Ciri marks the start of a brand new Witcher period. How Geralt’s foster daughter turned a feminine witcher, nevertheless, continues to be a giant query mark. A YouTuber has combed by means of the books for solutions.
We waited a very long time for it and had been lastly handled to the primary trailer for The Witcher 4 on the final Sport Awards. Within the six minutes, we witnessed a morbid ritual and obtained a primary take a look at our new heroine: Ciri.
Within the trailer, Ciri not solely cleans up, but additionally raises some questions which can be hotly debated amongst followers of the universe.A feminine witcher, is that even potential?Would Geralt ever have allowed it? And why ought to Ciri of all individuals endure the brutal trials to change into a witcher?
A YouTuber has addressed all these questions and delved a bit into the books and different works from the Witcher cosmos.
Can there be feminine witches?
On his channel, the YouTuber Neon Knight has printed a video through which he exhibits what the Witcher lore has to supply as regards to girls as witches (witchers? witches?). As the brand new principal protagonist, Ciri is seemingly the primary lady to actively function a witch. You’ll be able to see the entire video right here, albeit in English:
As a giant fan of the sequence, Neon Knight has already poked his nostril into just a few matters associated to Geralt and associates. So he didn’t need to miss the chance to make clear some discrepancies relating to Ciri as a witcher, as a result of there may be an uproar in the neighborhood. Some consider that there may be no feminine witcher and that Ciri would subsequently disrupt the lore.
The truth is, it isn’t that simple to change into a witcher and just a few survive the process in any respect.
The topics, largely orphaned boys, must endure a number of brutal assessments, together with the so-called herb take a look at. Throughout this take a look at, numerous tinctures constructed from herbs and mushrooms are launched to them, which set off mutations. The purpose is to develop fast reflexes, acute listening to, and immunity to illness, however the worth is excessive. Solely two out of ten topics survive the ordeal.
In all of the books and video games, there may be at all times speak of boys as witch pupils. Thus far, there isn’t any identified feminine witch apart from Ciri who has survived this process. However the books additionally don’t point out that it’s not possible for women to move the take a look at.
There are even some indications that experiments had been carried out on women and girls to create the witch mutations. Within the recreation Gwent: Rogue Mage by CD Mission Purple, for instance, a sorcerer is talked about who used girls as take a look at topics to develop the witch trials. Nevertheless, he solely succeeded in making a boy the primary profitable topic.
Ladies are additionally talked about as take a look at topics within the official Witcher tabletop recreation. Nevertheless, they turned unwell extra rapidly than boys throughout the experiments and in the end died. It isn’t but identified whether or not a girl earlier than Ciri ever turned a witch, however it’s sure that it was repeatedly tried.
Ciri as a witch
Ciri apparently took the take a look at throughout or after the occasions in The Witcher 3, so not as a baby however as an grownup. Earlier than that, she underwent the complete witcher coaching program at Kaer Morhen, the place she was additionally given mushrooms and natural mixtures that the witcher apprentices take to develop their power.
Ciri would subsequently have considerably higher situations to outlive the trials than many different candidates. For one factor, at 24 she is now not a baby and, for one more, she already has extraordinary skills.
Nevertheless, many followers additionally see an issue in the way in which these assessments are carried out, as a result of Triss believes within the books that this course of has since been forgotten in its particulars. In some unspecified time in the future, there was no use for brand spanking new witches, as there have been now not so many monsters roaming the world, and the process was pushed additional and additional into the background.
As well as, the witcher mutations turned more and more unstable over time and the success price of the assessments continued to say no. This was famous within the newest witcher e-book from 2024. So how might it’s potential for Ciri to change into a witcher now?
At this level, nobody at Kaer Morhen actually is aware of how the trials are carried out, however the obligatory means are nonetheless accessible.
Ciri and Yennefer spent quite a lot of time within the laboratory within the books and would have had the chance to accumulate the misplaced information. Yennefer even performs such an experiment on Uma in Witcher 3. So it’s not not possible that Ciri was capable of take the trials.
The query stays as to why Ciri ought to endure the harmful trials to change into a witcher in any respect. As a baby of elder blood and thru her coaching, she already has extraordinary and magical skills.
We are able to assume, nevertheless, that this query will probably be a part of the brand new saga. In our interview with the builders, you possibly can already see what makes Ciri’s story so particular.
Ciri] has skilled a lot trauma as a youngster. She has been on the run for nearly all of her life. However you possibly can’t preserve operating out of your life without end. In some unspecified time in the future, you must face it and carve your personal path. And that’s precisely what Ciri will do [in The Witcher 4].
Sebastian Kalemba, Sport Director
Despite the fact that Geralt was actually not notably happy that Ciri selected the trail of a witcher, it isn’t illogical that he allowed it. Throughout his personal journey, he needed to study to let go and belief Ciri’s personal selections.
How do you’re feeling concerning the new Witcher saga? What do you hope to get out of the adventures you should have with Ciri? Be at liberty to inform us within the feedback!
