It seems that Poland, the home and origin of the acclaimed "The Witcher Saga," has decided to honor the sheer popularity and success of one of its own by issuing a line of postal stamps with a design featuring the likeness of "The Witcher" main protagonist Geralt of Rivia.
Game Informer reported the news, revealing that the legendary glare of "The Witcher" himself, Geralt of Rivia, is now gracing an officially sanctioned stamp design. Damien Monnier, the lead designer of the real life version of the in-universe card game "Gwent," originally shared the news on Twitter.
The new stamp design features one of the more iconic graphic arts from "The Witcher" franchise, showing Geralt drawing his sword while shooting a glare with his cat-like yellow eyes. Sure enough, a posting on the website for the Poctza Polska, the Polish state postal service, confirms the validity of the stamp as being official and not just some third-party collectible.
The description of the site indicates that the Geralt of Rivia "Witcher" stamp will equal about 6 Polish zloty, which is about $1.55. Other details for the stamp indicates the line will be printed with photogravure, and on fluorescent paper with dimensions sitting at 31.25 mm in width and 39.5 mm in height.
As an official postal stamp, the "Witcher" Geralt of Rivia stamp is valid for use on mail. However, the line will reportedly be limited edition according to Polygon, meaning that the stamps could eventually have added value as outright collectibles likely sometime in the future.
Geralt is getting his own Polish stamp O__O pic.twitter.com/EAtAUlNnmZ
— Damien Monnier (@Bacon_is_life) September 15, 2016
Poland honoring "The Witcher" franchise by including the face of its main protagonist into official stamps is unsurprising, considering the country is where the very root of the franchise is located. "The Witcher Saga" of books are written by Andrzej Sapkowski, a Polish fantasy author.
Initially, "The Witcher" series was a relative unknown in mainstream media. It was not until Polish video game development company CD Projekt Red, now a booming household name, brought the series to a notice of the non-Polish audience with the universally acclaimed "The Witcher" series of video games that began in 2005.
2015 saw the release of the final entry in the series in "The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt," with 2016 featuring the final major expansion for the story and supposedly CD Projekt Red's final work in the series.
