Geralt Seriously Needs to Protect Ciri From the Wild Hunt in 'The Witcher' Season 3

Dec. 22 2021, Published 3:26 p.m. ET

Spoiler alert: This article comprises spoilers for Season 2 of The Witcher.

It turns out like everybody on the continent desires Princess Ciri (Freya Allen) for their very own nefarious reasons in Season 2 of The Witcher. It seems Ciri possesses Elder blood, which supplies her the extraordinarily rare skill to open portals to other worlds.

In the Season 2 finale Geralt (Henry Cavill), Ciri, and Yennefer (Anya Chalotra) come throughout a group of mysterious, shadowy horsemen in every other global tinged with red. "Child of Elder blood!" one in all the horsemen whispers menacingly. "You belong with us." The horsemen advance upon our heroic trio, and Ciri temporarily portals them again to their own size ahead of the horsemen can catch her.

Why does the Wild Hunt want Ciri?

When Ciri, Yennefer, and Geralt are safely again in their very own world, Ciri asks Geralt if the horsemen have been the "Wraiths of Mörhogg." Geralt says yes and notes that they're often known as the Wild Hunt.

We don't be told that much more about the Wild Hunt beyond that in Season 2. However, The Witcher's showrunner, Lauren Schmidt Hissrich, agreed with IGN when the outlet requested her if the Wild Hunt used to be The Witcher's model of Thanos.

Lauren stated, "What I love, and this is how it's set up in the books too, is that the Wild Hunt is a ‘portent of doom.' They're always just mentioned when war is coming, or a battle is on the horizon.

"And so they have this air of evil thriller round them. What we're going to start doing [in the display] is starting to perceive the place they got here from and what they want."

Lauren also mentioned that they'd dig deeper into the characters so they weren't just "skeletal bad guys."

While they aren't explored much beyond the aforementioned Season 2 finale moment, we can refer to The Witcher books and video games for more clues about the Wild Hunt. They're the primary antagonists of the video game The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. According to the official Wikipedia synopsis for the game, players control Geralt of Rivia, who is ordered by Here's the truth behind the Wild Hunt.

According to a Polygon report, the Wild Hunt are not just spooky ghost riders of doom. They're actually elves called the Aen Elle and they live in a different world that has never been conquered by humanity. The Wild Hunt do aim to steal humans, but not to get them to join their ranks. Rather, they try to steal humans to bring them back to their world as slaves.

So basically, Ciri needs to be protected from the Wild Hunt at all costs. We're assuming we'll see more of the Wild Hunt in The Witcher Season 3. The question is, will Geralt and Yennefer have the ability to keep Ciri secure from their clutches?

In the meantime, you'll circulate all of The Witcher Season 2 on Netflix.

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