I’m going to stage with you, I’m extraordinarily late to the celebration with The Witcher. I by no means performed the games or learn the books, so the Netflix series may be very a lot my entry level to all of its in depth lore. And from what I’ve seen to this point, it calls for a good bit of prior information to really perceive what’s occurring.
It’s good then that Netflix have developed an interactive timeline for us, that describes a complete heap of occasions all through The Witcher’s historical past which are alluded to within the present.
Just having the ability to see precisely when “The Creation of the First Witcher” came about is helpful to start out with. We know vaguely from the present to this point that Witchers are made, not born, and the map helps pinpoint precisely the place and when that was.
When TV collection bounce round timelines like in The Witcher, it may possibly develop into troublesome to contextualise what’s occurring at sure cut-off dates too. The interactive timeline is tremendous useful in that regard, splitting the timeline between Geralt, Yennefer and Ciri’s narratives, in addition to having an overarching timeline detailing vital occasions – all the best way again to the Conjunction of the Spheres that created The Continent. These all seem to be pretty staple items to somebody who understands the lore, nevertheless it’s so useful having the ability to visualise all of this, and even have one thing to refer again to should you aren’t certain which battle the characters are speaking about, for instance.
I realise I’ve written quite a bit about an interactive timeline that’s seemingly extra of a Netflix publicity factor than it’s one thing for a journalist to deep-dive into. But who doesn’t love a timeline? A helpful little device so that you don’t have to recollect dates and names of occasions that aren’t that vital, however could be a bit attention-grabbing. Timelines! Anyway, I’m most likely going to binge-watch the remainder of The Witcher tonight often muttering “I understood that reference”. Thanks, Netflix.
I may even, sooner or later, decide up a Witcher game as a result of I wish to dig into all that juicy lore. Conveniently, Alice O and other people on the RPS treehouse appear to have a good suggestion of which Witcher game Witcher watchers should play, so perhaps I’ll ask them the place to start out.
