Many of its locations were later swapped around, too, as Sapkowski finished his saga. Later, a Czech translation of The Witcher saga featured a map drawn by Stanislav Komárek, which differed slightly from the original shape. This was actually riddled with errors and subsequently corrected across a number of different variations included in translated editions of the books. One map that Sapkowski endorsed –though only by default– was the very first one, which was apparently drawn by the editors of his Polish website. The only ones that ever were featured in translated versions of The Witcher saga only, such as Czech, Spanish, and Russian. Indeed, it may surprise you to learn that Andrzej Sapkowski never actually had his own render of the Continent’s map included with the books when they originally published. Why is that, I hear you ask? Well, quite apart from the fact that it makes a puzzling change from descriptions of the landscape featured in the books, and that it differs from the images featured in developer CD Projekt Red’s video games, the Continent’s map has had a long history of being chopped and changed over the years.

Although, it’s unclear as to whether the map itself is actually canonical. In addition to making the events of the season clearer, the image offers an interesting overview of the Continent’s landscape and different political regions. It can get pretty confusing, and that’s perhaps why Netflix’s official The Witcher site has published an interactive map and timeline to help break things down. Geralt, Yennefer, and Ciri’s separate storylines not only take place at different locations but completely different times as well. Netflix’s The Witcher adaptation does a lot of jumping around in its first season.

Witcher 3 skellige interactive map