The Witcher follows the story of Geralt of Rivia, one of the few remaining witchers. Witchers are humans that are magically altered to make them better at fighting magical monsters. Geralt is a solitary monster hunter who has to traverse a world where people often are more wicked and brutal than the monsters and beast he was made to hunt. In the midst of brutal changes on the continent, Geralt is forced by destiny to have his fate tightly intertweended with a powerful sorceress and a young princess with a special gift. The Witcher is base on a series with the same name by the Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski. An excellent game series is also based on his books.
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- TV-Shows like The Witcher
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- The Painted Man (Demon Cycle #0) by Peter V. Brett
- Monster Hunter International (Monster Hunter #1) by Larry Correia
- Mistborn (Mistborn #1) by Brandon Sanderson
- The Blade Itself (The First Law #1) by Joe Abercrombie
- Name of the Wind (Kingkiller Chronicle #1) by Patrick Rothfuss
- Animes like The Witcher
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TV-Shows like The Witcher
Game of Thrones


Noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros. Political and sexual intrigue is pervasive. They are locked in a battle for the Iron Throne. This is a grand story of duplicity and treachery, nobility and honor, conquest and triumph. When you play the Game of Thrones, you either win or you die. While the noble families play their deadly game a very ancient evil awakens in the farthest north. Only a neglected military order of sinners and outcasts, the Night's Watch, is all that stands between the realms of men and this ancient evil.
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Grimm


Portland homicide detective Nick Burkhardt discovers he is a descendant of hunters who fight supernatural forces, the Grimms. They are charged with keeping the balance between humanity and the creatures of myth. A reformed "Big Bad Wolf", now a reformed vegetarian, becomes his greatest helper and confidant.
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The Mandalorian

The Mandalorian is set after the fall of the Empire and before the emergence of the First Order. It follows the travels and exploits of a lone bounty hunter known as The Mandalorian, a member of the nearly extinct ancient martial order Mandalorian. Until one job changes his life drastically.
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Penny Dreadful


Penny Dreadful follows Dr. Frankenstein and his monster, Dorian Gray and other iconic terrifying figures from classic literature are joined by a set of original characters as they go about their frightening business in the darkest corners of Victorian London with vampires, evil spirits and immortal beasts. It's a psychological thriller filled with dark mystery and chilling suspense.
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The Tudors


In Tudors, we follow the reign of King Henry VIII as he maneuvers through a series of betrayals and plots against him. His complications with the church and his infamous marriages are also dramatized for us in this dramatic TV series.
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The Last Kingdom


The Last Kingdom tells the tale of young Uhtred of Bebbanburg, heir to a Saxon kingdom, and his attempt to reclaim his title after the violent death of pretty much everyone he cares about. The Last Kingdom is a story of redemption, vengeance, and self-discovery set against the birth of England back at the end of the dark age. The story combines real historical figures and events with fiction. It is a re-telling of the history of King Alfred the Great and his desire to unite the many separate kingdoms into one, what would become England. It's based on the Saxon Stories by Bernard Cornwell.
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Vikings


Vikings are set in historical dark ages, the Viking age of Scandinavia. The series follows Ragnar (a legendary figure from Norse mythology), a former farmer who rises to fame and power by successful raids into England with the support of his family and fellow warriors. As well as being a fearless warrior, Ragnar follows the Norse traditions of devotion to the gods.
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Carnival Row


Carnival Row is set in a fantasy world inspired by the English victorian times that has faeries, fauns, centaurs, werewolves, and other fantasy creatures. The main plot of the show is how these creatures live as immigrant refugees in a human citie and how they manage to coexist. How they are forced to live in the grimmest part of the city, the Row, and how they are forbidden to live, love, or fly with freedom. And the main focus of the plot is on the human detective, Rycroft Philostrate, and a refugee faerie named Vignette Stonemoss. How they rekindle a dangerous affair from before Vignette become a refugee, despite an increasingly intolerant society. This complicates Rycroft's most important case so far, a string of gruesome murders that threatens the uneasy peace of the Row.
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Books like The Witcher
The Painted Man (Demon Cycle #0) by Peter V. Brett


Demons, possessing supernatural powers, comes up from the center of the earth at night, multitudes and giants, from fire, wood, and rock, hungry for human flesh. Humans have to hide inside between magic wards for protection or risk almost certain death. After centuries, the human population dwindles, most of the wards forgotten. Three young survivors of demon attacks, Arlen, Leesha, and Rojer, dare to fight back.
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Monster Hunter International (Monster Hunter #1) by Larry Correia


Owen Zastava Pitt`s boss suddenly changed into an aggressive werewolf while Owen worked overtime. Owen pushed him out of the fourteenth story office window, he woke up in the hospital with a scarred face and a job offer. Monster Hunter International, his new employer, is the premier monster eradication company in the business. They wanted Owen because he managed to kill a werewolf single-handedly without any weapons. This is the first book in the Monster Hunter series and an ancient entity known as the Cursed One has returned to settle a centuries-old vendetta. If The Cursed One should succeed, it would mean the end of the world. MHI is the only thing standing in his way.
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Mistborn (Mistborn #1) by Brandon Sanderson


A World that has been a wasteland of ash and mist for over a thousand years. For this time the Lord Ruler, the “Sliver of Infinity”, has reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror. Every revolt has failed miserably. Then a terribly scarred, heart-broken half-Skaa named Kelsier placed it in the depths of the Lord Ruler’s most hellish prison “snapped” and found in himself the powers of a Mistborn. The skill to burn all sixteen of the Allomantic metals. A brilliant thief and natural leader, he turned his talents to the ultimate play, with the Lord Ruler himself as the mark. For this Kelsier recruited the underworld’s elite, the smartest and most trustworthy allomancers, each of whom capable of burning one of the Allomantic metals. Kel’s plan looks more like the ultimate long shot until luck brings a ragged girl named Vin into his life, a girl with the potential to become a Mistborn like himself.
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The Blade Itself (The First Law #1) by Joe Abercrombie


Murderous conspiracies, old scores ready to be settled, unpredictable, compelling, wickedly funny, and packed with unforgettable characters, We follow the characters the infamous barbarian Logen Ninefingers, Captain Jezal dan Luthar, Inquisitor Glokta and he wizard Bayaz. Jezal is a nobleman, dashing officer, and paragon of selfishness. He has nothing more dangerous in mind than fleecing his friends at cards and dreaming of glory in the fencing circle. Glokta, a cripple turned torturer, loves cutting treason out of the Union one confession at a time. Bayaz, an old man with a terrible temper, he could be the First of the Magi, he could be a spectacular fraud, but whatever he is, he's about to make the lives of Logen, Jezal, and Glotka a whole lot more difficult.
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Name of the Wind (Kingkiller Chronicle #1) by Patrick Rothfuss


This is the first book in the Kingkiller Chronicle, a story that tells the first-person story of a young man who grows to be the most notorious magician his world has ever seen. From his childhood in a troupe of traveling players to years spent as an orphan suer rat in a crime-ridden city, to his daringly brazen yet successful gamble to enter a legendary school of magic.
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Animes like The Witcher
Blood+


Two groups have been at war for ages. The immortal bloodsucking monsters called Chiropterans and an organization known as the Red Shield formed to track down these monsters and kill them. Saya Otonashiis a high-school girl who lives a peaceful life with her family. She sadly suffers from amnesia and can't remember the last year of her life. One day her happy life is destroyed when a man gives her a katana and she finds herself fighting Chiropterans.
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Claymore


In a world that humans must share with Yoma, demonic predators who feast on human intestines, we follow a young boy, Raki, who has lost everything to the Yomas. He joins up with Clare, a slightly older girl, and a Claymore. Claymores are half human and half Yoma. They are detested by most humans, but they are necessary. They are the only force that stands between them and getting their intestines eaten. Clare and Raki travel together around on missions set by the Claymore leaders to take care of Yoma infestations. Clare is considered an outcast by her own people for picking up a young boy and for almost losing herself to her Youma side.
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Witchblade


Masane Amaha discovers while she is attacked by an advanced weapon that can disguise itself as a human being she can transform into a powerful being herself. She destroys the weapon and thus becomes involved in a power struggle between powerful organizations because they discover that she holds the most powerful weapon of them all. The legendary Witchblade.
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Hellsing


Alucard and Seras Victoria work for the Hellsing Organization, a vampire extermination group in England. Alucard is the organization's deadliest weapon, and Victoria is constantly working her way up to his level. What makes these two vampire hunters so effective is that they themselves are vampires.
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Movies like The Witcher
Van Helsing


Van Helsing is sent by the Vatican to Transylvania to stop Dracula. Van Helsing is sent with is ally Carl and while in Transylvania they join forces with Anna Valerious, a Gypsy queen. They were sent to take care of Dracula because he is using Dr. Frankenstein's research and a werewolf for some sinister purpose, and they have to stop him before he completes his project.
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Conan The Barbarian


The tale of Conan the Cimmerian and his adventures across the continent of Hyboria on a quest to get his revenge on the evil warlord who attacked his village and murdered his father when he was a boy. His quest soon turns into epic battles against hulking rivals, horrific monsters, and impossible odds, as he realizes he is the only hope of saving the great nations of Hyboria.
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Willow


There is a prophecy stating that a female child with a special birthmark will herald the downfall of the evil sorceress Queen Bavmorda. When a child like this was born she was sent down the river in a makeshift raft in a desperate attempt to save here from Queen Bavmordas wrath. This child ends up with the farmer and conjurer Willow Ufgood and his family. His wife and children fall in love with the baby immediately, and Willow too soon grows to love her as one of his own. But when a Nockmaar hound attacks the village during a festival the village sorcerer, The High Aldwin, tasks Willow and a party of volunteers to return the baby to the humans. So begins an epic journey.