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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like)

@cauldronoffae.bsky.social
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Reads. Thinks. Writes. A. Sapkowski's The Witcher (& those little elf guys). Books, games, culture. Niche. ≽༏≼ www.blathancaerme.com

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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The thing with yapping about your fave characters & IP online for 8 years is that TO ME it sounds like I've said a lot about what I wanted to say, but social media doesn't work that way. Should keep repeating & repackaging old things over & over again shamelessly.
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Olivier César @anticowl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For the PC Witcher 3 remastered players, @etra0.cl updated his light tool. Check it up! github.com/etra0/litcher Check the quick before/after. Tool has also exposure slider. #virtualphotography #vp #vpsupport #tw3r #tw3
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Magdalena @ma-moonshadow.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt #TheWitcher3 #virtualphotography #TCCTiny
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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hours to go until another 600 Ciri portraits #TheWitcher3 #VirtualPhotography
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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This, however, I am still waiting for a game to get peat bogs right the way we see them in Estonia and Finland. Raised bogs, transitional mires, and fens. "Walking on water."
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Patrick K Mills @pkernaghan.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
I want a god emperor movie really bad but it should be staged as a series of TED talks with little or no supporting narrative, just a big worm on stage talking about homosexuality
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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
"What are alternatives? If another narrative were to say, ‘Just the dynamism of being alive is itself the goal,’ then we might have totally different aspirations for technology, but we don’t have that narrative! Our dominant narrative is to create, invent, make, and to have that change us."
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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
'For us postmoderns, the universe does not come inscribed with directions. Should we evolve ourselves toward greater intelligence, or longevity, or creativity, or kindness, or power? Should we be maximally humble or maximally ambitious? 'The cosmos is silent as to what to do.'
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Luna 🏳️‍⚧️ 🪰 @lugreena.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
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Crowsa Luxemburg @quendergeer.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
really fucking hate how "accessibility" has been hijacked to mean "let's treat everyone as if they're children at all times"
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Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
(No shade on transhumanism as punk 'fuck biology' tho (changing genders, robotic prosthesis). I think there are alternative senses like there are different senses of 'humanism'.)
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Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
It's now merging with capitalism, understood as a kind of 'natural force', where A.I. is that forces manifestation. Again, eugenics is brought in to help justify the greed of the super wealthy. All old things are new again.
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Boskoop | Edwige Stoll @b0skoop.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I started to read The Witcher some time ago and I'm enjoying it a lot so I wanted to paint this sweet moment in the book where Triss meets Ciri near Kaer Morhen
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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
When Ciri goes missing after entering the Tower on Undvik, here is Ciri's letter to Geralt in the ending of this version of the script of The Witcher 3 It's interesting as to what Ciri-missing ending might imply about what happens after Tor Gval'cha - we don't really know.
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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
I really hope we get an extra energy supply kit for Ciri in The Witcher 4, consisting of pączki. The world needs Ciri and the third doughnut gif. 🍩🍩🍩
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Patrick K Mills @pkernaghan.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
An incredible show, formative
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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt | Next Gen Ciri #VirtualPhotography #Reshade #TheWitcher3
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“alien” 👽 @tinolqa.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
It would quite frankly be a relief if an evil wizard was puppeteering the world into chaos for the benefit of a dark outer god. That would have a sense of coherence and purpose.
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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
I just really want to create something that makes people love reading books.
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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Zerrikania DLC the rumour mills say? How about the North Pole? Or an archipelago of Times and Places?
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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Ever since moving to this island I am amazed at the speed at which the Brits' society comes to a halt at the first signs of snow. It's at once hoped for and feared. Never would I wish for rain to wash it away, and yet some do.
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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
For obvious reasons I really like the thought that the map of the Witcher amounts to the Baltic coast rotated 90 degrees counter-clockwise, with Kovir and Poviss ending up as the Baltic and Finnic kingdoms with the promise of mysterious Lapland and Finnic witches up in the far North.
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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Boorman and Sapkowski seem to be creative soulmates. unherd.com/2026/01/exca...
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'Excalibur' is English fantasia
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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
brandspotting in helsinki #holidayposts
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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
i have been wanting to write about ciri's and avallac'h's relationship based on sapkowski's works alone forever. so I did a thing this year.
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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
www.blathancaerme.com/history-and-... Lady of the Lake confuses The Witcher readers bc Nimue is us – Ciri's lighthouse. Ciri, a girl become legend, forever adrift in mythosphere, searches for one more moment with Geralt and Yennefer & needs to find 'a Nimue' - to show her the way out of eternity.
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History and Fantasy. Or 'How to Think About Time Travel in The Witcher?' | Part 4
Why does Lady of the Lake confuse The Witcher readers? Because Nimue is us – the lighthouse. Readers complete stories. Ciri, adrift in timeless mythosphere, searches for one moment with Geralt and Ye...
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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
This time on Time in The Witcher: archetypal existence, what do the Aen Elle mean by 'eternity,' and why everyone should read at least Maladie to untangle Lady of the Lake. Causation in Mythic Time is symbolic and thematic. The characters in it are made of story-stuff not materia.
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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
On The Witcher's paper trail... Looking for the archetypes.
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Patrick K Mills @pkernaghan.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
One of the best games ever made
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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
The Conjunction of Spheres trapped elves and other fantastic beings in The Witcher's historical time. Before it, legendary, pre-rational elves moved freely between story-worlds. Ciri's Elder Blood preserves this power. And Ithlinne's prophecy is the elves' map back into eternity.
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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Ciri doesn't time travel – she exists in Mythic Time where past, present, and future are simultaneous. The Witcher is a meta fantasy. It has no creation myth. Sapkowski traps archetypal beings in History to show how legends are born in Leśmian's mirror tunnel where a fairy tale unfolds endlessly.
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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Witcher fans, an evening with Andrzej Sapkowski held in The British Library on 01.11.2025 is now available for watching until 8th of November. www.blplayer.co.uk/eventlink/10...
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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Sapkowski memes:
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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Andrzej Sapkowski's opinion on Artificial Intelligence in writing: 'Since there are no children present - the difference between natural writerly talent and intelligence and artificial writing and intelligence is like a comparison between artifical and natural male organ.' Absolute King.
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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Host asking Sapkowski how the fandom's love has influenced him as a writer. 'A Thai prophet said, “Only very stupid writer doesn’t listen to his fans, but extremely stupid writer does what the fans want.” I try to find the golden way: I listen to the fans, and then absolutely do not pay attention.’
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Raziel @bluestarraziel.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Happy Halloween from Avallac’h (the Fox) #witcher3 #silenthillf
A digital drawing of Avallac’h wearing the fox mask costume from Silent Hill f
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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Writing on the cosmogony and ontology of The Witcher these days... cannot get any more excited than that! 😇 (actually, possibly would, if I got to write more of that for CD Projekt)
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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Autumn evenings are for re-reading The Hussite Trilogy ☕️ And enjoying Reynevan, the pathetic, naive, self-admiring Dandelion of the dark arts getting his just desserts over and over and over...
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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Andrzej Sapkowski wrote Ciri as the Holy Grail. Tracking his pagan streak across The Witcher and the Trilogy, we'll see what we find about the Grail, the Triple Goddess, Wiccan theology, female sovereignty, and love as the Grail's power. The Grail is a Woman.
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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
I have a lot of sympathy for the argument that modern fantasy tends to almost orientalise the Celtic nations through making their languages and cultures fey and elven but I find it deeply funny that people think Sarah J Maas invented this or even presented a particularly bad version of it.
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WhiteCatArts @whitecatarts.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
The Winged Wheel and the Crown of Iron #Ciri | #Witcher | #Witcher3
Illustration of Ciri from the Witcher in glowing white with a helm “wheel” made of crows, a black and gold iron crown, iron shackles and an incandescent Nilfgaardian sword.
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WhiteCatArts @whitecatarts.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
The White Princess, Ciri (Hen Ichaer) #Witcher | #Witcher4 | #Cirilla
Illustration of Ciri from the Witcher crowned in a golden halo, surrounded by bones to represent Death and sprinkled with golden stars.
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WhiteCatArts @whitecatarts.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
The White Fox (Hen Ichaer) #Avallach | #Witcher | #Witcher3
Illustration of Avallac’h from the Witcher. He’s partially hidden behind a hood and a mask, beneath a red and green tree.
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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
In the Witcher 3's cut content, Eredin calls Avallac’h ‘Father.’ In CD Projekt Red’s hands, their rivalry was to unfold as a conflict between a creation & creator, paralleling Ciri’s & Geralt’s dynamic in a twist. The family dynamics among the Wild Hunt generals, meanwhile, run something like this:
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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Black, White, Green #KingdomComeDeliverance2 #kcd2 #VirtualPhotography
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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Why is there an elven Tower, Tor Gval'cha, on Skellige? What is Ragh nar Roog, really? Why are the Aen Elle taller than the Aen Seidhe? The Witcher 3's cut content tells of Freyja the elf, Alderwalk, Leib-Olmai, the white ships, and even the cult of the Eternal Fire - created as a joke.
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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
In the Witcher games, Eredin is a template death knight. In game-fanon, he is frequently a BDSM, ultra-dom, plotting maniac. In the Witcher books though... Eredin is a bit different. Like a unicorn, I rarely see him in fandom spaces, and did he kill Auberon? Well... 😅 :
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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Apply this to Geralt. A Witcher whose end is shaped in Arthurian fashion. Tears at my soul to think that by entering legendary matter at the end of Lady of the Lake, he faces the mythical time of never-ending repetition of archetypal tales that will always end the same way for him,
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mawili 🌐 @poisonp1nk.art · 20/05/2025
ciri. ⚔️ #tw3
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