I've heard tales of your kind which
you're a mutant created by magic roaming the continent
we don't want your kind here hunting monsters for a price I thought you'd
have found or horns or something I had them filed down
people call you a monster too
why not them because that I am what they say I have all of our choices draw
our destinies closer
he's out there there's still hope
I have to find Geralt of Rivia
judge me they say witches can't feel human emotion what do you believe in
greater
and it's all the same
princess cirilla the old destiny
I can't protect her if you dismiss it
unleash a true calamity upon us all
I'll take that chance
welcome back everyone its charlie we finally have the full official trailer
for The Witcher so we'll break it down there's a whole bunch of book stuff
going on during this a lot of Easter eggs if you're new to the channel be
sure to subscribe to get all the videos I will be doing videos for the series
when it drops they finally confirmed the official release date it's pretty much
exactly when we all thought it was going to happen the week before Christmas so
we will be talking about all kinds of Witcher stuff at the end of the year if
you're not familiar with the series or you haven't read the books or played the
games don't worry but the games are amazing the books are actually what the
series is going to cover the games are meant to be a sequel story that pick up
after the events of the books but starting with the footage the voiceover
you get at the beginning of the trailer is yennefer talking to him talking about
I've heard about witchers I've heard about all these mutations and the
potions that you take that's all happening during this banquet scene
where all the different people are trying to screw each other in the
background it's not the sorcerer's banquet from time of contempt that's one
of the later books season 1 is only covering the short stories from the
first two books the last wish and sword of Destiny this trailer is meant to be
the basic explainer for who Geralt of Rivia is why he acts the way he does
what wishers do what his general philosophy is like this later woman says
why don't you just all those terrible people - he says because that
would make me the monster that they say I am part of his code is that he only
monsters when they're a danger to other people all these dead bodies at
the beginning of the trailer seem like they're from the fall of Cintra later
after nilfgaard comes back to invade on the orders of Emperor Amir we'll be
talking about him a lot during the series he's not the main villain but he
comes pretty close to being one of the bigger villains then they do this thing
where they juxtaposed Yenefer's purple eyes with Geralt see yellow cat eyes as
he's getting though Witcher potions and undergoing his Witcher mutations that
grant him his special powers and long lifespan yennefer also goes through some
transformations physical transformations when she attains her power is a
sorceress this scene of Geralt during the day walking into this fight seems
like it's from butcher of lavich and it might seem like there are a ton of
different fights and battles going on in the trailer but really it's just
different scenes from the same three to four fights broken up into a bunch of
different parts this battle when he's fighting the soldiers
seems like it's Winnie's helping Dooney in pavetta earlier in the story Geralt
is brought to Cintra by Ciri's grandmother Queen Calanthe to oversee
the wedding of her daughter Ciris mother pavetta : 'they has all these suitors
and nobles from neighboring kingdoms that's what these banquet scenes or four
but pavetta is really in love with a cursed monster are cursed human that
looks like a monster named Unni he's the one that looks like he has the head of a
hedgehog no spoilers for dooney's secret identity we'll talk about that later
after the series premieres there's a whole lot going on here that we can't
really talk about without getting into spoilers but all the trailers talk about
people being worse than monsters the wedding here is an example of Queen kal
anthe in the people of central and the nobles being terrible people in karma is
a bitch because after Geralt manages to save
Dooney and prevent pavetta from being forced to marry one of these other
suitors you see later in time nilfgaard sacks Cintra and Queen Calanthe lays dying
yelling it's ciri to go seek out Geralt for protection they're just an example
of karma coming back around on terrible people like is it's terrible that
nilfgaard is invading and sacking Cintra but they themselves were just as
terrible to duny in pavetta earlier in the story we can't go too deep on why
nilfgaard is invading without getting into spoilers so we'll talk about that
when the series premieres but really they're after ciri and Nilfgard is
trying to consolidate power by conquering all the neighboring kingdoms
so ciri is not the only thing that they're after this is the school where
yennefer studied to be a sorceress then there's the scene of her trying to make
it with Geralt at this banquet Geralt riding into bladvic in taking the
witcher potions as the ennifer talks about the story she's heard of witchers
and the mutations that they undergo we get our first look at Jaskier with
Geralt and Roach riding down the road this might be from the last wish the
last wish is really the first time the geralt and yennefer meet but they may
change that a little bit for the books the way she's talking to him here makes
it seem like it's the first time that they've met but really it's earlier in
the story when they actually meet for the first time so it's kind of hard to
tell based on the way they cut this footage this is more of Geralt getting
ready to fight off Renfri's men in Blaviken this scene of the people in
the tavern treating him like crap is just another example of how normal
people are generally mistrustful and fearful of all
it's not just Geralt that they're afraid of they just opposed this with Geralt
fighting monsters who kind of seemed terrible then notice how they jump back
and forth between that and then the scenes of regular people being even more
terrible in Blaviken in the tavern like the monsters seemed bad but it's
really humans who are Terribad these are scenes of him actually fighting Ren
free herself I did a whole video explaining the meaning behind the name
Geralt is given the butcher of bladvic and I'll link that at the end of this
but the super-quick version is that ren free is coming to bladvic in to get
revenge against a sorcerer called Stregobor who himself is a very terrible
person and who she has a lot of history with and good reason to want to get
revenge against him but in order to do that she threatens the lives of all
these normal townspeople who aren't doing anything in bladvic and so Geralt
is forced to all of Renfri's men to protect those townspeople but at the
end of it it gets even worse for him because he fights all these people off
saves the townspeople but the townspeople themselves treat him like a
monster because he looks like he just butchered get it butcher oblivion all
these people so they started throwing rocks at him so even the people that he
just saved from being or acting horribly towards him
this giant battle scene just seems like it's one of the major nilfgaardian wars
with Cintra maybe the Battle of sodden hill they're really two major Wars with
nilfgaard and Cintra so this could be either one this is yennefer and Geralt
on the road it might be during the last wish earlier during their first beating
from the books but like I said it's kind of hard to tell how much they've changed
the timeline of the books this is just kalantay dying telling ciri to find
Geralt because he'll protect her from the nilfgaardian 'he's this scene of
Geralt on the castle bridge might be from earlier at the beginning of pavetta
sweating this is ciri in the middle of her escape
from Cintra there was a longer version of this scene that they screened last
week at London Comic Con where she runs into a boy and they sort of give you
some scenes with her that let you know what her personality is like before she
winds up in the force too Brokilon with the dryads but then she's actually
in Brokilon talking to the dryads it's probably
right before she meets Geralt for the first time then they have a whole bunch
of scenes from pavetta 's wedding when all breaks loose and Geralt tries
to save Duny from being by everyone else they the funny scene of
him talking to Roach don't judge me horse he calls all of his horses Roach
he goes through several different horses but they might just give him the one
brooch during season one this is just an example of nilfgaardian soldiers being
terrible just to sell you on the idea that they're coming for ciri like I said
there's no real main villain in The Witcher series it just some people are
more terrible than others at times there's a bunch of different scenes of
Ciri escaping from Cintra and vesemir trying to compel Geralt to save her
talking about destiny terrible things will happen if you don't as they show
all these cataclysms and invasions in the background ciri being his destiny so
to speak has made clear to him in wait for it a book called sword of Destiny
see how they did that the scene of ciri using her power just meant to show you
how special she is and explain a little bit about her elder blood they might not
get too deep into that during the beginning of the series this scene of
the ground cracking in and around Cintra could be coming from Vilgefortz or another
sorcerer there are a lot of sorcerers in The Witcher series and most of them are
terrible people but Vilgefortz is the closest thing
to a main villain as you could say that the series has but he's working with
nilfgaard and Emperor Emhyr when they start to try and conquer all the
neighboring kingdoms then you get that last voiceover from Geralt explaining
his philosophy evil is evil greater lesser evil it's all the same
this here is Fringilla next to the trebuchet during the invasion of Cintra
she's just another nilfgaardian sorceress from the series
this is yennefer in a different court after she gets her powers and becomes a
sorceress she serves in a number of different kingdoms before she meets
Geralt for the first time more of ciri on the run more of Geralt fighting a
different band of marauders vesemir still yelling at Geralt chasing him down
talking about destiny to help ciri this person before we've seen it a lot of the
trailers is to saya she's one of the people that takes in yennefer when she's
younger and trains her to become a sorceress then there's a whole bunch of
footage from the comic-con scenes that they showed up last week with yennefer
and queen Kahless of Leiria trying to save her from an unknown sorcerer to
this trying to her in her baby then this scene is more footage from the
end of the last trailer scene of Geralt fighting that giant spider monster in
the swamps while he's all potion'd up the spider monster is actually called a
Kikomore they show up all over the Witcher games there's a bunch of them
that live in swamps they have very human looking heads but everybody let me know
in the comments if you spotted any Easter eggs or anything big in the
trailer that I didn't mention in the video when the series gets here
I'll find some cool Witcher themed giveaway to do for all my videos so
leave all your suggestions in the comments below but like I said they'll
probably be a couple more promos and trailers that they'll drop before
premieres in December while you wait for everything click here for my breakdown
of those other big Comic Con scenes and learn why Geralt is called the butcher
of Blaviken and click here for the teaser for the brand-new Game of Thrones
prequel that they just announced House of the Dragon about the Targaryen family
thank you so much for watching everybody stay awesome see you guys tonight!