"girls can't be witchers" yeah but ciri did anyway in witcher 3. witcher 3 did the woke thing you're mad about. maybe you just suck at video games if you didn't get to that part
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Gamers, is Geraldo 3 woke? I never played it, too busy complaining about minorities online, but is there a based explanation for this? I'm literally crying and pissing and shitting right now, please help!!!
So what they do say is somewhat true. Because could survive what Geralt and other Witchers went through. In both the books and games Ciri did not partake in the Trial of the Grasses. So she's not a 'Witcher' in a traditional sense. Which is what I think some people are trying to say.
Being the devil's advocate, a lot of people are talking about what is established lore. Like why there was no female Witchers. The Trials were too brutal for them. So even I was surprised to see her downing a potion in the trailer. I would have liked more emphasis on things like her magic.
But we don't really know what the full story and the possibility of a new school, since already there was a HUGE decline of Witchers. So we'll just have to see where that goes and how they'll go about what was shown in the trailer.
lol, I wish I could say that it was, but the trick with the eyes makes it brow raising. Only the top percent of men, the physical aspect of their biology, is what allows them to survive. So if weak, they won't survive. And the trials may have been male designed because it focused on men.
I think people are worried about changing the lore, or bending the 'laws', so to speak to get what they're presenting to work. So I think if they don't change it but work on smartly developing or adding to it that will allow female witchers, then awesome!
Also female witchers could differ from a male counterpart like being more nimble! Or change to the mutagen stuff, but also the process that is super painful so not sure if Ciri would subject it. But it's gotta serve the story, and not be like... oooo lady witcher without explanation.
Lmao the only thing that makes Ciri not a “true” Witcher is she never had the mutations, but she’s been trained by Witchers and has supernatural abilities anyways
And none of that is even important, because Ciri is an awesome character and it makes complete sense to make a sequel about her
Sapkowski was woke before the term appeared, and it was in the 1990s when he started the whole damn thing.
Frankly I am stunned how realistic Ciri looks. I am from Poland and she does look like a woman from this region - minus the scars, armour and swords.
She was ceremoniously awarded the title of witcher. But she never went thru the trial of the grasses, because she would die if she did. Adults die in the trial, women die, actually most boys die but the ones who make it are always male. Biology, women cant be witchers
I just find it an interesting new thing, like, there's so many cool questions to it. "Can you be a witcher without undergoing the Trial?" or "Was women not being allowed to become witchers witcher tradition or was there science/magic they had to unfuck?". Like as a hook that's pretty cool.
doubt anyone'd ask to see your witchers license if you showed up to their village with the head of the ghoul that killed their uncle or whatever and asked who's supposed to be paying you
But she has the magical steroid cat eyes though I need to know how we got here this is absolutely critical to my enjoyment of a videogame that only exists in one prerendered trailer
It doesn't even make sense lore wise. Geralt chose Ciri as payment from duny to become a witcher regardless of their gender. Just because we only see male witchers in the series doesn't mean there can't be female ones. It's just the mortality rate for becoming a witcher is abysmal.
only read the first book but in witcher 3 there are some lines about how only boys are typically made witchers. but like there's also nothing in the lore that would prevent ciri from being one anyway. pretty sure a village being attacked by a monster will hire anyone who can kill it lmao
I really recommend reading all those books they’re so worth it. And they even mention this “issue” in the books, yeah never before there was a female Witcher, but there aren’t exactly any specific rules that forbid it.
So Geralt literally decides why the hell not and starts to teach Ciri to be a Witcher, that is in the third book (the first novel) and these moments are also showed in Witcher 3 as past memories.
Literally all those complain about Ciri, never actually read the books.
I got kicked from the official Discord for saying that people who had a problem with it were stupid & had never engaged seriously with the story.
I also called some of them gooners bc they were upset she'd aged and looked different as a result, but still,
Those dumbasses never read the actual books and have been fan of the series only because of their gooning since Witcher 2.
My only “grip” with Witcher 4 is how will they balance the gameplay, because lore-wise Ciri at that point would be OP as fuck, she would be the most powerful witcher ever.
My guess is that they're going to borrow from book lore and have this take place after the second Conjunction of the Spheres. They can use that to hand wave something about how magic is different now and her powers don't work the same.
I expect that the process of undertaking the Trial of the Grasses has dulled her ability to use her Elder Blood stuff. I do think that'll be an upgrade tree in the game, but likely be much less powerful
Also, she was quite strong in Witcher 3, but she was still quite vulnerable. And I thought she couldn't undergo the witcher mutations, so she would have had to come by those powers some other way, perhaps?
The thing is, in my opinion Ciri’s own powers are far more superior than witchers powers, so she doesn’t even need to go through the classic trials of mutation. It’s true, that in the end she is still just a human (with elven blood), so she’s vulnerable, but still in that universe she’s really OP.
Theres some peripheral Witcher material (tabletop game and I believe some comics) where the Cat school figured out a way to make women witchers. They could go that route. The games changed a lot of lore from the books.
They also, from my memory of the books, just didn't try it at a lot of schools. They were dosing her with the foundations of undergoing mutations in Blood of Elves because they didn't know what else to do with her
It was this thread that I learned of the ability and I think its awesome! I almost bought PC version because I heard there was a mod that allowed you to play her in 3.
Actually she was trained to be one in Kaer Morhen because the guys and their master did not know what else to do with a young girl. She was so pleased to learn how to properly use a sword and to fight.
It's not woke, it's not canon, it's in the books
She cant be a Witcher? Who cares! She can bend space and time! That and a good writer could come up with some rational to justify it so that she could be. No problema :)
i love how the witcher games pretty flagrantly break the lore of the books in favor of doing cool stuff all the time and yet letting you play as the coolest character is somehow too far for them lol
This implies any of these woke screeching morons who did get to that part would've actually read or listened to anything substantial. But then again they're the ones who refuse to touch grass despite being fully capable of doing so.
There never was anything about women not being able to be witchers both in games and in books. Moreover the author uses gender neutral words to describe kids who die during the ritual many times, Geralt himself says Ciri gender doesn't matter.
idk about the books but in witcher 3 i'm pretty sure they explicitly say only boys would be given the mutations to become witchers and if you get the ending where ciri becomes a witcher it's pretty much explicitly stated she's the only one
There is some non-book Witcher material where the Cat school started giving girls the trial and Ciri is wearing a Lynx medallion, the offshoot of the Cat school formed in W3. So the Lynx school might be allowing girls to do the trial by this point in the game.
In Blood of Elves, the first book. Generally the author is very progressive given a lot of his pro-women statements are from years ago in Poland + the entire witcher saga is about how racism simplified tribalism is bad.
It's fantasy anything can happen! I mean - Wedge Antilles thought there was no way you could hit a 2 meter target, even with a computer, until a man who used to bullseye womp rats with his T-16 back home showed him how to do the impossible.
geralt is the first witcher to go into retirement and ciri is the first teleporty time woman to be a witcher, firsts are cool. given the subject matter the series has dealt with i'm sure there'll be plenty of characters with their own reservations about her. conflict is good storytelling
it does suck for them that the series that's known for trying to tell more mature complex stories isn't just making a game about a guy that levels up so he can face a clear bad guy and maybe the bad guy wronged him in some way and was callous about it because he was evil
Right? Ciri, the First of her Kind. All sorts of adventures could come from that. Now the Wild Hunt want her even more, but not to kill her, to turn her to their side.
I have misread "witchers" as "witches," but considering that the word "witcher" is an English translation of the Slavic word "vedmak" (meaning "male witch"), my point stands.
i remember those morons actually bitching about that ending and calling it non-canon because "SJW propaganda" (remember the anti-SJW crusade from 2013-2017? I member)
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And none of that is even important, because Ciri is an awesome character and it makes complete sense to make a sequel about her
Frankly I am stunned how realistic Ciri looks. I am from Poland and she does look like a woman from this region - minus the scars, armour and swords.
Which is to say these men have probably never gotten the Ciri Witcher ending.
Also Ciri was raised by witchers and trained like witcher. Lack of extreme reflexes was taught to overcome by cunning. It paid off.
Literally all those complain about Ciri, never actually read the books.
I also called some of them gooners bc they were upset she'd aged and looked different as a result, but still,
My only “grip” with Witcher 4 is how will they balance the gameplay, because lore-wise Ciri at that point would be OP as fuck, she would be the most powerful witcher ever.
That's like buying a BB gun when you have a tank. No, something has to have happened for her to bother with Witcher mutations.
Also, she was quite strong in Witcher 3, but she was still quite vulnerable. And I thought she couldn't undergo the witcher mutations, so she would have had to come by those powers some other way, perhaps?
It's not woke, it's not canon, it's in the books
Ciri’s magic is such that it’d not be out of left field for her to just make whatever changes she needs to make to her biochemistry as a one off.
Seeing her all grown and badass makes me honestly emotional 😭 it will be fantastic
Yea they can’t go through the trial of grasses.
Difference is Ciri is a child of Elder blood. She can literally transport herself and others to different universes.
To say “it would kill her” is pretty stupid. Ciri was always the protagonist of the series.
They both are the series protagonist. Hell Geralt was dead before the first game. Which Ret-conned the books ending.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=360&v=8qkV46i5UbA&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2F
There are so many places they could take this and the chuds are hung up on gender. It's boring of them, and sad.