Morrigan thread - "Tis cold in my tent, all alone..."

I don't really feel offended and I'll explain why.

The Witcher Games are way different from the books. TW3 did a very bad job at showing how devoted mom Yen is and how much Ciri loves Yen (she was a mommy's little girl, she even called herself Ciri of Vengerberg) although Polish version at least shows it a little bit in words while English not so much because the translation is... kinda poor. But I can't fully blame the translation since it's very difficult and sometimes impossible to translate Polish to English when it comes to the Witcher world because of the canon phrases that are simply untranslatable. TW was made by an author who took many things from Polish folklore, myths, legends, pre-Christianity times and the times where Poland was a communistic country under the Soviet Union so people who didn't grew up in Poland and never experienced anything similar won't get it. AND, since many things can't be translated, they're "made up" in English to make at least some sense in the general story because the censorship under which Polish people had lived for 45 years was common in phrases - people needed to find a way to say whatever they wanted without ending up in danger. Those things also exist in the Witcher world. It's a combination of folklore, history, myths, legends, wars and communism. TW is understood differently by West and East thanks to all of that. So I can't blame someone who doesn't see what I see because we come from completely different cultures. We grew up in completely different worlds. I've tried to read English version of the books and nope, it's not the same at all. You can get the general feeling but it lacks the depth that is felt in the original version. One way or another, we discussed this "thing" on CDPR forum and people were all "the game failed when it came to Yen&Ciri", even in Polish version which is way better than English. Don't get me wrong here, whatever I read in English translation being the original and then trying to do the same in Polish, I end up stopping because the native version, English, is way better than Polish due to some things being untranslatable to the point of giving the same feeling and depth. The original meaning is lost, no matter how much translators are trying.

And yes, I'm a huge fan of TW. It can't be different. I'm a part of "The Witcher cult". I grew up with it. I knew the story before CDPR even bought the rights to TW world. It's a huge part of my life. 

Now, if someone didn't read the books at all, they don't see even this general story, they don't know canon TW characters that are different from the games. But I must say, TW3 did a good job at presenting those characters as one by one. Yen was made amazingly. So was Geralt, Ciri, Triss, Philippa, Emhyr, Radowid etc. Hell, they even brought Regis back! You can't even imagine how happy I was to see him alive and well (the last time we saw him was during Geralt & Co. rescuing Yen and Ciri from Vilgefortz who captured and tortured Yen to the brink of death over and over again - Regis saved Yennefer's life by standing between her and Vilgefortz - he end up as a pool of blood on the wall). Thanks to all that, those people (who didn't read the books) can't compare Morrigan and Yen. When I played DAO I was like... "I've seen this before" and was asking myself if Morrigan's author didn't somehow read TW. It's impossible of course, but some of the similarities are very close. And if I had to chose which one is better - Yen or Morrigan - it'd be impossible for me because I love both of them. They're equal to me. But if you'd ask me about Leliana vs Triss, I'd pick Leliana for sure and not because she's deeper or anything like that, because once again - both characters are very deep. It's simply me knowing TW books and what Triss did, what she was going to do etc. I detest her and absolutely love Leliana (although not as much as Morrigan so Morrigan vs Leliana = Morrigan 1000%).