The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt News

Netflix's The Witcher set photos possibly reveal the Wild Hunt

The Wild Hunt appears to be on its way to Netflix's The Witcher. Set photos of season two show a heavily-armoured group on horseback, and they bear a resemblance to The Witcher 3's villains.

Several pictures from the filming of The Witcher's second season in Devon, UK have been posted, revealing characters that might be familiar to people who played the RPG games. Decked out in black armour, carrying some hefty weapons, and generally looking like something that'd make even the Nazgúl shiver, all signs point to these being The Witcher 3's titular Wild Hunt.

Sources have told Redanian Intelligence this is the case, and if so, it makes season two even more enticing. The Wild Hunt appear as central antagonists in The Witcher 3, after their leader shows up in the first, and they get a mention in the second. They're a cavalry of elves who capture humans as slaves to bring back to Aen Elle, the realm of the Alder Folk, and they're based on a European myth of the same name that was an omen for fear and catastrophe.

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New Witcher season two castings reveal a new character and a gender swap

Netflix's Witcher series is marching ever closer to its second season, and today the studio has taken the time to confirm seven more cast members for the show. A few of those names had come up previously - including Philippa Eilhart - but now it's official. Some of these characters will be at least vaguely familiar to you from the RPG games, but there are a few surprises among the cast.

Among those familiar characters, we have Dijkstra, the head of Redanian Intelligence (the in-universe organisation, not the fansite that's brought us so many early reports of casting decisions like these). He's played a substantial role in the games, and will be portrayed in the show by Graham McTavish.

We also have Nenneke (briefly mentioned in Witcher 3), a priestess of Melitele who'll be played by Adjoa Andoh. We'll see Chris Fulton as Rience, a major antagonist through the book series. There's Cassie Clare as Philippa Eilhart, a casting decision that already broke out recently.

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Netflix's The Witcher gets its Philippa Eilhart

At long last, we know who will be playing sorceress Philippa Eilhart in Netflix's The Witcher series. The show, which is approaching the end of filming for its second season following some pandemic-related disruptions last year, will reportedly include the polymorphing sorceress well-known from the RPG games in the coming series, and she'll be played by actor Cassie Clare.

That's according to Witcher fan site Redanian Intelligence, which reports that Philippa Eilhart - advisor to Redania's King Vizimir II and leader of the Lodge of Sorceresses - will be joining Netflix's series in season two. IMDB notes that Clare is from London, UK, and joined the National Youth Theatre, before going on to act in TV shows like Delicious and The Bisexual, as well as films such as Beauty and the Beast and Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again.

There aren't any details, sadly, on what we can expect from Philippa in series two of The Witcher, but given her role in the books by Andrzej Sapkowski and CD Projekt Red's games, we can guess she'll be pretty key to the plot in some way.

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This Witcher 3 mod records all dialogue, making progress tracking a doddle

There are some quests in The Witcher 3 that call on Geralt to take on the role of a sleuth - that is, follow some trails of clues to solve mysteries for the weird and wonderful folk of The Continent or move ahead in the open-world game's story. While the in-game journal does a pretty good job of recording where you're at in a quest, a new mod could make progress tracking even easier.

Modders Wolfmark and ClickNine's 'Dialog Log' mod for CD Projekt Red's RPG game saves all the chatter that pops up over the course of Geralt's adventures, including NPC speech and dialogue from cinematics. The mod records the previous 500 'messages' that have appeared, which you can then display using a pop-up window in the game. This shows how long ago the speech occurred, and handily separates out entries from NPCs and "main characters".

While, sure, it's likely to get cluttered with the endless babble, chit-chat, and coughs that NPCs effuse in crowded spots like Novigrad, when out in the wilds trying to crack a case, it's easy to see how the mod could be hugely handy.

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This Witcher 3 mod gives Ciri Geralt's best armour

Ok, ok - I know 'Geralt's best armour' is totally subjective. I mean, the gruff, grey-headed star of The Witcher 3 has more than a few to choose from in the RPG game, whether that's those looted from about the Continent to the Witcher school sets earned through tireless treasure hunts and levelling. That said, there's no denying the Ursine - or Bear School - gear is very high up there. And now, Geralt doesn't have to hog it all to himself - Ciri can wear it, too.

That's thanks to a new Witcher 3 mod simply called 'Ciri's Witcher Gear - Ursine' by creator Bububull, which - yep, you guessed it - gives Geralt's child of surprise her adoptive papa's cool, heavy, chainmail-based armour set. It's a really faithful replica of Geralt's Bear School armour, and - best of all - looks to be based on the snazziest, highest level version of it: the Grandmaster Legendary Ursine armour, which comes as part of the open-world game's Blood and Wine DLC.

Ciri's version gets all the plate shoulder armour, chainmail and heavy fabric skirting, and metal gauntlets you might recall from Geralt's version.

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