The animated Witcher spin-off film Nightmare of the Wolf is just a few days away, however there’s nonetheless extra Witcher coming down the pike. Netflix has introduced the various, many individuals who’ll be becoming a member of Blood Origin, the live-action miniseries set greater than a thousand years earlier than the smash-hit present starring Henry Cavill as Geralt.

Here’s the lengthy listing of the actors who might be becoming a member of beforehand introduced Blood Origin stars Sophia Brown as Élie and Laurence O’Fuarain (Vikings) as Fjall:

• Mirren Mack (The Nest) as Merwyn
• Lenny Henry (Lord of the Rings sequence) as Balor
• Jacob Collins-Levy (Young Wallander) as Eredin
• Lizzie Annis as Zacaré
• Huw Novelli (The Capture) as Callan “Brother Death”
• Francesca Mills (Harlots) as Meldof
• Amy Murray as Fenrik
• Nathaniel Curtis (It’s a Sin) as Brían
• Zach Wyatt (Karen Pirie) as Syndril
• Dylan Moran (Black Books) as Uthrok One-Nut

The downside is that since Blood Origin is a prequel sequence and never straight based mostly on considered one of Andrzej Sapkowski’s Witcher novels, we’ve got no clue who any of those characters are. All we’ve got is the present’s official synopsis: “Set in an elven world 1200 years before the world of The Witcher: Blood Origin will tell a story lost to time – the creation of the first prototype Witcher, and the events that lead to the pivotal in ‘conjunction of the spheres,’ when the worlds of monsters, men, and elves merged to become one.” This doesn’t get us any nearer to figuring out how a man named “One-Nut” figures into the huge cataclysm that introduced magic and monsters to the world of The Witcher, nevertheless it’s higher than nothing.

Given that the forged has solely simply been introduced, there’s clearly no telling when Blood Origin will come to Netflix. But perhaps you’ll be able to tide your self over when The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf animated film premieres on August 23. In the meantime, you’ll be able to try some footage of the forged on this Twitter thread:

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