Swamp Battle: Cosplayers Recreate Geralt and Water Hag from The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Cosplayer Ivan Kondrashin transformed into Geralt from "The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt" to battle a Water Hag, played by model Daria Sherman, in one of Velen's swamps.
Photographer Egor Filatov conducted an unusual photo shoot in a real swamp, inspired by "The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt." Cosplayers Ivan Kondrashin and Daria Sherman embodied the images of Geralt of Rivia and the Water Hag.
The plot is based on a dark story from Velen, where children began to disappear in villages located in the swamps. The Witcher Geralt took an order to investigate and encountered a Water Hag, who turned out to be the culprit behind the kidnappings.
The photographs captured their decisive battle, full of tension and drama. Yulia and Olga Kondrashina, who played the roles of the kidnapped children, also participated in the shooting.
Water hags hunt for living victims, whom they then drag to their lairs to properly season and cook them into dishes. These monsters are partially intelligent, can talk, and sometimes even arrange dark rituals.
By the way, in Slavic mythology, the Water Hag (or vodyanikha) is a female spirit of water, often the wife of a vodyanoy (water spirit). She could be both favorable and hostile to people, but in "The Witcher" her image is reinterpreted and presented as an unequivocally sinister and dangerous monster.
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The rights to the cosplay photos belong to Egor Filatov. Source: VK. Pages of the photo shoot participants on VK: Ivan Kondrashin, Daria Sherman, Yulia Kondrashina, Olga Kondrashina.
