(For old fans of The Witcher, no term of abuse has greater sentimental value than whoreson a prison guard howls it at you in the opening lines of Witcher 2, and you can scarcely walk into a room after that without hearing it again.) The latter followed the old fantasy and sci-fi custom of finding an antiquated or invented word to stand in for familiar obscenities. Whoreson is a constant presence in the script of Witcher 3, as cocksucker was in Deadwood or frakking was in Battlestar Galactica.
When you’re actually introduced to a character named Whoreson Junior, you wonder how often he thinks other people are addressing him by mistake. Some drawl out both syllables, others crush them together into something like “hawson” or “orson.” If any character in The Witcher 3 lets slip an exclamation as mild as “son of a bitch,” it is only a supplement to their rich diet of whoresons and fuckers. People mutter it into tankards of beer, shout it at dogs, sing it from the rooftops.
The word on everyone’s lips these days is whoreson.
