The Wild Hunt, a group of seven riders on horses who travel through the sky and are deadset on capturing Princess, will be the new villains in season three of The Witcher. Lauren Hissrich has explained how The Witcher brought them to life, and why the Wild Hunt has come to the show even though they barely appear in the original novels.
The answer is partly because they are the major antagonists of The Witcher: Wild Hunt. Hissrich knew that the fans of The Witcher would expect the Wild Hunt to appear on the TV series because of the critically acclaimed game. In the video about the villains, Hissrich explains that they are an important part of Ciri's character development.
It is interesting that Hissrich says that they are folklore in the world of The Witcher, and also in the real world, especially among Northern European cultures. The Wild Hunt were a group of supernatural beings who were often described as riding through the sky, abducting people to join their host, and causing war, plague, and other tragedies. They were thought of as dead in some places.
It would be pointless to say how much The Witcher's Wild Hunt does or does not adhere to these legends, but suffice it to say they have a lot more going on than Hissrich is currently letting on. The hunt for those secrets has begun, even though it's not certain whether those secrets will be revealed in the series Blood Origin or The Witcher season three.
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