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Fear2288

Jun 10, 2015 @ 8:32pm

So....Ciri? Where's She Been?

Just wondering where Ciri came from. I played both the first and second game and I'm a little lost on how this girl can be Geralt's adopted daughter who he's been keeping his ear out for since she went missing.

Why are we only hearing about Ciri for the first time in the 3rd game? Is she in the books? I only read The Last Wish (b/c it was the only one in English at the time). Did I miss something in the previous two games?

Or was this a little bit of retconn business that they explain away with "but remember - Geralt had amnesia for a while and didn't regain his full memory until the end of W2"?

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WolfEisberg Jun 10, 2015 @ 8:36pm

Originally posted by Fear2288:
Just wondering where Ciri came from. I played both the first and second game and I'm a little lost on how this girl can be Geralt's adopted daughter who he's been keeping his ear out for since she went missing.

Why are we only hearing about Ciri for the first time in the 3rd game? Is she in the books? I only read The Last Wish (b/c it was the only one in English at the time). Did I miss something in the previous two games?

Or was this a little bit of retconn business that they explain away with "but remember - Geralt had amnesia for a while and didn't regain his full memory until the end of W2"?

People who read the books have told me that she ended up on our earth hanging out in France sometime in the past.

Lock

Jun 10, 2015 @ 8:36pm

Don't you remember? (pun intended), Geralt had amnesia the past 2 games and didn't remember anything about Yennefer, The Wild Hunt, and Ciri. It's only at the end of The Witcher 2 when his memories came back and he started to piece everything together. It's how the first game started and the second game ended.

Fear2288

Jun 10, 2015 @ 8:40pm

Originally posted by Lockmort:
Don't you remember? (pun intended), Geralt had amnesia the past 2 games and didn't remember anything about Yennefer, The Wild Hunt, and Ciri. It's only at the end of The Witcher 2 when his memories came back and he started to piece everything together. It's how the first game started and the second game ended.

Ok but here's the issue with that...while Geralt might've had amnesia everyone else surely didn't. Why had Triss never mentioned her? Why had the other witchers in the beginning of the first game never say anything? Heck, it seems like every major friendly character Geralts runs into in W3 knows who Ciri is already...are we to believe that they just never once mentioned her during his bout of forgetfulness?

Big Boom Boom has The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Jun 10, 2015 @ 8:40pm

Originally posted by eisberg:
Originally posted by Fear2288:
Just wondering where Ciri came from. I played both the first and second game and I'm a little lost on how this girl can be Geralt's adopted daughter who he's been keeping his ear out for since she went missing.

Why are we only hearing about Ciri for the first time in the 3rd game? Is she in the books? I only read The Last Wish (b/c it was the only one in English at the time). Did I miss something in the previous two games?

Or was this a little bit of retconn business that they explain away with "but remember - Geralt had amnesia for a while and didn't regain his full memory until the end of W2"?

People who read the books have told me that she ended up on our earth hanging out in France sometime in the past.

Not really, she ended up in a world from Arthurian Legend and hit it off with Sir Galahad, that wasn't France and wasn't our world.

And nope she wasn't Lady of the Lake, she had a chat with Nimue the Lady of the Lake (probably hit it off with her as well since Ciri is bisexual).

That part of the book was probably the author melt down and didn't want to write anything, since Geralt and Yen live happily ever after in Avalon along with their dead friends.

Last edited by Big Boom Boom; Jun 10, 2015 @ 8:41pm

MrFrengLitch has The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Jun 10, 2015 @ 8:52pm

It's impossible to really track where she went, but she mostly travelled between worlds running away from the Wild Hunt.

Big Boom Boom has The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Jun 10, 2015 @ 8:55pm

Originally posted by Fear2288:
Originally posted by Lockmort:
Don't you remember? (pun intended), Geralt had amnesia the past 2 games and didn't remember anything about Yennefer, The Wild Hunt, and Ciri. It's only at the end of The Witcher 2 when his memories came back and he started to piece everything together. It's how the first game started and the second game ended.
Ok but here's the issue with that...while Geralt might've had amnesia everyone else surely didn't. Why had Triss never mentioned her? Why had the other witchers in the beginning of the first game never say anything? Heck, it seems like every major friendly character Geralts runs into in W3 knows who Ciri is already...are we to believe that they just never once mentioned her during his bout of forgetfulness?

If I remember correctly in W1 everyone (who was present when Geralt died) told Geralt that Ciri brought him and Yen away (as that was the book's end) and that was the last they saw him.

Imperialist has The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Jun 10, 2015 @ 9:02pm

Originally posted by Fear2288:
Originally posted by Lockmort:
Don't you remember? (pun intended), Geralt had amnesia the past 2 games and didn't remember anything about Yennefer, The Wild Hunt, and Ciri. It's only at the end of The Witcher 2 when his memories came back and he started to piece everything together. It's how the first game started and the second game ended.
Ok but here's the issue with that...while Geralt might've had amnesia everyone else surely didn't. Why had Triss never mentioned her? Why had the other witchers in the beginning of the first game never say anything? Heck, it seems like every major friendly character Geralts runs into in W3 knows who Ciri is already...are we to believe that they just never once mentioned her during his bout of forgetfulness?

I think this may have gone over some people's heads, but as nice as Triss seems, she absolutely decieved Geralt and intentionally kept information about, say, Yennefer from him. She probably didnt want to divulge information of Ciri to him either. Plus she probably didnt even know her whereabouts.

As for the other witchers...who knows. They were probably happier that Geralt was alive, then crap hit the fan and Geralt went after Salamandra and the Professor.

Last edited by Imperialist; Jun 10, 2015 @ 9:03pm

Planeforger Jun 10, 2015 @ 9:19pm

To answer the OP's question, Ciri is a major character in the book series, but barely gets mentioned in The Witcher 1 and 2.

Originally posted by Imperialist:
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I think this may have gone over some people's heads, but as nice as Triss seems, she absolutely decieved Geralt and intentionally kept information about, say, Yennefer from him. She probably didnt want to divulge information of Ciri to him either. Plus she probably didnt even know her whereabouts..

Exactly. In The Witcher 1, Triss kept encouragung Geralt to form a new identity and new relationships...which was basically just her shamelessly trying to keep Geralt for herself.

David Sarif Mar 14, 2017 @ 4:29pm

Originally posted by Big Boom Boom:
Originally posted by eisberg:

People who read the books have told me that she ended up on our earth hanging out in France sometime in the past.

Not really, she ended up in a world from Arthurian Legend and hit it off with Sir Galahad, that wasn't France and wasn't our world.

Sorry for unearthing this oh so old thread, but I came across this discussion while researching infos about the time Geralt rode with the Wild Hunt, and I wanted to correct you : Ciri does travel to our world at some point, and she lands in a french village where she is fed in an inn before traveling again. She also travels in a world where she sees an asphalt road, and it is mentioned in TW3 - so perhaps we could say this part is half-canon - that she told Geralt about skyscrapers and cars. The part about france is in the books. It is also said that a plague-infested rat accidentally travels from another world (ours ?) and lands in a ship called "Catriona", this is where the name of the disease comes from, and Ciri brought the plague from another world (again, I think it's our world during the Great Plague) to the world the Witcher takes place in.