The Witcher Season 2: 10 Things We'd Love To See

7. The Silver Sword

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Fantasy has a habit of giving great significance to weapons. Narsil, The Sword in the Stone, Luke's lightsabre, the trend of making a weapon a key player in the plot can be seen everywhere. The Witcher is no different, though instead of one particular blade it is the whole concept of silver swords.

Silver slays monsters, that's what the show tells us, and with the knuckle dusters and weighted chain used against the Striga, even the coins offered to the Doppler, we can see its a true statement. This focus on a particular material is something that does pop up in other series, Game of Thrones with its Dragonglass comes to mind, but silver as a choice has a much deeper connection to real world folklore.

Seeing more of the silver swords would add another dynamic to the fight scenes, showing the strength of silver against monsters compared to regular weapons, but also the weaknesses when used against others. A piece of sharp metal is a piece of sharp metal at the end of the day, but there's a good reason Geralt never uses his silver against anything with its own weapon or armour (hint: shatter shatter).

A balance of silver and steel would remind us of the real strengths of a Witcher: they know these monsters, and they know the best way to kill them. When regular steel won't do it, you need a Witcher's silver.

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My passion for all things Sci Fi goes back to my earliest days, when old VHS copies of Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet gripped my tiny mind with their big, noisy vehicles and terrifying puppets. I'd like to say my taste got more refined over the years, but between the Warhammer, Space Dandy and niche Star Wars EU books, perhaps it just got broader. I've enjoyed games of all calibre since I figured out that dice weren't just for eating, and have written prose ever since I was left unsupervised with some crayons next to a white wall. I got away with it by calling it "schoolwork" for as long as I could, and university helped me keep the charade going a while longer. Since my work began to get published, it's made all those long hours repainting the walls seem worth it.