This makes much more sense after The Witcher 4 trailer...

[@Nagy.Patrik]

It was there on old gen too, they just made it more visible because it took like 8 years until xLetalis found it.

[@abrahamkresnik9726]

True. The dev said no one was able to find it, but XLestalis did. Now he has to come back for TW4.

[@dee3run]

@xLetalis deserves so much for everything he has done for the witcher community and the game itself. I hate how the devs seem to not give him proper "kudos" and forgetting about him even after such a devotion to the game

[@anearthian894]

Omg omg, i fked up the first time, i got this ending and i was like dead for the entire day...

[@dungcheeseMORK999]

Same, but thankfully I had an older save so I then got the empress ending.

[@ehsanmirsharifi25]

Post game depression is real with witcher3

[@Leafman]

@@dungcheeseMORK999 there was a guy an he was walking and saw a shi7 on the street. He looked at it and thought "looks like shi7", he smelled it and thought "smells like shi7", he licked it and thought "tastes like shi7. It's shi7. Good that I didn't step on it"

[@SeregaOrgan]

​@@dungcheeseMORK999stick with what you get

[@lukran2015]

Still bad ​@@dungcheeseMORK999

[@micha2563]

The order could be as follows: Ciri enters the tower and fights the White Frost (we don't know for how long, maybe time flows slower in that world), meanwhile Geralt kills the witch (maybe he thinks Ciri won't come back and wants to get the medallion back). It's winter, Ciri returns and tells Geralt that as an empress she can help others more and much easier. However, it turns out that the life of an empress is not that easy: intrigues, conspiracies, greedy and imperious Vorhis. She resigns. It's autumn, Ciri decides to meet Geralt again where they said goodbye in the White Orchard and chooses the life of a Witcher, and Geralt gives her the Sword as a gift.

[@macharstein4329]

i’m kinda hoping that there will be some kind of dialogue option to choose what kind of witcher 3 ending we got. Maybe Ciri hears about Geralt and the dialogue options are: 1. I don’t want to see him (Bad ending) 2. What?! Where is he? ( Good ending) 3. Haven’t seen him since nilfgaard (empress ending)

[@krzysztofczajka6752]

The empress ending will require a whole new story to write.

[@hamzaghattas4069]

I think they will do it like the witcher 3 when it asks you before you start if u want to choose what u did in witcher 2

[@bestkidsk9507]

,,good ending´´ what's bad about her becoming Empress you donut...

[@panzaraza77]

@@bestkidsk9507 Because she don't want to be empress

[@bestkidsk9507]

@@panzaraza77 She heard Emhyr out and chose the path herself nobody forced her, part of being an adult is doing stuff you don´t necessarily want to

[@ZerrikanianWitcher]

First ending Witcher Ciri gang 🗿

[@criacuervosproductions7115]

Always sad to see this scene, but I didn't know about the swallow. Thanks for your interesting videos!

[@orangesoda4535]

They might do something like Silent hill downpour; where the past isn't defined until you make a choice in the present.

[@blackhawkcz1895]

I really love that they MOST probably (they would be breaking a main witcher games tradition if they dont) did the witcher games ending thingy, meaning you may be abled to upload your witcher 3 save to change certain things in the story as with Letho in witcher 3 for example.

[@Cryosxify]

I thought you were simply asked questions at the beginning in vizima

[@nickbriggs8059]

No I doubt the activists make sure to bring saves over that make a difference. They sure tf did not in failguard

[@Henrique_cam]

From my understading all endings are canonical, but each takes part in different part of time. 1) Worst ending. Geralt thinks she dies. He goes after the Witches, kills them and thinks Ciri died. Eventually Ciri returns, they reunite, Geralt gives her the Medallion and train her. Then in a couple of months or years, she: 2) Witcher ending. Ciri became a Witcher and Geralt presented her the Zirael sword. After they spend some together, she accepts Morvran Voorhis and her father invitation to become the Empress. Then 3) Empress ending. After spending some years in the path with Geralt as a Witcher, she accepts her bigger role as empress and decides to go to Nilfgaard. We can basically say that all the three occurred in a 2-3 years time frame.

[@Rammu69]

only problem being geralt would never let her go trough the trial of grasses

[@criacuervosproductions7115]

@@Rammu69 I don't think Geralt's opinion would stop her. He didn't want her to enter the Tower either. Ciri has a thicker head than Geralt. Which is saying something ...

[@Sandower]

Exactly. Look at the time that has passed at the beginning of each game ending

[@ProGamer1115]

Nah that doesn't make sense, as in Blood and Wine, Ciri has different dialogue based on the ending (Witcher or Empress)

[@Bluemann023]

geralt dies in the worst ending

[@pawe1721]

Always got weirded out by the amount of people who directly believed the game when it said Ciri was dead. Like she was dead because Geralt wasn't a great parent? To an adult he already knew for years?

[@ulyssesocounter8488]

Yeah but what’s the meaning then? Ciri was so angry at Geralt that she led him to believe she had died, bringing him to extreme grief? Just because of a few choices in the span of weeks? All their journey together counts for nothing if Geralt doesn’t have a snow fight with her?

[@pawe1721]

@@ulyssesocounter8488 she didn't have anyone to come back to when Geralt turned out to be a bad parent figure/influence in her opinion.

[@user-wolf12]

This entire Witcher 3 game was both the main story and the two DLCs, each with three endings, and the theme of Witcher 4 was based on the ending where Ciri is saved and becomes a Witcher, not based on her death or becoming king.

[@scoutbr00]

This ending for me always meant that Ciri just... didn't return, not that she died. It's likely that she stopped the White Frost but didn't want to return to Geralt because he was a shit father figure (to get this ending). But Geralt doesn't have a way of knowing.

[@thecommentguy9380]

Well this leaves but one question left: How will she become witcher? The knowledge to create witchers is gone when Alzur and his successors died, the trial itself is guaranteed to kill her as it is. Unless she sells her soul to Gaunter O'Dimm, there's no chance for her to become witcher. That's not to mention it's something of a downgrade for her because save for Yrden and Quen, which i admit is pretty useful, the rest are just inferior to her space magic

[@ljp400]

nah so i cant remember the exact details but yennefer finds out how to make it, theres an option in game to either destroy it or keep it ig the canon choice is that they keep it

[@Antonqaz]

Nothing suggests that becoming a witcher would remove or weaken her existing powers, and simply the ability to drink potions is a massive buff. Yennefer relatively easily rediscovered the first half of the trial of grasses to cure Uma, so who's to say she or another mage wouldn't rediscover it in it's entirety. Especially if the conjunction at the end of the third game brought in a lot of new monster, there would suddenly be surge in demand for witchers, and therefore more likely for someone to try and make new ones.

[@jonatanwinkowski]

Why you pepole don't play games that you so confidently talking about?!

[@thecommentguy9380]

@jonatanwinkowski did you? Because if you did you would already know the route they're taking make no sense

[@terrellthaddies7867]

​​@@thecommentguy9380To each their own. We won't know until more information comes out

[@szoku8357]

Impressive to catch that my man! Good job!

[@fugofugo5135]

4:44 you couldn't have chosen a WORSE place to put an arrow at. I had to rewatch that moment for 5 times to understand why would you put an arrow that points to a dirt spot on a painting. Only after Watching further, I could see the picture fully and understand what the deal is. You could have used the arrow at 4:49 where one can CLEARLY see the picture and whats on it.

[@anearthian894]

I feel like they will let us start witcher 4 from our endings like there was this path in CP2077. And then join the path...they can do it, i know it seems hard to make it coherent but they have mastered writing.

[@anearthian894]

Oops! He mentioned it.

[@SeriousDragonify]

They mastered writing? Bud, writers left after 2016. CDPR doesnt have same people anymore. Mary Kenney wrote TW4. And Miles Morales story was awful and woke.

[@ilhamakbar5689]

I hope the current team are really Mastered the writing. Otherwise, it'll be a flop like the Netflix series.

[@jgg6932]

​@@SeriousDragonifymiles morales wasn't woke bruh this is coming from someone who didn't enjoy the game either

[@chrisalder9096]

@@SeriousDragonify Everythink you said is just false (I really hope it's just ignorance). First of all HALF of the writers and quest designers of W3 are still in CDPR. Mary Kenney has nothing to do with W4, because she is in Boston and is working on the next Cyberpunk not on the Witcher. And CDPR showed that they still can write great stories in Phantom Liberty (that released just one year ago). I hope that after this fact checking you will not be spreading these lies

[@nicolasbouchard6331]

Im glad to have ciri as the mc but kinda weird how she got witchers power now. Kinda feel unnecessary to make ciri go trough the shady process to mutate into a witcher instead of just using her. Inter-dimentional magics. The girl is already the most powerful character in the whole series, she doesn't need witcher mutagens to be a witcher since she was clearly able to do the job in witcher 3.

[@Wolcott]

I hope CDPR retains the option to simulate save, just like they did for Witcher 2. It would be interesting to see how Witcher 4 plays based on the decisions the player made in Witcher 3.

[@juanmrealii2638]

Good call, I had multiple playthroughs & never once noticed that. Talk about planning ahead.

[@sprytnychomik]

That ending would be a good start for the Falka arc, which I think could be one of W4-6 endings.

[@wildcat002]

i want to finish her with Ciri in witcher 4 and i hope that save imports will still work

[@junssnow6415]

my first and only ending so far..😅

[@mujexzilla]

Its an interesting if somewhat convoluted theory, but never forget Okham's razor.

[@lostmarimo]

i am so glad i got the witcher ending on my first playthrough lol this shit would have broke me

[@LoreleiSlayer]

Ciri witcher ending - plain and simple, she become a witcher. Ciri empress ending - Morvran Voorhis coup d'État (in lore, he's emperor after Emhyr, by coup d'État), and Ciri runs/is released by Morvran after promise, she will "disappear". Ciri don't come back - she is disappointed with Geralt and the others, so she went her own way. And about her mutation? Maybe the new medalion is from the school, where witchers perfected mutation processes, so she could take them, even through she isn't a child, nor a boy (for girls, standard witcher trials were nearly 100% lethal, only cat school had some better results, but still it was much more dangerous for females than for males).

[@danielepisano6418]

Friend, the fact that it is almost impossible for an adult to pass the herbal test is already denied by Avallac'h, when he is freed from Uma's body as I see it. It is also obvious that Ciri must go to another school to undergo the test. Vesemir the only one of the Wolf School who knew the secret part of the process is dead. (Sorry for any errors in the text, I used a translator 🙏😅).

[@karthikkumar6861]

Why would she be disappointed in Geralt in empress ending

[@Seeker7172]

This was my first ending, and it is surprisingly easy to get if you're not familiar with the game and its characters. I'm *really* looking forward to Witcher 4

[@jacobyin5320]

I was under the impression that she couldn't go through the trial of grasses, but also didn't need to as she had funky magic abilities.

[@krzysztofczajka6752]

People are theorising that she lost most of her powers in the tower

[@medomagharby2175]

The Canon ending according to the 10th anniversary of Witcher series is that Ciri becomes Witcher. Geralt lives in Corvo Bianco with every friend he could possibly save and probably Yen becomes his wife.

[@Tobbiys]

I hope that the canon will have a good ending. Gerald has taught Ciri everything, and he is living a peaceful old age with Jennifer in the vineyards of Corvo Bianco.

[@DomagojStivic]

how does this makes sense after witcher 4 release?

[@wanderergrim]

The Witcher 4 trailer is based off the Witcher ending not the Ciri might be dead ending. That is just well kind of obvious

[@theelement_c6684]

I think the point of the video is that even on the Ciri might be dead ending it can still lead to Ciri being alive which leads to her being a Witcher. Just like the witcher ending but longer process. At least that's what the video here is showcasing.

[@flyhighty]

Wasn’t this the ‘evil’ ending?

[@marcin7928]

If they allow starting from different paths, I don't think they will release all paths at the same time. More likely one path on the release date, and then adding additional paths as DLC

[@xdasoftonic6350]

No, it will be like Ciri is telling her story to someone in the starting of the game and then you choose the option, what happened in the past. Just like Geralt told about 'the death of the king from Witcher 2' to the person who was shaving his beard in the castle.

[@marcin7928]

@@xdasoftonic6350 Are you an active dev in this project that you are so confident about it? Ciris ending were so different from each other that you cannot really write a single story with certain differences.

[@xdasoftonic6350]

@@marcin7928 look man, it's just simple logic. We know for sure that Ciri has become a Witcher. From now on, it will be about her. We are witnessing about 7-10 years after witcher 3. So, with the different endings in the witcher 3 will be covered in these 7-10 years timeline from Witcher 3. Based on our decisions we may meet Geralt in the game. Just like some players met Letho in Witcher 3 from the Witcher 2 based on our memories we chose from the option. I didn't kill Letho in Witcher 2 so I met Letho after I had a conversation with someone in game. The player who chose the option that he killed Letho, he wouldn't meet him later in the game. We didn't need DLC to have a quest with him.

[@marcin7928]

@@xdasoftonic6350 Ok I see now the misunderstanding. I was referring to the ending where Ciri ends up an empress of Niflgard. That could be obviously a DLC, or a totally different game.

[@xdasoftonic6350]

@@marcin7928 yes, it can be totally a different game. But think as it is her destiny to become a Witcher, whichever path she chooses, she becomes a witcher. 😊

[@skullshotentertainment]

It would be awesome if you could load The Witcher 3 save in The Witcher 4 and based on the ending, get a different path at the beginning

[@mitchzz3891]

i’m still confused

[@Mareavo]

I mean this may make sense but if they want to make mutliple plotlines like you say I'm more curious about how Ciri can stop being an empress and become a witcher.

[@Anderson_Lopes]

So if we start 4 from this ending, it would be our canon that Geralt had that lack of perception and feelings for Ciri's happiness. She decides to stay away from him for some time, disapointed for having two terrible fathers, and comes back to forgive him. About the other awful ending, Ciri never wanted to become a ruler, less so beside that fake father who sees her as just an heir. I don't see why these endings should be pushed into canon. They are player's problem.

[@serkansonmez8215]

is there setting video?

[@vid5540]

My ciri got to be the witcher on my first playthrough after i finished it then 2 days later we got witcher 4 trailer 🎉

[@AustinRoyGreen]

I like to think all these endings happened in a certain order; Ciri disappears and Geralt thinks she died, hunting down the witch. Then Ciri appears and decides to go to the emperor, seeing if that way of helping people is better, but ultimately decides to quit the court and returns to Geralt, where he gifts her the sword. A fun way to make all the endings canon and connected⚔️🕊️

[@karimosway]

Thats not the game-canon Ending

[@SandyCheeks1896]

We don’t know that

[@MEGA7155]

@@SandyCheeks1896it’s quite literally the bad ending 😂

[@Rammu69]

i actually thing this is THE cannon ending if u think about it. Geralt would never let ciri go trough the trial of grasses... so ciri survived the white frost in the tower and came back to find out geralt dead? and as a homage made herself a witcher?

[@SeregaOrgan]

​@@MEGA7155you playing witcher series, not mickey mouse. This universe all about darkness, unfairness and sorrow. Geralt literally dies in the books, god damn it. Only a child will look through guides to choose "happy" ending. You make me cringe, child.

[@pedrogomes3556]

​@@SeregaOrgan Still, that's the worst ending.

[@george173greg]

xLetalis suggested in one of his videos that it is possible that all three endings of The Witcher 3 are actually one big ending, the three stages of which follow each other at different time intervals. And the player only sees one part of this ending depending on the choices made during the game. Many things in the game indicate that this could be true. Of course, we will never know, or certainly not before the release of The Witcher 4.

[@Sandower]

Look at the time which passed at the very beginning of every ending in The Witcher 3. EVERY ending is canon. Every ending shows different time after the plot of the main game.

[@justsomeguy747]

I think it’s possible that if Geralt died, Ciri’s personality will be somewhat different and more guilt-ridden. CD Projekt are known for these kind of details. Or she managed to retrieve him, but I don’t think their relationship will be the same again because Ciri pretty much broke Geralt’s heart when he thought she died, which appears to get him killed.

[@gorkembulut]

Seeing this makes me really happy because I was going through the comments section in the cinamatic asking questions about the endings of The Witcher 3, talking about how it doesn't makes sense since she could die in the game and such. The endings of The Witcher 3 were a big deal for many. Those and former decisions might be the reason I play The Witcher 4. Like I really want to see what happens when Ciri becomes the Empress or escapes the tower, etc. My point is I hope they don't go overlooked.

[@Anderson_Lopes]

I noticed there's a problem in the sound of the last cutscene. Thought it was a bug from my game or some mod.

[@petemisc4291]

No, you have the wrong ending, it’s the one where Geralt tells Ciri’S father that Ciri is gone but she is alive and Geralt himself gives her a custom made silver sword and they both go to fight some low level monsters.

[@ss_hat]

GF recently completed it and I watched her play the ending. I never got this ending myself but it was cool to see it! At the very end I said you got the "bad" ending but after seeing how it played out, it seemed totally realistic given the circumstances (Ciri steps up after been treated like a child the whole game) and sure, Ciri disappears and Geralt gets depressed, but it definitely sets the next game up better tbh.

[@DESTY-N7]

I think we gonna play geralt some time in the game and after ciri... Like witcher 3 where sometime you play ciri in story

[@Daddy_eeNo]

Not necesarrly paths, but previous save choices to set up future events and dialogues. For example in w3 it could make Letho dead or alive. What if that conversation would be before any mention of Geralt to set up the relation

[@LyllianaofMirrah]

that's what i thought when they trying to make a world state according to your choices in the previous games

[@eleethtahgra7182]

No. The issue isnt that shes taking the mantle of a Witcher. The issue is that she become a Witcher. A mutant. The trailer show same pattern with two Witcher 3 trailers. This is eliminating the previous Witcher Lore.

[@Jarmen__Kell]

Wait .... when does this happen? I don't remember that encounter.

[@m7md_sadiq]

its one of the endings where ciri and geralt dies

[@majid_alsaidi]

TBH, this is the best ending

[@ulyssesocounter8488]

… Nah, I’m just going to assume that the Witcher ending is canon and disregard the others as “What ifs”.

[@Zoombeanie132]

Good catch, I never noticed!

[@DakkarFezboul]

Still not explaining ending with her as a ruler of Nilfgaard

[@4K_HDR_GAMING]

but Ciri is not a witcher. she never did the trial of the grasses in the first place. she can do lot of magic and time space bending shit but her body will never handle a proper witcher potion. it will kill her. yet the trailer shows she taking a potion. someone explain that please.

[@romanNood1es]

Is Geralt supposed to die in this scene? It seems like he gave up.

[@kissgergo1477]

btw i dont why no one talking about the hooded figure on the house when he get back his silver sword from the corpse around 3:17

[@GoyaCG]

Because it isn't. It's either a ghoul or an alghoul.

[@kissgergo1477]

@@GoyaCG ah okay but still the model is so dark i thought its a person lmao

[@witcherErland]

1:33 ....

[@obscurus6855]

I had this end too... i mothered ciri to much i guess.

[@gustavodutra8578]

What ? That trailer has nothing to do with this ending.

[@DavidRevoy]

It sounds like a far stretch: I mean, the silhouette looks to me more like a siren or a flying creature from the game. Swallow's tail often is split in two parts, or two curvy set of feather if an artist want to make it obvious it is a swallow. You can see how CDPR represents it as a symbol on walls of many quests (from the top of my head, the one with Keira Metz in the underground old elf ruins). So while your theory is appealing and somehow plausible, and thank you for making a video to underline this detail btw, I don't see in it a "on purpose" CDPR move, but rather a happy accident. I wish dev could confirm honnestly (for just the fun of knowing it).

[@moonknightish]

The asset was made more visible on purpose. I doubt they'd do that if it was just a siren

[@DavidRevoy]

@@moonknightish Good point too.

[@Randorr]

You have to be absolutely evil to get this ending.

[@TheMrGiannisgr]

Let’s gooooooooooooooooo❤

[@AnnThrax-u9x]

Honestly I'm not thrilled about playing as Ciri. I always found her character really annoying.

[@jgoldian47]

why is this so sad lol

[@jeanoh5623]

they should've started a new witcher off the books instead, trailer was so corny IMO, witcher 3 still the best

[@DellyTrey]

And what debunks this whole theory is that in The Witcher 4 trailer, Ciri has the sword Geralt bought for her in the good ending.

[@rafegraves1453]

And what debunks that hole theory is 1: you don’t know why. 2: you don’t know for certain that it is because it looks different, the blades are completely different. 3: it’s a cinematic trailer and you can’t take the sword in that trailer as the one you’ll have.

[@samuelleask1132]

Wow

[@melody1096]

Witcher 4 doesn’t look good as they have Ciri as main character and she can’t be a Witcher as only boys can go through the trials

[@MB-oq9px]

omg SHUT UP😒😒😒 it's almost like you DON'T WANNA see Ciri be a Witcher.

[@temperedglass1130]

No one cares about the new crap game and your theories

[@MEGA7155]

This is the bad ending though, there is a specific ending where Ciri becomes a Witcher In this one she leaves the dimension because Geralt was mean to her

[@SeregaOrgan]

"mean to her" now that downgrades everything developers was trying to show you. Consider stop explaining things, if being "mean to her" is truly the reason you stand by

[@MEGA7155]

@ To get this ending you need to not go to mourn with her, her friend and accepting money from her father once you find her Now I agree the writers are not the best but they did a pretty good job to showcase this Maybe replay the games with your eyes and ears open this time so you don’t waste my time with your non sense comments

[@SeregaOrgan]

@@MEGA7155 if i call your mother a beach, i would be mean to her. If i don't call her an uber after night staying, im just not being carring

[@SeLLeks]

I mean, it's in the books anyways.

[@bombingbarrett4813]

what is?

[@anearthian894]

If the plotline is complex enough, they can join empress ending as well....for eg. Another conjunction. Its gonna be perfect..🥹

[@anonymousninja7658]

how bout the Empress ciri ending?

[@artem8193]

yeah lol I got that one so I am curious about it.

[@terrellthaddies7867]

​​@@artem8193 The Witcher 4 game director states that no ending in The Witcher 3 contradicts events in The Witcher 4. "The one complication is probably the idea that there is an ending in which Ciri can die in The Witcher 3," explains Maher. Thankfully that ending, which is one of three different fates for Ciri and the outcome of several hidden choices made throughout the game, isn't quite as clear cut as it may seem. "There are hints in that ending that highlight the fact that she probably does not die," says Maher. And so regardless of the events you personally witnessed at the end of your own Witcher 3 playthrough, the sequel will not "break any canon or even offend any canon."

[@sillylittlesheepjax6009]

empress ending she will just run away , if u have ciri visit you in blood n wine ending she gives you big hints what happening in nilfgaard

[@SandyCheeks1896]

Pretty easy. They will write a reason she chooses to or must become a Witcher.

[@artem8193]

@@sillylittlesheepjax6009 True, just watched a video about it.