Sapkowski uses many motifs just unknown in Poland until very recently. For example for his noted Arthurian obsession, it is known that there was another big fan in what is today Poland (due to her having Lancelot-Grail frescos in her tower) in the 14th century or so, but besides that singular instance with no cultural legacy Arthuriad only really arrived in Poland by the way of the American and British late 20th-century pop culture going global. The core of The Witcher is Arthurian Romance + Tolkien + Moorecock.

Sapkowski uses many motifs just unknown in Poland until very recently. For example for his noted Arthurian obsession, it is known that there was another big fan in what is today Poland (due to her having Lancelot-Grail frescos in her tower) in the 14th century or so, but besides that singular instance with no cultural legacy Arthuriad only really arrived in Poland by the way of the American and British late 20th-century pop culture going global. The core of The Witcher is Arthur + Tolkien + Moorecock.

Sapkowski uses many motifs just unknown in Poland until very recently. For example for his noted Arthurian obsession, it is known that there was another big fan in what is today Poland (due to her having Lancelot-Grail frescos in her tower) in the 14th century or so, but besides that singular instance with no cultural legacy Arthuriad only really arrived in Poland by the way of the American and British late 20th-century pop culture going global.