The World of the Witcher: Video Game Compendium

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The book is amazing, hardcovered with a lot of illustrations and comes very cheap.
Good collectable for Witcher fans.

Great book, I currently own the witcher 3 and the books really helps to immerse you into the world of the witcher. It has great art and lots of interesting information. A must have for the above average nerd :)

I started playing the Witcher 3 and just loved the world (I had not played any of the previous games). This book is a great addition to the game and helps flesh out the world. It is not a Witcher 3 guide book, but a collection of essays about different aspects of the world, written from the point of view of various characters from the lore. I really enjoyed it, but if you do not like the Witcher narrative, this book probably isn't for you.

Thr World of the Witcher is a comprehensive look into a gritty fantasy world, where life is hard and the strong rule the weak. The artwork is gorgeous and the layout is nicely done. My only complaint is that the Kindle version has some inconsistency issues with the scan quality of some pages.

I bought this book expecting something more akin to The World of Ice and Fire (which I bought at the same time) - a huge book that goes into great detail about the world of the Witcher. It does go into good detail, but not nearly as much as I hoped for. It's largely a basic overview of the world the Witcher takes place in, giving only general descriptions in place of more specifics. Those general descriptions, however, are still quite excellent for the most part, and the artwork in this book is fantastic.

The book breaks down into five parts, each with a different narrator:

1 - The World and Its Inhabitants (3.5/5): narrated by Three Jackdaws/Villentretenmerth, it provides a pretty good overview of the world and its history, though it's still pretty barebones. I'd rate this section higher if it at least provided a map of the Northern Kingdoms, but alas, no such luck.
2 - The Witchers (4/5): narrated by Vesemir. One of the better parts of the book, as it gives a brief history of the witcher trade, their training and techniques, and the origins of the enmity they face from the common folk. It doesn't go into detail about the different Witcher Schools, which is the only real weak point of the chapter.
3 - The Magic and Religion of the Continent (3.5/5): narrated by Yennefer. Pretty simple overview of how magic works and the different religions, though it's not the most interesting read.
4 - The Beasts of the Northern Kingdoms (1/5): narrated by Geralt. This is the weakest part of the book by far; it only talks about a few monsters (about two or three per category), and barely gives any details on them. You'll learn far more about their strengths and weaknesses by playing the games.
5 - The Story of Geralt of Rivia (5/5): narrated by Dandelion. Exactly what the chapter title says; it covers Geralt's story from The Last Wish all the way up through The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. THIS is what you buy the book for; it gives you the full story of Geralt of Rivia without having to read the books (though I recommend the books, as they're quite good).
Artwork (5/5): as I said above, the artwork in this book is fantastic. Admittedly, some of it is basically promotional images from the video games, but even that is well done.

Overall, it's a solid book if you're a fan of the Witcher series; just don't expect a full bestiary or great detail on the kingdoms.

Real rad compendium of art and world lore. It always trips me out of many thousand hours of extra art is made that never makes it into AAA games. This book gives an excellent conduit to display all this great great great art in the Witcher world. Real nice binding and hardcover quality, too.

Awesome book, me being a newcomer to the series I gladly took the opportunity of reading through this book to get the hang of the world and story of the Witcher game. The world of witcher book is divided to a few chapters which describes the characters, the world and enemies of Witcher universe. It's a neat book worth every penny. Great for newcomers aswell as fans of the franchise.

This book is better than I expected! I purchased the hard cover and it is an excellent quality book that I would proudly display if I could put it down. The paper is thick, the images are stunning, the information throughout is fascinating. The only thing I haven't seen that I wish it had is a map. I heartily recommend this book to any true Witcher fan.

Really liked the detail in the drawings, as well as how Geralt's history was written by Dandilion's perspective and the history of witchers was written in Vesemir's perspective. Beautifully illustrated abd written, strongly bound.