In the books yen uses magic to hide her hunchback and ugliness. Geralt being a Witcher and therefore trained/experienced to analyse magic in front of him quickly sees through the illusion. If the show had the character look uglier to begin with then that's probably a result of adapting the books. I haven't watched the show as I don't really like adaptations. Btw it's not just Yen that uses magic to hide ugliness either, almost all other sorceresses do as well in the books including Triss.

[–] Redex68@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (9 children)

Interesting, in the show it isn't really an illusion, they physically change her.

[–] GeoGio7@lemmy.world 20 points 5 months ago (8 children)

It's also like that in the books. In the book Geralt can somehow see it in her eyes. He says they're the eyes of a hunchback or something along those lines.

[–] Maultasche@feddit.de 32 points 5 months ago

Maybe he's not sure and it's just a hunch.

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