The implication is that, with Reidrich’s death, no more witchers can be created, an idea that doesn’t exactly fit with the story of the books, but so be it. As Deglan breathes his last, he tells Vesemir to take the most recent batch of young witchers and “make them into something more - to better men.” Vesemir’s love story with Lady Zerbst is proof that witchers do have hearts and are not the soulless, emotionless mutants Tetra and others in Geralt’s time would have people believe. It’s this hubris and its consequences that transforms Vesemir from a swashbuckling exterminator-for-hire to the older, more serious mentor that fans of The Witcher have come to know from the books and games. While it seems extremely ill-advised to practice mutagenic alchemy on an elf, who ends up being the source of the creature army that decimates the witcher population, Reidrich’s secret processes also explain the mysterious origins of the witcher race that The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf (and soon The Witcher: Blood Origin) explores. It appears that Deglan, the head witcher in Vesemir’s time, thought of an even better con by having Reidrich, Kaer Morhen’s personal mage, create new monsters for them to kill for money. That kind of supply-and-demand pressure can cause lapses in ethical practice. In the present time of the movie, Vesemir has made a lucrative haul before heading to Kaer Morhen, the witcher stronghold, for the winter season, but his colleague Luka and others have not been so lucky.
The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf presents an interesting dilemma in its premise: if the profession were more common, then there would be more competition for monsters to kill in order to earn a living. That difference may partly be explained by the movie’s ending, which enlightened fans about a number of worldbuilding details that cross over into the main series. There are many good reasons why The Witcher doesn’t feature Geralt of Rivia beheading a vampire and then quipping, “Fangs for the memories.” His sense of humor is more cutting and direct, definitely not as snarky as when his mentor Vesemir fights the leshen in the opening scene of Netflix’s animated spinoff, The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf. This article contains major spoilers for The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf
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