What is the Wild Hunt?

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[Karpfly]

I have read somewhere article thats correlete sudden drop in atmospheric pressure with old Polish description of wild hunt - strong wind with sounds of riding horses, people act funny and leaves house and never returns

[CartoonHero]

I always thought the real world Wild Hunt was essentially a warning to not travel out in winter storms as an allegory for extreme weather making people and wild animals all the more dangerous and violent to encounter in the wilds during the cold season, as well as legend of towns that were raided and wiped out over the winter with no one left alive to tell them who did it, when, or why.

[superslayerguy]

Gaunter O'Dimm be like "that's a pretty cute wild hunt you have there"

[nickschulte]

I immediately thought of the Dresden Files when I saw this videos title. I know it’s only a book series (no, the old Sci-Fi Channel show does not count) but I’d love for you to tackle it. I’ve probably read the whole series 3 times, and there is just so much going on, it’s hard to remember it all.

[evanphillips]

Excellent video, would love to see more lore videos on the books! (Less said about the show lmao)

[beastiebro]

The artwork from Gwent is so fantastic!! So sad that CDPR is shutting that game down 😢

[ellenrittgers]

Author Jim Butcher penned a great Wild Hunt in one of his Dresden Files books!😊

[deeayenn]

Nicely detailed, no fluff. Marvellous

[ndruark]

The Wild Hunt also shows up in Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files books.

[moldyketchuphead]

Guy Gavriel Kay also uses the idea of the wild hunt in his Fionovar Tapestry trilogy.

[cmachinist]

I get all excited because the wild hunt is this fascinating story common to cultures throughout the world and one of the oldest stories in the world. I thought this was going to be about that wild hunt.

[mhx]

I did read books years ago while commuting. The part where Ciri ran from Cintra and was breafly captured by Wild hunt (if I remember correctly), then escaping and hopping between worlds, dropping bubonic plague in our world, was sooo epic and… I did not fully understand.
It is very nice to see this video after all those years. She is deliberatly modified (by Ein El?) is news to me!
I ignore TV shows and failed to get throigh games.

[terry]

An interesting comparison would be this wild hunt to the one described in the Dresden Files.

[awesomehpt]

The wild hunt is just a giant elven frat party gone too far

[mirrorblitz]

The wild hunt also features in another series called the Dresden files, that are some pretty great fantasy. I wonder @In Deep Geek if you'd be interested in covering them. I can't reccoment the audiobooks enough; they're pretty fantastically done, especially in later installments.

[_MaZTeR_]

My disappointment was pretty immeasurable in Witcher 3, when Eredin took off his mask and revealed to be just an elf.

[Chris-dols]

Havent played the games, but have read the books. I really like the witcher, although im not a huge fan of the netflix version.

[antonellamRD]

In Sardinian folklore we have them being demonic horse raiders

[MaxWithTheSax]

My guess is in the show they will realize their mistake in deviating from the source material, waste a few episodes backpedaling and still mess it up in the end.

[Teeekuuu]

Wish you started on Witcher a long time ago. So much uncovered still.