Mike Fahey (April 18, 2011). "The Witcher 2 Casts A Sexy Spell On Polish Playboy". Kotaku. Archived from the original on June 21, 2019 . Retrieved June 21, 2019. The Witcher focuses on Geralt of Rivia, a man with supernatural abilities that enable him to fight beasts and monsters. The novels primarily revolve around his goal to protect Ciri, a young princess of a recently conquered country who has a great prophecy hanging over her head — but the series is also so much more than that. These are stories that hit hard, by turns sweeping you up in the adventure of slaying monsters, wringing you through the epic tragedy of war, and breaking your heart with the perfect redemption romance.

Tach, Dave (October 11, 2013). "Eve Online and Witcher comics coming from Dark Horse in 2014". Polygon . Retrieved August 4, 2021. a b Brown, Fraser (May 29, 2020). "The Witcher series hits 50 million sales". PC Gamer . Retrieved February 14, 2021. Sapkowski, Andrzej (December 14, 2008). The Last Wish: Introducing the Witcher. Orbit. ISBN 9780316055086 . Retrieved October 14, 2018. sapkowski last wish. The Witcher series has been described as having a cult following in Poland and Central and Eastern European countries. [45] [46] They have been translated into 37 languages and sold over 15 million copies worldwide as of December 2019. [38] Two weeks after the Netflix TV adaptation was released in 2020, revenue from the books was reportedly up 562% compared to the same period in 2018. [47] Entries in The Witcher series have earned Sapkowski the Janusz A. Zajdel Award three times; "The Lesser Evil" (1990), "Sword of Destiny" (1992), and Blood of Elves (1994). [48] The Last Wish won the 2003 Premio Ignotus for Best Anthology in Spain. [49] In the United Kingdom, Blood of Elves won Best Novel at the first David Gemmell Awards for Fantasy in 2009. [50] Sword of Destiny won the 2012 Tähtifantasia Award in Finland. [51]Although Season of Storms was one of the last Witcher books to be published, it actually takes place after most of the stories in the first collection, but before the novels. After what he called a chance meeting, Sapkowski made a deal in 1990 with SuperNowa to publish the series. [14] They released the second short story collection, Sword of Destiny, in 1992. The Last Wish was published by SuperNowa in 1993 to replace The Witcher as the first book, and includes all of its stories except "The Road with No Return" (the only story without Geralt). [15] Although new short stories were also added to The Last Wish, they chronologically take place before those in Sword of Destiny. Eddie, Makuch (November 5, 2015). "The Witcher Movie Coming in 2017 From The Mummy Producers". Gamespot.com. Archived from the original on November 7, 2015 . Retrieved November 5, 2015.

Robert, Purchese (September 18, 2018). "CD Projekt Red dates full Gwent: The Witcher Card Game release, and standalone Thronebreaker adventure". Eurogamer. Archived from the original on April 1, 2019 . Retrieved March 19, 2019.Although wiedźmin is now usually translated into English as "witcher", an earlier translation of the title was "hexer" (the title of the 2001 film adaptation and the first official English translation in the 2000 short story collection Chosen by Fate: Zajdel Award Winner Anthology); [41] Hexe and Hexer are the German words for female and male 'witch' respectively. [39] CD Projekt used "witcher" for the title of its 2007 English release of the video game, [40] and Danusia Stok used it in her translation of Ostatnie życzenie that was published the same year. [42] [43] Michael Kandel however used "spellmaker" in his 2010 translation of the "Wiedźmin" short story for A Book of Polish Monsters anthology. [44] Reception [ edit ] Written by Paul Tobin, with art by Joe Querio, this comic series has covered four different story arcs so far. They’re currently available in a trade pub bind up (as well as a single-volume collection of the first three arcs), and make the perfect addition if you finish the books and find yourself wishing to spend just a little more time in the Witcher universe. Agnieszka Warnke (November 18, 2016). "The Witcher: The Road from Rivia to Hollywood". Culture.pl. Archived from the original on October 8, 2018 . Retrieved October 8, 2018.

A tabletop role-playing game based on Sapkowski's books, Wiedźmin: Gra Wyobraźni ( The Witcher: A Game of Imagination), was published by MAG in 2001. CD Projekt RED Partners With Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment to Bring The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt to North America". www.businesswire.com. July 25, 2013 . Retrieved February 14, 2021. Handel, Christian (February 3, 2020). "Andrzej Sapkowski Answers (Most Of) Our Burning Questions About The Witcher". Audible . Retrieved March 9, 2022. Joe Otterson (September 4, 2018). "Henry Cavill to Star in 'Witcher' Series at Netflix". Variety. Archived from the original on September 4, 2018 . Retrieved September 4, 2018.a b Holbrook, Damian (December 10, 2019). " 'The Witcher's Henry Cavill Says 'Tough' Geralt Has a 'Heart of Gold' ". TV Insider . Retrieved June 23, 2021. The Witcher Saga on Netflix". Platige Image. May 17, 2017. Archived from the original on January 23, 2018 . Retrieved January 13, 2018. Sapkowski, Andrzej (June 24, 2013). Time of Contempt: Witcher 2 – Now a major Netflix show. Orion. ISBN 978-0-575-08843-6. Although no map of the universe created by Sapkowski has been released, fans have created several maps. According to Sapkowski, the existing maps are "mostly accurate", and he uses a version created by Czech translator Stanislav Komárek. [33]