If you watched the finale ofThe Witcher’ssecond season , you got a good look at what will be season three ’s new villains — the Wild Hunt , a grouping of seven spectral rider on haggard horses who travel through the sky and are deadset ( punning obviously intended ) on capturing Princess Ciri and trick - granting Elder blood . Now , showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich has explained how The Witcher add them to life — and why the Wild Hunt has come to the show , even though they barely seem inAndrzej Sapkowski ’s original novels .
As for the why , the answer is partially because they ’re the major antagonists of CD Projekt Red ’s vastly pop TV game The Witcher : Wild Hunt . Given that the critically herald game is how most of the Western world first became fans of The Witcher , leading to both book sales and the live - action adaptation , Hissrich knew that those fans would expect the Wild Hunt to appear on the TV series . But they ’re also an of import part of Ciri ’s character development , as Hissrich explain in the video about the villains :
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It ’s interesting that Hissrich tell they ’re “ like folklore ” in the world of The Witcher , because they ’re also folklore in the existent humanity as well , particularly among Northern European cultures , including Sapkowski ’s native Poland . Like their fictional counterparts , the Wild Hunt were a group of ghostly , supernatural beings who were often characterized as depend on through the sky , snatch people to conjoin their host , and portending warfare , infestation , and other tragedies . In some place they were thought of as the drained , and others as sprite .
To say how much The Witcher ’s Wild Hunt does or does not adhere to these legends would be an unnecessary spoiler , but serve it to say they have a lot more going on than Hissrich is currently letting on . Whether those closed book will be let on in the prequel seriesBlood Originor The Witcher season three remains to be project , but either way , the hunt club has begun .
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