Are you interested in seeing a Witcher world without Witchers? Apparently Netflix is banking on enough people out there wanting just that with Blood Origin, a live action prequel series to The Witcher set before the in-universe conjunction of the spheres event, which led to the appearance of magic, monsters and humans on The Continent. The show just got a new teaser.
Set in a time where the fantasy saga was relatively more mundane doesn't make Blood Origin much more peaceful by the looks of this teaser trailer. Set during an anomalous magical event - or, from some points of view, an outright catastrophe - where multiple different worlds and dimensions are temporarily exposed to each other, Blood Origin tells the tale of how the thoroughly messed up world Geralt has to mop up came into being.
The Continent is, or was, a magic-free realm inhabited by elves, dwarves, gnomes mainly, among some other fantasy species. Headlined by Michelle Yeoh, Sophia Brown, and Laurence O'Fuarain, the Netflix exclusive streaming show will depict some of the conflicts this world was enduring even before eldritch nonsense made things more complicated, and how the Conjuncture of the Spheres really made a mess of it.
The introduction of magic, monsters and humans (arguably these two are in the same category, really) will set off a chain of events that, according to the showrunners, will culminate in the creation of the first "prototype Witcher". Being set 1200 years prior to the events of the books (or show, or games, sort of?) means that the process is likely going to be very experimental at this stage.