"The Witcher III: Wild Hunt" talk: What is Wild Hunt? Why are they arresting Xili?

Wild Hunt, the original text is Wild Hunt (wild hunt?), is a European folk myth, tells the story of a group of ghostly or supernatural hunters chasing prey in the wild. The wild hunt may be elves, fairies or dead. The leader of Wild Hunt is usually a name related to Odin (or other versions of the same god); but it may also be a historical or legendary figure, such as Theodoric the Great; or a character in the Bible, such as Herod, Cain, Gabriel, or the devil; or an unknown lost soul or spirit.

The wild hunting knight in the night sky

Usually the appearance of wild hunting heralds some disasters, such as war or plague, or the death of witnesses. People who encounter wild hunting may also be kidnapped to the underground world or wonderland. In some cases, people believe that the human soul will join the wild hunting team during sleep; another way of saying is that wild hunting and the Valkyrie do the same kind of work, coming to the battlefield after a war on the ground, as a hero Temple Valhalla looks for souls with courage.

Obviously, during the production of the "Witcher" series of games, CDPR adopted the more commonly used concept of wild hunting. In the game, the White Wolf visited the people to find the whereabouts of the adopted daughter. The people would tell him "a lot People were taken away by wild hunting as coolies, and reappeared a few years later, but they didn't remember anything. "So, why does wild hunting want to catch Xili?

In the early and middle part of the game, every time the Wild Hunter appeared, he dressed very warmly. Based on this, it can be speculated that the world of Ain Aier is very cold and cannot stand it without a cotton coat. As for why it is cold, it may be because of the approaching hoarfrost. Hoarfrost will devour the entire world, which can be gradually understood in the late game. Generally speaking, Avalak is not a good bird. Although his ultimate goal in taking Xili away was to contain Hoarfrost, he let the king of the wild hunt and the commander of the Red Knight Eredin take advantage of the loopholes. His own king was poisoned to death.

In contrast, Eredin is a more evil image. The purpose of catching Xili is for the time and space navigation ability brought by the blood of the elder of Xili, so as to jump between various worlds and invade. In fact, this is also very fascinating. If it is not for the purpose of curbing Hoarfrost, there is actually no need to catch Xili at all, because the elves of Ayn El have actually trained their own navigators-Caran Hill. This person is relatively strong, and can even control a small range of hoarfrost through the scepter in his hand. Its spatial transmission range is also considerable, and the entire "Najifal" can be transmitted around the world. So, Eredin’s pursuit of Xili is only possible for the time control ability of the blood of the elder. Although this ability has not been directly displayed in the game, through the dialogue between Xili and Geralt, we can vaguely know that Xili is very likely. In the process of avoiding Ereding’s pursuit, I traveled through time to 2077, modern times, and even more ancient ancient times. Ereding not only wanted to invade other worlds at the same time, but also wanted to shuttle back and forth in different times (not afraid to provoke To the Avengers?)

The "Golden Boy" of Ain El World, Carran Hill

The legendary ship of doom made by dead man’s nails" Najifal"

Before enticing Eritin to come to the human world to catch Xili, Avalak managed to make Ain Eir World’s heavily armed General Gael dream of the true cause of death of the Elven King . The "righteous" Gayle agreed to Geralt that if Eredin asked for help from the country during the hunt for Hilly, he would not send a single soldier. After that, Geralt and Hilli secretly defeated Eredin's deputy Eleris (this time can be regarded as revenge for Kyle Morhan's big iron gate) and the three sisters.

Illerys who hammered the gate of Kyle Morhan

Perhaps because domestic public opinion makes it difficult for Eruding to ride a tiger and lose face (or it may be that the proud elves do not believe they will Defeated to humans), even in the case of losing soldiers and losing generals, clearly knowing that the opponent is waiting, still led the knights to capture Xili, the result can be imagined, the navigator Caranhill, who was finally trained, was cut down by New Year's swordsmanship. He was dying, and he didn't even pull it to his back (he wanted to drown Geralt, he didn't know that the demon hunter had a whale potion), EredinI was stabbed to death, not to mention, blinded in one eye, ugly, the Knights of the Wild Hunt were wiped out, and Najifal was gone. From this point of view, the biggest beneficiary of Ain Aier's world should be Gail, and the domestic rivals are eradicated by the human world, which can be said to be satisfactory. In this way, if Ain El is led by the anti-war wing Gal and Avalak, it is estimated that there will be no traces of wild hunting for a long time in the human world.

The head of the Wild Hunting Knights, Eredin