CD Projekt Red's newly released teaser image suggests that the upcoming Witcher game could be focusing on a new Witcher school not yet seen in the franchise, called the Lynx School. While the teaser image does not reveal much, it shows a new kind of Witcher medallion, which has been confirmed by CDPR as a Lynx medallion following speculation by fans. The Lynx School is a completely new addition to the lore of The Witcher, meaning there is little that is currently known about it.
Since the announcement of a new game, fans of The Witcher franchise have been readily debating what this upcoming new saga could entail based on this teased medallion. A popular theory is that the new Witchergame will abandon Geralt as the protagonist as it has been confirmed it will not be titled The Witcher 4. There had also been speculation that the medallion may have been of a different animal, such as a wolf, but the aforementioned confirmation by CDPR intimates that the new game will have a focus on the School of the Lynx.
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The new Witcher game will likely leave Geralt and his School of the Wolf behind as it progresses with the Lynx School which, at present, only exists in fan-made literature. The Witcher Fanon wiki's own lore states that the Lynx School is an off-shoot of the School of the Cat, reformed by Geralt's friend Lambert and his sorceress-lover, Kiera Metz, some years after the events of The Witcher 3. Since the lynx-like shape of the new medallion has been confirmed, it seems that the new Witcher saga will indeed focus upon this new school not yet explored within Witcher canon media. However, this fanon material is highly unlikely to inform CDPR's approach in
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