The 'Realism' of the Witcher's World

[Lord Sovereign]

Given that we have an absolutely fascinating thread about Game of Thrones and its differences from actual Medieval History, I thought we could give the Witcher the once over as well. Whilst 'the Continent' is an explicitly fantastical world with a great deal more magic in it than Westeros, some aspects of it are believed to be reasonably reminiscent of the Middle Ages (for example, ignorant dirty peasants, burning people at the stake, corrupt Church and such).

In my view there are a lot of generalisations and outright misinterpretation of the Middle Ages within the fiction, but the Witcher's world isn't as completely mental as Westeros is by comparison. For example, far more people on 'the Continent' take their religion deathly seriously than the followers of the Faith of the Seven.

 

[ATP]

Given that we have an absolutely fascinating thread about Game of Thrones and its differences from actual Medieval History, I thought we could give the Witcher the once over as well. Whilst 'the Continent' is an explicitly fantastical world with a great deal more magic in it than Westeros, some aspects of it are believed to be reasonably reminiscent of the Middle Ages (for example, ignorant dirty peasants, burning people at the stake, corrupt Church and such).

In my view there are a lot of generalisations and outright misinterpretation of the Middle Ages within the fiction, but the Witcher's world isn't as completely mental as Westeros is by comparison. For example, far more people on 'the Continent' take their religion deathly seriously than the followers of the Faith of the Seven.

True.Unfortunatelly,book author/i never played game/ is progressive so he from time to time had to show how racist bad people are.In one of book we have pogrom of elves and others made for no reason,just to show humans bad.

 

[King Arts]

True.Unfortunatelly,book author/i never played game/ is progressive so he from time to time had to show how racist bad people are.In one of book we have pogrom of elves and others made for no reason,just to show humans bad.

ATP Witcher is a good series the author has some retarded things. Also elves deserve to be pogromed, I feel bad for dwarves though.

 

[Lord Sovereign]

Also elves deserve to be pogromed,

Nah. Aen Seidhe are haughty and arrogant, and wage a vicious guerrilla war (to recover lands they lost), but I don't think they deserve a lot of what has happened to them. For the elves, the heavens literally opened and shat on them.

Aen Elle meanwhile, whilst not great, are no more evil than the Romans.

 

[King Arts]

Nah. Aen Seidhe are haughty and arrogant, and wage a vicious guerrilla war (to recover lands they lost), but I don't think they deserve a lot of what has happened to them. For the elves, the heavens literally opened and shat on them.

Aen Elle meanwhile, whilst not great, are no more evil than the Romans.

They deserve to get oppressed because they ARE arrogant assholes. I mean what ethnic group in history actually are arrogant assholes like that? No one would feel bad for ethnic cleansing them.

 

[ParadiseLost]

They deserve to get oppressed because they ARE arrogant assholes. I mean what ethnic group in history actually are arrogant assholes like that?

Um.

All of them?

Anyway, The Witcher 3 is pretty realistic, about as realistic as high fantasy gets in my opinion.

 

[King Arts]

Um.

All of them?

Anyway, The Witcher 3 is pretty realistic, about as realistic as high fantasy gets in my opinion.

Can you show me an elf that isn’t a prick? I can show you quite a few who are.

 

[ParadiseLost]

Can you show me an elf that isn’t a prick? I can show you quite a few who are.

Not what I was responding to. I was saying "All of them" to this:

They deserve to get oppressed because they ARE arrogant assholes. I mean what ethnic group in history actually are arrogant assholes like that?

 

[ATP]

They deserve to get oppressed because they ARE arrogant assholes. I mean what ethnic group in history actually are arrogant assholes like that? No one would feel bad for ethnic cleansing them.

Assyrians ? they really boasted over flaing alive their victims.But when their state fell,they was not treated worst then any other fallen state.
Back to Witcher - elves are arrogant,but not to the assyrian level.Or most of humans empires from OTL.

 

[Lord Sovereign]

Not what I was responding to. I was saying "All of them" to this:

To add to that point, last I checked, being a twat doesn't carry the death penalty.