As a franchise spanning video games, books, and a television series, The Witcher owes everything to 300-year-old fairy tales. The very first book, The Last Wish (which itself is a collection of short stories set in The Witcher universe), has a number of fairy tale references, including "A Grain of Truth" being a twist on Beauty and the Beast, "A Question of Price" bears close resemblance to Cinderella with a celebration at a ball and a knight that can only remove his helmet after midnight, and "The Last Wish" (the short story the collection is named after) is about a genie granting three wishes, a la Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp.
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