If Witchers were impotent instead of just infertile there sure would be a serious lack of candidates.... though Beranger story could use that twist... (if it was only a side effect specific for him)"Geralt! I cant bloody get it up! those bastards did that to meee !" - cries...
The emphasis on the sex in The Witcher really bothers me. And by emphasis, I mean the attention that aspect of the game is getting from various media outlets and consumer reviews. Think about it from the woman's perspective: a medieval world filled with normal women possessing normal sexual appetites (which is to say, healthy) in tension with widespread disease, poor medical capabilities, a high infant mortality rate, a fifty percent chance of death during childbirth. Then comes along a charming, infertile physical specimen who's immune to disease and you're telling me they're not going to try and get theirs? Come on, now.
Jup, quite a cut as Geralt put it.*spoiler* -------------------------------- What makes me wonder a little is what you find out later in the game. That weren't kids or youngsters and if they have been - they indeed have grown up rather quickly from the time the mutagenes were stolen and put to use, especially not the Beef in Tin stuff...Ausir said:
@Rhian, they were certainly not kids or youngsters when they were Kaer Morhen in the Prologue, if that is what you meant. They were all grown up, hardened veterans with the single exception of Leo who was still under training and had not undergone The Trial of the Grasses yet.As I understood it. The Witchers of Kaer Morhen were NOT mutated when they were children but they were adopted and reared by Vesemir and his predecessors at the Fortress. They were trained in swordsmanship and fed a special diet until they were ready to undergo the mutation process - The Trial of the Grasses. We meet Leo, who is still un-mutated and he's very much grown up. I would think the young witchers-to-be wouldn't be given the mutagens until they were in their late teens or tweens perhaps.However, there is definitely an element of them not choosing to be witchers because they were taken in as infants and grow up with no other expectation from their future. But if we recall what Vesemir said of Berengar, I do believe that a witcher-to-be could choose not to undergo the eventual mutation if he was really adamantly against it. Most wouldn't think of it, since they had grown up with no other ambition in mind but I wouldn't say it was not possible.
The mutation was not the only thing that altered the organisms of the young witchers-in-training. Before the mutation the children would undergo a long and painful “treatment”, they would consume chemicals (mostly extracted from natural sources like moss and fungi, some of which are rarely or never found outside Kaer Morhen). This treatment would change their hormones, their muscles etc. Many of them would not live to undergo the mutation, they would experience fatal internal organ failures (the liver or the heart would usually be the cause of death), or they would suffer from mental breakdowns. In Blood of the Elves, I believe, Triss also mentions controlled viral infections. Nasty stuff.Back to the horny part: the witchers might be extra-attractive to women for one other reason as well; their mutation makes them immune to all diseases, including sexually transmitted ones. Don't forget that the witcher world resembles medieval reality in the fine details: for most common folk there were no means of preventing or curing such afflictions, a witcher was probably the embodiment of safe sex.One more thing: a witcher's touch causes a very pleasant tingling sensation.So basically he's a guy with a perfect muscle structure who won't impregnate you or give you anything nasty (unlike most everyday Joes in Witcherland), whose very touch is the definition of extasy, and who faces death every day of his life which makes him fully enjoy every moment of pleasure he might encounter....Well, fuck*, some guys are just lucky, I guess.[size=8pt]*Note to the mods: I've used a vulgarism for a purely literary purpose of enhancing a masculine manifestation of envy. Anyway Hemingway wrote fuck too and he was a famous writer.[/size]
I am reading right now The Last Wish. I hope there will be some of the background stuffAggravaar said:
I just got past the part where he talked to Nivellen (I somehow adore that guy)But I am convinced that if one knows all the potions to enhance strength, speed, senses and what not - they also have their viagra in potion form ;-) perhaps it's permanent after the mutation - The so called Obelix-Effect.All of them are mutated except for Leo, and that's only because the mutagenes are now lost and after the massacre of Kaer Morhen dozens of years ago Vesemir is the only surviving old witcher, and he does not have the knowledge to create new mutagenes - he used to be a swordsmanship trainer - so new witcher candidates are not mutated because the witchers are unable to mutate them now, but Eskel and Lambert are definitely mutated and were mutated as young boys.LithiumFlower said:
Ausir: Thats what I said. =/-------------------------------I think when Geralt mentioned the tingling, he was just teasing that girl and didn't mean it literally, he was just flirting!
That's pretty sad... what massacre was that? I did notice Vesemir talking about it, but I never actually understood why or what happened.Also, he mentioned that there were other Witcher training grounds with more Witchers. Is this true? Do the books reveal anything about this?
I don't think they were ever mentioned in the books but it's been quite a few years since I read'em. I do remember that the wolf medallion meant Geralt had trained in a particular "school" but I assumed there had been different schools, or faculties if you will, in Kaer Morhen.I'm pretty sure the books did not mention where these other schools were and, in the books, Geralt never encountered any witchers apart from those who lived in Kaer Morhen.The books vaguely mentioned the massacre, so you basically get the same stuff in the game. Sapkowski didn't explain everything about the past of the witcherworld as the lore aspect in the saga is not as important as in most fantasy books.germi91 said:
Ummm, not entirely. The biggest deal breaker is the fact that witchers are infertile. Ergo, women can f**k them selves silly with the witchers and not get pregnant.Aggravaar said: