Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like)
@cauldronoffae.bsky.social
Reads. Thinks. Writes.
A. Sapkowski's The Witcher (& those little elf guys). Books, games, culture. Niche.
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A. Sapkowski's The Witcher (& those little elf guys). Books, games, culture. Niche.
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Site: https://www.blathancaerme.com/
Links: https://linktr.ee/elinratzinger
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History and Fantasy. Or 'How to Think About Time Travel in The Witcher?' | Part 4
Why does Lady of the Lake confuse The Witcher readers? Because Nimue is us – the lighthouse. Readers complete stories. Ciri, adrift in timeless mythosphere, searches for one moment with Geralt and Ye...
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Lady of the Lake confuses The Witcher readers bc Nimue is us – Ciri's lighthouse. Ciri, a girl become legend, forever adrift in mythosphere, searches for one more moment with Geralt and Yennefer & needs to find 'a Nimue' - to show her the way out of eternity.
Lady of the Lake confuses The Witcher readers bc Nimue is us – Ciri's lighthouse. Ciri, a girl become legend, forever adrift in mythosphere, searches for one more moment with Geralt and Yennefer & needs to find 'a Nimue' - to show her the way out of eternity.
Cornwell's The Winter King is so good...
February 12, 2026 at 10:49 AM
Cornwell's The Winter King is so good...
I just really want to create something that makes people love reading books.
January 11, 2026 at 8:19 PM
I just really want to create something that makes people love reading books.
Zerrikania DLC the rumour mills say? How about the North Pole? Or an archipelago of Times and Places?
January 8, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Zerrikania DLC the rumour mills say? How about the North Pole? Or an archipelago of Times and Places?
Ever since moving to this island I am amazed at the speed at which the Brits' society comes to a halt at the first signs of snow. It's at once hoped for and feared. Never would I wish for rain to wash it away, and yet some do.
January 8, 2026 at 10:09 AM
Ever since moving to this island I am amazed at the speed at which the Brits' society comes to a halt at the first signs of snow. It's at once hoped for and feared. Never would I wish for rain to wash it away, and yet some do.
For obvious reasons I really like the thought that the map of the Witcher amounts to the Baltic coast rotated 90 degrees counter-clockwise, with Kovir and Poviss ending up as the Baltic and Finnic kingdoms with the promise of mysterious Lapland and Finnic witches up in the far North.
January 6, 2026 at 3:52 PM
For obvious reasons I really like the thought that the map of the Witcher amounts to the Baltic coast rotated 90 degrees counter-clockwise, with Kovir and Poviss ending up as the Baltic and Finnic kingdoms with the promise of mysterious Lapland and Finnic witches up in the far North.
Boorman and Sapkowski seem to be creative soulmates.
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'Excalibur' is English fantasia
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January 4, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Boorman and Sapkowski seem to be creative soulmates.
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brandspotting in helsinki
#holidayposts
#holidayposts
December 21, 2025 at 7:51 PM
brandspotting in helsinki
#holidayposts
#holidayposts
i have been wanting to write about ciri's and avallac'h's relationship based on sapkowski's works alone forever. so I did a thing this year.
December 19, 2025 at 10:29 AM
i have been wanting to write about ciri's and avallac'h's relationship based on sapkowski's works alone forever. so I did a thing this year.
www.blathancaerme.com/history-and-...
Lady of the Lake confuses The Witcher readers bc Nimue is us – Ciri's lighthouse. Ciri, a girl become legend, forever adrift in mythosphere, searches for one more moment with Geralt and Yennefer & needs to find 'a Nimue' - to show her the way out of eternity.
Lady of the Lake confuses The Witcher readers bc Nimue is us – Ciri's lighthouse. Ciri, a girl become legend, forever adrift in mythosphere, searches for one more moment with Geralt and Yennefer & needs to find 'a Nimue' - to show her the way out of eternity.
History and Fantasy. Or 'How to Think About Time Travel in The Witcher?' | Part 4
Why does Lady of the Lake confuse The Witcher readers? Because Nimue is us – the lighthouse. Readers complete stories. Ciri, adrift in timeless mythosphere, searches for one moment with Geralt and Ye...
www.blathancaerme.com
December 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
www.blathancaerme.com/history-and-...
Lady of the Lake confuses The Witcher readers bc Nimue is us – Ciri's lighthouse. Ciri, a girl become legend, forever adrift in mythosphere, searches for one more moment with Geralt and Yennefer & needs to find 'a Nimue' - to show her the way out of eternity.
Lady of the Lake confuses The Witcher readers bc Nimue is us – Ciri's lighthouse. Ciri, a girl become legend, forever adrift in mythosphere, searches for one more moment with Geralt and Yennefer & needs to find 'a Nimue' - to show her the way out of eternity.
This time on Time in The Witcher: archetypal existence, what do the Aen Elle mean by 'eternity,' and why everyone should read at least Maladie to untangle Lady of the Lake.
Causation in Mythic Time is symbolic and thematic. The characters in it are made of story-stuff not materia.
Causation in Mythic Time is symbolic and thematic. The characters in it are made of story-stuff not materia.
December 7, 2025 at 7:11 PM
This time on Time in The Witcher: archetypal existence, what do the Aen Elle mean by 'eternity,' and why everyone should read at least Maladie to untangle Lady of the Lake.
Causation in Mythic Time is symbolic and thematic. The characters in it are made of story-stuff not materia.
Causation in Mythic Time is symbolic and thematic. The characters in it are made of story-stuff not materia.
On The Witcher's paper trail... Looking for the archetypes.
December 4, 2025 at 12:39 PM
On The Witcher's paper trail... Looking for the archetypes.
Reposted by Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like)
One of the best games ever made
Probably should have saved this for Random Game Saturday, but it's too cool not to share. This is a legit copy of King of Dragon Pass. When the designer ran out of printed copies and you ordered one from them, they burned you a copy and mailed it.
November 12, 2025 at 11:22 AM
One of the best games ever made
The Conjunction of Spheres trapped elves and other fantastic beings in The Witcher's historical time. Before it, legendary, pre-rational elves moved freely between story-worlds. Ciri's Elder Blood preserves this power. And Ithlinne's prophecy is the elves' map back into eternity.
November 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
The Conjunction of Spheres trapped elves and other fantastic beings in The Witcher's historical time. Before it, legendary, pre-rational elves moved freely between story-worlds. Ciri's Elder Blood preserves this power. And Ithlinne's prophecy is the elves' map back into eternity.
Ciri doesn't time travel – she exists in Mythic Time where past, present, and future are simultaneous. The Witcher is a meta fantasy. It has no creation myth. Sapkowski traps archetypal beings in History to show how legends are born in Leśmian's mirror tunnel where a fairy tale unfolds endlessly.
November 22, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Ciri doesn't time travel – she exists in Mythic Time where past, present, and future are simultaneous. The Witcher is a meta fantasy. It has no creation myth. Sapkowski traps archetypal beings in History to show how legends are born in Leśmian's mirror tunnel where a fairy tale unfolds endlessly.
Witcher fans, an evening with Andrzej Sapkowski held in The British Library on 01.11.2025 is now available for watching until 8th of November.
www.blplayer.co.uk/eventlink/10...
www.blplayer.co.uk/eventlink/10...
November 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Witcher fans, an evening with Andrzej Sapkowski held in The British Library on 01.11.2025 is now available for watching until 8th of November.
www.blplayer.co.uk/eventlink/10...
www.blplayer.co.uk/eventlink/10...
Sapkowski memes:
November 2, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Sapkowski memes:
Andrzej Sapkowski's opinion on Artificial Intelligence in writing: 'Since there are no children present - the difference between natural writerly talent and intelligence and artificial writing and intelligence is like a comparison between artifical and natural male organ.'
Absolute King.
Absolute King.
November 2, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Andrzej Sapkowski's opinion on Artificial Intelligence in writing: 'Since there are no children present - the difference between natural writerly talent and intelligence and artificial writing and intelligence is like a comparison between artifical and natural male organ.'
Absolute King.
Absolute King.
Host asking Sapkowski how the fandom's love has influenced him as a writer.
'A Thai prophet said, “Only very stupid writer doesn’t listen to his fans, but extremely stupid writer does what the fans want.” I try to find the golden way: I listen to the fans, and then absolutely do not pay attention.’
'A Thai prophet said, “Only very stupid writer doesn’t listen to his fans, but extremely stupid writer does what the fans want.” I try to find the golden way: I listen to the fans, and then absolutely do not pay attention.’
November 2, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Host asking Sapkowski how the fandom's love has influenced him as a writer.
'A Thai prophet said, “Only very stupid writer doesn’t listen to his fans, but extremely stupid writer does what the fans want.” I try to find the golden way: I listen to the fans, and then absolutely do not pay attention.’
'A Thai prophet said, “Only very stupid writer doesn’t listen to his fans, but extremely stupid writer does what the fans want.” I try to find the golden way: I listen to the fans, and then absolutely do not pay attention.’
Reposted by Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like)
October 31, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Writing on the cosmogony and ontology of The Witcher these days... cannot get any more excited than that! 😇 (actually, possibly would, if I got to write more of that for CD Projekt)
October 18, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Writing on the cosmogony and ontology of The Witcher these days... cannot get any more excited than that! 😇 (actually, possibly would, if I got to write more of that for CD Projekt)
Autumn evenings are for re-reading The Hussite Trilogy ☕️ And enjoying Reynevan, the pathetic, naive, self-admiring Dandelion of the dark arts getting his just desserts over and over and over...
October 9, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Autumn evenings are for re-reading The Hussite Trilogy ☕️ And enjoying Reynevan, the pathetic, naive, self-admiring Dandelion of the dark arts getting his just desserts over and over and over...
Andrzej Sapkowski wrote Ciri as the Holy Grail. Tracking his pagan streak across The Witcher and the Trilogy, we'll see what we find about the Grail, the Triple Goddess, Wiccan theology, female sovereignty, and love as the Grail's power. The Grail is a Woman.
October 8, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Andrzej Sapkowski wrote Ciri as the Holy Grail. Tracking his pagan streak across The Witcher and the Trilogy, we'll see what we find about the Grail, the Triple Goddess, Wiccan theology, female sovereignty, and love as the Grail's power. The Grail is a Woman.
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I have a lot of sympathy for the argument that modern fantasy tends to almost orientalise the Celtic nations through making their languages and cultures fey and elven but I find it deeply funny that people think Sarah J Maas invented this or even presented a particularly bad version of it.
January 23, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I have a lot of sympathy for the argument that modern fantasy tends to almost orientalise the Celtic nations through making their languages and cultures fey and elven but I find it deeply funny that people think Sarah J Maas invented this or even presented a particularly bad version of it.
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August 23, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Reposted by Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like)
September 19, 2025 at 11:09 PM