The Girl, in the woods. Will be with you always.
she is your destiny.
I met a Witcher he saved my life
now fetch him an ale before he goes to Sodden, hey Witcher, Witcher where are you going?
people linked by destiny will always find each other who is Yennefer?
welcome back everyone it's Charlie this is going to be my video for The Witcher
Netflix back half of the season the ending I'll do a separate video about
season two so don't worry about that but if you're new to the channel be sure to
subscribe to get all the videos they've already renewed the show for season two
they'll start shooting it next year but obviously spoiler warning for everything
from Witcher episodes 5 through 8 pretty short season but we'll do top 10 and
Easter eggs as we go along starting with number 10 Geralt saves yennefer from the
jinn with his last wish I already talked a little bit about this in my last video
so I'll go into slightly different details during this but the whole idea
was that yennefer thought that she'd be able to trap the jinn in her form and
use its power to heal herself so that she'd eventually be able to have
children if she wanted to the reason why yennefer can't have children those
because they surgically removed her ability to have children burning her
ovaries on the pyre and using the magical energy that that created to cast
the enchantments that made her look beautiful but it's Geralt wish that
binds their fates together magically intertwining their destinies so he saves
her with his last wish it's from a short story in the books called
the last wish the magic of the wish just causes their destinies to be intertwined
no one is really sure exactly what the words he spoke were that caused their
destinies to be intertwined but however he worded it however the jinn
interpreted that and then executed the wish the magic of that is what causes
their destinies to be connected forever that's why later in the season when they
run into each other on the dragon adventure she says there's so few
witches in the world why do I keep running it to you everywhere I go it's
the magic of the wish that keeps bringing them back together no matter
how many times they're driven apart so number 9 obviously Geralt saves the
golden dragons life and the baby dragon egg this is from a short story in the
books called the bounds of Reason which appears during the book sword of Destiny
but Geralt is hired by Bor ch3 jackdaws to go kill a dragon come to find out
most of you probably figured this out pretty early on with the way they were
seeding clues that Borch himself is the dragon and a golden dragon at that it's
no accident that he hunts Geralt down to try and find him to hire him for this
because Borch the dragon however you want to think about him had heard the
stories that were being told about Geralt the white wolf you could think
yeah skiier a little bit for the - that's a bit of a funny callback to
him the bard singing all those songs and crazy tales about Carrollton how good he
was everyone posts all your memes about tossing coins - witchers respect us in
my history you notice that he's wearing a dragon skin vest and when he's having
conversations with him around a campfire specifically with Geralt he's really
just feeding Geralt questions so that he'll give him answers and give him a
sense for what gerelds personality is like does he really care about dragons
is he really a good person in through Geralt explanation he explains that
dragons aren't evil they've been hunted to extinction
so once of confirming a lot of the good things that he heard about Geralt making
him feel a lot better about him helping save him from the other hunters there's
also the line about golden dragons being a rare mutation so this is meant to sort
of give them some sort of connection because Geralt himself is the product of
a mutation just like the golden dragon there were a couple big changes to the
way the book version of this story played out but for the most part it all
ends up in the same place the dragon then tells yennefer and Geralt that
their destinies will be forever intertwined but yennefer will never be
able to have a child herself no matter what she does and Geralt will eventually
lose yennefer but the thing about that prophecy is a tricky thing if you've
watched Game of Thrones you know this you should never interpret those things
quite so literally so like the magic of the last wish will still bring them
together no matter how many times have driven apart but like at the end of this
episode she's like you've lost me I'm gone I'm out of here but the magic of
the wish will cause that to not stick eventually they'll run into each other
probably during season two because they don't meet each other before the end of
this season again but also even though yennefer will never be able to
biologically have her own child she will become the mother figure for another
child on the TV show number eight garol tries to claim ciri through the
law of surprise we'll see how that goes so ciri belongs to him by the law of
surprise which he called in the flashback episode earlier during episode
4 when he saved dooney's life so you have to imagine that more than 10 years
have gone by since that happened they kind of fudged with the timeline a
little bit but Ciri is supposed to be closer to 13 or 15 years old
the second time she meets Geralt in present day but when Geralt comes back
it's before the fall of Cintra before nilfgaard attacks Queen Calanthe as you
saw did another 180 and is determined not to let Geralt have her there's an
important reason why she's kind of an asshole about it but there is a reason
unless she tries to pass off the fake this is totally my granddaughter ciri
why don't you take her right now but by this time series mother pavetta has died
and Duney her father is also believed to be dead they only briefly imply that
so I'm hoping they do another flashback during season 2 to explain but if they
don't make it really clear why everyone thinks that they're dead I'll include
that in a video but pavetta her mother believed this ciri would only be safe
being raised by her mother and Cintra so that's the main reason why ciri was
raised by Queen Calanthe in the main reason why Calanthe doesn't want to
let Geralt tap her she's not crazy or anything the TV show just isn't giving
you enough information so in order to prevent Geralt from taking her in hoping
quote-unquote to avoid Destiny's wrath chol anthe has Geralt thrown in the
dungeon but number seven we find out that Geralt was in the dungeon while
nilfgaard was sacking Cintra this is all happening on the orders of the usurper
king in nilfgaard it's not emperor Emhyr it's a different character they never
really say what his name is in the books he just referred to as the usurper but
he's also the person who's responsible for placing the curse on Duney when
dune II was a little boy so hopefully they'll get into that during season two
but because that's potentially spoilery I won't talk about that here if you have
read the books please don't post spoilers about what's going on with dune
II in the books we don't meet the usurper this season on the show or
anything like that maybe we'll see him during season two but there is a lot of
important stuff going on in the background up in nilfgaard separate from
what's happening with Geralt and Ciri down here number six though Yennefer
meets Vilgefortz, the other mage from the Brotherhood of sorcerers and
one of the main antagonists from the books at least in the future like I said
they're fudging the timeline a little bit this is meant to be Vilgefortz
before he becomes one of the bigger antagonists the way the actor is playing
him seems kind of ambiguous I think that's actually in the character of most
of the other sorcerers that you meet at the Brotherhood of sorcerers like Strega
Bor is kind of a terrible person but he's not any more evil necessarily than
a lot of the other bad characters that you meet during the course of the show
but the point of the introduction here is a big
change to the book story because it's all leading up to the Battle of sodden
hill in the fall of the Brotherhood of sorcerers which I'll talk about in a
second all this episode 7 stuff is really just a lot of table setting to
sort of give you background on these characters and sort of introduced them
before they become bigger characters during season two they give you a sense
for what Vilgefortz' personality is he is a good mage but he spent a lot of time in
campaigns and Wars so he's very hungry for battle they changed a lot of what's
going on with the story line around the Battle of sodden hill and the fall of
the brotherhood of sorcerers so I don't know if there's any secret shady stuff
going on in the background or if this is just meant to be exactly the way you see
it but number five the fall of the Brotherhood of sorcerers so the Battle
of sodden hill on the TV show seems like they're combining a bunch of different
book plots together to streamline the fall of the Brotherhood and the rise of
the lodge of sorceresses which is like the next big organization
of mages that come together in the ashes of the Brotherhood they make this big
deal about freeing gila trying to lure them to nilfgaard under the auspices
that they'll be able to practice magic freely of any rules or restrictions
forbidden magic all the fring gila stuff though is mostly a big change to the
books the end result for their organization is still the same they
suffer heavy losses and then even later campaigns from Emperor Emhyr
effectively in their Brotherhood's power but number four the actual Battle of
sodden hill the big war that they fight as stated this is the stand of the
Brotherhood makes against nilfgaard mostly because they feel like nilfgaard
is getting too powerful not because they care about all these neighboring
kingdoms it's not a genuine source of compassion or anything like that they
just feel like if nilfgaard unifies the continent they'll start placing more
rules and restrictions on the Brotherhood and they don't want anybody
telling them what to do we see that nilfgaard the rogue mages freeing gila
fight really dirty causing heavy casualties because what's happening with
Geralt and Cirie is right next to this I think they'll probably dressed it's at
the beginning of season two because Geralt knows that yennefer is fighting
at the Battle of sodden Hill so he tries to go find her there but there's all
these unmarked graves so he believes that she's so alive but doesn't confirm
that till a little bit later number three friend Gil is forbidden
magic it's not so much that they're using super dark magic it's more that
they're ignoring a lot of the safety protocols that the Brotherhood of
sorcerers adhere by to protect themselves and preserve their own lives
all magic comes with a cost the forbidden aspect of this is that
friend Gila is having these random rogue mages working for nilfgaard completely
consumed their life force to produce extra powerful magics Yennefer's Power
Move to burn through the army with that giant area of effect attack isn't
forbidden either it's more about her fully committing herself to the cause
because previously she really just didn't care about what they were doing
she didn't care about the other neighboring kingdoms any of the Kings
any of the people in them she didn't want have anything to do with the real
world part of the reason why she seems so much more naturally powerful than the
other mages as they implied earlier in the season is because she's half elven
and elves have a much deeper connection to magic she's not as naturally powerful
as someone like Ciri who has the elder blood but yennefer has been training as
a witch for decades and decades and Ciri has no idea how her powers work number
two this is actually a big one may not have been totally clear but Geralt
meets his mother Vicente he has all these hallucinations and
flashbacks so if it wasn't clear what's happening here this is him actually
meeting his mother and it's not just a hallucination she actually does come to
help him here in this moment and if it wasn't clear the reason why she looks so
young is because she was a sorceress that's why during the flashbacks when
he's a little boy they never show you what her face looks like just to make
you wonder oh wait a minute she's a sorceress just like yennefer and the
other ones so she lives way longer than everyone else she left Geralt and Cara
morhen as a child with The Witcher School of the wolf but the best
explanation that I could give you is that she did care for him but she felt
like she couldn't care for him like a real mother could and the best chance
for him for a good upbringing would be to give him to the school the wolf but
the really tricky thing like I said nobody on the show is truly evil or
truly good it's all shades of gray she knew that most children given to the
school of the wolf died during the trial of grasses so she totally understood
that there was a really high probability that he could die
they don't really address Gerald's father during these flashbacks but his
father is most likely the warrior Corinne who appears during this side
book outside of the main novels maybe we'll see him in a flashback in a future
season but I'm not really expecting it they don't spend a lot of time devoted
to his character in the main novel series he just
rinsed every once in a while occasionally but number one Geralt in
ciri finally meet each other in the woods near sodden hill and ciri
unleashes her elder blood full powers without realising what's going on and
it's all about their destinies being intertwined the same way that Geralt
destiny with yennefer is being intertwined that's also why at the
beginning of this episode you see the three sigils on the title screen formed
together around each other because all three of their destinies are now
intertwined so they'll probably spend most of the early part of season 2
catching up on where they've been and what they're going to do next while all
this nilfgaard and usurper stuff going on in the north sorts itself out because
that is still a very big deal going on in the background there's all this stuff
that's coming up with Vilgefortz' character Emperor Emhyr, I don't know how
much they're fudging the timeline so the minute we get some clues about that I
will include it in videos the TV show has changed a little bit about the way
series powers work but you kind of get a sense for what may have happened you
just meant to imagine it in your head how she just Visser ated all these other
people without completely understanding how she used her abilities the way the
games treat her abilities are a little bit different so I'll probably do a
video at some point just explaining how that all works because you could spend
all day talking about how crazy powerful she is she's like God - you're powerful
compared to all the other people on the show
but let me know in the comments what was your favorite moment from the season and
what are you hoping that they do during season 2 I will do a season 2 video
sometime in the next couple of days because they won't start shooting for a
little while but we have a pretty good idea for what story they're going to
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