In The Witcher lore, one of many extra recognizable occasions for each informal and diehard followers of the sequence is the legendary “Wild Hunt” storyline. It was, in spite of everything, the prevailing topic of the favored Witcher recreation The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Now showrunner Lauren Hissrich has offered a way of the way it performs into the most recent season of the present.
It appeared like on the finish of season 2 we had been going to go immediately into the meat of the Wild Hunt storyline, however Hissrich lately advised EW this received’t be the case, and that the notorious supernatural riders that make up the hunt will stay an ominous menace that looms over every thing.
“I think a couple of things are gonna happen right now. We set up the Wild Hunt for Ciri in the middle of season 2 as her thinking, ‘I don’t quite understand what this is. I don’t understand why they’re in this dreamscape that I’m having.’ And then, obviously, at the very end, she visits the dark elves’ sphere and she realizes these people are after me.”
This clearly will give the storyline a bit of extra room to breathe and never pressure it down the trail the place Ciri and Geralt must face this ever-present existential menace. There’s additionally the chance to discover the Hunt by itself, particularly with the introduction final season of Deathless Mother Voleth Meir, who feeds on others’ despair.
Meir is barely one of many Hunt, and it is smart that introducing extra of them will solely make an eventual showdown that rather more significant.
“When we were talking about the pressure on Ciri and what she is experiencing from all of these people that seem to want her, what’s great is she has a run-in with the Wild Hunt so it becomes much more palpable to her and much scarier. One of the things that I love in the books that [author Andrzej] Sapkowski did beautifully is he teases the Wild Hunt for so long. They pop up, then they go away for a while. So we are definitely sticking to that school.”
Geralt additionally isn’t essentially utterly aware of the menace simply but, so there’s the chance within the present to let that occur organically, Hissrich stated.
“We all know that, eventually, Geralt is going to learn a little bit more about the Wild Hunt, as will Ciri, but right now it stays this ever-looming threat to her. It sort of goes between her fingers. She can’t quite catch it and figure it out yet.”
The Witcher season 3 premieres someday in the summertime.
