"If you needed to show somebody the sheer range of tones The Witcher is capable of juggling at once, the season-four finale would be a great place to start. In the span of a single hour, we get a rousing soldiers-and-monsters fight with Geralt & Co.; an earnest, forward-thinking political maneuver by Yennefer and her sorceresses; and a genuinely, horrifyingly violent fate for Ciri and her Rats."
"Having spent the entire season trekking toward Nilfgaard, the group has one last obstacle in their way: a raging river to cross. At first, it seems like good fortune when they stumble upon a ferry. But when a Northern army regiment sees the boat on the river and mistakes them for Nilfgaardian spies, they end up desperately floating down the river - only to encounter, on the opposite shore, a separate Nilfgaardian group just as eager to sink them."
"Though it can't live up to the variety and strangeness of the mages-versus-mages battle at Montecalvo a couple of episodes ago, there are plenty of clever flourishes throughout: Cahir putting a crossbow bolt through the eye of a former ally, Zoltan rolling logs down a hill to knock Nilfgaardians off their horses, and Geralt using fire magic to break the chain of a troll and kill it with its own weapon."
The finale alternates between a soldiers-and-monsters confrontation, sorceress political maneuvering, and a horrifying violent turn for Ciri and her Rats. Geralt's group must cross a raging river and is mistaken for Nilfgaardian spies, forcing them into a desperate float and later into a bridge defense against Nilfgaardian soldiers. The battle includes tactical improvisations—Cahir's crossbow shot, Zoltan's log assault, and Geralt's use of fire magic to slay a troll. At Montecalvo, surviving sorceresses reckon with Vilgefortz's ongoing threat. Yennefer successfully proposes forming a League of Sorceresses to rebuild Aretuza and secure magic's future on the Continent.
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