
1206: 57 Years Before the Fall of Cintra: Yennefer Goes to School Given how obscenely long magic-wielders live on The Continent, all of Yennefer's backstory - getting cruelly sold to Tissaia de Vries (MyAnna Buring), her affair with Istredd (Royce Pierreson), her painful transformation, and assignment to the kingdom of Aedirn - happened about 70 years before Cintra falling and the Battle of Sodden Hill, according to showrunner Lauren Schmidt-Hissrich. (Yes, this happened nearly century ago because of how old Geralt is supposed to be in the first episode - since witchers don't age at the same rate as normal humans). 1160: 103 Years Before Cintra Falls: Geralt Born As seen in episode 8's flashback scenes, Geralt's mother, Visenna, gives Geralt to the witchers for agonizing indoctrination when he's a young boy. These aren't scientific numbers, but around when the timeline seems to be falling into place. We pulled these rough estimates of years based on dates loosely established in the Andrzej Sapkowski Witcher novels and how they play out in the show. Here's a quick rundown of how Season 1's timeline plays out in chronological order (with a couple of guesses here and there) as to how this all takes place around the fall of Cintra. Geralt, at the start of the show, in the pilot, is "almost 100." And Yennefer is, well, also pretty old - probably older than Geralt, even. Ciri's was playing out more closely confined, in the "present," while Geralt and Yennefer's arcs were happening decades in the past.īasically, Ciri is 12 years old.

It wasn't until Episode 4, "Of Banquets, Bastards and Burials," however, that we came to realize these stories were not happening at the same time. For the majority of Season 1, we watched three separate stories unfold - those of witcher Geralt (Henry Cavill), sorceress Yennefer (Anya Chalotra), and princess Ciri (Freya Allan).
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With many attempting to compare the series to Game of Thrones - because of its fantasy elements, politics, and sprawling storyline - The Witcher flipped the script and embraced its magical elements whole-heartedly when it came to the lifespan of its supernatural characters. ORIGINAL STORY: With only eight episodes in its first season, Netflix's The Witcher still managed to twist up the narrative in an interesting way we haven't really seen happen too often. #TheWitcher /qdBVq7ih7R- NX JanuThe dates below have been updated to reflect the timeline given on this infographic. Check it out.Ī quick crash course in the multiple timelines of The Witcher.
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UPDATE (1/7/20): NX On Netflix, which is Netflix's official "home of everything super, sci-fi, the fantastic, and beyond," has posted an official guide to The Witcher's timeline.
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The dates below have been updated to reflect the timeline given on this site. UPDATE x2 (1/11/20): The official Witcher series site now has a detailed map of The Continent as well as a scroll-able timeline featuring notable world events and character moments from the show!
