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Who's Yennefer?
welcome back everyone is Charlie toss a coin to your Witcher this is going to be my
season two top 10 predictions video so if you're new to the channel be sure to
subscribe to get all the videos I will be doing bonus videos for The Witcher
while we wait for episodes to come back we already have a loose timeline for
when that's going to be so don't worry I'll break it down to the video but
obviously spoiler warning for everything from The Witcher Season 1 if you haven't
seen the episodes yet so starting with number 10 the season 2 timeline will be
way more linear and even though all three of the main leads Geralt ciri and
yennefer won't always be together at the same time for the most part all the
storylines will be happening during the same time period I think this comes as a
relief to most of you guys because on the videos that I posted for The Witcher
Season one there was a lot of confusion about where everybody was in the
timeline in any given episode they'll probably a couple more flashbacks just
for context because there's still some things that happen in the past that we
don't have any answers about yet like what happened to series parents Duney
and pavetta they're lost at sea we need to get a flashback to kind of explain
that maybe towards the end of season 2 this season you all probably noticed
that the timelines were different for each character though so series started
in present-day Geralt started a couple years before she was born
and then Janna first timeline started a couple of decades before that if it
wasn't clear even though the actress that plays yennefer looks younger than
Henry Cavill in real life in the context of the story yennefer of vengerberg is a
couple decades older than Geralt of Rivia both mages and witcher's age much
slower than normal humans so Geralt is around his 70s during the course of this
season yennefer is around her 90s when they
meet for the first time in the books really only follow the characters until
ciri is in her 20s so there's not a ton of huge time jumps between the first
book in the last book because right now ciri is supposed to be around 13 years
old if you play the games though the games are meant to be a sequel to the
book story so the characters are all a couple years older in the present day of
the video games but there are a lot of flashbacks during the video games to
either the showrunner has already confirmed
that the season 2 timeline will make way more sense and be way easier to follow
number 9 talking about what's happening at the beginning of the season since the
TV show already changed the way the Geralt meets ciri and on the show this
peasant family lives right next to sodden hill where that big battle was
going on the next big thing that they'll probably do as Geralt told the man who
saved him is travel through sodden hill to get to care morhen in the school of
the wolf that's where vesemir is where Garret was
raised and trained to be a Witcher if you haven't read the books or you
haven't played the games there are several different schools for witcher's
the school of the wolf is just one of them initially he wanted to go there
because he was slowly dying from his wounds but because he just found ciri
his child of surprise and the person he's charged to protect it just makes
sense to go to care morhen because it's way safer there
number 8 on the way through sodden hill - also probably try to find yennefer
there were a couple of reasons why ciri said who's in affair when they met in
the woods even though ciri herself has never heard
yennefer of vengerberg name spoken out loud she probably didn't even know she
existed - the last few episodes the reason why she says her name though is
one probably because of her elder blood powerful magic giving her visions and
dreams that she doesn't totally understand in the books series crazy
powers give her really dark dreams so she's probably thinking to herself why
do I keep hearing this name yennefer in my head and in my dreams who is this
person that I keep thinking about and to the more practical reason for sending
them through sodden Hill on their way to the school of the wolf is for story
progression it allows Geralt to try and find out whether or not yennefer was
killed during the battle because yennefer geralt and ciri probably won't
all be together for a good long while most of Geralt story for the first half
of season 2 will probably just be him in ciri together
Papa bless but number 7 because we are going to the school the wolf will
probably meet vesemir for the first time on the show we didn't see his character
during season 1 because the closest we got there was when we saw the flashbacks
of Geralt smother Vicente leaving him at their doorstep so to speak if you've
been on Twitter the last couple of days - you probably saw Mark Hamill was
tweeting about it ever since they announced Netflix was doing a Witcher
series people were tweeting at Mark Hamill that he should be vesemir he's
never read The Witcher books never played the games so he has no idea what
the Witcher story is or who here is but as you can see he's totally
down to play him even the showrunner Lauren hiss rich made it seem like she
was going to reach out to him so if his schedule works out with their shooting
days for season 2 which is sometime next spring we could totally see mark hamill
vesemir if you're not familiar with the character vesemir is just a much older
Witcher who taught Geralt and helps teach ciri in the books so he's sort of
soft retired from regular Witcher monster hunting duties and spends most
of his time at the school the wolf is an instructor speaking of which number six
big one ciri will probably begin training to
become a Witcher herself pretty soon they changed the reason why Geralt chose
her as his child of surprise from the books on the TV show they made it seem
like more of a coincidence like okay I'll do the same thing that you did and
choose the law of surprise and then he finds out that they're pregnant but in
the books Geralt knows that series mother pavetta is pregnant before he
chooses the law of surprise and in the books his hope was that it would be a
boy so that he could train that boy to become another Witcher because in the
present-day of the books The Witcher order is slowly dying out there was that
line of dialogue earlier in the season from yennefer where she says there's so
few wishers left in the world why do I keep running into you all of a sudden
the reason why their order is slowly dying out is because so few children
survive the trials that they go through to become witcher's they go the trial
the grasses they take a bunch of potions that give them their Witcher mutations
with their special powers most kids wind up dying during that so
it's just a simple math equation you have fewer new witchers being minted and
older ones dying off or being killed quicker and quicker so it's just rapidly
shrinking their order around the world and even though they haven't really
talked about it part of Geralt implied duty to the
school of the wolf as a Witcher is to help create more witcher's to sustain
the order so even though ciri is born a girl his goal is still the same he needs
to create more witcher's so because ciri belongs to him as child a surprise and
he has no use for an actual child his main goal is basically just to create a
new witcher like okay here you go so even though his goals are very simple
all the ciri elder blood stuff the nilfgaard war emperor Emhyr just makes
things way more complicated for him and you also notice in those flashbacks that
Geralt is about the same age as ciri when his mother
drops him off at the school of the wolf so Ciri is of a proper age to begin
training if you've ever played the games - you see Ciri training in a flashback
scene at the very beginning of Witcher 3 number five series elder blood is going to
continue to manifest itself in more weird ways freaking out Geralt & vesemir
we've already seen her use her abilities without trying just completely hook out
on these brigands she has no control over them she doesn't know anything
about her special bloodline so they'll need someone like yennefer or Tris or
another mage to explain how serious powers work what it all means and why
she's even more important now than she was before
because you have to remember that even without the elder blood and the special
magical powers ciri is already a really important person because she's the
rightful heir to the throne of Cintra and through her grandmother's marriage
to this guy to the Skellig and that's not even the end of it through her
father Duney she's also heir to a much larger territory which we can't really
talk about without getting into spoilers so if you have read the books or played
the games please do not post spoilers for series father due knee number 4
since yennefer took off after the Battle of sodden Hill she probably won't be
around to help Geralt with ciri probably at least until the middle or near the
end of season 2 depending on how fast they move through the timeline but
univer is the most qualified person to help train ciri in magic because she is
one of the most powerful magical people on the show she just doesn't understand
how her powers work most of this probably won't happen till after garel
realizes what's going on with ciri because he's only just met her here he
hasn't seen her use any of her powers or anything like that and no one's told him
about her special powers he's very learned is a Witcher but he
only has rudimentary knowledge of magic like he can cast all those signs that
you saw during the season like this is the art side the one that he uses during
the Butcher of lava can fight when he blasts them back with his telekinetic
force there's the Ignace sign the Quinn the AXI the eared ensigns but that's
pretty much the extent of his magical knowledge so that's why you need someone
like yennefer trysts to come in and teach ciri actual magic number three
will probably meet emperor Emhyr officially in nilfgaard for the first
time we've only heard about him on the show so far but if you've read the books
please don't post spoilers about emperor Emhyr he's the one who ordered
the attack on sodden Hill he's the one that frin Gila keeps referring to as the
white flame quote unquote in the last few episodes he out stood the usurper
from his throne and he's been reforming nofe Guardian politics and cleaning
house since retaking his throne the last couple of years he's also the one who
ordered Kay here this character here to bring ciri to him at the beginning of
the season when you think about all the stuff he's responsible for this season
he does kind of come off like a villain but he does have a good reason for doing
what he's doing that we might not find out about till a little bit later but
because it's meant to play like a big reveal like I said please no spoilers
about Emperor Emhyr in the comments number two we'll learn more about the
mage Vilgefortz who we saw in the final few episodes of season 1 he seemed
like he was fighting against nilfgaard on the side of the brotherhood of
sorcerers they kept referring to how battle hungry who was and how much time
he'd spent making war he had that big fight with Kay here even though he lost
I know a lot of people were upset about that because vulgur forts is way more
powerful than that in the books he would have never lost to Kay here but he seems
like he's a good character fighting for the Brotherhood but then there's this
last scene with him that we saw in the finale that's super important because
like he said supposed to be fighting to defeat nilfgaard then why does he
brutally take one of his fellow mages from the Brotherhood when he asked for
his help if it wasn't clear Vilgefortz is killing one of the good guys
here that's why you see all these other dead nilfgaardian soldiers around him
help me bro they just bludgeons him to death there's a very important reason
why he's probably doing that and why it seems like he may have flipped sides
during the battle but maybe wants to get rid of the Brotherhood like think about
the other mage they came for yennefer as a saboteur within their ranks while she
was on the tower we'll learn more about what's going on with him next season but
he's a hugely important character in the books in number one finally we also
learn how all these disparate events during season 1 are connected in how
ciri is at the center of everything the disappearance of her mother and father
Duney and pavetta the fall of sintra the nilfgaardian wars the battle of
sodden hill Vilgefortz, Emperor Emhyr the dryads and the elder blood it's
all connected and ciri is at the center of everything the showrunner said that
they had about a seven season plan I'm expecting them to make it to at least
four or five so I don't think that they're going to reveal all these
things and how everything is connected by the end of season 2 so please don't
post spoilers if you have read the books or played the games if you want to find
answers to all those questions though you can read the books and play the
games while you wait for season 2 to get here it's all in there
the games don't cover everything from the books they're kind of meant to be a
sequel to the book story but they do have a bunch of flashbacks and big
reveals about stuff that happened during the books the games are just really cool
either way they're just really badass games right now the season 2 release
date won't be until 2021 but I'm assuming it'll be summer 2021 or later
because the Game of Thrones prequel series will probably release in spring
2021 and I don't think that Netflix wants the witcher to have to compete
with that so expect them to plan around the Game of Thrones prequel which will
probably run from April to June I'll keep doing bonus videos through the next
week or so so leave all your video requests and big questions and
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