it makes the story more "believable"

you could almost believe it could have happened in the real world, but thats in part thanks to the low-fantasy setting as well

And characters behave like a real medieval men, unlike in, for example, Ridley Scott's movies

Take "Gladiator" for example

its cool that there are pure fantasy elements like magic but they were for the most of the series kept low

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/437338579170230284/551880620427575339/84f5a64.jpg

so they are kind of like our legends

Not even talking about armors and weapons in it. An Emperor who decided to fight with a gladiator in arena. Do you realize that it's like our modern Presidents participating in a porn movie?

@rogalik it's cool that magic is not piff-puff stuff like in the Witcher.

In the books it's even less piff-puff stuff

well actually witcher isn't even that much detached by modern standards...

look at american """"""fantasy"""""""" ...

oh about gladiator

Detached?

meh I

I mean that

dont know how to convey that

really

hmm

🤔

the magic and superpowers

they still arent too overblown in witcher

Ah, yes, probably

Comparing to some complete shit books they aren't

but of course compared to game of thrones its a different level

but still its a different setting so

I'd say there is nothing wrong with that in witcher

Still muh fireballs and stuff are not interesting to read about. Some... mental magic, rituals, and stuff like this are much more exciting

when you read the books there is a lot of information and lore about those things

even technicalities

so he does make effort to make it "believable"

have you read wiedzmin?

Yes

there arent much fireballs

there are fireballs when they are fighting

Mmm

but thats all really

Well in the big battles for example

There are

there are other aspects of magic too

and they were well explored in the series