The Witcher: Blood Origin Ending Explained: The Prophecy About Ciri and The End Of The World?
The Witcher: Blood Origin is a new series that hit the Netflix catalog on Sunday, December 25. As its title indicates, it is the prequel to the famous production starring Henry Cavill and which is based on the work of Andrzej Sapkowski. Created by Lauren Schmidt, the fiction has the actors Michelle Yeoh, Sophia Brown, and Laurence O’Fuarain leading its cast and is set 1,200 years before Geralt of Rivia, in a world where the universes of monsters, men, and the elves… and the first sorcerer in history appears.
The Witcher: Blood Origin: Story Recap
Sapkowski’s writing and anyone who has read the books knows it well, exploits the technique of focal approaches to the narration: traveling between several points of interest, often limited to a few characters or a few events, the Polish author has developed a world in which reign the unsaid and in which many elements are left (not to say left out) to the imagination of the reader. Intentional or not, the lack of foresight or insight has always been the main problem of the works on the Strigo, capable both of making the protagonists fall in love with them and of suffocating the setting. In this, the CD Projekt RED video games have undoubtedly contributed to putting order among numerous ideas, adding and creating if necessary, according to their plot but rarely going out of focus.
This was possible because the videogame saga was able to count on Polish personalities, madly in love with the saga and used to a certain type of narration, but above all, because the entire CD Projekt narration is based on an entirely canonical reality to tell a hypothetical perspective about Geralt’s future – far beyond the plot of the books. On the other hand, the path outlined by Netflix immediately aroused several doubts about the narrative management of Lauren S. Hissrich and her associates, and not just because of the political dimension of the platform. The showrunner has always professed a deep love for the saga and has expressed a sincere desire to transpose it in the best way to embrace the audience of the small screen, made up of numerous variables meticulously arranged on a path full of dangers.
The initial approach, broadly convincing in this sense, then underwent a clear change that divided the audience in an attempt to capture as many spectators as possible. Now, amid criticism for a project that is too derivative concerning the source, the only reason for the existence of Blood Origin reveals the clear difference in terms of the various productions. Declan De Barra, the main mastermind behind Blood Origin together with Hissrich, has indeed created a prequel that responds to the needs of curious or less erudite spectators, but first of all, it has created a basis that can appease one’s frustration with an author who is not attentive to outlining the founding elements of his universe.
The constant tension between authors and fans on the subject of adaptations is undoubtedly one of the topics that dominated 2022 on the small screen, even when it came to building something new starting from already existing elements. The writers want to tell the stories fans have always imagined, but in their way. In the case of the origin of the universe of The Witcher, recounting the events that led to the Conjunction of the Spheres without any actual reference places De Barra and his colleagues solely responsible for the success or failure of the product.
The Witcher: Blood Origin Ending Explained: The Prophecy About Ciri and The End Of The World?
Towards the end of the series, Fjall becomes the first witch in history by being subjected to a ritual that would later be known as the Trial of Herbs. However, his transformation process does not go smoothly, as the monster’s blood gradually takes control of his mind, and he is unable to control his impulses. Fjall kills Uthrok and takes down Brother Death as well. Then, the rest of the warriors realize that they must kill him. Only Éile can calm him down and make him keep his humanity for a while until he is stabbed as an act of mercy.
Avallac’h And The Scene After The Credits
In the short sequence after the end credits, we discover that the brilliant wizard of Avallac’h palace has survived the conjunction of the spheres and is now furtively spying on a little girl intent on playing with her peers. The sequence is very familiar because it comes directly from the seventh episode of the first season of the mother series, The Witcher: the girl is none other than Ciri, disguised as a commoner to temporarily escape palace life. In the same position where Avallac’h now hides, Geralt had also hidden in the first season, intent on silently watching over the Surprised Child.
As we can easily see, not only Avallac’h has not aged a day, but he also wears the same clothes. Shortly before the showdown in the throne room was staged, moreover, it was the wizard himself who announced to Empress Merwyn that he had made a revolutionary discovery on the functioning of the monoliths: “If I’m right, not only will we be able to move between the worlds, but we will also be able to travel through time”. His evident interest in Ciri is linked to the enormous magical potential of the little girl, in whose veins flows the very powerful Old Blood.
Will Avallac’h, therefore, return to The Witcher 3? The post-credit scene seems to suggest that quite clearly. Further confirmation also comes from Sapkowski’s books and the third chapter of the video games: the elven wizard Avallac’h, moved by reasons that we will not reveal, meets Geralt and Ciri in the fourth and fifth books of the main cycle, and returns in the video game The Witcher: Wild Hunt. Once again, however, the Netflix adaptation deviates abruptly from the source material: here, in fact, Avallac’h does not come from the distant past through time travel, but from a parallel world, where the elves have taken over under the leadership of King Oberon.
Ithlinne’s Apocalyptic Prophecy
The young epileptic daughter of the innkeeper seen in the first and last episodes is called Ithlinne and has the gift of prophecy. As we know from the second season of The Witcher, the girl is destined to become the most important healer and prophetess in the history of the elven people. When everything seems to be over, Ithlinne grabs Éile’s arm, falls into a trance one last time, and utters a new prophecy: “The time of the spheres has come. Aen Seidhe is lost in the skies, adrift in time, always searching for the love lost and left behind. The Lark’s seed will bear the first note of a song that will end all time, and someone with her blood will sing the last”.
At the end of the prophecy, the long flashback represented by the entire miniseries stops. The setting returns to the present, and we discover that this is precisely the prophecy that Dandelion will have to report to his fellow adventurers. The “Aen Seidhe” mentioned by Ithlinne are the elves: after the recent space-time cataclysm, a part of their lineage is now “lost in the skies”, confined to a parallel world where, if things go as in the books, a new civilization will be born, which will take the name of Aen Elle. The elf lost in time, on the other hand, is the wizard Avallac’h.
The “seed of the Lark” is the son of Éile and Fjall, a child “with a unique blood, half bestial and half magical”: it is the legendary Ancient Blood, a rare genetic mutation which, with the passing of generations, will reach up to Ciri, a descendant of the two lovers. The young chosen one who travels alongside Geralt is destined to cause the apocalypse, or, in the language of the saga, the White Frost, which will put an end to everything.
The Conjunction Of The Spheres
Even the Witcher universe, as well as Marvel and DC comics, is a multiverse made up of infinite parallel dimensions. The cataclysm triggered by the destruction of the Xin’trea monolith is the legendary “junction of the spheres”, mentioned several times in books and video games but never explicitly told so far. With the Spatio-temporal accident caused by the fight without quarter against the wizard Balor, various parallel universes end up colliding and exchanging their inhabitants: this is how humans arrive on the Continent, while humans arrive from the “arid world”. monsters, which we see depicted for the first time on a village bulletin board.
The bulletin board, moreover, is perfectly similar to those that Geralt usually consults in video games to enter into new employment contracts. According to legend, the conjunction of the spheres is only the second cosmic intrusion in the history of the Continent: originally, the earth was inhabited only by dwarves and goblins, and the elves arrived in the same way as humans, albeit with many millennia in advance. Each time, the newcomers have forcibly subjugated their predecessors: it happened to the dwarves, defeated by the elves and marginalized to live underground, and in the future, it will also happen to the elves, as we well know from the first two seasons of The Witcher.
The Fate of Eredin
The ambitious and unscrupulous elf captain Eredin Bréacc Glas is the commander of the palace guards of the kingdom of Xin’trea: initially, in the service of king Alvitir, he chooses to betray him to propitiate the accession to the throne of the empress Merwyn, remaining however openly faithful only to the magician Balor, the true ringleader of the conspiracy. As the episodes go by, however, Eredin will instead ends up switching factions once again and swearing allegiance to the young empress, turning his back on Balor.
During the first expedition to another planet of the multiverse, the “arid world”, Balor will however manage to escape the grip of the Eredin guards after making a terrible human sacrifice. “I gave you everything you wanted, and you betrayed me anyway: wherever it is, I wish you to burn for eternity” the wizard will say, before throwing Eredin and his guards into a portal of Chaos that leads to another dimension. End of the story? Not. After passing through the portal, Eredin will transform into the legendary King of the Wild Hunt, and together with his fellow sufferers will begin to wander restlessly across the multiverse.
To acquire full dominion over the monoliths and the interdimensional portals, however, he too will have to try to get his hands on the young Ciri. At the end of the second season of The Witcher, he has already tried it for the first time, but he has every intention of trying again. Expressly inspired by the celestial procession of the dead from Norse mythology and the four horsemen of the Apocalypse of John, the Wild Hunt is one of the deadliest and most formidable entities in The Witcher universe, and Eredin is its supreme commander.
How Does the Conjunction of The Spheres Occur?
After these events, we witnessed the development of the Conjunction of the Spheres, a crucial mystical event in history. Zacaré and Syndril try to stop Balor, who had abused the power to travel through space-time. So, under a strong sense of responsibility, Syndril tries to channel her magic to destroy the monolith. However, this explosion tears apart time and space, causing the worlds to merge.
As a consequence, the first humans arrive in these lands, and chaos magic is introduced. The elves, who had wrested the continent from the dwarves long ago, would soon be supplanted by these newcomers. Later, we find out that Eredin is still alive, trapped in another plane of existence, where he sees what appears to be the skull helmet worn by Wild Hunt. It is also revealed that Brother Death managed to survive Fjall ‘s attack.
The Prophecy About the End Of The World
On the other hand, we learn that Éile is pregnant with Fjall ‘s child. In this way, Ithlinne shares a prophecy about the unborn child and warns of her role at the end of the world.
“The time of the Spheres is upon us, Aen Seid he lost in the skies. Drifting in time, always searching for love, lost and left behind. The lark’s seed will produce the first note of a song that will end all beats, and one of his blood will sing the last one,” he states.
In this sense, he hints that one of Éile ‘s descendants can cause the end of the world and everything seems to indicate that he is referring to Ciri, who is also an important part of this prophecy in Andrzej Sapkowski’s stories. The first season of the series “The Witcher: Blood Origin” ends with Dandelion returning to the battlefield we saw in the prologue.
The Witcher: Blood Origin Post-Credit Scene Explained?
In the post-credits scene at the end of the series, a sequence seen in the first episode of “The Witcher” is shown. Thus, we watch Ciri playing dice before looking at something in the distance. Well, now we know that she is Avallac’h. It is possible that this character knows Ithlinne ‘s prophecy and tries to prevent the end of the world, after having traveled in time to find the granddaughter of Queen Calanthe.
According to showrunner Lauren Schmidt, this was a gift to all fans of the franchise: “We learn, of course, that Avallac’h has been tracking Ciri her entire life, through these worlds, we thought it would be a nice nod to fans if we took this moment you all know from season one, where she turns and looks towards a door, and put Avallac’h there instead. And I think it’s just a great easter egg,” he told Digital Spy.
