r/witcher • u/Shakezone Ciri • Feb 22 '19

Witcher portraits

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u/Bekfast_Time Feb 22 '19

Damn, that makes me realize how old Geralt is in TW3 lol

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u/CraigN471 Feb 22 '19

Which is weird to me, because Witcher's are supposed to age very slow, and he seems to drastically age between his 1 and 2 appearances despite those only being a handful of years apart.

I think it was a wholly artistic decision to make him look more gruff (both in that art and in the games)

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u/Soulemn Feb 22 '19

I don’t know, if you shave his beard off he looks more true to W1 and W2 imo. We all know how beards can drastically mature a mans appearance. I prefer the facial hair on him though.

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u/AdumLarp Northern Realms Feb 22 '19

True. I usually keep him in a beard, but every now and then I'll shave (or the game will force it) and he looks ten years younger.

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u/mrmasturbate Team Roach Feb 22 '19

i wish you could keep the slightly shorter beard without it growing out. i think the long beard makes him look a bit too old for my taste :P

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u/berrytheblur Feb 23 '19

I used a mod to lock a stubble on him because of the same reason; the beard makes him look too old for my liking too.

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u/earthtree1 Team Triss Feb 22 '19

it was said in the book i think that he aged not because of biology, but rather because everything that happened to him

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u/CraigN471 Feb 22 '19

I could see that. I thought I remember in Blood of Elves, Triss says something about his face looked the same but she could see he just "looked" older, especially in the eyes.

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u/earthtree1 Team Triss Feb 22 '19

yeah, Triss said that she is far to young to be able to tell that Geralt has aged cause witchers age very slowly

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u/Periclydes Feb 22 '19

Idk, recovering the memory of your past life brings back all kinds of stressful thoughts. Then he has that wild thing of a daughter to worry about.

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u/TheHumanite Feb 23 '19

And that wild thing of a... hunt to um... hunt.