Netflix is expanding the world of The Witcher with a new limited series. The Witcher: Blood Origin will be a six-part, live-action prequel series that will take place long before the events of the flagship fantasy drama that stars Henry Cavill as Geralt of Rivia, a witcher and monster hunter-for-hire.
The news of the new Witcher series came in July, a few weeks before The Witcher is set to return to production on Season 2. As of now, no production date or premiere date has been set for The Witcher: Blood Origin, but we already have some information regarding what to expect of the anticipated drama. Here’s everything we know about The Witcher: Blood Origin so far.
It will explain what led to The Conjunction of the Spheres. Set in an elven world 1,200 years before the events of The Witcher, Blood Origin will focus on a period of time that was never deeply explored in Sapkowski’s novels or short stories that inspired the Netflix series or popular video games: the period leading up to the Conjunction of the Spheres.
The Witcher is set in a multiverse and it is during the Conjunction of the Spheres that a number of these worlds collided, destroying some of the realms and merging others. Referenced only briefly in The Witcher‘s first season, the Conjunction of the Spheres is what brought monsters and magic into the realm. It was also what brought humans into it, with their own world having been destroyed during the cataclysmic event.
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It will reveal the origin of the first witcher. Once humans learned to harness magic, they were able to create a mutagenic tincture, the Trial of the Grasses, that would transform those who took it (and survived) into powerful warriors designed to fight monsters, aka witchers. Blood Origin will introduce viewers to the very first of the witchers and share the story of how they came to be.
It has a great team behind it. Declan de Barra will serve as showrunner of the new series. De Barra was a writer on the first season of The Witcher, writing “Of Banquets, Bastards and Burials,” and he wrote the Season 2 premiere. In addition to his writing duties, de Barra also contributed his vocals to multiple songs from The Witcher Season 1.
Lauren Schmidt Hissrich, who is showrunner of The Witcher, will serve as an executive producer on The Witcher: Blood Origin, while Andrzej Sapkowski, who wrote the Witcher books that inspired both series, will serve as a creative consultant.
It’s not the only new Witcher content heading your way. In addition to Blood Origin, Netflix is also planning an animated prequel movie, The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf. The film will follow the story of Vesemir, Geralt’s witcher mentor and the closest thing he has to a father. The Witcher fans will also meet Vesemir in The Witcher Season 2, in which the character will be played by Killing Eve‘s Kim Bodnia.
The Witcher is available to stream on Netflix.
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