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Dec 17, 2021 · Episode 1 of The Witcher Season 2 begins with blistering cold snow in the dead of the night. A merchant arrives with his family looking for a place to stay. Unfortunately, they’re attacked by a monster that savagely dispatches them all. Meanwhile, Yennefer is gone. The battlefield is a mess, with a mosaic of 20,000 soldiers lining the floor.
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"A Grain of Truth" is the first episode of season 2 of Netflix's The Witcher series.
•Geralt of Rivia
•Yennefer of Vengerberg
•Ciri
•Cahir
•Tissaia de Vries
•Fringilla Vigo
A merchant and two women arrive in a seemingly abandoned village. They're in search of lodging, but instead meet their demise at the hands of an unknown flying creature that is both fast and strong.
Meanwhile, at the Battle of Sodden Hill, only a few remain, amongst them Tissaia, who is searching for Yennefer by looking through the memories of the fallen and observing their final moments. With thousands dead on all sides, Vilgefortz tells Tissaia to accept that Yennefer is gone, but that is simply not something she can do, as she continues calling out to her protégé. However, instead of Yennefer, she finds Geralt and Ciri, who remarks that she's already seen this in a vision. Geralt asks Tissaia if Yennefer is alive, but despite her efforts to find her, Tissaia is doubtful. While they may have won the battle, Geralt asks if it was worth her life.
Geralt and Ciri camp out in the freezing wilderness, where they share their mutual inability to sleep due to bad dreams. In her dream, a black knight has her on his horse while Cintra is burning, and she's helpless to stop it. Ciri asks how Geralt claimed her as a Child Surprise, to which he explains that it was payment from a debt after he saved her father's life from her grandmother, as she didn't want Ciri's mother marrying an outsider. That said, Geralt assures Ciri that her father didn't know what he was giving up when they made the agreement. Ciri proposes going to Skellige in search of shelter, but Geralt warns her that she'd be married off to the nearest Lord of Bad Breath, who would only be seeking to claim her throne.
Triss is badly wounded from the Battle of Sodden, sending her into a seizure, but with the combined powers of Tissaia, Vilgefortz, and Artorius, they manage to stabilize her. Tissaia fears that Yennefer is lost for good. As for Fringilla, she was at the front and coordinating the Nilfgaardian attack. She has abandoned all rules of Chaos. Fortunately, they won the battle and also took a prisoner, however, no one has been able to break him so far, which Tissaia hopes to change.
Yennefer awakens under a tree, shackled and held prisoner by Fringilla and what remains of her Nilfgaard comrades.
Geralt explains to Ciri that Kaer Morhen is where witchers go during the winter to rest up and heal, as well as replace armor and elixirs. It's Geralt's home, if nothing else. They prefer to keep it a secret after a previous attack when Geralt was a boy that almost wiped them all out. Ciri recalls how in Cintra, she used to dress up as a boy just so that she could play knucklebones. They come to a sudden stop upon noticing a mutilated deer just off the path, and when Roach becomes unnerved, Geralt performs axii, a calming sign to ease Roach's worry. He then takes a blade and cuts a piece of flesh from the deer, tasting it as well.
Dec 17, 2021 · The Witcher season 2, episode 1 recap. Following the Battle of Sodden Hill, Yennefer is missing, which is a point of concern for both Geralt and Tissaia. The general feeling is that she sacrificed herself to win the battle, but we later learn that she’s with Fringilla, and is about to be offered up to the Nilfgaardian Empire as a kind of get ...
- Jonathon Wilson
Dec 17, 2021 · Much of “A Grain of Truth” centers on this monster-of-the-week subplot, as Geralt and Ciri end up as the unwitting protagonists in a story that is The Witcher ’s riff on Beauty and the Beast ...
Dec 17, 2021 · A Grain of Truth: Directed by Stephen Surjik. With Henry Cavill, Anya Chalotra, Freya Allan, Eamon Farren. Geralt sets off with Ciri on a journey that leads him to an old friend.
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- Action, Adventure, Drama
- Stephen Surjik
- 2021-12-17
Dec 17, 2021 · In its second season, The Witcher is more straightforward and calculated in its approach, but also more self-assured. It has plenty of ground to cover as it gets its major players in place, but ...
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Dec 17, 2021 · After pleading for Geralt to kill him to end his suffering, Geralt tells him to do it himself since he is mortal now. Geralt and Ciri leave the village to head for Kaer Morhen, leaving Nivellen to a life of loneliness. The Witcher season 2 is streaming on Netflix now. Hannah’s a lifelong nerd, but has been with the team since May 2021.
