re: The Witcher 4 Reveal Trailer

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"Can a woman become a witcher"

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In the books, Ciri is called a Witcher by Geralt.

She is not a real Witcher, as she didn't go through the trial of grasses. But I doubt she gives a shite.

Only people who want her to really give a shite, are male feminists on the interwebs. It all reeks of "there can be no boys clubs or male spaces. If you want one, you are a chud/incel/misogynist/{insert preferred gender-based insult}"

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Not that there’s anything wrong with that

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It is what made her character so relatable, before she found out what she could really do.

Just saw this.

Oof.

In everyone’s defense, Sap’s always been very clear that he wrote stories about people and stuck some scaffolding around as set dressing; he wasn’t intentionally building a world. If you pushed too hard in any direction, you’ll knock over the backdrop. I doubt he even remembers the finer point of the lore at this point, in either direction

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Yeah, it was never stated in the books. People like Roaad made it up and then tried to convince others it was and said you were wrong for stating otherwise despite never being able to provide anything from the text to back it up.

Sapkowski couldve been here posting and telling him he was wrong and he wouldve had none of it. He was convinced he was right because he "knew the books". Guess he didn't know them as well as he thought.

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The 3rd game had them do the trial potion to an elf to bring him back to his original form, and the dlc gave Geralt a gas chamber to alter his DNA, so having Ciri undergo the transformation isn't any further from the lore than what the games already did. They just really need to land the execution and story on why she did.

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I’ve mentioned before that I did a lot of groundwork before playing TW3. I read all of the books, then played TW1 and TW2. With all of that knowledge going in, TW3 was an incredible experience for me, and I remember reading some jackass on Reddit say that TW3 was more fan fiction than canon, and I remember being annoyed as shite by that take.

Then a couple of years later, I read the books again.

And yeah, the games are vastly more fan fiction than canon

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Only a few more months until the new book releases.

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Well frick me sideways; I didn’t even know this was on the way

That's hilarious. People on both sides are fighting fiercely for this


I do think it's been established that it's never explicitly stated one way or the other, Sapkowski hasn't come out and argued either side, and that the game lore is a separate thing from the books. I remember Tim Cain discussing Fallout lore, and even through he felt it was the responsible thing to at least respect old lore, he said it's out of his hands now since he doesn't own Fallout anymore, and the lore will be whatever they make it from now on (he's been a fan of what Bethesda has done with the games, just FYI).

Plus, this is a fantasy world, we're not arguing hard science. Unless it's an idiotic Star Wars "somehow Palpatine returned" explanation, it's easy enough to believe that either changes were made or more things learned to change how things work in this universe.



ETA I will say if someone was trying to fabricate a comment from Sabkowski to argue for women witchers, I feel they would have come up with something more definitive than "I don't know, I don't recall ever saying that.....who knows"

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Plus, this is a fantasy world, we're not arguing hard science. Unless it's an idiotic Star Wars "somehow Palpatine returned" explanation, it's easy enough to believe that either changes were made or more things learned to change how things work in this universe.

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The books didnt even explore females attempting the trial, and we only explored one Witcher school out of 3 in the books. It cant be a retcon if it is never established.

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He never explicitly states it, because it is made clear from the context

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Are you a woman? If a man wants to make something clear they state it. They dont just drop hints and assume everyone will figure out exactly what they mean from a sea of tidbits.