So by the time Geralt and Ciri reach Kaer Morhen in the books, there are only 4 wolf witchers left-Geralt, Vesemir, Lambert, and Eskel. The witcher mutagens were also destroyed in that attack, and no witcher was made after that. The schools are where the witchers are trained, all having slightly different mutagens and fighting styles. The attack on Kaer Morhen by humans that Vesemir references in the show did, in fact, kill most of the witchers, as they had the help from another witcher school, the school of cats. This is where Geralt first takes Ciri in the books, and they do begin training her to be a witcher that winter, but the number of witchers left in the books doesn’t even reach half a dozen. There looks to be near a dozen Witchers there, and they all come to embrace Ciri and her witcher training eventually.
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When Geralt and Ciri arrive at Kaer Morhen, they find the main hall already full with almost all of Geralt’s other witcher brothers, only missing Eskel who comes in later. Geralt had already been tracking down the bruxa Vereena at that point too, so it wasn’t a surprise that was being hidden from him. He stumbled across the mansion on accident while searching for it, where he meets Nivellen for the first time and learns of his life story. When Geralt finds Nivellen in the books, it’s because he was traveling nearby and noticed there was a creature around that was killing people. Related: Kristofer Hivju Transforms into Nivellen in The Witcher Clip At that that point in the books, Geralt hadn’t even met Ciri. Though the 'beauty and the beast' similarities are in the text, this was the last of the short stories to be brought to life in the show. When we meet Nivellen this season, the man who is cursed into being a monstrous, boar-like creature is friends with Geralt, who has Ciri along with him. However, this episode is still the closest to the source material. There are already changes made from the books right off the bat in episode one. Here’s a closer look at some of the changes they've made this season. The creators seem to have gone back on that commitment and have begun to spin their own story for season two and onward. Originally, the writers and directors stated that they planned to follow the books closely, and though The Witcher was close to the short stories which inspired it, some people weren’t happy with the changes that were made, nor did they appreciate the convoluted timeline the show used without any indication that these stories were not happening simultaneously.
Netflix used the short stories in season 1 for just that-each episode had its own small story to see from beginning to end, adding a kind of overarching plot with Ciri learning that she needs to find Geralt before the eventual tie-in of everyone’s storylines. In bringing the story of The Continent to life, there are 8 books to draw from, 2 of them being collections of short stories to help build the world up before the main story begins.
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Showrunner Lauren Hissrich described Eskel’s death as what “propels Geralt’s need to figure out what’s going on with Ciri and to do it fast, because he knows that he’s going to risk losing her and his brothers if he doesn’t.” She goes on to state that she and the writers felt that Geralt and the rest of the witchers needed to see that bringing Ciri into their home would ‘fundamentally change’ their way of life and that the best way to do this was to kill off one of the witchers while originally this was going to be a new character, Hissrich admits that the idea felt shallow, noting that the death of a new character would not have the same impact as the death of a character than fans already loved.Netflix’s The Witcher isn’t the only adaptation based on the book series of the same name, but it was originally intended to stay close to the source material.
While this change in personality is certainly a step away from the original story, it’s Eskel’s sudden and unforeseen death that makes a bigger impact.
Yet, in the Netflix series, Eskel is portrayed as rather belligerent and confrontational, especially towards Ciri, a stark contrast to the care he shows her in the books.
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