The complex world of ‘The Witcher’ has a clear point of origin, the key phenomenon of the universe created by Sapkowski and whose origin explains the new Netflix miniseries.
”The Witcher: The Origin of Blood’ comes to Netflix to further expand a truly complex and, which is not the same, complicated world. First there are Sapkowski’s novels, but the truth is that it was video games that launched the universe to fame. Well, we corrected, the third video game, Wild Hunt. Thus, millions of fans joined a fantastic universe with the third game of a trilogy that is also based on the Polish novels but takes place after their events, without literally adapting any of them. To make matters worse, the Netflix series arrives and, much to the regret of Henry Cavill, it is not that he takes the novels very seriously and, to the chagrin of the fans, neither does the games. With all this mess of versions it is normal that when a new miniseries arrives, ‘The origin of the blood’, we wonder what all this is about and how it is situated. The important thing is something to hold on to and that something is called “The conjunction of the spheres”.
At first, judging by the name of the series, we knew that this prequel was going to tell us about the birth of the first sorcerer but also the origin of the so-called “old blood”, the blood that runs through Ciri’s veins and through the that everyone, including the fearsome Wild Hunt, is after her. The surprise, however, is that the series doesn’t just go back the few thousand-plus years that separate the main story from the birth of the first warlock or the blood of Lara Dorren. No, the entire first part of this series goes back even further, to that moment on which this whole world is born and depends, without a doubt the most characteristic and original of Sapkowski’s creation.
What is the conjunction of the spheres?
If we remember the end of the second season of ‘The Witcher’, in addition to the wild hunt, some mysterious black monoliths were introduced that had to do with the union between worlds and Ciri’s power to move between them. These monoliths are an invention of the series that are not in the novels. However, they are also used to explain, in episode 4 of the miniseries, the conjunction of the spheres. However, since we do not want to get into spoilers, we will go on to explain the what and not the how since in the novels this is almost non-existent and, in the series, through monoliths, it is not that it is of much interest.
The conjunction of the spheres happened 1,500 years before the main events of the ‘The Witcher’ series. Perhaps, thanks to Marvel, now it is less confusing for us to understand it since it was something like Doctor Strange’s disaster in ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’. The Continent, the universe we know from the series, was only home to elves and dwarves. The elves ruled the world with the dwarves subject to them. There were no monsters, no vampires and, most importantly, no humans. There was no chaos magic either.
Then suddenly the conjunction happened. Different alternate universes connected with each other and on the Continent dominated by elves appeared the hundreds of monsters and beasts hunted by the Witcher Geralt. The fearsome vampires also arrived, the most intelligent and powerful beasts. In fact, the ultimate vampires could be considered the most powerful figures in The Witcher’s multiverse. Of course, the humans also arrived. Deadly and without pointy ears, the elves welcomed them, even teaching them the only magic they could use, chaos magic. This is how the witches were born. To combat the monsters that terrorized the cities, sorcerers were born.
However, the human being was once again the main poison in the world. When they settled and multiplied on the Continent, they not only acquired the elves’ racism against the dwarves, but also began to exterminate them. Thus, the race of elves went from dominant to dominated. He lost his empires and his cities, and his world was left in ruins buried under the constructions of men. That is where Geralt arrives, a sorcerer created to fight against the true enemy, the monsters, Yennefer, a sorceress with elf blood, and Ciri, the last carrier of the Old blood of Larra Dorren (the origin and powers of it can be and they are being changed by Netflix, so we do not get into gardens).
The important thing about this “conjunction of the spheres” for the fantastic world of ‘The Witcher’ is that it places the human protagonists as invaders, at the same level and with the same origin as the monsters. Quite a turn that highlights one of the most important aspects of the complex world of ‘The Witcher’, racism.
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