"I don't know,'"she whispered. "But we're going the wrong way, Geralt."
They went around an overgrown bend, and it turned out Ciri had been right.
-Sword of Destiny by Andrzej Sapkowski.
Personal piece illustrating one of my favorite sequences from the Witcher book series. Made from memory so some of the details may be incorrect, but hopefully I captured the essence of the encounter.
"A Bad Road" oil on paper, approx. 8 x 10"
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Gamer bros: don't bring politics into The Witcher! It's an escapist fantasy world with monsters and magic, nothing more
The Witcher books: *illustrate perfectly why it is that the working class is best kept under threat of near-poverty lest they start questioning their masters and turning down work based on such pesky things as ethical concerns*
‘I shall tell you. I’ve heard that it has recently become tiresome to negotiate with you witchers. The thing is that, whenever a witcher is shown a monster to be killed, the witcher, rather than take his sword and slaughter it, begins to ponder whether it is right, whether it is transgressing the limits of what is possible, whether it is not contrary to the code and whether the monster really is a monster, as though it wasn’t clear at first glance. It seems to me that you are simply doing too well. In my day, witchers didn’t have two pennies to rub together, just two stinking boots. They didn’t question, they slaughtered what they were ordered to, whether it was a werewolf, a dragon or a tax collector. All that counted was a clean cut. So, Geralt?’
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Essi Daven
Trying to repaint my previous doodle
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SCREAMS. CRIES EVEN. I THINK ABOUT THEM SO MUCH… BOTH OF THEM WERE SELDOM TOLD BEDTIME STORIES…. tears in my eyes….
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Jaskier seeing a shapeshifter that looks like him: Oh wow! 10/10, would fuck actually
Shapeshifter: Yeah because you love yourself :)
Geralt seeing a shapeshifter that looks like him: Oh damn I'm hideous, 0/10, would murder actually
Shapeshifter: Oh no you hate yourself ...but I bet you love the bard, don't you :)
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I'm rereading Sword of Destiny since I bought the illustrated version yesterday and why is he such a potty mouth during A Little Sacrifice what is your fucking problem
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Did I find it poetic that in the first story and in the last Geralt seeks comfort and some sort of moral, idealistic confirmation of his own struggles and beliefes from Dandelion/Jaskier, while with everyone else he confronts them about but only after he's already expressed himself or understood what they're thinking??? That from Dandelion/Jaskier Geralt needs something else, from this man who is a liar, a trickster, a cinic and even so seems to see in the world, people and life something that makes his soul writes and sings about it and enjoys it and finds worth about it??? That from this man he needs... a reminder that his feelings and beliefes on the Path are worth it fighting for, that he has to take responsability for those and the actions that followed???
Yes.
Absolutely.
I don't know if it's just what I want to read, but it's definitely what I understand by what I read.
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'Sword Of Destiny' by Martina Fačková.
Cover art for the illustrated edition of 'Sword Of Destiny', book 2 in 'The Witcher' series written by Andrzej Sapkowski, published in 2022.
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ROUND 1D, MATCH 3 OUT OF 8!
Propaganda Under the Cut:
Dr. Cadence Mbella:
See here https://lesbrary.com/danika-reviews-the-little-homo-sapiens-scientist-by-s-l-huang/
Sh'eenaz:
Her story, A Little Sacrifice, is a heartbreaking spin on the original tale.
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yall rememver that time when i posted angsty yennefer fanart? yeah
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