The Witcher – Blood Origin: Release Date, Episode Count, Story & More!
While we got more or less the adaptation of Andrzej Sapkowski’s popular books with the series of The Witcher on Netflix – Season 3 will be released in summer 2023 – we will explore still completely unknown territory in 2022: the prequel series Blood Origin will be released soon . In addition to the release date of December 25, 2022, important new information is available. (via Netflix) This will catapult us even further back in time than was the case with the anime film Nightmare of the Wolf.
The Witcher – Blood Origin: Episode Count and Release
The series will be released in one go on December 25, 2022, so all episodes at once. But how many episodes are there actually? Blood Origin is a mini-series: Blood Origin is only four episodes long!
What is Blood Origin about?
The prequel series will be set 1,200 years before the events of The Witcher, starring Geralt, Yennefer & Co. This even refers to the period before the conjunction of the spheres, when the worlds of elves collided with that of humans, ghouls, and other creatures. The plot of Blood Origin is heading towards exactly this mysterious event. “We will explain how and why it happened.”, explains writer Declan de Barra. Therefore, viewers will also see the high culture of the elves for the first time, before they were colonized by humans. A continent ruled by different elven kingdoms, with their own hierarchies: kings at the top, then mages, then warriors and those of lower origin at the bottom.
Laurence O’Fuarain as Fjall, Sophia Brown as Éile and Michelle Yeoh as Scian in The Witcher: Blood Origin.
Source: Susie Allnutt/Netflix
The Origins of the Witchers
On top of that, it will also be about the emergence of the first witcher. It is clear to the writers that the first official sorcerers were only created long after the arrival of humans, among other things to eliminate the monsters of the conjunction of the spheres. “But the actual initial workings of witchers and the Trial of the Grasses, that was open [zu erforschen]” teases de Barra.
Geralt from The Witcher is often considered the pinnacle of the witcher arts – in Blood Origin, on the other hand, we will see what the very first steps towards “mutant monster hunters” looked like.
Source: Netflix
What characters do we meet in Blood Origin?
- Hurry (Sophia Brown): An elven warrior who gives up her life in the Queen’s Guard to become a traveling musician.
- scianthe last survivor of a nomadic tribe of sword elves, the Ghost Tribe.
- fell (Laurence O’Fuarain): A warrior of the Dog tribe. Fjall seeks revenge for a friend who fell in battle.
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