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He came from the north on horseback, with white hair and a frosty face, walking between the fog of reality and legend.
Through the interpretation of the previous two episodes, we have finished the detailed interpretation of the fourth episode of the first season of the American drama "The Witcher".
Half of the story of the fourth episode comes from the short story "The Problem of Price" in Volume 1 "The Rise of the White Wolf"; the other half is from "The Sword of Fate" in Volume 2. It can be said that the story of the witcher enters the clue-type chapter of the main plot. .
We have emphasized many times before that the entire first season of "The Witcher" adopts the mode of three protagonists and three timelines, and three arrows go hand in hand.
Until this fourth episode, the schedule is almost half over. White Wolf, Yennefer and Ciri are still wandering in their respective story lines, and they have no intersection with each other. However, starting from this fifth episode, the legendary stories spanning nearly a hundred years have finally intersected.
White Wolf and Yennefer will successfully reunite in this episode and start the long entanglement of fate that follows. This is also the classic chapter in the original novel - "Three Wishes".
"Three Wishes" is taken from the sixth short story in "The Rise of the White Wolf" in volume one.
From the timeline, this story takes place in Anno 1251. This year, Yennefer was 78 years old, and Geralt was 71 years old. Both of them are youthful and youthful.
What age were some of the other characters in that year? Previously in the fourth episode, the prominent Queen of Sintra, Calanthe, was only 31 years old, and it was only the following year that the Princess Paveta election meeting appeared.
Let's make up your mind now, 78-year-old Yennefer and 31-year-old Calanthe, you will understand that the sorceress is really young.
Correspondingly, then, the bard Dandelion was only 24 years old.
He and Geralt were fishing in the river that day, and Dandelion caught a bottle with a magical imprint.
Geralt warns him not to open the bottle, but Dandelion insists that the bottle houses the Djinn who can grant his three wishes.
This setting is actually based on the story of "Aladdin's Lamp" in the famous Arabic literature "The Arabian Nights".
Dandelion saw that Deng was salvaged by himself, and thought excitedly that Deng could satisfy his three wishes, so he casually said the first two...
First, his competitor, another bard, died of a stroke immediately;
Second, a noble lady who she likes will reject everyone's proposal and finally marry herself.
Geralt realized something was wrong and immediately told Dandelion to shut up. As a result, before the bard could say his third wish, the mist-like monster that emerged from the bottle clamped on Dandelion's neck.
The sky was also cloudy in an instant, and Dandelion's life was in worry for a while.
In times of distress, Geralt remembered that a priestess had taught him an exorcism spell, and he shouted it out loud.
The lamp god fled, and the weather returned to calm. Although the Djinn escaped back into the bottle, Dandelion was injured in the attack just now, and his vocal cords were severely damaged and he could not make a sound.
It is as if a swordsman has no right hand and a knight breaks his leg. If not treated in time, Dandelion's bard career is likely to end prematurely.
So, Geralt immediately took Dandelion to the elf doctor Keriel Dan for treatment.
Keriel Dan tells Geralt that Dandelion was damaged by magic. At most, his ability is to suppress the spread. If you want to cure it, you must find a warlock to remove it with magic.
But the background at the time was that they were in Linbu City, where they were vigorously implementing anti-magic policies, and wizards were almost extinct here.
Where to find a wizard to save Dandelion? There is also a sorceress living in the city under the protection of the mayor, Kerieldan said .
So Geralt hurriedly took Dandelion to the sorceress's residence, and the sorceress was obviously Yennefer of Wengerburg.
At this point in the story, many viewers may be puzzled... Isn't Yennefer working for the king in Aden? How did you come here to hide?
It turns out that since the last episode, Yennefer has been heartbroken by the dark political situation in the northern kingdoms after her failure to protect Queen Aedirn and her children.
At the same time, because she failed to save the baby, her inner desire for the child was further stimulated.
She began to deeply doubt herself, that night more than thirty years ago. Was it the right decision for her to return to Aden to serve the king in lustre at the cost of cutting off her womb and losing her fertility .
After that, she left the court of Aedirn, and the sorcerer's assembly. Started thinking of ways to restore his fertility, and even started some illegal small businesses.
As a result, she violated local laws and was arrested by the mayor.
But in reality, being caught was part of Yennefer's plan. She wanted to take the opportunity to approach the mayor and recruit warlocks through the mayor's resources, so as to find a solution to her infertility.
Because Yennefer is obsessed with restoring her fertility, her actions are both high-profile and illegal, violating the basic principles of the Brotherhood of Warlocks.
Therefore, Tishaya, her teacher at the Arethusa School of Magic, came to the mayor's house in person and warned Yennefer to pull back from the precipice and stop fantasizing about restoring fertility.
At the same time, Tishaya also gave Yennefer an OFFER and invited her back to Arethusa to serve as a teacher.
As a result, Yennefer sternly refused.
In this way, when I was looking for a solution to fertility, but I was struggling to find a cure and I was deeply anxious, two uninvited guests came from outside the door.
Geralt arrives at last with Dandelion, the bard whose career is in jeopardy.
Facing Geralt's request, Yennefer agreed to treat Dandelion for him.
This scene where the two men bathe each other with their backs to each other is really fragrant, and people never imagine that there is a murderous intention behind the fragrant beauty.
After the treatment, Yennefer asked Geralt to enter the room to confirm Dandelion's status, but Geralt did not expect this to be Yennefer's trap.
In fact, Yennefer saw that Dandelion was injured by the lamp god, and immediately took it into consideration.
She agreed to treat Dandelion because she wanted to use Dandelion as bait to lure the Djinn. Then subdue it and use the power of the lamp god to help yourself gain the ability to conceive.
Geralt tried to resist, but was controlled by Yennefer's magic, and then lost consciousness...
When Geralt woke up, he found himself thrown into a dungeon.
It turned out that Yennefer had used magic to control Geralt before: let him walk into the street, borrow Geralt's hand, and beat up those MPs who had slandered her.
In the end, the temple priests in the city joined forces to subdue the out-of-control Geralt. Now, in the dungeon, the congressman who had been beaten unconsciously by Geralt had a grudge and bribed the guards to beat Geralt to death.
Geralt said angrily: I want you to be blown to pieces. As a result, in one sentence, the guard was blown to pieces.
Geralt was confused now, and after thinking for a while, he finally realized that the lamp god can really satisfy the three wishes of man.
It's just that the person who really has the ability to make the lamp god realize his three wishes is not the bard Dandelion, but the witcher Geralt.
Remember how Dandelion got his vocal cords damaged by being clamped to his neck by the lamp god?
Because Geralt told Dandelion to shut up at the time, the Djinn fulfilled this first wish and hurt Dandelion's vocal cords to shut up.
The second wish was that Geralt had just been beaten by the guards and wanted the other party to be blown to pieces. As a result, the second wish came true.
Here we make a big reveal, the lamp god in the bottle is actually a kind of world spirit.
World spirits can draw magic power from the realm at will, and if a wizard can tame a world spirit, he will have inexhaustible magic power.
And the only way to tame the lamp god is to attack the lamp god at the moment when the lamp god has fulfilled the three wishes of mankind and his strength has dropped sharply. So here, we understand Yennefer's motives.
She took action to treat Dandelion, apparently in order to regain the magic power of the lamp god, so that she has the ability to become pregnant.
The specific method is: when the lamp god fulfills his third wish, he will attack it to recover the lamp god.
That's why Yeh, Neve agreed to heal Dandelion, and then led Geralt into a trap. Because she always thought that the person with the ability to make a wish was the bard Dandelion.
He had already made two wishes before. As long as he made another wish, the Dengshen would attack it the moment it was fulfilled, and the Dengshen could be used for his own use.
However, what Yennefer did not think of after all her calculations was that the person who really had the ability to make a wish was not Dandelion, but the white wolf Geralt who was driven away by her tricks.
Just when Geralt was trying to figure this out, Yennefer, who was still in the dark, was trying his best to recover the Djinn.
At this time, under her coercion and enticement, the bard's third wish has been granted, but the lamp god's strength is still strong, and there is no sign of weakening.
Geralt rushed to Yennefer's residence and saw Yennefer fighting fiercely with the Djinn.
Because the third wish was not fulfilled, the power of the lamp god did not weaken in the slightest. With Yennefer alone, there is absolutely no way to fight the Djinn.
So Geralt confided the truth to Yennefer that Dandelion was not the one who had the desire to speak out, but Geralt himself. Disappointed, Yennefer asked Geralt to make his last wish right away. But Geralt knew very well that Yennefer had exhausted her mana and was unable to use her mana to capture the Djinn.
But Deng Shen will never give up, and before returning to the realm, he will definitely kill Yennefer to avoid future troubles.
In order to rescue the single-minded sorceress, Geralt finally uttered his third wish... The Djinn finally faded away in the wind and rain, and did not threaten Yennefer's life again.
It should be noted that there is no direct description in the TV series what Geralt's third wish is. However, in the story after the original book, we find that the third wish made by the white wolf is like this... He wants his destiny to be tied to Yennefer.
Because Geralt is the Wisher, the Djinn can't hurt him, nor can Yennefer, who is tied to his destiny.
Therefore, White Wolf's wish saved Yennefer in the short term. But in the long run, it is the fate of oneself and the fate of the sorceress are firmly linked together... In the end, it has formed a whole that has undergone many twists and turns and various divisions, but is closely connected.
At the end of the story, Yennefer is furious, accusing Geralt of losing his chance to capture the Djinn. But he knew in his heart that it was the white wolf who made his third wish to save himself.
As soon as the camera turned, Dandelion outside the castle saw a ruined castle, thinking that White Wolf and Yennefer were buried in the ruins, and couldn't help crying.
But then he saw the white wolf and Yennefer entangled with each other outside the window .
Dandelion was so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth, this scene is also really interesting.
The above is the fifth episode of the first season of the American TV series "The Witcher", about the first encounter between White Wolf and Yennefer.
Taken from the short story "Three Wishes" in the original volume one "The Rise of the White Wolf".
If "The Question of Price" is an important chapter in the witcher's story that pushes the plot forward; then "Three Wishes" undoubtedly plays a pivotal role in characterization.
We have explained in detail in the past, the reason why the white wolf and Ciri are destined to be connected - twice without saying goodbye, and twice the law of accident.
Although the two of them haven't seen it yet, the white wolf and the accidental law's son, Xi Rui, have already formed an inseparable whole.
However, why are the white wolf and Yennefer always closely connected and inseparable?
This question is finally answered in the chapter "Three Wishes". As early as the first time the two met, Geralt had firmly tied his fate to Yennefer through this third wish to the Djinn.
It should be noted that this is the first volume of the English version of the original novel of The Witcher. The subtitle is called THE LAST WISH, and the correct translation should be "The Last Wish". This obviously refers to the wish that Geralt made to the lamp god, which is enough to see that this story holds a pivotal position in the author's heart. It's just that during the translation process, I was worried that the word "last" in "The Last Wish" would easily cause ambiguity, so the name of the last volume one was changed to "The Rise of the White Wolf". It can be said that "Three Wishes" is the first appearance of the heroine Yennefer in the original work, and it is also the source of the love-hate entanglement between Geralt and her.
Geralt saved Yennefer with his last wish, was it really because of his love for Yennefer? Or was it because of Geralt's own kindness? Or is the entanglement of fate as it should be? You must know that love and kindness are inherently difficult to distinguish emotions. As readers, we can't distinguish them, and Geralt himself can't distinguish them either. But this ambiguity is precisely the charm of fatalism in the witcher. Well, let's analyze the story of Yennefer and White Wolf meeting for the first time and their fateful connection together for a lifetime. Next, let's go back to the part of Ciri, the son of the accidental law.
We have analyzed in detail before, the original and the TV series are different when Ciri strays into the Brock Leon Forest and intersects with the dryad.
Well, in this episode and the sixth episode of the story, live in harmony with the tree spirit and have a happy time. And after drinking the water of the forest, Ciri, who still wanted to return to the human world, welcomed an old acquaintance who brought him home, the great druid Mossak of Sintra.
But in fact, the Great Druid was a fake, the real Mossak, who had already been captured in the massacre in Sintra.
The big Druid in front of him is actually a shapeshifter disguised.
A shapeshifter is a humanoid creature with a very strong mimicry ability in the Witcher world view, which can become anything he wants to be.
It also appeared in the game "The Witcher 3". The mission scene about the shape-shifting monster gave people a sense of sight at that time as if it were a real and fake Monkey King.
But what is different from the real and fake Monkey King is that the shape-shifting monster can not only change its appearance, but also absorb the soul and thoughts of the other party.
The shape of such a shapeshifter is almost exactly the same as the person it has become. It's like a clone or an artificial intelligence replica, which is scary to think about.
However, the shapeshifter in the TV series is obviously an incompetent six-eared macaque.
After absorbing Mossak's appearance and thoughts, Ciri found out his identity, and finally escaped from the devil's claws again by accident and continued his desperation.
What she never imagined was that when she was as clever as a ghost, every misfortune turned into good luck again and again. The white-haired witcher with a frosty face is also about to come to her timeline and meet again in the forest with her accidental son of Law.
Of course, before that, the white wolf has to go to the edge of the world, and follow a column of small teams with different thoughts on a legendary dragon slaying journey.
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