![]() When Roegnor returned to Cintra, he found that Queen Calanthe was pregnant with Pavetta, a "child of surprise." They knew that one day, Duny might come to claim her as his bride, and they would be unable to refuse him, for fear of defying destiny: when characters in The Witcher talk about destiny, it is with a capital D. It is an ancient tradition in the world of the source novels, in which a life debt can be rewarded with an unknown future treasure: "that which you already have but do not know."Īccording to the custom, if the person whose life was saved then finds themselves with a windfall, that fortune is owed to the person who saved them - but the Law of Surprise also applies to firstborn children. The man, whose name is Duny, claims that when he was much younger he once saved Pavetta's late father's life, and in order to repay him, King Roegnor bestowed on him the right to claim the Law of Surprise. A masked stranger crashes the wedding, demanding to be considered as a suitor to Princess Pavetta and citing the Law of Surprise as precedent. There's love, laughter, a dash of tragedy (this is grimdark fantasy after all), and a sprinkling of clues about how the three disparate plot threads of this season might actually tie together.įollowing a few refreshingly lighthearted scenes at the wedding feast at Cintra featuring the romantic misadventures of Jaskier the bard, things get weird. I think we can all agree that, now that our three leads are together in one timeline, the series has been much easier to follow.Episode four of Netflix's The Witcher, "Of Banquets, Bastards, and Burials," is the fantasy equivalent of Four Weddings and a Funeral. This, of course, took fans right into the events of the second season, with all timelines being set in the "present,” and happening from 1263 through sometime in 1266, based on what went down in The Witcher Season 2 ending. Finally, in the forest near Sodden Hill, Ciri and Geralt have their first meeting. The next day, Geralt was still recovering from a ghoul attack, and was taken by the merchant he saved back to his family's home, where, unbeknownst to everyone, Ciri had been brought by the merchant's wife earlier. Yen had joined other powerful mages at the Battle of Sodden Hill, and after a lot of losses, finally gathered all of her chaos to deal a deadly blow to Nilfgaard's forces. The year is 1263 for everyone in Episode 8 ("Much More"), and after the fall of Cintra, which had Ciri fleeing her home and Geralt breaking out of the prison Calanthe put him in, both traversed the Continent in an effort to find the other. (Image credit: Netflix) Ciri And Geralt Finally Find Each Other (Season 1, Episode 8) In the process, the Witcher had to bloodily kill all of her men and her in one of Geralt’s most intense fights, and the people turned against him, branding him with the title of The Butcher of Blaviken. When we meet him for the first time, he's doing his duty as a free-range monster-hunter, going where the trouble is so that he can make a living.ĭuring this episode, we see him given the task of taking out Renfri because of the local mage's feud with her, and he does, despite what I can only call simmering sexual tension with the former princess-turned-bandit leader. ![]() Remember, though, every time we see the princess during the course of Season 1, the year is 1263, so her portion of Episode 1 is already taken care of. We're off to a roaring start now! The events of the first episode ("The End's Beginning") cover both a lot of time with Geralt and some of the fall of Cintra with Ciri. (Image credit: Netflix) Geralt Becomes The Butcher Of Blaviken (Season 1, Episode 1)
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