After four straight episodes on the road — and a slew of injuries that include Geralt’s festering leg wound and Jaskier’s busted forehead — it’s time for the hansa to take a rest. Geralt, of course, resists, but when Milva warns him that the conditions of the river they need to cross are too dangerous, what choice do they have but to make a campfire and swap stories for the night?

This episode — which consists almost entirely of characters sharing formative incidents from their pasts — is an unusually blunt device for delivering backstory. But it’s also part of a rich tradition that stretches back to Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales , and it gives The Witcher a chance to be more formally inventive than usual, delivering both an animated segment and a cheeky musical within the episode’s hour

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