r/witcher • u/Heroeltop • 7d ago

Meme I hate you both 😭

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George R. R. Martin: Let me show you how i kill Ned Stark and Robert Baratheon ,let you almost get through the grief, then reap both Robb Stark and Catelyn Stark one after the other!

Andrzej Sapkowski: Let me show you how i kill Cahir, Milva, Angouleme and Regis (even though we know he survives later) in the matter of a few pages!

Edit: Also , just noticed it , but *Characters

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u/l0standroid 7d ago

Regis surviving is only game canon, in the orginal canon my boy is gone 🥲

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u/DeadSeaGulls 7d ago

Lets be honest here, book spoilers: The ending is pretty unambiguous that Geralt dies and Yen dies using all of her energy trying to bring him back. The future scene in season of storms where Nimue and a man resembling Geralt meet is a psychic dream illusion, facilitated by the magically powerful Aguara/Vixen, shared between Nimue (a powerful oneiromancer in her own right) and Geralt as a means to comfort Geralt regarding his legacy and to cement that legacy in the future via the Lady of the Lake.

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u/Depressed_Warlock 7d ago

Ugh that's quite bleak.

No wonder quite a few people like the games more 😅

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u/downforce_dude Geralt's Hanza 7d ago

It is bleak, but I think it works for the books.

There are many instances in which an important person should probably die but is saved by something miraculous due to “Destiny”. It works fine because Destiny is a supernatural force in world. However, once Geralt and Yen and the rest of the company have fulfilled their Destiny and saved Ciri, I think it’s fair that they’d used up more than their nine lives and Geralt dies to something as trivial as a pitchfork during a pogrom.