The creator of The Witcher books, which impressed each the CD Projekt Purple sport sequence and the Netflix present of the identical identify, confirmed that he’s engaged on a brand new addition to the novels that inform the story of Geralt of Rivia, Cirilla of Cintria, and Yennefer of Vengerberg. It’ll be the primary new Witcher guide in 10 years—the final was 2013’s Season of Storms—nevertheless it seemingly gained’t function any of these beloved characters.
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In line with fansite Redanian Intelligence, Andrzej Sapkowski was on a Ukrainian podcast known as Improbable Speak(s) and was requested what he was engaged on. Maybe the person is preternaturally disposed to realizing when The Witcher discourse machine is chugging alongside, or possibly he has a particular witcher sense, as a result of he determined to only flat-out say that he’s “fairly diligently” engaged on “a brand new guide about witcher.”
“I by no means say this stuff with me since you by no means know,” he reportedly mentioned (Redanian Intelligence doesn’t element how the interview was translated to English). “Possibly I’ll do one thing, possibly I gained’t. And to this point, once I mentioned that I might write one thing, after which I didn’t write it, individuals complained as if I had deceived them and as if I had lied.”
“That’s why I don’t like to speak about what I’m doing till I end doing it. As a result of till I end it, I don’t suppose it exists. However since I at all times make exceptions for Ukrainians, I’ll do it this time too,” he continued.
Sapkowski then mentioned that the subsequent guide within the Witcher universe may “take a yr, however not” to complete. Geralt followers who’re mourning the lack of Henry Cavill because the White Wolf within the Netflix sequence (he’s leaving for unknown causes and being changed by Liam Hemsworth), shouldn’t get too excited for extra Geralt content material, nevertheless, as Sapkowski has made it clear earlier than that Geralt and Ciri’s story is over and finished with.
May the subsequent guide be a prequel, just like the upcoming TV sequence based mostly on Ciri’s crew of violent youngsters, The Rats, that’s presently in improvement at Netflix? May it inform the story of one other conjunction, one other becoming a member of of various worlds like that one which kicked off the occasions of The Witcher, with elves and people pressured to share a continent collectively? Extra importantly: Is Sapkowski preserving the CDPR crew within the loop? The studio is engaged on a brand new Witcher trilogy, in spite of everything….