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ELF DEFENCE

1 ITS ORIGIN STORY FEATURES A NAPKIN

requel miniseries began life in Season 2 writer's room. The creative team were struggling to get their heads around a piece of lore that author Andrzej Sapkowski never explained in his novels, leaving creator Declan de Barra to sketch out ideas about. “I started scribbling it down on a napkin, and although it's been through multiple drafts since, the story is essentially the same as it was then.”

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