The Witcher Why The Aretuza Girls Turned Into Eels

The Witcher: Why The Aretuza Girls Turned Into Eels

There are many weird events in The Witcher, among those when Tissaia turned some of the Aretuza girls into eels – and here’s why she did it.

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The Witcher Why The Aretuza Girls Turned Into Eels

The Witcher took viewers to a fantasy world where monster hunters, sorceresses, and various mythical creatures co-exist – and yet one of season 1’s weirdest moments was when Tissaia turned some of her apprentices into eels. Based on the book series by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski, The Witcher was released on Netflix in December 2019, and it might be the streaming giant’s biggest TV season ever. Netflix was aware of the popularity of The Witcher, and renewed the series for a second season before the first one was out.

The Witcher season 1 has a different narrative style to the one in the books and video games, as the team behind the series decided to focus on the stories of three characters in different places and points in time. These characters are the title witcher, Geralt of Rivia (Henry Cavill); Yennefer of Vengerberg (Anya Chalotra), a powerful sorceress; and Ciri (Freya Allan), the crown princess of Cintra. The series gave Yennefer a proper backstory, allowing viewers to follow her journey and transformation from a disfigured young woman to one of the most powerful sorceresses to come from Aretuza – but the road wasn’t easy, and she experienced and witnessed some traumatic events, such as when some of her classmates were turned into eels.

Yennefer was sold to Tissaia de Vries (MyAnna Buring) and taken to Aretuza, where she was trained to become a sorceress. Yennefer’s time at Aretuza was tough, and she tried to kill herself on her first night there. Although she didn’t excel at her classes, she passed a test orchestrated by Tissaia, which gave Yennefer hope of “ascending” with the rest of her classmates. Tissaia told her to “listen for the knock”, but she skipped Yennefer’s door. Yennefer sneaked out of her room to spy on Tissaia and those who were chosen to “ascend”, only to find out that the ritual consisted of turning the girls into eels. Tissaia noticed Yennefer’s presence and made her push the eels into the water.

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The apprentices actually serve a purpose as eels, as cruel as this transformation (and the whole “ascend” trick) is. By turning them into eels, Tissaia is taking away their control, but not their power, thus now serving as conduits of power for Aretuza. Yennefer wasn’t chosen as Tissaia saw her potential, and turning her into an eel would have been a real waste. The official site for Netflix’s The Witcher explained this a bit better, although briefly, in its description of Aretuza. It explains that the pool with white water at the bottom of the tower is Aretuza’s power source, and the “mages not capable of harnessing chaos are transformed into eels, forced to live out their days in this pool and provide power to the academy”.

The criteria for choosing which apprentices will be turned into eels and which ones will have proper initiations (and thus become sorceresses) seems to be the least talented girls in the group, though there might be a talented one among them from time to time, chosen to serve as an eel as she can’t be trusted. Tissaia mentioned to Yennefer that they are “conduits of chaos”, and that there are two types of mages – those who control their emotions and those who let their emotions control them – so the eels’ main purpose is to help them to better control that chaos and turn it into magic. It’s a weird practice, but it wasn’t a random act from Tissaia, though it is quite cruel.

Link Source : https://screenrant.com/witcher-netflix-aretuza-apprentices-eels-magic-transform-reason/

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