Ep. 117 — Chapter 11 from "Tower of Swallows"
Kitty from the US and Softie from the UK take over from Alyssa for our discussion of Andrzej Sapkowski’s Tower of Swallows, Chapter 11. Very important bits include: being on the other side of our protagonists, the parallels between horror and comedy, one-line bangers, fate and destiny, divine intervention, Norse mythology, cherry-flavored numbing liquid, and the close of the penultimate Witcher novel.
This episode is available at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, and Stitcher.
In this Episode
[0:00] Cold Open
[0:49] Introduction and Guest Introductions
[4:49] Chapter Recap
[6:32] Overall Thoughts
[7:29] The Pursuit of Vengeance
[24:21] The Wild Hunt’s Intervention
[41:49] “What took you so long?”
[47:44] Takeaways
[51:46] Hosting
[55:30] Outro
[56:50] End Credits
Relevant Links
Transcript
Cold Open
Transcript to come.
[Breakfast in Beauclair theme music by Alex Berner]
Introduction
Transcript to come.
Discussion
[Breakfast in Beauclair stinger by Alex Berner]
Transcript to come.
SOFTIE: At the Temple of Melitele, Mother Nenneke sends two novices to serve as field medics on the front lines. Triss Merigold and the scribe Jarre look on, the latter frustrated that he cannot fight to save Ciri. With Triss’s help, Iola the First attempts a trance to divine Ciri’s location. Meanwhile, far to the south, a fisherman named Gosta encounters a girl on a black mare who asks for directions to Tarn Mira and the ruins of a tower.
Rience, Bonhart, and Skellen close in after three weeks of pursuit. Rience recalls Yennefer’s capture by Vilgefortz, under whom the sorceress endured torture rather than betray Ciri.
Kenna and a few others desert, but Bonhart drives the rest forward onto the ice. There, Ciri turns the tables, massacring her hunters on Vysogota’s daughter’s skates.When Rience begs for help, Ciri exacts vengeance, slicing off his fingers before he sinks beneath the ice. Bonhart pursues her to the ruins, but the Wild Hunt appears; a tower materializes, and Ciri vanishes within.
Inside the tower, Ciri confronts visions of the past and future, and learns from Vysogota that her Elder Blood grants mastery over time and space. She steps through into a new world of spring and music, where an elf greets her: “What took you so long?”
Outro & Credits
[Breakfast in Beauclair theme music by Alex Berner]
Transcriptionist:
Editor: