Talk:Toss a Coin to Your Witcher
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2nd ep
[edit]> The song lyrics are based on the events of the show's second episode
Uhm well it depicts a different set of events than what actually happened... The bard tells lies based on very different actual events. Shouldn't that be reflected in the section on the songs contents?
134.93.137.245 (talk) 13:01, 14 January 2020 (UTC)
- You can clarify it further, just make sure there's a source for that.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 11:54, 15 January 2020 (UTC)
Why?
[edit]Why would I toss a coin to a witcher? What's the backstory here? It seems an omission in the article. Andy Dingley (talk) 20:57, 18 January 2020 (UTC)
- I agree that would be nice to expand upon, but I did not run into reliable sources addressing this. OR explanation is that Witcher is a mercenary, rather impoverished, and disliked, and the song is encouraging people to be nicer (and open their wallets) to him a bit more. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 09:49, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
- How much witching do I get for just one coin? AIUI, he's going to clear out all the monsters in my whole village. A piece of work like that should be the subject of carefully-drafted contracts with performance KPIs and clear payment terms (no-one wants a repeat of the Pied Piper debacle). It's not just a matter for the arbitrary distribution of loose change. We're burning witches here, not buying the Big Issue. Andy Dingley (talk) 12:52, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
- It's a (VERY) late reply, I know, but I felt it necessary to respond to this, if only for posterity. Most medieval villages (and let's be honest here; The Witcher definitely takes place in medieval Europe. Granted, a fantasy version of it, but still medieval) wouldn't have any one citizen with the clout or capital to hire a witcher for themself or for their village without aid from the others in that village, so it's arguably a very reasonable assumption that each villager would give Geralt (or whatever other witcher may be doing them a service) a coin or so each, so as to pay for the "collective good" he'd done for the village as a whole. Furthermore, it's mentioned these days (not sure if this was included 1~ year ago) that Geralt rarely got paid for his work. Some tough break if you ask me, having to undergo mutation, be a life-long outcast, and not get paid for the life-threatening work you do. The nerve of some people, huh?! Anyway. As it says in the article (now), the lyrics are referring to how Geralt in particular deserves to get paid. So that's that. My theory + the series writers' official explanation.Captain Seasick (talk) 14:50, 31 March 2021 (UTC)
- This is just a distorted translation into English. In the original, the text sounds something like: "pay the witcher with a minted coin." In Slavic languages, a "minted coin" has a connotation that speaks of paying with real, expensive money. Translated into English, for some reason, "expensive minted money" was distorted as a "coin" Akardo~ruwiki (talk) 21:57, 23 December 2023 (UTC)
- It's a (VERY) late reply, I know, but I felt it necessary to respond to this, if only for posterity. Most medieval villages (and let's be honest here; The Witcher definitely takes place in medieval Europe. Granted, a fantasy version of it, but still medieval) wouldn't have any one citizen with the clout or capital to hire a witcher for themself or for their village without aid from the others in that village, so it's arguably a very reasonable assumption that each villager would give Geralt (or whatever other witcher may be doing them a service) a coin or so each, so as to pay for the "collective good" he'd done for the village as a whole. Furthermore, it's mentioned these days (not sure if this was included 1~ year ago) that Geralt rarely got paid for his work. Some tough break if you ask me, having to undergo mutation, be a life-long outcast, and not get paid for the life-threatening work you do. The nerve of some people, huh?! Anyway. As it says in the article (now), the lyrics are referring to how Geralt in particular deserves to get paid. So that's that. My theory + the series writers' official explanation.Captain Seasick (talk) 14:50, 31 March 2021 (UTC)
- How much witching do I get for just one coin? AIUI, he's going to clear out all the monsters in my whole village. A piece of work like that should be the subject of carefully-drafted contracts with performance KPIs and clear payment terms (no-one wants a repeat of the Pied Piper debacle). It's not just a matter for the arbitrary distribution of loose change. We're burning witches here, not buying the Big Issue. Andy Dingley (talk) 12:52, 27 January 2020 (UTC)