While readers of the books will be aware that Vilgefortz rates as one of the great supervillains of the franchise, the TV series has diverged on some major plot points and there’s no promise it’ll follow the same route. For Volume 1, Vilgefortz has been upsettingly laidback, making peace with Yennefer, turning on the charm, and playing the part of the fair-minded mage, but that’s actually somehow a little bit scarier when he was being actively murderous in Season 1. Watching him mercilessly kill a fellow mage during the Battle of Sodden Hill in Season 1 and lose his cool at Tissaia for her secrecy in Season 2 suggests that there is something nefarious hidden behind all that charm, and frankly we’re a little scared at the prospect of seeing it out in the open. Since the first season, Vilgefortz has been - at the very least - a minor antagonist for Yennefer, but there have been a lot of hints along the way suggesting that he might be a much scarier guy than we ever knew. The build-up for this has been lengthy, but given that one of them actually manages to land a hand on Ciri’s shoulder while hissing an invitation for her to join them before being temporarily vanquished by Geralt, here’s hoping we see their story finally set in motion in Volume 2. We still don’t actually know what their deal is or what their intentions are for Ciri other than they have presumably nefarious interest in “the child with the Elder Blood.” For that, they’ll need to get in line, considering that most of the Northern Territories are on the hunt for Ciri at the moment, but out of everyone looking for Yennefer and Geralt’s adopted daughter, this group of ghastly skull-faced wraiths likely have the best odds of actually finding her. Individual members have made lengthy appearances, such as the Deathless Mother, who appeared as the major antagonist in Season 2, and Eredin, the doomed Elf commander of the Xin'trea army in "Blood Origin," but we have only just seen the group finally taking collective action as of Season 3. Up to now, we’ve seen little of them directly, but there has been a lot of foreshadowing along the way. The famed “Wild Hunt” (aka the Red Riders of the novels) has been teased as major antagonists going back to a very brief hint in the pilot episode. What Happens When the Wild Hunt Gets Hold of Ciri?
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