We’re still over a month out from the premiere of The Witcher: Blood Origin, but that hasn’t stopped Netflix from putting out a teaser that shows Michelle Yeoh wearing blue contacts and elf ears being awesome.
Need a refresher on what Blood Origin is all about? The four-part limited series is a prequel to The Witcher, a show whose third season (the last with Henry Cavill playing lead laconic Witcher, Geralt, as Liam Hemsworth is replacing him) is set to premiere in Summer 2023.
In Blood Origin, we’re 1,200 years before we see Geralt shirtless in a hot tub. This is a time before the Conjunction of the Spheres, an event that caused the realms of monsters, humans, and elves to smoosh into one Continent. Here’s the show’s official (and very long) logline:
Set in an elven world 1,200 years before the world of The Witcher, Blood Origin tells a story lost to time—one of seven outcasts who unite against an unstoppable power that took everything from them. Their blood quest giving rise to a prototype Witcher in a conflict that brings about the “conjunction of the spheres,” when the worlds of monsters, men, and elves merged to become one.
While this teaser highlights Yeoh’s Scian as one of the outcasts, it also gives us the first real look at the show’s other leads: Laurence O’Fuarain (Vikings) as Fjall, and Sophia Brown as Éile. The cast also includes Lenny Henry as Balor, Dylan Moran as Uthrok One-Nut, and several others.
You can see the Conjunction of the Spheres on your TV screen when The Witcher: Blood Origin premieres on Netflix on December 25th.
