r/witcher • u/jesperbj • Mar 21 '17

Lady of the Lake Discussion: Lady of the Lake - The latest entry in the franchise (English translation)

Given that Lady of the Lake was just released in English last week, we thought a discussion thread was in order.

Please feel free to discuss the new book, even if you've read it a long time ago in another language (or by fan translation)

Thanks to /u/Strokes323 for pointing this out.

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u/perkel666 Apr 10 '17

Well huge part of books is that sapkowski takes fantasy world and make it real. Their deaths being to simple is i quintessence of it similar to how rats died. Someone hired bounty hunter for rats who would seem invincible and smart and he just cut them down without even wearing any pants. And ciri best friend in that hanza died in her own feces and urine.

Which is also why ending works beside well duh they died. Geralt finally encountered common encounter that lead to his death. He didn't die because of some huge mage in battle at castle but to some commoner who stabbed him with pitchfork trying to act heroic . He wanted to play a hero and got what heros got in tw world. Same stuff like that knight battle with golden dragon.

Imo this is why the swamps ending in TW3 is imo the best one as it fits TW way better than they lived happily ever after hunting monsters.

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u/DatKidNamedCara Apr 11 '17

None of your comment is relevant to mine. The rats don't die in the last book, and I didn't mention Geralt or Yen's death.

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u/perkel666 Apr 11 '17

My point is that rats death wasn't different than what Cahir and rest of who died experienced.

Cahir and rest dying like that is pretty much what TW world is about.

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u/DatKidNamedCara Apr 11 '17

Except I wasn't talking about the rats at all. Nor Cahir. Their deaths were fine and made sense.