The Witcher Season 4 Finale Decoded: The Real Fate of Ciri and Mistle

The Witcher Season 4 drops on Netflix today, October 30, 2025, delivering a broadsword-to-the-heart finale that devastates Ciri and Mistle and hurls Geralt, Ciri, and Yennefer into their most perilous chapter yet.

Welp. The Witcher Season 4 is out today on Netflix (October 30, 2025), and the show does not tiptoe to the finish. It swings a broadsword straight through your feelings, especially if you were rooting for Ciri and Mistle. Consider this your friendly warning: full spoilers ahead.

Ciri goes full Falka... and pays for it

Season 4 splits the party. Ciri (Freya Allan) takes on the name Falka and falls in with the Rats, a teenage crew of thieves who become her makeshift family. Living among them, she trains, fights, and starts tapping into the darker corners of herself. It is fun while it lasts, which is not long.

Enter bounty hunter Leo Bonhart. He sets a trap for the Rats, and once Ciri realizes her friends lied to her and that Bonhart is closing in, she races back, too late. Bonhart hunts the Rats down one by one. Ciri tries to stop him and loses. He ties her to a pillar and forces her to watch as Mistle is beheaded. Ciri survives, but she is captured, and now she is at Bonhart's mercy.

Geralt's side quest that turns into a promotion

Meanwhile, Geralt (Liam Hemsworth) and Yennefer (Anya Chalotra) peel off on their own paths to find Ciri. Geralt forms a Hansa with Jaskier, Cahir, and Zoltan, aiming for Caed Dhu where the druids can use the equinox to locate her. War complicates everything, because of course it does: Nilfgaard and the Northern Kingdoms are tearing up the map and Geralt's crew keeps getting dragged into it.

The road eventually runs straight into the Battle for the Bridge on the Yaruga. Geralt fights alongside Queen Meve of Rivia, leads Northern forces, and helps secure Meve's escape. She knights him for it. Great honor, terrible timing.

'Geralt of Rivia' is finally official.

The irony stings. He has called himself that for years, but now that the title is real, it comes with strings: obey Meve, serve her kingdom, full stop. In the books, Meve refuses to prioritize the druids, so Geralt ends up ducking and weaving around his orders to keep looking for Ciri. Expect the show to mine that same conflict. Also, Emperor Emhyr is not just waiting around. He unleashes a monster marked with Renfri's brooch to sniff out Geralt and take him off the board.

Yennefer, Vilgefortz, and the road to Stygga

Yennefer recovers from the Montecalvo fallout and portals to Vilgefortz's stronghold at Stygga Castle. He is hurt but slippery, escapes again, and keeps juicing himself by draining power from other mages. He is not done being a problem in Season 5.

About that far-future framing: Nimue and the storyteller

Season 4 opens in Yaruga roughly a century after the main story with Nimue and Stribog, a storyteller spinning tales of Geralt, Yennefer, and Ciri. By the finale, Nimue has grown up and begun training at Aretuza. She feels tied to Ciri's fate, and that tracks with the books, where Nimue becomes the Lady of the Lake and helps Ciri get a handle on her ability to portal through time and space. Odds are good Season 5 leans into that.

Where everyone lands heading into the final season

• Ciri: Captured by Leo Bonhart after the slaughter of the Rats. Mistle is dead, executed in front of her.
• Geralt: Newly knighted by Queen Meve after leading the North at the Yaruga bridge, now bound to serve her even as he pushes toward Nilfgaard with Jaskier and Milva, later joined by Zoltan, Yarpen, Regis, and Cahir.
• Yennefer: Back in the game post-Montecalvo, tracking Vilgefortz to Stygga Castle.
• Vilgefortz: Wounded, escaped, still siphoning other mages, still dangerous.
• Emhyr: Laser-focused on finding Ciri, but does not know Bonhart already has her; also set a Renfri-brooch-marked monster on Geralt's scent.
• The Hansa plan: Reach Caed Dhu so druids can use the equinox to locate Ciri, while dodging a full-blown Northern vs. Nilfgaard war.

The setup for Season 5

The season closes on a pile of cliffhangers: Ciri is in chains, Mistle is gone, Geralt has a shiny new title that makes his life harder, and everyone is getting pulled toward Stygga Castle for what looks like the final convergence. Can Ciri outlast Bonhart? Can Geralt fulfill his oath to Meve and still save his daughter? We are about to find out.

The Witcher Season 4 is now streaming on Netflix (US). Sound off with your theories.