Who Is Eskel The Witcher? - Witcher Character Lore - Witcher lore - Witcher 3 Lore
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- Опубліковано 26 січ 2020
- Witcher Eskel of the school of the wolf. In Today's video I talk about the witcher of the school of the wolf witcher eskel. I will discuss Eskel's origins, before both the witcher books and the witcher games and then tell you his full story through out both the witcher books and the witcher games. I also fill in some gaps in eskels story, that were added in extra witcher lore. I also go over what eskel did before the witcher 3, as eskel has actually had a few known solo adventures. One involving a succubus and another involving a higher vampire! Today I will discuss everything we know about eskel, like eskels and geralts relationship, as well as his relationship with the other school of the wolf witchers vesemir, lambert and leo. I also go over eskels surprise child in the witcher 1 DLC.
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Geralt of Rivia, is a witcher, or monster hunter for hire, a white-haired and cat-eyed legend in his own time. Trained from early childhood and mutated to gain superhuman skills, strength and reflexes, witchers like Geralt are a natural consequence of and counterbalance to the monster-infested world in which they live. As Geralt, you’ll embark on an epic journey in a war-ravaged world that will inevitably lead you to confront a foe darker than anything humanity has faced so far-the Wild Hunt.
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His guys sorry it's a day late, this is a re-render/re-upload. The other had a really bad audio glitch about half way through!
Hey dude I was wondering could you do a video about cahir
I actually have an answer for your question: a possible 3 total players playing as Geralt, Eskel, and Lambert. Single player is a group that you can switch between a lá final fantasy 15
Hey, WitcherGeorge, I wanted to say this was an amazing showcase of a character's story. Can't wait for you to do Regis for example. Also, I've one more question. How do you make third person recordings in a game, while game still running? Is that a feature of Ansel I don't know about, or is this a mod of some sort? Thanks!
What do you play gwent on?
WitcherGeorge hey*
Came here to pay my respects to a good witcher, murdered by writers that don't know what the hell they're doing. . .
Chill dude....it's all for the payoff of seeing geralt beat odimm+vilgefortz+unseen elder in a 3 v 1 battle in season finale using his new unlocked mutation: [power of friendship]
I would be fine if they got him killed for a reason.The worst thing is they completely butchered his character.From a kind,gentleman and wise witcher almost equal in strenght to Geralt they made him obnoxious,weak,rude kid. Like...why?
Same, pay respect to a great witcher who was butchered by selfish writers
I think they are using Lamb chop (Lambert as the witcher who is representing the positive quaities of Eskel and they gave Eskel the negative qualities of both....) who knows why...
@@BaxstabberzZ yea but it shows almost nothing with his relationship with Geralt or anything like that. He was mad about his wound and tried to hide it. That could have happened to any of those witchers. just sad they killed off Eskel as they did.
Eskel’s weakness : Women with horns😂
Horny goat women?
For those outside the know it is a quest in W3.
@@pauljackson3491 and Witcher 2
Man of culture I say
Arsenic is less potent to stilling the hearts of men.
EDIT: My autocomplete put in drilling rather then stilling.
Also broken beams and walls.
Seems like he’s the handyman of Kaer Morhen.
I adore the fact that Eskel returned to Kaer Morhen every winter to chill with Vesemir. Such a bro.
damn that Eskelated quickly
"hmm..bad joke..gotta be"
@@patriciajin6206 "medallion is dying, gotta piss on it"
@@settonsai5570 this comment is underrated
The drunk scene is soooo funny and surprisingly accurate to real drunkeness
Well... The creators are polish... Of course it is accurate to being drunk
@@PolishGod1234 god?
@@dfslo Its written with first letter being big, but yeah It's me.
@@PolishGod1234 ok
"Y'know I like you right, Lambert?"
Eskel is Geralt's brother from another mother. He's not nearly as well-known as Geralt, but he is said to be Geralt's equal, in other words an extremely proficient witcher and swordsman.
Edit: By the way, they did say something about Eskel and Lambert's whereabout after TW3, in the 10-year anniversary video by CDPR. In that, Geralt states that Lambert practically lives with him in Corvo Bianco (Geralt's vineyard in Toussaint) and that Eskel and Lambert both mainly take contracts nearby Corvo Bianco. So, essentially the School of the wolf relocated to Toussaint and are as of now based in Corvo Bianco
That's amazing
The games are not canon.
This video is titled "witcher 3 lore" it's not necessarily about the books
@@Krenisphia literally all the book characters that appear in the games have their background info ripped straight out of the books man.
@@wardeni4806 Background sure, Corvo Bianco no.
The only Witcher more attractive than Geralt.
I love Eskel.
I love his horrible Scars.
for curiosity, from witch country are you?
Curousity is not enough, Witcher.
Fun fact , it was a woman that gave him his scars , not a monster 😂
Lambert crying in the corner
I don’t think any of the wolf school witchers are attractive at all. When Gerald takes his shirt off he looks like he’s a victim of slave punishment. I think what makes the characters so special is that they’re ugly monsters of humans but they’ve got hearts of gold if you make those choices
Eskel and Geralt are such bros. Like "You're my whole world bro" kind of bros
That title belongs to Dandelion
Bro
Hes dead.... :(
@engineer gaming season 2.
@@FUBAR66693 the show isn't canon
"It was Eskel’s behaviour which was most unlikely; he got up, approached the enchantress, bent down low, took her hand and kissed it respectfully. She [Triss] swiftly withdrew her hand. […] Eskel emanated powerfully. More powerfully than Geralt.”
Blood of Elves
Wait i dont get it he radiated more power or skill
@@Rapscalian I think it's implied that Geralt has more to offer skills-wise, or hand-to-hand combat, but if it comes to sign-to-sign combat, Eskel would somehow be victorious over Geralt.
I heard that Vilgefortz said If Geralt was a mage he would be a powerful one, as you quote from the Blood of Elves Eskel’s magical potential is bigger than Geralt’s.
@@autunnu sheesh, imagine if Eskel was under School of the Griffin
@@Rapscalian it’s about the tingly sensation that a Witcher’s touch has
Eskel is my favourite support witcher character
I would take a prequel game about eskel in a heartbeat
@S E Bowling eskel gang 🤚😌
Me too, I really enjoyed the Eskel content. I also enjoyed General Voorhees, or whatever that Nilfgaardian general was named. Oh, and Gaunter O Dimm.
Sadly the Netflix show killed him off in season 2.
@@Litoftok genuinely hope S3 gets cancelled
@@Litoftok Good. That wasn't any "Eskel" I could recognize. The Eskel in the Witcher TV series was an asshole.
Can't believe he didn't even last an episode in the Netflix show what a waste of an amazing character
Brooooo i am so pissed. Instead of taking a random filler witcher they screwed HIM, a fan favorite, just because. He didnt even felt like the eskel we know.
@@jackbelmont4389 he doesn't do basically anything in the books. The games did him wrong
Yeah that was bullshit
Production said that they needed a meaningful death at that point and they knew a one off character could not deliver the emotional pull they wanted. Imo props to them for at least trying to be bold instead of playing it safe.
@@titussalter8070 but his character in the show was a dick, wont lie was glad they killed him off. So no real impact i feel :)
Who Is Eskel The Witcher?
Netflix: We don't care. Just make him act like an idiot and kill him off within 10 minutes.
He’s barely present in the source material
@@betweenthepanels9145 yeah but in the game hes very loved, and most people wanted the game Eskel
I couldn't complete the 2nd season.
What they did to him in the TV series is a disgrace.
they literally turned him into groot. God I hate netflix
All I’m going to say is his character was so off and he wasn’t able to work out he needed to kill the leshen with fire? Vesimer picks up on this and later in the series the fire mage states he sent a spy to khar moren so I think it was a shape shifter as eskel would never have gone to attack geralt
@@harrybetts4875 i was thinking that as well. i hope this theory is true because I actually liked his character and the bond between he and geralt in the books. it will be a true shame if this theory is wrong
say people who literally never touch a book.
He’s a none character in the books you fraud of a fan. The games are fanfic.
He also mentions he fought a manticore in his travels. One of my favorite characters
Imagine Henry Cavill playing The Witcher 3 in his movie costume during his Lunch Break.
Bruh...
Wouldn't be surprised if he does that since he's a big gamer
How about video about me?
I'm very interesting person!
Geralt even wrote a limerick about me, but not about Eskel.
Lambert lambert what a prick
Not bad
Ugh... fuck off Lamert.
Most important you scored with Keira 👍👍
@@GG-nn6bg but me too
This guy is my absolute favourite witcher. He is chill and I am sure a pretty nice dude to hang around with.
Coming back here after my boy was desecrated in the show, RIP Eskel
Haha he’s barely in the source. You are sad about fanfic
It's the show that died. Eskel is alive and well in the game world.
Eskel killed a higher vampire? Damn bro, from what I understand that’s actually pretty difficult.
from what i hear that's pretty impossible lol
Higher Vampires in Vanilla its Just a Ekima .. or some Low Tier Vamp in an older or more intelligent Version :)
A true Higher Vampires would be Harder due to the fact that only a another Higher Vampire is able to kill one of their own kind
It's possible, in a sense, to kill a higher vampire by destroying their body. Regis was killed by Vilgefortz in the books, and Geralt can kill Detlaff in Blood & Wine. The catch is that their consciousness survives somehow and they can be brought back to life by other higher vampires. The only way for them to permanently die is if another higher vampire kills them.
@@rraw6282 There's Higher Vampires and then there's "higher vampires". Katakans, Bruxae etc. over time or due to mutation may gain the ability to transform into a human-looking form and for all intents and purposes seem like a higher vampire, and thus they are classified as such. However, then there are true higher vampires who are just on a completely different level, but are also extremely rare.
skills and feats, Eskel is pretty the same as Geralt. They also grew up together.
Witcher Netflix see's Eskel.... I'm about to end this man's whole career..
The fans... Look how they massacred my boy. 🥺
Eskel could be the teacher of the protagonist in a new wicher game
That would be fun
yeah, the new game could be about an old Eskel trying to find his cursed child surprise and stopping her from turning out like Falka, but in the end the child does not give up her wicked ways so he has to kill her for the greater good. How fucking awesome and sad is that?
@@sUbScRiBeRswItHoUtvEdEo another surprise child? You'd think Eskel would learn not to invoke the law of surprise again.
YES
I hated that eskel got infected by the leshy/leshen in the netflix series and didnt immediately tell geralt and instead geralt and vesimer had to kill him. It would have been 100 times cooler if they woulda showed him getting cured and then they all went to hunt down the leshen. The witchers know monsters. Thats what they do. Eskel doesnt act like himself in the episode. Plus if netflix plans to show the battle of kher morhan with the wild hunt they need eskel alive. I’m sure the series will eventually focus on cirilla exclusively. Bummer
Guess thats hollywood for ya
It's weird how they show Eskel to be such a jerk in Season 2 when he is a complete opposite.
Did they got Eskel and Lambed mix up ??
Hollywood is full of idiots who should not have a job. Go look at the stupid changes done to the Mortal Kombat movie.
its pretty obvious why Eskel was killed, and not one of the random ass Witchers in the background who were created just for the TV show.
He's a white dude.
Exactly I hated what they did to him in season 2. Why the fuck didn’t their Witcher medallions buzz when the leshen was inside him?
Watching this after netflix witcher season 2 and it kills me how dirty they did eskel. He’s such an interesting character and they ruined their own potential for a full cast of interesting characters and relationships
Almost not in the books
Netflix has become a putrid grove
here after watching eskel die in the show. what a fkn disaster that was.. had to hear something good about him after that dissapointment..
I think it would be awesome if we got to play as Eskel, even were he a more involved character. He has a lot of story potential and with his closeness to Geralt, can become as much of a fan favorite as Geralt too.
Imaging Henry Cavill saying "Fuck" when he find out about Eskel's Script
Who's here after they massacred Eskel in that joke of a TV Show ?
Eskel is the older brother who cares for you and always have your back but Netflix not only did him dirty but disrespected him naked of any honor
I think Eskel will either be mentioned in the next game and appear in the Netflix show in season 2.
And of course it would be cool if he was a minor character that we will meet on the road.
The story of Geralt ended in the Witcher 3, but I think this meeting will be very happy for many fans, as a character he is interesting, unusual and just a wise Witcher.
Gunslinger I hope so, but I also hope you hear a lot of tales about a Witcher named Geralt if it’s based in the future of the original Witcher trilogy. I haven’t been a Witcher fan for long but isn’t Yennefer really old? So would she still be alive along with Triss if sorceresses do somehow live longer than other races?
This is precisely why I am writing a FanFiction to give his character more background! Such a fascinating personality
Next season should start at Blood of Elves so he should be in it...
Would be good to see more of the other Witchers in future games. Really enjoyed the stuff with them in 3
ducky36F there’s a nice little Easter egg at the very end of Blood and Wine where Ciri mentions she traveled to a world where everyone had chips in their head and they were all man mixed with machine, I’m guessing as an elude to Cyberpunk. I’m really hopeful Ciri gets a little mention in it as an Easter egg too, that would be awesome.
datkaynineguy that wasn’t at the end of blood and wine, that was at Kaer Morhen if I remember correctly
I want Eskel to be the next protagonist
I went here after netflix did SOME changes.
My idea for him in another game:
He's the new mentor for school of the wolf and our characters we can create and be his students.
im not saying no to that but it would have to be pretty well done
No, that would be boring. He must first time his own journey, maybe with elves. With Iorweth, Yeavin and Insegrim Fiolitiarna and Dol Blathana.
He can have Triss Merigold as his love interest. It's two times in book that they have something for each other ( one non canon).
That's a cool idea ::)
Sadly none of the wolf witchers know how to make new witchers, as of now no schools do I believe
@@dingdongs5208 Uncle was the last one..
Wow the second season of the Witcher on Netflix did eskel so dirty
They did him dirty in season two
Meanwhile netflix kills off my guy after about five minutes of screen time like bruh...
I absolutely love the Witcher everything. Witcher 3 is one of my top 3 games. And I love the Netflix series. However. What they did to my boy eskel in season 2 is infuriating
What was interesting about Eshkol for me, he really tried to learn more and studied a monster he killed inside Kear Morhen. His approuch was also that he is a simple witcher not hanging out with royals. I would actually loved to see a witch helping him heal his scar in a way or make it less ugly. He seemed to have a nice spirit, and in contrast to bitter Lambert he was a more approachable friend for Geralt.
my god cant believe how much the tv show fucked it up with eskel
My personal favorite side witcher still love you lambert
THEY DID OUR BOY SO DIRTY
I met Eskel once. He told me his name was Jared and to gtfo of Best Buy before he calls the police
Had to come here to link my friend The background on my boy so she knows why I am so upset at what they did to my boy in episode 2 of the new season. After watching this she is so upset as well she would have loved to have seen him
love Eskel ❤ his fight with Caranthir really awesome
Eskel is one of those few people I feel like can be trusted. He likes to party even if he wouldn't admit it but when it comes to a fight or a hunt you can't count on Eskel to stand and fight with you.
???? Rather contradictory!
Didnt even realize this released today during a random search. Watched a few of your videos and got me more interested in the lore of the game. Thank you sir :)
Thanks for the great video! Eskel is my favourite Witcher and I wish we had more content of him
Eskel is my favorite Witcher out of those that are still alive. Great video! Keep it up!
The tv show did Eskel dirty.
Wishing we got more of Brother Eskel and Letho in 3.
Can’t wait to see Eskel, Vesemir and Lambert in the Netflix series
RIP
How do you feel now?
@@tylerh2642 just watched ep 2, can’t lie I’m pretty pissed off. They did my man real dirty.
So eskel dies that’s trash
Also Eskel is shown to be a bitch compared to the games.
Awesome to get another lore vid, thanks a bunch George ::)
A underused character that ends up being a fan favourite. I think eskells story along with vesimer could a direction books, games and spin off shows. In particular vesimer his history could well be the route for a game (witcher 4). That in part allows stories especially eskillles to allow the witcher franchise to move forward. Your video shows the character needs more airtime.
Liked before watching!
They did him so wrong in season 2 of the show
Great video, as always! I can definitely see Eskel as the one to train the prospective witcher candidates and administer to Kaer Morhen. Maybe he can grow himself a full beard while he's at it. :D
I do think Eskel would be a great protagonist for another Witcher game, mostly because he's like a second Geralt but without all the backstory and personal drama.
He will still make a great NPC like the headmaster of Kaer Morhen.
Sadly the Netflix show killed him off in season 2.
Coming back here after watching Netflix's Eskel. They did him dirty in that show.
Did my boi so dirty in Season 2
I like how contrasty Eskel is to Geralt, whereas Geralt is this largely famous Witcher who does cool things, Eskel is your typical Witcher with mundane contracts and occasional cool stories told. A real working man.
You have reached 100 k subs! Congrats!
When is the next Witcher 3 gameplay video coming? I'm basically living on those. More please!
These are amazing. Almost finished with the book series and 600 hours in W3: Wild Hunt. These videos give me my Witcher lore fix when I’m at work!
Thanks Witcher George.
Can’t wait to see a whole series on every single facet of the saga!
100k GZ! we Love you!! canr Image to sleep without you anymore hahaha
I really enjoyed this video!
Very disappointed in the portrayal of Eskel in the Netflix series, which is otherwise not terrible.
Liked him, disappointed that they killed him off so quickly. I'm sure Henry was too.
@@picklejho69 didnt like him at ALL, eskel wasnt a prick or jerk like they portrait him in the show..
Good god I've been waiting for this
ahhh i love your who is -- ? videos!! awesome as always
Wooooooooooooooooooo!!! 100 thousand subs. Congrats bud.
One of my fav characters in thewitcher 3 along with Vesemir
One of coolest side witchers in story and they just done him dirty in Netflix series :(
The series is a let down
Killed by a built up Leshy just to get cut in half by a giant centipede ... could've at least played out the Leshy fight more.
Could u make a video about Geralts company? That whole arc was my favorite arc in the books! Such a shame that Cahir, Angouleme and Milva are hardly ever mentioned in the games :,( They literally were Geralts everything in the books..
Why do you do this to me? :( I'm sad now
What they did to Eskel in the show killed it for me. I’m done with that trash heap.
Yeah, that was bad cause I really looking forward to the fight between him and Caranthir at the Battle of Kaer Morhen
So we can assume that Eskel and Geralt knew each other for more than 75 years !
Miraak they are said to have been trained together so they were roughly the same age, so more then 90 years
It's maybe not the most realistic but damn Eskel's fighting style against caranthir is so freakin cool, Would love a more grounded (without kings, sorcereses, golden dragons and wars) witcher game where we play as Eskel to see what the life of a normal witcher would look like compared to the famous white wolf
Very interesting video, loved it 😊
Eskel
Personally I think Eskel is one of the best candidates for being the next game's player character.
Can you do a video on Regis next plz?
What I wonder is did geralt know the other witchers from the wolf school like the ones you learn about from getting the armor diagrams etc.
After watching this video and thinking on it, I'd like a Witcher 4 game in which the player can create their own Witcher and then be trained by Eskel, Geralt and Lambert. As you stated, the game could ultimately be about rebuilding the School of the Wolf but from the perspective of a rook, having the OG characters act as guides
Eskel is my favourite one of the lot :D
Eskel deserved better in the show
Eskel in the series is like: Peace, I'm out!
Hey WitcherGeorge, I wanted to ask you if you ever thought about doing a character lore video about Dandelion since he and Geralt are best buds as well just asking for the possibility of it being done in the near future or sometime later on whenever your not busy. I do love your lore videos by the way. Keep up the great work!
Eskel my beloved 😭💖
This aged well
Like soy milk
Rip Netflix Eskel, s2Ep2 - S2Ep2 (lived half an episode as a dickhead and died to shock fans in kaer Morhen: the netflix bbrothel version in which Vesimir is chilling)
What an awesome character
Awesome coincidence ! I made the "drunk quest" again yesterday ! But about the hunt of the vampire, Eskel says the vampire was a Katakan not a higher vampire, exept if you include the Serial Killer of Novigrad.
Make a video on Lambert please, keep up the good work!
I love Eskel. He's so sweet and good. His scar isn't all that bad, I thought he was handsome, I was shocked when he said he doesn't get laid that often.
Knowing him, he gets laid by Succubi pretty often...
Hum.... he'd be my first choice in the games, after the elf Lorveth.
@@ladyalaina42
Roche is my first choice, then Eskel
a total badass. Loved him in the Battle of Kaer Morhen
Can't wait to see what the TV show will do with this guy...😳
:(
they're making coen well eskel. every story where eskel was involved, coen is taking his place. So in essence for the netflix show, coen is eskel.
@@parkranga clasic netflix blackwashing
@@parkranga yea, and Coen isn't HUWITE, so thats all that matters to the writers of that god awful shitshow.
Tbh i would like witcher 4 be about eskels story after wild hunt attacked kaer morhen it would definetly be quite i tresting in my opinion
Id want at least a dlc in witcher 4 with eskel at its middle
@@Rapscalian yeah a dlc would be Grand but if we get Just as good dlcs as blood and wine and hearts of stone i wont complain
Hey brotha,
I think a video the community needs is the fastest method to beat the bloody baron quest line. This quest line loses a lot of potential Witcher 3 fans because of its slow pace.
I keep getting questions from other gamers on when TW3 picks up. I tell them again and again to just make it to Novigrad. They rarely do.
Always love ur work!
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Too bad the writers of the Netflix series couldn’t appreciate him or honor him!
Please do a video about the season 2 of The Witcher, specifically about episode 2 and the writers decisions