The Star Trek and Marvel actress joins the show, which is set 1,200 years before The Witcher.
Netflix isn’t waiting until this Friday’s virtual WitcherCon convention to drop the latest news from theWitcher-verse.
Yeoh takes the role of Scian, the very last of her nomadic tribe of sword-elves.

Michelle Yeoh joins ‘The Witcher: Blood Origin’ as a sword-elf.Katalin Vermes/Netflix; Roy Rochlin/Getty Images
Andrzej Sapkowski, who wrote the originalWitchernovels, serves as creative consultant.
So, expect Yeoh’s casting to be the start of more reveals coming this week.