktheory]

Book vs. TV Show: The Witcher (Season 3)

Hello, my darling readers!Today it is finally time to tackle the third season of Netflix’s adaptation of Sapkowski’s Witcher novels. Let’s see how that turned out… The Plot (according to Goodreads): Geralt is a witcher: guardian of the innocent; protector of those in need; a defender, in dark times, against some of the most frightening creatures of myth and legend. His task, now, is to protect…

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#adaptation #book #comparison #geralt of rivia #netflix #sapkowski #season 3 #the witcher #tv show

[thesmellofkitchen]

Zalewajka mahakamska  -  Mahakam Potato Soup | THE WITCHER OFFICIAL COOKBOOK

#the witcher #witcher #recipe #cookbook #sapkowski #cd projekt red #tv show #book #cuisine #fantasy #hotel gran mahakam #geralt of rivia #food #foodborn

[kindredsoulsoftimesofold]

I'm still bitter btw, we could've had it all and they said🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻

#amazon prime #netflix #the witcher #wheel of time #sapkowski #robert jordan #geralt

[craybii]

Do you think???

... that a century from now (1265), the people of Redania will tell tales and sing songs of the day the most beautiful woman in the world came to their capital in Tretogor and brought mass-death to every single Redanian baby with her? 

Will there be folktales about angering elven witches, from Lara Dorren to the queen of Dol Blathanna and will Francesca Findabair go down in Redanian history as the most beautiful and the ugliest woman to ever have lived?

Now that right there is a prompt and fanfiction material about a scene that never should’ve happened but for some reason *cough* S2Writers *cough* did and now it actually could have potential.

#Francesca Findabair #twn #the witcher #lodge of sorceresses #nilfgaard #elves #elven queen #netflix #sorceress #witches #mass murder #fanfiction stuff #prompt #weird thoughts #i'm bored #triss merigold #fringilla vigo #philippa eilhart #sapkowski #mecia simson #henry cavill #anya chalotra #Enid an Gleanna #the continent

[siwa]

— Każdy głupek to przeciez wie, ze nie ma myszów i myszowych, że wszystkie one jednakie i lęgną się same z siebie i ze słomy zgniłej.

— A ślimaki z liściów mokrych się lęgną — wtrącił sekretarz Przegrzybek, wciąż zajęty układaniem monet w słupki.

— Każdy to wie — zgodził się Geralt, uśmiechając pogodnie. — Nie ma ślimaków i ślimakowych. Sa tylko liscie. A kto sądzi inaczej, jest w błędzie.

Okruch Lodu, Andrzej Sapkowski

#Sapkowski #cytat

[istantanee-videoludiche]

Aard Game: The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt 🇬🇧 Snapshots from my gaming jourmeys. 🇮🇹 Istantanee dai miei viaggi nel mondo videoludico. 📷 All photo edited and shot by me 👍🏼 if you like my shots give a like and follow #thewitcher #cdprojektred #geraltofrivia #griffon #thewitcher3 #thewitchernetflix #geralt #yenneferofvengerberg #henrycavill #sapkowski #mitology #witcher #photomode #gaming #gamingphotography #virtualphotographycollective #virtualphotographygamers #virtualphotography #virtualphotographer #vgphotographers #vgp #vpgfight #vpcollective #vpgamers #gamingcommunity https://www.instagram.com/p/Coea-dgItIY/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[domjordanillustration]

yennefer of vengerberg

#yennefer #yennefer of vengerberg #the witcher #fan art #fantasy art #witch #illustration #andrzej sapkowski #sapkowski #lilac and gooseberries