The Witcher 3 News

I've been kind of bummed out about The Witcher 3 and the pushed back release date (in case you haven't heard, the game is going to be released in May rather than February).  I'm willing to let it slide if I keep seeing the amazing images of the game that are being released.  The world looks absolutely beautiful.  One really interesting piece of news is that they have added in another playable character in the form of Ciri and she looks pretty awesome.

Ciri, the lion cub of Cintra.

Now, if you haven't read The Witcher novels you probably have no idea who this character is.  I have only read a couple, but Ciri has been a prominent figure.  In the novels Ciri is rescued by Geralt after she is found hiding in an extremely dangerous forested area populated by killer forest dryads.  Turns out that Ciri is somewhat promised to Geralt and is also a princess from Cintra.  Ciri ends up in the hands of several other individuals but for some reason always ends up crossing paths with Geralt.  Eventually he winds up taking her to Kaer Morhen and starts training her as a witcher.  Ciri doesn't undergo the mutations required to become a full witcher and Triss Merigold detects some latent magical abilities hidden in her.  Eventually Triss decides that Ciri needs to work on developing her magical skills and takes her to a temple where she starts training with Yennefer of Vengerberg (another important Witcher character from the novels who is very minimally mentioned in the game).  Unfortunately that's as far as I got in the series, but Ciri seems fated to play an important role in Geralt's life.

The comments about this new character model were somewhat humorous as there were many complaints that Ciri is lacking something that most female Witcher characters have in abundance--cleavage.  I like the character model and her lack of unbelievable cleavage (the first time Triss Merigold appeared in the first Witcher game I had to roll my eyes at her bouncy boobs).  She looks like a Witcher--somewhat battered, but hardened--and I am looking forward to learning more about her story.

She's got the witcher scars going