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Hexers are professional monster killers who receive special training and preparation. They are sterile mutants with supernatural abilities, without feelings. Geralt, the central character in Sapkowski's stories, is one of the best hexers, but he has one flaw - emotions.
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The Hexer cycle
Short stories
The hexer cycle started as a series of short stories, at first published in Fantastyka, a Polish science fiction magazine. The first short story was "Wiedźmin" ("Hexer") (1986), written for a contest of Fantastyka magazine, where it won the 3rd place. The first four stories of Geralt (and "Droga, z której się nie wraca", which took place in the same world, but dozens of years before the Hexer stories) were published in a short story collection titled Wiedźmin. All fifteen short stories were later collected in three books published by superNOWA - Ostatnie życzenie, Miecz przeznaczenia and Coś się kończy, coś się zaczyna. Saga o wiedźminie
Hexer Saga consists of five novels about Geralt (Krew elfów, Czas pogardy, Chrzest ognia, Wieża jaskółki, Pani jeziora), in which Sapkowski joins the threads started in the short stories, and adds new ones. Apart from the hexer himself, another central character is princess Ciri.List of books
Short story collections:
Hexer saga:
Comic books
In 1993-1995, Sapkowski's stories were adapted into six comic book albums by Maciej Parowski (story), Boguslaw Polch (art), and Sapkowski himself. They are:Film
Hexer is also the title of a movie (2001) and television series (2002), directed by Marek Brodzki. and written by Michal Szczerbic. The role of Geralt was played by Michal Zebrowski, and the music was composed by Grzegorz Ciechowski.
Michał Żebrowski as GeraltRole-playing game
In 2001 a role-playing game called Wiedźmin: Gra Wyobraźni (Hexer: Game of Imagination) based on Sapkowski's books was published by MAG. Second edition of the game is in production.Computer game
As of 2004, a computer role-playing game The Witcher is being produced by CD Projekt.