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In the Cinematic Trailer

Mioni is a young woman from Stromford who has been selected by lot as the next human sacrifice to the Bauka monster terrorizing the village. When Ciri arrives and objects to the sacrifice, Mioni agrees to help by singing a sacrificial song to lure the Bauk from its cave.

Ciri sends Mioni back to the village while she stays to fight the creature. After Ciri kills the Bauk and returns, she discovers that the villagers have murdered Mioni anyway, stabbing her with a dagger. The villagers blamed Mioni for abandoning her duty as a sacrifice.

Thematic Role

Game director Sebastian Kalemba described Ciri and Mioni as "mirrors of each other" in a trailer breakdown. Mioni accepts her destiny. She is willing to die for her village. Ciri is the opposite: she fights against fate at every turn. The parallel highlights a recurring theme of CDPR's Witcher games, where good intentions do not guarantee good outcomes.

Mioni's death is the moral gut-punch of the trailer. Ciri completed her contract and killed the monster, but the villagers' fear ran deeper than any creature. Saving the village from the Bauk did not save it from itself.