Summary
- The Witcher 4 was revealed at The Game Awards this week, confirming that Ciri will be the game’s main protagonist.
- We didn’t learn much about the story though, as the trailer appeared to show Ciri deep into her career as a Witcher.
- Thankfully, director Sebastian Kalemba has explained that The Witcher 4 will be taking us on “the journey” of Ciri becoming a Witcher.
The Witcher 4 was shown off at The Game Awards earlier this week, as CD Projekt Red brought along with them a fancy CG trailer that confirmed rumors that Ciri would be the game’s main protagonist. While the trailer was cool and pretty lengthy, it didn’t give us many concrete details about the game or what we can expect to experience whenever we get our hands on it.
Thankfully, The Witcher 4 director Sebastian Kalemba was featured in a video that was released after the trailer, breaking down each segment while also sharing some little tidbits about the game overall. It’s in this video that we found out that the poor village girl that was sacrificed in the trailer can actually be saved in the game, but we also got an idea as to what the main bulk of The Witcher 4 will entail.
The Witcher 4 Will Have Fans Experience Ciri’s Career As A Witcher
We can see from the trailer that Ciri is clearly older – which we can determine via her new voice actor – meaning there’s been a time skip of some sorts. It appears to showcase Ciri well into her career as a Witcher, but Kalemba has explained that The Witcher 4 will take players on the “journey” that Ciri takes to become a Witcher, implying we’ll be there from the start.
“When it comes to the happiness, the moments that she was really happy about her life, it was in Kaer Morhen, among the other Witchers. For good and for bad, she wants to become a Witcher. In the word “become”, there is a journey, and I want people to experience this journey.”
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“What… What is this place? Is this the afterlife?”
That makes quite a bit of sense, as there are clearly some gaps in time between the end of The Witcher 3 and this first trailer for The Witcher 4. For starters, she has Witcher mutations, which she definitely doesn’t have at the end of The Witcher 3. That must mean she undergoes the Trial of Grasses at some point, and it would be rather surprising to see an event as big as that just left out of the game entirely.
We also see that she has a Lynx medallion, meaning that she’s part of a Witcher school. Again, that would be an extremely odd thing to leave out, so it’s clear that we’re going to get to experience Ciri’s start as a Witcher. Until then, all we can do is pray that the game doesn’t take too long, though CD Projekt Red did recently claim that it will attempt to have marketing cycles less than two years long for its new games. See you all in 2026.
The Witcher IV is a single-player, open-world RPG from CD PROJEKT RED. At the start of a new saga, players take on the role of Ciri, a professional monster slayer, and embark on a journey through a brutal dark-fantasy world. Powered by Unreal Engine 5, it aims to be the most immersive and ambitious open-world Witcher game to date.