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Ciri’s powers come directly from the books, but the show has added or tweaked a few elements, including her now signature scream. What does correlate between the two, though, is that at one point, Ciri gives up her ability to draw from her immense Elder Blood powers, and in the show, this happens in the season 3 episode Out of the Fire, Into the Frying Pan (episode 7). This is the episode where Falka attempts to tempt Ciri into unleashing her powers, even if that means tapping into the darker elements, and that causes Ciri to renounce her powers to keep the darker times of the prophecy Falka is showing her from happening.
This is why Ciri doesn’t use things like her scream in battles in season 4, and that’s also why we don’t see her rip open any portals to the other spheres as she did in previous seasons, which not only moved the group to other worlds but also allowed beings from those worlds to cross over to our sphere as well. Granted, watching how deadly she is in the show, she doesn’t exactly need them to be a threat.
If the series follows the general line of the books, Ciri will gain access to those powers once more in season 5, as she never really lost them in the first place. When she loses her powers in the books, she doesn’t actually lose the knowledge of how to use them, but more shuts the door that allows access to them. If that door happens to be pushed open, the powers still exist on the other side, as she never stops being of Elder Blood.
