The world of The Witcher provides examples of: Please add installment- and character-specific examples directly to their respective pages. There are also dryads, a One-Gender Race of Action Girls. There are many examples of false hoaxes and folk tales during the series. There are various myths about vampires, witchers and monsters that people groundlessly believe. Though some of them turn out to be more or less correct, like the story about golden dragons, or belief in destiny.
The story of Cinderella exists in-universe, and was based on an actual event.The true story? Princess Cendrilla was eaten whole by a Zeugl living in the palace pond, leaving behind only a shoe. There was another take on it where the woman in question, tired of unwanted advances from a nobleman at a ball, fled the ball, dropping her shoe in the process. All Women Are Lustful: If the female characters aren't propositioning Geralt for sex, they're talking about it with other characters.Some of them just act like that to manipulate men. Alternate Continuity: Sapkowski has stated that while he fully trusts the developers' skill at storytelling, he doesn't feel beholden to the games' continuity they're effectively a high-budget Fan Sequel.However, he belatedly declared the basic assumption of the games' plot (the fact that Geralt and Yennefer survived the end of the books) to be official - but if he decides to write another sequel, he reserves the right to ignore the games' continuity. Unlike your typical adaptation, it's pretty evident that the game developers worked hard to maintain continuity with the books. They pretty much use any given opportunity to add Continuity Nods to the events in the books, even when it might do nothing but confuse any poor player who enjoys the game but has never read the source material. Sapkowski's own short story "Something Ends, Something Begins" presents an alternate happy ending where Geralt and Yennefer have married at last.Some of the comics could be considered this as well.Īccording to him, the story is non-canonical, as it was a wedding gift to his friends.Anachronism Stew: See Medieval European Fantasy below.įor example, Fox Children tells the same story as part of Season Of Storms, albeit with a number of differences in continuity, most notably that in the comic, Geralt begins the story with his swords, while he has already been divested of them at this point in the book and is attempting to travel to Novigrad to get them back.And I Must Scream: Object Compression is a spell that turns people into small statues.Lytta Neyd is particularly fond of using this spell on those who displease her. It's also how Yennefer is smuggled out of Thanedd after Vilgefortz's coup.
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