Witcher 4 - School of The Lynx Explained

I have gathered all of the official information fan theories and my personal thoughts on The Witcher Four's upcoming School of the links and today I will lay out all of this information so welcome to another video by me The Witcher George as I discuss the school of the links what is it the school of the links is perhaps the most mysterious Witcher School out of all the known Witcher schools although one day perhaps it will be only second to the school of the wolf in our knowledge about its history and members and that is because it will be the center of an entirely new upcoming Witcher Trilogy being developed by CD Pro red so far very little has been officially confirmed but The Witcher fors developers have made occasional comments about it and fans have been hard at work trying to work out exactly what this school is and what it could tell us about the next Witcher game when The Witcher 4 although it might be more accurate to say The Witcher Polaris was first announced by CD prod red we were given a single image this image of what many fans thought was a lynx Medallion although many other animals were also speculated at the time like a tiger snow leopard or some kind of altered version of the C Medallion however the global communications director for City prodct R Robert malinoski confirmed in an interview with Euro gamer that The Medallion is in fact shaped after a lynx now why is this significant it's significant because many fans of The Witcher already know the existing schools so that's the school of the wolf Griffin cat Bear Manor Viper and crane but the school of the links is something fans have never seen before it was not in the books or even the previous Witcher games including the spin-off games like thronebreaker this shows us that the new Trilogy of Witcher games will be something outside of the established law of course CD proct dread have already made plenty of additions to The Witcher law so this isn't something new they have essentially established their own separate Canon to the books from the very first Witcher game the Viper school was officially added in The Witcher 2 and mantor and bear in The Witcher 3 and they have been reconed into the previous games in one way or another for example making geralt's armor and The Witcher one very closely resemble the mantor armor and well it is essentially the mantor armor that became available in the blood and wine expansion which was the final expansion of The Witcher 3 so they've essentially found ways to connect it to the previous games in sort of a clever way so The Witcher for just seems to be continuing that Trend but in what way how will a school of the links School fit into the game's law will it be a reccon or perhaps as many fans believe be a newly established school after the events of The Witcher 3 the most important consideration we can have right now when deciphering anything about this school is this what have we seen before well it's obvious right guys we've seen the other Witcher schools the school of the wolf are like the classic Warriors many being the Lone Wolf type sort of the protagonists I suppose you could say but also being a close pack of witches sort of like a family the school of the cat were turned assassins sneaky Nimble and well cat-like the school of the bear were the heavy armor witches they tend to be loners not forming strong bonds but they have incredible endurance and well they're trained in the mountains so they're these pretty awesome kind of bear like witches the Griffin witchers tended to specialize in signs and were more nightly in nature the Viper witchers they specialized in Poison trap that sort of thing and well more recently assassinating Kings The mantore Witches occupied the outskirts of the kath desert being the more mysterious and in the context of how closed off nilfgard and the northern kingdoms are from the other kingdoms and sort of entities within the world you could say the school of the manticor is the sort of exotic Witcher school or at least The Witcher School we know the least about and the crane Witcher School well they specialize in killing monsters of the sea and air and we don't really know that much about them but what about the links well consider a lynx a lynx is a mediumsized species of cat not as big or strong as a tiger or lion but not as small a Nimble as while a cat don't let their size fool you they are still incredible Predators they are great climbers and they're fast in fact they're so fast and can jump so high that they're known to be able to catch birds mid-flight at times they also hunt by climbing trees and waiting there for their prey to move below them and then they jump down and surprise them these tactics allow them to hunt a variety of prey most notably de which are a bit bigger than them they also tend to live in boreal forests some of which are nearby mountains or elevated so they're not exactly I suppose you could say on the ground kind of up in the hills kind of forests around mountains that sort of thing in snow and they prefer to live alone once reaching adulthood their colors vary from brown to goldish to a sort of beige white but I would like to theorize based on the European roots of The Witches story and many of the monsters in the games that the link species this school would be based off is the Eurasian links there are other species of links such as Bobcats and the Canada links and the Iberian links except the Iberian links and the Eurasian links are quite similar the Iberian links is sort of a subspecies of the Eurasian links many people think at least or they used to think but based on the concept art released and the general themes and setting of the games and books I would assume that it's going to be a eurasion links now I have further reasons for this and that is that in Poland where the games are developed and the Witch's writer is from a subspecies of the Eurasian link the northern links can be found but to be honest after researching this video and doing probably doing way too much research on lynxes I found myself wondering about another subspecies the Siberian Lynx which is also a Eurasian Lynx but it's kind of a subspecies there's a lot of different subspecies primarily due to the Siberian association with snow and just if I was a game developer and I was looking at the lynxes I'd be like oh Siberian links that sounds kind of cool it's like a Siberian tiger or something like that it just sounds kind of interesting but another consideration I had is perhaps it could be a combination of all the subspecies or just all the linked species in general similar to how you have the school of the wolf which is not a specific wolf I mean there's Grey Wolves Timberwolves that sort of thing but it's just the school of the wolf it's not the school of the grey wolf so it could just be lynxes in general however I feel that based on what we know about this series if they're going to be researching lynxes to try and work out what sort of links they want to use for their inspiration the erasion links is probably going to be what they're going to go for because well a lot of these game developers are polish that links is from Poland so you'd imagine that's what they're going to be using for inspiration although I'm sure they'll be using a bits of the other ones as well but what's interesting about the Eurasian links is their coats actually change from Summer to winter going from a short reddish brown in summer to a thick silver gray in Winter because when you look at The Medallion I always picture some sort of gray snowy links and then I was researching this video and I saw that in summer they look different and I thought I wonder if this could have some impact on the armor available for the school of the links for example the school of the bear has bare fur incorporated into the armor it looks very kind of N and uh I don't want to say skelan but you know what I mean kind of Viking like so I wonder if the school of the links there could be potentially different types of armor depending on what kind of path you go through there could be the kind of Summer armor or there could be the winter armor imagine if the game had seasons and it changed in the seasons that would be incredible but I I really doubt they do something like that you could ask why would the first all change m magic why not I think that's quite an interesting thing but it could be nice to be able to choose which first scheme we have or which color scheme we have which would be really cool to link it with the animal more so you may be wondering why is this guy talking so much about lynxes why is this important I want to know about The Witcher I don't want to know about this animal well we know that the other schools animals have some albeit minor influences on the witches in them as I have discussed so what could The Links tell us about the school of the links witches well I feel that there's a mediumsized cat the armor will be much like that of the school of the wolf's armor so a medium style I would assume the witches are a sort of cross of the school of the cat and wolf in their flexibility and dexterity perhaps using a similar style to something like Siri so a sort of light medium style of fighting the school's home may be in a forested area or elevated forested mountainous area perhaps like K morning and in my opinion I imagine that the school will look like something of a cross between the school of the wolf and the school of the cat now this feeds into many possible theories about the sco the links which I will discuss now the first is that this school was founded by Siri Siri spent many years holding a cat Medallion that she retrieved after the death of Leo bonhart she has a lighter style and there is possibly a Witcher 3 ending in which she becomes a Witcher perhaps the school of the links is a school she founded and it's set after the events of The Witcher 3 and Siri took inspiration from this cat and wolf connection she has and picked an animal she saw is a kind of combination of the two this doesn't necessarily mean we'll be playing a Siri it just means it could be possible she founded this school I personally don't like this idea as it could invalidate our choices in The Witcher 3 as in one ending she becomes the empress in another she possibly dies but I would also like to theorize that they could make the decisions work perhaps it's just set much further in the future and Siri is just the founder so you can just tell the game like with The Witcher 2 simulated decisions that have you heard about Siri she was the emperor she was a Witcher I don't know that kind of thing and then depending on which ending you pick it can just essentially mean she founded the school after that so for example she founded it while being the empress or she founded it after becoming a Witcher as in the ending where she possibly dies it's not actually confirmed she dies she just doesn't see geralt so she could come back and then found this school and regardless of whether she becomes an empress Witcher or whatever she still has that Witcher training and she's still very good at combat so there's no reason she couldn't pick this up regard regardless of the ending one day especially as the emperor she would have enough power to do that and enough money as a Witcher it makes sense and the other way I'm sure they could find a way so you can't really rule this out completely the next is a fan theory that I feel has no substantial evidence but I've got to talk about it because of the amount of articles that discuss this is incredible in my opinion but it became popularized after the school of the links was announced and it happened to be the only piece of information anyone had on what the sco links could be so this was on The Witcher w and it was an idea that essentially said that lamber and kir met as well as some other witches founded this schore this one is a bit of a headache as there's a lot of issues here first of all Kira can indisputably be killed in The Witcher 3 I don't know how they would wreck on that unless they just quite literally said your decision doesn't matter she didn't die and even if she doesn't die it doesn't mean she necessarily ends up with lamber because you can tell her not to go to Kor Lambert can also possibly die which is something many fans may not be aware of so there's multiple decisions that are invalidated if they went that route which I really doubt next there is no love loss between lamber and The Witcher profession and I can't imagine him going on to take children and train them to be witchers it just does not seem to be in line with the character and his Arc in The Witcher 3 but it could happen I suppose maybe vz's death really changed him I won't discuss this Theory any further or the law that was sort of created for this by a fan because you can look that up if you're interested and I don't think it will have any bearing on the school of the links go going into the next games but if it does wow I will be very surprised and I'm curious how they would manage to do [Music] that I have many thoughts on the next Witcher game and the school the links I've spent many years making videos about The Witcher and participating in the community and one idea I have seen a lot and I mean a lot perhaps it's even the most common idea and it's that people want a game with multiple Witcher scoes now before you go crazy there is some Merit to this idea with cyberpunk For the First Time CD product red allowed different paths for your protagonist depending on which faction you chose perhaps the school the links is just one of many factions the others being alternative Witcher schools we may still have an established protagonist but just with a different beginning depending on which school you select so for example you choose one of the schools you play through that school a bit and then you found the school the links something like that it could actually be fun to have a protagonist that gets taken as a child of surprise and we end up training to become a Witcher maybe the school the links is even a long extinct Witcher School and we can experience the world at the height of the witcher's power which would explain why we' never heard about the school the links in the main Trilogy because it would have been long gone by that point personally I would rather just stick with an established protagonist in the world in a single school I don't want to feel like the school choice is arbitrary or the character doesn't really exist in the law which would have to be the case to account for the school choice if you choose which school you make and if that school goes on to make the school the links or something like that it just becomes we don't actually really know what the official law around that is unless CD proct rad say something and then that invalidates our choices I want them to say this is how the world is this is your character and then you have a bit of decisions within there about how the world goes but this is what the school of the links is I want it to have a strong identity I don't want to think that the school I chose for my playthrough was the non-canon choice I don't think fans like that kind of feeling The Witcher 3 is great because there's so many decisions you can have and there's no set Cannon choice I mean yeah they did do the anniversary video and a lot of people think oh well Siri becomes a Witcher or something but that's just a fun video they never said this is what happened and I think that's that's something you got to really keep with so essentially the best choice and in keeping with the Witcher is to just make a cool established protagonists that fans can connect with because then we're not all just thinking about our own characters we're thinking about we all like this character in the same way we like geralt we like Tris we like yennefer we like these characters we don't need to have our own there are plenty of games that allow you to do that The Witcher is great because you play as well The Witcher which is geralt and we'll have to see who the next Witcher might be but does this mean I don't ever want to see a Witcher game like this no but this is the first Trilogy since the Witcher 3 I think it's incredibly important that CD Pro Red Stick The Landing or the drop off will be significant people are very attached to Geral if you just say right now make your own it's like well okay this is quite sudden I think they need to prove that they can go out on their own and do this and although many fans disagree with me because of the possible Witcher two ending in which he dies I always wanted to see a game where you play as letho as he's such a cool character but I'll discuss that in the future so just to conclude this I think that the most likely way that the game will be played is that we will have a new protagonist in the school of the links with a new story I imagine set before the events of The Witcher 3 or just in an entirely new place because messing with that timeline just seems like it will annoy everyone in some small way so let's not do that for the First new Trilogy coming out let's try and do something a bit different the biggest concern many fans now have is that if the new school can stand up to the legacy of geralt I think CD product red have proven in the past they can make compelling original characters in schools like letho and the school of the Viper but I will admit there have been some concerning changes at the company since the Witcher 3's release with many staff leaving and many new staff coming on but for now I am being optimistic and I'm going to wait and see what they come out with in trailers and other material as who knows maybe they'll drop some incredible cinematic like a night to remember and I'll be sold until the game releases we don't actually know yet and with the recent cyber Punk expansion and the positive press around that it could show that the company is really trying to do something a bit better than what happened with cyberp Punk's release the next concern many people have is why they decided to make a new school they already have so many established schools we haven't had a chance to play as properly the school the Viper bear griffin cat mantor and crane why establish something new when there's so much unexplored territory perhaps this even lends itself to more evidence about wanting to separate it from The Witcher 3 or evidence to it being a new school after the events of The Witcher 3 personally for their new Trilogy I would much rather have a game exploring the other schools and the other areas of the continent we haven't seen before for example a game about the school of the Viper in their Heyday and nilfgard that's so many unexplored there is at the same time we get to see another Witcher keep get to see the school the Vipers doing stuff we get to see nilg guard I think it would be a great game and I hope that their new game isn't a complete departure from the great storytelling of The Witcher 3 and just continues to be that style of game obviously there should be advancements of course but you don't want to get rid of the core themes of that game the way that game was crafted the different decisions the sort of greatness of that world you don't want to just think right new story new place new everything it's The Witcher we've going to slap the VIP on it you still have to remember that this is The Witcher it's not just something completely different another big concern that I've seen a lot is the Siri protagonist concern and it's that this new school could just be founded by her and you play as her and that would invalidate so many Witcher endings possibly and it also just means some other issues like she's quite overpowered especially at the end of The Witcher 3 are they going to have to remove her powers somehow is it just going to sort of mess around with the character a lot a lot of people don't even really like Siri as a main character she's great as a supporting character and in the books she was really interesting but just she sort of finished her Arc in a way and it's like are we just going to be playing as this character who's sort of finished her Arc in a way I mean it's it's like do we want to have that or do we want to have something new it's like a lot of people don't want to be playing a Siri because well the other truth is she isn't an actual Witcher she just has a lot of amazing powers and training she could become a Witcher but yet again it kind of defeats some themes of the books as well so that's quite a concern for a lot of people and there's also a lot of concerns in general and I've got to be careful with how I say this because I'm going to try and make this make sense and it's about having a female protagonist because in the law traditionally females couldn't become witches but then it was sort of maybe they could with the school of the cat and different things like that so there's definitely a possibility there and I'm not completely against that I just think that you've got to be careful with how much you change with this new Trilogy you know if you have a new school you change the law around witches it could just become like what is happening to The Witcher but it could still be a great thing and you know we might get a trailer there could be a female protagonist and it could be a great thing so I'm not completely against that sort of thing the one thing I don't want which is something the Assassin's Creed games do which I'm not a fan of is where they give you a female and a male protagonist I would rather just have one I think it sort of just makes it quite confusing and then they have to canonize one of them and I would rather just be like look this is the character this is the world we're going to make it engaging that's it to be honest it doesn't matter if the character is necessarily a girl or not it could be a boy could be a girl it's just how they handle that with the law and respect what has been established and of course the most important thing is if they do make this character a girl if they change the witch's law if they do all of this stuff it has to serve the story it can't just be because they just think oh let's do that I really want to see this as a great game a great new Witcher game there's nothing wrong with any of these things and I'm addressing this because it's such a big concern I've seen in comments and I just want people to know that just having a girl character isn't necessarily bad they've changed the lore a lot in the past it could be good but let's just hope that that is their main focus just having a great story and it serves that so that's some of the main concerns I've seen for now and some of my concerns about the school of the links and the direction of the witch of franchise in general I'd love to do some more videos about this soon let me know what you'd like me to talk about let me know any thoughts you have in the comments down below I'm trying to be quite positive about this because we don't know a lot about it yet cyber Punk has had a great comeback the next Witcher game could be great I think it will be great we'll have to see what they come out with we'll have to see what they decide to do it could be really good [Music] guys so far we know very little about this Witcher School but in this video I've tried to explore what it could be based on what we already know about The Witcher franchise and I hope that at the very least you feel optimistic about what a school of the links could be to be honest if they were going to pick any animal to make a new Witcher sko I quite like the Link's idea it's a mediumsized ferocious snow cat it is not too far away from a wolf but just different enough to show us a new style of Witcher game and it's an actual real animal so I am quietly excited about what is to come and only time will tell if this excitement is Justified or not let's see what comes out with the trailers thank you for watching today's video guys please like it to support this sort of content subscribe if you're new and check out my other channel the ranger George I've been getting some great support on there recently I made a video that I'm really proud of and it seems to be doing well and you guys like it so I I do appreciate that it took a long time to make so thank you for all of that sort of support I'm also considering bringing back the playthroughs on either that Channel or my other forgotten Channel Samurai George so let me know if you'd like to see playthroughs and stuff like The Witcher 3 playthrough and which channel you'd like to see them on I feel that can't really be doing it on The Witcher George Channel cuz it's mainly Witcher stuff the samurai George Channel could have that on Ranger George Channel could have that on but I'm 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Length: 22min 24sec (1344 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 06 2024