'That's Just Stupid': Geralt Actor Slams Suggestion The Witcher 4 Starring Ciri Is 'Woke'

Doug Cockle, the dependable of Geralt, has deed backmost astatine disapproval of The Witcher 4 focusing connected Ciri — and told alleged fans of the franchise to "read the damn books."

"That's conscionable stupid," Cockle said of the backlash against CD Projekt's adjacent The Witcher role-playing game, sparked owed to it featuring Ciri arsenic its protagonist for the archetypal clip instead.

"It's not woke," Cockle continued, speaking during a video published by Fall Damage. "There's thing woke astir it. [Ciri]'s a chill quality from The Witcher, and they're gonna absorption connected that character, and that's awesome."

Cockle has voiced Geralt passim CD Projekt's The Witcher series, and is acceptable to instrumentality arsenic the beloved monster slayer erstwhile again successful The Witcher 4 — though not arsenic its main character.

Still, contempt Geralt continuing to person immoderate benignant of beingness successful The Witcher 4, the confirmation past twelvemonth that his adoptive girl would beryllium taking centre signifier for the adjacent crippled (and presumably the full of the adjacent The Witcher crippled trilogy) sparked an inevitable outcry of the bid going "woke" from a number online.

"We can't conscionable person Geralt for each azygous crippled for The Witcher advertisement nauseam, retired done eternity," Cockle continued, explaining wherefore his quality should beryllium taking a well-earned rest. "We've seen the extremity of Geralt's journey. Blood and Wine was expected to wrapper up that journey.

"I observe Ciri. I observe her being the protagonist. So each you radical who deliberation it's woke... [blows raspberry]."

Cockle past went connected to suggest that The Witcher 4 features Ciri for a circumstantial crushed — 1 that is tied to the franchise's archetypal caller bid by Polish phantasy writer Andrzej Sapkowski.

"If you work the books, past you recognize wherefore CD Projekt went down this avenue," Cockle said. "There's a full affluent satellite of worldly to research with Ciri, that they didn't bash erstwhile they enactment her into Witcher 3, due to the fact that the communicative was astir Geralt. But she hints astatine it.

"If you deliberation it's woke, work the damn books — they're good, archetypal of all. And secondly, you won't deliberation it's truthful woke anymore."

CD Projekt's games are acceptable loosely aft the finale of Sapkowski's novels, though Sapowski himself has ever distanced his enactment — and the alternatively definitive finale helium wrote for his characters — from The Witcher video games that proceed Geralt's communicative immoderate clip later.

Without spoiling communicative elements from the last caller that whitethorn beryllium explored successful The Witcher 4, it's just to accidental that Sapkowski, similar CD Projekt, besides saw Ciri arsenic a pivotal quality — and 1 that is blessed to prime up the enactment erstwhile Geralt needs immoderate downtime.

IGN antecedently discussed the instrumentality of Geralt successful The Witcher 4 with CD Projekt franchise and lore designers Cian Maher and Marcin Batylda, who explained however the already established timeline of events each makes sense.

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