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i'm the one who ordered the death of that elven baby
it was the best path to helping me find my daughter
Welcome back everyone toss a coin to your witcher this is going to be my full witcher
season 2 netflix video there are so many big reveals things that happen so we'll break it
all down lots of easter eggs from the books they jumped around in the timeline quite a bit too
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confirmed season 3 like they do have a plan to make it through all of the book stories so if
you're worried about that do not worry they even have a spin-off prequel series called witcher
blood origin about the very first witchers there were a lot of scenes and easter eggs that they
included in the last couple of episodes of season 2 that helped set that up so i'll explain what
those things were during the video but careful for spoilers for everything that happened if you have
not seen season 2 yet but season 2 mostly adapted the book story from blood of elves because that's
the next book after the story they did for season one mostly now they changed some things they
jumped around the timeline a little bit like they had some big reveals with ciri's father emperor
emhyr of nilfgaard and the wild hunt which don't really happen until the very end of the books
they included some video game easter eggs in season two and the video game plot doesn't pick
up till after the books end and they circled back around doing some big story that they skipped over
during season one from the early short stories which takes place earlier in the timeline so
we'll start with the biggest wtf moments in easter eggs like the wild hunt series father
emhyr the white frost ithlinne's prophecy as well as the multiverse reveal and then i'll cover the
other stuff like all the easter eggs that help set up the witcher prequel series blood origin
so first things first they end the season on the reveal of the wild hunt itself and this
isn't meant to be a vision that ciri geralt and yennefer are having they are not hallucinating
this they are legit physically on a different planet when this is happening so when you see
the wild tunt riding towards them on the beach that's really happening if ciri hadn't used her
power to portal them back to the main planet of the witcher series where they came from the wild
tunt would have taken her they want ciri just like every other main faction on the show wants her but
for slightly different reasons everyone has a slightly different reason for wanting her power
some want her for political reasons some want her for magical reasons they did a little bit
of her jedi witcher training during season 2 like they kind of trained her in the witcher arts but
she's still very very young at this point so the origin of ciri's elder blood which is a big plot
point during this season that's what the title blood evolves as a reference to the blood that
flows in her veins the elder blood but multiverse travel between worlds if you did not realize the
witcher series is actually a science fiction story in disguise it's not just magic swords and dragons
that feels weird but i'll allow it we just started talking about the multiverse in the
marvel universe like spiderman no way home is a multiverse movie but the origin of series elder
blood multiverse travel and the origin of the wild hunt are all connected so thousands of years ago
the elders that they speak of during season two like the elder blood in her veins vesmer thinks
he needs ciri's elder blood to create new witcher mutagen so that he can create more witchers elders
are the original race of elves that lived on this main planet thousands of years ago as vesimir says
all the humans think that they died out a long time ago and the elves that you do see running
around with francesca during the show like you see them up at nilfgaard during the later part of the
season those are a different group of elves that weren't part of the elders like they're like a
completely separate bloodline but what happened is that during the first conjunction of the spheres
conjunctions happen every couple thousand years the barriers between universes weaken
and it's much easier to travel between universes so if you saw the trailer for the witcher blood
origin for that prequel series they're doing the first conjunction of the spheres during that you
see like this green lightning in the sky that's the conjunction of the spheres beginning to happen
during this first conjunction of the spheres a group of these elder elves used the conjunction
to travel to another world in the multiverse and claim it as their own like a new realm to conquer
they conquered this new world by killing all the humans that were there but they found that they
actually needed a lot of slave labor so they found another gateway that would allow them to travel
between universes and created a group that would go around to different worlds and steal humans
for more slave labor that group was called the red riders but then was later renamed to the wild hunt
led by eredin who you see riding down the beach at ciri geralt and yennefer at the end of the series
so way back when this first conjunction of the spheres is happening another member of their race
these elders ethelene who was a prophet created her prophecy about the white frost to make a game
of thrones reference is a very winter is coming kind of prophecy the white frost in the world of
the witcher is like a planet killing climate change force of nature like an ice age that
will basically kill all life on any planet that it comes to an extinction level event so the separate
group of elves that went to this different planet where the wild hunt comes from they were worried
about the white frost killing their planet they used a selective breeding program within their
race to create a being imbued with enough magical power to stop the white frost ciri is just the
current person in present day to inherit the power through the specific bloodline now she's
just the latest in a long bloodline so there are other bastards who rose up along the area so there
are other people who might have potential for the elder blood ciri's not the only person but she's
just the person who has the purest form of the elder blood within her what happened when they
started the elder blood program though is that the king of this race of elves had a daughter who
was supposed to marry another elf of their race and pass the bloodline along to their child her
name was lara dorren which might sound familiar we actually saw her at the end of the witcher season
too like ciri has a vision of her with her baby that's basically like syria's great great great
great great great great grandmother she kind of foobared the whole elder blood program by falling
in love with a human mage and passed her elder blood to their daughter that you see here her name
was rihanna so she was half elf and that's where ciri's elven blood her elder blood comes from like
ciri herself is part elf yennefer is also part elf so that little girl rhiannon married another
human on the main world of the witcher and so on and so forth till the elder blood was eventually
passed down to ciri from her mother pavetta and obviously she was married to a father emhyr the
rightful king of nilfgaard but the blood came through her mother pavetta not through emhyr
ciri's full name cirilla fiona ellen riannon is a combination of all the names of her ancestors like
this is what her family tree looks like where the wild hunt gets involved in all this is like i said
the original elven king from this other planet that the elders went to had all the humans from
their new world eradicated so they needed more slave labor he decreed the special cavalry unit be
created with the mission of invading other worlds in the multiverse to get more slaves and resources
he called them the red riders then they were later renamed to the wild hunt but he named aerodyn the
leader of the wild hunt here as their captain they used a special gateway between worlds they
discovered and on the show those special obelisks that ciri manipulates to open gateways that's the
show's version of that she opens a couple gateways to another world one to bring basilisks to their
world when she's being controlled by their version of baba yaga the witch that possesses her then she
opens another gateway taking them to the planet that the wild hunt comes from this other group
of elder elves so when the red riders started invading other planets they wore special skeletal
armor they used their magic to make themselves seem more intimidating just to inspire fear in the
people that they were raiding so underneath that armor they look just like the other elves that you
see on the show but their race lives for a long time so aerodyn has been doing this since the
very first conjunction of the spheres thousands of years ago so when the red riders start doing this
eventually they discover the original planet that their race came from the main world of the witcher
where ciri where geralt come from and the funny kind of ironic thing is that the group of elves
that the wild hunt comes from hates the other faction of their race the other elders that stayed
behind on the original planet of the witcher so once they find the original plant they came from
they start enslaving the other members of their race that stayed behind and because there are
so many humans proliferating on that main world of the witcher they also begin to take them back
to their other planet as slaves the other funny thing is that the magic that they use to power
the gateways between worlds is actually driven by these special multiverse unicorns who have the
natural ability to travel between worlds they're like these extra dimensional beings that look kind
of like unicorns eventually the wild hunt can't find any more unicorns so they begin to lose the
ability to access the gateway between worlds and they still want to go around conquering other
worlds so once they learn of serious existence like oh this is a person who has the elder blood
they learn that she has enough power to access the gateway between worlds like ciri portals geralt
and yennefer to this other planet with their own power once the wild hunt learns about that they
want ciri so that they can access the gateway and conquer more worlds but you also have to remember
that the wild tunt comes from the group of elves that started the elder blood program to stop the
white frost so they're members of their race that are still afraid of the white frost and they want
ceres power to stop that but eredin and the wild hunt mostly just want her so that they can conquer
more worlds of the multiverse but ciri doesn't actually fight the wild hunt themselves physically
until the events of the video games which take place much later in the timeline after the events
of the books have ended so they might accelerate that on the tv show quite a bit moving on to the
next big reveal her father is emperor emhyr that's a completely separate thing like all
the stuff with the wild hunt is totally different from what's happening with emhyr in the books you
don't really learn about the connection to emhyr to the very last book but the reason he wants ciri
is more about stopping the white frost and using her power to conquer the planet during season 1
and season 2 they call him the white flame and he's in the middle of this campaign to conquer
the entire continent like they start with cintra eventually another secret villain on the show
vilgefortz starts working with emhyr telling him all about ethelene's prophecy of the white frost
and that's how he learns of ciri's true value like oh not only is she really powerful and
she can defeat armies we also have this giant ice age that could kill the entire planet so we might
need her for that as well but emhyr doesn't really learn about the white frost till later he mostly
wants ciri to conquer the planet for political reasons and even though they tease him doing a
couple really terrible things during season two like killing francesca's child like oh that was
me that did that there are things that he did that were way worse involving ciri's mother that i'll
talk about later once they reveal that on the show i don't want to get too much into that because
there's more backstory for his character like they only tease what he was doing between the events of
season one and season two because remember we only see him in the flashbacks of season one we don't
see him in the present day of season one like all this stuff with the curse coming off of him that's
happening before ciri is born they'll probably tease more of his backstory and all the other
terrible stuff that he did after this in season 3. but overall his story during season 3 will be like
an accelerated version of what you've seen between the books and the games eventually ciri will
probably come face to face with him maybe about like season four or season five and she'll have
to reject him because by that point geralt will be the person that she truly thinks of as her father
she kind of already does that during season two papa bless all the stuff with riots during season
two is right out of the books blood of elves he's kind of like the main villain of this
book that they did for the story but in the books he's secretly working for vilga forts and on the
show they've only really hinted at vulgar forts having some ulterior motives or some other plan
he's not a really huge character during season two and during the season two episodes they never
fully reveal who ryan's is working for but it's supposed to be vilgefortz and vilga fort's like
take it one step back is supposed to be working for emperor emhyr although separately vilgefortz
has his own reasons for wanting series power but he doesn't really become a main villain character
till much later in the books because they're speeding so many other big plot twists up they
might also speed that reveal up too right now the show wants you to think that the main villain is
emperor emhyr ciri's father like full-on darth vader reveal but the thing is in the series there
isn't really any one main villain everyone is kind of different levels of terrible but next big
thing all the stuff with vesemir creating that new witcher mutagens with ciri's blood the scenes with
lara dorren and her daughter ciri's great great great great great grandmother many times removed
it all the talk about the conjunction of the spheres was meant to set up the witcher prequel
series blood origin the title is a reference to the origin of the witcher mutagen that human
and elven sorcerers use to create the first witchers like i said the green lightning that
you see in the trailer here is during the first conjunction of the spheres while it's taking place
they haven't revealed all the characters on the show but you will definitely recognize michelle
yeoh playing this elven sorceress the books in the games haven't really covered a ton about the very
first witchers they've only hinted at that story so the show will take that and kind of extrapolate
based on sapkowski's notes they haven't said exactly when they plan on releasing season three
hopefully at the end of next year but that will cover most of the events of the next book forward
in the timeline time of contempt but just like season two they will add extra stuff from later
in the timeline like that will continue during season three they just introduced dijkstra's
character the head of redanian intelligence played by graham mctavish who you'll recognize from a
bunch of other shows and movies he becomes a much bigger antagonist for a geralt ciri and yennefer
during season 3 in redania has this big plan to try and conquer the continent they teased during
season two that will become a bigger thing in season three as will the story of the elves led
by francesca they fight for nilfgaard but they don't wear their colors because of that secret
plan orchestrated by emhyr making them think that redania was responsible for killing their child
so the war between different realms on the continent will heat up in future seasons very game
of thronesy like war of the five kings flashbacks but if there any other big questions that you have
from season two that i didn't answer in this video or other easter eggs that you spotted
that i didn't talk about just write them below in the comments big reminder i'll be doing episode
videos for the star wars book of boba fett my full episode one video will post next wednesday in a
couple of days when they release that it's kind of like the mandalorian season 2.5 with a bunch
of mandalorian characters crossing over like mando grogu maybe boca tan maybe some others
while you wait for that click here to learn about the spider-man no way home alternate ending in
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thank you so much for watching everyone stay safe and toss a coin to your witcher!