The crones genuinely terrified me, especially with the horrifying feeling the soundtrack creates

@sneaky5141

4 жыл бұрын

its like a hurdy gurdy violin lmao what is it so unsettling and creepy

@theplayer2545

4 жыл бұрын

I'll never forget these 3 witches for the creepy ass music and apperence, my god I could feel the fear these witches create by just looking at them 😣😣

@taninsam7893

4 жыл бұрын

Thats how I felt. I have the soundtrack and I hear that song and I just feel uncomfortable. Out of every game I ever played The Witcher 3 had the best sound track

@Sparkball

3 жыл бұрын

@@taninsam7893 How about Toussaint though. Music is magnificent

@taninsam7893

3 жыл бұрын

@@Sparkball Toussaint was great too. But nothing beats the fighting music. It literally made all the battles feel epic no matter how easy

The crones are the most scariest and the most mysterious things in the witcher universe..... Until you meet Gaunter O' Dimm.

@yidingliu8663

4 жыл бұрын

I was scared to shit by them until in the sabbath villagers told me that they bow to that big chunk of foolish meat Imlerith.

@jordandennis6794

3 жыл бұрын

@@yidingliu8663 Then Geralt exploded his head.

@LeFaisDoDo

3 жыл бұрын

gaunter is not near as scary

@llamaczech

3 жыл бұрын

@@yidingliu8663 yeah, tbh bringing them back into the story there kinda ruined them. They went from something kinda Lovecraftian to just some bigger monsters.

@ciaranduffner6021

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed when I was doing my first play through and I saw my first thought was "what the fuck are those things"

There are a few very small, tiny clues during bald mountain that suggests the whispering hillock is more reliable/trustworthy than the book "she who knows." In a conversation with Ciri she mentions that the oak used to be part of a druidic circle. Ciri would have learned this either from A'vallach or perhaps from her own travels to the past. The Hillock claims to have been a druidess. At the bald mountaintop during the quest you can find several lore books, including "She Who Knows", "Ithlinne's Prophecy", and "Necromancy, the Forbidden Magic". Necromancy states that "reviving [the dead] always involves entirely negative side effects" and "no matter how noble a mage's motives might be, necromancy will always lead to evil." You can overhear a conversation between some peasants discussing how the oak's acorns can raise the dead. (this is a very easy conversation to miss. it will occur once near the merchant you encounter after Johnny.) This suggests that the acorns are soaked in necromantic magic. The peasants then use these acorns as medicine or as fertilizer. (as per the old guy who explains the festival to you during bald mountain.) They're sewing their fields with necromantic magic and contaminating the entire land with this stuff. No wonder Velen is a cesspit.

This series has some of the most deep, terrifying lore known to gaming so far.

@toasty2800

4 жыл бұрын

For me, another crazy one is the A.I from Metal Gear Solid 2 Sons of Liberty.

@phil_5430

4 жыл бұрын

I think the Dark Souls series is even more deeper when it comes to the lore as it leaves more room for speculation but Witcher is definitely more terrifying.

@moelester8656

4 жыл бұрын

You just wait untill you see Gaunter O’Dimm

@felipealexandre144

4 жыл бұрын

@@toasty2800 the Patriots stuff is creppy. Parallel to Illuminati

@MrThunderFx

4 жыл бұрын

Try playing more games before talking out of your ass

I’ve been playing so much Witcher 3 recently. I’m intent on completing every quest. Such a good game.

@richlebarron8957

4 жыл бұрын

I completed the game with all side missions a couple year's back while I was out of work on a injury. Took me just over 300 hours, I searched every area and location on the map...This is on My top 5 game's of all time.

@chris0000924

4 жыл бұрын

Did all that on my first play through on hard difficulty (first 30 hours were hell lmao)

@tawnymonarch4813

4 жыл бұрын

Really wanna replay it too, got the bad ending first time round by tryna get too clever with the game logic

@chris0000924

4 жыл бұрын

@@tawnymonarch4813 got the good ending

Just wanted to add, Baba Yaga a lot of the time isn't really good or evil. In a lot of stories heros are nice to her and she helps them. In other stories however she is easily pissed off or sometimes just kidnaps and eats children

@missymoonwillow6545

4 жыл бұрын

there shall be NO EATING of children. 12 tribes agree to peace, a 13th on the horizon to assist in healing. Too much fear, kills the mind's ability to "tune in" proper. BLESS.

@Taistelukalkkuna

4 жыл бұрын

Unless you kill his dog and steal his car.....Sorry, wrong Baba Yaga. =)

@sylph4252

4 жыл бұрын

@Qwerty Bastard nope, she just maintains a healthy diet

@zacharyhawley1693

4 жыл бұрын

Well she's neutral. If you really needed aid and no one else could and you were properly polite baba yaga would help ya. Provided you fulfilled your end of the bargain.

@369Sigma

Жыл бұрын

Baba Yaga is a folklore personification of Mother Nature. Ancient beyond time, neither good nor evil, Mother Nature can be cruel or can provide. Mother Nature is not to be tested, and she owes us nothing.

This was beyond impressive. Being a Skyrim junkie that only recently started playing Witcher 3, your videos greatly help bring depth to an already incredible fantasy world.

@CuT7yFlaM

3 жыл бұрын

I played both games intensely at their release time and while I had a formidable time with both, by now I have forgotten a good bunch of details or didn't play certain things. Watching these videos make me appreciate immensely the writing for Witcher 3, the amount of details and quality it brings really shows how incredible dense and well thought the universe is, but also the execution. Many characters and world mechanics are still unclear, adding a real sense of mystery and grandeur in the way things are.

The true Instagram reality.

For some reason these three characters creeped me the hell out when I first played the Witcher unless there was a main story mission I refused to head back into the area

"Zireael is dead. Naught but a small frozen corpse in an icy wilderness. And you are afraid... You feel fear." "You lie. I don't feel a thing anymore." Got that on first playthrough, that ending will stick with me as long i live.

@willzie8286

3 жыл бұрын

Same, looking back I’m kinda glad I got the bad ending because it is hands down the best written ending.

@RaPtOr9600

3 жыл бұрын

@@willzie8286 Yes, yes it is i still get chills when i remember that ending

@Quarlitox

Жыл бұрын

Made me cry on my failure (being a stepfather it hit me very hard) Then, I replayed the game to redeem Geralt and me

@thehandsomeone8369

11 ай бұрын

I got the Ciri Witcher ending with Nilfgaard winning the war on my first go.

Their track is one of the best in the game and also the definition of spine chill.

@AxOfTheHorde

4 жыл бұрын

One of the most disturbing music I've ever heard. It fits them perfectly.

Honestly Drew, you've spoiled all other Witcher KZreadrs for me. Your living, vivid descriptions are unmatched. Where others need to repeat themselves to artificially extend video time, you weave language into a spell of your own, leaving us enthralled and helpless. Can't get enough, mate.

@dylanmonstrum1538

4 жыл бұрын

hey r u gay?

@modernshoggoth

4 жыл бұрын

@@dylanmonstrum1538 No, but for Drew I'd consider it.

@Esoteraeon

4 жыл бұрын

@@modernshoggoth hell yeah

@cultofmalgus1310

3 жыл бұрын

"Do you want us?"

@euan828ftwlalala

3 жыл бұрын

The content is good but this dude speaks out every sentence in the same intonation. I find it pretty distracting to listen to which is disappointing cuz like I said the contents solid

The Crones music is epic and unforgettable

@Sparkball

3 жыл бұрын

And terrifying

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@joebobdacow7405

4 жыл бұрын

This reads like a poem

@tsukuamatesusa222

4 жыл бұрын

That rhymed

@livy456

4 жыл бұрын

@@tsukuamatesusa222 that's what I was going for XD

There are Eastern Europeans watching, but let me assure you - the insanely high quality of your content absolves you of all minor pronounciation missteps.

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3 жыл бұрын

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I find it a wasted oppertunity that we can kill 2 of them, but the last one can only be killed if you go through the bad ending. She still has Vesimer's Medallion, why would the game just forget about that especially after the Wild Hunt killed him?

I wish the game gave you the option to hunt down the last crone in the post game, these things freaked me the fuck out

"Thrice to thine, thrice to mine, thrice again to make up nine"

@reffa2858

2 жыл бұрын

3 plus 3 plus 3 equals 9.

@AkweliParker

2 ай бұрын

Bars.

There is one thing in the witcherverse that is more terrifying, The Crones are creepy, but Gaunter O’Dimm is the only thing in a game that actually scares me.

@alecmueller3299

4 жыл бұрын

Gaunter is either the devil or a very powerful demon as far as I can tell, and seems to have the power to do as he pleases like stopping time itself. If he doesn't have limits on his power itself and just doesn't use all of it by choice, that'd make him the most powerful being in the witcher universe right now by a LOOOONG shot. Being able to stop time on a whim is strong, but he managed to make it so it didn't effect Geralt, which shows that he has an insanely strong control over his power. Honestly if he felt like it he could just destroy the world if he isn't restricted by contracts with other mortals.

@tingispingis

4 жыл бұрын

The Crones can be killed. Gaunter is straight up near god status

@Esoteraeon

4 жыл бұрын

I think the reason why Gaunter's more terrifying is because he's uncannily nice and has a "humble/polite" manner to him. Ngl when he helped Geralt escape that Ofierian prison ship, I almost had a sense of trust in him until more shit was revealed and it was really unsettling. Well done on CDPR's part for narrating the devil this way instead of a cliche demon with horns

@jordandennis6794

3 жыл бұрын

@@tingispingis my nigga is God

@yosifvidelov

Жыл бұрын

@@Esoteraeon Gaunter O'Dimm is a godlike being playing as he likes with the Witcher universe like moving chess pieces for his own entertainment. Kind-a like God was portrayed in the Supernatural series - a scriptwriter and story driver, all happens how it wants it to happen, so you can call Destiny - God's Will.

The bog is one of the most terrifying locations in the base game, but it's also the only place where the 'Steel for humans' battle theme plays, so I keep coming back to that place just to vibe while fighting foglets and drowners.

This is funny, I actually just started The Witcher 3 for the first time and after completing the main story in Velen I have been trying to research if I should have trusted the ghost in the tree or not. My thing with the book "She Who Knows" is... how much can we actually trust it? The people in the bog were basically cultists who followed the Crones' whims, and the author comes across as one of them. Can we really trust it's an unbiased telling of what really happened?

@babysinclairfan

4 жыл бұрын

We can't but there's always some truth in legends. I figure that the tree spirit is definitely the crones' parent or something. It would explain why the spirit knows so much and the crones want it dead.

@Esoteraeon

4 жыл бұрын

@@babysinclairfan damn I should've sided with the tree then.. *SPOILERS* But I was worried about sending so many people to their deaths over the death of some kids..

@cultofmalgus1310

3 жыл бұрын

@@Esoteraeon children are clean slates, the villagers were not. It was a simple decision.

@chunt5584

2 жыл бұрын

I didn't like the crones. The crones imprisoned the spirit. Q. E. D. I turned it into a horse.

@justhair17

2 жыл бұрын

Well, we know that the tree spirit was killing people and we also know that if freed, she would kill pretty much the whole village. Also, she is creepy af. Finally, that way, the baron hangs himself and he is such a great character

Okay, I've said this before on another Witcher channel but, if you play the game and ask every question of the Crones you learn that those monsterous forms are a Polymorphy magic. They don't LOOK like that normally. Its possible their power is more potent in their polymorphed forms. And they're vulnerable and weaker in their real forms since they are only in their human forms when needing to consume their brew.

@borealsullivan5486

4 жыл бұрын

I think that their very ability to change forms by will is classified as polymorphism, but that doesn't mean that their monstrous form is their real face

@soleo2783

3 жыл бұрын

honestly that question didn't make sense to me when i played the game, why would geralt assume they can change form instead of the painting just being how the villagers think they are? all he had seen of them at that point was the painting

just hearing that music makes my hair stand on edge. horrific creatures, and that’s saying something considering the amount of monstrosities you can encounter in this game

The crones always made me feel nothing more than disgust

The night was as black as the inside of a cat. It was the kind of night, you could believe, on which the gods moved men as though they were pawns on the chessboard of fate. In the middle of the elemental storm a fire gleamed among the dripping furze bushes like the madness in a weasel’s eye. It illuminated three hunched figures. As the cauldron bubbled an eldritch voice shrieked: "When shall we three meet again?" There was a pause. Finally another voice said in far more ordinary tones: "Well I can do next Tuesday."

The Crones are kinda similar to the Three Norns of the Norse mythology, "3 Sisters who dwell at the root of the Yggdrasil weaving the fate of every living being into a web or a thread". Also didn't the crones live under that big ass tree where you have to fight them as Ciri? If so, it's kinda clear that CDPR took inspiration from the Norse Mythos.

@alensavic2685

4 жыл бұрын

Then you find out Norse mythology shares many things from slav mythology. Then you find out the slavs existed before the nordic people.

@soleo2783

3 жыл бұрын

@@alensavic2685 And then you find out that the crones have more in common with the Norns then the Rodzanice or w/e, so that is irrelevant.

Geez just imagine if they got their hands on the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis.

@dunnejos8423

4 жыл бұрын

They wouldn't use it really. Necromancy in The Witcher universe can only be used be Sorcerers, Sorceresses, and Elven Sages. Also it would most likely require them to drain the magic of their bog just to raise a single body. Not really worth it.

@moisesmartinezmorales5885

4 жыл бұрын

wait but isn't there a book in the game that talks about the necronomicon because I remember finding that book in kaer morhen

@gyrtiasnecrotaros4710

3 жыл бұрын

If you really want to give them an evil book then go find the Oghma Infinium or the Book of Magnus that's some scary combinations right there

@arx3516

2 жыл бұрын

They wrote it!

The cap reminds me of the red caps from England and Scotland, kinda goblins with red caps that have to be covered in blood to keep them alive

You have the best narration for the Witcher Lore. You set the tone based on the subject.

The music when youre at Crookback bog is so unsettling. So dark and evil

Surprised you didn't mention the bit about Whispess in Toussaint. There's not much info there, but it at least shows that they aren't limited to Velen. Whispess once lived in the Chuchote Cave in Toussaint, where she peered into a certain knight's heart, she saw that it was black and refused him aid. The knight reacted with wrath and burned her alive in the cave. Soon afterward, the knight went mad and killed himself - claiming he was tortured by a strange voice whispering in his ear that no one else could hear.

Your editing is A+. Please make more Witcher content! One of my favorite KZread vids

Right when I was looking for something to watch at 2 am. Lol thanks!

@elliotcallon1230

4 жыл бұрын

I think your looking on the wrong website if you get what I mean

Thank you for your Witcher lore videos. They are amazing and I really appreciate all the work behind each of them.

Never has the welsh accent has sounded so spine chilling

13:50 I was first a bit skeptical when you said the Weavess seemed to have additional legs sticking out of her torso, but in this tapestry it does look like she has four legs?

I love how poetic your description is. Great series!

As the crones are a reflection of the Greek Moiras, the Roman Parces or Germanic Norns, Melitele / Freya is a reflection of the Magna Mater, hailed by the people, who erected the megalith temples and tombes. She is the big mother goddess of a matriarchic society, who appears as old woman, fertile woman and young girl - just like Melitele.

Only thing in a video game to ever make me feel my skin crawl. Well done 👏

As a Russian versed in Slavic Mythology I would like to add some fun facts about Baba Yaga that might be of relevance here. Especially since Witcher seems to heavily inspire itself on this ; 1. In some versions Baba Yaga used to be an Earth Goddess before becoming a forest hag. Some even point out the annagram of Gaya/ Gaia in her name. (in Slavic the same letters are used and there is no Y/I differance) 2. In some versions she has 3 daughters who are three spirits, these daughters however are not permanent but rotating, as unlike her they are human mortals blessed with the right to learn from her. 3. In this same version she picks the most beautiful and most talanted of her three daughters to become her new body, and then she uses that young body to seduce a man of status and have him impregnate her, she does this until she again had 3 daughters and then repeats this process to stay alive, apparantly needing a human body as a host to remain alive since falling from Godhood somehow. 4. I recognized this last bit with the crowns from Witcher and the Sabbath. Maybe they are just these three daughters who learned to emmulate their mothers immortality tricks and then killed her, or well, trapped her. 5. A similair play is done in Dragonage Origins, where Morigain is one of three daugters.

"they weave hair, and twist lives" idk why that sounds so cool

Do you remember watching Hercules by Disney? Those old - hag maidens with the thread and scissors?

@lagoondiver

4 жыл бұрын

Yes! Also a nice example of three witches in European mythology. In Greek myth, they were called The Graeae

@WitchOfHemwick

4 жыл бұрын

I thought they were the fates?

@sl1ckn1nja420

3 жыл бұрын

Yep and the sisters of fate from God of war 2

Those rhymes were some serious BARS

Well done! Perhaps my favorite of your videos so far!

Please do a lot more witcher videos There is so much Rich lore that you guys have not even touched upon yet. As the Bethesda has turned a blind eye to the Elder Scrolls you kind of picked up there and pretty clean However The Witcher lore your just getting started with thousands of video thank you.

Thank you for making these amazing witcher vids

The 3 sister witches, are all over the place in ancient folklore. The three fates are probably the oldest example I can think about. The Sanderson sisters from Houcus Poucus are pretty similar to the crones from the Witcher games too. Making potions from kids to stay young. The youngest sister was skinny, the middle sister was fat, and the oldest was average size and kept talking about human body parts. Main differences the Sanderson sisters had a spell book, and as far as I know the Crones don't.

@andrewart5343

4 жыл бұрын

The Crones eat people, that's how they probably stay young. They're highly 500% using cannibalistics-spells and bloodmagic

This video was UNREAL! Dude well done

I got goosebumps when the music started

In Christopher Walken's voice: you need more lore

Excellent work and the narration was incredible. Maybe the next video is about the Hags? there is a lot of very interesting information.

Love mythology ,great videos and voice, well done.

Melitele is pronounced Meh-li-teh-leh, not meh-li-tel. Stress is on the second syllable. Worry not, even the Netflix show bungled the pronunciation.

@rejvaik00

4 жыл бұрын

That show has done more bungling than anything else. I don't recommend you watch it

@sirpuffles3875

4 жыл бұрын

@@rejvaik00 It really did. What a bummer.

@skynyrdjesus

3 жыл бұрын

@@rejvaik00 I would disagree. It has plenty of faults, worst of which being what it did to Vilgefortz so far, but I think it's a pretty good adaptation to the medium. On screen adaptations can, and have, failed a lot worse. It's not an easy series to make work, so I think they did a pretty admirable job honestly.

Free crones? Frice divine? The free sisters? Upon the heaf? Macbeff? Myffology? Freds of fate? Speaking of Freds? *TH ≠ F*

Ayyy been waiting for this

I love your reading dude. Keep it up 👍

The thing that makes Witcher lore so much more captivating than really any other fictional game is its ties to my European forebears lore and mythos. The fact that so much of its content is so richly IndoEuropean... beautiful to experience.

@matthewpearson453

11 ай бұрын

Aryan

I was just trying to fall asleep to some Witcher lore and this totally freaked me out and I can’t sleep now. Gd bro

Maiden, Mother & Crone by The Sword is a wonderful track if you enjoy early Black Sabbath/70's metal. Quality content as always FudgeMuppet \m/

The sister of fate also exist in norse mythology. They are called Nornen. Interestingly they do the same as their Greek counterparts.

Ive always loved the big tapestry of them in the house in crookback bog just something about it.

@AstarionWifey

Жыл бұрын

Too bad the ladies don’t look anything like the tapestry 😂

Definitely your best one yet :)

I love the crones one of my favorite parts of a game bursting with gold

Loved their background music track so much

The crones are creepy and I like how they are creatures no one meddles with in the game. There's an intense atmosphere surrounding them from the story and the music. It sort of gives a claustrophobic feeling where you won't be able to leave.

I seriously doubted that the Crones could be topped... then came G. O'D. And even now I do not know who is more terrifying. Gaunter is unsettling, immensely powerfull but like somewhat reasonable. The Crones on the other hand are more beastly, more vicious, harder to argue or play. They could even be wicked. Gaunter never lies and keeps his word. Man! Those 4 are so haunting. Not even horror-games or movies could reach this level of "unsettling".

Witches in lore are often demonized due to rampant propaganda and a lack of understanding. I think Sir Terry Pratchett explored witches and the concept therein the best.

I fucking love the design of the crones, they are one of my favourite beings in witcher 3

Best part of the game by a landslide. Dark, sinister, the soundtrack... like an European sprookje. Absolutely epic I could play an entire game like this.

the way one of them pronounced" Witche'er "still echos in my dreams

Your witcher content is like crack, I just can't get enough. Dunno if that's a problem or not..

geralt's seal of approval.

This video was really well made! Thank you for this excellent and creepy breakdown! I love the mysteries of the Witcher’s dark lore. It also seems possible that the Crones were once mortal women themselves or at least witches who wore the disguises of them. Killed by peasants for their blasphemous rituals and evil magics. Perhaps they too, like their mother She-Who-Knows cheated death and were reanimated or preserved through vile sorcery. Whispess was hanged (hence the noose around her neck); Brewess was bound and killed with bees (hence her bloated, distended body and the wicker beekeeper’s mask she wears). Whispess may well have been burned. The description of Chuchote Cave in Toussaint reads: “To listen to the old folks' jabber, this place was once home to Whispess - a woodland witch eager to help any in need. When Whispess peered into a certain knight's heart, she saw that it was black and refused him aid. The knight reacted with wrath and burned the witch alive in her cave. Soon afterward, the knight went mad and killed himself - claiming he was tortured by a strange voice whispering in his ear that no one else could hear.” In French, chuchote means whisper. As in, the cave of the whisperer. Also, in the Defender of the Faith quest, Geralt is tasked with repairing idols around Velen honouring Verna the merciful, one of three idols found around the swamps. Perhaps Whispess’s real name was once Verna? (Courtesy to XLetalis for bringing this to my attention) I though that was a really neat connection! There’s just so much rich lore and mysteries surrounding the Crones!

So a few things to add Baba Yaga is actually referenced in The Witcher 3 by Keira Metz when you ask about the Trail of Treats, she says something along the lines of “Didn’t you know that all witches live in gingerbread houses perched upon chicken legs?” Second thing in the same conversation she also mentions that when she first moved to Velen she had horrible nightmares beckoning her to Crookback Bog until she tried Lucid Dreaming and came into contact with a creature, this would imply that one of the Witches has the ability to control and manifest dreams and that they needed Keira for some reason... Which brings me on to my third point, the Crones have a really decadent appetite, they tend to enjoy feasting on those with richer and more potent blood type, the way they react to finding out Ciri has the elder blood and how Eredin won’t miss an arm or a leg from her. Final thing Gaunter O’Dimm might be the most powerful entity in the lore but damn if the Crones theme doesn’t slap

Many people fail to include that Avallac’h mentions they are Velens curse

We need more

Is this a reupload? Swear I saw this before.

@TheAratine

4 жыл бұрын

Witcher George's channel maybe? Got a serious case of deja vu from this vid

@jerod5636

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah that’s what I was thinking of. They are basically the same video

@GunGun-cf3ss

4 жыл бұрын

Sad to see how they are unable to create original content that isnt elder scrolls related

@vincentknws

4 жыл бұрын

@@GunGun-cf3ss this isn't elder scrolls.

@GunGun-cf3ss

4 жыл бұрын

sky turtle 5 E and it's not original content

These witches are like the creek three witches that shared a eyeball.

I literally did a project relating the witcher to other forms of media toward trios of witches

10:14 reminds me of the cult to Pachamama in the Andes region...

When’re we getting an “Ideal Witcher 4” voiced solely by Drew?¿

@great_attractor

4 жыл бұрын

I don't think there will be a witcher 4

@loreshelter1149

4 жыл бұрын

Leo Lius Nah it should stay a trilogy, I’m just lookin for an excuse to hear Drew’s voice for 90 minutes

@great_attractor

4 жыл бұрын

@Sarah Umayyad true that. Of course this wouldn't be the last game in this universe, what I mostly meant was a follow up story with Geralt as the main character

@kamron_thurmond

4 жыл бұрын

After all the drama that the guy who wrote the books put CDPR through. They said they're not ever going to be making a The Witcher 4 game.

@m_u_d_d_l_e3509

3 жыл бұрын

@@kamron_thurmond forgive my ignorance please because Im new to all things Witcher related but what happened?

Wow man...Witcher has a deeper lore than I initially thought...

The bogman the monsters remind of Swedish The skunk is a supernatural male water creature that mainly lives in rivers, streams, ponds and lakes inland. The figure is known from old Nordic folklore and poetry since Old Norse times, mainly from legends and folk songs from Norway and Sweden. The neck is an embodiment of the dangers associated with water and appears in a number of different guises. Often he tries in various ways to attract people to drown them.

DEAR GOD YESS!! Nod one does witcher lores better than FM!

Nah whoever designed em needs a raise they legit gave me fear and throw up sensations

There's also the Norns of Norse mythology. Maiden giantesses and weavers of the fates of men. Found at the roots of Yggdrasil the world tree.

I imagine the crones shitting themselves seeing gaunter o dimm and be like "its him! Its him! The master of mirrors! The one name whom shall not be uttered!"

brewess is an absolute unit.

“Meletal”😭

I have seen a drawing of the brewess in an old (very old) european art book i forgot the name tho

Hey, weird question, but in the ending where Ciri doesn't come back, the Weaves (i think it was the weaves) talks to the tapestry and two sisters talk back... So, thing is, that does mean they weren't killed by Ciri, right? This also means their prophecy "You shall return, our fates are bond." "And one will die, and it shan't be one of us" is true as only Imelith dies ._. Also, I think "If you find her... if... the girl will die" is probably the safest prophecy ever spoken. I mean we're not even told which girl... that might just be about Anna. Also "will die" didn't say when. Ciri might die of old age at 42069 years OR use her power to travel back in time to crookback bog and become the whispering hillock while trying to eradicate the possibility of the crones ever-existing and that would still hold true... SO, I dare say, the crones actually never lie (just as Gaunter O' Dimm) or rather they cannot lie about their Omens AND are just as mislead as they try to mislead us with those exact omens :D. I mean, at "one will die" they prolly thought of Gerald that moment, but of course it was someone else ^^

It is possible that the Crones you see in Roman Polanski's film version of Macbeth owe a lot to Slavic mythology. Being that Polanski and Andrzej Sapkowski are both Polish as well now I see the link.

Ooh Witcher this is gonna be good

This was just fantastic! Any chance you may be able to speak slower? I feel like I could have absorbed it much more

I could of sworn you already did the crones

"Funder and lightning."

Always regretted not trusting the tree... I'm actually haunted for not saving the kids.

Can you make; is being a Dwemer worth it?

I have been thiking of the monstrous appearances of the Crones. I have a theory that each one of them (or rather, their corporeal forms) were executed long time ago. Weavess is tangled in ropes and has her neck clearly stretched, which would suggest her form once was sentenced to death by hanging, and that flies would lay eggs on her eyes. Why she has extra legs attached to her dress like in the tapestry I have no clue. Brewess, too, is tied in ropes but the ropes also hold hay and her body is swollen, which to me looks like her body was tied in ropes and tossed into a river to drown and rot. However, looks like Whispess is an exception here, as her body doesn't really give much clue. Perhaps she was skinned alive? Why is she wearing bracers -- was she crucified? Why is such a big lady holding a mask? Whatever the case she either died in an extremely painful way, or she avoided death altogether. But if the crones are older than humans, how could they ever be executed by humans? Why would they wear such brutal marks in the first place? Maybe they once possessed village ladies which were executed as heretics.

@mariachiaraelia5981

10 ай бұрын

I think Whispess was burnt?

I prefer this channel for witcher content compared to witcher george for example, i dont dislike him but your presentation and the entire video making process is unmatched in my opinion.