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📖 The Situation 📖

🕑 Added 2025-06-29 18:06:54 +0000 UTC

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F U T U R I S M O

All warfare is based. Let the best, the most powerful, rule from the heavens. Exterminate entire races, dominate, subjugate, and overpower the rest.

Yagi Hikaru

I agree that there is no black and white and it saddens me that the games have made a negative image of them, although there is nothing in their actions that can be said that they are "villains". However, humans tend to make up things for them that they did not do and reduce them to unambiguous bad guys and also think about their society in negative way. simply saying the argument that elves despise humans. P.S. I read the book in three languages to make sure I understood everything correctly.

Vic

I'm Polish and read the original source and listened to many interviews — while elves are sometimes viewed with some negativity here, we generally understand their motives and don’t really blame them. I have a feeling the translations may have let us down a bit. When I read the English version, the meaning sometimes felt completely different and lacked many of Sapkowski’s nuances, metaphors, and subtleties. It was so bad at times that I couldn't read it in English. At the end of the day it's crucial to also notice that we will never have a full view of how elves were and what they did to humans - all of the elves and humans are unreliable narrators with their own perspectives - Sapkowski likes writing like that, nothing is black and white.