Welcome back everyone, it's Charlie! Toss a coin to your witcher this is going to be my
new season 2 video we got a big cast announcement for a bunch of new
characters a whole bunch of new witchers we found out who vesemir is going to be
and we have our first look at season 2 footage they've been filming for a while
now so we'll break it all down if you're new to the channel be sure to subscribe
to get all the videos there's even a Witcher Netflix movie that's coming out
later this year separately from season two because season two is delayed till
next year so we'll start with the casting announcement and then I'll
breakdown the footage as we go along because some of the casting
announcements go along with the new footage starting with a familiar one we
have Kristofer Hivju from Game of Thrones he played tormund Giantsbane
he's going to be playing Nivellen and the character from a grain of truth one of
the short stories during the last wish they kind of did the last wish book or
at least some of that book for the events of season 1 the story that he's
part of is a parable that's kind of like the Beauty and the Beast where you have
a man that turns into a beast and as part of that storyline he has a
love interest that's called Vereena she's a monster too but a very different kind
of monster she's a different type of vampire she's a Bruxa they're very
powerful type of vampires that take on the appearance of a dark haired young
human most of the time they are female but their natural form is a large black
bat with sharp fangs and claws there were also one of the very few
types of vampires within the world of The Witcher like higher vampires that
aren't affected by a sunlight so she can walk around in daylight just fine give
me all your Tormund Giantsbane bear loving jokes if you never watch Game of
Thrones there was a long-running joke that they brought back every once in a
while for that character where he kept bragging that he had actually slept with
a real-life bear to survive because he had mistook her for one of his Cubs then
started a relationship with it so now tormund Giantsbane bear lover turns into
a creature that looks kind of like a bear and we've come full circle but when
I say his book story is a lot like Beauty and the Beast
it's literally like Beauty and the Beast and because it's a relatively short
chapter within a book I'm guessing Kristofer Hivju will only be in one
episode I don't expect him to show up a whole bunch during season 2 number 7
there are three new characters that are witcher's not including vesemir so cohen
is the first one he's a wisher from the school of the Gryphon if you're not a
big book reader or you haven't played The Witcher games the
a couple of different schools of witcher's the school of the wolf is the
one that care more in the Geralt grew up and was trained at the school of the
Gryphon is just one of the other ones from a different part of the world Cohen
is one of the witcher's that's at the school of the wolf when Geralt to bring
ciri there for training so he helps train her in sword combat Lambert is the
next one he's one of the younger witcher's from the school of the wolf
he's just there also while they're helping train ciri and then Eskel is
actually a really special one he's one of the witcher's that actually grew up
with Geralt at the school of the wolf and went through training with him and
the trial the grasses so they've been friends for a long long time
number six they're doing Lydia van Bredevoort she's a sorceress who works
closely with Vilgefortz she's kind of like his assistant in the
books I'll talk about Vilgefortz in a second too because he's obviously a very
big character in the next couple of seasons kind of tangentially during
blood of elves which is kind of the storyline that they're doing for the
events of season 2 but they change a lot of stuff from the book so I'm expecting
to see Vilgefortz on screen a lot more than he did appear during that book
number 5 is Francesca Findabair she's just a really powerful elven sorceress
we kind of met the elves a little bit during season 1 but they're going to be
much bigger during season 2 the books describe her is the most beautiful woman
in the world but she's really tall really smart in a super powerful
sorceress and as part of this special guerrilla fighting force of elves there
is a lot of stuff that happens to her later in the story I don't know if
they're going to do it so I won't talk about it too much but she gets tied up
with Emperor Emhir as he sort of tries to pull the strings and orchestrate
events on a much more global scale in the continent number 4 this is actually
a bit of a they haven't announced Rience yet who's the main antagonist of
blood of elves for the most part he's another mage that works with Vilgefortz but
it's possible that they just combined his character with Cahir's character
because in the books their mission is pretty much exactly the same they're
trying to capture Ciri and bring her back it's just that Cahir is working
for Emperor Emhir and rience is working for Vilgefortz they don't include
him though they'll have to include some other main antagonists so either it's
him or they're going to up Cahir and he'll be more of a threat during season 2
number 3 big they finally confirm vesemir for season 2 I mean they'd have
to include him because he is critical to the story that they're going to be doing
next it's just that everyone was holding out hope for Mark Hamill after Mark
Hamill is like I have no idea who this is but I should
definitely play this character then The Witcher Netflix showrunner seemed like
she was going to reach out to him. So for whatever reason I guess that casting
didn't work out Mark Hamill is not going to be playing vesemir I'm assuming just
a scheduling conflict because he's usually down for stuff like this the
person that's going to be playing vesemir is actually Kim Bodnia from killing eve
he's actually pretty good character and that series is actually really good so
I'm excited to see what he does with the version of the character vesemir is
still a badass but he's developed a little bit more of a sense of humor with
age he's much wiser he's kind of a father figure to Geralt he's featured
prominently through The Witcher 3 if you played that game recently and he's a
huge huge character in the books but if you played the games that you know that
vesemir is a big part of Witcher 3 in the games take place after the timeline
of the books after the books and so I'm assuming that however many more seasons
The Witcher Netflix series runs vesemir will be a part of the show because they
did all the Geralt flashbacks to his childhood when his mother left him at
Kaer Morhen I don't know if they have any plans to do flashbacks for a young
version of vesemir when he was training Geralt or if they might just de-age this
actor here
If you're not a big fan of The Witcher 3 video game or you never
played the game there's a giant cutscene right at the beginning when you start
that game of a flashback to Kaer Morhen when Geralt is training ciri it's a
memory that Geralt is having that's a little unreliable because some of the
characters like Triss aren't in the memory but she was there while this was
happening while they were training ciri but this is basically what they're going to
be doing at the beginning of season 2.
Guess she prefers practice to theory hmm
What?
Time to wake up master.
These lessons so boring they put you to sleep too?
Taking notes on ghouls and all goals wanted to rest my eyes a bit.
Making her slog through that brick? No wonder she took off.
There's a bunch of stuff that happens
after this where Geralt has this vision of the Wild Hunt
coming in that's all getting mixed up in his memories in the stuff that's
happening in present day so don't worry about the Wild Hunt too much during the
Witcher season 2 there might be some Easter eggs and references to them but
for the most part just the ciri training stuff is what they're going to be doing
when they get to care more in The Witcher Netflix production will actually
be filming at Kaer Morhen with ciri Geralt and Vesemir the other witcher's
in the next couple of weeks so we'll actually get some footage of that really
soon too. And number one right now they're currently filming the aftermath
of the Battle of sodden Hill from The Witcher Episode 8 finale you'll be
really happy to know that the production designer the person that does all the
costumes said that they're going to be changing the nilfgaardian armor
completely at some point during season 2 the reason why it looks the same in
these battle scenes here is because season 2 episode 1 will pick up
immediately after the end of season 1 episode 8 so you just need to have some
of the original armor for continuities sake there's a fun Easter egg here too in
our first look at yennefer and friend gila from season 2 so they both been
captured by the elves you'll recognize this elf he's the one that captured
Geralt and yes gear that was the episode at the end of which yes gear came up
with the song toss a coin to your witcher and started singing it as they
were walking away.
That's not how it happened!
Where's your newfound respect?
Respect doesn't make history.
Toss a coin to your Witcher Oh valley of Plenty
So based on this first look teaser here it just sounds like the elves are going to
be a much bigger force during season 2 this isn't an exact scene from the books
so obviously I'm expecting them to change some of what happened around the
Battle of sodden hill if this isn't a completely different battle that they're
filming for these scenes that I'm assuming that they're just going to say
that the TV show version of the elves were more active participants in the
Battle of Sodden Hill if you're big vesemir fan you'll also be happy to know
that The Witcher Netflix movie that's coming out later this year was confirmed
to be the nightmare of the wolf they said that's actually going to be about
vesemir backstory not Geralt they haven't announced what the exact
timeline of the movie is so Geralt might show up as a little kid at the very end
of that but I think the whole idea is is just to explain who vesemir is character
is in a way they did not in the books I'm very sorry uncle Youngblood craves
action I understand that but when you fight a beast knowledge counts as much
as your silver sword at the very least you want to be able to tell a ghoul from
an algal still you should have asked if
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