Could kissing a witcher kill you?

[wildspirit]

Weird that no one mentioned that, like witchers, witches can't have children. So the whole thing about "true" witchers being witches children is just not possible.

You just have to pay attention when reading

 

[unwizzo]

Weird that no one mentioned that, like witchers, witches can't have children. So the whole thing about "true" witchers being witches children is just not possible.

You just have to pay attention when reading

I guess it would depend on how you define a witch. If you use the word as just another word for sorceresses than yeah you're right about the infertility but if you use it as wise women, female druid etc. then you're wrong, since Geralts Mother would fall under the second category

 

[algroshaw]

I've read Andrzej's Witcher saga and I've played all 3 games. The lore says Witchers are a genetic mutation. Genetic usually means from birth. I also remember hearing they're bred from witches then at an early age they are exposed to toxins and diseases to make them resilient against the arsenal of monsters. Witchers began to make their kind into an organization. From there they started to take normal humans at an early age and taught how to be a Witcher but without the genetic mutations. They could still cast Signs and drink potions without dying but a born Witcher could cast more powerful Signs and endure more potions.

Toxicity plays a major role in Witcher, if they drink too many potions it can kill them. Their threshold to it is much higher than normal humans, people not trained in the ways of Witchers, so I'm wondering with all that toxicity in their system, could it make their bodily fluids harmful to normals.

I do not believe you paid enough attention to the books or games then. they are never exposed to diseases for one, just herbs and toxins that act as gene therapy. they are also not bred. witchers are infertile due to the witcherizing process. they are taken as children (normal kids)

and as i said, witchers are not ebola. they are mutants. if a witcher had coated their lips in poison, then perhaps their kiss could harm a mortal. other than that, no.

and asd i said, you know geralt can engage with prostitutes in the game right?

 

[Darkhollow]

Witcher's are IMMUNE to diseases not the other way around.

Yes it's safe to kiss a witcher..even have sex with one with no risk of getting pregnant, because they are sterile.

 

[Slevin424]

There's an in-game book, found in all three games, that describes where Witchers come from. It was a propaganda book, and it's full of lies. I think the people you were talking to must have got their information from that.

But it's not true. Like all witchers, Geralt was born human, and his parents were human. He was mutated during a process called the Trial of Grasses when he was a boy.

"who would allow their kids to become a witcher" - these were difficult times. There were a lot of orphans, children whose parents couldn't afford to keep them, children who may have otherwise died. Some were given in payment of debt, because a Witcher had save the parents. Of those taken into the Witcher schools, most still didn't survive, the training or the Trial killed them. But some did.

Geralt shouldn't be the example of what a Witcher is because he wasn't trained in the typical Witcher fashion. His trials and training were heavily modified. And I don't really go off what the games say because there are a lot of inconsistencies. Geralt says his hair turned white from the Trial of Grasses, which should be the case for all Witchers who've undergone that trial. Although in the books his hair is white mainly due to the experiments and modified trials. There also seems to be some details changed from the published Polish books and the recent English ones. Hell they completely left out Droga, z ktorej się nie wraca.

 

[unwizzo]

Geralt shouldn't be the example of what a Witcher is because he wasn't trained in the typical Witcher fashion. His trials and training were heavily modified. And I don't really go off what the games say because there are a lot of inconsistencies. Geralt says his hair turned white from the Trial of Grasses, which should be the case for all Witchers who've undergone that trial. Although in the books his hair is white mainly due to the experiments and modified trials. There also seems to be some details changed from the published Polish books and the recent English ones. Hell they completely left out Droga, z ktorej się nie wraca.

Well first of all he was trained as a typical witcher, he just took so well to the trials that he underwent more extensive mutations (which are still part of the trial of grasses but are seldom used since they want at least some children surviving it), that doesn't make him less (or more) of a typical witcher. Second what does the story of how his parents meet have to do with anything in the game or TW3 in particular? But of course they left things out, I would love to have the Somne Sign from Seasons of Storm to put guards to sleep so that i can steel from right under their noses. I mean they also left out Triss's (?) scar from the hill. Some things were left out due to gameplay reasons (I suspect) others were just too minor to matter.

 

[mecha_fish]

i keep seeing 'genetic mutation which means from birth', and i'd like to clarify that what genetic mutation actually means is the genes have mutated, not necessaily from birth, but at some point in time. the new cells and tissues etc. are now being made from the new genetic material meaning that (depending on the mutation) the body's chemistry would change over a period of time into something new based on this new genetic makeup.

typically, there are genetic mutations that are obvious at birth, but in the case of the Trial of the Grasses, they're altering DNA post-birth -- the child's genetic origin doesn't matter.

And I don't really go off what the games say because there are a lot of inconsistencies. Geralt says his hair turned white from the Trial of Grasses, which should be the case for all Witchers who've undergone that trial.

I believe those extra mutations are from an extensive experiment regarding the Trials of the Grasses. There was a witcher in the books who had green-yellow bloodshot eyes which suggests that even in regular Trials something can go wrong. Everyone's genes are different and the genetic mutations would affect them a little differently.

I think, in this regard, the games are pretty consistent with the books.

 

[Slevin424]

i keep seeing 'genetic mutation which means from birth', and i'd like to clarify that what genetic mutation actually means is the genes have mutated, not necessaily from birth, but at some point in time. the new cells and tissues etc. are now being made from the new genetic material meaning that (depending on the mutation) the body's chemistry would change over a period of time into something new based on this new genetic makeup.

typically, there are genetic mutations that are obvious at birth, but in the case of the Trial of the Grasses, they're altering DNA post-birth -- the child's genetic origin doesn't matter.


I believe those extra mutations are from an extensive experiment regarding the Trials of the Grasses. There was a witcher in the books who had green-yellow bloodshot eyes which suggests that even in regular Trials something can go wrong. Everyone's genes are different and the genetic mutations would affect them a little differently.

I think, in this regard, the games are pretty consistent with the books.

They're very consistent in regards of video game adaptations, probably the best video game adaptation I've ever seen. Might put "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" a little higher, but that's my favorite game so I'm biased.

But minor details kind of throw me off. Probably would have been better if I read the Witcher before playing it. Although I'm thankful this game got me into reading them cause they are amazing reads.

 

[K.Constantine]

He's actually pretty much the opposite as far as the girls are concerned - guaranteed free of STD and infertile.

 

[claytasha]

Hey look, it's....Sonny....the walking penis!
Yeah, my testicles would be back on Grand Ave.