Photo-Illustration: The Cut, Photos: Getty, CD Projekt RED
Geralt of Rivia, the hero of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, is introduced to us naked, soaking in a steamy postcoital bath in a wooden tub. We are in the bedroom suite of Kaer Morhen, the witcher castle of the Wolf School, where Yennefer, the love of Geralt’s life, is also nude except for the towel wrapping her hair, her shapely figure leaned on a chaise, reading, posed to show off her perfect ass. Despite her objectification, Yennefer is all business: She sends a magical lobster into the tub to nip Geralt in his sensitive bits, reminding him of his promise to their adopted daughter Ciri that he’d train with her. The erotic tone of the scene is tempered by domesticity, family, the mundane threaded…
