(You can tell they’re special because they’re the three characters with artificially colored eyes: royal blue, green and yellow.) The women are noble but ruthless when needed; the Witcher is a big silent softy who agonizes over the monsters he dispatches. They come from a series of fantasy short stories and novels by the Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski that actually began appearing in print shortly before the George R.R. Martin novels that inspired HBO’s “Game of Thrones.” Discussions of who might have ripped off whom can be found on the internet, and left there. (Sapkowski’s work had already been adapted into a movie and a TV series in Poland, and has spawned a series of popular video games.)

Source: New York Times December 20, 2019 04:52 UTC