The Witcher Season 3 may have chosen a major character in the source material, but there is some confusion

Netflix fans who can’t wait to get back to the political machinations and monsters of the mainland are in for a surprise, because The sorcerer The third season has already been shooting for several weeks. , which began in early April. Successful fantasy has made several major new castings in addition to apparently choosing an important character from the books of the author Andrzej Sapkowski, False Ciri, but there are this is a little confusion about it.

Who could play False Ciri in The Witcher and what’s the confusion?

According to Redanian intelligence , The sorcerer has now chosen Frances Pooley (Versailles, Bridgerton) as a character who was named Teryn for the third season of the drama. And that’s part of the confusion, because not only is False Ciri’s real name not Teryn, but there is no character named Teryn in Sapkowski. Wizard books at all.

Of course, it would follow that Teryn is really just an original character for The sorcerer, but there seem to be a lot of similarities between Pooley and Freya Allan, who plays the real Ciri on the show. The site notes that the two women are of the same height and age and favor each other enough to see how Pooley might look like Allan’s Ciri:

Additionally, fans have already been looking for a possible casting for False Ciri, as a call was launched several months ago asking a young woman to play “a college student who has been brainwashed into believing she is. someone”. just like False Ciri. And the character makes his first appearance in The time of contemptWhat will be main source of inspiration for The sorcerer Season 3 .

So why should the show use Teryn’s name for the character? As mentioned above, one problem is that the Fake Ciri of the books never reveals her real name, even when she is asked directly by a very important character. So if Pooley plays False Ciri, the writers decided that she would be the teenager’s real name, or at least the name she would choose to give people when she was asked.

Another point of interest is that The sorcerer He has already tapped the idea of ​​False Ciri with another actress. In episode 7 of the first season, Geralt finally returns to Cintra to claim his son by surprise, but Calanthe doesn’t like the idea of ​​him taking his niece, so he recruits a girl from the chance to take Ciri’s place. But, Geralt has doubts about the girl and when he sees the real Ciri dressed as a boy in the courtyard and playing with her friends, he knows they lied to him, he tells Calanthe and she puts him in jail.

This happens just before Cintra was fired, so it’s highly unlikely that the mystery girl used as False Ciri (played by Viola Prettejohn) survived, meaning this new cast may still be the False Ciri we’ve seen in the books.

We still don’t know when The sorcerer Season 3 is coming to Netflix, so it will take some time before we see Frances Pooley’s Teryn in action and determine if the character is actually acting as Ciri’s doppelganger on the show. Ciri may now be a qualified rude but he is still on the run from various parties with different interests afterwards The sorcerer finale of the second season so there are a number of people who may want to try picking someone else as the exiled princess when the action resumes next season.