Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like)

Cornwell's The Winter King is so good...

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

Anyway, I think if there is going to be a DLC, it will be in Dol Blathanna instead. (And in the stories I write in my head, it wouldn't be on the Continent at all, and at least partly in various in-between dimensions Ciri and other special beings (unicorns, finally? more elves obvs) can access.)

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.

Gimme amber barons and songsmiths!

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.

'Excalibur' is English fantasia

Boorman and Sapkowski seem to be creative soulmates.
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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.

History and Fantasy. Or 'How to Think About Time Travel in The Witcher?' | Part 4 Why does Lady of the Lake confuse The Witcher readers? Because Nimue is us – the lighthouse. Readers complete stories. Ciri, adrift in timeless mythosphere, searches for one moment with Geralt and Ye...

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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.

History and Fantasy. Or 'How to Think About Time Travel in The Witcher?' | Part 3 What do the Aen Elle want? What does 'eternity' mean in a meta fantasy? The Conjunction closed the door to infinite stories, trapping them in The Witcher's. So the freedom they seek might be about exi...

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Ciri is an amalgam of Morgana, Bradamante, Vivianne, the Triple Goddess. In Mythic Time, Ciri is ‘nieistniejące’. She takes on legendary identities & is attributed them. She chooses to be called Ciri of Vengeberg just before Yennefer herself passes into legend.

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.

Hm, thank you for clarifying. No message/e-mail, but a few days ago, when I posted this Q, my application was archived, so I guess no dice.

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

Hi! Since I never heard back from you (neither nay or yay), was wondering if you ever sent out any notifications to the applicants?

One of the best games ever made

Now, in The Witcher storyworld, that elves would take an archetypal form by way of the Wild Hunt suggests a conscious attempt at re-mythizing themselves: a half-way restoration of their pre-Conjunction way of being. The Hunt signals the elves’ one remaining, semi-successful escape from their fate.

when they are in turn displaced, mythologized, and transformed into the next iteration of fairy tales. They will ‘go away’ in one form to survive in another. History’s progression (to the end of the Plot) inevitably ends in an act of blending – into the substrate of all Fantasy.

They are neither dead nor alive in Myth. Euhemerized, these are the elves who ‘left for a more interesting reality.’ But as migration forms the Ur-Myth of this storyworld, nothing new happens without being a repetition of the same archetypal pattern. Elves are what humans will one day become –

History and Fantasy. Or 'How to Think About Time Travel in The Witcher?' | Part 2 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. Elder Blood preserves ...

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Elves do not vanish without a trace, they become, for example, the Wild Hunt – existing in an altered modality as humans ‘inherit’ elven lands and language, consuming their civilization. ‘It was the end of one… race, followed by the appearance of another.'

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.

History and Fantasy. Or 'How to Think About Time Travel in The Witcher' | Part 1 Why is Ciri so powerful? Can Ciri time travel in The Witcher books? With Elder Blood, the Lady of the Lake accesses Mythic Time where past, present, and future exist simultaneously. Sapkowski writes f...

The most important element of The Witcher cycle, after Love, is Time. Time not Place. Place serves the Plot, but Time serves Meaning.

This is Part 1 of a four-part piece on how Time works in The Witcher, and why Lady of the Lake makes perfect sense actually.
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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.
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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.

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Transcript for Andrzej Sapkowski's appearance in Bath on 2025-10-30 here:
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