Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon
October 14, 2017
 | Have I forgiven? Yes, I have managed to forgive and control my own wrath. I did not just kill blinded by hatred. Yet I did have my vengeance, and I will have it. By my own way. |  | |||||
| - Cirilla | |||||||
Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon (known as Ciri or the Lion Cub of Cintra), was born in 1253 or 1252, and most likely during the Belleteyn holiday. She is a Princess of Cintra, and the daughter of Pavetta and Duny. She is the granddaughter of Queen Calanthe.
After Geralt of Rivia lifted a curse from Duny, the Urcheon of Erlenwald, he demanded from Duny his wife Pavetta's firstborn child, a child he had but didn't know he had, due to the Law of Surprise. Six years to the day after the child's birth, Geralt went back to Cintra for her, but did not take her with him to Kaer Morhen
at that time. In fact, he didn't even lay eyes on her and only spoke
with Calanthe. The Queen divulged no information to him, not even the
child's gender. This child was named Cirilla.
While she was still an infant, Ciri's parents were both lost in a
storm at sea. They were presumed dead. She spent her youth in Cintra
and the Skellige Islands in the care of her grandmother and her uncle.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
| | This is my story, not yours. You must let me finish telling it. | | |
| - Ciri to Geralt | |||
Ciri is a playable character in the third game, in which she is being pursued by the Wild Hunt.
The player isn't able to switch between her and Geralt at will but
rather assume control over her actions during some crucial points of the
plot. One of Ciri's unique abilities is one called blink.
In the prologue, Geralt experiences a dream where he trains a
younger Ciri at Kaer Morhen. However, the dream turns into a nightmare,
as the Wild Hunt appears, freezing everyone, including Ciri, with Geralt
helpless to act.Having hidden in another world for over half a year the Wild Hunt
found Ciri, forcing her to flee. At some point Ciri discovered that
Geralt had been captured by the Wild Hunt and managed to free him and
send him to the forests outside of Kaer Morhen although he lost his
memory in the process. Several months later Ciri, along with an elf
named Avallac'h,
returned from another world and ended up in Skellige where the Wild
Hunt found and attacked them. Avallac'h was cursed during this attack
before the two could teleport away, but were split up in the process.
Ciri appeared in Crookback Bog where she collapsed and was found by the Crones. The Crones intended to give her to the Wild Hunt however, as she possessed Elder blood,
they couldn't decide whether to cut her up for her blood or not. Having
overheard this, Ciri escaped and fled into the nearby forest, narrowly
evading Imlerith. Traveling west into Velen, she encountered a young girl named Gretka who was lost and rescued her as well as a local man from a werewolf. She was then taken to Crow's Perch and taken in by Phillip Strenger (known as the Bloody Baron) who alongside with his men she befriended. During a race with Philip the two are attacked by a basilisk
and Ciri was forced to use her powers to save him. However, Ciri
realised that Wild Hunt would sense her powers so she left Crow's Perch
and headed to Novigrad.
Ciri tracked down Dandelion
to enlist his help in repairing a phylactery to lift the curse on
Avallac'h, though she excluded the identity of her friend. After evading
a trap set by the Temple Guard, Dandelion suggested going to Cyprian "Whoreson Junior" Willy, who agreed to fix the phylactery in exchange for stealing Sigi Reuven's treasure. Willy later turned on them, capturing and torturing their friend Dudu.
Ciri managed to rescue Dudu but her activities got the attention of the
Temple Guard, who chased her towards Temple Isle. Just as an
crossbowman took a shot at her, Ciri teleported herself to safety.
Ciri teleported all the way to Skellige, landing on the shores of Hindarsfjall, where she fell unconscious, dropping into a lake. Avallac'h and a native Skelliger, Skjall,
found the injured girl and took her to Skjall's home to recover . When
she came to, Ciri accepted the invitation to heal at the local sauna.
But soon as she prepared to depart, the Wild Hunt descended on the
village, forcing Ciri to flee once more. She found her way to Avallac'h,
who was waiting with a boat. But upon seeing Skjall being cut down by a
Red Rider, she attempted to turn back to help him, but Avallac'h
stunned her with a sleeping spell and took her to the Isle of Mists to hide her from the Hunt.
Ciri was taken in by a company of seven dwarves, who were also
stranded on the Isle. She was later found by Geralt, who had managed to
lift the curse on Avallac'h, who gave The Witcher a magical firefly that
led him to the Isle. After gaining the trust of the dwarves, whose
number had been reduced to five, Geralt is allowed to see Ciri. As he
gazed upon her cold body and lifeless eyes, The Witcher assumed her to
be dead, until the firefly merges with her, stirring the young woman
awake.
With his search for his daughter finally complete, relief
overwhelms The Witcher and the two share an embrace and are reminded of a
happier time in their lives. Geralt and Ciri catch up on what happened
to the latter. Ciri reveals Eredin's motive for pursuing her, explaining
that the Aen Elle world faces annihilation, so the King of the Hunt
seeks to use her to power the portal to allow his army to conquer the
Continent, even at the risk of Ciri's life. As they prepare to leave,
they discover the dwarves had taken Geralt's boat and fled the Isle,
before spotting the Wild Hunt's flagship, the Naglfar, in the distance,
forcing Ciri to teleport them directly to Kaer Morhen.
Upon arrival, Ciri is happily reunited with Vesemir, Yennefer and Triss. However,
the time for celebration was cut short, as the Hunt would soon assault
the aging keep. Ciri was ordered to remain inside the keep while
everyone else defended her. Triss provided Ciri with a magical amulet to
call down a magical fireball. However, Ciri defies orders and goes to
help Triss when she came under attack by Hunt warriors. She later
assisted Eskel against Caranthir, before the Hunt general hears a war
horn signalling him to retreat.
Ultimately, the Hunt breaches Kaer Morhen, freezing everyone except
for Ciri and Vesemir. They are then attacked by Imlerith, allowing
Eredin to finally get a hold of Ciri. But as he dragged her towards a
portal, Vesemir breaks off from Imlerith and engages Eredin, forcing the
elf to release Ciri. As Imlerith charged at the elderly witcher,
Vesemir used Aard to push Ciri away as the large elf lifts him up by the
throat. Surrounded by the Wild Hunt and with her mentor held hostage,
Ciri dropped her sword in surrender. However, Vesemir stabbed Imlerith,
prompted the general to snap his neck, killing him. In grief and
anguish, Ciri unleashed a magical scream that affected the Hunt.
Caranthir conjured a portal, which Imlerith fled through, but Eredin
desperately stumbled towards Ciri.
Caranthir recognized his king would die in the attempt and
forcibly dragged Eredin through the portal. But Ciri's power had gone
out of control, threatening to kill everyone in Kaer Morhen had not
Avallac'h intervened and stopped her. While cremating Vesemir, Ciri
started to regret returning to Kaer Morhen, despite Geralt's attempts to
calm her, as she snatched Vesemir's medallion off the pyre.
Subsequently, Ciri tried to involve herself in a discussion between Geralt, Avallac'h, Yennefer and Triss over reassembling the Lodge of Sorceresses
to fight the Hunt. She becomes angry that decisions are being made
without her and departs their company. A few days later, Ciri becomes
disheartened that her training with Avallac'h hadn't be progressing
well. Geralt can either cheer her up with a snowball fight or sour her
with Lambert's famous home brew.
Ciri later stirs Geralt early in the morning, revealing she had discovered Imlerith was attending a sabbath on Bald Mountain
in Velen, as would the Crones, though she hadn't told Avallac'h of her
plans. Geralt can suggest visiting her biological father, Emperor Emhyr var Emreis, in Vizima first or go to Bald Mountain immediately.
If Geralt and Ciri go to meet Emhyr, the latter addresses her by
all her titles as nobles and soldiers kneel before her. He then presents
the second half of Geralt's payment as thanks for finding his daughter.
Whether Geralt accepts or not affects Ciri. Ciri then engages in
private conversation with Emhyr but later stormed out, angry at his
attempts to buy her.
A few weeks later, Geralt and Ciri arrive at Bald Mountain and
are forced to contend with the local celebration, which ends in them
being sent to a sylvan named Fugas
for execution. After slaying the monster, Ciri plays a game of rock,
paper, scissors, to decide who will face the Crones and who would slay
Imlerith. Ciri lost the game and thus went to confront the Crones. She
interrupts them while they were stirring a cauldron full of human
remains, prompting them to transform from beautiful women into their
true, hideous forms. Ciri managed to slay Brewess and Whispess but
Weavess managed to escape with Vesemir's medallion.
Their mission a success, the pair head for Novigrad, where Ciri
had a multitude of personal matters to take care of. With Geralt, she
revisits all the people she had encountered in the city. She was also
present when Geralt and Avallac'h bring Ge'els
from the world of the Aen Elle to show him proof that Eredin murdered
the previous Aen Elle king, Auberon Muircetach, so he'd stop supporting
the regicide. Ge'els attempts to sow animosity between Ciri and
Avallac'h, but it fails. Corinne Tilly, an oneiromancer, shows everyone through dreams of Eredin's regicide.
After Philippa Eilhart and Margarita Laux-Antille
are gathered, they ask to meet with Ciri. If Geralt accompanies Ciri to
the meeting, it undermines her confidence. The sorceresses extended an
invitation for Ciri to join the Lodge as an equal partner. The party then travels to Skellige to find an elven artifact
called the Sunstone to lure Eredin into a trap. Ciri then expresses her
desire to investigate Avallac'h secret laboratory in the isles,
suspecting the elf to be hiding something from her. She goes ahead with
Yennefer to await Geralt's arrival.
After penetrating the laboratory,
they find a genealogical chart of Elder Blood descendants; Avallac'h was
studying all paths of Lara Dorren, even those thought extinct. They
soon encounter a she-elf, claiming to be Avallac'h's lover, who proceeds
to insult Ciri, calling her a degenernate half-breed and that Avallac'h
despises that he needs her. Her words anger Ciri so much that she wants
to tear up the lab. Geralt can support her and aid in the ransacking,
cheering her up, or calm her down and fasten Lara Dorren's necklace
around her neck, depressing her.
Once outside, Ciri asks to go to Hindarsfjall
to see Skjall, only to be told of his death. If Geralt refuses, it
depresses her. If he agrees to accompany her, they either meet up later
or teleport there. Upon arrival, Ciri learns that Skjall was never
buried, instead thrown on a corpse heap. After finding his corpse and
giving it a proper burial, they are accosted by a band of villagers, who
take issue with their defiance against their elders' writ, as Skjall
was dishonoured and his name stricken. Ciri threatens retaliation if
Skjall's grave is disturbed and reveals Skjall's role in saving her from
the Hunt, restoring his honor.
The party then sail to Undvik
to spring the trap, with the Nilfgaardian fleet preventing the Naglfar
from fleeing by sea and the sorceresses blocking their attempts to
teleport. As the battle started, though advised to remain on shore, Ciri
realized that Geralt and his Nilfgaardian detachment were frozen and
decided to go out and assist. Avallac'h advised her to find Caranthir
and break the jewel on his staff to lift the spell. After fighting
through Hunt warriors and hounds did Ciri engage Caranthir, eventually
destroying his staff, though the effort seemingly knocked her
unconscious. Caranthir then attempted to grab Ciri, only for her to
teleport away.
After
Geralt mortally wounded Eredin, the elven king stated that Avallac'h
had tricked them both, pitting them against each other while he made off
with Ciri. When Geralt confronts Avallac'h as another Conjunction of the Spheres
begins, but Avallac'h drops his sword proving that he did not betray
them but was just following Ciri's wish to come here. Geralt then
confronts Ciri who tells him that she has to go inside the portal to
stop the White Frost. Depending on Geralt's interactions with her, Ciri
may either survive or die stopping the White Frost.
If Ciri survives and didn't meet with Emhyr or met with Emhyr but
Nilfgaard lost the war, Geralt will tell the Emperor that she died
saving the world, before later meeting with Ciri to give her her
witcher's blade. If Ciri survives and had met with Emhyr and Nilfgaard
won the war, when Geralt meets with her in White Orchard, she reveals that she has decided to take her place as Empress of Nilfgaard.
Ciri's super abilities :
- Blink
- Charge
- Energy
- Magic amulet (given to her by Triss)
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