Every day, I make sure his death's not in vain. The Elves call him 'King.' Last year, he tried to claim Cintran land. Doing my part to avenge human lives lost in Filavandrel's uprising. "Queen Calanthe of Cintra?" she mentions to Geralt, "She just won her first battle at Hochebuz." But when it's implied that she is too young for such matters, Ciri fires back, telling her grandmother, "you won your first battle in Hochebuz when you were my age." The connection to Geralt comes just minutes later. When discussing what she could have been, Renfri chooses a familiar reference. When Queen Calanthe and Eist discuss the threat posed by Nilfgaard's army on the march, Princess Ciri butts in wanting to know more. RELATED: The Witcher: Geralt's Last Wish For Explained Which means if there is one line of dialogue that detail-oriented viewers will be kicking themselves over, it's this one. The split timelines of Yennefer, Geralt, and Ciri are going to be picked up on at different speeds by every viewer, but the time difference between what viewers think is happening concurrently - Geralt meeting Renfri and the invasion of Cintra are in reality close to thirty years apart - is given away in the very first episode. And believe it or not, The Witcher was giving viewers clues and references to assemble the complete timeline from the very start. The goal is showing the same world through three different characters, at three different times, and what happens when they collide. And while most shows or movies may use such a device - without explicitly explaining it to the audience - for the sake of a twist, a mystery, or greater 'reveal,' that isn't the case for The Witcher. Whether you notice it in the first episode of the season or the last, it eventually becomes clear that The Witcher is set in three different timelines. even if most viewers may miss the clues and connections the first time through. In fact, it uses it to expand the history of The Witcher's world. But the show doesn't keep the separation a secret. The timeline of Netflix's The Witcher may seem complicated, telling three different stories, following three different leads, through three surprisingly different periods of time. Warning: SPOILERS ahead for Netflix's The Witcher
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