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Witcher Fans Have A Perfect Way To Make Your Choices Canon, And It's All Thanks To Cyberpunk 2077

By 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:James Lucas

Published Jun 14, 2025

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The Witcher fans have a fun way for CDPR to follow on from all three endings instead of making one canon.
CPDR could recreate the Lifepath feature from Cyberpunk 2077, letting you choose Ciri's origin at the start of the game.
The three suggested are: Empress, Witcher, and Moribund.

One of the key concerns fans have with 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Witcher 4 is how it will reconcile 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the different endings from the las📖t game. Ciri either becomes a witcher, returns to Nilfgaard to prepare for her ascension to the thro💛ne, or 'dies'. You can't have all three be true.

Past Witcher games imported your choices like .

From everything we've seen so far, it looks like CDPR's answer to these va🦋stly different branches is to simply choose a canon ending — Ciri becomes a witcher. It's hard to imagine a Witcher game centred on the politicking of an Empress, rather than, well, witcher-ing, so it makes sense that CDPR would go with the most popular of the three.

But one fan ♍looked to the studio's🐲 other work for a better solution.

, based on the various origins from ,🐼 which shaped not only V's backstory, but also dialogue options and certain quests throughout the game. Instead of Nomad, Streetkid, and Corpo, Ciri's options are:

Empress
Witcher
Moribund

Moribund simply means 'at the point of death', alluding to the 'bad' ending in which Ciri... well, dies. At least, that's how it looks. In reality, she escaped and chose not to return to Geralt after he strained their relationship to its breaking point. You can just make out a tiny bird flying away from the tower in the final tapestry, vaguely resembling a swallow. And as you might know, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Ciri's name Z🅘ireae𓂃l means Swallow in elvish.

This theory was confirmed by CPDR to be the game's final secret. So, we know that Ciri survived all three endings, which means that an origin system like Cyberpunk 2077's could work. The issue is how she became aও wi🐟tcher in the Moribund and Empress paths.

How Can Ciri Be Empress And Witcher?

Ciri among a group of villagers in The Witcher 4.

In the 'bad' ending, it's possible that after narrowly avoiding death and fleeing from Geralt and Nilfgaard alike, another school allowed her to go tꦐhrough the trials and mutations to become a witcher.

Author and creator Andrzej Sapkowski said that he never wrote that wom🌜en couldn't go through the🐻 mutations.

The Empress ending takes a bit more finagling, but it could work. As u/Seraphem666 pointed out, in the Blood and Wine expansion, "she explains [that] she is beinꦗg groomed for the role," so it's possible that she just wasn't cut out to be the Nilfgaardian Empress and ended up becoming a witcher anyway. Others have suggested that she could've been overthrown in a coup, or that Emyr's political rival "blocked her from taking the throne" in the first place.

But as some commenters point out, even if CDPR found 😼a way to make the endings organically reach the same place, Cyberpunk 2077's beginnings were criticised for being too short, and didn't have nearly as much impact on the wider story as people expected. So, just how impactful a similar system would be in The Witcher 4 is dubious.