The Witcher

This best-selling series imported from Poland is the foundation for the popular monster-hunting video games of the same name, and a card game is soon to follow suit (beta came out May 2017). It also inspired the movie and TV series called The Hexer. Only five Northern Kingdoms remain, warring with each other as much as fending off the greater Nothgardian Empire from the South. Dwarves and elves have been marginalized, and horrific monsters roam the land. To combat them, humans called Witchers have taken all sorts of magic potions, elixirs, even poisons, to genetically modify themselves to be faster, stronger, and have monster-like reflexes. Geralt is heralded as the best of the best and Ciri, his protégé, has a destiny of her own. This dark fairy tale is told from multiple perspectives, and all these wonderfully detailed characters who cross all mediums through which the story has been told are what drive fans to ask for more and more. Meanwhile, the Wild Hunt is on the loose (a band of skeletons that kidnap and impress its captives into service in its army), and secret groups are scheming to bring other factions down. The whole world has a feeling of reckless instability while our heroes try to piece their lives together after each ill-fated blow.