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The Witcher 4’s main character won’t be Geralt, but will feature him in the game

CDPR has reasserted that The Witcher 4‘s main character won’t be Geralt.

“We felt that we owed Geralt a proper goodbye, and decided to part ways with a boom,” CD Projekt Red Senior Writer Jakub Szamałek told IGN back in April of 2015.

Szamalek added, “I think good stories must have an ending. You cannot extend them indefinitely, and we felt that Geralt has had such an amazing adventure, and his saga is already so long and complex that this seemed like a good point to think about an appropriate finale for the story.”

Despite the fact that The Witcher 4‘s main character won’t be Geralt, the legendary witcher of the School of the Wolf will feature in the game in a supporting role, according to recent comments made by Geralt’s voice actor Doug Cockle.

The Witcher 4 has been announced. I can’t say anything about it,” Cockle said in a recent video interview with Fall Damage. “What we know is that Geralt will be part of the game; we just don’t know how much, and the game won’t focus on Geralt. So it’s not about him this time. We don’t know who it’s about. I’m excited to find out. I want to know!”

Cockle added, “I have not seen any script yet — I mean, I couldn’t tell you if I did. This is the thing, so I could be lying through my teeth. But I’m not. Or am I?”

Though there isn’t much known about The Witcher 4 at this point, speculation points towards the adopted daughter of Geralt and Yennefer, Ciri, as the new main character in The Witcher 4. The game is also internally nicknamed Polaris at this point in time and will run on Unreal Engine 5, as opposed to CDPR’s RED engine. CDPR has stated in press releases that The Witcher 4 will be “the beginning of a new saga” and that “[they] aim to release two more Witcher games after Polaris, creating a new AAA RPG trilogy.”

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Are you surprised that The Witcher 4’s main character won’t be Geralt, but will feature him in the game? Or did you figure that Geralt is too much of a mainstay in the series to not at least make an appearance? Let us know in the comments.

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