In the world of The Witcher, sorcerers and witchers are not so dissimilar both possess enhanced abilities, longevity, and a painful history of training and trials. While she does not regret her choices and relishes her new power, the price she paid for her new body continues to torment her throughout the first season.
She charms her way into the position of advisor for the kingdom she'd initially wanted, Aedirn, and thus cements her position among sorcerers and sorceresses alike. Infuriated, Yennefer leaves Istredd and undergoes the painful process of changing her body into something "beautiful" - and loses her fertility in the process. Unknown to the two lovers, Tissaia and Stregobor, the wizard from Episode 1, are using the young students to spy on each other because of this, Stregobor eventually learns of Yennefer’s elven blood and pulls enough strings to have her allocated to Nilfgaard as her respective kingdom. Several other trials are required before one can become a true witcher and, even then, life rarely gets any easier. For those that survive, however, even more hardships await.
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The trial is, naturally, extremely painful and usually ends in death. Often children given away or sold at a young age, they are trained in swordsmanship, hunting, and potion making, before finally facing the Trial of Grasses while the word ‘grasses’ may conjure images of quiet fields or green pastures, the trial instead entails that the witcher-to-be absorb a potion (made of a virus and various other elements) in order to gain an extended life expectancy and enhanced abilities.
Despite this, witchers are often outcasts, viewed as strange and freakish creatures due to their mutations and enhanced abilities. Image via Netflix The Basics: What Is A Witcher?Ī witcher is, essentially, a magically enhanced monster-hunter in a world where monsters are more than just legend, the profession of witcher is sorely needed.
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