Warning: spoilers ahead for The Witcher season 3 volume 2.
Many questions have been raised by the conclusion of The Witcher Season 3 Volume 2.
Will Henry Cavill reprise his role as Geralt in Season 4? Who are the Rats with whom Ciri (Freya Allan) is presently working? And a burning question for many fans: who is Falka?
To answer the first question, if you’ve been following the story carefully, you’ll know that Henry is now being replaced by Liam Hemsworth, who is presently preparing to take on the main role and is “extremely enthusiastic.”
Now, as for Falka’s identity… Buckle up, for this character’s backstory is, to say the least, interesting.
Let’s start with how she was presented in the second part of Season 3.
During a big and violent fight at Aretuza, the wizard Stregobor (Lars Mikkelsen), whom Geralt and Yennefer (Anya Chalotra) earlier assumed was the mastermind of an evil scheme, defends the sorceresses against the elven army headed by queen Francesca (Mecia Simson).
Stregobor says to his enemies as he uses fire magic, which is outlawed by the Brotherhood in the setting of The Witcher, ‘Falka will be waiting for you.’
Stregobor had referenced Falka before; in season two, he conjured up a fiery Falka figure, performed by Scarlett Maltman.
Ciri begins to see apparitions of many individuals, including her mother, grandmother, and a strange woman she hasn’t seen before, in season three episode seven, when she is alone in a desert in Korath, battling to live in the heat and with a shortage of food and water.
The third lady is Falka (Hiftu Quasem), who describes her background to the princess and how they are similar.
‘I should have been queen, but when my father denied me my royal destiny, I decided to rally the common folk. And with their help, I took back what was rightfully mine, in the only way I knew would send an unforgettable message. Blood and fire,’ she tells Ciri.
Ciri confesses that when she heard stories about her, she was labelled as a ‘devil’ and a ‘cursed elf creature,’ therefore Falka claims she was bound to a stake and burnt alive.
She got her reputation as a wicked ‘devil’ by murdering her father, as well as her two half-brothers Heltmult and Denhard, as well as her father’s second wife.
Following the insurrection, she was sentenced to death by burning. In her last moments, she cursed everyone in the room, claiming that a kid bearing her blood would bring them all harm.
Falka tells Ciri that it was ‘easier’ to chop her ears to seem like pointed elf ears and become what she was ‘already accused of being’ in the end.
Falka was the daughter of Redania’s King Vridank and his first wife, Beatrix of Kovir, who mounted a revolt to seize her rightful crown as the monarch’s first-born child.
Later, while Ciri is trying to find a method to preserve the life of her unicorn friend Little Horse, Falka advises her to utilise fire magic despite the fact that it is forbidden and to cut all ties with Geralt, Yennefer, and Jaskier.
Despite appearing to be engulfed by the might of the flames, Ciri resists and declares that she has given up her abilities.
Ciri then instructs the criminal group the Rats to name her Falka, assuming a new rebellious persona as she travels out on her own without Geralt, Yennefer, or Jaskier to keep an eye out for her.
In other news, Geralt and Yennefer have learned through the grapevine that Ciri has been kidnapped and sent to Nilfgaard to reign with her father, Emperor Emhyr (Bart Edwards)… However, as viewers are aware, a phoney Ciri was crowned instead.
Yennefer has returned to her sorcerer sisters to plot a better future for the world, while a recently-recovered Geralt is on the road with Jaskier and their new comrade Milva (Meng’er Zhang), a great archer, in search of Ciri once more.
The Witcher is available to watch on Netflix.
