The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt | Next Gen Ciri #VirtualPhotography #Reshade #TheWitcher3

It would quite frankly be a relief if an evil wizard was puppeteering the world into chaos for the benefit of a dark outer god. That would have a sense of coherence and purpose.

I just really want to create something that makes people love reading books.

Zerrikania DLC the rumour mills say? How about the North Pole? Or an archipelago of Times and Places?

Ever since moving to this island I am amazed at the speed at which the Brits' society comes to a halt at the first signs of snow. It's at once hoped for and feared. Never would I wish for rain to wash it away, and yet some do.

For obvious reasons I really like the thought that the map of the Witcher amounts to the Baltic coast rotated 90 degrees counter-clockwise, with Kovir and Poviss ending up as the Baltic and Finnic kingdoms with the promise of mysterious Lapland and Finnic witches up in the far North.

Boorman and Sapkowski seem to be creative soulmates. unherd.com/2026/01/exca...

brandspotting in helsinki #holidayposts

i have been wanting to write about ciri's and avallac'h's relationship based on sapkowski's works alone forever. so I did a thing this year.

www.blathancaerme.com/history-and-... Lady of the Lake confuses The Witcher readers bc Nimue is us – Ciri's lighthouse. Ciri, a girl become legend, forever adrift in mythosphere, searches for one more moment with Geralt and Yennefer & needs to find 'a Nimue' - to show her the way out of eternity.

This time on Time in The Witcher: archetypal existence, what do the Aen Elle mean by 'eternity,' and why everyone should read at least Maladie to untangle Lady of the Lake. Causation in Mythic Time is symbolic and thematic. The characters in it are made of story-stuff not materia.

On The Witcher's paper trail... Looking for the archetypes.

One of the best games ever made

The Conjunction of Spheres trapped elves and other fantastic beings in The Witcher's historical time. Before it, legendary, pre-rational elves moved freely between story-worlds. Ciri's Elder Blood preserves this power. And Ithlinne's prophecy is the elves' map back into eternity.

Ciri doesn't time travel – she exists in Mythic Time where past, present, and future are simultaneous. The Witcher is a meta fantasy. It has no creation myth. Sapkowski traps archetypal beings in History to show how legends are born in Leśmian's mirror tunnel where a fairy tale unfolds endlessly.

Witcher fans, an evening with Andrzej Sapkowski held in The British Library on 01.11.2025 is now available for watching until 8th of November. www.blplayer.co.uk/eventlink/10...

Sapkowski memes:

Andrzej Sapkowski's opinion on Artificial Intelligence in writing: 'Since there are no children present - the difference between natural writerly talent and intelligence and artificial writing and intelligence is like a comparison between artifical and natural male organ.' Absolute King.

Host asking Sapkowski how the fandom's love has influenced him as a writer. 'A Thai prophet said, “Only very stupid writer doesn’t listen to his fans, but extremely stupid writer does what the fans want.” I try to find the golden way: I listen to the fans, and then absolutely do not pay attention.’

Happy Halloween from Avallac’h (the Fox) #witcher3 #silenthillf

Writing on the cosmogony and ontology of The Witcher these days... cannot get any more excited than that! 😇 (actually, possibly would, if I got to write more of that for CD Projekt)

Autumn evenings are for re-reading The Hussite Trilogy ☕️ And enjoying Reynevan, the pathetic, naive, self-admiring Dandelion of the dark arts getting his just desserts over and over and over...

Andrzej Sapkowski wrote Ciri as the Holy Grail. Tracking his pagan streak across The Witcher and the Trilogy, we'll see what we find about the Grail, the Triple Goddess, Wiccan theology, female sovereignty, and love as the Grail's power. The Grail is a Woman.

I have a lot of sympathy for the argument that modern fantasy tends to almost orientalise the Celtic nations through making their languages and cultures fey and elven but I find it deeply funny that people think Sarah J Maas invented this or even presented a particularly bad version of it.

The Winged Wheel and the Crown of Iron #Ciri | #Witcher | #Witcher3

The White Princess, Ciri (Hen Ichaer) #Witcher | #Witcher4 | #Cirilla

The White Fox (Hen Ichaer) #Avallach | #Witcher | #Witcher3

In the Witcher 3's cut content, Eredin calls Avallac’h ‘Father.’ In CD Projekt Red’s hands, their rivalry was to unfold as a conflict between a creation & creator, paralleling Ciri’s & Geralt’s dynamic in a twist. The family dynamics among the Wild Hunt generals, meanwhile, run something like this:

Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Black, White, Green #KingdomComeDeliverance2 #kcd2 #VirtualPhotography

Why is there an elven Tower, Tor Gval'cha, on Skellige? What is Ragh nar Roog, really? Why are the Aen Elle taller than the Aen Seidhe? The Witcher 3's cut content tells of Freyja the elf, Alderwalk, Leib-Olmai, the white ships, and even the cult of the Eternal Fire - created as a joke.

In the Witcher games, Eredin is a template death knight. In game-fanon, he is frequently a BDSM, ultra-dom, plotting maniac. In the Witcher books though... Eredin is a bit different. Like a unicorn, I rarely see him in fandom spaces, and did he kill Auberon? Well... 😅 :

Apply this to Geralt. A Witcher whose end is shaped in Arthurian fashion. Tears at my soul to think that by entering legendary matter at the end of Lady of the Lake, he faces the mythical time of never-ending repetition of archetypal tales that will always end the same way for him,

ciri. ⚔️ #tw3

Khm, in a book where we meet a fortune (future) teller Avallac’h, khm.

Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.

Glad to see those green eyes on Ciri despite the mutations! (Flawless. Gem. Queen.) 💎 #TheWitcher4

Not SuperNowa continuing with the FULLY voice acted Witcher audiobook series with Ciri's journey in The Tower of the Swallow!?🤩Finally, after all this time! (also could we pls have the little tune Avallac'h plays on the pipes at the end as a separate file, pretty please!)

God, I hope we see Ciri's vision-warging in The Witcher 4.

Crazy how much abandonment trauma The Witcher has.

'...it is not an ordinary person, most esteemed sisters. It is death or life, destruction or rebirth, chaos or order. Depending on how you look at it.' —Philippa about Ciri It's someone with the ability to choose.

'Monck sailed to Loc Muinne, to persuade the elves there to adopt a group of Source children,' I think it would make for a super cool Witcher story if we got to follow a child like this in a digest of elf-human cultural & magical differences. Before humans became a dominant force in the Neverland.

I write like 6.5 times better when I read out loud to myself what it is that I am writing. I write like 3 times better when I hit the perfect ratio between font & window size when I have 4 parallel working spaces open. I just work more efficiently when I switch to b&w mode. Got any weird tips?

‘Perhaps not imagine places or faces, she thought, but strongly desire … Strongly wish for something, very strongly, right from my belly …’ Ciri must really-truly know what she wants in order to navigate in the archipelago of moments. She ends up in a blizzard when wishing to reach Geralt

Work in progress on üks mu lemmikajaleht. Hiljutises numbris ilmus ka lihtne, aga põhjalik ülevaade Hansalinnade tõusust ja langusest. worksinprogress.co/issue/the-ri...

📘 Make sure to check out the book by Lennart Meri "Silverwhite: The Journey to the Fallen Sun". Now in English. 👉 www.amazon.co.uk/Silverwhite-... #LennartMeriConference

For a Belleteyn/spring challenge with some lovely friends, I wrote a thing, where Ciri makes wishes and Avallac'h dabbles in wish fulfilment. Oh and crime. They do crime. Enjoy! archiveofourown.org/works/65449399

The Witcher 3 reminds me so much of the anime Mushishi.

It's actually NOT so shocking how much of The Witcher comes down to characters not handling their own emotions very well & hiding behind some dysfunctional coping mechanisms -- not only witchers wear that mask. Feels very much like Sapkowski went: LEARN YOURSELF you stupid f to its male characters.

Happy belated birthday, Ciri!

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