Season 2 of The Witcher is coming, and this is what we know about Geralt’s return, including the show’s release date.
Toss a coin to your Witcher, because The Witcher season 2 will be here before the end of the year. After the fate of the Iron Throne was decided in the Game of Thrones finale, we had mere months to wait for our next epic fantasy fix to arrive, in the form of Netflix’s hit adaptation of Andrzej Sapkowski’s bestselling novels. Although The Witcher season 2 has taken its time coming, the streaming giant has now confirmed that the new run of eight episodes will debut on December 17, a whole two years after its predecessor. As expected, movie Superman Henry Cavill returns as the eponymous monster-hunting Witcher, Geralt of Rivia, continuing his adventures across the vast world of the Continent. With the complex multiple timelines of the first season now aligned, The Witcher season 2 unites Geralt with orphaned princess Ciri (Freya Allan), and you can guarantee it won’t be too long before they cross paths with the show’s third viewpoint character, the mage known as Yennefer of Vengerberg (Anya Chalotra). We’ve been on an extensive fact-finding mission through Geralt’s world, to find out what’s in store in The Witcher season 2 – from release date and first trailer, to plot details, episode titles and new characters. With more Witchers, more magic, more double-crossing and more political intrigue on the menu, this sophomore year is set to be just as essential as the first… The Witcher season 2 will be released on December 17,2021, as revealed by Netflix during the WitcherCon virtual event in July 2021. The wait is almost over! Netflix has released the full two-minute teaser trailer for The Witcher season 2 in July 2021, as part of the WitcherCon event – check it out above. Seeing as much of the first season focused on Geralt’s efforts to fulfil the Law of Surprise binding him to Ciri, the young, orphaned heir/Lion Cub of Cintra, it’s no shock that this first The Witcher season 2 trailer picks things up with them. Now that Geralt has made contact with Ciri, he takes her under his wing, taking her to Kaer Morhen – the citadel where he learned his Witcher skills. Presumably he’s planning to train her in the ways of the Witcher, while she works out her place in the Continent after the deaths of her family and loss of her kingdom – she admits that “sometimes I feel so afraid, I feel like I could burn the whole world.” There’s also a brief sighting of the final member of The Witcher’s central triumvirate, Yennefer of Vengerberg, in the aftermath of season 1’s climactic Battle of Sodden Hill. She’s been found by Fringilla, the Nilfgaardian mage who was pivotal in the downfall of Cintra, who simply tells her: „Welcome back…“ Does this mean Yennefer will start The Witcher season 2 in Nilfgaardian custody? Surely Fringilla and Yennefer aren’t about to become friends… “We’re digging deeper into [Fringilla’s] past and how she ended up at Nilfgaard,” showrunner Lauren S Hissrich told Vulture. “Who she is as a person, and how she and Yennefer ended up on such different paths.“ An extra teaser video was shown during WitcherCon, but only gave a behind-the-scenes look at season 2: You can check out the Witcher stream below – the key info from the stream was the release date, and a few first glimpses of what’s to come next season. The episode titles for season 2 were revealed as part of WitcherCon. They are: The eighth and final episode’s title is apparently so secret we’ll have to wait to learn what it is. The episode titles offer up a few clues about The Witcher season 2. ‚A Grain of Truth‘ takes its name from a short story in Andrzej Sapkowki’s book The Last Wish, which features Nivellen, the character played by Game of Thrones’ Kristofer Hivju in The Witcher season 2. ‚Kaer Morhen‘ is the name of a fortress where Witchers are trained. ‚Redanian Intelligence‘ refers to Redania, a country on the Continent that possesses an exceptional spy network – Redanian Intelligence is also the name of a news site devoted to The Witcher. ‚Dear Friend‘ presumably refers to a letter Geralt wrote to Yennefer in the Witcher books. And ‚Voleth Meir‘ refers to a new character played by Ania Marson.
