Symbolism behind white hair?

[IvanLeTerrible]

I notice that many characters in the witcher game have white hair, like Geralt, Cirilla, that cleavage witch... I didnt read the books but is there any symbolism behind this white hair thingy? Is it releated to magic or something?

[FloydSneed1844]

Well Geralt's strange hair color is because of the mutations that messed up his pigments, i'm pretty sure Ciri just has that hair color and is it Kiera you mean, because i'm sure she's just a normal blonde color, I doubt there is any symbolism attached it was just the way Andrej wrote the characters, and the white wolf makes a lot of sense when he has white hair

[IvanLeTerrible]

Nah.. Keira has white hair too, there must be something behind it.

[FloydSneed1844]

She doesn't though, it's blonde, maybe she has a few c0m stains in it i don't know

[IvanLeTerrible]

Here, take a look:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=741215288

[FloydSneed1844]

It is whitish, but it's never described as white and even if it is white there still isn't any symbolism behind it , she's a sorceress she can look however she wants

[IvanLeTerrible]

Originally posted by BuzzardBee:

Originally posted by IvanLeTerrible:

Nah.. Keira has white hair too, there must be something behind it.

She's just blonde and there's nothing behind it. Ciri's hair color is genetic. Both her mother and grandmother had ashen hair as well. The devs just chose to make it whiter than necessary. They messed up Triss' hair as well. She's not supposed to be a redhead. Her hair color in the books is chestnut. They even changed her eye color. Green in the games, as opposed to blue in the books.

Keira is supposed to be a blonde. The devs chose to give her ashen hair instead. Why? WTF knows. Why'd they decide to go all psychedelic with Blood and Wine? One of their staff decide to start moonlighting as a drug dealer and gave his colleagues special rates while they were coding the game? It's anybody's guess.

But there's no deep hidden meaning, no conspiracy at work here. Just some very unimaginative and creatively-challenged programmers at work.

Hey man, calm down. I was just wondering why the white hair thingy. I didnt read the books, so I dont know what is different from the books and the games.

[Minamir]

For the symbolic part, it's often brought up by franchise fans that Ciri's ashen hair is like a mix between Geralt's white and Yennefer's black hair, symbolising their peculiar, family-like bond.

[TommyEV]

Summary:
-Keira is blonde
-Ciri is "ashen haired", althought it seems almost white
-Geralt has white hair because he underwent more mutations than the rest of witchers.

BuzzardBee explained it perfectly

[FloydSneed1844]

Originally posted by BuzzardBee:

Originally posted by IvanLeTerrible:

Nah.. Keira has white hair too, there must be something behind it.

She's just blonde and there's nothing behind it. Ciri's hair color is genetic. Both her mother and grandmother had ashen hair as well. The devs just chose to make it whiter than necessary. They messed up Triss' hair as well. She's not supposed to be a redhead. Her hair color in the books is chestnut. They even changed her eye color. Green in the games, as opposed to blue in the books.

Keira is supposed to be a blonde. The devs chose to give her ashen hair instead. Why? WTF knows. Why'd they decide to go all psychedelic with Blood and Wine? One of their staff decide to start moonlighting as a drug dealer and gave his colleagues special rates while they were coding the game? It's anybody's guess.

But there's no deep hidden meaning, no conspiracy at work here. Just some very unimaginative and creatively-challenged programmers at work.

Dude stop hating, OP got his answer. Now move on

[Aazo5]

Originally posted by IvanLeTerrible:

Here, take a look:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=741215288

That looks blonde to me...

[FloydSneed1844]

Originally posted by BuzzardBee:

Originally posted by Smoke A Weed:

Dude stop hating, OP got his answer. Now move on

Oh it's you again. Run out of weed?

Ehhh; see I was almost proud of you, in your first post you answered the question, simple and polite... and then you got triggered or whatever... but I guess the reason why you are here is because you ran out of ♥♥♥♥♥♥ multiplayer FPS games to play huh?

[WolfEisberg]

Ciri does have ashen hair in the game, but it is hard to keep it looking like that in all the different lighting.

http://www.miastogier.pl/baza/Encyklopedia/gry/News/01.05.2015/nws_wexs.jpg

[GubaLord]

The mutations (mostly the trial of herbs) made Geralt's hair white.
Ciri's hair not supposed to be white. It's just the developers' mistake. It should be grey (mouse grey regarding to the books) as all women's in her bloodline.

[Crom]

There is nothing special about it. No symbolism, they are not speial race. As there are people with black hair or braun hair, so there are also people with grey hair...

Geralt got white hair because Trial of Grass.

Thats all...

[FloydSneed1844]

Originally posted by BuzzardBee:

Originally posted by Sadman :):

Ehhh; see I was almost proud of you, in your first post you answered the question, simple and polite... and then you got triggered or whatever... but I guess the reason why you are here is because you ran out of ♥♥♥♥♥♥ multiplayer FPS games to play huh?

Try harder, my friend. Better people than you have managed to get a rise out of me for their own amusment. You're just failing miserably at drawing some attention for yourself.

A year... Yet I am the one trying to get attention... Okay, buddy!