In 2012, just a few short months after miscarrying my first child, I lost the ability to have children completely after having to have a unilateral salpingo-oophorectomy (the removal of one ovary and both fallopian tubes). While watching The Witcher, Yennefer’s storyline hits very close to home for me. RELATED: The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Were My First Coping Mechanism She even goes as far as to become the vessel for a djinn so she can use his powers, and at one point she believes that a dragon’s heart can restore her fertility
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She spends a large part of the series trying to find a cure for her infertility. When she fails to save Queen Kalis of Lyria ( Isobel Laidler) and her infant daughter, Yennefer’s obsession begins. Her choice to go through with the procedure would be one that haunts her throughout the rest of the series.Īfter the process to obtain power and beauty, Yennefer suffers for years struggling with her decision and becomes unhappy at court. Though we learn later in the series that Geralt’s ( Henry Cavill) mother is a powerful sorceress as well, but she still was able to have a child. In that moment, Yennefer feels it is a necessity. We know that she is not a mentally stable character, yet no one attempted to provide her with the repercussions of her choice.
Aretuza convinces Yennefer she needs to undergo a procedure to give up her ability to produce children in order to have power and obtain beauty over her deformities. It is here when we start to see Yennefer grow as a character. As her time at the academy passes, she is able to find some semblance of happiness in her studies, the arms of a lover and herself. She is taken to Aretuza, a magical academy for young ladies, where in a state of depression, she attempts to commit suicide.
Her own stepfather sells her to a stranger for four marks, less than the cost of a pig. When we first meet Yennefer in The Witcher, she is a deformed girl. Out of all these themes, the one that struck me the most was Yennefer’s ( Anya Chalotra) infertility and her obsession with finding a cure. Over eight episodes, the series covers magic, death, monsters, destiny, love, war and even racism. The Witcher may be based in a fantasy world but the themes within are very much real. After their training, witchers wander around, looking for coin in exchange for ridding people of monsters, that invaded reality after a cataclysmic event.This article contains major spoilers for the Netflix series The Witcher, Yennefer’s storyline and deals with mental health and infertility. Those who do are almost unkillable by ordinary warriors.
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Witchers, including, were given training that made their reflexes inhumanly fast and fed with special potions in a process called Trial of the Grasses which most don't survive. His character is called Geralt of Rivia, who is one of the witchers, mutated humans trained to kill monsters that roam around the Continent, the fictional fantasy world of the series. The production cannot certainly continue since Cavill plays the titular role. The news was reported by a fan site of the show called Redanian Intelligence.
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The highly contagious virus continues to affect film and TV production more than two and a half years after it first surfaced. The filming of the third season of Netflix's popular fantasy series 'The Witcher' has been halted after the main star of the show, Henry Cavill, tested positive for Covid-19.