One of the key concerns fans have with The Witcher 4 is how it will reconcile the different endings from the last game. Ciri either becomes a witcher, returns to Nilfgaard to prepare for her ascension to the throne, or 'dies'. You can't have all three be true.
Past Witcher games imported your choices like Dragon Age.
From everything we've seen so far, it looks like CDPR's answer to these vastly different branches is to simply choose a canon ending — Ciri becomes a witcher. It's hard to imagine a Witcher game centred on the politicking of an Empress, rather than, well, witcher-ing, so it makes sense that CDPR would go with the most popular of the three.
But one fan looked to the studio's other work for a better solution.
u/Micheo33 shared a mock-up of 'Ciri's Lifepath', based on the various origins from Cyberpunk 2077, which shaped not only V's backstory, but also dialogue options and certain quests throughout the game. Instead of Nomad, Streetkid, and Corpo, Ciri's options are:
Moribund simply means 'at the point of death', alluding to the 'bad' ending in which Ciri... well, dies. At least, that's how it looks. In reality, she...
