The Witcher games are based on Sapkowski’s works, so CD Projekt RED might even use the Polish author’s latest book in the future.

Sapkowski told French fantasy magazine Chimères that although there are no plans for the future at the moment, Sapkowski has confirmed that he has finished the latest Witcher book, which took him about two years to complete. He originally finished his last book in the Witcher franchise (Lady of the Lake) in 1999, but then returned to the world of Geralt in 2013 with the release of Season of Storms. This is mostly set between the first short stories. It’s likely that the new work could be placed in the timeline, as Sapkowski has previously said that he has no plans to expand his world in that regard.

“The story is complete. The saga is complete, so if I were to write something in The Witcher universe, and I certainly have that intention, it would probably be something like a prequel or a sidequel. Not a sequel,” he said at the Warsaw Comic Con 2018. A rather blunt and harsh way to put it, but we have our own experience with the 76-year-old author being so blunt in the past: an interview with him in the Hungarian GameStar in 2007 had similar on-the-nose statements (he said, for example, that he doesn’t use Windows on his computer, only DOS, and that he wasn’t interested in the game…).

Sapkowski’s latest book will be published in Polish for the first time (understandably, since you can’t just publish it in English; it has to be translated properly!) This will happen in 2024. The English translation will hit the shelves in early 2025. Eventually, it will surely be translated into other languages.

But why does Sapkowski seem so presumptuous, we ask?

Source: PCGamer, Instagram