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'The Witcher: Blood Origin' Cast Explains What Drives Their ... (Collider.com)

In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, the showrunner along with Sophia Brown, Laurence O'Fuarain, and Michelle Yeoh tells what fans can expect from the ...

"I liked the fact that, even though there was a lot of fighting and there was a lot of toughness to the character, I brought a softness to her that was crucial to the world, to her, and to the people that she interacts with." [her as a fierce warrior](https://collider.com/the-witcher-blood-origin-image-michelle-yeoh-netflix/), her body is covered in distinct tattoos and all of them have a special meaning. Yeoh says that the tattoo on her forehead translates as "promises made shall not waiver." Then we have the lowborn." The series is set to take fans 1200 years before the events of the original series, exploring the origins of the first Witcher, and telling the story of the Conjunction of Spheres, the fateful event which fused the realms of monsters, elves, and humans together. Then we have the warrior class.

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Minnie Driver Drops MAJOR Info About Her Witcher: Blood Origin ... (CBR)

The Witcher: Blood Origin star Minnie Driver marks her involvement in the Netflix series, dropping major info about her elven character, Seanchaí.

The show will introduce a number of new characters to Netflix's It's a framing story that has been reported to include the return of singer and actor These includes the heroic trio, Fjall 'Stoneheart,' Eile 'The Lark' Lithe and Scian, played by Laurence O'Fuarain, Sophia Brown and Michelle Yeoh, respectively. Fans of Andrzej Sapkowski's novels and CD Projekt Red's games may note Driver's mention that Seanchaí can "travel between time and worlds" as it's an ability those with the Elder Blood possess. It's unknown if it's this ability that will play into Seanchaí's role as the show's narrator. Seanchaí : (Shan-a-khee), a shapeshifting collector of old lore with the abilities to travel between time and worlds.

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What to Expect From The Witcher's 'Blood Origin' Prequel (The Cosmic Circus)

Wiktor talks new reveals about The Witcher: Blood Origin series - an upcoming Netflix series based on the world of The Witcher.

As we learned at this year’s Netflix TUDUM, Minnie Driver (Good Will Hunting, Phantom of the Opera) will join the cast of Blood Origin as a mysterious character called Seanchai. As we know from The Witcher, Netflix really likes to change a lot of story and world details to their liking. Are you looking forward to The Witcher: Blood Origin? The Witcher: Blood Origin will premiere on December 25th only In the process, they left their own cities, which in time led to the signing of a peace treaty between humans and elves. Minnie Driver will also serve as both a narrator for us and our characters, connecting the two serialized stories at the same time. The first landing and the arrival of humans on the Continent were mistakenly underestimated by the elves, as was the threat of their colonization there. Unable to manipulate the forces of magic, and with little preparation to fight the monsters that came as a result of conjunction, gnomes, dwarves, and elves, as well as early humans decided to work together and keep their world safe from all the monsters. We know that it is a prequel that will take place at least 1,200 years before the events of the first season of The Witcher. As we know, The Witcher will have at least 5 seasons, to be produced by Netflix, interpreting the story from We first heard about a Witcher prequel from Netflix at the end of season 2 of that series. To prevent the massive death, Northern rulers tasked their mages to create magic-wielding warriors to deal with the monsters and protect normal people from them.

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The Witcher: Blood Origin - Everything you need to know (Pocket-lint.com)

Netflix will kick off a limited run Witcher prequel series in December 2022, with Michelle Yeoh to star.

Fans of UK comedy TV shows will immediately recognise Lenny Henry on the list, as well as Black Books star Dylan Moran. We've embedded it below for your viewing pleasure. The most recently confirmed member of the cast is Minnie Driver. Netflix has already given us some insight into the story being told in Blood Origin. Blood Origin is described as a limited series, however, so don't go expecting an epic hours-long eight episode run like The Witcher proper. But we do have some information about its release, cast and plot already.

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The <em>Blood Origin</em> of <em>The Witcher</em>: Inside ... (EW.com)

Stars Sophia Brown, Michelle Yeoh, and Laurence O'Fuarain, and showrunner Declan de Barra go inside 'The Witcher: Blood Origin' prequel miniseries.

Scian is on a mission to find a lost ancestral sword of her people that was stolen, while Yeoh mentions how Éile witnesses the death of her sister, prompting her to embark on a journey. The one on the side of her face translates as "born of black sands, cast by fire, shaped by the sea." According to Yeoh, the one on her forehead translates as "promises made shall not waiver." An expert of the sword, Scian was a member of the Ghost Clan until the old King of Xintrea sent the Dog Clan to poison her entire tribe for refusing to fight for his kingdom. So when he gets cast out of his clan, he's trying to find his place in the world. "I don't think I can tell you how he does, but he liked the fact that it was quite big. "He has, in battle, lost a loved one who he was trying to protect, and he just can't get over that," O'Fuarain says. The actress thinks of her as "the compass" of this ragtag elven team, but she doesn't know that she's leading the journey. "I think the show explores what happens to people when they have been used. "I didn't want a woman who is tough and self-sufficient to just be seen as cold." "I think once the society gets to its peak, greed creeps in and cracks form," O'Fuarain explains. Then we have the lowborn."

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Wise old mystical oak tree face meme explained with origin games (HITC)

Here is an explanation of the origin and games behind the wise old mystical oak tree face meme spreading across the internet.

Aside from the iconic tree, Plarium Games are also famous their live-action adverts including stars such as [Megan Fox for Stormfall Rise of Balur](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuUFEgh22yE). Aside from being referred to as wise tree meme, it’s also known as must-play-tree and is synonymous with ‘clickbait ads’. [Wise old mystical oak tree face meme explained with origin games](/en-gb/2022/09/26/wise-old-mystical-oak-tree-face-meme-explained-with-origin-games/)

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Netflix Sets Release Date for 'Witcher' Spin-Off Prequel “Blood Origin” (HYPEBEAST)

Netflix Sets Release Date for 'Witcher' Spin-Off Prequel “Blood Origin”: “Gather your clan” for a December 25th premiere!

[Netflix’s](http://hypebeast.com/tags/Netflix) hit television series [The Witcher](http://hypebeast.com/tags/The-Witcher) has built a cult following since its debut on the streaming service in 2019. With the caption “Gather your clan,” the tweet depicts an image of two hands wielding two opposing weapons. As a prequel to the popular book series established by [Andrzej Sapkowski](http://hypebeast.com/tags/Andrzej-Sapkowski), the network will premiere a new spin-off from the series, titled [Blood Origin](http://hypebeast.com/tags/Blood-Origin).

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Purpose Advisor Solutions Partners with Origin Wealth to Help ... (GlobeNewswire)

TORONTO and VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Sept. 27, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Leading technology platform and practice management provider, Purpose Advisor...

Harry Max Markowitz is an American economist, and a recipient of the 1989 John von Neumann Theory Prize and the 1990 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Origin Wealth is a portfolio management firm based in Vancouver that is driven to elevate human performance and provide an investing experience that empowers Canadians in their decision-making. His research is well known in both the academic and investment communities. Purpose Advisor Solutions is an innovative financial technology firm providing modern client and practice management technology and services for independent portfolio management and financial advisory businesses in Canada. The company is using a disruptive experiential learning method rooted in Nobel Prize winning economic science to educate people about investing. Purpose Advisor Solutions is a subsidiary of Purpose Unlimited. 27, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Leading technology platform and practice management provider, Purpose Advisor Solutions (“PAS”), and new disruptive portfolio management startup, Origin Wealth (“Origin”), today announced a partnership to deliver an improved client experience for financial advisors. Technology should be an enabler, not a rival, for financial advisors trying to demystify investing and spend more time with their clients,” says Jeff Gans, CEO of Purpose Advisor Solutions. We’re excited to work together to make this vision a reality and to continue to advance industry technologies and education alongside Origin,” Gans concluded. Origin’s mission aligns with our core focus - to continue to modernize and innovate the wealth management industry, creating better outcomes for all investors. Instead of taking three or four days to open a client account after submitting paperwork, our partnership with Purpose allows us to generate account numbers immediately and seamlessly. “That means challenging every aspect of the status quo, from technology, to education, to how we build relationships with and empower investors and advisors.

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The Witcher: Blood Origin Creator Confirms Major Change (Comicbook.com)

The Witcher: Blood Origin is officially set to release on December 25th, Netflix finally announced during the Tudum fan event this past weekend.

As part of [an interview by Netflix itself](https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/witcher-blood-origin-plot-photos-creator-interview), de Barra confirmed the report and explained why the show ultimately went in that direction. [Netflix](/category/netflix/) finally [announced during the Tudum fan event](https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/witcher-blood-origin-release-date-netflix-tudum/) this past weekend. The streaming service also [announced that Minnie Driver had officially been added to the cast](https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/the-witcher-blood-origin-cast-minnie-driver-netflix/).

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Netflix's The Witcher: Blood Origin sounds like a rather interesting ... (VG247)

Neflix's prequel to The Witcher, The Witcher: Blood Origin, airs in December, and the show's creator has shared some information on the upcoming ...

Viewers can also expect items and discoveries made in Blood Origin that play off in later seasons of The Witcher with "critical effects" on the storyline. Blood Origin will cover the Conjunction of the Spheres, a cataclysm trapping unnatural creatures such as ghouls and vampires in the dimension where the story takes place. Out for vengeance of one sort or another, the story will cover the perspectives of their enemies as well.

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The Witcher: Blood Origin will feature moments "critical" to future ... (GamesRadar+)

The Witcher: Blood Origin creator Declan De Barra has opened up about how the spin-off will tie into the main Witcher series. Blood Origin, which debuts on ...

As revealed at Netflix’s Tudum, the new season [is set to premiere in Summer 2023](https://www.gamesradar.com/witcher-season-3-release-window-netflix-tudum/). "Blood Origin sets up certain core characters and fan favorites from the books in the later Witcher series. We’re weaving a complex spider web of delicious story that stretches over thousands of years."

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More "The Witcher: Blood Origin" Details - Dark Horizons (Dark Horizons)

Netflix over the weekend announced a Christmas launch date for “The Witcher: Blood Origin,” the upcoming four-episode prequel series set 1200 years before ...

Unlike the first season of “The Witcher,” this will be straightforward and linear in structure. We get to tell a tale about the elves when they were at their height, like all great societies before their fall.” Though barely touched upon in Andrzej Sapkowski’s books, showrunner Declan De Barra came up with ideas of what the pre-Conjunction world looked like and how the event happened.

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'Canadian market needs more innovative, independent advisors' (Wealth Professional)

Purpose Advisor Solutions (PAS) is partnering with a new wealth firm that is using Nobel Prize winning science to modernize the Canadian wealth management ...

“We offer a platform for independent minded and entrepreneurial advisors who want to build their own advice business,” said Gans. We want to provide them with the tools and platform to help them get up and running'.” Origin Wealth is a new portfolio management firm based in Vancouver, which wants to provide an investing experience that empowers Canadians’ decision-making.

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'The Witcher: Blood Origin' Co-Creator Explains the Decision to ... (Collider.com)

Declan de Barra, co-creator of The Witcher: Blood Origin, has revealed a reduction in the number of episodes of the upcoming prequel series.

Optimum story flow.” Adding, “I wanted it to be a punch in the face so that you can’t take your eyes off it.” He also revealed that making the limited series felt like a “two-part movie.” Seems like we are looking at a very crisp storyline with some fantastic characters at the center of the upcoming series. Speaking of cutting down the episode count he further explained that he never wanted there to be a moment through the series “where we’re just stringing the audience along to have an episode. Author Andrzej Sapkowski didn’t elaborate much on the event, in his books, which presented the opportunity to de Barra to

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Construction Company Faces Suit for National Origin Harassment (Bloomberg Law)

Goodsell/Wilkins, Inc. is being sued by the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for allegedly subjecting a group of Latino employees to harassment ...

This is ... is [being sued](https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-sues-construction-company-goodsellwilkins-harassment-latino-workers) by the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for allegedly subjecting a group of Latino employees to harassment and retaliation in Orange County, Calif.

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Hafizah Augustus Geter on Personhood, Race, and Origin in ... (Literary Hub)

Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world's leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological ...

She is the author of the poetry collection Un-American, an NAACP Image Award and PEN Open Book Award finalist. [Andrew Keen](https://lithub.com/tag/andrew-keen/) [Hafizah Augustus Geter](https://lithub.com/tag/hafizah-augustus-geter/) [Keen On](https://lithub.com/tag/keen-on/) [Lit Hub Radio](https://lithub.com/tag/lit-hub-radio/) [podcasts](https://lithub.com/tag/podcasts/) [The Black Period](https://lithub.com/tag/the-black-period/) [The Virtual Book Channel](https://lithub.com/tag/the-virtual-book-channel/) [video](https://lithub.com/tag/video/) The poetry committee co-chair of the Brooklyn Literary Council, she is a Bread Loaf Katharine Bakeless nonfiction fellow, a Cave Canem poetry fellow, and a 92Y Women inPower Fellow and holds an MFA in nonfiction from New York University, where she was an Axinn Fellow.

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'The Witcher' and Spin-Off Series 'Blood-Origin' Release Dates ... (Decider)

Netflix revealed release dates, cast members, and more for 'The Witcher' season three and its prequel, 'The Witcher: Blood Origin.'

- Anna Shaffer as as Triss Merigold - Francesca Mills as Meldof This plot will give insight into how the first prototype of the witcher came to be and the life-changing event that led to “the worlds of monsters, men, and elves becoming one.” - Lenny Henry as Balor I got out a whiteboard and sketched out this plan of what I thought: what elves wanted in this world and what the society was like pre-colonization. It’s very vague in the books as to what happened.

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Taiwan Has Ruled Out Wet Market as Covid Origin, Official Says (National Review)

A senior Taiwanese public-health official said that the Covid-19 virus did not likely originate at the Wuhan wet market.

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Minnie Driver Joins 'The Witcher: Blood Origin' in Major Role (Collider.com)

Minnie Driver, widely known for her role in Good Will Hunting, has been cast in a major role in the upcoming series, The Witcher: Blood Origin.

While she is most well known for her work in films, this will not be Driver's first time on the small screen, as she has additionally endeared herself to audiences with a recurring role on the NBC sitcom Will and Grace, and also starred in the canceled ABC show Speechless. [would then take over the starring role](https://collider.com/the-witcher-prequel-series-blood-origin-filming-date-cast-sophia-brown/), in which she will play Éile, a Queen's guard warrior who leaves her past behind to become a musician. This is just one of a [number of changes](https://collider.com/witcher-blood-origin-overhaul-loses-two-episodes-jaskier-joey-batey/) that Blood Origin has seen, with a number of reported reshoots taking place earlier this year. Blood Origin was first announced in 2020, following the success of The Witcher's first season in 2019. She will play a Seanchaí, according to TUDUM, which is described as a "shapeshifting collector of old lore with the abilities to travel between time and worlds". Beyond Driver, Blood Origin will star Sophia Brown, Laurence O'Fuarain and Michelle Yeoh, the latter of whom is coming off of her critically acclaimed role in Everything Everywhere All at Once.

EEOC Sues Construction Company Goodsell/Wilkins for ... (EEOC)

LOS ANGELES – Orange County, California-based construction contractor Goodsell/Wilkins, Inc., violated federal law when it subjected a class of Latino ...

For more information on harassment, visit [https://www.eeoc.gov/harassment](https://www.eeoc.gov/harassment). [www.eeoc.gov](http://www.eeoc.gov). District Court for the Central District of California (EEOC v. “National origin, race, and sex harassment remain a persistent problem in the construction industry,” said Anna Park, regional attorney of the EEOC’s Los Angeles District Office. Change cannot happen without those brave enough to speak out, and change in this industry, with its persistent issues, is long overdue.” The harassment also included anti-Latino graffiti found in portable restrooms on Goodsell/Wilkins’ worksites, which included abusive terms and offensive imagery demeaning to Latino workers.

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Origin Park officials look to first phase of project in Clark County (Evening News and Tribune)

A rendering shows plans for Buttonbush Woods, a section of Origin Park's first phase. The wooded area will include a system of trails along Mill Creek. Provided ...

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Don Scott Dishes on World Drag Racing Alliance Origin, Providing ... (Drag Illustrated)

Scott announced the formation of the WDRA, a new drag racing sanctioning body, at the beginning of September 2022. The WDRA's mission statement states, “to ...

“We truthfully sit with a whiteboard and build a business plan as we talk with tracks,” Scott said. “American Race Cars is going to put up $5,000 towards the finals, which is an event that has no entry fee,” Scott said. “Using that word ‘alliance’ is very much on purpose, and it’s a very important part of what we represent and what we will become.” Fast forward to today and Scott is putting a plan together to structure the WDRA and provide something of a playbook to track operators, as well as group purchasing options. Me and my wife want to retire, and we want to run it,” Scott said. The WDRA’s mission statement states, “to provide value as a sanctioning body to racers and facilities through process modernization, unparalleled service and value-driven partnerships.”

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