The Witcher 4 is going to be quite large again – but we already know one monster. Because the developers revealed what Ciri is actually fighting against.
When the trailer for The Witcher 4 was presented at the Game Awards 2024, the excitement was great. Finally, we’re going back into the universe of the Witcher – although this time without Geralt in the lead role. Ciri takes up the mantle as the protagonist and travels through the world to defeat monsters and protect people.
Right in the trailer, we see one of these monsters and have now learned what the developers were thinking.
What kind of monster is it? The monster is called Bauk and is based, like much in the Witcher universe, on Serbian mythology, where creatures dwell in the darkness waiting to devour their victims. It is said to be a sly bastard
that plays with the fears of its victims.
The creators of Witcher 4 are also proud of how the definition of “monster” has evolved in the last games. The game director Sebastian Kalemba said in an interview with Gamertag Radio:
If you look at The Witcher, the way we handle the word “monster”, we now approach it from a completely different perspective than we did in The Witcher 1. [At the beginning] you had to fight regular monsters, then against humans who behaved monstrously. Then, here, you have the inner demons that you need to fight before you can find and kill [the Bauk].
We have explained more about the Bauk here.
That The Witcher 4 will also play with the different interpretations of monsters has already been shown in the big trailer. Because there, Ciri not only fights against the Bauk but also against the behaviors of humans. Although Ciri saves the girl who was chosen as a victim from the Bauk, she is killed by the humans. Just as the Bauk had previously announced with “Fate cannot be changed”.
How big will the game be? Even though the exact scope of The Witcher 4 is still unknown – that is, the number of hours of gameplay in the story – it is already clear that the size of the game world will be approximately the same as The Witcher 3 (via gamesradar). While there are brand new regions that have never been seen before, the size of the map will be roughly the same. However, that should be enough to keep fans engaged for many hours – because some found Witcher 3 already too big, especially when wanting to explore and loot every point on the map.
By the way, the woman in the trailer is a character of great significance …
