Having sparred with enough straw dolls and run through the Kaedweni Ninja Warrior course enough for a lifetime, she’s ready to go all the way and become a witcher, which will give her the tools to seek revenge while also forging an identity that isn’t tied to her royal lineage or her confusing and terrifying powers.Ĭonveniently enough, her eagerness to become a witcher aligns with the dreams of Vesemir, who wants to use her Elder blood to make new batches of the mutagens that can turn children into witchers. At Kaer Morhen, Ciri copes with her grief and rage by throwing herself into her training. Now that the princess of a fallen kingdom is on her own, she’s deciding how much of that royal inheritance she wants to embrace and how much she wants to try to bury. By the end of the episode, Istredd figures out that Calanthe knew something about what Ciri could really do: magic that could bring about the end of the world.īut Ciri’s birthright is only half of her story. Yennefer quickly manages to track them down and save Jaskier, because come on, The Witcher’s not going to keep the bard out of commission for long.)ĭespite all those lasting reminders of the power she once held, Calanthe’s real legacy is her granddaughter - which is part of why she was so reluctant to let Geralt claim her, despite the fatal consequences of breaking the Law of Surprise. (For the record, this assassin’s name is Rience, and he’s the one who abducted Jaskier at the end of the previous episode.
To reach the toppled monolith, Geralt and Istredd travel to a place Calanthe strictly forbade anyone from walking, confident that they can handle any Nilfgaardian troops they meet.Īnd when a mysterious villain decides to sic a magic-wielding assassin on Geralt, they know exactly where to find the most dangerous man: in a dimeritium prison cell, where Calanthe left him to rot a decade earlier because he did something to piss her off. Dijkstra suggests Nilfgaard’s hold on Cintra might be weak enough for King Vizimir to take it - a gamble he openly acknowledges they could never have made if Calanthe were still alive. Now that Calanthe is truly gone, the rest of the Continent is figuring out what the world looks like without her. And when the unthinkable happened and Cintra fell, Calanthe chose to leap from a tower to her death before she’d surrender and allow Nilfgaard to decide her fate. Later, when Nilfgaard surprised everyone by launching a direct attack on Cintra, Calanthe herself led the soldiers that met them in the field outside the city. On the evening of her daughter’s engagement party, Calanthe swaggered into the ballroom wearing armor, covered in dirt and blood from a raiding party. In life, Ciri’s maternal grandmother was so respected and feared that none of the northern leaders, including Calanthe herself, thought she could be toppled. Over a season and a half, The Witcher has introduced a sometimes dizzying number of characters, but none have loomed larger than Queen Calanthe.
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