Behind the incredible Witcher cosplay: Cleaner by day, forest guardian by night

Some of the cosplay around the hit role-playing game The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is jaw-dropping. It’s even more astonishing, though, when you realize how much work goes into creating the fan-made outfits.

Angelique Heikens — also known as Idromy — is a hobbyist cosplayer from Belgium. By day, she’s “just a regular cleaning lady,” but every evening she takes to her dedicated hobby room and works on her incredible video game- and movie-inspired costumes. That’s where she created her cosplay homage to the Leshen — a terrifying forest guardian from the Witcher series that stands at over 3 metres. Of course, Heikens isn’t quite that tall, but she still cuts an imposing figure at 2 metres (plus antlers) thanks to the homemade stilts that form part of her costume.