The Witcher Season 2: Reason Behind White Flame Killing The Elven Baby

In the Witcher Season 2, the audience was confused with the action of White Flame, Ciri’s Father, killing the child of Francesca, the Elf.

The Witcher Series was released on Netflix in the year 2019, which is based on the novels written by a Polish author, Andrzej Sapkowski, and the witcher video games. The series was created by Lauren S. Hissrich, who cast Henry Cavill in the leading role of the series.

The Witcher Season 1 was a little confusing because of its timeline. However, it did introduce the main characters of the series. The three essential characters are Princess Cirilla of Cintra, played by Freya Allan; Yennefer of Vengerberg, played by Anya Chalotra; and Geralt of Rivia, the Witcher, played by Henry Cavill.

The Witcher Season 2 was released in the year 2021, after a long wait which was due to the global pandemic. The Witcher Season 2 was praised a lot, as it had a sorted timeline and more horrifying and dangerous monsters. Along with that, it is focused on building a father-daughter relationship between Geralt and Ciri. There were not only Witchers, Mages, and humans living on the Continent, but others too, like elves. The elves weren’t treated equally, and most of the time, they were tortured for being different than humans.

Season 2 gave the audience some of the biggest villains, one of which is The White Flame. Since the start of the series, The White Flame has been spoken about a lot and is said to be the most powerful and heartless on the Continent. At the end of Season 2, it was revealed that The White Flame was none other than Ciri’s father. Ciri was told that her father, Duny, and her mother, Pavetta died in an accident, but later it turns out his father is not only alive but is the Emperor of Nilfgaard Emhyr var Emreis, aka the White Flame.

Netflix’s Witcher series season 2 focuses more on the powers of Ciri and pondering whether the Ithlinne’s prophecy is going to come true or not. Ciri is said to be the Child with Elder Blood who can end the whole world, the immense power inside her attracts everyone who gets to know about it. By the end of the Witcher Season 2, almost the whole Continent was aware of Ciri and her powers, because of which everyone wanted to get their hands on her for their own benefits.

Why did The White Flame kill Elven Child in The Witcher Season 2?

The reason behind The White Flame killing the Elven baby was only to ensure that the Elves could be manipulated to his whim. The famous Ithlinne’s Prophecy stated that the world would end with a child with pure Elven Blood where all the species would die, but the Elves would survive. For this prophecy to come true, Elves needed to have a baby because the way they were treated on the Continent was way worse than one could imagine.

However, in the world of Witcher, it is really difficult for the Elves to have babies, and that too pure Elven Blood. The Elven clan would go to great lengths to protect the pure elder blood child as it would protect them from the world. The leader of the Elven clan, Francesca, did have a baby, but it was killed by The White Flame.

The White Flame, Duny, was aware of two of the pure Elder Blood child; in which one of them was his own daughter Ciri and the other was Francesca’s unborn child. And The White Flame’s decision to kill Francesca’s baby had two reasons. The first was controlling the Elves, as by killing Francesca’s baby, he manipulated the Elves to seek revenge on others, and his competitors would diminish. The second reason for his actions was that the birth of another pure elder blood child would definitely lead to fulfilling the Ithlinne’s Prophecy and Ciri ending the whole world, which could happen in the long term.

However, there are other theories being heard from the viewers about The White Flame killing the baby out of hatred from the Elves. But this doesn’t justify Duny’s long-term plan to fake his own death, which was mentioned in The Witcher Season 1. The White Flame definitely has planned something greater for himself. Everything will unfold in the next, The Witcher Season 3. Till then, stay tuned for updated news about The Witcher world.