**Myth: The recent viral "leaked" image of *The Witcher 4* showing a fully armored Ciri battling a mechanical Griffin in Unreal Engine 5 is real.**
**Fact: FAKE.**
The image is a high-quality AI deepfake stitched together using fan art from 2022 and background assets from the *Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty* expansion. Reverse image searches trace the Griffin's design back to a model by a hobbyist artist on ArtStation, not CD Projekt Red. Additionally, the lighting signature doesn't match CDPR's current known lighting pipeline for Polaris. The *actual* Witcher 4 (codenamed Polaris) is in pre-production and won't have a reveal trailer until at least 2026.