Welcome back everyone it's charlie toss a coin to your witcher this is going to
be my new witcher netflix season 2 video and a big breakdown of the jason momoa
announcement so you may have seen some of the news the past couple of days i'll
explain what's going on if you're new to the channel be sure to
subscribe to get all the videos there's actually a bunch of witcher
projects that netflix is doing in addition to season two there's also an
anime movie called nightmare of the wolf in a prequel called witcher blood origin
which is going to detail the origin of the witcher order
so we'll just start with the big stuff first the jason momoa news you may have
seen the past couple weeks that netflix is trying to cast jason momoa in the
witcher netflix jason momoa seemingly confirmed this by posting this fan art
to his instagram story saying hey brother talking to henry
cavill's geralt obviously so naturally everybody freaked out
because it'd be awesome to see them reunite inside the world of the witcher
netflix because they're both big dc characters in the dc movies in justice
league we're going to see them together again in the justice league snyder cut
with a whole bunch of new footage next year too
but here's the thing they're not casting him for the witcher netflix season 2.
they're in production for that right now i'll explain what's going on with
witcher season 2 in a second but netflix is actually trying to cast
him for the witcher blood origin series so number four if you
don't know what that is that's basically the origin of the
witchers so jason mamoa would basically be
the very first witcher so far the witcher story in the novels or the games
hasn't really explained who that first witcher was we know a
little bit about the origins of the witchers and the people who first
created the witcher mutations i'm going to read the description that
the showrunner gave for this series so it'll give you a pretty good idea for
what it's going to cover in terms of history he says a question
has been burning in my mind ever since i first read the witcher books
what was the elven world like before the cataclysmic arrival of humans i've
always been fascinated by the rise and fall of civilizations
how science discovery and culture flourish right before that fall
how swaz of knowledge are lost forever in such a short time
often compounded by the colonization and rewriting of history
leaving only fragments of a civilization's true story behind
the witcher blood origin will tell the tale of the elven civilization before
its fall and most importantly reveal the
forgotten history of the very first witcher so that's why it seems like it's
going to be so easy for them to land jason mamoa and jason momoa himself has
done a bunch of other netflix series so it's not unusual for him to do mini
series or big series like this with streamers the
actual witcher blood origin series is only supposed to be six episodes long
and basically netflix's strategy for the
witcher netflix franchise in general not just the main series with henry cappel
is that it sounds like they're actually going to be doing obviously multiple
seasons to cover all the witcher books and novels
but between those seasons they're going to fill the gaps with
miniseries with other stories other witcher's stories
like that's where the anime movie the nightmare of the wolf comes in
that's going to deal a lot with the origins of vesamir when he was much younger
before geralt came along and he had to deal
with this really really horrific adventure
number three here's the thing though we actually know a lot about that period
that they're dealing with it was about a thousand years before the events on the
main show right now if you're not familiar with the history
of the world in the witcher humans actually did not come from the
planet that the witcher series takes place on or the games
they actually came from somewhere else in the multiverse a planet called
quote-unquote earth so the planet that we're on and all the
games and all the books is not earth the way the author talks about the books
he said that originally he had actually intended for the world that the series
takes place on to be a version of prehistoric earth but then he changed
his mind because if you're not familiar with the
lore of the witcher there is time travel there is
travel through the multiverse so it is kind of a science fiction and fantasy
story together so the cataclysmic event that they talk
about that brought humans from earth to the world of the witcher is actually
called the conjunction of the spheres which is something that the show is
actually building up towards again it's the cyclical event
the key to all this is series character but they actually did this
short movie inside the games where they explained this whole history so i'll
play the clip from that here i'm past our world intertwined with
another through an upheaval scholars call the conjunction of the
spheres the gods allowed unholy forces to slip
into our demand the offspring of that cataclysm was the
nefarious force called magic
yet we did not banish it instead studying the file arcane
for our own power and wealth and the monsters at our door the
unholy relics of this conjunction the trolls the corpse eaters the
werewolves did we raise our swords against them
oh have we laid this burden on others once so so-called witches
stray children taught the ways of foul sorcery
their bodies mutated through blasphemous ritual
incentified monsters though they could not distinguish good from evil the
flicker of humanity long extinguished within them
yes their numbers have dwindled through the years
but a few still roam our lands the way they talk about
the conjunction of the spheres during that clip is actually basically when
planets come into alignment and it allows
other people from places in the multiverse other worlds to cross over
into the world of the witcher and within the context of this clip
they're just talking about monsters coming to the world of the witcher
that's where monsters came from the multiverse they used the conjunction of
the spheres to cross over but that's also what humans did a long time ago
so if you watch the witcher netflix season one then you basically seen
what's happened to elves in present day they're slowly going
extinct even though there's this ancient race a lot of their history has been
lost through all these wars with humanity
they've been kicked off their lands there's the threat of another war coming
again in present day most of this we get through geralt's
perspective because we're following him around through the story
number two the origin of the witchers in the witcher schools is talked about a
little bit piecemeal throughout the different books
so you don't get all that history in one big jump right at the beginning
like a lot of big world building fantasy authors you don't get all the story
right away we learn a little bit about the mages that created the witcher
mutations during season of storms according to scholars it was the
legendary mages cosimo and his apprentice who actually created the
mutations we don't know a lot about the person
that they tested those on but based on what netflix is planning
here it sounds like it would be that very first witcher played by jason momoa
we don't know what his name is it's not recorded in history
and even cooler his apprentice after this went on to become even more famous
in his own right creating a lot of the most powerful spells that tris and
yennefer wind up using in the books and the games in present day
there were only a couple scenes during the witcher netflix season one where you
actually see henry cavill taking his witcher potions we got a little bit of
it during the trailer but i'm sure there's a bunch of footage that wound up
on the cutting room floor they actually just dropped a big
behind-the-scenes witcher netflix season one series as
well it's sort of like extra bonus material about the making of the witcher
netflix episodes but the really cool thing about all this
the conjunction of the spheres travel between the multiverse obviously the
origin of the witcher series the origin of humans in the world of the witcher
is that Ciri is actually the key to sort of connecting all these different
series in all these different time periods they only hinted at Ciri in her
elder blood powers a little bit during season one but she is god tear
powerful she can open portals to anywhere she
wants to go to in time and space it's almost like a
doctor who situation no joke within the world of the story in
the novels she has actually traveled to different
time periods and been to that original earth in the multiverse that humans came
from the way the author talks about the
original planet he just talks about how humans basically trashed earth
so bad that they were forced to cross over into the world of the witcher and
that was their last ditch attempt to find some place to live that wasn't
destroyed so a big theme of the witcher series
that kind of plays out a little bit in the background during season one
is that sometimes humans are just as bad if not worse than the monsters that they
hire geralt to fight so often times geralt finds himself
protecting the monsters more than the humans
this whole backstory that they're going to tell with the witcher blood origin
series about humans coming and basically taking over all the elves in the elder
races lands is going to do a much better job of
showcasing that like look how terrible these people are i don't know if we're
going to see Ciri jumping around in time and space during season two or anything
like that it's a little early for something like that she doesn't even
understand her powers even in the books when she gets older and she accidentally
starts jumping around portaling through time and space she
doesn't totally understand how she does it
what's happening right now though is that during season two at least at the
beginning of the season we'll see them go back to kare moren because that's
where they're headed now that he's found Ciri
they'll begin training her as a witcher even though she doesn't take the
mutations like geralt does the reason why she doesn't take the
mutations is because there's no one left alive that they know of that can create
the potions that they need to undergo the witcher mutations in the trial of
the grasses so even if someone wanted to become a
witcher they wouldn't be able to fully become a true witcher the way that
geralt in vesemir are witchers that's okay though Ciri is so powerful
she does not need to undergo the witcher mutations in order to be an effective
witcher right now just based on their production
timeline i don't know if they're going to be able to get episodes out by the
end of next year it'll be a race to the finish if they do so it's always
possible we get episodes by next december in 2021
everyone let me know in the comments what do you think about jason momoa
coming to the world of the witcher it just sounds really cool it seems like
he'd actually fit in really well speaking of jason mamow and henry cavill
crossover there's another big dc fandom event that's coming up with a bunch of
new justice league snyder cut batman dc movie stuff you can click here
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