Yep,and slavs should have theirs historical lands in it,otherwise their is no point playing it.By the way,i ment to ask,where is the triss house in kovir?My gerald has just defeated white frost,and he has promised to settle down with triss.
@@slavenarkaimovski3897 Geralt didn’t beat the White Frost. Ciri did. And if you settle down with Triss, their house is located in Lan Exeter. You can’t visit it sadly.
When you give someone something more as an insult, and accidentally end up giving them a fortune large enough to have you then invade to make up for your mistake, and then proceed to get stomped by a mercenary army. Reminds me about a bad round of Crusader Kings 2, nice vid George.
Or, you know, kinda like Russia selling off Alaska for the 'princely sum of $7.2 million...and then oil being found there. ;) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Purchase Sadly no mercenary army in this story, tho.
Switzerland was only neutral during the world wars. Their warriors were famed for throughout their history and were considered warrior people. By the Romans in the early days of the empire, and by the rest of Europe during the middle ages
WitcherGeorge they were famed for mercenaries. No natural resources explorable with rudimentary mining techniques lead to the men enlisting as mercenaries. Nearly Every medieval king had a Swiss guard unit as palace guards most famously was the Papal States who still have one. Held a remarkable last stand vs Charles v holy Roman emp. in 1527. Also, There’s a statue of a dying lion in Lucerne to commemorate their bravery dying while attempting to protect the royal fam during the French Revolution.
Kovir only officialy remained neutral, they secretely financed and supplied Redania in the 2nd war - and this help proved decisive in the Battle of Brenna.
First! Hopefully, but I'm glad you're finally doing a video on this kingdom which is somehow, underrated. Thank you for the vid. Esterad died like a boss!
A mistake I have to point out is that kovir actually supported the north in the nilfgard wars just not openly. Many mercenary companies were paid by kovir to fight for the north. Now the reason they didn't openly support the north was because of trade with the empire but they also didn't want nilfgard to conquer their neighbors
Fun fact, two of their coat of arms ( the one with the wheel and the one with the armor gauntlet are actually German coat of arms in real live, so Switzerland is a good Komparsin since Switzerland belonged to the HRE back then. )
One thing I would add to Witcher 3 is Geralt and Triss in Kovir. Maybe a really small area like their house or just a cutscene of them going there. It's a shame it seems like CDPR ran out of money when making the game😂
A duchy isn't a separate kingdom owned or vassal to another, it is a part of a kingdom. More state(U.S.) rather than separate. A duchy is ruled by a noble family a king allows to rule it. If the duchy does fine and the kings taxes are paid it is left to self rule. The reason for a duchy is less for the king to deal with as for governance and localized problems.
I assume that Kovir is based on Switzerland or Austria and I also think that Kovir might also be based on Northern Italy. The reason why I say Northern Italy is because Northern Italy is also very mountainous which includes the Alps
Kovir could be based on the city state of Venice, not necessarily Italy as a whole. The story with Redania also reminds me of Norway. Sweden once gifted Norway some seaterratories in celebration of its independence from danemark. Turned out later that there were huge oil reserves in that area which build norways wealth
Actually, this tale of the resourse ritch kindom that was given away for cheap rather reminds me of Alaska, which was owned by Russia but was bought cheaply by the USA before discovering its rich oil resourses. But yeah, the other hints rather leads towards switzerland.
Great video. :) -Since Triss talks about going to Pont Vanis to become King Tankred's adviser, I actually looked up all this stuff recently so I knew most of it, except the part about competing with the dwarves, that's new to me. :) -I would have put Pont Vanis as one of the most known cities since Triss talks about it in W3. -As for the list Patreons, maybe have each page stay on the screen for less amount of time if there gets to be too many and it gets a bit too long?
It's just a suggestion if there gets to be too long. People can pause if it goes too fast for them. xD just in case you end up with 10 minutes of names at the end of your videos eventually.
Couldn't Kovir also be based on Norway? Norway was for a long time a Swedish colony / vassal known for its poverty due to the harsh landscape. Then Sweden left them into independence to rid themselves of the financial burden Norway was on the Swedish state. Later then oil, gas and other earthly riches were found and Sweden very much regretted letting them go. Now Norway isn't the poor neighbour anymore but the rich neighbour. Just a thought.
Random questions but when did the discovery of minerals happen in Kovir and when did Redania lose its power in the region? I'm about to head for my third run of the Witcher LARP in Poland. The game is set 200 years before the events of the books at the height of the Witcher trade. My character had just come back from a trip to Kovir back to Temeria and I'm wondering if I (or my character) should think Kovir was a poor land or not. :P
I feel like you might’ve already done something similar but if you haven’t would you mind covering Geralt before he got picked up by the Witcher’s. What do we knkw about him before?
Michael Zarate, Me!!!!!!! I would love to be a Witcher of the school of the Wolf, not because it's the most famous school, but because I feel it would suit me the best, the jack of all trades training is what I would be comfortable with
Griffin school obviously, more human, more magical training and swordmanship that put emphasize on fighting multiple opponent. The biggest threat to witcher is when they are surrounded completely.
That story of Kovir being practically given off like that kinda reminds of the Alaska Purchase - where Russia sold Alaska to the US the 'princely sum' of $7.2 million...and then oil was found there. ;) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Purchase
I could see a lot of similarities with Sweden here as well. Famous for being in the north (duh), neutral in modern history, having lots of mines (iron in particular), a generally poor country not that many centuries ago, and Stockholm being like a Venice of the North.
I would say Kovir is Neatherlands. Italy is too southern/ Neatherlands, while not mountanous, has incredible exports despite being so small, and has always been a safe place for learning, new age-ey shit, like Magic
Hmm it has something from USA... very rich and has some neutral foreign policy like US before I WW. But i think that there is no country in witcher world that is 100% copied from our.
@@the_dropbear4392 Truly it has a lot from Venice... But seems to me that there are a lot of differences also. As I wrote... I think that Sapkowski made some amalgams and as he said that was just secondary background. But it is interesting to discover his inspirations.
I would not say it is one country. The traderepublic of the Netherlands and the italian traderepublics definetly had some influence on it. Also the landscape is very likely to be scandanavian due to beeing so far up north. The rulers the Thyssen have the same name as an german family heavily involved in metalworking (which is also Kovirs biggest export). Something like Readania beeing inspired heavily by Poland is way easier to pin down than this...
@@TheDennys21 The second emperor after Emhyr. He made heavy use of mages and astrologists to see the future. And with great success, he stamped out rebellions and conspiracy's before they even really began. He also incredibly successful in war due to being a masterful tactician and using people to see the future so he knew then enemy movements before they did.
Venice is just I 1 city not intire italy. If you want a country with kanals welth and neutrality I think you seek the Netherlands. And the people in this Kingdom have dutch last names s im just saying.
We don't know, but we do know that they have a 25,000 strong standing professional army. And some 30,000 mercenarys who are paid to stay there permanently, and possibly the strongest navy.
@@itzhen7032 During the second nilfguaardian war redania had 36,000 men. And Aedirn and Lyria and Rivia combined had a similar amount. Temeria had more men but we don't know how many. Same with Kaedwen. And we don't know about the smaller kingdoms
Did he pronounce Tungsten as tun-geh-ston? It's tung-sten Also, Kovir is clearly modeled after Alaska seeing as Russia thought the land to be useless and sold it to the United States for a couple million, which in the 1860s was A LOT. There is NOTHING even coming close to Italy except for the most superficial similarities with canals... Really, dude? But the joke's on Russia as no one had even discovered gold there yet, let alone all the other natural resources. But that seems to be Russia's motto, which is, "And then it got worse."
I would argue this is more Ural part of Russia than Switzerland and Austria. Geographical position Clothing Mineral Rich Gold Rich all ticks boxes for Pre Russian Empire City states. Difference being Russia never had Economy that strong altho they had the natural benefits. But All other things fit. If You turn the map of Witcher 90 degrees clockwise you Get North half of Europe. Or if you mind where the pole is drawn on the map and its left of main land mass. So if we turn the map 90 deg clock wise you get From left to right: France ,Germany, Poland With Czech and Slovakia and to the right Russian States Like Redania, Kedwen with Kovir and Polis on Ural mountains ending the map. Also makes sense coming from Polish writer perspective because Polish kinda hate Russians since the dawn of time and Blame them for betraying them all the time. With Russian states often choosing Neutral stances in West wars and Hungarian invasions.
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We need a Witcher game that includes the whole world.
Yep,and slavs should have theirs historical lands in it,otherwise their is no point playing it.By the way,i ment to ask,where is the triss house in kovir?My gerald has just defeated white frost,and he has promised to settle down with triss.
@@slavenarkaimovski3897 Geralt didn’t beat the White Frost. Ciri did. And if you settle down with Triss, their house is located in Lan Exeter. You can’t visit it sadly.
@@krisskrosssss Is there witcher 4 on the way?
@@slavenarkaimovski3897 Of course. It's their most beloved series by far. But these games take long to make.
@@Mystra Do you know any game similar to Witcher 3 ?
When you give someone something more as an insult, and accidentally end up giving them a fortune large enough to have you then invade to make up for your mistake, and then proceed to get stomped by a mercenary army. Reminds me about a bad round of Crusader Kings 2, nice vid George.
Or, you know, kinda like Russia selling off Alaska for the 'princely sum of $7.2 million...and then oil being found there. ;) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Purchase Sadly no mercenary army in this story, tho.
thanks man
Tungsten in German is wolfram. It is also the metal with the highest melting point but is very brittle. - random facts from a welder
Ah that's awesome
Learned something new today! Thanks!
Thanks for the general knowledge
Nothing like witcher videos and bong rips in the sunrise
Switzerland was only neutral during the world wars. Their warriors were famed for throughout their history and were considered warrior people. By the Romans in the early days of the empire, and by the rest of Europe during the middle ages
They were neutral though!
touche. good videos btw
WitcherGeorge they were famed for mercenaries. No natural resources explorable with rudimentary mining techniques lead to the men enlisting as mercenaries. Nearly Every medieval king had a Swiss guard unit as palace guards most famously was the Papal States who still have one. Held a remarkable last stand vs Charles v holy Roman emp. in 1527. Also, There’s a statue of a dying lion in Lucerne to commemorate their bravery dying while attempting to protect the royal fam during the French Revolution.
Kovir only officialy remained neutral, they secretely financed and supplied Redania in the 2nd war - and this help proved decisive in the Battle of Brenna.
If this is a sign of what is to come, I’m going to love this series on the history of the Northern Realms. 👏🏾
Excellent. Next for the Northern Realms perhaps Redania and then Cintra.
never a bad upload. Keep it up man
Thank you man!
They say Kovirs lovely this time of year. I’m lovely this time of year also. Geralt of Rivia and Triss.
Aha
First! Hopefully, but I'm glad you're finally doing a video on this kingdom which is somehow, underrated. Thank you for the vid.
Esterad died like a boss!
This would be awesome as a Witcher 3 DLC.
Juhu we are in The Witcher saluts from Switzerland
Coat of, literally, arms😂😂
A mistake I have to point out is that kovir actually supported the north in the nilfgard wars just not openly. Many mercenary companies were paid by kovir to fight for the north. Now the reason they didn't openly support the north was because of trade with the empire but they also didn't want nilfgard to conquer their neighbors
Been here since 500 subs, keep it up boss. ♥️
thanks man!
Fun fact, two of their coat of arms ( the one with the wheel and the one with the armor gauntlet are actually German coat of arms in real live, so Switzerland is a good Komparsin since Switzerland belonged to the HRE back then. )
You're right about it being a lot like Switzerland but actually, there's no Italy involved, Lan Exeter should be like Amsterdam.
I Love the Witcher lore vids.
Thanksman
One thing I would add to Witcher 3 is Geralt and Triss in Kovir. Maybe a really small area like their house or just a cutscene of them going there. It's a shame it seems like CDPR ran out of money when making the game😂
that would be cool!
That would be neat showing they arriving in their home
3:29 Kovir & Poviss is actually based off of Alaska. xddd
Suggestion video :
Do a video on what you think the witcher 4 should be about (sorry for my english)
Great video by the way ☺
Learned a lot
good idea man and thank you!
George answered my prayers again ayyyyyyyyyyy
YAAY! MORE WITCHER LORE!
A duchy isn't a separate kingdom owned or vassal to another, it is a part of a kingdom. More state(U.S.) rather than separate. A duchy is ruled by a noble family a king allows to rule it. If the duchy does fine and the kings taxes are paid it is left to self rule. The reason for a duchy is less for the king to deal with as for governance and localized problems.
I assume that Kovir is based on Switzerland or Austria and I also think that Kovir might also be based on Northern Italy. The reason why I say Northern Italy is because Northern Italy is also very mountainous which includes the Alps
Kovir could be based on the city state of Venice, not necessarily Italy as a whole.
The story with Redania also reminds me of Norway. Sweden once gifted Norway some seaterratories in celebration of its independence from danemark. Turned out later that there were huge oil reserves in that area which build norways wealth
Actually, this tale of the resourse ritch kindom that was given away for cheap rather reminds me of Alaska, which was owned by Russia but was bought cheaply by the USA before discovering its rich oil resourses. But yeah, the other hints rather leads towards switzerland.
Great video. :)
-Since Triss talks about going to Pont Vanis to become King Tankred's adviser, I actually looked up all this stuff recently so I knew most of it, except the part about competing with the dwarves, that's new to me. :)
-I would have put Pont Vanis as one of the most known cities since Triss talks about it in W3.
-As for the list Patreons, maybe have each page stay on the screen for less amount of time if there gets to be too many and it gets a bit too long?
maybe, but I want to give you guys the opportunity to read each name!
It's just a suggestion if there gets to be too long. People can pause if it goes too fast for them. xD just in case you end up with 10 minutes of names at the end of your videos eventually.
Couldn't Kovir also be based on Norway? Norway was for a long time a Swedish colony / vassal known for its poverty due to the harsh landscape. Then Sweden left them into independence to rid themselves of the financial burden Norway was on the Swedish state. Later then oil, gas and other earthly riches were found and Sweden very much regretted letting them go. Now Norway isn't the poor neighbour anymore but the rich neighbour. Just a thought.
Random questions but when did the discovery of minerals happen in Kovir and when did Redania lose its power in the region? I'm about to head for my third run of the Witcher LARP in Poland. The game is set 200 years before the events of the books at the height of the Witcher trade. My character had just come back from a trip to Kovir back to Temeria and I'm wondering if I (or my character) should think Kovir was a poor land or not. :P
Redanian loses power there 127 years before the events of the main saga. No idea when the found the minerals
Thyssen is read by me as 'Tyson' the name. The 'h' is silent, the double s seems to be just a variant in spelling to keep the name unique.
I see!
I feel like you might’ve already done something similar but if you haven’t would you mind covering Geralt before he got picked up by the Witcher’s. What do we knkw about him before?
That he was son of a sorceress and a warrior, but soon after birth was taken by The Wolf School
Good idea!
Giacomo Guarnieri aren’t sorceress Infertile
Indeed they are, but Visenna, her mother, managed to become pregnant
that fit Asian
Almost all are
At 3:40 it's a house in buruge, Belgium! 😂 Can't believe I spotted it
Didn't Kovir & Poviss was also mentioned to have a navy that can rival that of Novigrad's? I remember seeing it in the books.
Anybody wish to be a Witcher? If so, from what school and why?
Michael Zarate, Me!!!!!!! I would love to be a Witcher of the school of the Wolf, not because it's the most famous school, but because I feel it would suit me the best, the jack of all trades training is what I would be comfortable with
I would like to be a Witcher from the School of the Mantikor.
Griffin school obviously, more human, more magical training and swordmanship that put emphasize on fighting multiple opponent. The biggest threat to witcher is when they are surrounded completely.
That story of Kovir being practically given off like that kinda reminds of the Alaska Purchase - where Russia sold Alaska to the US the 'princely sum' of $7.2 million...and then oil was found there. ;) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Purchase
and, gold..
and diamonds....
I could see a lot of similarities with Sweden here as well. Famous for being in the north (duh), neutral in modern history, having lots of mines (iron in particular), a generally poor country not that many centuries ago, and Stockholm being like a Venice of the North.
Basically Venice with a ton of mountains
I want to know about the Ofieri! Seems really different to everywhere else
That will come up after the northern kingdoms! good suggestion!
I would say Kovir is Neatherlands. Italy is too southern/ Neatherlands, while not mountanous, has incredible exports despite being so small, and has always been a safe place for learning, new age-ey shit, like Magic
Hmm it has something from USA... very rich and has some neutral foreign policy like US before I WW. But i think that there is no country in witcher world that is 100% copied from our.
@@filiptomaszewski5814 Kovir is 100% Venice
@@the_dropbear4392 Truly it has a lot from Venice... But seems to me that there are a lot of differences also. As I wrote... I think that Sapkowski made some amalgams and as he said that was just secondary background. But it is interesting to discover his inspirations.
I would not say it is one country. The traderepublic of the Netherlands and the italian traderepublics definetly had some influence on it. Also the landscape is very likely to be scandanavian due to beeing so far up north. The rulers the Thyssen have the same name as an german family heavily involved in metalworking (which is also Kovirs biggest export). Something like Readania beeing inspired heavily by Poland is way easier to pin down than this...
Could you make a video of Jan Calveit?
sure!
WitcherGeorge thanks! And keep up the great work!
Who is he?
@@TheDennys21 The second emperor after Emhyr. He made heavy use of mages and astrologists to see the future. And with great success, he stamped out rebellions and conspiracy's before they even really began. He also incredibly successful in war due to being a masterful tactician and using people to see the future so he knew then enemy movements before they did.
Another thing is I believe the author said kovir and povis are based off the hanseatic league
I doubt that kovir is based on italy, the landscape and climate fits perfectly to toussant,as does the architecture
The capital is based on venice
Lan Exeter is meant to be Cambridge, not Venice. Rivals Oxenfurt (Oxford) and is full of canals. Just like Cambridge.
Will you make videos on Redania and Nilfgaard?
They will definitely come up!
WitcherGeorge Exellent!
Have there been a video on the faith of the eternal fire? There must be some interesting origin to a non-antropomorph deity religion?
I will cover religions soon!
WitcherGeorge
Wonderfull!
how large would you say the army is?
Lan Exeter is named after Exeter, Devon England
I wonder who we'd play as in a new witcher trilogy, also i hope it takes place in the future because I'm really not a fan of prequels
Vesemir could be fun though!
yeah but we already know him... sort of
Did they not give aid, albeit indirectly, to Redania in the form of money for them to hire mercenaries to fight the second war with Nilfgaard?
Best place for a Manticore to live i think
I just did that quest lol
Venice is just I 1 city not intire italy. If you want a country with kanals welth and neutrality I think you seek the Netherlands. And the people in this Kingdom have dutch last names s im just saying.
2nd favorite country. Temeria is First than Kovir, Duchy of Tousiant, and than Gors Velen
What quest is that !?!
One in skellige!
How manny people live in kovir?
We don't know, but we do know that they have a 25,000 strong standing professional army. And some 30,000 mercenarys who are paid to stay there permanently, and possibly the strongest navy.
Oh damn
But that's nothing compared to the 300,000 troops used by nilfguuard in the spring offensive of the second nilfguaardian war alone
The_Drop Bear true, do you know how the other realms army numbers to?
@@itzhen7032
During the second nilfguaardian war redania had 36,000 men.
And Aedirn and Lyria and Rivia combined had a similar amount.
Temeria had more men but we don't know how many. Same with Kaedwen.
And we don't know about the smaller kingdoms
Damn, should change my name in patreon, "ā" fucks up the font too much xD
It's fine aha
Soooo, its like norway mixed with switzerland then
Kovir gave rodania 1milion dollars and thats not aiding rodania?
Alaska.
It's obviously based on switzerland, italy isn't rich or neutral and switzerland used to be very poor
Used to be poor but got rich thanks to resource, thats sounds like it should be based on Norway.
Its norway boi obviously
I thought Novigrad was the richest in the north.
Novigrad's just a city, Kovir as a country is fr more rich.
Yeah but since it's some kind of a free state with its own goverment... couldn't be considered as an independent country?
Second!
I would say it more like a combination of Bohemia and Arabic emirates.
Kovir is ridiculously over powered. They have all the mages, and they're stupidly wealthy.
Did he pronounce Tungsten as tun-geh-ston? It's tung-sten
Also, Kovir is clearly modeled after Alaska seeing as Russia thought the land to be useless and sold it to the United States for a couple million, which in the 1860s was A LOT. There is NOTHING even coming close to Italy except for the most superficial similarities with canals... Really, dude? But the joke's on Russia as no one had even discovered gold there yet, let alone all the other natural resources. But that seems to be Russia's motto, which is, "And then it got worse."
I would argue this is more Ural part of Russia than Switzerland and Austria. Geographical position Clothing Mineral Rich Gold Rich all ticks boxes for Pre Russian Empire City states. Difference being Russia never had Economy that strong altho they had the natural benefits. But All other things fit.
If You turn the map of Witcher 90 degrees clockwise you Get North half of Europe. Or if you mind where the pole is drawn on the map and its left of main land mass.
So if we turn the map 90 deg clock wise you get From left to right: France ,Germany, Poland With Czech and Slovakia and to the right Russian States Like Redania, Kedwen with Kovir and Polis on Ural mountains ending the map.
Also makes sense coming from Polish writer perspective because Polish kinda hate Russians since the dawn of time and Blame them for betraying them all the time. With Russian states often choosing Neutral stances in West wars and Hungarian invasions.
Kovir is definitely Italy or Italian Switzerland.
What makes a man turn neutral?
lust for gold? power? or were you just born with a heart of full of neutrality?