With only eight episodes in its first season, Netflix’s The Witcher still managed to twist up the narrative in an interesting way we haven’t really seen happen too often. With many attempting to compare the series to Game of Throne — because of its fantasy elements, politics, and sprawling storyline — The Witcher flipped the script and embraced its magical elements whole-heartedly when it came to the lifespan of the supernatural characters. Spoilers for Season 1 lie ahead.
For the majority of Season 1, we watched three separate stories unfold – those of witcher Geralt (Henry Cavill), sorceress Yennefer (Anya Chalotra), and princess Ciri (Freya Allan). It wasn’t until Episode 4, “Of Banquets, Bastards and Burials,” however, that we came to realize these stories were not happening at the same time. Ciri’s was playing out more closely confined, in the “present,” while Geralt and Yennefer’s arcs were happening decades in the past.
Source: IGN.com Netflix's The Witcher: The Complicated Timeline, Explained