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welcome back everyone it's Charlie I know you've all been waiting for some
new Witcher since they dropped the teaser trailer back at Comic Con they
just dropped some new footage so we'll break it down we also have more details
about another big Comic Con panel happening at the end of the month where
they'll be dropping even more footage so if you're brand new to my channel I'll
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Witcher moment on the video starting with the footage they open with the
butcher of lavich in seen it's the same group of scenes that they put in all the
trailers just slightly different versions of what's going on during this
moment the reason why they're hammering down so hard on these scenes is because
it's such an important part of Geralt backstory he's called the butcher of
blacken but it sort of ties in with the theme of the show that sometimes the
monsters are not the worst thing sometimes people are way worse than the
monsters he's hired to fight there's no better example of that than the people
that are involved in the butcher of lavich and both sides
garol sort of gets caught in the middle of this conflict between two different
groups of people it gets a little complicated but technically he's
protecting Strega boar this sorcerer who's kind of a terrible person himself
from this mob here but the mob themselves are justified in wanting to
kill him it's just that the things that they do the links that they go to when
they're trying to get him are so extreme that Geralt is forced to try and stop
them I think this is all made better by the fact that large mickelson is going
to be playing Strega boar on the series which I feel like is perfect he plays
some really really great terrible characters he played a great villain
during Sherlock so quick history lesson a long time ago
Strega boar hired Geralt to get rid of a monster inside the kingdom that he was
currently serving once Geralt completed the contract instead of paying him
Strega Bor reneged on their agreement and convinced the king that he was a
charlatan and had Geralt run out of town so already pretty terrible during this
period Strega boar is a firm believer in the curse of the Black Sun which is a
prophecy foretold by a mage that the end of human civilization will come at the
hands of 60 girls born during or after certain eclipses so Strega bore
believing that he's doing good things goes around full mad
scientist all these young afflicted girls that he believes will
turn into mutants drowning entire countries in they go around
picking girls it's implied that they wind up a bunch of innocent
young girls in pursuit of this goal so everyone kind of hates strike abort to
begin with he's already proven through his actions that he's not that
trustworthy when he ran Geralt out of town without paying him for his contract
but now he's chopping up all these young girls who he thinks are going to turn
into mutants stregobor is eventually sent to a different Kingdom called
Creighton because of the Queen's suspicions that her daughter named Renfri
was born under an eclipse and is going to turn into a monster he spied on
her conducted all these tests and was convinced that she would turn into a
mutant so he hired a cutthroat to take her into the woods and kill her the
cutthroat her but she was able to fight him off and escaped
many years later the queen of that Kingdom wound up dying under mysterious
circumstances stregobor suspected that it was Wren free who had escaped and
come back for revenge many years later they crossed paths in a different
Kingdom and she tried to kill him he protected himself by turning her into a
slab of crystal and throwing her down a mineshaft causing a cave-in eventually
she was rescued by a prince from a neighboring Kingdom and continued her
quest for revenge against Stregobor many more years go by
Stregabor has gone to a different town now called blacken and taken up
residence in a Sorcerer's Tower begins serving the local populace Geralt winds
up there on unrelated business Stregoboar asks Geralt to Renfri
saying that it's the lesser of two evils because she's completely off the chain
and her quest for revenge ran free in her gang arrived in bladvic in searching
for Strega boar she appears at his tower giving him an ultimatum come out
voluntarily or she and her gang will start killing all of the people in the
marketplace all these innocent people that are walking around here in this
scene stregobor is a coward of course he refuses to come down so she goes back
to her gang getting ready to kill all these innocent townfolk when she comes
back to her gang to begin the job she finds the Geralt has already killin most
of her gang members they begin sparring and eventually he's forced to kill her
in order to protect all these innocent people in the street stregobor sees
everything from his tower as a super excited that Geralt has taken care of
this problem for him down and wants to take her body to
experiment on it because remember the whole thing that set this off is because
she was born under an eclipse and her mother the Queen thought that she would
be turning into a mutant eventually so mad scientist sorcerer Stregabor
wanted to experiment on her body but Garrett refused the request and said
that he would kill Stregabor if he touched her body so that's why Netflix
keeps showing you footage of this scene because it's such an important idea for
the themes of the show sometimes people are worse than the monsters that gerelds
hired to fight and even though there are some really terrible people during this
first season there aren't any real clear villains because it's just bad people
and worse people going after each other in that you do have some monsters that
are genuinely terrible that he definitely has to kill The Witcher book
series is very different from a Song of Ice and Fire Game of Thrones there's no
night king there's no White Walkers there's no group of people that you
could point to and say they are the most evil group everyone else has to band
together to fight them it's really a bunch of separate groups of people that
are all pretty terrible this is Ciri with the dry as in there forest that's
near sintra this looks like it's happening after she escapes while the
nilfgaardian Army is invading there's a couple really big conflicts happening in
sintra but they're compressing the timeline of the books so Ciri goes on
the run when all this craziness is happening and she winds up here by
accident but because of her elder blood because she's one of the most powerful
people in the series the dryads also want her just as bad as the nilfgaardian
stew this is Hunchback yennefer before she joins the Brotherhood of sorcerers
this is after she's been through her training you can kind of see the
transformation that she goes through these scenes of her in the desert seem
like a fight scene when she's using her new powers all these shots of Geralt in
this keeper broken-down castles seem like they're from the same sequence of
him being hired to get rid of a Striga or another monster like he fights in the
opening cinematic of the first game here's a clip of that it's actually
pretty fantastic scene
that was meant to be princess add a daughter of king foltest of tameria but
if this is really that Striga then the time line would be a little bit off but
like they said the showrunner said that they had to change some of the timeline
from the books and the events to make the storyline a little more linear and
cohesive for the series this example of that is making serie way older than she
is in the books for instance in all the scenes where you see the nilfgaardian
army two strikes intra she's only supposed to be about ten years old but
here like when you see her with the dryads she's a teenager in the actress
freya allen who plays serie is about 18 in real life I believe she's playing
Ciri just a little bit younger than that but still way older than books Ciri this
seems like a scene of Ciri or pavetta her mother using her powers Ciri through
her mother has elder blood making her one of the most powerful characters in
the book series and in the games one of her abilities is she can teleport like
you see are looking confused in this giant mystical tree in the desert she
doesn't know how she got there like maybe she accidentally used her
teleportation powers this seems like her mother pavetta using her powers maybe
that's due knee next to her there this is to saya using her powers she's the
woman and the Brotherhood sorcerers who takes in Hunchback yennefer and
magically removes all of her deformities and begins her instruction in the
magical arts it's sort of a nightmare version of Hogwarts there's some big
sacrifices that yennefer is forced to make in order to attain her powers this
just seems like her getting into a fight in the street and then they end
obviously on that same shot of Geralt all potion'd up getting ready to fight
this giant monster so just a reminder of the big london comic-con panel with a
showrunner in serie is happening at the end of the month but that's separate
from the special video game conference that's happening with the writer of the
book series they didn't say which of those panels
they're dropping the next trailer at but netflix will post it online so of course
i'll do a video for it when they drop it it'll be sometime that weekend and right
now the expected release date is either going to be later in November or
sometime in December they've already got a couple of Netflix things that are
premiering around Christmas there was information that supposedly leaked out
last month saying that The Witcher would drop around Christmas at the end of the
year but the Netflix came out and said that that was inaccurate so it might be
some other week during December or late November of course I'll do videos for
that history bonus videos or videos just like I would do for Game
of Thrones if you have any special requests for Witcher videos just let me
know in the comments everyone click here for my Witcher
comic-con trailer Easter eggs video and click here for my teaser trailer for the
Game of Thrones prequel series thank you so much for watching everybody stay
awesome I'll see you guys tonight