The creator of The Witcher books, which impressed each the CD Projekt Purple recreation collection and the Netflix present of the identical identify, 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—however it doubtless gained’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 understanding when The Witcher discourse machine is chugging alongside, or perhaps he has a particular witcher sense, as a result of he determined to only 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 gained’t. And to this point, after I stated that I might write one thing, after which I didn’t write it, folks 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 at all times make exceptions for Ukrainians, I’ll do it this time too,” he continued.
Sapkowski then stated that the subsequent e-book within the Witcher universe might “take a yr, however now not” to complete. Geralt followers who’re mourning the lack of Henry Cavill because the White Wolf within the Netflix collection (he’s leaving for unknown causes and being changed by Liam Hemsworth), shouldn’t get too excited for extra Geralt content material, nonetheless, as Sapkowski has made it clear earlier than that Geralt and Ciri’s story is over and completed with.
May the subsequent e-book be a prequel, just like the upcoming TV collection primarily based on Ciri’s crew of violent youngsters, The Rats, that’s presently in growth 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 pressured to share a continent collectively? Extra importantly: Is Sapkowski maintaining the CDPR workforce within the loop? The studio is engaged on a brand new Witcher trilogy, in any case….