First reported by GamesRadar, the brand new guide by Witcher creator Andrzej Sapkowski has lastly revealed the start 12 months of sequence protagonist Geralt of Rivia. With Geralt now established as having been born in 1211, we will use some again of the serviette math to determine how outdated he’s at numerous factors within the sequence. The determine comes from Rozdroże kruków (roughly “Raven’s Crossing”) which was launched in November. It’s an interquel targeted on Geralt that has not but been translated to English.
First on the docket, Geralt is 59 at the beginning of the primary Witcher sport, 61 by the occasions of The Witcher 3 in 1272, and 64 on the conclusion of his saga with Blood and Wine in 1275. And what? He’s in wonderful form for a man of retirement age, however I used to be actually anticipating Geralt to be older. Fantasy lifespan guidelines apply and witchers are alleged to live longer than regular people, although it is by no means particularly codified how for much longer, they usually often die within the line of witchering earlier than they will discover out. It additionally brings me no pleasure to report that this introduces a lowkey highkey problematic age hole of 38 years between child Geralt and the sorceress love of his life. Yennefer of Vengerberg, you are canceled. We’re not calling you out, we’re calling you in.
Continuing on the “Geralt is just too younger” prepare, if this start 12 months applies to the Netflix sequence, meaning Geralt was solely 20 years outdated within the first episode the place he kills Renfri and earns his “Butcher of Blaviken” title—this occasion appears to be undated within the timeline from the books. When I advised my accomplice about this, she instantly felt unhappy for Geralt going by means of such a traumatic occasion so younger, however I’ve extra sensible considerations.
A mega ripped grasp swordsman retiree is one thing I can droop my disbelief over—that is fantasy, you are able to do magic and Elf stuff and reside a very long time, we’re all on the identical web page right here. But have you ever ever met a 20 year-old who appears to be like like Henry Cavill? You’re virtually nonetheless a boy at that age, solely bodybuilding influencers on Instagram taking the scariest experimental horse steroids are going to seem like that at age 20. I assume witchers are canonically not natty, however god rattling, what do they put in these potions?
Regardless, as soon as we all know the 12 months The Witcher 4 is ready, we’ll have the ability to determine Geralt’s age there too. My thoughts is a metal entice, no minutia of fantasy canon nonsense can escape it. I failed too many calculus exams in my youth to let that occur.
