where does this spin-off stand compared to The Witcher?

Like a nice Christmas present to wait between two seasons of The Witcherfans will be able to discover on Netflix this Sunday, December 25 The Witcher Blood Origina prequel series whose plot takes place more than a thousand years before.

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1,200 years apart! Just that ! This Sunday, December 25, Netflix will offer a very nice gift to fans of The Witcher. To better digest the long wait between seasons 2 and 3, the platform will reveal The Witcher Blood Origin (The Witcher : Blood Legacy), a prequel series set over a thousand years prior. “More than a thousand years before the events unfolding in The Witcherseven warriors banished from the elven world join forces once morest an all-powerful empire”can we read on the Netflix website. With such a time gap between the two series, the links are not direct, but they do exist.

“A different version of historical facts”

The Witcher Blood Origin gives in particular another version of the story from the Continent of Geralt the Riv (Henry Cavill) and elves, events that led to the “conjunction of the spheres”. “We will hear Geralt tell the story to Ciri. But we’re also going to hear Yennefer tell the story to Ciri. We will begin to understand that everyone has a different version of historical events.”explained showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich in an interview with Entertainment Weekly December 21. “It’s a great way to start the series, explaining Ciri’s origins, as well as all the things that will happen to her during The time of contempt“she rejoiced.

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Another era, another cast

One of the characters from Blood Origin is even one of Ciri’s ancestors (Freya Allan). “There’s a seed in it who will end up bringing something important to the universe of The Witcher“, continued the creator of the series. Sophia Brown (Eile), Laurence O’Fuarain (Fjall) and Michelle Yeoh (Scian) are the stars of the cast of this prequel which is built on the idea of ​​a “forgotten story” and which therefore does not emanate from the work of the Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski, whose literature is the origin of the series The Witcher. On this prequel, however, he had the role of creative consultant, responsible for ensuring that it did not depart too far from his vision and the story he initially created and which gave rise to the flagship series. . A number of six episodes had initially been considered, but The Witcher Blood Origin only has four. “I never wanted viewers to be dragged around just because we needed to do one more episode”had justified the creator of the series Declan de Barra.

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