00:00:00.000Hello, Laddingtons. This is a follow-up video to my game and book review of The Witcher.
00:00:07.000Saw a comment saying that the author, I would say Sapkowski, had plagiarized his character.
00:00:17.000Basically copied someone else's work. And I looked into it and just thought it would be a good idea to respond to it.
00:00:25.000Because I thought it was a bit silly indeed. Now, first and foremost, I want to mention the contrarian nature of everyone who criticizes him.
00:00:35.000Whenever there comes anything popular, you always have these guys who just, they have to go against the grain.
00:00:41.000They have to be contrarian, they have to find faults. And you know, sometimes it's good to go against the grain.
00:00:46.000It's good to say your piece if something is obviously wrong.
00:00:51.000So, you know, I say porn is wrong even though it's very popular. Because I know it is wrong.
00:00:56.000But some guys, they just, for the sake of it, have to be special, unique.
00:01:01.000They want to be apart from everyone else and saying, you know, this is bad. So therefore, they find faults.
00:01:07.000In this case, they find faults with The Witcher because, yeah, they want to be unique.
00:01:13.000So they come up with these points of contention, which I have looked into. And I will refute them now.
00:01:22.000But before I do so, I would like to share some plans with you all, my esteemed subscribers.
00:01:30.000I'm actually writing my second book right now. It's not a fiction book. It's more a social, cultural and political analysis of a few things.
00:01:43.000But in the long term, I do want to write fiction. Fantasy or historic fiction. I just need to sharpen my pen a bit more.
00:01:50.000So that's why I'm writing a second book now. And also because I have a lot of things I want to say.
00:01:56.000But anyway, I thought to mention this before I actually release a fantasy or historical fiction book.
00:02:05.000And that is also to do with original ideas, original names, etc.
00:02:13.000So that was just the preface of me refuting the points of contention.
00:02:21.000So anyway, first thing. The White Wolf is a moniker used by Sapkowski.
00:02:30.000The Witcher, Geralt of Rivia, is called The White Wolf.
00:02:35.000And apparently the other character is also called The White Wolf.
00:02:40.000And this is rather silly, I would say. You know, The White Wolf is hardly an original moniker.
00:02:48.000I don't think he's the first fantasy author to use the name.
00:02:51.000I don't think there has never been a historical figure who's been referred to as The White Wolf or The Wolf.
00:02:59.000You know, I call myself The Lion sometimes, just as plenty of other historical figures or even fictional figures.
00:03:06.000You call yourself The Lion because you want to evoke a sense of royal majesty, a sense of vitality and power.
00:03:14.000That's why you do it. Same thing with a wolf.
00:03:17.000And I don't think the story would have been any less good if Geralt was called The Strong Bear or something like that.
00:03:30.000Now, of course, The White Wolf is more suiting because he has white hair.
00:03:34.000Which is also the second point of contention.
00:03:38.000Apparently the other character also has white hair.
00:05:33.000When I write a story I will probably also have a magical sword imbued with some sort of cool thing or whatever.
00:05:41.000So in my opinion, The Witcher isn't good because he is using magic. It's not good because he uses a magic sword.
00:05:50.000It's not good because he has a moniker that is white wolf. It's not good because he has white hair.
00:05:55.000He could have had brown hair or blonde hair. Viserys would have been equally good.
00:06:00.000So it's not a success because he has similar attributes as someone else.
00:06:05.000It's a success because it is written in an entertaining and interesting way.
00:06:10.000I like them. I like the books because there is a lot of nuance to them.
00:06:14.000In terms of geopolitics, economics, societal issues, even tolerance as I talked about, sexual morality.
00:06:23.000You know, he imbues the stories with a lot of relevant and interesting social commentary.
00:06:28.000And that is also why I like it. Because it creates a bit more...
00:06:33.000It makes it a bit more immersive than just having battles and heroics etc.
00:06:39.000Now, furthermore, in regards to fantasy, my favorite setting, the Warhammer world.
00:06:45.000Which is geographically speaking our own world, but with some changes.
00:06:50.000Also inspired by European history, you have Kislev, which is Russia.
00:06:54.000You have the Empire, which is basically the Holy Roman Empire.
00:06:59.000Then you have classical elves, which, you know, for a contrarian guy who would say
00:07:04.000Oh, these guys have just copied Tolkien's work. And I would say no. They have just built on Tolkien's characters.
00:07:14.000They've just taken elves, put them in a different setting, add a bit of grimminess to the dark elves, add a bit of nuance to the high elves etc.
00:07:21.000But I don't see it as something bad. I just see it as a very nice setting.
00:07:27.000And Games Workshop, if you're watching this, please do release more books from the old world.
00:07:32.000It's a superior setting to Age of Sigmar. I'm sorry to say it, but you know it's true.
00:07:37.000So anyway, you don't always need to find, you know, nitpick faults. You can just enjoy a story.
00:07:45.000So that was just my response to the controversy, if we shall even call it that, of The Witcher.
00:07:52.000So anyway, since this is a bit more light-hearted topic, I might throw in some other clips after this little sequence.
00:08:01.000So yeah, enjoy that. And as always, thank you for watching, and I hope you're all staying safe.