What Are Sylvans? - Witcher Lore - Witcher Mythology - Witcher 3 lore - Witcher Monster Lore

[@tactechchannel7960]

“They have also been called devil.” ‘*Gaunter O’ Dimm laughing in the distance*’

[@WitcherGeorge]

Aha

[@dranzerjetli5126]

Gaunter o dimm is the best

[@nikoslav]

They look like actual "chorts" from slavic folklore, and the translation for this word to english usually suggests "Devil", although they actually are to Satan what elves are to Santa Claus. Not quite the "demons" in the english language, since they're usually corporeal.

[@kodan7879]

The Sylvans in Witcher 3 is obese because he takes and feeds the tributes given him. Geralt even comments how obese they've become. Even Torque in the first witcher book started to grow a belly, but since he gave most stuff he plundered to the Blue Mountain elves, he stayed relatively healthy.

[@hmuz8388]

Hey! i understand that reference!!

[@taddad2641]

also as the sylvans have more magic in the game i thiknk he was being legiitmate about what he does for the group but he got greedy. the fire breathing stuff is obviously just a spell like igni

[@jakemarsh8967]

There's another sylvan in the witcher 3 Im pretty sure and he's just as fat xD

[@LemanRussx]

Everyone: Dandy-lion Audiobook: Dan-deleon

[@Hairspraygoblin]

Leman Russ books translated to Dutch; Ranonkel

[@Wanderingwalker-ke6mg]

I mean, I prefer the audio books definition.. sounds more suiting to the subject matter.

[@daveomega6071]

Jaskier

[@EPICchuchu]

Fugas is just painted, you can see his actual skin colour in places.

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

I always thought 'relicts' were creatures native to the world prior to the conjunction.

[@fressejetzt840]

@DEUS VULT idiots

[@wezzsimple6612]

@@fressejetzt840 and you are a jackass sir, probably the dumbest one here

[@fabiansw8]

@@wezzsimple6612 lol, get mad

[@thoroughlyrustled6186]

@@fabiansw8 stating another persons state of mind does nothing to add or retract from it

[@JoseSilva-ht8es]

@vin 950 relicts and humans came from the conjunction of the spheres. The elder races (elves, dwarves, halflings) were already there, for one reason or another. The only creatures that were already on the continent before the conjunction were regular beasts such as dogs, wolves, and bears. Hope this helps!

[@Mephilis78]

A couple of fat sylvans doesn't necessarily mean that cdpr was trying to change anything. I remember the one from "the last wish" and it came of as a very young sylvan, because it seemed that Geralt had to explain basic things to him that a child would already know. Btw, Last Wish/Sword of Destiny is probably my favorite book in the series, because it felt like a bunch of side quests, with a somewhat overarching narrative.

[@hmuz8388]

Ikr!! Specially the audiobooks (with a good reader that is)...they are so much fun

[@dom1437]

So basically politicians

[@diamondpyro8687]

They remind me of Satyrs. It's like they're inspired by them, but as a corrupted version

[@nikoslav]

yeah quite obviously

[@lukeskywalkerthe2nd773]

I really like the Slyvans! I quite like their rare appearances in the books and the games, and I hope we see them more in the future (maybe even in the Netflix series)! :)

[@WitcherGeorge]

They're really cool

[@lukeskywalkerthe2nd773]

@@WitcherGeorge I agree! :)

[@localcoffee5248]

@@lukeskywalkerthe2nd773 Amit Shah has been cast as Torque, so you're in luck!

[@liamdoes8580]

Yea they should be in the Netflix series I know some people who could play the part you wouldn't even need cgi

[@lordjaraxxus8568]

You’re right

[@DonPatrono]

Yeah i think Relic is the classification of all the post-Conjunction creatures (so no cursed beings or spectres) that haven't been classified in a specific class (like Vampires, Orcoids/Goblinoids/Giants, Insectoids, Hybrid Animals, Draconids). On this note, each class encompasses a broad amount of beings that have little in common per se, take the Insectoids, for example: you have Endriagas that are your run of the mill insectoids, with differend classes (drones, workers, warriors, probably a queen was cited in the bestiary), but you also have Arachas that are described to be more akin to plants, and Arachnomorfs that look more like huge mutated spiders, or the Orcoids you get the trolls, but you also get Giants, and Nekkers (that are basically goblins). This is another peculiar trait that i like of this classification: it's not a naturalistic class system, it's something that the witchers made up to simplify their job

[@marcellomercuri5619]

Request: the cat and dog from Heart of Stone. Then you can talk about other worlds in the Witcher universe.

[@WitcherGeorge]

Good idea, they're really cool!

[@holothewisewolf2579]

Sylvans reminds me of me during the weekend

[@liamdoes8580]

@existential dread lol

[@cosuinofdeath]

existential dread savage lol

[@schwany6703]

Fatass furry weeb

[@ravenbez]

Have you done a video on Witcher Potions? That would be a good video! :)

[@WitcherGeorge]

Good idea!

[@AlexTraven]

Please! This is go to channel for Witcher information please do the potions video. :)

[@ravenbez]

Also could be it’s own catagory since you could also add the Oils and decoctions

[@eberhart4890]

Could it be that the Sylvans seen in Witcher 3 are obese because the have a great access to food. Allgod gets food all the time from Humans and the Guardian of the three Witches (forgot the name) is likely also to get large amounts of food for guarding them. So my conclusion is there are non-obese Sylvans in Witcher 3 theoreticly but you just don‘t see them. Sorry for the inperfect english, im german

[@AshleyHWinters]

im an illustrator researching fauns for my MA in illustration and this came in really helpful!

[@wolvo5441]

I’d quite like to see a video on the lifespan of the various races, always been curious about it

[@WitcherGeorge]

good idea!

[@snydecontempt]

Not sure if you did it already, but I’m interested in learning more about Beserkers and Djinns. Keep up the quality work and I look forward to your next video!

[@WitcherGeorge]

Thank you man and good idea!

[@zatharos6427]

Im pretty sure Sylvans in Witcher 3 are just fat simply because of asset sharing as the one that was a “god” was supposed to be fat as he was stealing food from local peasants. As for the mountain Sylvan was just a shared asset with a different color set

[@spoons250]

Relicts are what inhabited the planet before the collision of the spheres. It makes sense, its the only category without a home world described either in the games or in the books and "relic(t)" means an "object surviving from an earlier time".

[@gamer969rivere5]

70 - 80 for a human in witcher universeum seems little much. The world is set in the Middle Age. So it,s more likelee 40 - 50 If you are luckie only pepole in hige stating could live to 70 - 80. Sorry for the bad english.

[@Wanderingwalker-ke6mg]

Gamer 969 Rivere that’s comparing it to the real world tho, the Witcher universe is it’s own entity with magical beings and what not.

[@snakeballs8965]

Humans didn't have sub 50 year life spans since we were Hunter gatherers. Living to 70 or 80 was pretty likely no matter who you were if you made it to about 30. It was so easy to die in a war or from getting the flu or just during birth that it pushed the average lifespan very low. So if you have a married couple who live to 70 and 75 and over their lives they have 8 kids. 6 die before turning one, 1 kid dies at 6 from tuberculosis and 1dies fighting in a war at 16. That's 70+75+0+0+0+0+0+0+6+16=167/10= 16.7

[@edekiller197]

@@snakeballs8965 work in the farms and the poor diet in those times made us age faster then today too

[@CallSignAlza]

The sylvans are literally uh oh stinky.

[@darkveilnight9993]

Holy shit, in episode 3 I think of the witcher netflix series I think that's what he was talking about. There was a sylvan dandelion/Jaskier and geralt got attacked by.

[@nlrrangerman3742]

Last time I was this fast vesemir was still alive

[@WitcherGeorge]

too soon

[@ggt47]

Oh, crykai.

[@ultron-5600]

NLR Ranger Man last time I was this early Geralt and Ciri were still alive

[@ungobungo7986]

@@ultron-5600 but...dlcs are canon

[@ultron-5600]

Pongly Spongly alternate universes man 🤷‍♂️

[@dakotafawson1223]

Thanks for including my comment! Awesome vid like always

[@WitcherGeorge]

Thanks man

[@notmybuddyguy477]

Wait.....waitttttttttttttt.....there is a KZbin Witcher channel dedicated to the lore and universe of the Witcher!! New sub buddy you just filled my workless saturday from a welding shop day with your video's and my oil pen(winkyface)EDIT=I kept skippin the Dr. Squatch soap comercial, pretty funny commercial actually.

[@be9716]

Do another video on the Netflix casting updates!

[@WitcherGeorge]

I'll consider it!

[@amithdkr6776]

Nice video as always ..I was waiting for a video about Sylvans anyway thanks man for this nice video..

[@WitcherGeorge]

Thank you man

[@Lasu_X]

I think that Sylvans in the Witcher 3 are just fat :D. Thus they gained mass. My personal opinion.

[@Rakshiir]

Well, Geralt actually states (and you see it in this video) that the Sylvan fatted up rather nice...

[@WitcherGeorge]

Possibly, but the fact the only two in-game examples show them as big, Geralt does state that the first looks big, but he doesn't for the second. The fact we never see a small one and the bestiary entry shows the big picture, not a small version. Also consider the height of the sylvan in the witcher 3, eating doesn't make you taller.

[@taddad2641]

@@WitcherGeorge that is probably a model limtiation more than anything. use a similar model for both characters.

[@pedluc2010]

Might be a bit late here but The Sylvan in the last wish is about 2,5 meters I think, so not small? Also, Geralt says that he isn't allowed to kill him following the codex Also he speaks the dwarven tongue!

[@MrBlindbird]

3:50 Sylvans most enjoy taking what people have earned or worked for.. in a nutshell,they're identical to our nowadays polliticians... :-D

[@kakarroto007]

So I can't help but remember the sylvan in one of the books. Dandelion was throwing rocks at it in a field, and angering Geralt, because they got charged by the beast. I feel like this same sylvan was instrumental in determining their fate, at the hands of the Scoia'tael. It's been a long time since I read those.

[@WitcherGeorge]

Very awesome little story

[@kakarroto007]

@@WitcherGeorge I agree. The books were great!

[@dolgran79]

How about a series about abandoned fortifications divided by size or area of the placement. There are several interesting buildings, small forts, watchtowers, etc.

[@WitcherGeorge]

Sounds good!

[@OrphanCrippler1]

Hes only obese in witcher 3 cause he was taking advantage of the locals. wtf are you talking about lmao.

[@PsDnK]

One average, a human being during the middleages, would either live 30-45. If you were rich or had food and lived in places, that didn't have bacteria or sickness, they could live longer. Even if they did, most elders who wander into the woods and die to wolves, since it would mean a less mouth to feed

[@uncle1839]

My spirit animal

[@snap4585]

Nice vids bro

[@WitcherGeorge]

Thanks man!

[@Galactus78]

It’s interesting the Netflix show did their own take on Sylvans that was just as different as the game and the book versions

[@lukastojanovic8551]

You're a dick...with balls

[@gamerhead473]

I don't know I'f you ever talked about this but can talk about geralts past experience with the wild hunt before the witcher 3 since he was with them for awhile

[@WitcherGeorge]

Good idea!

[@nikoslav]

Lol that sylvian who serves the Crones in named "Fugas". That's a generic term for artillery ammunition and explosions in the russian language (from french "fougasse" though, I assume it came from the times when french was the universal international language).

[@neros398]

If somone here play genshin impact here's a fun fact. Sylvens are also called yakshas. So yeah xiao is actually fat satan

[@devinmounce1838]

For Sylveans it's not really about stealing as much as it is a practical joke. They love their pranks!

[@WitcherGeorge]

They're great!

[@boltonforthenorth5466]

want to hear your opinion on the new witcher casting?

[@WitcherGeorge]

I'll consider it!

[@boltonforthenorth5466]

Nice!

[@seanclardy7616]

Geralt experience no emotions....just anger lol

[@Grandsheba]

in the opening clip that voice actor is the same one from Bloodborne. the does the voice of the dark beast man you find out in the woods that if you send back to the temple he makes you beast pills.

[@pedalpen9844]

Bombs and crossbow? Have you used the crossbow? The thing cab barely kill ants

[@shadoclark1025]

I love how you not only tell us about their lore and their way of life but also how we should fight them

[@WitcherGeorge]

Thank you!

[@thephyrexian9664]

Oh shit it's Kryakos Grizzly!

[@BaeIor]

Please make a video about Berengar

[@WitcherGeorge]

Good idea!

[@brettpryor4907]

You should do a video on djinn since they are really cool entities in the games and books

[@WitcherGeorge]

Good idea!

[@redraphTC]

I’d like to see a video about Eskel

[@nikoszaxaris2895]

i think the average human lifespan in the witcher games is around 30, i mean , try living in that world and not getting killed by a drowner everytime geralt is in town

[@bikerboy3k]

Very odd that they look so intimidating yet they made them so tame.

[@WitcherGeorge]

I suppose

[@Sleepy.Time.]

the alternate source for bacon

[@WitcherGeorge]

aha

[@docop8926]

There could be all different sizes and shapes maybe the one in the game was an exception

[@danielpiechowicz2898]

Considering they can increase crop yields, I'm surprised they have never been hired or enslaved by humans to be used to this end.

[@tarnyowl6068]

Might be hard to capture something that breathes fire is very strong and is very agile...

[@armandoguerra7658]

Is this Bugleburry before meeting Jerma?

[@crystalicfire6630]

I just giggled when you said that they're rare because I killed both of the ones you can meet in the witcher 3

[@WitcherGeorge]

Aha

[@washedupazir2873]

what? i've never seen this!! snd i have more than 1000 hours in the witcher

[@WitcherGeorge]

It's a fun quest!

[@KevinRay_man]

Great vid as always sir georgothy. (Jor-juh-thee) lol damn I’m lame.

[@WitcherGeorge]

Thank you sir Keviothy

[@KevinRay_man]

Ahaha I love it, you’re a dope dude George, keep up the superb work.

[@DerekOfRivia]

Hmmm I dont remember this mission. It must of been a side quest I never got too.

[@Mr.Seb0]

Yeah it was "!"

[@DerekOfRivia]

@@Mr.Seb0 Such a massive game I never got around to them all.

[@DerekOfRivia]

Have you tried thronebreakers yet? It looks pretty good but sometimes the playthroughs look boring.

[@Mr.Seb0]

@@DerekOfRivia I never completed it so yea I started again to try 100% completed, I like it tbh I will play it after 100%

[@depressorfull]

Yeah, can't remember where it was but it was on the side of a road in a crumbled building with just brick walls left. 2 guys inside talking.

[@ffsake1361]

Sylvans = My spirit animal lol

[@jakobschoning7355]

They dont even do any of the eating catterpillars. Sounds really funny when you say that in your serious voice...

[@WitcherGeorge]

aha

[@Archenw]

Oh yeah, they definitely "Expanded upon it".

[@draethus6647]

lol i happen to read and listen to this at the same time, is this some kind of supernatural phenomenon?

[@randomaussie3342]

Do a video on Duchess Anna Henrietta

[@WitcherGeorge]

Good idea!

[@flankingfoxtrot]

What is this quest and was'nt this same creature in the caves before ciri meets crones

[@chrissoto7187]

Put them on the potential purge list

[@specialnewb9821]

Valley of Flowers.... time for a video on Arse-blathanna?

[@WitcherGeorge]

I'd love to do a vid on blathanna!

[@specialnewb9821]

@@WitcherGeorge I think there's a lot that can be said and the politics of how it got created are fascinating. Could you also highlight its geographic location? I have always had trouble orienting it on the map.

[@whitevalyrian3086]

is there a connection between sylvans and succubus/incubus?

[@Shadow_of_Christ]

Isn’t a common theme of relics that they are all very very old and sentient?

[@MrRakan.]

+WitcherGeorge, may I ask you where is that accent from?

[@WitcherGeorge]

Northern England!

[@MrRakan.]

@@WitcherGeorge That's a very wide answer! I like it a lot though

[@ehstaley]

So what you're saying is I'm a Sylvan?

[@donaldtusk2678]

Wait I have an idea but you might have already done it how about mousenack and calanthe

[@WitcherGeorge]

Good idea!

[@Iorvethfox]

thanks George very nice

[@WitcherGeorge]

Np man!

[@BarnsOfChris]

we need a torque ST/MO dualfaction card in gwent

[@creepyboners9645]

I've only ever encountered the one that works with the Crohn's what quest can I encounter the other one in

[@clemsonmanful]

creepy boners some place in Velen, he lives under some ruins and tells local peasants that he’ll help them in exchange for food. Witcher contract maybe? Cannot remember :(

[@DonPatrono]

No it's not a witcher contract, you need to first have the Nehaleni Eye (so you must have completed Keira's mission) and then go to Wastrel Manor (it's near a Nilfgaardian encampment). You will find two peasants talking about the Allgod, you talk to them and start the "Greedy God" secondary quest

[@WitcherGeorge]

allgod quest!

[@dranzerjetli5126]

Wait what about the fire demon geralt and ciri meet in the cave when Ciri goes to kill the crones

[@WitcherGeorge]

That's a Sylvan!

[@saturnscore3059]

They and other creatures are classified as relics because of how old their race are

[@sandipanplayz7282]

The algod in witcher 3. The people "used" to serve him. Now he is dead

[@WitcherGeorge]

You can let him live!

[@sandipanplayz7282]

@@WitcherGeorge It's better to kill that greedy old monster.

[@marcellomercuri5619]

Sandipan Chakraborty I always let him live. The peasants seem to like him.

[@GundamReviver]

Plus he made sense, God's don't answer, he does. So he 's doing nothing the church isn't doing, or like, a psychiatrist

[@dragonsbreath389]

If you havent done a video on chorts can you please do one on them

[@WitcherGeorge]

sure good idea!

[@dragonsbreath389]

@@WitcherGeorge awesome thank you

[@SleetSheep]

are you still streaming? I haven't seen you on

[@WitcherGeorge]

I'll get back to it

[@Witcherino]

What if the Sylvan in the book was a real young one? Like a child and maybe that's why he was smaller and so "playful". P.S: Have you done a video about Brokilon? That would be good.

[@donaldtusk2678]

Mariano Moya he did a dryad video so there’s no reason to do about broklin

[@WitcherGeorge]

Good idea!

[@ericv.christian201]

Sylvans: Fat devil looking dudes.... witch are also not evil all the time.

[@WitcherGeorge]

aha

[@specialnewb9821]

But they always have bad attitudes.

[@aidanschreuer3552]

Do a vid on sylvands please

[@jacobevans489]

...You mean like the video you literly wrote this comment on?

[@WitcherGeorge]

?

[@marcellomercuri5619]

aidan schreuer boi!

[@jakeburley7556]

How weird did the sylvan is Witcher TV show look.

[@lukastojanovic8551]

You're a dick...with balls

[@jakeburley7556]

@@lukastojanovic8551 what are you talking about son?

[@lukastojanovic8551]

@@jakeburley7556 that's what Geralt said to the sylvan in the TV series

[@ultron-5600]

Was I the only one who found a similarity between the “Allgod” and the Judeo-Christian God ?

[@thatrand0mnpc]

Are sylvans and succibi related?

[@archdornan8349]

I would say they aren't since a succubus feeds off a humans' sexual energy, so that means they suduce their opponents. So how the hell is a sylvan supposed to do any of those things like suduceing people for instance?

[@CH-gc1fd]

What quest is that in the beginning?

[@Lion-Mutt]

A Greedy God

[@WitcherGeorge]

The allgod quest in velen!

[@theredghostman9279]

Maybe it was just this sylvan that was lasy

[@madhuchandadutta7121]

What is elder speech. Is that the language of elder scrolls.

[@Typhus-th6ud]

I just took it the one in the game was an unusually fat one

[@piotrbrys8008]

I personally dislike the game sylvans, in the book he was more of an annoying old satyr or faun with a funnier persona. A lot of things improve in the games but I really think they did them some injustice. (p.s. in the book he was also called a Taurus which gives some extra quality to their character)

[@WitcherGeorge]

Ah awesome!

[@asdfjkl981]

if humans in the witcher world have an average lifespan of 70 years, i´ll never use a shower and start to bear swords

[@asdfjkl981]

@vin 950 why no showers? because they don´t have showers. Your lifespan hypothesis is bullshit. how many old people (older than 70) do you see in Novigrad? ~0 ? thanks end of diskussion.

[@german2122]

oh crap im a sylvsn but w bettr loooking body and No magic :(

[@Ahmed-Bin-Koshari]

I think I am sylvan

[@rtepik9976]

The sylvan looks more like a real chort from slav mythology trust me I am czech

[@anonimniprofil3816]

I dated worse.

[@hyouriittai6983]

Is it a coincidence that he looks like airsoftfatty

[@axedaman954]

They look like demons

[@WitcherGeorge]

Kinda, but demons are a little different in the witcher universe

[@Darkblade0926]

The sylvan in the wither 3 are just overweight

[@GUN1GRAVE]

i always help the sylvan. extra food for him from the mouth of babes lolz