Caught making an attempt to determine who the Deathless Mom is in The Witcher Season 2? The primary season of the Witcher was typically tough to maintain up with due to the shifting timelines. Fortunately, the second season is far more linear, however that does not imply it is with out its personal complicated plot parts.
In story phrases, The Witcher Season 2 kicks off days after the primary ends. If you have not caught up but, this Season 1 recap ought to enable you out. And if you have not completed watching the second season, watch out for some main spoilers forward. So in the event you’re able to make sense of the chaos, here is what we learn about Voleth Meir in The Witcher Season 2.
The Witcher Deathless Mom: Who’s Voleth Meir?
Spoilers for the ending of Season 2 forward.
Voleth Meir, or the Deathless Mom as she’s additionally recognized, would not seem within the video games or the books. So regardless of how intensive your data of Witcher lore, that is not going that will help you right here. The character/entity was created for the present and is loosely primarily based on variations of standard folklore that contain a witch residing alone in a home within the woods—suppose Hansel and Gretel, however with out the gingerbread. And this specific witch feeds on distress reasonably than kids.
Voleth Meir, aka the Deathless Mom, is a demon that was pulled into the Continent with the conjunction. The primary Witchers trapped her in her hut beneath an elven smash within the north, however she’s managed to succeed in out to others in goals.
She despatched Yen trying to find Ciri as a result of she knew of her energy to interrupt monoliths and teleport between realms—mainly, Ciri’s energy was the one manner she knew to get house. In fact, if she’d managed to maintain possessing Ciri after they teleported, she’d even have succeeded in bringing the Youngster of the Elder Blood to affix the Wild Hunt. That or achieve the means to carry the Wild Hunt by to the Continent.
The Witcher Voleth Meir: Clues and foreshadowing
Episode 2 is the place we get our first ‘look’ on the Deathless Mom. She involves Yennefer, Fringilla, and the elven chief, Francesca of their goals and presents every of them what they most need—so long as they do one thing for her in return. For Yennefer, it is getting her chaos again, Fringilla needs to guide Nilfgaard to victory, and Francesca needs her unborn child to dwell. This results in an alliance between Nilfgaard and the elves, which Fringilla and Francesca collectively lead. On the similar time, Yennefer seemingly refuses her provide and is as a substitute left powerless and unable to make use of chaos.
In the meantime, Eskel returns to Kaer Morhen, simply as Geralt and Ciri arrive. He is been injured by a Leshy, which has someway contaminated him and turned him right into a monster, and so Geralt and Vesemir should take him down. It appears unrelated at first, however bear with me.
In episode 3, we see Geralt realise that Ciri is someway pulled by the monster that killed Eskel, and he encourages her to make use of her energy to assist information him to it. They discover the Leshy, however it’s instantly killed by an unknown beast, which Geralt shortly takes care of. It is right here that the invention is made that the monster comprises traces of stellacite.
In episode 4, Geralt realises that Eskel—or the monster he became—additionally comprises traces of stellacite, which occurs to be a cloth discovered within the monoliths. In the meantime, Vesemir discovers a uncommon flower rising across the coaching grounds—a plant solely grows the place elder blood has been spilt, Ciri’s true significance begins to return to gentle.
Episode 5 offers us one other glimpse on the Deathless Mom as she as soon as once more visits Yen in her goals. This time, fed up with being powerless, she relents and travels to the hut. Voleth Meir presents Yen her powers again on the situation that she brings Ciri to the hut in alternate. She agrees.
Elsewhere, Geralt and Istredd theorise that monoliths could possibly be conduits or gateways to different realms, therefore discovering the brand new breeds of monsters seemingly linked to them. And again at Kaer Morhen, Triss helps Ciri uncover her previous. Utilizing magic, they uncover that she is a descendant of Lara Dorren, a strong elven mage and that Ithlinne’s prophecy seemingly refers to Ciri as a ‘Daughter of Chaos’.
Distraught at what she’s found and Triss’ horrified response to it, Ciri screams for Geralt, and each he and Istredd hear her. A brand new monster emerges, confirming that the buildings littered across the Continent actually do act as gateways for these highly effective sufficient to make use of them.
Geralt and Ciri are again on the street in episode 6. Ciri helps Geralt takes out the winged stellacite monster that escaped from the monolith website in episode 5 and tells the Witcher she did not suppose it wished to harm her.
Yen catches up with Geralt and Ciri on the Temple of Melitele. A hearth mage assaults, and Geralt holds him off whereas Ciri and Yen escape by a portal.
Issues get much more tense in episode 7 when Ciri shows teleportation powers. She then discovers that Yen was going to betray her, however attracts Nilfgaardians to their location. Fortunately, Geralt arrives in time to save lots of them, however they quickly discover that the Deathless Mom has damaged freed from the hut, lastly drawing sufficient distress from the loss of life of Francesca’s child.
Sensing Ciri’s energy, Voleth Meir possesses her because the social gathering make their manner again to Kaer Morhen.
Within the final episode of the season, we discover out what the Deathless Mom was after the entire time. However not earlier than she—as Ciri—wreaks havoc inside Kaer Morhen. She breaks open the medallion tree, revealing the monolith inside, and shatters it to create a portal the place she brings monsters from one other realm to maintain the remaining Witchers.
Ciri tries to combat the possession, however the Deathless Mom wants a vessel to inhabit. Yennefer steps as much as the problem in what’s presumably her most selfless act. As soon as Ciri’s free, Geralt instructs her to ship Voleth Meir again by the monolith to entice her. She opens a portal, and all three are pulled by to an odd land. The Deathless Mom then leaves Yen’s physique and joins the Wild Hunt, which all three can see using in the direction of them. The riders start calling to Ciri to affix them because the ‘Starry-eyed Daughter of Chaos’. Ciri saves them by teleporting them again to the Continent.
