Poll: Who Would You Like to See as the Protagonist for "The Witcher 4"?

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Poll: Who Would You Like to See as the Protagonist for The Witcher 4?


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"staying in Kaer Morhen" doesn't mean "living there forever". He would still go out on the Path, but come back during the Winter. If you don't convince him to, he'll say that he's never coming back, period, due to the sadness that the old fortress brings him.

I may have missed something, but isn't this what he says if told to stay ?

Geralt: Come on. It's the only home we've ever had. Stay.
Eskel: No, Geralt. Place has been dying a while. Last nail in the coffin today. Time we accepted that.

And this is what he says otherwise:

Geralt: I get you.
Eskel: Try my luck in Lormark. There's always work where there's war. After that, we'll see.
Geralt: Till next time.
Eskel: See you, Wolf.

In any case, ignoring this particular choice would not be a major issue, he could easily change his mind either way, or end up having to leave for other reasons. From the conversation it looks like he always leaves, but it does not exclude the possibility that he may return occasionally later.
 
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I may have missed something, but isn't this what he says if told to stay ?



And this is what he says otherwise:



In any case, ignoring this particular choice would not be a major issue, he could easily change his mind either way, or end up having to leave for other reasons. From the conversation it looks like he always leaves, but it does not exclude the possibility that he may return occasionally later.

Huh...it looks like you're right. My bad. Nice catch.
 
I do not remember if Triss actually say something (in other occasions) about Eskel's aura, but in 'Blood of Elves' book is described only her reaction to Eskel's touch.

''It was Eskel’s behaviour which was most unlikely; he got up, approached the enchantress, bent down low, took her hand and kissed it respectfully. She swiftly withdrew her hand. Not so as to demonstrate her anger and annoyance but to break the pleasant, piercing vibration triggered by the witcher’s touch. Eskel emanated powerfully. More powerfully than Geralt.
“Triss,” he said, rubbing the hide-ous scar on his cheek with embarrassment, “help us. We ask you. Help us, Triss.”


This was the meeting which I was referring too. It seems I was wrong. I read the books a while back and perhaps interpreted it that way. Thanks
 
IMO the best choice would be a new predefined witcher. The timeline could be set before the events of the books or maybe after the games, but that doesn't really matter.
I like the idea of Vesemir as the protagonist but on the other hand that wouldn't be very interesting since we know how how his story ended.
Eskel is very similar to Geralt as a character and Lambert.. well Lambert doesn't like being a witcher :p
 
IMO the best choice would be a new predefined witcher. The timeline could be set before the events of the books or maybe after the games, but that doesn't really matter.
I like the idea of Vesemir as the protagonist but on the other hand that wouldn't be very interesting since we know how how his story ended.
Eskel is very similar to Geralt as a character and Lambert.. well Lambert doesn't like being a witcher :p
Given that Lambert has the option of being killed in W3, I think that all but garaunteed he could never be the protagonist. Doesn't make much sense having him die in your playthrough and then playing him in W4. His also far too much of a complaining, whinger for my liking. He walks around with a big chip on his shoulder, never having accepted his fate. He fights with rage rather then with his mind. As a witcher that will get you killed. Perhaps that's why he can be killed of in tw3.
 
If we can't have Geralt, then I'd go for custom character. I think this could be fun and also allow us even more roleplaying since we could make up the character from scratch :)
 
How about Coën, who was from Poviss and died in the Battle of Brenna? Not having Geralt for the witcher is unimaginable though.
 
Not having Geralt for the witcher is unimaginable though.
I personally don't get why so many people are that fixated on Geralt. He had different character and even looks through the trilogy, yet people were totally fine.
He has rich background made by Sapkovsky sure, but in-game he's CDPR's creation more than anything. Why wouldn't they be able to make someone else as memorable as Geralt?
 
How about Coën, who was from Poviss and died in the Battle of Brenna? Not having Geralt for the witcher is unimaginable though.

Interesting idea but it's the same scenario as with Vesemir. We know exactly how they died and at what point. This removes the element of surprise and continuity since we know how both their stories end.
 
I personally don't get why so many people are that fixated on Geralt. He had different character and even looks through the trilogy, yet people were totally fine.
He has rich background made by Sapkovsky sure, but in-game he's CDPR's creation more than anything. Why wouldn't they be able to make someone else as memorable as Geralt?

Finally someone gets this! Book Geralt was a whiny, little complainer. Game Geralt is an ENTIRELY different character. And far, far superior, in my opinion.

Also, look how much Geralt content there is:
-12 canon short stories.
-One non-canon short story.
-Two movies.
-Two television series.
-Four games (Possibly a fifth, with Gwent, if he's in it.).
-Innumerable comic books.

When will it be time to move on? By the looks of it, never. It seems like about half of this forum would be content with "The Witcher 93: Geralt Drops a Deuce".

I truly believe Eskel would be the best. The great thing is we don't really know that much about him. That gives the creative directors so much freedom to work with.

Eskel is probably my top pick for the next protagonist, but I feel like it just won't happen. They've repeatedly said that they're simply done with Geralt and friends. They want to create their own characters, places, and stories, completely unconstrained by the books.
 
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I may have missed something, but isn't this what he says if told to stay ?



And this is what he says otherwise:



In any case, ignoring this particular choice would not be a major issue, he could easily change his mind either way, or end up having to leave for other reasons. From the conversation it looks like he always leaves, but it does not exclude the possibility that he may return occasionally later.

I hate to bring the conversation about cut and changed content to this thread, but...

In the list of assets from the leak you can see that originally in the bad ending Geralt would return to Kaer Morhen, where Eskel is back with a boy he trains to be a witcher. Of course, nothing else is known about this version fo the ending and how close it is to the final one, so we can guess if the boy supposed to be set up as a new protagonist or if the Crone was going to originally attack Kaer Morhen, so he and Eskel would die, leaving Geralt surrounded by monsters among the ruins of the castle, thus hammering down how much witchers are gone.

Either way, a new witcher recruit in a world set 10 or 20 years after TW3 would be a pretty cool idea, especially after setting it up a bit with Yen conducting a first successfull Trial of Grasses in many years (well, half of it) and Eskel suggesting how now they would have to think about taking a new recruits after that.
 
I hate to bring the conversation about cut and changed content to this thread, but...

In the list of assets from the leak you can see that originally in the bad ending Geralt would return to Kaer Morhen, where Eskel is back with a boy he trains to be a witcher. Of course, nothing else is known about this version fo the ending and how close it is to the final one, so we can guess if the boy supposed to be set up as a new protagonist or if the Crone was going to originally attack Kaer Morhen, so he and Eskel would die, leaving Geralt surrounded by monsters among the ruins of the castle, thus hammering down how much witchers are gone.

Either way, a new witcher recruit in a world set 10 or 20 years after TW3 would be a pretty cool idea, especially after setting it up a bit with Yen conducting a first successfull Trial of Grasses in many years (well, half of it) and Eskel suggesting how now they would have to think about taking a new recruits after that.

That would be cool. I assume the boy Eskel trains will be like Ciri - i.e. someone who did not go through the mutations but was trained like a witcher. Maybe even has some magic abilities?
 
Creating tools for making your own character sounds difficult for a dev to just pick up?? IDK, for me the obvious choice would be Ciri. Wouldn't mind a prequel with Vesemir, but he's never really been my fav character honestly. It would, however, be cool to see Kaer Morhen with many more people there. Getting to the roots of how the witchers that we know of came to be could make for an interesting story given it tells stories of what it was like for a young witcher. I'm talking ofc about that one quest with Lambert. Don't know if the devs could make a whole game out of it though.
 
It's a tough question. I love the universe of The Witcher and welcome the idea of seeing it from the perspective of a different character. I don't mind Geralt, though I'm not crazy about him and don't find him to be a very like-able or believable character generally and he has about as much sex appeal as a rotten boiled turnip, so I'm somewhat relieved that he is done and it is time to move on... BUT I have absolutely no idea who could take the role with it feeling like anything other than a spin-off.

The only character I could see making a good game would be a prequel about Vesemir's younger days, and earlier days of Witchers. Without Geralt and the rest of the breakfast club. The Witchers are a faded shadow of what they once were. Hell, they are barely even that. There are what, a few of them left? And Kaer Morhen is deserted and pretty much in ruins. So I think it would absolutely have to be a prequel when they actually had some kind of presence and meaning in the world.

Meh...

And certainly not Ciri as the protagonist.
 
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Although my first vote will always be Lambert for protagonist, followed closely by Eskel, I'm starting to be really sold on the idea of a prequel starring Vesemir! It would be really interesting to see how different things really were in his day, and also how a game would deal with his almost total neutrality in a game setting. Maybe the game could lead up to the quest Massacre of Kaer Morhen with the peasant uprising and almost complete annihilation of the Wolf School...and for an epilogue, maybe you play through a quest where you help this drunken peasant, and then for your reward you invoke the Law of Surprise. And as soon as you escort the guy home and see your reward, you realise this epilogue is the story of how Lambert came to be a Witcher.

Then maybe Vesemir can wake up at the end and he's at Hanged Man's Tree with Geralt asleep nearby, on the trail of one Yennefer of Vengerberg :D I don't know - perhaps stupidly cheesy in places, but I do like the idea of seeing Vesemir in his grumpy and neutral to a fault past, plus a bustling Kaer Morhen would be cool, and I'd like to think that some part of him cared about what happened with Lambert more than he'd like to show.
 
In the best protagonist thread I voted for "Ciri" to be the next protagonist. There are certainly a lot of interesting stories that could be told from her perspective.
by combining her abilities with witcher abilities With due attention to the best Ending of witcher 3: "Ciri lives as a witcher"

Also, Be attention to the other witcher's classes such as school of bear, school of cat and school of griffin that combination of this classes with "Ciri" will be so much intresting!

Imagine that "Ciri" from school of wolf and two other witcher from school of bear and school of cat, become the three characters of the game...!

And one more thing...

We saw the best charactrization of the best game of 2015 "the witcher 3 wild hunt" - I must thank Personnels who try to present a good game -
such as "Graulet" - I know that many of you have a lot of memories of him - and "Yennefer" , "Triss" , especially "Ciri" - I believe that she has a very high potential for storytelling ,As her story in witcher 3 can become a very good prologue to the next witcher as I'm explained above - .

What's your opinion about these ideas?


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It's better that these characters are putted in poll:

"Ciri" , "Young Vesemier" , "Eskel" and "Lambert".
 

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