Netflix's adaptation of "The Witcher" has already spawned a second season and an animated film. The Witcher: Blood Origin is a live-action prequel series set more than 1,000 years before Geralt began roaming the continent.

"1200 years before Geralt of Rivia, the worlds of monsters, humans, and elves merged into one and the first Witcher was born," the announcement reads. Lauren Hisrich, showrunner of The Witcher, is co-creating the show with Declan de Barra, who also wrote episodes for the first season.

The merging of worlds into one refers to the "joining of the spheres," an event that confines various races and supernatural creatures into a single dimension. It filled the world with monsters, magical races, and the first humans, empowering mages.

In the games and novels, the joining of the spheres occurred 1,500 years ago, but the Witcher's Orders did not appear until later, when the land that would become Temeria was first colonized by humans. Perhaps the mini-series will gradually squash the events, showing both the joining of the spheres and the appearance of the first Witcher.

"I've always wanted to delve deeper into the mythology and lore of the continent," Hisrich said on Twitter. And it doesn't get any deeper than the birth of the world.

With so many gaps in what we know about the Witcher's origins and the Cataclysm, perhaps the writing team could take a little more liberty in incorporating their own ideas. Witcher content without Geralt's star power was unthinkable before the success of the original series, and this spinoff is a testament to how seriously Netflix is taking this franchise. Other than the setting, nothing is known about the storyline yet, and no release date has been set.