The Witcher showrunners were going to have Geralt and Yennifer have a child. This was also the decision that made Cavill leave the show, which just cemented my choice to not bother with the following season.

Do what you will with the overall plot line and stories you wanna tell, but god that is such an egregious change that fucks up so much about the character's motivations since canonically, Witchers are fucking sterile and can't have kids, but Geralt really wants to be a father. That's one of the reasons he attached himself to Ciri.

[–] Saapas@piefed.zip 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Wasn't the same true for sorceresses

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Geralt's mother was a sorcereress. Sterility and birth defects are a side effect of long term magic use and alchemy but not 100%

[–] Saapas@piefed.zip 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Okay, I remembered it being a thing but wasn't 100% sure on the details. Been a while since I read the books. I remember it being a major thing with Yennefer, she was similarly infertile like Geralt and also wanted a child

[–] oyenyaaow@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago

The sorceresses in geralt's mother's generation were made sterile but not in a physical way, she figured out how to circumvent that and have Geralt. So in Yennefer's generation Aretuza removed the womb from their graduates.

[–] markovs_gun@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

That is beyond stupid, to the point where anyone proposing it has shown they not only don't respect the source material, but actively hate it. That is like the central feature of the interpersonal relationships in the books.

[–] paultimate14@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Out of curiosity do you have a source for that? I've tried searching but I can't find anything about this at all.