Con Morhen

About us

Welcome to our Witcher-themed project in the Czech Republic: Con Morhen.

We're a group of fantasy and Witcher enthusiasts who love telling stories inspired by the books and games. We want you to experience these stories and the atmosphere with us.

In May of next year, we are organizing the second edition of our flagship festival Con Morhen, which will take place from May 1st to 4th, 2025, at Roudnice nad Labem Castle. You can look forward to concerts, a cosplay competition, workshops, demonstrations of ancient crafts, and a storyline with theatrical performances. Taverns and bars will ensure a great atmosphere.

Our closest exciting event is The Witcher Ball, Soiree in Mandragora. The ball will take us to beautiful Toussaint to mingle with the local nobility and perhaps even have a chance to meet the resplendent countess Anna Henrietta herself.

But that's not all. We also host Morhenburg – a photo event for invited cosplayers and LARPers, set in selected Czech castles or chateaus, focusing on fantasy themes. We have a ball, LARP events, and are constantly brainstorming new ideas. All our events welcome both local and international visitors with open arms.

Our events

Over the course of this year, our organizing team has successfully hosted three events with the fourth just behind the corner.

The Witcher Ball, already a staple of our yearly production, has taken place in beautiful venue of Střelnice in Tábor at the end of January. Everyone got the chance to dance to live music, try their luck at a raffle and enjoy mysterious atmosphere of the evening covered in masks.

Con Morhen took place this April, combining concerts, cosplay contests, workshops, and a storyline with theatrical performances, ensuring a great time for everyone.

Underworld: Ofieri Mission is a smaller event that focuses heavily on roleplay and period atmosphere. The event features a storyline and numerous quests for participants to complete as visitors or residents of the free city of Novigrad.

MorhenBurg is an event primarily for cosplayers and photographers. This year we are returning to Brandýs nad Labem chateau, allowing for the creation of many beautiful photos and videos. MorhenBurg aims to provide unique photography locations and to connect photographers and cosplayers from various regions, fostering new contacts and creating exceptional photos together.

Moment of the final clash between Cossacks and the Ofier caravan

One of the most visited places, full of beauty and delight

There's nothing more beautiful than seeing you with a smile on your face

The birth of Sellenium, the first of its name, 1272, colored

Friendships in Novigrad are diverse

The Guard and Witch hunters don't always find a common ground

Newitcherpatelní, that's definitely us!

All roads lead to the free city

Ladies exchanging the latest hot information from the Underworld

Even caravan members from distant lands cherish memories of vacations

In Novigrad, you can meet many familiar faces

Ofier caravan, 1262, colored

In cities, you can learn a lot, even self-defense!

A toast to everyone's health!

Always have a friend on the road, like Shajtan here!

Music is a remedy, and the band Tempus knows how to heal

Meet the Organizational Team

Newicherpatelní or the organizing team of Con Morhen and other events of this production. Most of us knew each other previously, some of us joined later. Each of us is a bit of an expert in something else, which allows us to complement each other excellently and rely on each other. We all have crazy ideas and believe that together we can make them happen and present to you unique events where we can all meet.

Sellen

Lets introduce the one without whom there would never be any Con Morhen in the first place: Vojta aka Sellen or @theviperguy . Sellen brings the primary ideas for events and determines their theme and content. Together with Lyshak and Vojtak, he produces the storyline. He procures people, locations and props. He distributes tasks and motivates us. Besides Con Morhen, he manages The Witcher stories @thewitcherstoriescz project – a series of short movies from the world of The Witcher. In his free time, he cooks – sorry, he creates magic in his kitchen, where he prepares heaven in your mouth from common, uncommon as well as entirely exotic ingredients.

Ciri

Our dear Ciri. She is an expert on meads and other liquid refreshment, whether it contains alcohol or not. For our events, she selects meads, will guide you through a tasting, ensures a smooth operation of our bars, and when you’re thirsty, be sure to try her ice tea. Apart from that, she helps Chiisai with the administration of our organization. Ciri loves the theatre – not just as an audience member, but mainly as a wardrobe manager and sound engineer who can make any crazy idea of the director a reality. She prefers to devote her leisure time to her domestic animals, books, Dragon Age, and to creating various stuff of all kinds.

Mirael

Markéta or Mirael. @mirael.swscosplay She is the keeper and manager of our social media, more specifically Facebook and Instagram. Apart from that, naturally, Mirael designs and plans our events with the rest of the team. More importantly, she constantly annoys everyone with nosy questions, asking if this or that is finally ready and if we can write a post about it for you. During the events, she help wherever necessary and tries to capture what’s happening, which Mirael definitely never forgets to upload to stories. She tries to do all this while doing her scientific work, cosplay, playing Dungeons and Dragons and occasional travelling.

Lyshak

The next member of our team probably doesn’t need a big introduction – Filip Zenisek aka Lyshak. He translates all the texts from Czech to English for us. And also from our Czech to the proper Czech, while pretending he doesn’t suffer doing it (though sometimes, the pretence is a bit of a stretch for him). Apart from that, he designs the plot lines and story content of our events with Sellen and Vojtak. He is also in charge of writing the scripts and training our on-stage performers with little to no acting experience. Similarly, he works on the Witcher Stories. He manages to do all this, because he does this for a living outside of Con Morhen as well. Lyshak is a video-game translator (with hundreds of games under his belt, and yes, including The Witcher 3), proofreader, writer, screenwriter, director, actor, voice actor, and last but not least a workaholic, because if he hadn’t been one, he would have probably thrown us to the winds a long time ago. Therefore, we can be proud to have become his hobby.

Joan

The shortest, but definitely an equally important member of our team is Joan @joanbaggins . She is in charge of cosplay guests, stallholders and the cosplay contest. On the spot, she tends to all this and also does makeup for most of the actors in the storyline. Joan is a professional cosplayer; she creates bespoke costumes and helps other cosplayers with their creations. Apart from Con Morhen, she also helps with the programme of Animefest. Joan is a huge fan of anime, games and Dungeons and Dragons. As soon as she takes to something, she already plans a new cosplay or at least a makeup test. She spends her free time (if there is any) playing video games or watching shows and anime.

Vojťák

Vojta or Vojťák. Together with Lyshak and Sellen, Vojtak prepares the story content of our events. He will also prepare maps for you so that you can find anything you might ever need at our events and never get lost. During the events, he helps wherever necessary – usually, he searches for someone who should be somewhere but they are not there and it actually looks like they are nowhere. Vojta is an architect by profession (not IT, the old-fashioned kind… bricks, concrete and all that.). In his spare time, he writes stories, plays Dungeons and Dragons, plays discgolf every now and then, travels and cooks amazing meals.

Hirotar

Hirotar- a craftsman, reenactor, Scottish piper, and a stallholder who is in charge of stalls at our marketplace. Apart from careful curation of stylish stalls, he also participates in other preparative processes of our festivals. As he says: “I help where I can.” At the events, he is most likely to be found at his stall with leather products and mead or around hookahs. And don’t be discouraged by his occasional frown - he often just wanders in his thoughts. The last thing we have to warn you about is his stall after dark. During the day, you can safely admire and buy his products and drink mead, but at night, it is a place of rumbustious parties where few people can stay sober.

Jack

This article is about Jaczk aka the Meadman. His main task is to prepare the whole-con game and LARP elements of our events. He is in charge of the game mechanics, training and happiness of our NPCs and solving any conflicts during intense game moments. Apart from that he lives up to his name and occasionally serves mead to visitors in the mead cellar. Jaczk does game design for a living, too – he is a designer, manager and game developer, who is involved in the new Bulanci, for example. He devotes his spare time to LARPs and fencing, he likes to ride on his iron steed, travels and relaxes playing videogames.

Eric

Eric, our friend and awesome graphic designer. @petrerichofmann_art is an amazingly talented and enthusiastic artist and painter, who devotes his time to both digital creation as well as physical craft, and he also works in animation. Eric got so hyped that he created lots of material for us in such a short time, which you will get to see sooner or later. We can only promise it’s very much worth it.

Withal

Ondra, also known as Withal @_withal_ . He is our expert on all things IT. He prepares websites, teaches us to use a tool we use to plan everything as a team, and comes up with a lot of fun stuff you can look forward to in the future. During the events, he helps with whatever is necessary at the moment. Withal also does IT for a living, even though he rather manages people now, which is even more demanding. Apart from that, he tries to manage playing Dungeons and Dragons and 3D printing, and from time to time, he likes to unwind while throwing plastic circles into a basket during discgolf.

Kačka

Kacka the Jay is in charge of things whose solution requires more than a walkie-talkie and always lends a hand whenever it is necessary. She doesn’t function without coffee, though! Outside events, she usually spends her time in various theatres and is also home at film settings and music events. She never goes far for a witty remark and never says no to good food, drink or a hookah. Her hobbies include making wigs and costumes as well as their improvement and maintenance, and she also plays several musical instruments. If she ever seems cheerless, just cover her with kittens and other fluffy things.

Zbyněk

Zbynek is our jack of all trades. He is our hookah master and runner, simply helping with everything we need help with. He also likes to play an NPC on occasion, so you can know him as the accountant of the Novigrad merchant guild, for example. In his free time, he likes to cook (as do many other of our team members), and naturally, he likes a good hookah. He is also a passionate DnD player and a Warhammer aficionado.