When Netflix stated at Tudum last year that a third season of The Witcher was in the works, there was some optimism that Henry Cavill’s Geralt of Rivia would be back on our screens slaying demons in time for the next Christmas season. Unfortunately, that will not be the case, and there will be a bit of a delay, although not a very lengthy one.
While no new footage from The Witcher’s third season was unveiled at this year’s Tudum, Cavill and co-stars Anya Chalotra and Freya Allan made short cameos to offer some teaser art and announce that the series will return in 2023.
Taken at face value, the teaser graphic, which contains the wolf, swallow, and obsidian star emblems associated with Geralt, Ciri, and Yennefir in Netflix’s version of The Witcher, doesn’t reveal much. The way Geralt’s wolf medallion — a powerful magical instrument — is shattered in the artwork, however, might be a reference to how Geralt’s original medallion is destroyed in The Tower of the Swallow, the fourth book in Andrzej Sapkowski’s Witcher Saga.
Sapkowski’s books, Netflix’s series, and CD Projekt Red’s video games are all quite distinct monsters. However, it wouldn’t be strange to see a significant scene from the source material become one of The Witcher’s main season 3 narrative elements when it returns next summer.
