'The Witcher' Season 2 Episode 4: Geralt heads out for truth as Ciri creates monsters
The first three episodes of ‘The Witcher’ Season 2 have been extremely amazing and things are getting intense with each episode. While the first three episodes were all about Ciri (Freya Allen) getting trained to become a fighter, the fourth one gave a glimpse of her troubled past.
In the previous episode, we saw Geralt (Henry Cavill) training her to be someone like him. However, they make their way in the middle of the woods to find a Leshy. A few moments later, they do find a Leshy and Geralt was absolutely ready to fight him. However, something even more diabolical came from behind and absolutely decimated the Leshy. Geralt had never seen anything like it, but the monster was behind Ciri (Allan) and made a run for her. Geralt tried stopping him but he was outclassed by the monster.
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Ciri runs and hides behind a rock. When she felt that everything was over, the monster came from behind and attacked her. She tried saving herself but couldn’t. She was trapped and the monster was very close to killing her. However, Geralt comes at the right moment and kills the monster by separating the head from its body. The next day while training Ciri meets a woman. The lady was one of the sorceresses and treats Ciri’s wound on the face. Geralt comes from the back and recognizes her. It’s Triss Merigold, who’s making her way to Kaer Morhen.
She enters Kaer Morhen and is given the responsibility to teach Ciri about how she can protect herself by using magic. Geralt and Triss take a look at the head of the new monster and try finding out if that monster was made by a mage. She takes the sample and wraps it around her magical powers. Triss believes that if the sample starts glowing, it means it has been made by a human entity.
A few moments later, they check the sample and it’s not glowing but they find something unusual in it. They see that a component called stellacite is found in it and the same component was found in the Leshy that turned Eskel. Geralt believes that the monster came from the same place and that place is called Monolith. Ciri feels uncomfortable and Geralt realizes that. He asks Ciri to tell them everything about monoliths.
The princess of Cintra goes back into her past and says that she saw a monolith topple when she was taken away by the Black Knight. She was scared and screamed. That’s when the monolith cracked and fell. She reveals that she was the one who toppled it. Geralt and Triss couldn’t quite believe how it happened and that’s when Ciri admitted that she didn’t want to do it. The entire scenario means that the new monsters could have come from the monolith that toppled and Ciri might have been responsible for the new kind of monsters making their way into the world.
Meanwhile, this is not everything we learn about Ciri in the episode. During the end moments, Vesemir sees a bunch of new vegetation in the woods and immediately goes to Triss. He shows her a bunch of purple flowers and Triss recognizes them as
Feainnewedd. However, they only grow where Elder Blood has been spilled. He found these flowers on the training course, where Ciri has been training. Vesemir believes that Ciri has elder blood in her and legends say that more Witchers can be created from the Elder Blood. So, Ciri might be the key to making more witchers.
It is one of the exciting episodes of the series so far and gives a new interesting turn to the show.
