The Witcher
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What isThe Witcherwithout its original witcher?
This episode offers one convincing answer: a show about Ciri.
She is parched, delirious, and apparently hundreds of miles away from anything even resembling civilization.
(Oh, and a unicorn.
Well get to that later.)
Pavetta, conveniently enough, represents Ciris past.
This is, in all likelihood, Ciris brain grappling with her own feelings of guilt and inadequacy.
(Yes, theres a real millennial-versus-boomer dynamic to this whole exchange.)
But Ciris encounters with her third visitor are both more interesting and more complicated to parse.
Well, a possible one.
You want to change the system, Princess Cirilla?
Burn it to the ground, she counsels.
She suggests using fire magic which youll probably recall Yennefer using in theseason-one finalewith dire consequences to do it.
Its in this moment that Ciri has a choice to make.
But it also features Yennefer chained and Geralt drawn and quartered.
A future in which Ciri fully realizes her power also means death for everyone else.
Its not until the end of the episode that we cut away from the Korath desert.
But while Geralt can barely move, he is coherent enough to ask after Ciri.
On that front, Jaskier has only bad news.
Entire villages were razed in the hunt for the lost princess, who has apparently been found.
Emhyr var Emreis has even issued a celebratory decree announcing that Ciri is on her way to Nilfgaard.
What can you say?
In Geralts case, not much.
Add Jaskier to the list of characters now referring to the Geralt-Yennefer-Ciri triumvirate as his family.
