#Sword of destiny

[everything--under--the--stars]

I've been thinking about The Witcher books and tv show recently. Because half of the things that make Geralt seem cool and edgy in the show just don't exist in the books.

In the show he's always so stoic. Most of his exposition has to be told by side characters implying things and you just have to gage his reaction to decide if it's true or not. In the books however, he gives a full lore dump to anyone who's remotely nice to him.

Random Character: So how've you been?

Show Geralt: Hmmmm.... 😒 😔 😒...

Book Geralt: Terrible actually, thank you for asking. Monster hunting is dying out and I have zero transferable skills. Yennifer's left me again and Jaskier's off god knows where. Overall I suppose it could be worse, but that's the life or a Witcher. Also, my perfectly good leather jacket got ruined in a fight the day after I bought it :(

[fkaluis]

a little sacrifice

[dressupdragonne]

Be Not Afraid O' Chosen One

[dsamuelsonart]

"I don't know,'"she whispered. "But we're going the wrong way, Geralt." They went around an overgrown bend, and it turned out Ciri had been right.

-Sword of Destiny by Andrzej Sapkowski.

Personal piece illustrating one of my favorite sequences from the Witcher book series. Made from memory so some of the details may be incorrect, but hopefully I captured the essence of the encounter.

"A Bad Road" oil on paper, approx. 8 x 10"

[ghostlylicious]

guyssss do you like my fuckass annotations

[shamebats]

Gamer bros: don't bring politics into The Witcher! It's an escapist fantasy world with monsters and magic, nothing more

The Witcher books: *illustrate perfectly why it is that the working class is best kept under threat of near-poverty lest they start questioning their masters and turning down work based on such pesky things as ethical concerns*

‘I shall tell you. I’ve heard that it has recently become tiresome to negotiate with you witchers. The thing is that, whenever a witcher is shown a monster to be killed, the witcher, rather than take his sword and slaughter it, begins to ponder whether it is right, whether it is transgressing the limits of what is possible, whether it is not contrary to the code and whether the monster really is a monster, as though it wasn’t clear at first glance. It seems to me that you are simply doing too well. In my day, witchers didn’t have two pennies to rub together, just two stinking boots. They didn’t question, they slaughtered what they were ordered to, whether it was a werewolf, a dragon or a tax collector. All that counted was a clean cut. So, Geralt?’

[martusia714]

im reading sword of destiny for the first time and those two feral bards are reading Geralt to filth

[gemsbokk]

so I've been getting into the angstier side of the witcher

[onlyhalfabard]

BRO MY AUNT GOT ME THREE OF THE ILLUSTRATED WITCHER BOOKS (THE LAST WISH, BLOOD OF ELVES, AND SWORD OF DESTINY)

ILY AUNTIE!!!!

[hilda-dewitt]

Essi Daven

Trying to repaint my previous doodle

[elwayken]

Shout out to Geralt of Rivia for being an empath and correctly sensing Yennefer was anger after she yelled at him

[andreai04]

Because perhaps Yennefer feels what I'm feeling now, feels a profound certainty that I ought to fulfil what it is impossible to fulfil, even more impossible to fulfil than the relationship between Agloval and Sh'eenaz. Certainty that a little sacrifice isn't enough here; you'd have to sacrifice everything, and there'd still be no way of knowing if that would be enough.

“How do you know whose destiny is destruction and whose eternity?”

“Destiny alone is insufficient, it’s too little. Something more is needed.”

[waterflowing-under-ground]

“Dolt. I’ll find some amber, perhaps a seahorse, or maybe a pretty conch. The point is it’s a symbol, a sign of concern and affection. I like Little Eye and I want to please her. Don’t you understand? I thought not. Let’s go. You first, because there might be a monster down there."

“Right.” The Witcher slid down from the cliff onto the slippery rocks, covered with algae. “I’ll go first, in order to protect you if needs be. As a sign of my concern and affection..."

A Little Sacrifice, Part VI, Sword of Destiny by Andrzej Sapkowski

[silverflameataraxia]

'You found me! Oh, Geralt! I was waiting all the time! For so very long...We'll be together now, won't we? Now we'll be together, won't we? Say it, Geralt! Forever! Say it!' 'Forever, Ciri.' 'It's like they said! Geralt! It's like they said! Am I your destiny? Say it! Am I your destiny?' You're much more than that, Ciri. Much more.'

- Sword of Destiny

[vulpinesaint]

SCREAMS. CRIES EVEN. I THINK ABOUT THEM SO MUCH… BOTH OF THEM WERE SELDOM TOLD BEDTIME STORIES…. tears in my eyes….

[ghostlylicious]

this is just about how i felt reading the first few pages of the eternal flame story like actually