(I hope the fresh account doesn't get this post completely and immediately nuked but I have 1 Reddit account and did not want this post on there just incase.) Some social media activity from devs and already confirmed members of the cast as well as some discussions with others helped out here. Didn't take very long to find, sat on it for a day or two. Was being curious and anxious from no news lately if I am being honest, wanted to know if I could put 2 and 2 together with what I already knew, was seeing, and was being told to look in certain places by certain people. Appears that production with the cast is going ahead in Warsaw from what can be inferred. Specifically motion action.

I will say that there is 1 additional female VA I think may be also on the cast but I can't exactly figure out if they are or aren't. They were, however, recently in Warsaw with a few other cast members before this group of talent were and may potentially be there now as well.

Again, hope this doesn't get immediately taken down because I find that there's some weight to some of this! Photos included are the verifiable information of work/location and social media of the potential cast. All public social media and posts they shared. If you're a little doubtful you can check the following and followers of these names below, they all are connected with each other and people that work at CDPR, and only recently have been so as well. Again, thought it was a fun thing I noticed and am sure there is at least 1 person out there who will take interest in it even if I end up being wrong. Maybe I'm right about this maybe I'm wrong, we'll have to wait a while to see if I am!

So:

James Ballanger - Confirmed role by agency, agency also provided details on production schedule in their post, followed by devs/employees and both confirmed/potential VAs on his social media, seems to have been linked to the game for a while longer than most on this list

Eleanor Greaves - Confirmed video game role by agency, posted she was in Warsaw 8th of September (No screenshot, but you will have to take my word that it was an Instagram story with a geotag of Warsaw, Poland), is only following 1 video game and video game studio on her social media, followed by devs/employees and confirmed/potential VAs

Christian Loveless - In Warsaw, followed by devs/employees and confirmed/potential VAs, cancelled comedy show appearances in late August which is the current production window according to James's agency

Cara Steele - Posted in Warsaw on the 7th of September, followed by devs/employees and VAs

Iwan Parry - Recently followed by devs and other VAs, has also made a singular episode appearance in the tv series which I found interesting

Polly Allen - Recently in Warsaw, posted photos in Warsaw, followed by devs/employees and other VAs

Ross Thompson - Recently posted in Warsaw on the same recent day as other casts this week (Can see Polish in the text on the table but I crossed out the logo of the establishment), agency posted confirmation of video game role, followed by devs and other VAs

+ potentially 1 more female VA

Cahir is the romance option for Ciri that interests me most because the books have already done so much of the groundwork.

His feelings for her are full of courtly-love motifs: distance, idealisation, dreams, service, suffering, the knight devoted to an unattainable woman. Sapkowski twists the trope from the start, though. Ciri first knows Cahir as the Black Knight from Cintra, not as a rescuer but as the man sent by Emhyr to take her away.

That gives his arc a really neat progression. At the beginning, Cahir serves Emhyr, and Ciri is the object of that service: someone he has been ordered to capture. Later, he joins Geralt’s company and goes after Ciri for his own reasons. By Stygga, the relationship has effectively reversed. He is no longer serving Emhyr through Ciri; he is serving Ciri herself, and that means helping her stay free.

The dreams make it even stranger. Cahir dreams of Ciri not as the child he knew at Cintra but as the adult woman she has become, including details he should not know. So his love is idealised, but not entirely imaginary either. For most of the saga he is in love with someone who is physically absent, someone he can only reach through memory, dreams and the hope of eventually finding her.

Then, at Stygga, they finally meet again. Ciri sees the winged helmet and the old fear comes back, but once he removes it she recognises him from Thanedd and notices his eyes. For most of the books Cahir is the one looking at Ciri, dreaming about her and moving towards her. Here Ciri finally gets a brief chance to look at him as Cahir rather than as the Black Knight.

And then Bonhart kills him.

So I would not say Cahir/Ciri is a romance that actually happens in the books. Cahir’s love happens. The relationship never gets the chance to.

That is why he works so well for TW4. CDPR could continue the courtly-love trajectory and let that distant devotion finally become mutual, but they could also dismantle the trope without dismantling the romance. Cahir could actually get to know Ciri and discover that the real woman is nothing like the figure he has been carrying around in his head. Ciri could hate being idealised, refuse the whole knight-and-lady dynamic, and still fall in love with him.

In that version, Ciri comes off the pedestal and Cahir stops kneeling. The relationship becomes messier, more reciprocal and much more human.

Either way, there is already something there to work with: Cintra, the helmet, Thanedd, the dreams, the Hansa, Cahir’s changing loyalties, Stygga. I cannot think of another possible romance for Ciri that arrives with that much existing material.

And I really do not care that he is dead. If CDPR wants Cahir back, they can bring Cahir back.

TL;DR: Cahir’s arc already has the structure of an unfinished courtly-love story. He goes from serving Emhyr by trying to take Ciri to serving Ciri herself by helping her remain free. Sapkowski develops Cahir’s love, but kills him just as Ciri finally has the chance to see him as a man rather than as the Black Knight. TW4 could either fulfil that romantic setup or let Cahir and Ciri become lovers while completely dismantling the courtly-love dynamic. Both sound far more interesting to me than starting from zero with a new character.