Real-Life Witcher Training School Closes After 7 Years
CD Projekt Red terminated a contractural agreement with 5 Żywiołów (5 Elements), the company responsible for The Witcher School live action role-playing game events in Poland; as such, the school has officially come to an end. It's worthing noting that CDPR's title to The Witcher property, which it renewed with series creator Andrezej Sapkowski in 2019, applies to video games, board games, graphic novels, and merchandise. When 5 Żywiołów decided to enter into an arrangement for a real-life Witcher School in 2015, then, it had to first go through the Polish development house.
5 Żywiołów began hosting the Witcher-themed LARP events in 2015, allowing thousands of would-be monster hunters from around the world to participate in 40 different training courses over a seven-year period. The LARP invited players to live and train in a real castle, take part in fencing, archery, and blacksmith, and, ultimately, fight off monsters with their fellow Witcher trainees. Unfortunately, the road to the Path recently came to end because of what appears to be politically-driven motivations.
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After seven years of business, 5 Żywiołów will no longer operate its Witcher School-themed LARP. According to reporting from Eurogamer, the company claims CD Projekt Red terminated the licensing agreement over one employee's ties to Ordo Iuris, an ultra-conservative, religious-right organization known for its anti-abortion and anti-LGBTQ sentiments. The employee, Ania Wawrzyniak, is married to company founder Dastin Wawrzyniak and served as 5 Żywiołów's legal counsel between 2017 and 2019. Recently, however, the lawyer began working with Ordo Iuris to draft a law "penalizing illegal
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