A six-part Witcher prequel series is coming: Blood Origin

The Witcher: Blood Origin will explore what Elven civilization was like before humans came along and screwed it up. Netflix is going in on The Witcher!

Those clamoring for more of the fantastical world of The Witcher are seeing their wish granted (without a pesky Djinn, no less) as this morning Netflix announced that a six part-prequel series is coming: Blood Origin.

Blood Origin will focus on “the Conjunction,” an event that saw the then-separate planes of men, elves and monsters merge into one, making professional monster hunters like witchers necessary. This is over a thousand years before Geralt, Yennefer and Dandelion were running around, so we’ll see a Continent that looks vastly different from the one we’re used to.

Lauren Schmidt Hissrich, the woman behind the original show, will executive produce the series, although the showrunner on this one will be Declan de Barra, a musician, animator and screenwriter who wrote an episode of The Witcher, as well as singing on a few of the songs from the soundtrack.

“As a lifelong fan of fantasy, I am beyond excited to tell the story The Witcher: Blood Origin,” de Barra said. “A question has been burning in my mind ever since I first read The Witcher books – What was the Elven world really like before the cataclysmic arrival of the humans? I’ve always been fascinated by the rise and fall of civilizations, how science, discovery, and culture flourish right before that fall. How vast swathes of knowledge are lost forever in such a short time, often compounded by colonization and a rewriting of history. Leaving only fragments of a civilization’s true story behind. The Witcher: Blood Origin will tell the tale of the Elven civilization before its fall, and most importantly reveal the forgotten history of the very first Witcher.”

The Witcher author Andrzej Sapkowski is also on board as a consultant.

There’s no release date for the series yet, but with an animated movie on the way and season 2 returning to filming next month, it looks like Netflix is going all in on The Witcher.

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