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The Witcher: Blood Origin<\/em> is a prologue to Netflix’s fantasy series and tells the story of some of its universe’s most important events, or at least it’s supposed to. The Conjunction of the Spheres is among the plotlines that crops up in this miniseries, but the most important and perhaps most disappointing is the origin of the series’ most important order: the witchers. <\/p>\n

Blood Origin<\/em> shows us the first witcher transformation (or at least we think it does?) but it also changes Witcher lore in a big way that throws into question the whole universe of the Netflix show \u2014 and it’s not even clear what the point of the retcon is .<\/p>\n

[Ed. note:<\/strong> This post contains spoilers for The Witcher: Blood Origin<\/em>.]<\/p>\n

Blood Origin<\/em> follows the story of Fjall (Laurence O’Fuarain), an elf warrior who lived just before the Conjunction of the Spheres. Along with \u00c9ile (Sophia Brown) and some other elves, including the sorceress and general magic-user Zacar\u00e9 (Lizzie Annis), he attempts to prevent the evil mage Balor (Lenny Henry) from harnessing Chaos Magic to conquer other worlds. But when Balor unleashes a monster from one of these other worlds, Fjall has to undergo the first ever witcher transformation to defeat the creature and save his friends. <\/p>\n

This is a rather large departure from the series’ history. despite Blood Origin<\/em> dealing with a mostly (but not entirely) unexplored period of the Witcher universe and taking place inside the Netflix universe rather than that of the books or games, the prequel series still manages to pull a confusing lore change that seems to totally rewrite who the witchers are. <\/p>\n