Fortnite gets The Witcher 3’s Yennefer and Ciri, but where’s Triss?

Since The Witcher 3. was released in 2015, players of CD Projekt Red’s fantasy epic have divided themselves into two camps, rallying around the two romanceable characters in the game: Team Yennefer, and Team Triss.

Epic Games, unwittingly or not, has chosen a side to this war of ages by only bringing one character into the game. Fortnite — the only true measure of a pop-culture character’s cultural cachet in 2023. Cool-headed witch Yennefer Vengerberg, a sorceress with a cool head was added. Fortnite on Friday, alongside Geralt’s ward, the witcher Ciri. But there’s no sign of Yennefer’s equally powerful, more impetuous rival, Triss Merigold.

The writing has perhaps been on the wall since Yennefer was given a more prominent role in Netflix’s The Witcher TV series, but Yennefer’s digital merch canonization in FortniteTriss’ fans must be feeling the pain. (For the record, I’m Team Yennefer, although if the game had let me, I would have been Team Keira Metz.)

The skins will be available for purchase in the Skins section. Fortnite’s item shop, Epic has added island adventures themed around each character to the game: Ciri’s Escape and Yennefer’s Battleground. Each skin comes with themed back bling and pickaxe — a megascope for Yennefer, and Ciri’s sword Zireael.

Geralt has been available before in Fortnite as a battle pass reward, but he can’t be purchased now.

What’s all this in aid of? Third season is finally here! The WitcherNetflix will release the show on 29 June. Triss should get better treatment in this show.