The ending of ‘The Witcher: The Origin of Blood’, explained: How does it connect with ‘The Witcher 3’?

ohspoilers from ‘The Witcher: Origin of Blood’ below!

You might think that the ending of ‘The Origin of Blood’ is pretty obvious. After all, this is a prequel and the Conjunction of Spheres on which the series is based is perhaps the most important thing that has happened in this magical universe.

However, said Conjunction is not explained in depth anywhere. Not in the books, not in the games, not even in the main series. And, since the events of ‘The Origin of Blood’ take place 1,200 years before Geralt’s addiction to the bathtub began, there’s a lot to unravel here, including a surprise mid-credits scene that changes the witcherverse as we knew it…

The ending of ‘The Witcher: The Origin of Blood’, explained

The fourth and final chapter of ‘The Origin of Blood’ begins with some misdeeds of Merwyn, who sends his guards through the portal into danger, and of the druid chief Balor, who casually kills his assistant… The wicked , wicked they are.

However, the villain of Lenny Henry is not just a man with a mustache. After being looked down on for years, he’s on a mission to even things out in his favor: “I’ll take what I’ve always deserved: everything“. The power that hides through the portal between the words is key to it.

In the meantime, Avallac’h, that annoying amateur wizard, claims to have found a spell that will help him travel through time.. That will be key later, especially for fans of the games and books, so keep that hard-to-pronounce name in mind.

Right now, however, we are more concerned with Scian’s plan to infiltrate the palace with the help of his prisoner, Fjall (who is not actually a prisoner). Being a first prototype of ‘Witcher’, their barely contained rage is going to turn the tables in their favor, but only if they get inside before they lose their minds.

Éile the Skylark organizes an uprising outside the palace to ensure that they are counterattacking the enemy from all sides. However, what is most interesting is what happens when Fjall comes face to face with the Empress.

Merwyn claims that he is leading the whole world into a new “Golden Age”. He asks Fjall to join her, despite all he’s done. Fjall laughs in his new gruff warlock voice and says, “You really are crazy… Do you really think I would forgive you after what you’ve done?“.

As it turns out, Fjall isn’t a big fan of treachery, so in a fit of rage, he charges up Witcher-style with blackened eyes. “You are a monster! I should have known…” and thenboom! The beast within him is unleashed, killing guards as he escapes his shackles.

And that’s when the giant monstrous thing finally appears, with a face only a mother could love…

While Fjall fights (marking the path for all the Warlocks to follow), Scian lets the others in so they can steal the Monolith.. Without the Monolith, all evil wiles can finally stop.

It is during this mission that the Skylark meets the Empress in her bedroom. “You’re just another spoiled princesssays Éile.You are a girl who has been given the reins of a war horse“.

Merwyn’s response is rather limp, as one might expect from a pampered princess like her: “You don’t speak for the elves“, he says. To which the Skylark replies: “No. Now they speak for themselves“.

after that, Éile stabs the Empress in the stomach. The Skylark does not kill her directly. Merwyn can pull the knife out herself and die instantly, or leave it stuck in a while longer and slowly die while she thinks of all the wrong decisions she’s made. It’s a real ‘Sophie’s Choice’ moment, except there are no children and the Empress dies regardless.

Merwyn staggers into the throne room and waits for his subjects to burst into the palace before drawing his knife in front of them., robbing everyone of the chance to kill her. If she wasn’t for how mean she is to her, we would support her with all our might.

Don’t think we’ve forgotten about Fjall. He has been fighting all this time. When Fjall’s body mutates into something more bestial, he is finally able to defeat the monster. However, the danger is not over yet.

Just as Dylan Moran’s character arrives to celebrate, monstrous hands rip him from behind, injuring Callan as well. And no, the monster has not returned from the dead. It is about Fjall who is out of control, overwhelmed by the monstrous blood and magic that runs through his veins.

Nobody is going to miss Dylan Moran, who barely appeared in the series, so Éile rushes to calm Fjall down with a song before other friends are killed. Instead it is Fjall who ends up dying when Éile kills him like she did The Empress. In this case, it’s an act of love, freeing the prototypical Witcher from the horror of life as a monster.

It’s a lot, right? Well get ready, because there is more. In that time, Lenny Henry has been fighting Syndril and Zacaré for control of the Monolith as chaos energy seeps in from the other world.

Inadvertently, the good guys create an energy loop that shatters the Monolithwhich in turn releases enough magical energy to “destroy space and time themselves“, as the narrator describes it. And, with it, different planes of existence begin to intertwine, setting in motion the infamous Conjunction of the Spheres.

“Every living thing fell silentsays Seanchai. So, monsters from other worlds suddenly appear on The Continent, including the worst creature of all… man! As the narrator says, “Mankind now walked among the Elves“thus creating the mixed culture we’ve come to see in ‘The Witcher’. Even so,”nothing would ever be the same…“.

As our favorites grieve for the dead and for all they’ve lost, we see Nathaniel Curtis’ character grieve for Eredin, his secret lover. But Eredin lives on, trapped in another plane of existence. We will have to keep an eye on him for future stories of ‘The Witcher’ on screen…

Six moons later, we find the Skylark singing in a bar, and she’s pregnant! It is not just any child. She carries “blood like no other, marked with beast and magic“. So yes, when Fjall and Éile slept together earlier this season, they were actually conceiving the first ‘Witcher’. And that is something very important. It is the name of the series, after all.

The girl whose prophecy came true touches the Lark’s pregnant belly and has another vision, ending with the ominous phrase: “One of his blood will sing the last…“.

We next see a scared Jaskier, the person who has been hearing this story the whole time in the current timeline of ‘The Witcher’. “Who of his blood?he asks, fearing that Geralt is the one. Seanchai can neither confirm nor deny his suspicions, but warns him that they must “Be prepared for the big change that is coming…”

‘The Witcher: Origin of Blood’: Post-credits scene, explained

‘The Witcher: Origin of Blood’ packs more into four episodes than Henry Cavill in his tight witcher pants, but still, there’s more!

After the credits, we find a small but crucial scene that brings us back to Ciri, one of the key characters in the original ‘The Witcher’ series.

If you are thinking that this scene looks familiar to you, you are correct. In fact, youAll this scene of a younger Ciri looking into the distance is taken from a moment in the first seasonexcept this time there is a big difference.

Before, the door that Ciri was looking at was empty, but now we see Avallac’hthat annoying wizard who found the key to time travel. Ciri can’t see him, but it seems like she can feel someone watching her, and that is exactly what it is doing.

To find out more about what this scene really means, Digital Spy interviewed the co-director, Lauren Schmidt Hissrichduring an exclusive talk, where she described the encounter between Eredin and Avallac’h.

“They have a different sense of the world than the characters we meet later in the books.Lauren continued.hwe talk a lot about that ending, because we find out, of course, that Avallac’h has been following Ciri all her life, through these worlds, through the spheres. We’ll find out later in ‘The Witcher’.”

“We thought it would be a nice nod to the fans if we took that moment that everyone knows from the first season., where she turns and looks towards a door, and we put Avallac’h there instead. It is a reference that if you know it, you know it. You can foresee it happening again later. And, if you don’t realize it… it becomes a big little mystery.”

Avallac’h originally debuted in the novel “The Tower of the Swallow”, before playing a major role in the video game ‘The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’. However, it is not until later, in Andrzej Sapkowski’s novel, ‘The Lady of the Lake’, that we learn that Avallac’h knows a lot about ‘Elder Blood’and about Ciri in particular. That is because he has been following her through time and worlds.

Considering that this scene has been introduced not so casually at the end of ‘The Origin of Blood’, it is to be expected that we will see more of Avallac’h in the third season of ‘The Witcher’ and beyond, as may their destiny be intertwined with that of Ciri.

The first two seasons of ‘The Witcher’ are available on streaming between Netflix series. ‘The Witcher: Blood Origin’ premiered on December 25 on Netflix.