Who is Eredin The King of The Wild Hunt? - Witcher Character Lore - Witcher lore - Witcher 3 Lore

In today's Witcher Lore video I discuss Eredin The King of The Wild Hunt. The Witcher 3 is where most of you will known Eredin from, but today I will go over Eredin's full story in the witcher games and witcher books and I will also discuss Eredin's origins as well as some of the changes CDPROJEKTRED made to his character in the witcher 3 wild hunt. Eredin is one of the few characters in the witcher that appears not only in the witcher 1, the witcher 2 and the witcher 3, but also appears in the witcher books. More specifically Eredin is present when Ciri travels to the world of the aen elle with Avallac'h, in the the witcher book the lady of the lake. Find out all of this and more in today's witcher lore video where I discuss Eredin Bréacc Glas The King of The Wild Hunt or Red Riders and King of The Aen Elle.
The Witcher® 3: Wild Hunt is a story-driven, next-generation open world role-playing game, set in a visually stunning fantasy universe, full of meaningful choices and impactful consequences. You play as Geralt of Rivia, a monster hunter tasked with finding a child from an ancient prophecy.
Geralt of Rivia, is a witcher, or monster hunter for hire, a white-haired and cat-eyed legend in his own time. Trained from early childhood and mutated to gain superhuman skills, strength and reflexes, witchers like Geralt are a natural consequence of and counterbalance to the monster-infested world in which they live. As Geralt, you’ll embark on an epic journey in a war-ravaged world that will inevitably lead you to confront a foe darker than anything humanity has faced so far-the Wild Hunt.
Built exclusively for next-generation hardware, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt marks a new era in RPG visual quality. Raising the bar for the entire genre, with its deeply integrated 5.1 audio and jaw-dropping graphics powered by CD PROJEKT RED’s proprietary REDengine 3, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt promises an entirely new kind of experience.
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[@thinkinyblinko6666]

"whats the kingslayer doing here?" "Eredin's a king, ain't he?" Is one of the best, smoothest comebacks ever written.

[@pairot01]

I really liked that he was a faceless, speachless villain for most of the game. I had no idea the wild hunt were elves behind the masks, I was expecting some corpse-people or something. The reveal of a deep voice humanoid was excellent.

[@FataMorgana04]

I love his character in game but i do feel like cdproject shouldve made the final boss battle a bit harder

[@d26k164]

agree

[@zzygyzzygy3447]

djinn on death march enemy upscaling is the true boss. it will test every bit of your patience esp when you have an armor with minimal to zero elemental resistance. also olgierd and detlaff are actually more fun to fight against compared to eredin.

[@casperfelius1839]

I recently played on blood and broken bones and he did jack shit in terms of damage

[@ivankaurin7429]

laughs in lvl 50 after Blood and wine...

[@helenline1790]

He still does decent damage on death march

[@shareeclifton2265]

Crach's death made me sad tbh. I really liked him.

[@Kobanyai_enjoyer]

He fucked Yennefer.

[@shareeclifton2265]

@@Kobanyai_enjoyer don't see a problem there. She's a fox.

[@fellowtemplar5679]

Crucifiction I choose Triss anyways.

[@Kobanyai_enjoyer]

@@fellowtemplar5679 thats your problem.

[@rubinmone9805]

@@fellowtemplar5679 fun thing about the games is that you can do whatever you want. A Geralt-Triss relationship wasnt even imaginable in the books

[@boi4947]

Witcher 3 was my first experience with the Witcher, so I didn't know anything outside the game. At first I thought the wild Hunt were badass and terrifying until they took off their masks lmao

[@lukeweedon5478]

Facts 😂

[@helenline1790]

I disagree. All the elves looked great. The netflix show is a different story though.

[@fellowtemplar5679]

BOI Lord of the Ring’s Sauron also was an elf..

[@Xilaas]

Fellow Templar no I don’t think he was, he only pretended to be for a time. I think he’s a being

[@robertcremin3291]

Fellow Templar He was a maiar, the equivalent of an angel. He was able to change his appearance for a time and appeared as an elf in order to trick Celebrimbor into helping him forge the rings of power, all except the One Ring.

[@zirusmiguelaragon8421]

Say what you want but he and his army look cool and badass above all

[@lizdavies4580]

I wish we saw the hunt literally streaking across the sky

[@fellowtemplar5679]

Liz Davies Yeah, just seeing the Hunt randomly flying somewhere in the sky at nights.

[@A_name_is_a_name]

I immediately picture them on a slay

[@aadithyanjr1382]

To be honest, Eredin could have had a badass character arc but, despite the epic design, Eredin was pretty underutilized in the game and wasn't much of a difficult fight either.

[@WillOfFiree]

@aaron9 lol played at deathmarch diff and only potions i had were ale xD i laughed how ez it was to beat him while being drunk.

[@davidmcdevitt7583]

@Aaron9 Yeah to be fair for a fully developed player character Eredin was a pushover, Death March he's a little challenging but there's far more difficult fights on offer well before him.

[@RRSmurf]

@Aaron9 Sounds like you need to git gud, twat

[@fin3642]

He one or two hits you on death March you’re clearly playing in easy.

[@davidmcdevitt7583]

@@fin3642 Avoiding hits from him isn't exactly very difficult though

[@SplashAttackTCG]

I wish that before I killed Eredin, I could ask him if he want to.... *Play a game of GWENT.*

[@jaroslavsklenak212]

true

[@alfredoelias4760]

Geralt : “ you know you must be killed but... if you don’t mind. I could go for a round of GWENT”

[@AlphaQHard]

alfredo elias *eredin nods*

[@outdoorgamer727]

Splash Attack TCG this joke never gets old

[@shahqurbanbaba1873]

😂😁😁😂😂😂😂

[@jidbilal6858]

i cant take the unicorn part seriously. i dont think i'll ever be able to even in other games or movies bc of geralt and yen

[@marcoeland3405]

the unicorns make sense in the books only. and only if you see all the references to human legends Sapkowski put into the story. Ihuarraquax seems weird first but later it becomes quite obvious ^^ It‘s a real pity that CDR decided to ruin that part like that.

[@deryldonaldson1128]

When a 5 ft drop is more dangerous to Geralt, than the King of The Wild Hunt😢

[@muhammederendursun9518]

imagine that you are a special witcher and you kill thr king of wild hunt but you die by falling from a meter. how would it feel?

[@rouge5140]

@@muhammederendursun9518 I'd imagine it feels like breaking your legs and bleeding out from the burst artery.

[@helenline1790]

All the wild hunt look badass. Say what you will, but I thought they were all great.

[@boi4947]

Until they took their masks off and they looked like emo rock band

[@helenline1790]

@@boi4947 nah I don't think so

[@joeycollier1996]

Agree they remind of the urkai with armour

[@DiscardatRandom]

@@boi4947 not complaining

[@dyrohe7026]

@@boi4947 yeah they look like 6.6 foot tall elves going through their emo phase

[@djordjesrnic1223]

He didn't feel like a true villain. He appeared maybe once or twice before the final showdown, like Pagan Min in Far Cry 4. The game TELLS you how evil he is, but doesn't SHOW his evil, making him feel like a nuisance to me, rather than a real villain. In contrast, The Crones showed their evil and felt more menacing.

[@rishabh7922]

Still Min's first appearance itself was enough to prove his villainy

[@djordjesrnic1223]

@@rishabh7922 True. I just feel like they didn't utilize his full potential.

[@flaviomonteiro1414]

The Emperor and Radovid even Djisktra felt more like a villain than Eredin... :/

[@LipziG3R]

I mean you can literally play the game for 100+ hours doing story and side content and completely forget that dude even exists and apparently does something bad. Like sure, you could argue he's a part of finding Ciri but for a large part he doesn't actively play a role there, either. It's just you following ciris trails.

[@nathans45]

I do agree that he was under utilized in tw3 but I think they did a good job showing how evil he is in the few scenes he had, like when he stabbed that random peasant in the back as he was crawling on the ground

[@SkankHunt007]

I loved how much he was purposely left out in the games. It ended up building this big evil figure that was some untouchable thing. Albeit he could’ve got some more love in the second half of the Witcher 3.

[@ciaranbrk]

I think they gave him so few lines to make him more menacing and unknown .

[@Ass4ssin007]

Thats probably what they were going for but him and the Wild Hunt in general are just very underutilised

[@carl_consumer.of.reality]

@@Ass4ssin007Yeah, like I think they are very cool and threatening villains, but for a game with the subtitle "Wild Hunt", they are really not utilized very much

[@Ass4ssin007]

@@carl_consumer.of.reality Game is so good its no big deal but as you said Wild Hunt is in the Name and they have 2 min screen time before the final fight lmao

[@reilynooij6399]

It is a shame, I think Eredin would make an awesome and menacing villain for the 3rd game if he wasn't so underdeveloped. They could have made him way more sympathetic like for example Letho, because his home is going to be destroyed by the white frost, but they almost just made him a cool looking elf with a cool voice. Really do like the design and voice though :)

[@MachonyLeeoun]

uh... they go to other dimensions and capture people to enslave them..

[@marcoeland3405]

there‘s nothing to make him sympathetic. They can‘t deny the books completely. They have already made Triss way more important than she is for the sake of fucking and reduced Yen to a simple bitch while she‘s actually so much closer to Geralt than the game implies. The whole myths behind Ciri‘s person come short, if you only play the game you get no idea of who she actually is with respect to literature and myths/legends..

[@reilynooij6399]

@@marcoeland3405 I do get that, and I'm reading the books. But this about the Witcher game, they can't stick for a 100 percent to the books because some thinks just don't work. There are characters in the Witcher games that are great that aren't even in the books. So if they gave a particular character like Eredin for example some more depth it wouldn't matter. If you like the books, but you think the games fall short on the lore, thats fine. But the games are a sequel on the books so I think a character can be changed a little bit, and go through some character changes. The games don't need to be exactly the same as the books, just capture the world, characters and overall feeling of the witcher.

[@reilynooij6399]

@@MachonyLeeoun Ok I'll put the word sympathetic differently (English isnt my native language so my choice of words might be a bit poorly with the word sympathetic). They had a pretty interesting villain, and could have made him a lot more interesting If they gave him more screentime, and more depth. He still should be a villain. But I think Imlerith, Caranthir, Ge'els and Eredin could be explored more.

[@reilynooij6399]

@Aaron9 I know the fucking lore mr. It was a poor choice of words. What I meant was to flesh out his character more. I think the wild hunt had way more potential than what we've seen in witcher 3

[@franciscovazquezjr4550]

I mistakenly read the title as The Witcher who is Eredin and thought "what, Eredin was a witcher?" Mistake on my part lol

[@thespyro3883]

same

[@WhiteWolf-di2nh]

And to think about that Eredin tried to... befriend Ciri at some point. Mindblowing!

[@alexico909]

I haven't read the books, so I had no idea the wild hunt were elves, when he first took his mask off I was kind of disappointed. They had a horsemen of the apocalypse vibe to them upto that point. Also you sounds fed up mate like your explaining this to someone who's asked you twenty times before and you can't believe you have to explain it again

[@manofculture4938]

I love the design of the wild hunts armor. Those ribcages are actually a smart and realistic way of countering armor-piercing weapons.

[@user-sy4ec3em5o]

I wish Eredin and the wild hunt could have been developed more in witcher 3...

[@ghxstlxrd191]

He's definitely the coolest character in the series in my opinion. I just wish he had a more interesting boss fight and more emphasis on his character.

[@factbeaglesarebest]

Bloody Baron reminding me of (book: Robert Baratheon mixed with Book: Hoat) was my favorite interesting W3 character

[@notsosecretsnacker5218]

The bloody baron questline stands out the most for me. It's just so brilliant and so tragic in all parts.

[@factbeaglesarebest]

@@notsosecretsnacker5218 it really is. Excellent, top tier writing. In one of my short stories I kind of drew some influence, mostly just the name, for a character called the “Brooding Baron”, who’s called so as his Surname sounds similar “Beroodin” and is a generally unpleasant guy.

[@MrNeosantana]

Vargo Hoat? He's too goofy to be related to Strenger in any way.

[@capnkraken1514]

Could you do a video on the differences between the different classes of monsters? Such as what makes a monster part of a class, like ogroids, relicts, hybrids, etc? Love your content, please keep doing these. I use a lot of lore from the Witcher series not only for just knowing more about the series but also for inspiration for D&D campaigns and this really helps. Seriously thank you so much!

[@ugakawabungga3183]

I prefer the book. More of a character to that one. It'll make you think twice about killing somebody who just loves his race and will do anything to save it, not just some bad guy who want to conquer worlds and became worse when time pushes. Maybe I can use the dark knight's joker or farcry 4 main villian for example

[@explosiongames11]

bruh he still goes between wolds capturing and enslaving people in the books, why would you think twice about killing him. Also you've got this completely confused, you say in the books he just wants to save his race but his race isnt in any danger in the books cause the white frost isnt a thing, Its the games where he is trying to save his race by capturing ciri, in the books he just wants to return the elder blood to his race, his race isnt actually in any danger in the books.

[@ugakawabungga3183]

@@explosiongames11 I remember vaguely reading it in the book(s) that there is something going on that threatens the Aen Elle so they need Ciri more and more as time progresses. Maybe I mixed it with the game's story but I'm not so sure. I could be wrong

[@therabbi9848]

Don’t forget the Aen Elle genocided all of the humans from their world

[@ill4mz54]

Nag nothing about him was identifiable. He didnt want to save his race, he wanted to save what was left through genocide. Yes the white frost was killing his world but he wanted all of humanity out of his way. That's not a hero of his people, that's a monster in search of power at the cost of others.

[@danielsantos6437]

@@explosiongames11 There is also a mass grave that Ciri discovered where all the natives of the Aen Elle world end up on. It makes you think of the irony and the hypocrisy of the elves always whining about being on the world first and the humans being the invaders. When their Aen Elle brethren travel between worlds to enslave, kill and conquer them. He also din't want to save their race, what they wanted was the power of Ciri because with it instead of moving just a few people across worlds they could move entire armies, basically he wanted to be able to again go conquer other worlds. I hate the elves with a passion in the Witcher series, they are the biggest hypocrites and pretentious beings in my opinion

[@quillanjacobson1478]

I don't think they should have made him a blatant evil character. The best villains are characters that are "the good guy" for their cause, so to speak, but their cause goes against that of the protagonist. With Auberon dead, they definitely had a chance to create that kind of villain in Eredin

[@exu7325]

Isn't that exactly what Eredin is? Considering that he's trying to "save" his dying civilization, I'm willing to bet the Aen Elle think Eredin is "the good guy". But since the Aen Elle are racial supremacist, enslaving, settler-colonialists we couldn't-and shouldn't-sympathize with them. Is that "blatantly evil", I don't think so.

[@quillanjacobson1478]

@@exu7325 my problem isn't how Eredin is if you know him, my problem is how he's portrayed. It is not difficult to create a game for the bad guy and portray him as the hero. look at GTA 5, you are the bad guy but you never feel like it. With Eredin, you never feel sympathy for his cause; you never feel his desperation, you never feel his regret, you never feel anything for him. Remember how Iorveth at the beginning of the Witcher two is your enemy? By the end, you couldn't imagine siding any other way

[@hl8808]

Quillan Jacobson I get a strange feeling eredin has affection for ciri alongside his desire for her elder blood

[@lumboah3922]

Whilst I disagree that all villains should be the good guy of their story... I mean look at gunter who is a fantastic villain but blatantly evil for the sake of it. I do agree that it would have suited eredin a lot better

[@therabbi9848]

Eredin is a pretty bad dude even in the books.

[@justamuffhugger6733]

Avallac’h vs the rest of his species is like 5’11 vs 6’0

[@srmelancia3523]

Maybe he became shorter after his curse was broken

[@pro29ss]

1 inch difference? 😂 they are more like 6’5

[@maglor2414]

And he was supposed to be almost as tall as Eredin 😂

[@nathans45]

There's two explanations I hear for why he's shorter. A. Yen basically had to rebuild his body to break the curse, and in the process she may have accidentally made him shorter, or B. He's deliberately using magic to appear shorter so he can fit in with the elves on the continent

[@JohnAlspaughVideo]

I was always under the impression that it was purposefully left ambiguous whether or not the vial that Eredin gave to Ciri actually aphrodisiac or secretly poison so that he could get Ciri to murder Auberon for him. Or, going further, perhaps he knew it was aphrodisiac and knew that the dose was too strong and would kill him. In either cause, I always thought that the books left it ambiguous on purpose whether or not Eredin was malicious and wanted Ciri to murder their king. If we are to go with the impression that he is, and that he did intend to have Ciri murder their king for him, then the lore between the books and the games lines up perfectly. Kind of like how in "The Lesser Evil" how its left ambiguous whether or not Geralt had actually loved Renfri or whether she had charmed him with a sort of spell as Stregobor claimed.

[@frosksdeadteeth5163]

The whole gaddamn story is fuckin ambiguous imo

[@lordfarquad8913]

Do you even know what aphrodisiac means? Because I don’t think it means what you think it means.

[@maglor2414]

But he was genuinely surprised when she told him about kings death in the books

[@davidwellmann4985]

@@lordfarquad8913 ever heard "the dosage makes the poison"?

[@aimworkin]

I remember the first time playing the Witcher..never knew a thing about the Wild Hunt..they seemed so scary..or overwhelming..but as soon as I learned they were elves in armour all changed. They were no longer scary, they were so frail all of a sudden. It was great

[@joerdim]

That probably was my biggest disappointment in the whole game.

[@rigajykra3159]

@@joerdimthat’s the point. They are trying to appear more robust and omnipresent but in reality they are just elves.

[@RastaGamesful]

I did not like Eredin, his character was underworked.

[@klaustruthahn4185]

Yeah that's true. Gaunter o dimm and Letho were a lot better villains than the Wild Hunt/Eredin (sorry my English isn't the best)

[@ericv.christian201]

I feel like the idea was to keep him in mistery. Yes some character development would have been nice but at the same time I feel like the lack of character development was his chracter development(If that makes any sense). He's a misterious alien figure to most anyways driven by power. And besides the main villain/objective was to overcome obstacles and help Ciri end the white frost. I mean why would they not develop Eredin but characters like Whoreson, Djiikstra and Radovid got character development. I think it was intended but maybe that's just me.

[@sodoff4451]

@@ericv.christian201 if you played the Witcher 2 the game hypes the wild hunt but in Witcher 3 you don't find that much about the wild hunt.

[@ericv.christian201]

@@sodoff4451 Well you dont find much but thehaura of mystery and the fact that the only encounters are fights that are brutal and hard to win makes them look like a big threat and somebody that doesn't negociate. For me it was jsut right. Altough Eredin and the hunt are not these deep characters, and ofc I don't find them complex yet their appereances are menacing and well done. I dont think we're supposed to know a lot about em. Think of the reapers in mass effect. That's a genoius villan(s) yet they don't really have any "Character development"I mean how would you even do cahracter development to machines. But still you learn bits of info about them and how they work and ultimateley defeat them. The focus is shepard and his/hers crew and only the side villains get development. Same thing here if you ask me, menacing threat that you're supposed to know little about.

[@ericv.christian201]

@Senile Crocodile Caranthir was introduced by CdPr, and they tried to stay as true as possible to the lore(Also the assasination part im fairly sure it never said in the books if Eredin wanted or not to kill his king, since George said he didin't mean to kill him.) and ignoring the existance of Eredin or changing him from the leader would have been wierd and harda to Justify, besides Caranthir has 6 lines in the entire game so he doesn't really sell me he could have been a good main villain.

[@notjimpickens7928]

Been waiting for this one for a while, Great stuff man.

[@pratikraut6354]

You know who was way harder to defeat than Eredin...??? The Frog Prince

[@killwarfare99]

With igni it’s a one min fight tho

[@Derhone]

Enchanted Northern Wind Problem solved

[@lipswhips2514]

@@Derhone yeah northern wind bombs make that fight tooooo easy

[@samv5587]

Yep

[@Benjamin-mj9pd]

The books the wild hunt were skeletal riders on skeletal horses. They were omens rather than enemies. In mythology they were souls of the dead with dogs, Valkyries, elves, the devil, Cain, Gabriel, and/or fairies depending on the source. In the games it’s a scary Sauron like figure.

[@SayGahTaah]

U have the mind of a peasant.

[@rubenTR309]

just completed the game, and now just found this channel. it was fate

[@ycee0]

Sid Sloth same

[@wolfbrigade8042]

After finally having played Witcher 3 I can say that Eredin is easily the coolest looking character in the game... BUT I wish we would have seen so much more of him. I feel like he had so much potential but ended up being more of a side character.

[@Ass4ssin007]

@Scholars of the Creed he doesnt appear in Witcher 1 and 2 tho does he?

[@carl_consumer.of.reality]

@@Ass4ssin007He has a very short appearance towards the end of 1

[@johanneskaramossov5103]

If I may make a request about a witcher Lore video: how about one about Aen Seidhe Mages? I know that they have no Colleges, not sure if anymore or if they never had them, such as aretuza for the humans, but much more single teachers and that their way to use magic is somehow different but their my knowledge ends.

[@notaseal7864]

Tbf we don't actually know if Eredin killed the king Avalach could have tricked all of us

[@AdityaSingh-lp5rp]

To tackle such a large character you need to be running really fast

[@andreadebernardis4390]

honestly? I loved him. He was a great villain, just like the Wild Hunt Eredin was underused because he wasn't, as I see it, meant to be he's the "face" of the Wild Hunt the stories about it make this more obvious to me everyone sees the Wild Hunt as a myth, wraiths riding in the sky and guiding boats of the dead and Eredin is at the top. He IS the Wild Hunt. and that's what I really love about him, though I have to admit I didn't like the way they revealed they were Elves, could've been handled better

[@madness8897]

now that i know what he was like in the books, i feel like they missed a good opportunity. he could have been made evil enough as is by mentioning trying to show what slaves were treated like in the books and the insults he threw at ciri.

[@gpu213]

I think the point of the white frost is also that it makes the Aen Elle viewpoint way more sympathetic, I don't think Eredin (and the others) is purely evil. Without the white frost that just measns the Aen elle want access to the world of the Aen Seidhe so bad just to get more slaves, whereas with the white frost coming for them, it means they want the world of the Aen Seidhe so they can keep running from the white frost and survive as a species. It changes Eredins motivation from evil to being somewhat sympathetic, in his mind he is going to save his species from extinction.

[@DastardlyDingleberry]

Eredin has a cool voice, and even better with the mask on

[@popodomslimesause3073]

He looks so cool

[@seaschulainn]

There is artwork of hot Eredin in the "World of the Witcher" book. (Page 161). Also in the books during Ciri's dreams where she is "confronted" by different characters the vision she has of Eredin he tells her he knows she desired him, I wonder if that's true. I wish the game had the book Eredin. Book Eredin I also feel like was a "nicer" person than Avallac'h.

[@seaschulainn]

@@Smuusik I put "nicer" in quotes because I didn't know another word to describe it. I don't see him as a kinder person I think it's my personal preference that Eredin seeming to be more honest and upfront makes him nicer, where Avallac'h makes me uncomfortable. Whenever I hear "Avallac'h" I think about his lab that was used as a very real threat to Citi so not knowing the extent to Avallac'hs' cruelty but knowing it's there is unnerving at least. But at the same time perhaps Eredin was only being honest and upfront in these instances because the truth was fun for him to tell Citi and he seems to like a more defiant Citi, maybe he wouldn't have given her good news if he had it. . .I wish these characters where are developed more the Elves and Vampires are my favorites.

[@mohammadzayeemfaraz319]

I was expecting boss to be sorta demon king My disappointment was immeasurable and day ruined

[@dannyDanDanDanTwo]

Can you add names and words on screen when discussing? It would be of great help to better keep track of you could have character names pop up on screen and/or location and dates as you mention them as well. Just a thought. Great work though! Please keep them coming!

[@Nyarlarthotep9]

Awesome video, very concise analysis of Eredin, and that’s not an easy feat. Witcher lore gets pretty confusing.

[@hydreigon2709]

Thing is... Why did eredin not just let ciri go stop the white frost? If his motivation is to save his people from the white Frost?

[@capricolt2598]

He wanted Ciri to move the entire aen Elle, not just stop the frost.

[@ENASS922]

@@capricolt2598 Yes but he wants to do that to save his people but i think he didn't want Ciri to risk her life she is too precious

[@danielsantos6437]

@@ENASS922 No. He wasn't the hero you think he is, they wanted Ciri to be able to move the entire Aen Elle, currently the way the jump through worlds is limited, basically what they wanted was power. Yes, they want to save their race, that much is true, but they are also race supremacists, they keep human slaves, they genocide the human population when they arrived at that world (Ciri discovered the mass grave) and guess what they'll do if they got Ciri power and the ability to jump the entire Aen Elle agian? Yeah, I don't think so mate. He isn't a good dude nor noble in his intentions.

[@kennethmiller81]

Imlerith has cooler armor than eriden but eriden has a more imposing and nicer helmet

[@charlieturner5831]

Love what you do, can you make some lore videos about the Northern wars and how it affected the main characters?

[@nightingale2456]

I have a question about the higher vampire Orianna. In my knowledge Higher Vampires can only bee killed by other higher vampires, so orianna is not dead right?

[@WhiteWolf-di2nh]

How i see it she is just old , very clever and intelligent bruxa that's why she may appear as Higher vampire to some.

[@AB-fr2ei]

The only HV can kill other HV didnt even exist in the books It was made in BAW and even here we still dont know if its fully true

[@surajseepersad7558]

Eredin was shown in the Witcher Blood Origin. He was gay smh

[@neros398]

Ciri joind the chat Eredin joined the chat Geralt joined the chat Eredin left the chat

[@robertm5969]

The game writers may have tried to make him seem more evil, but the book version would have actually been more ominous. An ideology is more threatening than a person, because it can live on after a person is killed. The book Eredin was following chain of command, and upholding an ideology. It would have been more interesting if they emphasized the differences in ideology: eternal enslavement of mankind, vs. freedom for humanity. They could go into detail of the history of the Wild Hunt's part in the misery for mankind, and how Eredin represents the turning point in whether it would envelope their world or not.

[@KillerSupergirl]

such a shame they changed him in the game! In the books he is rude and arrogant, but ciri seems to be into that and has a crush on him! and the end scene in the books where he visits her in her dreams pretty much confirms he knows that and kind of threatens that he will catch her in the spiral.

[@king_k_style6600]

I’m confused as to why ciri let the king of the elves try to impregnate her

[@1926PlovdivCity]

As i remember Ciri had a vision about mountains of skulls or somthing like that when she was in their world with the help of the unicorns

[@petersengupta]

3:37 ironic that yen and geralt once used a unicorn as a bed...

[@jessical8426]

Great video George!! I never realized the difference with Eredin book vs game, also haven’t read the books in a while. I feel like they definitely wanted him to be more of a bad guy for dramatics, similar to what Netflix is doing with Cahir

[@therabbi9848]

I hope that they don’t change Cahir too much in the coming seasons.

[@ycee0]

I thought Eredin would’ve been a lot harder to kill

[@danielsatter1805]

I just got the entire book series from my S.O. for my bday but i'll still watch these videos 👍

[@Blastros01]

I think they were smart about how they approached the story telling. It's about the journey, not the ending. Eredin is an extremely simplified character so you're not overwhelmed with all of this lore building up for a character that you don't confront until 20+ hours in. It's good for a videogame's story but of course in a book the characters are usually much more complicated.

[@truffelnootje]

Always want more lore, shame that eredin was portrayed as something he wasn’t. Still an awesome game! Still playing!

[@haraldalmas9144]

I love this video, but I could not finish it because I am not done reading the books and I dont want any spoilers. Keep up the good work good sir

[@jessicawilson8240]

Literally just read the bit today where Ciri escapes from Tir na Lia with the help of the unicorns and the Aen elle slaughtered the humans when they arrived.

[@thebingthing8421]

I wonder why the wild hunt didn’t just ask Siri to move them to a different world. She did say she saw worlds flying metal ships and others. Could have moved em to a young planet that navigators scouted out before hand.

[@iommiclife794]

Auberon Muircetach was likely more impotent because of his high age than disgusted by Ciri. He was even really old for an Aen Elle which definitly influenced his performance.

[@abrahamipe1]

Hey man, huge fan of your Witcher videos and the research you do! Not sure if this is feasible, but would you be able to do a video basically going over tips/tricks/guide you have found for surviving Death March? Would greatly appreciate it!

[@SetoEevee7]

Thank you for making this video!

[@Boomerrage32]

Keep it up. Every video is a blast to watch!

[@samuraizackk3408]

Love the channel man! Your videos are awesome!

[@achmadtitofauzan3809]

Simple answer, eredin is buffed, edgy, emo, not your usual elf on steroids

[@AhmedTVED4]

I hope they don’t destroy his character in Netflix show

[@helenline1790]

They'll make him black. Just watch 😂.

[@AhmedTVED4]

Helen Line not what I mean 😂😂 I mean deleting scenes or change his appearance .

[@boi4947]

@@AhmedTVED4 making him black is not changing his appearance? Ok

[@helenline1790]

@@boi4947 If anything, they better not fuck up his armor

[@boi4947]

@@helenline1790 and the voice, though they did make a good job with geralt so I don't worry about that

[@kronoscamron7412]

wait so ciri slept with auberon? but he couldn't get it up? lol

[@marcoeland3405]

she agreed to and they tried several times. But it didn‘t work.

[@frosksdeadteeth5163]

Not that either of them tried very hard really. Maybe male elves have low T. He was a few hundred years old, though. Still, men will fuck dead animals/fruit/plastic etc I doubt many would turn down Ciri..

[@marcoeland3405]

@@frosksdeadteeth5163 and apple pies!

[@MrGashi1337]

i wish they made the wild hunt a little more present in the game, if they made them some random encounters in the open while doing side quests or exploring

[@EredinLore]

me

[@afngary]

Think it's so funny about the potion. Basically death by boner. If he had survived he would have been able to dork the three Crones witches. Then laugh again at the thought of him waking up next to them in the morning.

[@ExtremelyOnlineGuy]

Oh that’s skull knight, mortal enemy of the god han- wait wrong universe

[@ddomenicoeeziommancini]

Good one

[@justing1474]

Just started watching yr W3 play through, damn awesome, I like to watch quests I’ve already done to find our what I missed or get some more lore 🎉

[@pedropierre9594]

My biggest gripe with Eredin is that for being a king his sword is rubbish

[@KimberlyKjellberg]

I haven't gotten far enough into the books yet to know how he is presented there. But maybe they changed it to him outright murder Auberon because the it makes it more probably that Ge'els would agree to withhold support if it was murder and not an accident.

[@andyknightwarden9746]

I think that's the story Avalla'ach(sp?) spun to Ge'els, but I don't think it necessarily happened that way. Also, Ciri could have refuted the lie if she had been with them purely by recounting the shock on his face when she told him of Auberon's death, but she wasn't there. I always saw that bit of dialogue as a cleverly spun half-truth calculated to get the viceroy out of the way, so that Eredin could be dealt with on more even terms.

[@KimberlyKjellberg]

@@andyknightwarden9746 But it would take more than a cleverly spun half-truth he must also somehow muddle the oracle's dream, even if he is the one placing his hand on her, it's supposed to be something that can't be tampered with. It's not that I think Avallac'h wouldn't lie to suit his needs but it seems complicated.

[@SkulliSeta]

I pretty much know nothing about the unicorns on the Witcher world. If you have made a lore video about them i have probably missed it. If you haven't i would be very interested to hear more about them

[@marcoeland3405]

there isn‘t much about them. They are the native inhabitants of the world the Aen Elle conquered. And they helped Ciri escape instead of killing her because she rescued Ihuarraquax. They didn‘t care about her, they just wanted her to leave.

[@simoncao5924]

I dont usually watch cut scene but this game make me feel like i really want to watch them xD

[@umukzusgelos4834]

I think they did the character dirty, especially given all the context there is in the books

[@joekaf]

I honestly think they added the White Frost threat to the game because "I need to kidnap Ciri so I can make her have my baby" is pretty fucking gross and not exactly a motivation that's going to get a lot of people to empathize with the antagonist. There's a big difference between an antagonist who is trying to save his people and one who just wants the power to enslave other species.

[@marcoeland3405]

The white frost hasn‘t been added to the game. It‘s part of the whole story and the actual reason why the Aen Elle try to get a hold of Ciri. The White Frost is part of Ithlinna‘s prophecy about the end of the world and it‘s a very real threat in the books too.

[@gaunterodimm8120]

Witcher 4 is surely going to be somewhat based around the betrayal of avallach

[@bjornlothbrok3604]

Gaunter O'Dimm nah

[@droppa57kgx24]

Yea I wouldn’t mind playing an Aen Elle elf in the new Witcher.

[@therabbi9848]

As much as I would love to play a fourth Witcher game, I feel like it’s done. CDPR did an admirable job bringing Geralt back for three whole games but he wanted to retire from being a witcher at the end of the books. Ciri by the end of the Witcher 3 is way too OP to be a compelling main character so I’m don’t think that would work either.

[@droppa57kgx24]

TheRabbi98 they literally said they arent done making games in the witcher universe and confirmed one is in development for release after Cyberpunk 2077.

[@vampirehunter5151]

Daughter of Chaos. Join our Hunt. You belong with us.

[@ericv.christian201]

This video reminded me about a theory I came up with(But also many more people came to the conclusion before I did from the same information after I looked into it a bit further, so it's techically not my theory.) Every "world" it's most likely a planet in the same galaxy or universe at most. Since Ciri when she travaled trought "portals"(More like magical wormholes) at some point she saw the same constelation she saw on the Witcher-verse main planet, it's not a lot to go on but still there's nothing in my opinion that states it's interdimentional traveling what Ciri does. And thus nothing beeing present to contradict the posibility of Ciri(and Navigators) tarveling between planets I belive that's the truth altough it's not 100% confirmed.

[@whatthefuck9703]

Eredin Bréacc Glas. Damn that name is badass

[@nathancox1249]

I feel like the vision we see in the game, that makes Eredin look like the bad guy, is what Avaloch wants Gwels to see to make him turn on Eredin before the fight at Kear Morhen... sorry about butchering the spelling😂

[@TheAerondight]

Oneiromancy cannot be fabricated, as Ge'els himself says.

[@nathancox1249]

@@TheAerondight but as an elven sage he has extremely rare abilities... And what if he only told him that so he would believe him further, and what if Ge'els doesn't know alot about oneiromancy so he's taking advantage of that

[@samsschool3639]

"Do you not know death when you see it.. old man? This is my hour!"

[@arnaspuidokas5464]

You forgot to mention Ciri having a sort of romantic dream about him.

[@arseniczirconium9098]

Hey when did that happen?

[@arseniczirconium9098]

@Michele La Mura Lady of the Lake?

[@neros398]

We're not talking about this.

[@kaitlynwatts3223]

I suppose considering it’s avallac'h using Tilly to show what happened maybe he framed it as Eredin deliberately poisoning Auberon over accidentally overdosing as they where convincing Ge'els not to send back up when Eradin called.

[@TheNosgothicRealm]

you sir should read the books. humans have never traveled between worlds before the conjunction

[@nikolapetrovic4814]

I hate that they "mortalized" the wild hunt. In the first game it was presented as some kind of Lovecraftian entity beyond comprehension. Third game, elves from another world, yay. I was so underwhelmed.

[@therabbi9848]

If they didn’t it would be contrary to canon. I think it was a good idea to bring them back as the main antagonists for the third game. They were pretty much the only loose end left by the books

[@stacetheface47]

They were introduced as elves in the 2nd game. In one of Geralts flashbacks, when Geralt made deal with Eredin to free Yennerfer. I like the Wild Hunt their quite menacing, I just wish Eredin and others were better developed. Its one of my few criticisms in otherwise very brilliant game and series that I have.

[@marcoeland3405]

it‘s how the story is. It wasn‘t the idea of CRP.

[@FenixoA]

Drink for every time he says "it's complicated".

[@jeremybird3467]

Great video!!! I love the witcher games...i am a gamer...but a bit of a picky gamer...ive never really gotten into call of duty...have played many and own like 4 of em...im just not a big "online player"....i prefer game franchises with EXCELLENT stories to play through...like the witcher...both rdr games and undead nightmare(rdr2 online is only online game i play)...fable...uncharted...assassins creed(mainly black flag/syndicate/odyssey)...etc...the witcher 3 wild hunt is 1 of my top 5 fav games of all time!!! I have the complete edition...w/ both hearts of stone and blood and wine...and both of those expansions r great!!! I will admit i have not read any of the witcher books...i honestly didnt even know they existed till like the 2nd game...i have watched the 1st season of the show several times and love it...if netflix keeps going how they r with the witcher...this could be the next game of thrones....except done right...hopefully....the wild hunt captivated me from the very beginning....i was shocked to find out they were elves....i was expecting em to be some kinda super spector like ghosts or maybe even demonic....the way they jump from world to world...and the ship in the sky and all that...but i still liked what they were when i found out what they were...

[@ApocaIypse666]

im kinda lost and confused with all those names being mentioned damn i had to rewatch this again

[@ianherp5678]

Hes a big boi who hits like a marshmallow. Like every time he hits me i cant help but hear a squeaky toy.

[@mariofeared]

I'm kind of hoping you'll make a video like the breakdown of season 2 of the Witcher Netflix series. Actually, you can simply make a short one: "none of this. I mean, absolutely none of this, is in the books. Goodbye."

[@johnwatson401]

i think he served the purpose he needed to. but he could have had a ton of complexity added to him and it would only have helped the story. if they'd had more resources and no budget I think they would have made him better. the witcher 3 is a great story but I don't think extra depth in the villain could've hurt the story.