The Witcher: Blood Origin

The Witcher: Blood Origin is a prequel miniseries to the main Netflix series, and it spreads its massive sequel story across just four episodes in its only ...

So any returns to these characters and the time immediately after the Conjunction of the Spheres would likely have to come from an entirely new Witcher spinoff. And then in the edit room, we went, ‘OK, what’s the best version of this sandwich we can make?’ The tastiest sandwich you can make that would make you just go, ‘That was not too much, it was not too little. But with so much meat left on the bone, it’s always possible that the Witcher universe could return to this time period, and maybe spend a little more than four episodes there next time. The sauce was just right.’ And that’s what we tried to do.” From everything we know, Blood Origin is just a miniseries, so we shouldn’t expect to see a second season. And while it certainly is a little bit about that, mostly it isn’t.

In Episode 3 of The Witcher: Blood Origin, the Seven have a well-deserved party before they march into Xin'trea to topple the Golden Empire.

Before the episode ends, the gates of Xin’trea open, and the Seven get ready for their final battle. At the end of the process, Fjall dies. Unable to stop the process, Éile gives Fjall all the support he needs. By giving one of the Seven the powers of a monster, Syndrill hopes to crate a weapon strong enough to take down the Empress’ draconic bodyguard. Merwyn decides to visit Balor in prison and tries to convince the mage to join her cause. However, Éile (Sophia Brown) and Fjall (Laurence O’Fuarain) convince him a warrior should go through the procedure. The mage siblings’ past pain might prove helpful, as the ritual they used could be tweaked to make a warrior bond with the heart of the beast they brought from a different dimension. Meldof takes the whole party to a makeshift home she built inside a cave. Balor pretends to agree with the Empress’ terms, but it seems like his time in prison allowed him to realize what would be a true sacrifice to give to the ethereal being in the barren dimension. In Episode 3, there’s a lot less jumping back and forth in the narrative, and the main characters actually have time to connect with each other. That’s because, despite the imminent danger, the Seven find time to enjoy what little pleasure life can give them while they get ready to invade Xin’trea and take down the Golden Empire. Despite taking Balor out of the picture, Merwyn’s plans don’t come to fruition.

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Maybe we’ll get more of Avallac’h in Season 3 of “The Witcher” and see if Ciri and Geralt believe that he’s a time traveler who’s there to help. The writers put this scene in to get you excited about the connection of “Blood Origin” with the rest of the franchise. She also says that one of Lark’s blood (meaning Éile’s bloodline) is going to bring about the end of the world or an end to the oppression of the elves. However, Syndril spends all his time in the forest, and Balor wastes his time in Xin’trea, getting replaced by Avallac’h as Chief Sage and then being reinstated when Avallac’h fails to operate the monolith. Syndril and Zacaré head to the monolith to destroy it before it can be accessed again. You see Syndril in the Xin’trean jail, and then you see him with Zacaré. Instead of doing that, Balor imprisoned him and forced him to finish configuring the details of working with the monoliths so that he could not only access that realm but also control every monolith that exists in the known universe. Set 1200 years before the events of “The Witcher” and in the elven kingdom of Xin’trea, Fjall Stoneheart (who belongs to the Dog Clan) is Princess Merwyn’s bodyguard. The latter of the two predicts that Éile will be going out on a quest in the name of her clan, and it’ll conclude with the merging of the worlds and the death of a beast by Éile’s blade. He’s shown to be talking with a faceless, shapeless entity in order to gain access to chaos powers under the garb of getting endless food and treasures for the Queen and the Golden Empire. “Blood Origin” then directly cuts to Merwyn dreaming about becoming the emperor of Xin’trea and taking the elves to their next golden age. The concept sounded great on paper as we were promised a story about the downfall of the elves, the birth of the first witcher, and the Conjunction of the Spheres, with the one and only Michelle Yeoh in the mix.

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And that leads to the best scene of the episode (and the series): When Éile and Merwyn drop the overblown public personas they’ve each accumulated and confront each other, elf-to-elf. I’ll say this for Blood Origin: Even if this odd little chapter of the Witcher universe wasn’t exactly a riveting page-turner, it has me plenty curious for the next story. When Ithlinne touches her belly, she delivers a prophecy about a future child of Éile’s blood, “singing the last.” There are a few ways to read this, but Blood Origin decides to save them for the future, leaving us — and Jakier — in the dark. When she talks about how the old ways had to die for a better world to exist, you can see that her conviction is real. The Conjunction is finally near the end of the episode. This plan is doomed by its reliance on Balor, who betrays her at literally the first opportunity and absorbs all the chaos magic for himself, becoming the most powerful being …

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No, Andrzej Sapkowski’s original series doesn’t have a novel that’s explicitly about the Conjunction or the creation of the first witcher. Blood Origin begins with Jaskier (Joey Batey) in the middle of a battle that takes place during the events of The Witcher. That’s when she tells Jaskier the story of the first witcher and the Conjunction of the Spheres. The four-episode miniseries is a prequel to the events of the The Witcher. According to this prequel, the same event that eventually led to the combining of these realms also led to the creation of the very first witcher. Specifically, the main narrative of Blood Origin takes place about 1,500 years before the novels or Netflix’s series.

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It could be a dream or an actual battle, but let's count on seeing it in a future episode of The Witcher. He's one character many Witcher fans expected to meet in Blood Origin, and in the beginning, he's young and somewhat naïve. Though Geralt knows that Voleth Meir has been on the Continent since the Conjunction of the Spheres, Blood Origin reveals Eredin has been stuck in that ghostly world for just as long. Remember the last episode in season 2 of The Witcher? As I mentioned in my review of The Witcher: Blood Origin, showrunner Declan de Barra chose the Conjunction of the Spheres as the focus of this series. Flashback to the first episode in season 1 of The Witcher. Remember little Ciri disguised as a boy, playing a game in the street with a group of kids? He's standing in the doorway, and he slowly grins at Ciri. As a reminder, white frost will end it all and the world will be reborn from the seed of Elder Blood. When Ithlinne touched her stomach and went into fortune-telling mode, she told Éile of a last seed that will carry the note of a song that will end all times, and one of her blood shall sing the last. Looming above all this is chatter about the end of human civilization (via the Black Sun curse) and the demise of elves -- and the world -- according to Ithlinne's prophecy. She's pissed at the humans, who are at the top of the social ladder in the present era.

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Months after the battle in Xin’trea, we find out Syndrill died in the Conjunction of the Spheres. Nevertheless, when Éile comes to his aid and puts herself in danger, his muscles grow, and he uses the sword of a broken statue to slay the beast. That means Season 3 of The Witcher will undoubtedly explore the events of Blood Origins, connecting past and present into a single storyline. Blood Origin also teases Jaskier as a long descendent of the Lark, which explains his musical talents, but also teases he’ll witness the end of the Continent. Fortunately, the realization the Empress is leading them to starvation ignites the spark of rebellion, which is fanned and turned into a burning flame by the Lark’s words. However, the Empress was wrong in taking over the throne and becoming a tyrant herself. Instead, the Empress orders her guards to execute Scían with the Soulreaver in the public square, breaking her promise. Syndrill (Zach Wyatt) and Zacaré (Lizzie Annis) go to the palace’s central monolith to destroy it and prevent Chaos energy from leaking into their dimension. The series explores how seven warriors band together to defeat the evil Golden Empire, a battle that results in the Conjunction of the Spheres. Especially in the last episode, we jump through multiple moments of the battle at Xin’trea, and it’s hard to keep track of everything happening. In Xin’trea, the Seven split up to fight against the Golden Empire. There, Balor sacrifices the life of Fenrick to gain access to Chaos Magic.

The Witcher: Blood Origin aims to answer many of The Witcher's biggest questions, and its ending has massive repercussions for the franchise going forward.

However, his purpose seems the same, and he will likely play a pivotal role in Ciri’s storyline in season 3. Mainly, the series features the Conjunction of Spheres — a seminal event in the series world — as well as the creation of the first witcher and the origin of the show’s version of the Wild Hunt. The books portray him as one of Ciri’s ancestors, an elf supremacist with the power to travel between realms and time. The episode’s post-credit scene features a callback to a scene from The Witcher season 1. The post-credit scene hints at a much larger role for Avallac’h in season 3 of The Witcher. Ciri, disguised as a boy, plays on the street with a group of kids. Season 2 of The Witcher heavily hinted that [the Wild Hunt](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7Tc_LSDVVM) would play a major role in season 3, and Blood Origin‘s inclusion of the King himself confirms that the otherworldly cavalry will complicate things for Geralt, Yen, and Ciri. Alone and near death, Eredin finds a skull buried in the dirt and puts it on as a helmet. With this gate to another world shattered, the divide between dimensions collapses, prompting numerous worlds to clash in an event known as the Conjunction of the Spheres. Balor, now in control of chaos magic after sacrificing his apprentice and surrogate daughter to a mysterious power from another world, attacks them while defending the monolith. The limited series tells the story of seven strangers who unite against a despotic and blossoming empire and features the origin story of many prominent aspects in The Witcher‘s lore. The Witcher: Blood Origin, a four-episode limited series that premiered on December 25th, serves as a prequel aimed at answering some of the series’ biggest questions.

The Witcher: Blood Origin ends with a chaotic and climactic final episode. Here's everything that went down and how it connects to the world of The Witcher.

According to the Witcher book and video game series, Eredin is a ruthless warrior who wants to use Ciri’s Elder Blood to travel between worlds, and it appears like his motivations will be similar in The Witcher season 3, as his lover is seen mourning his loss at the end of Blood Origin. While this is a deviation from Ciri’s origins in the books and games, it would make sense for Ciri to be a descendant of the first prototype witcher given that her blood was able to recreate the witcher mutagen in season 2. In Witcher lore, Avallac’h is briefly aligned with the Wild Hunt before leaving them to do his own research on Elder Blood and it’s portal-opening potential. Whether Ciri is truly the prophesied avenger of the Elves and destroyer of man is yet to be determined, but this is certainly an interesting connection between the two series. He picks this up and puts it on like a mask, hinting at his future as the leader of the Wild Hunt. We get a badass hallway fight scene with Scian, Brother Death (Huw Novelli), and Meldof (Francesca Mills) that sees the latter take an arrow out of her own shoulder and then use said arrow to take out a guard with one swift movement. It’s Éile, not Fjall, that deals the fatal blow to Merwyn, stabbing her in the chest before leaving her at the mercy of the people she’s betrayed. After the Conjunction of the Spheres brings men and monsters onto the Continent, the heroes we’ve been following go their separate ways. Whereas Elves and Dwarves were the primary inhabitants before, now the land was filled with monsters, humans, and different forms of magic. Balor sacrifices his apprentice Fenrick (Amy Murray) to prove his worthiness to the mysterious entity that he’s been communicating with all season and gain access to the realm’s chaos magic. Fjall’s anger toward Merwyn and her role in the murder of his familly triggers his transformation into a more monstrous form, as he prepares to kill the beast (nope not Merwyn) The Witcher: Blood Origin ends with a chaotic and climactic final episode.

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Scian leads her Golden Empire soldiers straight into a trap, and our heroes get the armor disguises they need to march right through the gates of Xin’Trea. • Not sure what to make of Meldof conspicuously quoting The Terminator. When Éile wakes in the morning, having failed to set her alarm, she learns her elven lover has decided to take her place in the Trial of the Grasses after all. [• Dimeritium](https://witcher.fandom.com/wiki/Dimeritium), the rare metal that prevents Balor from casting spells from his prison cell, is still in use in the Continent some 1,200 years later. She must have a plan to stab him in the back as soon as she gets what she needs. Then again: The episode’s other “twist” shows Merwyn may not be the savvy power player she’s currently cosplaying as in that very cool set of armor. (Witcher diehards will recognize this as a prototypical version of [the Trial of the Grasses](https://witcher-games.fandom.com/wiki/Trial_of_the_Grasses), a process described only vaguely in Andrzej Sapkowski’s original books.) If the person who undergoes this process survives it, they’ll have the power of a witcher. The first 60 seconds of this episode provide a pretty straightforward solution to both of those problems: Go back through the portal, which conveniently chops the monster in half. Merwyn’s time in the school of political skullduggery has been brief, but come on, there’s no way she actually trusts him here, right? The pair splinter off and talk about being star-crossed lovers, then make out as the rain starts to fall. So the question becomes: Which one of the Seven should do it? The previous episode ended with our heroes stranded in another world, hunted by a giant centipede they had no idea how to kill.

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And if we’re to believe that this is just the first seed of the witcher idea that humans would later pick up, then Blood Origin never makes the differences clear.” “This makes the circumstances of the first witcher’s creation in Blood Origin disappointing, to say the least. That includes House of the Dragon (82%), Rings of Power (38%) and The Witcher itself (75%). But when Balor unleashes a monster from one of these other worlds, Fjall has to undergo the first ever witcher transformation to defeat the creature and save his friends.” It’s not presented that way in the show at all, which is one of the major problems with what plays out on screen. Sure, it is certainly the case that The Witcher: Blood Origin is not the literal worst show in Netflix history, as these scores suggest. But to have scores this low, combined with low critic scores as well, something has gone seriously wrong here, and it’s a big deal considering The Witcher was supposed to be such a massive IP and world for Netflix to grow and expand in the future. - “Lackluster, unoriginal and carried through on the promise of better things - The Witcher: Blood Origin is a mediocre affair. Marvel (80%), Captain Marvel (45%) and She-Hulk (33%) are still not close to Blood Origin’s 8%. [now-cancelled Resident Evil series](https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2022/07/16/resident-evil-has-some-of-the-worst-audience-scores-in-netflix-history/), which had a 22% from audiences. - “In a generic fantasy setting with several box ticking characters, a show with no soul rises from a place it should never have risen. What once seemed like it could be Netflix’s answer to Game of Thrones seems like it’s in serious trouble.

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For all the members Blood Origin lost, it also ended with a new member of this team: Éile and Fjall’s baby. Because Syndril and Zacaré were unable to fully repair the damage Balor had caused, the realms of elves and dwarves, men, and monsters all clashed together, never to be separated. Speaking of sacrifice, that’s what Balor had to do repeatedly after he opened the monoliths and accessed the other realms. Because of that, she was desperate to go beyond her kingdom and share her gift with the rest of the world. By the way, that battle lived up to the hype. Éile fully intended to go through this trial, but in the middle of the night, Fjall took the potions and her place instead. The two had sex right before the seven prepared for the battle of their lives against Merwyn, Balor, and Eredin. Thus our team of seven was born to take down the throne for good. They all shared two things: They hated the throne, and they wanted to take down the Queen and her sorcerer before they used the monoliths to reach another realm. That’s why she teamed up with Balor to murder her kingly brother and his supporters and take control of the throne. And while we’re asking questions, how did the first witcher come to be? How did the realms of men, elves, dwarves, and monsters collide?

The Witcher: Blood Origin introduces Avallac'h, one of the most important Elves on the Continent, and a mage with a deep connection to Ciri's story.

And Blood Origins also explores the story of Eredin, the commander of the interdimensional raiders, explaining how he ends up in another world. Since he serves King Auberon, he takes Ciri to Tir ná Lia and tries to force her to have a child with the monarch, giving him a descendant of Elder Blood. [glimpse of the Wild Hunt](https://collider.com/the-witcher-season-2-ending-explained/). Merwyn wants to use the Golden Empire to colonize new dimensions and spread Elvish culture through new worlds. So, she devised a plan to take control of the Golden Empire. Merwyn knew she was a puppet and was bound to be taken out of the picture once Balor didn’t need her anymore.

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But the idea of a second Blood Origin season isn’t an implausible one. We spoke to the cast and creators of this miniseries, and we have answers. Chances are high that this is all we’ll be seeing of The Witcher: Blood Origin. Adding to this interconnected universe, Seanchai (Minnie Driver) the shapeshifter implies that unborn child is related to our favorite bard, Jaskier (Joey Batey). It will remain something that was the best period of my life,” Sophia Brown told Decider. That begs a very important question: Is The Witcher: Blood Origin going to have a Season 2?

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And if we’re to believe that this is just the first seed of the witcher idea that humans would later pick up, then Blood Origin never makes the differences clear. This makes the circumstances of the first witcher’s creation in Blood Origin disappointing, to say the least. Just as importantly, their creation was a long and arduous process of the desperate humans to find some way to protect themselves from the monsters that loomed in the dark. The mutated hunters provided a way for the expanding world of humans to protect themselves and their small villages and settlements in the newly conjoined worlds. [The Witcher: Blood Origin](https://www.polygon.com/23501805/witcher-blood-origin-review-henry-cavill-universe) is a prologue to Netflix’s fantasy series and tells the story of some of its universe’s most important events, or at least it’s supposed to. But when Balor unleashes a monster from one of these other worlds, Fjall has to undergo the first ever witcher transformation to defeat the creature and save his friends.

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I want to watch everyone's work that they've done, all the costume, the hair, and makeup, the set design, so I'm just going to ignore that it's me [and just watch it] anyway. And there was a noise that made it rear up in the air and [everyone was] like, "Stop filming!" MACK: Ah well, I got to sit on a horse, which I've never really done, and so that was exciting. My last thing for you, you have some really fun scenes, which was the one that you were actually most excited to film? MIRREN MACK: Oh, do you know what, this was a big challenge, but the only way I could justify it to myself was that she was so thinking that she was in the right, that she was saving people, so this was it. Not only does Blood Origin chronicle the events that lead to the “Conjunction of Spheres,” and subsequently the fall of the elves, but it also tells the legendary tale of the multiverse’s first proto-Witcher.

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It will be interesting to see how Ithlinne’s prophecies connect in season 3 of The Witcher and how they actually come to pass. Éile receives two prophecies from her, the first telling of her journey to come and the second telling the future of her unborn child. Ithlinne’s prophecy at the end of Blood Origin appears to connect Ciri’s bloodline to Éile (Sophia Brown) and Fjall’s child, who was conceived after Fjall underwent the procedure to become the first Witcher. While Jaskier did make a name for himself helping Elves escape the North in season 2 of The Witcher, that doesn’t necessarily explain why the Scoia’tael would risk themselves to save him. [the season 2 finale of The Witcher](https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/the-witcher-season-2-ending-explained/), he was at Kaer Morhen trying not to be killed by the monsters let loose by Voleth Meir. [The Witcher: Blood Origin](https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/the-witcher-blood-origin-trailer-reveals-unexpected-connection-to-original-series/) did what it set out to do – show what caused the Conjunction of the Spheres – this four episode miniseries ultimately left us with more questions than answers.