The Witcher 3 brought Geralt of Rivia’s story to a fitting conclusion in the Blood & Wine DLC. Now that the game is celebrating its 10th anniversary this month, the developers behind Witcher 3 have confirmed that they always intended Geralt’s adoptive daughter, Ciri, to take the lead in The Witcher 4.
In the new issue of PC Gamer (via GamesRadar), The Witcher 3 devs stated, “It was pretty early on we realized that [Blood & Wine] is where it ends, and also pretty early on, we knew that we wanted to work with Ciri later on. Even like 2014, it was already an idea floating around the studio that she’s next. In Witcher 3, Geralt is just helping out… he is there for her. So it was pretty clear we want her as the next… main character.”
Geralt voice actor Doug Cockle recently defended the choice to put Ciri in the lead and denounced the idea that doing so was “woke.”
