From the bottom of my heart i wanted to say thank you
that is a wrap on season 2 of the witcher it is hard to believe it's been over a year since we
kicked off this season in typical witcher fashion in a freezing cold forest in the middle of the
night since then we've shot for 158 days with at least one unit sometimes two sometimes three all
while decked out in face shields and face masks and goggles and slathered in hand sanitizer we
shot in 15 locations with 89 cast members and over 1200 different crew members all bringing their
craft to life none of us has ever experienced a television season like this before i'm sure we
cannot wait to show you what geralt and Ciri and yennefer and yaskir and all of your favorites have
been up to since we left them at the battle of saturn hill there are plenty of new characters and
story lines and of course monsters to explore as well as we dig into the blood of elves and beyond
we are so proud of everything we accomplished in season 2 and we can't wait for you to watch it
Welcome back everyone toss the coin to your witcher they just dropped the season 2 teaser
trailer and they just announced that they finished filming and will be dropping new
episodes before the end of the year so we will get our witcher season 2 before 2022 thankfully i'll
be doing videos for all the episodes so if you're brand new to my channel be sure to subscribe to
get everything there's a bunch of new casting announcements too like they just announced that
they're doing some characters from the wild hunt during season two they dropped some new footage
and they announced more about what the storyline of season two will be as you would expect they're
adapting the book blood of elves which is the next book in the series but they are incorporating some
aspects of the witcher games which actually take place after all the books if you've never read the
books and you just played the games the games actually start after the book story ends they
actually had to retcon what happens to geralt at the end of the books at the beginning of the games
in order for the games to exist but as you can see from the characters they've used the season 2 time
jump opportunity to give some of the characters a top to bottom redesign just because everyone was
complaining about the nilfgaardian armor during season 1 that weird strange-looking armor and they
upgraded geralt's armor as well but that may have been also for practical reasons to allow henry
cavill to move around in it just a little bit better there is also news about what's happening
with some of the other witcher spin-off series that they're doing like they're doing the witcher
blood origin story which is about the very first witcher in the timeline then they have the witcher
movie that they're also working on separately which is about a young version of vesemir called
nightmare of the wolf i'll talk about that at the end of the video just to remind everyone but even
if you've only played a little bit of the games you're probably at least somewhat familiar or
you've seen pictures of or you vaguely understand the wild hunt the biggest new casting announcement
that they made is for aerodyn who is the leader of the red writers and then eventually the leader
of the wild hunt itself he is a character that appears during the books but most people remember
him from the games just because i think more people encountered his character through the wild
hunt storyline the witcher 3. so quick explainer for his character if you're not totally familiar
what his relationship to Ciri geralt and the other characters are he's an elf that was born
to a different faction of elves that was born on a different planet but his faction of elves
originally came from the continent where the main version of elves in the witcher universe come from
because the world of the witcher is a multiverse story and people travel between worlds there's
this conjunction of the spheres that happens which basically allows travel between worlds it brings
humans to the continent and when that happens the main group of elves develop some powerful
magic to allow them to travel to other worlds so a group of elves travel to another planet
and that's the group of elves that airden was born to but he wasn't born until his group of
elves travel to that other world once his faction of elves travels to that other world they wind up
finding a bunch of humans that already lived there they killed most of them off because
they saw what humans did when they traveled to the main world of the witcher they're like no
we're not letting this happen again but over time after they killed all the humans off they found
that they didn't have any slave labor so they needed to find other people to do all this work
they also winded up finding the unicorns so within the world of the witcher story unicorns are like
extra dimensional beings crazy powerful and can travel between universes so eventually those elves
wind up capturing one of the unicorns and using it to gain access to the gateway which is basically
like the train depot to all the different worlds of the witcher multiverse sort of the main group
in charge of going around to different worlds and conquering them is called the red riders
airden becomes their leader and when they start going around conquering these other planets or
trying to conquer these other planets they develop this crazy scary looking armor which is why the
wild hunt looks the way it does but when you see him with his mask off he looks like a normal elf
he's just using magic to create the armor and to change his voice so that's why it sounds like he's
this other worldly ghostly figure but really he's just a warrior king from another planet
eventually what winds up happening is the unicorns free themselves from their captivity this other
faction of elves that airden belongs to so they lose access to the gateway of worlds and they
can't go around conquering any other planets in the multiverse eventually they wind up detecting
Ciri's presence and her elder blood and learn that they can use that to gain access to the gateway of
worlds again and that's when the wild hunt starts coming for Ciri so like at the beginning of the
witcher 3 game you see geralt sort of having this vision this dream of the wild hunt coming for
Ciri it's sort of like a foretelling of what's eventually going to happen later in the game
there's a slightly different version of this that happens in the books so the characters during the
video games later in the timeline that are part of the wild ton also show up earlier in the timeline
in the books but they change a little bit of the story there's some retcons that happen in the game
airden does wind up running into Ciri during the course of the books what they might be doing is
just incorporating later elements of the books or maybe giving Ciri some visions or geralt some
visions about what might happen later there are a bunch of different ways that they could use
eredin's character during the tv show this early in the storyline the witcher showrunner lauren
his rich who actually shows up during this teaser trailer she actually said that she has about five
seasons planned out but they could do like seven to ten seasons because there's so much story
within the witcher universe it just depends on how much they want to speed run through the book story
later what ends up happening though is that another one of these elves from this different
faction called Avallac'h winds up manipulating Ciri trying to use her as part of his plot to
stop the white frost so he has grander ambitions than what's happening with erdin and the wild ton
the wild hunt wants Ciri 's elder blood so they can just go around conquering the multiverse
but depending on whether you're reading the books or whether you're watching the games the
story's a little bit different for his character Avallac'h becomes this really big figure trying to
manipulate Ciri who also wants her elder blood for slightly different reasons that's one of the funny
things about the witcher storyline regardless of which faction you're talking about everybody wants
Ciri for some slightly different reason because of her elder blood because it makes her so powerful
and what they can do with that as part of this casting announcement though there is a character
who's associated with Avallac'h's character and he's obviously a really big figure later in the
games but he also shows up during the books as well so the other big character that's sort of
associated with aerodyn these other faction of elves from another planet in Avallac'h's
character is laura doran she's one of the earliest carriers of the elder blood and series ancestor
like her great great great great great grandmother many many times removed she was an elven sorceress
who was actually supposed to marry Avallac'h and they were going to give birth to this child
who was going to have the elder blood inherit the elder blood and they were going to use that to
stop the white frost there's this whole prophecy around Ciri 's character her elder blood and the
white frost the white frost is sort of like the coming of an ice age to the planet so you have
all these different factions that are trying to stop it through different means using Ciri but
the elder blood was basically a project of these ancient elves they were trying to create a being
that was powerful enough to stop the white frost and eventually Ciri winds up inheriting this power
she's the last member of the bloodline so that's why everybody all over the place within the
witcher universe wants her but it all goes back to avalak and this other character laura doran this
elven sorceress eventually she wound up falling in love with a human mage had a child with that
person so the elder blood project that the elves had sort of passed to a different lineage and
sort of threw their plans into disarray they also confirmed that they're casting ithlean who is the
person who created the prophecy about Ciri's elder blood and the white frost so obviously that's just
a key part of the story because that's sort of the end game for the show is doing the white frost
they said that they were never gonna do the video game story line but then just a little while ago
the witcher showner was like well we're gonna do some of this stuff from the games they announced
that graham mctavish of all people have joined the cast as sigmund dixtra who's the rodanian
spymaster you probably remember him from somewhere he's done so many big roles in the past couple of
years he's an advisor to king visamir who they also announced is going to be part of season two
and along with their characters they're doing the philippa elhart character who is a sorceress that
works in his court so just sounds like we're gonna be spending a whole lot more time with
the redanians during season 2. they also finally confirmed they're doing the riots character i
don't know if they're going to be changing him from the books because they're adapting blood
of elves for most of the storyline of season 2 and he is the main antagonist for the most part
during blood of elves but he's really just working for vilgefortz so we'll see how they try to adapt
that storyline remember only eight episodes so they tend to speedrun some of these story lines
as you would expect he spends most of season two trying to get Ciri from geralt but the whole thing
with geralt and Ciri during season two as i've said in previous videos is that most of season
2 will pick up with him training her at cara marin they are doing cohen eskel and lambert
the three other witchers that are sort of around geralt while he's training Ciri during this period
you've seen most of them during the video games if you played any of the video games
and if it wasn't clear when season 2 picks up yennefer has been captured by nilfgaard so she is
kind of with them for a good portion of the series before eventually she winds
up reuniting with geralt and ciri so at least for the first couple of episodes i'm assuming
that the characters will be split up like even yaskir is off on his own not with geralt while
this is happening at the beginning of the season they posted a couple pictures of series training
montages so you just can imagine how that plays out if you played the games at the beginning of
witcher 3 you kind of see a young version of Ciri training with her sword the whole thing with the
witcher prequel series blood origin there was a report that they were trying to cast jason momoa
as the original witcher they made a couple casting announcements for the show for some of the main
characters but they haven't announced the complete cast yet and it sounds like they're getting ready
to start filming that pretty soon but everyone post all your predictions in the comments below
and let me know what you think they're doing with aerodyn and the wild hunt characters
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