There's a detailed timeline somewhere, but yes, some parts of the show are set decades earlier.
Legolas Send a noteboard - 17/01/2020 07:41:06 AM
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And now we have the council of wizards or whatever, with Stregoboar on it, talking about Calanthe's predecessor and her potential as his heir. They are also talking about the king of Nilfgaard wasting money on self-indulgence, while in Geralt's story, the miners mention a past revolt against a King of Nilfgaard with similar faults. So Geralt is dealing with Temeria after the council is discussing Calanthe, but we don't know where on his timeline his adventures in Temeria or with the elves & the bard in the prior episode occur.
And now we have the council of wizards or whatever, with Stregoboar on it, talking about Calanthe's predecessor and her potential as his heir. They are also talking about the king of Nilfgaard wasting money on self-indulgence, while in Geralt's story, the miners mention a past revolt against a King of Nilfgaard with similar faults. So Geralt is dealing with Temeria after the council is discussing Calanthe, but we don't know where on his timeline his adventures in Temeria or with the elves & the bard in the prior episode occur.
By now you should've already gotten Yennefer's backstory, right? That part, as well as the Renfri plotline for Geralt, are set decades before the fall of Cintra - suggesting that witchers and mages don't visibly age, or only extremely slowly. The 'present day' of the first season really only covers a few weeks at most, but large parts of the show are set much earlier. They don't exactly explain any of that, the viewer just has to piece it all together.
Knowledge is a curse, if you're a history buff watching fantasy shows (The Witcher ep1.01)
- 16/01/2020 06:33:49 AM
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Yeah, I have a feeling you're not going to like the rest of the season much better...
- 16/01/2020 05:05:23 PM
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Re: Yeah, I have a feeling you're not going to like the rest of the season much better...
- 17/01/2020 01:57:21 AM
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Okay, and now that's confirmed.
- 17/01/2020 02:41:59 AM
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There's a detailed timeline somewhere, but yes, some parts of the show are set decades earlier.
- 17/01/2020 07:41:06 AM
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But... it’s not history...
- 21/01/2020 04:14:44 PM
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Oh, so it's not about human beings acting in a plausible way for their situation?
- 21/01/2020 11:27:12 PM
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