#ithlinne

I just finished watching The Witcher: Blood Origin AND OH MY GOD. I’m not going to spoil anything but if anyone has seen it, please comment because I HAVE to talk about it. 

It changes so much about the Witcher?! 

ciri's distant relative, ithlinne: learning from eile herself, hearing stories of how elf and human kind are interacting in the outside world, witnessing cruelty and being saved by a strong woman, and finally... providing the prophecy we come to hear later.

eredin: leader of the wild hunt, originally part of a coup to overthrow the elven empire with balor and merwyn. in a loving relationship with brian which must be kept secret due to severe classism in the elven kingdom. eventually, sent to another world, where he becomes the eredin we know...

avallac'h: unwitting protector of merwyn and mage apprentice. very powerful and daring even so--but also bashful and sweet and awkward and adorable. significant player. eventually, observes ciri as a child in season 1... knowing how her destiny is connected to all the rest.

I am sorry I can't capture with the same resolution than in the app so my pictures are extra blurry, but! I just screeched when I noticed this.

On Éile's nyckelharpa there are patterns. From afar it looks like ferns of some sort but we have a tiny close up when she offers Ithlinne to try. And we can see that the patterns are kind of iridescent. Well... at least, one of them... 😏. A kind of dandelion that shines of yellow, next to a bird. I have the feeling it represents more than a flower but I can't get over that it really remind me of that too !

[Edit] hmm we can see it also when she plays in the tavern after the fight. Always glows yellow. And the fun thing is that the more I dig the more I see dandelions or flowers and vegetal paterns around Eile, like they do with Jaskier.

Caranthir dies, it goes just like in the game, he drowns. But then he wakes up on the shore of a small island, there's no sight of the battle and the only two other people living on the island are a human boy, who sometimes seems way older, and a blind elven lady, who similarly is once old, once young, and once her eyes are totally fine. It's weird, it's hard to understand, and the other two are only making all of that worse with their cryptic bullshit and taunting Caranthir.

Eventually, he realizes that he's in some sort of afterlife for people particularly connected to the Spiral. And that the other two are Ithlinne and Alvin.

Obviously, Ithlinne isn't Lara's descendant, but she's her indirect ancestor, hence why she's there with the two special little boys. And she's fed up with this kind of existence, she comes to hate her gift of prophecy and understanding of magic, and would way prefer to just fade to the Isle of Apples to join Aelirren. But no, she instead is stuck here. And Cara keeps asking her if she knew Lara…

Alvin somewhat reverted back to being a kid - he remembers everything, power at his hands, puppeteering the kingdom, all the men that would kill themselves if that was the order he gave - but he doesn't remember much of his childhood. And now he doesn't need to run anymore, not that there's anywhere to run away from this island between the worlds. And he can be annoying and cryptic little shit all he wants.

It's not that either of them knows Caranthir, but they can see right through him, and he hates it. Calling him not 'that' special than he probably thought he was in his life. But it's Caranthing, he never felt like he really was the Golden Child. He was Cursed at best, hiding behind the helmet, only useful, but never wanted.