What The Witcher 3 ending tells us about the Witcher’s new saga

Nearly seven years later, the behemoth role playing game Wild Hunt in The Witcher 3.CD Projekt Red is a Polish developer that launched to high praise. This confirms the truth most people already knew about: there’s a new Witcher. The game is still in active development.

This series might have a lot of implications for people who are not as well versed. This is it The Witcher 4The direct continuation of The Witcher 3Or will it be a new story entirely? Will it incorporate original characters from Netflix’s enormously successful adaptation of Andrzej Sapkowski’s saga? Most importantly of all, what has become of everyone’s favorite monster-hunting weatherman — without the White Wolf, how will anyone know when the wind’s howling?

It is the best place to begin, however, at the very end. The Witcher 3. Two endings are worth considering: The end to the core game and the end to Wine and blood, the game’s second major expansion.

The former is arguably a better indicator of what’s to come, but the latter gives us Geralt of Rivia’s beloved swan song — a performance so perfect that a return to the stage could only end in disaster. Geralt could make another appearance, in a manner similar to Kazumakiryu. YakuzaThe Dragon’s Eye Emil in Nier: Automata could be tasteful, but anything more than that … look, Geralt’s been through a lot. Let Geralt enjoy his wine without any worries.

It’s more worthwhile to look at the original, widely considered-to-be-canon ending for The Witcher 3. There are three major ending scenarios for those not so clear on details. The Witcher 3Ciri turns into a witcher or becomes the Empress. Or Ciri dies. It’s also possible that Geralt dies in that last ending, although you never actually see him being killed — it’s just implied by the fact the house he’s in gets surrounded by approximately a zillion monsters.

These four conditions are the end. There is also an assortment of permutations that can be used to create a world state. They all depend on your decisions throughout the story. Is Radovid still king, or was he dethroned by a ragtag group of the Northern Realms’ most unlikely allies? Was there anything to be said about the Bloody Baron Is he dead or made his way to Blue Mountains along with Anna? Skellige: Who is the ruler? There are many ways to rule Skellige. The Witcher 3 This is how to solve the problem. Witcher 4 that respects everyone’s decisions can’t be an easy feat.

Yet, there’s a clue that is actually only half decent from all the information CDPR has given us so far. It’s a single submerged medallion with what appears to be a feline-face.

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Lady of the Lake — the fifth and chronologically final novel in Sapkowski’s Witcher saga — Ciri manages to reclaim three witcher medallions from a bounty hunter named Leo Bonhart. She is reunited later in the novel with Geralt, Yennefer, and we are able to read the next paragraph.

Bonhart’s medallion was taken out of her hands. The cat was tied around her neck, and she gave Geralt the Wolf. “I hope you know it’s just a symbol?” he said.

“Everything’s just a symbol.” She removed Swallow from its scabbard.

It’s worth explicitly noting that there’s more to this than, “Ciri has a cat medallion and the picture for the new Witcher game also looks like a cat medallion!” In The Witcher 3’s “good” ending — the one where Ciri becomes a witcher — your last main quest before tackling the DLC involves delivering Zireael, Ciri’s illustrious sword from the novels. Are you familiar with Zireael? What does this mean in Elder Speech? Swallow. (You can inscribe this into the sword if you want, or you can choose the Elder Speech for, “The flash that cuts through darkness, the light that breaks the night.” Regardless of the inscription, the sword itself is called Zireael.)

In the same way that this sword is quite literally a symbol for the beginning of Ciri’s life as a witcher, referencing one of the medallions she took from Bonhart in the new promo material feels like a deliberate choice. As she says herself, “Everything is a symbol” — but these two highly specific things are the only discernible symbols from the end of The Witcher 3 and the announcement of what the next Witcher will be It is. Ciri wears her cat-medallion proudly. The Witcher 3, too.

This is obviously just speculation, but it’s rational based on the information we’ve been given so far. Fans have been crying out for Ciri to become the series’ next protagonist ever since it was teased at the end of The Witcher 3Even those who have less faith in the universe will recognize that Geralt got the happy ending he deserved.

Who knows — maybe Ciri is the one who needs to race to find Geralt this time? He might be a little too cheerful after she visited his vineyard. Wine and bloodHe has drunk several glasses worth of Erveluce and accidentally falls into the trap laid by Wild Hunt experts. (This is obviously not going to happen, but it’s fun to think about.)

The cat medallion can have many meanings. This game could tell a tale about a new witcher at the School of the Cat. Perhaps the fact that the pendant is buried indicates that something important has happened. Nightmare of the WolfThe eerie collapse of Dyn Marv caravan (old seat was Stygga Castle). Maybe we’re miles off and it’s actually supposed to be a weird-looking dog inspired by Elden Ring’sMessaging system

Regardless of what it means, we’re getting a new Witcher game — the fact we’re able to speculate about what that might lead to with this much evidence for various thoughts and theories is exciting. But it really ought to be Ciri.