Warning, there are spoilers for the end of The Witcher: Blood Origin: What happened over 1200 years before Henry Cavill’s Geralt of Rivia crossed the continent? This is reflected in the new Netflix series The Witcher: Blood Origin, which not only delves into the history of the fantasy world, but also prepares major changes in the main series.
At the end of the unfortunately often frustrating The Witcher prequel, you shouldn’t switch off immediately. Because: Blood Origin saves one of the most shocking revelations for an end credits scene that Rules of the fantasy world completely redefined.
Blood Origin reveals what The Witcher has never seen before: time travel
The miniseries isn’t stingy with revelations for The Witcher fans. Not only do we witness the multiversal cataclysm of the conjunction of the spheres, we also learn interesting details about the origin of Ciri’s bloodline and the origin of the Wild Hunt. But the most important revelation is yet to come at the very end in a post-credit scene instead of.
The end credits scene puts a scene from the very first episode of The Witcher in a whole new context. In it, young Ciri (Freya Allan) played with her friends on the street before the fall of Cintra. Now we learn that she was observed by none other than him Elven mage Avallac’h (Samuel Blenkin).
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Avallac’h in The Witcher: Blood Origin
But how is it that Avallac’h meets Ciri 1200 years after the events of Blood Origin? Of course, elves age slower than humans. But it is not possible that over the course of more than a millennium it has hardly aged a day. So he must have traveled through time.
The time travel elf Avallac’h becomes important in the future of The Witcher
If you paid close attention, you might have already guessed the time travel twist. At the beginning of the prequel, Dandelion (Joey Batey) already meets the Elf Seanchai (Minnie Driver), the manipulate time and space can. And that’s not all: it was also speculated in episode 4 that the black monolith not only enable travel through different realities. Time travel is said to be possible with it.
The time travel reveal at the end of Blood Origin is still quite surprising – unless you’re already familiar with the history of Andrzej Sapkowski’s witcher novels * or video games. The world of The Witcher will never be the same again. In addition to the concept of multiple existing worlds make time travel possible in completely new wayswhich the fantasy saga can take from season 3.
But one thing is already certain: the elf Avallac’h, who travels through time and space, will be in the future an important role in the story of Ciri and Geralt to play. In the original book, however, he only appears in the fourth volume, Der Schwalbenturm – in The Witcher Season 3 only the second volume is adapted. However, after his prominent appearance in Blood Origin, Avallac’h might already be able to do the Netflix series earlier in the plot of the main series integrate.
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