What could CD Projekt's codenames tell us about the new Witcher games?
Yesterday, fans of The Witcher got more than they could possibly have dreamed of. A CDPR investment presentation – that fans thought might contain the release date for The Witcher 3 on PS5 and Xbox Series X – instead revealed information about the next decade or so of Witcher titles, including a new The Witcher trilogy following on from The Witcher 4, and two spin-offs set somewhere as yet unknown in the franchise.
All of those games were only referred to by their codenames. The Witcher 4 and its subsequent trilogy are known as The Witcher Polaris, while The Witcher Sirius is a spin-off we already knew about, from the developer of 2016 survival game, The Flame in the Flood. Finally, The Witcher Canis Majoris is another, third-party title being developed by former CDPR devs. So what, if anything, can be derived about the future of The Witcher series by taking a closer look at the latest reveal's codenames?
Some of you may have noticed that all of the codenames revealed yesterday are the names of stars. Canis Majoris is a red supergiant, one of the largest and brightest stars in our night sky. Along with Sirius (better known as the Dog Star), it makes up part of the constellation Canis Major. The ancient Greeks believed that collection of stars was the mythical Laelaps, a hunting dog that never failed to capture its prey, until it was pitted against the Teumessian Fox, which could never be caught. This paradox so enraged Zeus that he eventually turned both animals to stone and cast them into the stars as constellations, where they would assist the mythical hunter Orion.
If there's one takeaway from those two codenames, it's their link to man's best friend. The Dog Star and the Great Dog (Canis Majoris' English
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