

It's Istredd and Geralt who travel to the massive crack in the earth caused by Ciri's scream to try to find out where all these new monsters are coming from. Through Istredd's travels, we discover more about the history of the Continent, its monsters, and what the monoliths have to do with it all. Here's the ending of "The Witcher" Season 2 explained. The explosive finale also finally introduces Nilfgaard's White Flame, Emperor Emhyr var Emreis – whose true identity not even a witcher or a mage could see coming. The last episode, "Family," wraps up many of the loose threads uncoiled in Season 2 while answering questions about who Ciri is, what her powers are, and what the prophecy tied to her means.

There's also a bit more political scheming and elaboration on the complex tensions between humans, elves, sorcerers, witchers, and the peoples of both the north and the south. The second season also delves into the history of the Continent, with more details about how monsters came to inhabit the land and the role the sorcerers played in their creation. Destiny looms heavily over these two, as it becomes clear Ciri has untapped powers that have the ability to bring a chaotic good or evil to the Continent. This time Geralt may have met his match.As such, the second season follows the relationship between Geralt of Rivia (Henry Cavill) and Ciri (Freya Allan), a young woman he adopts through the Law of Suprise. But someone else has an eye on the young girl, someone who understand exactly what the prophecy means - and exactly what Ciri's power can do. As the political situation grows ever dimmer and the threat of war hangs almost palpably over the land, Geralt searches for someone to train Ciri's unique powers. Geralt, the witcher of Rivia, has taken Ciri to the relative safety of the Witchers' Settlement, but it soon becomes clear that Ciri isn't like the other witchers. Ciri, the granddaughter of Queen Calanthe, the Lioness of Cintra, has strange powers and a stranger destiny, for prophecy names her the Flame, one with the power to change the world - for good, or for evil. Into this tumultuous time is born a child for whom the witchers of the world have been waiting. But times have changed, the uneasy peace is over and now the races once again fight each other - and themselves: dwarves are killing their kinsmen, and elves are murdering humans and elves, at least those elves who are friendly to humans.

For more than a hundred years, humans, dwarves, gnomes and elves lived together in relative peace. Geralt, the witcher of Rivia, is back - and this time he holds the fate of the whole land in his hands.
