The Witcher: Differences Between the Books and the Series
Netflix's The Witcher Is Based on a Fantasy Book Series With a Few Key Differences
Watch out! This post contains spoilers.
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Watch out! This post contains spoilers.
While Triss Merigold is featured as a supporting character in The Witcher, she is not at all mentioned in The Last Wish. The character actually doesn't show up until the third book of Sapkowski's series, titled Blood of Elves.
When talking to Comic Book, the show's producer and writer Lauren Schmidt Hissrich said that she introduced Triss early on in the series to set the stage for the future. "What we're trying to do is set up the appropriate building blocks for our story, so there is stuff that I know that I want to happen to Triss in Season One and Season Two, and, God willing, beyond that," she explained. "So I need to make sure that that story is set up appropriately, and the best way to do that was actually to bring her and introduce her in a story that she's not in in the novel."