The Elder Races | Witcher Explained Part 4 | Witcher Lore 

It's always a super intelligent lizard race every single universe

I find it interesting and also funny that the the humans were looked at as greedy and cruel, killing and taking lands that were occupied before they arrived. Yet, history says that this is exactly what the Elves did when they arrived to the Vran and the Werebubs. Even going so far as to use biological attacks on the Vran. The Dwarves and Gnomes seem to have not had this impact on the ELDER elder races as it states that some of the Werebubs took refuge with them in the mountains. Did the elves just finally experience Karma?

I always felt empathic towards the Elves because of the fact that the Humans pushed them out of their homes but now i realise what the Humans did is just basically karma.

Pointed ears are not the primary feature distinguishing elves from humans in the world of the wither. Their eyes and teeth are more important. Elves (and, to a somewhat lesser degree, humans with some elven ancestry) tend to have very large eyes and more intense color in their irises. Pure blooded elves are noted for having teeth which are more numerous, smaller, and straighter than human teeth, and which are uniformly the same size and shape rather than being specializes as incisors, canines, premolar, or molars.

Its kinda sad that the humans and elves dont see that they are so similar to each other both races concor and are an invasive species or am i wrong? im kinda new to the witcher lore

Awesome video! But it is ironic how the elven races are so butt heart about being displaced by humans and crying victim, but they did the same to the primitive creatures they conquered. So much for crying victim. Sounds like expansion and dominion is just part of civilizations.

I love the wonderful paintings you use as backdrops for the story. Sometime i lose myself in them examining every detail and lose focus on your narration so i have to go back and listen again. Great artwork choice and storytelling, my frend!

Your narration and background music are just superb. Suited for people like me who prefer to listen to podcast but would occasionally need the visuals while snacking.😅 Appreciate it! 🎉

I will say, this video my favorite part of the witcher is that the elves and humans are both bad. Elves did what the humans are doing now. And even the elder elves are doing now.

"Relatively" is doing a lot of work here. The elves were "relatively peaceful".

I don't know much really about Witcher lore. I had no idea about these races. Such amazing world building.

Thanks for another Witcher lore video! It's very comprehensive (that as someone like myself who's read the books and played the game didn't even know 1 or 2 things. It's great learning new things!). Also, it's wonderful seeing you use the artwork from one of the Witcher 3 artbooks (I remember the art from that book being really gorgeous), since it's a great visual aid. When you mentioned "elves expanded in relative peace with the other races" (22:40 mark), I'm guessing that's excluding Vran since you mentioned elves drove the lizard race out of their settlements in the beginning of the video? As for suggestions for future videos, 1) Skellige: The history of the isles, customs of people who live there, how they differ in physical/psychological traits compared to Northerners & Nilfgaard, as well as different religion (if I'm remembering correctly, there's a part in the books where Yennefer visits a goddess temple (who is not Melitelle). 2) Much smaller Kingdoms of the continent such as Brugge, Cidaris, Verden etc etc, if there is content worth looking into 3) In-depth videos on some of the monsters: would love to see you do one on vampires.

DWARVES! they are by far my favourite, would love to delve deeper into those angry little beardos

So learning that unicorns are sentient beings that can travel through space and time makes that one scene in the 3rd game very different 🤣

A bit late to the video but I’ve been binging your Witcher videos today and I’m super excited for when you cover The northern kingdoms!

solid explanations and loved the smooth yet clear tone of your voice! congrats!

Watched your other 3 videos, I didn't think you were doing more witcher so I didn't sub but now I'm looking forward to this one and the rest, keep up the amazing work!

I love the gnomes. Dwarves: talk of peace and crafting. Shows a bloody warrior 😂

This was a fantastic and informative video! I've watched a lot of other Witcher lore content and this was a great comprehensive look at the elder races. My one critique would be the pronunciation of some of these elder speech words, namely what the elves call themselves. The correct pronunciation is "en-shay." I completely understand the mispronunciation, though, as the word is rooted in Irish/Gaelic, which is notorious for not looking ANYTHING like the way it's spelled.

Thank you so much for these lore videos, its such a pleasure listening to you speak, and im so gratefull to now experience the witcher games with such a greater understanding which makes the experience that much more meaningfull and interesting

Just finished the books and about to get into the games, this series is helpful.

This was great and we'll paced. Thanks for the video 👍

Thank you so much for these videos! They are amazing, and you have a wonderful voice.

You are doing a great service, thank you!

Just found your channel and gosh darnit it is good

>See new Lorebrarians >Watch new Lorebrarians simple as

Great job!! It's great to see you continue the series and do it so so well. I'm a little disappointed I wasn't notified earlier, apparently, the little bell doesn't work as it should. Regardless, I'm here now and glad for it. Keep it up, you've got yourself a fan :)

Hey Lorebrarians i loved the video! Maybe the next installment could explain a bit about the many central and maybe even peripheral characters of the Witcher universe. Without spoiling any of the plots of course:) I would love to see that

This channel is criminally underrated!

These videos are amazing for a gamer loves lore but I didn't get into the series tell I started watching the show

Another amazing video!

Great content! Just found your channel and subscribed

Oh dang I’m EARLY! Great video! 🥰

😳😳😳 thank you for this. Watching the series and I'm glad I found this channel.

Hey Eric, great video, as always! Could you please add the timestamps to this video as well? Thanks a lot!

Great video

We can't get along with ourselvesImagine having these different races(species) on earth for real.

Loving the lore just got into the witcher 💪

Thank you

sees name chuckles... " i see what you did there"

I do believe I have shat in my silver pantaloons.

It would’ve been great if you could make something like this concerning Tolkien, especially Silmarillion, I’m a huge fan and I’ve read the books a 100 times but I still can’t absorb his world

Lock-Morian, is the Witcher & the Silmarillon related?

I am absolutely devouring these videos and am loving every minute of it. But why did you pronounce Melitele like that? It's "MUH-LIT-EL-AY" not "MILLUH-TELLY." Other than that, I am looking forward to watching more videos like this. You have a very soothing voice. ^w^

Where you learn these from?

I always thought a werebub was just something geralt made up to make fun or Morvran Voorhis 🤣

I just realized you do mtg lore too, HELL YEAH.

Are you Historia Civilis? You guys sounds very similar. Love your videos!

One thing i didn't understand. Did the elves and humans came to the continent with the same conjunction of the spheres or were there two of them. In the history of the continent video, you ve mentioned that the elves came into the continent by using magic portals and then men came during the conjunction, but in this video you re saying that they both came during the conjunction, so i am a little confused.

So what do they mean when they say "Ciri has elder blood"?

Hey Eric, my name is lorelovers!

I wonder how orcs would fare in The Witcher world . As their usual role in fantasy is the one of natural enemies to humans and being far more fertille , not to mention larger and stronger than humans , i wonder if they could become the possible replacement of the human race as a dominant race of the continent . If they were canon that is 😐

Scoiatel is elfish for squirrel, they are called that because of their tailhats

Great video, just one thing, Aen seidhe is pronounced “Aen shae”

They are not on Earth. They are on some other planet altogther. The humans arrived from Earth during the conjunction. This is a pretty important acpect of the lore.

Great content. One request, please change the way you slide show the images.

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So the elves kick the vran (sorry if I spelled that wrong) out of their lands…and then eventually would get kicked out by humans…karmas a bitch ain’t it? Lol I’m jk

How it is written elfs and humans knew each other before they arrived on mass on the continent. Also it's a hypothetical example of history being told by the losers and it probably works out because in less a elf is killed in some war they will outlive several generations of human.

I'm new to this world, so forgive me if this is off. Was the author significantly inspired by Tolkien? Because it seems the halflings are almost copies of Hobbits.

I hope this show lasts long enough to introduce the Aen Elle and the Wild Hunt. I'd like to see who they cast as Eredin Bréacc Glas.

“Death to all humans!” does all this chapter shout. Is such self-flagellation necessary?

You need to switch images more often. You spent the first 3 minutes on the same image.

Hear me out ! What if the Lord of the rings universe is one of the spheres in the the witcher universe and in the conjuction beings like elves, dwarves and halflings fell from there into the witcher universe

Weren't humans already there a thousand years before the Nordlings?

Vrans and Werebubs: Living life. Elves:Mine now bitch! *proceeds to commit genocide* Vrans and Werebubs: *leave or die* Elves 😁and live life. Humans: Mine now bitch! *proceeds to commit genocide* Elves: 😲

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isn't Yennefer also part elf by his dad side?

I'm a little confused. First you said the Elves pushed out the Vran and built their cities on top of the ruins of what the Vran once created. Yet later you say the Elves expanded peacefully. Am I missing something?

I think you left out the “Idyllic Farmers” the Halflings.

World of Warcraft vibe ...

What I've never understood as well is if the aen seidhe have such a mastery of magic, why were they so easily defeated by humans? There doesn't seem to be a clear answer and it strikes me as a plot hole. In reality there are always two sides to every conflict and very rarely does one group utterly destroy another so easily without a very clear and obvious reason such as technological superiority.

So argonians and ewoks were first

Screw blood origin

Kinda ironic that what happened to the Vran later happened to the elves. Somewhat poetic. Still horrible.

So basically the Witcher races are almost exactly like the LOTR races?

why did you suddenly develop a lisp in the middle of this video when in the others and the first half of this series you never had one.

My dude, I have read everything that Andrzej Sapkowski wrote. in original language: Polish. From where are you getting your lore? Cornflake boxes?

I think witcher humans is too racist like mostly chinese emperors in chinese novels

This is extremely similar to Tolkien. It would have been nice if Andrzej Sapkowski had more original ideas.

I tried watching this 3 times because I'm interested but it was like a sedative in it's delivery ..so sloooow and quiet. I'm not asking for loud and rapid speech patterns at all but please at least don't lull me to sleep

The creator of The Witcher must have loved Tolkien. He stole quite a bit from the Legendarium. Still did a great job though.

Unwatchable unless at 1.75 speed.

Walmart lord of the rings

This version of elves is just sad and disappointing.. they are no better than humans.. in some cases, worst.. slaughtered like pigs! Insult to Tolkien's original design!