The Witcher Headcanons

esp cheap novels where he mutters about the monster being written wrong

ehehehe, totally. The wolven witchers share books with inaccurate monster portrayals so they can complain about them together.

“I can’t– you can’t kill a vampire with holy water!? They’re sword oils, not glorified water–”

"Oh yeah you can kill a basilisk with a mirror. If you bash its head in with it."

“No, you can’t. It would kill you.”

“Was that a challenge?”

esp cheap novels where he mutters about the monster being written wrong

ehehehe, totally. The wolven witchers share books with inaccurate monster portrayals so they can complain about them together.

“I can’t-- you can’t kill a vampire with holy water!? They’re sword oils, not glorified water--”

No chill but brings the sass

BONUS:

my tablet deleted my work halfway through but at least I managed to save this… also I don’t know what happened with all those Katakan paws and legs, they lok terrible

The Witcher universe states dimeritium prevents magic use, right? Can we all agree on that? They use dimeritium cuffs to prevent mages from casting magic. Geralt has dimeritium bombs for magical enemies.

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so why the hell does the Ursine and Wolven armor have dimeritium plates?!?!?! IT MAKES NO SENSE 

Maybe smelting the compound into plate negates its magic cancelling effects? Dimeritium bombs send a cloud of dust into the air, probably from the mineral’s unrefined form. Maybe it turns out that it makes a strong ass metal and someone figured it out, or maybe being another into plate allows for protection directional magic attacks but doesn’t hinder the wearer’s abilities at all since its magic negation has been controlled? Just spitballin here

Yeah, I was thinking that, too. But why would making dimeritium into plates be a different process from making dimeritium handcuffs?

Could it be possible that dimeritum is only effective at stopping magic casting when it completely encircles the caster. I know of a few books where the anti-magic stuff works that way. So the bombs works because the cloud covers the target, and cuffs work because they encircle the wrists, but the armors plating presumably has gaps and therefore allows casting while still being resistant to head on magical attacks?

I like that idea. In order to interfere with magic abilities, there needs to be an unbroken series of dimeritium. So armor plates wouldn’t prevent magic use. But it would resist magical attacks because the magic would be directed at the witcher himself.

@jormundgandr said (in a reblog):

I think it might have something to do with the style of magic that Witchers use, it’s not blood magic or inherited magic, but leans toward using the amulet I think in conjunction with the rune signs

@ boringid said (in a reblog):

How exactly does it prevent magic use? skin contact and/or being in the path of magic cast? Maybe it works as handcuffs via skin contact, and as plates to disrupt the ‘flow’ but it’s fine since there’s no skin-contact? Even if the plates are exposed unless they’re near his face it’d be unlikely that Geralt could accidentally touch them (for example if pinned) since he wears gloves constantly. I like the idea of the different ratio of components changing the dimiterium properties though.