On August 26, 2020, a making-of about the first season of the show titled Making The Witcher was released on Netflix. [95] On September 2, 2020, the making-of series The Witcher: A Look Inside the Episodes premiered on Netflix. [96] Cassie Clare as Philippa Eilhart (season 3; guest season 2), the shapeshifting court sorceress of King Vizimir of Redania as well as Dijkstra's partner in crime. She has close ties to the Brotherhood. Blair Kincaid as Crach an Craite, a member of a royal clan from the Skellige Isles, who was invited to Pavetta's betrothal event. With Sapkowski's permission, the Polish publishing house Solaris published a collection of eight short stories entitled Opowieści ze świata Wiedźmina [ pl] ( Tales from the World of The Witcher). Written by Russian and Ukrainian fantasy writers (including Andrei Belyanin and Vladimir Vasilyev), they are set in the world of The Witcher and feature its characters; [18] Nowa Fantastyka". Fantastyka.pl. Archived from the original on November 7, 2017 . Retrieved January 3, 2018.

The Witcher series has been described as having a cult following in Poland and Central and Eastern European countries. [45] [46] They have been translated into 37 languages and sold over 15 million copies worldwide as of December 2019. [38] Two weeks after the Netflix TV adaptation was released in 2020, revenue from the books was reportedly up 562% compared to the same period in 2018. [47] Entries in The Witcher series have earned Sapkowski the Janusz A. Zajdel Award three times; "The Lesser Evil" (1990), "Sword of Destiny" (1992), and Blood of Elves (1994). [48] The Last Wish won the 2003 Premio Ignotus for Best Anthology in Spain. [49] In the United Kingdom, Blood of Elves won Best Novel at the first David Gemmell Awards for Fantasy in 2009. [50] Sword of Destiny won the 2012 Tähtifantasia Award in Finland. [51] a b c Andrzej Sapkowski; Stanisław Bereś (2005). Historia i fantastyka (in Polish). SuperNOWA. p.268. ISBN 978-83-7054-178-1. Dadi Einarsson, Gavin Round, Bruno Baron, Matthias Bjarnason, Sebastien Francoeur, Aleksandar Pejic, Oliver Cubbage, Mateusz Tokarz, and Stefano Pepin The Witcher Adventure Game – Board Game". BoardGameGeek. Archived from the original on April 18, 2016 . Retrieved April 28, 2016.

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Marc, Christopher (August 21, 2018). "Netflix's 'The Witcher' Series Adds 'The Gunman/American Assassin' Production Designer". Geeks WorldWide. Archived from the original on March 24, 2019 . Retrieved July 1, 2019. Swiatek, Bart (June 28, 2019). "Andrzej Sapkowski's Son has Passed Away. Without Him, there Would be no Witcher". Gamepressure . Retrieved March 10, 2022. In 2015, Platige Image planned an American film adaptation of the novel series to arrive in 2017. [67] In May 2017, they announced that they would be producing a The Witcher TV series in cooperation with Netflix and Sean Daniel Company, with Tomasz Bagiński as one of the directors and Sapkowski as a creative consultant. [68] [69] [70] Created by Lauren Schmidt Hissrich, it stars Henry Cavill as Geralt. [71] [72] [73] [74] On October 10, 2018, it was announced that Freya Allan and Anya Chalotra had been cast as main female characters, Ciri and Yennefer. [75] The first season was released on December 20, 2019, with all eight episodes available. [76] A second season was announced on November 13, 2019. [77] All eight episodes were released on December 17, 2021, featuring many of the same characters and some new stars. [78] In September 2021, Netflix renewed the series for a third season. [79] Starting in the show's fourth season, Liam Hemsworth is scheduled to replace Cavill as Geralt.

Piotrkowska Street. The witcher on the walls of a skyscraper, Geralt of Rivia on the largest mural in Poland". Polish News. October 10, 2021. Archived from the original on March 9, 2022 . Retrieved March 8, 2022. MyAnna Buring as Tissaia de Vries (seasons 1–3), mentor to Yennefer and the Rectrix of Aretuza, a training academy for female mages. CD Projekt Red and R.TALSORIAN GAMES Announce The Witcher Role-Playing Game". July 29, 2015. Archived from the original on July 31, 2015 . Retrieved July 31, 2015.Briefly, the first seven books are all chronologically contiguous. Geralt's adventures begin with a series of stand-alone adventures, as he travels from town to town, hunting monsters and occasionally dodging local politicians. But around the end of the second book, things start to shift, as Geralt claims responsibility for a royal child named Ciri. Ciri's adventures, and Geralt's quest to keep her safe, are mainly the story of the rest of the series.

Chalk, Andy (January 3, 2020). "Henry Cavill rejects your notion of a 'gaming man cave' ". PC Gamer.com. Whitbrook, James (September 4, 2018). "Henry Cavill Will Lead Netflix's Witcher Series as Geralt of Rivia". io9. Archived from the original on September 5, 2018 . Retrieved September 4, 2018.Lesley Goldberg (September 4, 2018). "Henry Cavill to Topline Netflix Drama Series 'The Witcher' ". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on September 4, 2018 . Retrieved September 4, 2018. Sapkowski, Andrzej (March 6, 2014). Baptism of Fire: Witcher 3 – Now a major Netflix show. Orion. ISBN 978-0-575-09098-9. Frances Pooley as Teryn, a half-elf girl with a strong resemblance to Ciri who was magically brainwashed into believing that she is someone else. From 1993 to 1995, Sapkowski's stories were adapted into six-issue comic books The Witcher by Maciej Parowski and Sapkowski (story), Bogusław Polch (art). [54]