The Witcher: Blood Origin ending explains Ciri’s family and her future

The Witcher: Blood Origin is mostly about the beginnings of the Witcher universe as we know it, but that doesn’t keep it from connecting with the series’ present in some important ways. While the most obvious one may be Jaskier (Joey Batey) showing up in the miniseries’ opening, Blood OriginAlso, he has much to say on the family and the future of Cintra’s princess.

Ciri’s (Freya Allan) role in Blood Origin may not be immediately clear, but there are a few key details, including a major change from the books, which seem like they’ll play a very important role in the main show’s upcoming third season.

[Ed. note: This story contains spoilers for The Witcher seasons 1 and 2 and The Witcher: Blood Origin.]

Blood Origin ends with a scene of Éile (Sophia Brown) receiving a prophecy from Ithlinne (Ella Schrey-Yeats), the young elf at the tavern who has visions. Ithlinne is a familiar character from the books, but one who has gotten a significant shift in the show’s version of the Witcher-verse. In fitting fashion, the most famous prophecy, which is Ciri-centric, also received an update. This is the new version:

It is the age of the spheres. Aen Seidhe has fallen from the sky. The winds of time have tossed her off course. Always searching for love. The Lark’s seed shall carry forth the first note of a song that ends all times. One of her blood will sing the final.

With this new prophecy, and the fact that it was given to Éile (who we now know to be a years-removed relative of Ciri), the show is expanding the timeline a bit to make Ciri’s eventual arrival and destiny far more complicated and long-lasting than it has seemed to be in the world of the books and games.

Ciri also descends from the first Witcher through this direct connection. This change may prevent her from becoming a Witcher, which is likely to be her fate. It will also make her a part of her (likely) great-grandfather’s destiny. Instead of knowing everything about the places and people that are important for its greatest moments, this knowledge will help to expand the world. Blood OriginThis reduces history to a small area, where only few characters are responsible for each significant event.

To make this reducing of the world extra clear, the show’s post-credits scene gives us a brief glimpse of Ciri, apparently around the time of the main Witcher series. As she plays with kids, while disguised, Avallac’h (Samuel Blenkin) watches her from the shadows. With this extremely vague tease, it seems like the series is suggesting Avallac’h will be part of the main show’s third season, while also implying that he did in fact find both a way to travel through time, and a way to discern that Ciri is the child spoken of in the prophecy.

As for the rest of the Witcher story, this also seems to cheapen the story of Lara Dorren a bit, by making her just one in a long chain of elves who led to Ciri — though she’d still be notable for marrying and having a child with a human.

In all, it’s not really clear what this take on Ciri’s prophecy actually means, or how it changes the world (except reducing it to the smallest possible pieces). But whatever implications it has for the larger world, we’re sure to find out when The WitcherSeason 3 is here, with Ciri likely at the center of it all.