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faoiltiarna, do i want to also include him in the story, yes i do, will i get that far, who knows

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wafflelovingbatgirl https://wafflelovingbatgirl.tumblr.com/ replied to your post Cliffs Notes: Witcher Two https://bomberqueen17.tumblr.com/post/654511114915364864/cliffs-notes-witcher-two and said:

Fun fact- Iorveth is actually briefly mentioned in the text of book 2 or 3 by name. It’s only 1-2 lines about how his band of Scoi’tael are losing but holding strong but he’s one of the few characters who didn’t get totally invented for the games

Oh yes, I’m aware– he is in fact a book character but the sum total of his mention in the books is a reference to “Iorweth’s defeated commando” of Scoia’tael straggling their way through the woods somewhere, ostensibly to regroup.

Isengrim, on the other hand– they used the description of Isengrim for Iorweth, changing up the dramatic facial scar to include one of his eyes. Then Isengrim is mostly in Gwent and they’ve largely ignored his fascinating book characterization (we get a lot of him! He gets POV for numerous scenes)– he is ruthless and grim but overall reasonable, not excessively vengeful, and while he does not shy from horrific violence we actually see him use the threat of torture extremely effectively (which is to say… not actually torturing someone but extremely credibly threatening them with it, in order to ensure that his point gets across), and he actually has fairly normal sympathetic human responses to the threat of his own impending execution and so on. He’s very badass, but not a psychopath, and makes a number of sensible decisions throughout the books, including running the fuck away in the end.

But in Gwent he’s just a blood-crazed psychopath, mostly, delighting in pain and torture, because I guess why would you take a nuanced look at a brutal man clearly modeled on the partisans of WWII and the hard dehumanizing situations they dealt with, when you could just… put a lunatic in your card game for juicy art. shrug emoji (Your picture was not posted)

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