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The Witcher"s story is an unusual one for fantasy. The world is dark and grimy in the way you"d expect actual medieval towns and landscapes to be. It"s full of fear, disease, religious zealotry, and political maneuvering that results in pain for the powerless populace at large. In short, it"s a window into our own world and tries to expose some of the issues that we deal with on a daily basis while still providing players the chance to control an interesting character and participate in an exciting adventure. It results in some cheesiness as the writers try to shove too many modern day problems into one game, but many of the issues are tackled in a mature fashion and we couldn"t help but be drawn into this flawed but hopeful world. 

While tensions always seem to be high between humans, elves, dwarves, and other races of fantasy, this Polish-born tale pushes those tensions into full blown racism. While most of the epithets are cast at the "non-humans" like the elves and dwarves, the main character Geralt is not immune to the slanderous speech of the human population. While Geralt was born human, he was mutated and trained to become something both more and less. While Witchers are granted enhanced reflexes and strength and trained to slay monsters, use basic magic, and brew helpful potions, the process of mutation sterilizes them and as many observe in the game, turns them cold to others. 

Thusly, Geralt"s adventures are not all happiness and joy in finding new friends as they are in some RPGs. Most humans are wary of Geralt, some are downright hostile and the non-humans often have the same reactions because he"s part human. From the moment Geralt leaves the confined tutorial area of his home castle Kaer Morhen, he"s subjected to the fears and anger of a world looking for a reason to explode. Geralt, of course, takes a defining role at the center of that explosion, one way or another. 



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