The Witcher 4: 'School of the Lynx' fan fiction might reveal what Ciri did next

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Broad-stroke details about The Witcher 4 narrative might be revealed by an obscure piece of fan-fiction.

Yesterday, CD Projekt Red announced that it had begun development on The Witcher 4. The reveal came accompanied by an image of a witcher medallion half-buried in the snow. The distinctly feline logo - visibly different from Geralt's iconic wolf medallion - sparked fan theories suggesting that the new game would focus around Ciri. In the books, Geralt's adopted daughter collects a School of the Cat medallion from the corpse of bounty hunter Leo Bonhart.

Years later, the games draw from that moment too, establishing what the Cat School medallion looks like both on Ciri's clothes and in her gameplay segments in The Witcher 3, next to her health bar. There, the medallion features bared fangs, pronounced whiskers, and flattened ears - exactly what you might expect to see from a real cat spoiling for a fight. 

The medallion in yesterday's announcement, however, looks nothing like that. The creature's mouth is shut, its 'jowls' pointing downwards while its whiskers are engraved into the surface of the metal. Even more apparent are the ears, pointing upwards with visible tufts. This animal isn't a domestic cat, but a combination of the four species of lynx that call Europe and North America home.

The thing is, there isn't a School of the Lynx in the Witcher universe canon. Aside from Geralt's Wolf School in Kaer Morhen, witchers were trained at the Viper, Manticore, Bear, Griffin, and Crane schools, as well as Ciri's adopted, semi-nomadic School of the Cat. In fact, the only apparent reference to a Lynx school that existed before yesterday's announcement stems from the fan-fiction pages of an unofficial Witcher wiki.

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