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Geralt of Rivia, the protagonist and player character of The Witcher 3, is a monster slayer for hire known as a Witcher. The game centers on Geralt's search for his adopted daughter, Ciri of Cintra, who is on the run from the Wild Hunt. [1] His search leads him to the fortress of the Bloody Baron, a warlord who recently conquered the region of ...
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt [c] is a 2015 action role-playing game developed and published by the Polish studio CD Projekt. It is the sequel to the 2011 game The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings and the third game in The Witcher video game series , played in an open world with a third-person perspective .
Geralt takes up a contract sent out by a noble named Olgierd von Everec, who tasks him with eliminating a giant toad monster in the sewers of Oxenfurt. While hunting the monster, Geralt runs into Shani, a medic and an old acquaintance of his, whom he has the option of romancing.
She went on to appear in numerous other Witcher stories and is one of the main characters of the Witcher saga. [16] Yennefer is described as possessive. She becomes one of Geralt's lovers although their relationship is difficult and full of drama. Both Geralt and Yennefer are sterile, which adds another level of tragedy to the mix.
In his book 2005 book-interview Historia i fantastyka, Sapkowski states that he believes the word "witcher" is a natural male version of the English word "witch", and implied that the similarity between those two words, as well as between the German terms, was the inspiration coining wiedźmin as a new Polish word. [41]
On 7 April 2015, CD Projekt announced two expansion packs for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt—the first expansion being Hearts of Stone and the second being Blood and Wine. [1] Blood and Wine was released on 31 May 2016. [2] It was later released alongside Hearts of Stone in a complete edition for the Nintendo Switch on 15 October 2019.
The third game in the trilogy, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, was released in May 2015. [41] The game shipped over 40 million copies, making it one of the best selling video games of all time. In May 2017, Netflix commissioned The Witcher, an English-language adaptation of the book series. The Witcher television series premiered on Netflix on 20 ...
The Witcher: Fox Children #1–5; Julián Totino Tedesco 9781616557935: The Witcher – Volume 3: Curse of Crows [64] 21 June 2017 The Witcher: Curse of Crows #1–5; Grzesiek Przybyś 9781506701615: The Witcher – Library Edition Volume One [65] (hardcover) 31 October 2018 The Witcher: House of Glass #1–5; The Witcher: Fox Children #1–5