Sure they could. My Geralt once defeated a Dragon and killed anyone in TW2 using only igni sign and didn't use swords even once whole game (cursed battle doesn't count, you don't have a choice there). I'm sure a novice mage can cast igni on a Geralt's level and defeating a dragon is not even required.
I can't believe you're still peddling this rubbish.
Do you not understand that not everything you can do in the games can be used as proof especially in a complex context such as analogy amidst all these assumptions?
Geralt could defeat Bosses using his bare fists. He can carry around 4 tons of equipments. Those are game mechanics and/or exploits. Not lore. This argument is flat out nonsensical. Sorry.
In any law you cannot sue the person for the crime that hasn't been committed. Even if she sell papers to Radovid the serious effort needs to be made to make a weapon out of that theory. Like Einstein is not guilty for nuclear strike on Hiroshima. Research is not a weapon otherwise you can put in jail any more or less competent physicist, chemist or medical scientist because they know in theory how to make a weapon to kill millions.
You're the one who brought up Arrest which has nothing to do with the issue. You know the original argument. Trying to switch stuff around post by post ain't productive. What do you want? People agreeing with your nonsense?
Ok fine, Gerald was WRONG and Keira was 100% right in wanting to bring a certifiably insane mass murderer research he could have weaponised.
Btw you're the one now making the unwarranted claim that research has nothing no moral implications. You are also purposefully distorting what happened.
She wouldn't have been "arrested" for the research. She simply would have had to give it up because the very real risks if it fell on the wrong hands (Radovid's). This is a very common theme across fiction.
I'm tired of your shtick for which you ignore 99% of the points everytime and just try another angle for the sake of it.
Finally a reasonable argument. But I already said long time ago that in an ambush you can kill anyone who is not prepared. Capturing is another matter, it's way more difficult, nearly impossible. Arresting... well, I doubt anyone would agree to be arrested by sadistic torturers without a fight if they have means to resist.
Same as a fight with multiple opponents from different direction in which you can't defend effectively from all direction, nor focus on defense exclusively.
Which is the point.
If sorcerers know that they are hunted down then they will be prepared and will be avoiding ambush situations. Without an ambush is completely different matter. Knowing that she's hunted down by particular people Triss alone could exterminate all of them mixing various strategies. If witch hunter leaders start to die like flies the popularity to join them would be very low.
Complete rubbish.
1)Except.. they're the ones attacking, in the Novigrad case we were talking about.
2)You can try to avoid all you want but some situations have an inherent risk, such as... a city with buildings. Urban warfare anyone?
3)"Knowing that she's hunted down by particular people Triss alone could exterminate all of them mixing various strategies" Right. What does this even mean practically?
Plus, she's the one attacking. I'm pretty sure she'd know who's the enemy. What are the various strategies employable during an attack on the whole city of Novigrad?
Why not write some fanfic about it.
4)"If witch hunter leaders start to die like flies the popularity to join them would be very low." Oh. So now it's a months-spanning plan of assassinations vs witch hunter leaders? Or, you know, it could have the opposite effect, with the general populace and everyone being riled up against all mages even more. And pogroms.
The Mages are in that situation also due to their cruelty and bloodshed and plottings.
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In the excerpt you quoted it is clear that those mages were not actually fightning but rather trying to convince Vilgefortz not to attack them. And then a few Scoia'Tael arrows hit their heads from behind. So it's not like mages couldn't defeat the elves in a fair fight. They got cought by surprise.
But this example shows that mages are extremely vulnerable to sudden attacks from behind. Even much more than simple soldiers.
Why is it that you people can't be honest? Not worthy of a comment. You know you can argue using reason, logic, empirical evidence without such cheap tricks.
On Iorweth's path, when you get near Eilhart's house in Loc Muinne you can overhear two redanian soldiers talking about her capture. It is then revealed that as soon as she appeared in Redanian camp she got shackled from behind so that she would not cast a single spell. She didn't expect that since she thought Radovid was more or less on her side then.
But when she was shackled, she was helpless like a baby. She couldn't get out no matter how much she tried.
Yes. So? The point is mages don't have lighting speed reflexes. ANd if you can capture one this easily, you can certainly kill one much more easily. Even in a all out fight.
would assume that she was kinda exhausted having wiped out two armies a moment before.
Exagerating much. Also it was an example of mage fatigue, much like Triss' in Flotsam. Mages have c*** magicka/magical stamina.
Hence why one mage being this unstoppable force able to wipe out whole cities is nonsense.
"but Sabrina did wipe out two armiez bleh blehshh" No, she was safe behind Kwaedenian lines. From a distance summoned a spell. She wasn't part of the fighting, nobody was attacking her.
Now if someone would have, she'd be probably dead as busy casting her "someandsuch fire" spell and completely vulnerable from close range+marksmanship.
