Ciri's a full witcher now, and everything else we learned from The Witcher 4 trailer
The Witcher 4's cinematic reveal trailer was an indulgent six-minute-long saga in which Ciri, the new protagonist of the series, went on a sidequest. The whole thing had the vibe of the Killing Monsters trailer for The Witcher 3, or that one quest where the villagers have been offering sacrifices to leshen.
It begins with someone getting into a bath, only this time it's not Tub Geralt. It's a young woman being prepared for a ritual while her father narrates about how he watched her grow up. That's intercut with footage of Ciri, a character we watched grow up, though we don't see her face. She's using the igni sign to light a fire—possibly burning some herbs to prepare a potion with. Ciri continues to prepare by sharpening a sword, one that looks like the silver version of Zireael seen in the ending of The Witcher 3 where Ciri follows in Geralt's footsteps.
As the young woman walks out into a crowd of her fellow villagers, one of them spots the distinctive paired swords of a witcher among them. He lays a hand on the witcher's shoulder, and as she turns we see Ciri's face for the first time. She's older than she was in The Witcher 3 (and doesn't sound like she's being voiced by Jo Wyatt any more), and has the pupils of a witcher. That means she's undergone the Trial of the Grasses, or at least a version of them, which previously only young boys were able to survive. Perhaps Ciri made it through them thanks to her Elder Blood?
Or maybe the School of the Lynx has their own formula, cooked up in the years between games. When Ciri arrives at the cave where our young lady's gone to be sacrificed, her witcher medallion vibrates, and it's a distinctive lynx like the one we saw in an early tease for The Witcher 4.
During the fight that follows, Ciri downs a Cat potion to be able to see in the dark (and to boost her crit chance by 5%, assuming she downloaded the 4.0 patch). Given that the poisonous potion doesn't kill her, that's more evidence she's undergone the Trial of
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