The season ends with Geralt finally meeting Cirilla and we see that Renfri’s prophecy is starting to take effect. Either way, The Witcher is a more than suitable successor to Game of Thrones, what with it also being a major book series (there's eight of them) plus a trilogy of video games that critics call. The show emphasizes that one cannot escape from fate and destiny.
Fun fact: In The Witcher 3, Emperor Emhyr var Emreis is played by none other than Lord Tywin Lannister himself, Charles Dance. In the games though, he just wants the real Ciri to accept her place as heir to the throne.
The word ‘destiny’ is repeated throughout the run of ‘The Witcher’. According to the wiki at least, he knowingly married a fake Ciri for appearances. ‘The girl in the forest will be with you always, she’s your destiny’ Yennefer also lived in poverty before she became a mage.Īlso Read: Why I Think The Game Of Thrones Prequel Is Nothing But A Cash Grab, Meant To Fail Most Likely Even our main character Geralt has to constantly work and hunt down monsters in order to earn his mead. However, ‘The Witcher’ is preoccupied with outcasts, peasants and the common folk. Jon Snow and Tyrion are often mocked for being a bastard and cripple respectively, but both of them lived a comfortable life in castles, and later on one became a king while the other became ‘the hand of the queen’.
Most of the characters from GOT are part of the nobility. People in Westeros don’t believe in magic but mages are frequently featured in the world of ‘The Witcher’. Magic and monsters are found in abundance in ‘The Witcher’
