What Happens Next To Ciri After The Witcher Season 2

Warning! Spoilers Ahead for The Witcher Book Series

Here’s what happens to Ciri after the events of The Witcher season 2, along with the rough direction of her narrative arc, as per The Witcher books. The success of the Netflix show is the result of a well-balanced hybrid approach, combining the rich, fantastical elements of Andrzej Sapkowski’s worldbuilding and the various embellishments in The Witcher games. In every medium of The Witcher storyline, Ciri, the sole princess of Cintra, possesses magical abilities due to the Elder Blood in her veins, allowing her access to various Spheres, or realms.

The penultimate episode of The Witcher season 2 ended with Ciri being possessed by Voleth Meir, a demon who feeds on pain and manipulates Yennefer for part of the season. Fortunately, Voleth Meir is expelled from Ciri’s body, but the arrival of The Wild Hunt—also known as the Wraiths of Mörhogg—further complicates Ciri’s destiny, as evidenced by the primary arc of the beloved game The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. While Ciri is backed by Geralt and the other Witchers, receiving training at Kaer Morhen, she blooms in ways that eclipse that of the typical Witcher, at least in the books.

In Time of Contempt, the second novel in The Witcher saga, Ciri undergoes a series of trials and tribulations, suffocated by the idea of an education at Aretuza, even getting into scrapes with Nilfgaardian bounty hunters. The true extent of Ciri’s power is explored in detail when she has an encounter with a unicorn, whom she names Little Horse, unlocking latent abilities that bring forth visions of herself as someone ravaging the continent in a mad thirst for revenge. Baptism of Fire chronicles Ciri settling into life with a party of outlaws known as the Rats, with whom she undertakes the alias Falka, based on her prophetic visions, while also killing on a regular basis, and becoming obsessed with the act of taking another’s life.

The seeming contentment of her life among the Rats is disrupted when they are brutally murdered by Leo Bonhart, a notorious bounty hunter. At this point, the fact that various parties want Ciri for their own covert ends—such as Skellen, Rience, and Bonhart—becomes painfully clear in the novels, painting Ciri as a figure with a perennial target on her back. After fighting off her pursuers, Ciri is teleported to the world of the Aen Elle elves, a tale she conveys to Sir Galahad, in The Lady of the Lake, the final installment in the book series.

There’s also the question of whether Ciri is explicitly a Witcher or not. She both is and isn’t, as her case is a truly unique one; although she definitely considers herself as one. While it is too soon to map whether Netflix’s The Witcheris going to follow the books too closely, it is possible that Ciri’s standard arc will be infused with more nuance and complex dynamics. The show might also choose to incorporate elements and possible endings from the games, adding a whole new dimension to Ciri’s character and her eventual fate within the ambit of the franchise.

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Apart from being a features writer and critic at ScreenRant, Debopriyaa is a news writer at /Film. She is also a contributor to High on Films & Fansided, and an editor at Digital Mafia Talkies. Her poetry has been published in a wide array of journals, such as Gideon Poetry, White Noise Magazine, and Literaria. Find her on Twitter @angelusatani.

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