The ratcatchers… Well, you’d better not copy them, because they, to a man, took to drink and went to the dogs.“ But they were finished off by alchemists and their effective poisons and then domesticated ferrets and weasels…

“ Do you remember? And the ratcatchers with pipes? Everybody was fighting over their services. The Edge of the World contains a reference to The Pied Piper of Hamelin: “Last winter, prince Hrobarik, without such pleasantries, tried to hire me to look for a pretty girl, who having enough of his boarish advances, ran from the ball leaving a little glass slipper behind.” Not long after that, both she and the child died of plague.” “ Remember Zivelina, who became the Queen of Metinna with the help of the gnome Rumplestelt, and in return promised him her first-born? Zivelina didn’t keep her promise when Rumplestelt came for his reward and, by using magic spells, she forced him to run away. She’s tracked down the little one, who was living in Mahakam with seven gnomes whom she’d managed to convince it was more profitable to rob merchants on the roads than to pollute their lungs with dust from the mines.“Ī Question of Price has elements of both Rumpelstiltskin and Cinderella: “Then, four years later I received news from Aridea. “Who is the fairest of them all?” I know all Nehelenia’s Mirrors are either polite or broken.” With the usual question, I take it, interrupted Geralt. The following quotes refer to the magic mirror as used by Snow White’s mother and the seven dwarves – although in this version they are gnomes: The Lesser Evil is based on Snow White & the 7 Dwarfs. If they truly fall in love with him during this time, his curse will be broken. In this version of the story the Beast lives in a castle and pays travelling merchants to leave their daughters with him for a year. In this interpretation, the Beast is Nivellen, a young man, who rapes a priestess who spits in his face cursing him and transforming into a revolting creature, doomed to loneliness.

The story A Grain of Truth appears to be based on Beauty and the Beast: It is the first of eight books and is filled with references to lore and fairytales which seem familiar, but with very different details and outcomes than in the versions I am used to: The Last Wish is a collection of short stories concerning The Witcher, Geralt of Rivia, whose monster killing exploits inspired the Netflix TV show, The Witcher, and the video game of the same name. Yet he is no ordinary murderer: his targets are the multifarious monsters and vile fiends that ravage the land and attack the innocent.īut not everything monstrous-looking is evil and not everything fair is good… and in every fairy tale there is a grain of truth. Geralt the Witcher-revered and hated-is a man whose magic powers, enhanced by long training and a mysterious elixir, have made him a brilliant fighter and a merciless assassin.

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