A week after the airing of The Witcher 4's cinematic reveal trailer at this year's Game Awards, the discourse rages on. Although the majority of the fan base is delighted to have Ciri helming The Witcher 4 and perhaps the entirety of the series' next trilogy, there are also her detractors. While most of these individuals are arguing in bad faith about culture war nonsense, there are also people making the salient point that Ciri is too powerful to be a protagonist.
Ciri is a descendant of Lara Dorren, designating her as a child of the elder blood. This means that Ciri can harness the power of elder magic, the control over space and time that she exhibits in The Witcher 3. Ciri, like her mother Pavetta, is also a Source. These are people with a natural ability for magic.
As we observed in the trailer, Ciri's eyes are noticeably more cat-like. CDPR has confirmed that Ciri has undergone and completed the Trial of the Grasses. This is the most excruciating of the witcher trials—apprentices are immobilised and continuously injected with virus cultures and other mutagens. Subjects often suffer temporary bouts of madness during the two-week ordeal, and few...
