2 Questions About Geralt

[Ljesnjanin]

Queen Calanthe says about Geralt that he's "much older than he looks", Dandelion thinks that Philipa is "not younger than 300"......
There's no correct answers, I presume...
Don't know why, but I always imagined that Geralt is close to Yenn's age, between 90 and 105...

 

[Tuchi]

I always found it odd CDPR put him in his 100s when Andrej had him in his 60s. The games don't take place too long after his death in the books, right? And my impression was that witchers would be lucky to live past 100, but the elves and mages could live much longer. Imo, Letho looks to be the same age as Geralt.

no. vaesemir is at the very least 300 + years old

also geralt was taken by the wild hunt who "lives" in a different dimension, wich means,being a dirrenet dimension with his own timeflow that the gap btween the final book and the first game when geralt return could very well be 30 or 40 years, or even more if need be

 

[wichat]

Please, nothing about quantum physics.

Let us base ours Geralt's age arguments in the cat logic, the simplest is the most feasible

 

[Tuchi]

Please, nothing about quantum physics.

Let us base ours Geralt's age arguments in the cat logic, the simplest is the most feasible

than how do you explain the stoires about the people who are sometimes seen a crapload of years after they are taken from the wild hunt, and appear to not be changed at all? we know they are not dead,or ghosts, or anything like that since the wld hunt itself is not really made of wraiths,so they should all look older ( the non elves captives) if the time passes the same as in the normal dimension. obviusly the time flows different in the alternate dimension, is the only explnation to that kind of stuff

 

[wichat]

Keep calm... Only joking. It's a fantasy creation and the only one god of it is Sapkowski . the one who knows the truth.... and even so....

Though Geralt has little differences, one of them: he is a mutant.

 

[GuyNwah]

than how do you explain the stoires about the people who are sometimes seen a crapload of years after they are taken from the wild hunt, and appear to not be changed at all? we know they are not dead,or ghosts, or anything like that since the wld hunt itself is not really made of wraiths,so they should all look older ( the non elves captives) if the time passes the same as in the normal dimension. obviusly the time flows different in the alternate dimension, is the only explnation to that kind of stuff

There's a strong anti-parallel to a 14th C. retelling of Orpheus and Eurydice called Sir Orfeo, where Heurodis queen of Thrace (which seems to have been somewhere around Winchester) is abducted by fair folk while sleeping under an apple tree. King Orfeo journeys to the Other to rescue her; when he returns, ten years have passed, and everybody has forgotten him.

Time flowing differently as a consequence of relativity is an important plot point in the movie Interstellar, which (apart from a silly ending) gets most of its physics right.

So you're right, time flowing differently has a solid foundation in fantasy and romance, as well as modern speculative fiction.

 

[Tuchi]

There's a strong anti-parallel to a 14th C. retelling of Orpheus and Eurydice called Sir Orfeo, where Heurodis queen of Thrace (which seems to have been somewhere around Winchester) is abducted by fair folk while sleeping under an apple tree. King Orfeo journeys to the Other to rescue her; when he returns, ten years have passed, and everybody has forgotten him.

Time flowing differently as a consequence of relativity is an important plot point in the movie Interstellar, which (apart from a silly ending) gets most of its physics right.

So you're right, time flowing differently has a solid foundation in fantasy and romance, as well as modern speculative fiction.

thank you.

 

[wichat]

Yes, of course, it's reasonable pausible. I don't say the opposite....

But then why Ciri, who is not a witcher nor a sorceress, doesn't look decades older then?

I just try to find some coherence from what CDPR has give us till now. Speculate is free, but if this time flowing hasn't affect Ciri why woud it impact Geralt or even Yennefer?

So I repeat the simplest is the most feasible. Why would CDPR complicate the plot with such big different impact in the 3 main characters in the final game?

 

[HenryBukowski]

Have to say I found it troubling that, in the game trailers, Geralt is depicted as having aged rather a lot very quickly, as well as having bulked out rather considerably.

Having read the books I accept that Geralt is hardly a young man - but they've made him look like Vesimir.
Geralt supposed grew up with Eskel - and the misleading white hair of Geralt was due to the Mutations in the Trials of the Grasses.

...I just hope CDPR Know what they're doing with him (I'm sure they do)