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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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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 · 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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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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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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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 · 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
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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 · 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
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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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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 · 02/11/2025
Sapkowski memes:
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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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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
The real secret in that photo is the book Sapkowski's Trilogy box leans on - Porius. Insanely hard to get a copy! I tried for 2 years. Comes heavily recommended for Welsh arthuriana, British dark ages, and for a great Merlin rendition.
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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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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 · 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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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Glad to see those green eyes on Ciri despite the mutations! (Flawless. Gem. Queen.) 💎 #TheWitcher4
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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
God, I hope we see Ciri's vision-warging in The Witcher 4.
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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Echo. #KingdomComeDeliverance2 #KCD2 #VirtualPhotography
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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II #KingdomComeDeliverance2 #KCD2
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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Portraits. #KingdomComeDeliverance2 #KCD2 #VirtualPhotography
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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II The Knight of Greens. #KingdomComeDeliverance2 #KCD2 #VirtualPhotography
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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II #VirtualPhotography #KCD2
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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II #VirtualPhotography #KCD2 #KingdomComeDeliverance2
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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II #VirtualPhotography #KingdomComeDeliverance2 #KCD2
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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II #VirtualPhotography
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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Excerpts. First two from 'The Escape Artist', third from Ciri's Omelas Dilemma, fourth from CDPR's Vision for Ciri. And: "I hope they will explore a truly morally ambiguous Ciri, letting her be messy and problematic rather than simply heroic. I hope they dare to explore her as Her."
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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Contents.
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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
asdfghjklpawueg Here's one for all Ciri/Avallac'h fan. For "reading between the lines" all these years! Geralt & Avallac'h talking about Avallac'h's feelings regarding Ciri, from The Witcher 3's cut script iteration
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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
The path beyond both master and slave morality? Love. When Geralt acts from care rather than power or moral judgment, he transcends Nietzsche's binary. A warrior-monk who chooses his battles not from weakness or strength, but from conviction—even when it costs him.
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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
The Witcher 3: A Time of Sword and Axe Predecessor of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Tor Gvalch'ca, Undvik #VirtualPhotography #TheWitcher3
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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
www.instagram.com/p/DDEtLFSinq... A kilogram of silver gilding a moment out of The Tower of the Swallow. Geralt & Avallac'h's meeting under the Devil's Mountain even has the knocker & barbegazi present, but, alas, the artists chickened out on the penises. Meanwhile Ciri's heading for a trip.
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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Auberon Muircetach is after you, ladies.
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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
The Witcher being a post-apocalyptic society has been theorized before. The world seems on the cusp of a scientific revolution, mashed together of technologies, theories & terms that echo times other than its pseudo-medieval present.
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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Ciri, the Lady of Time and Space #VirtualPhotography #TheWitcher3
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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
Skellige #TheWitcher3 #VirtualPhotography
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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
Samhain, or Saovine 🍂 #VirtualPhotograpy #TheWitcher3
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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 20/10/2024
I never imagined I would become "an exhibited artist" by having a screenshot put up on Trafalgar square and yet, that happened (first one, 2022). #VirtualPhotography #RedDeadRedemption2
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Elin Ratzinger (or Wilma Wessely, if you like) @cauldronoffae.bsky.social · 19/10/2024
Once upon a time, I took screenshots in a game called The Witcher 3, and got obsessed.
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