(A rule of thumb: Listen for any reference to Cintra and/or Queen Calanthe. You could get really granular here, because there are plenty of contextual clues that indicate, roughly, when each of these stories is taking place. Geralt has some adventures, Yennefer abandons life at court (episodes 1-3) For reasons that remain unclear, Geralt was abandoned by his mother, Visenna, and left in the care of a witcher named Vesemir, who put Geralt through the trials that made him a witcher as well.ģ. Geralt’s origin story runs more or less parallel to Yennefer’s, but we don’t see it until the season finale (and only when Geralt is in a delirious haze). Yennefer manipulates her way to a coveted position at the royal court in Aedirn, and her classmate Fringilla ends up with Yennfer’s original spot in the less-regarded kingdom of Nilfgaard.

The Witcher doesn’t make it clear how long that is, but it ends with Yennefer enduring an enchantment that fixes her hunched back but takes away her ability to have children. Yennefer is there for … well, as long as it takes to learn a bunch of magic.

Yennefer’s story begins in episode two, “Four Marks,” when Tissaia de Vries buys her from her abusive stepfather and enrolls her in the magic school Aretuza. According to showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich, Geralt’s story spans about 20 years, Yennefer’s story spans about 70 years, and Ciri’s story spans about two weeks.Īs for the rest: If you still have questions about The Witcher’s overall timeline (and don’t mind spoilers) here’s a rough chronology of the order in which the events of season one occur. The first season of The Witcher centers on each of those three characters over a different length of time.

The basic principles? There are three main characters: Geralt of Rivia (Henry Cavill), Yennefer of Vengerberg (Anya Chalotra), and Princess Cirilla, more commonly called Ciri (Frey Allan). It can get confusing fast, so let’s break down what we do know. And the first season is mostly adapted from author Andrzej Sapkowski’s short stories, so the order of the individual adventures is often unclear - and in several cases, doesn’t matter. Two of the main characters don’t show physical signs of aging, which makes it that much harder to gauge how much time has passed. Events occur in a rough chronological order, except when they don’t. The Witcher’s timeline, which was inspired by Dunkirk, is unusually convoluted, and it doesn’t do much to make things easy on the audience. Geralt’s confrontation with Renfri happens at the very beginning of The Witcher… or is it the very end?Īnyone who comes to Netflix’s The Witcher will spend the first few episodes grappling with the same question: How is all of this supposed to be connected, anyway?

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