The creator of The Witcher books, which impressed each the CD Projekt Pink recreation sequence and the Netflix present of the identical title, confirmed that he’s engaged on a brand new addition to the novels that inform the story of Geralt of Rivia, Cirilla of Cintria, and Yennefer of Vengerberg. It’ll be the primary new Witcher e-book in 10 years—the final was 2013’s Season of Storms—nevertheless it doubtless received’t characteristic any of these beloved characters.
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Based on fansite Redanian Intelligence, Andrzej Sapkowski was on a Ukrainian podcast referred to as Improbable Discuss(s) and was requested what he was engaged on. Maybe the person is preternaturally disposed to realizing when The Witcher discourse machine is chugging alongside, or perhaps he has a particular witcher sense, as a result of he determined to simply flat-out say that he’s “fairly diligently” engaged on “a brand new e-book about witcher.”
“I by no means say these items with me since you by no means know,” he reportedly stated (Redanian Intelligence doesn’t element how the interview was translated to English). “Possibly I’ll do one thing, perhaps I received’t. And to date, once I stated that I might write one thing, after which I didn’t write it, individuals complained as if I had deceived them and as if I had lied.”
“That’s why I don’t like to speak about what I’m doing till I end doing it. As a result of till I end it, I don’t assume it exists. However since I all the time make exceptions for Ukrainians, I’ll do it this time too,” he continued.
Sapkowski then stated that the following e-book within the Witcher universe might “take a 12 months, however now not” to complete. Geralt followers who’re mourning the lack of Henry Cavill because the White Wolf within the Netflix sequence (he’s leaving for unknown causes and being changed by Liam Hemsworth), shouldn’t get too excited for extra Geralt content material, nevertheless, as Sapkowski has made it clear earlier than that Geralt and Ciri’s story is over and achieved with.
May the following e-book be a prequel, just like the upcoming TV sequence primarily based on Ciri’s crew of violent youngsters, The Rats, that’s at present in improvement at Netflix? May it inform the story of one other conjunction, one other becoming a member of of various worlds like that one which kicked off the occasions of The Witcher, with elves and people compelled to share a continent collectively? Extra importantly: Is Sapkowski maintaining the CDPR staff within the loop? The studio is engaged on a brand new Witcher trilogy, in spite of everything….
