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Ciri goes off with Galahad (either of our world as the source of our Arthurian mythology, or on another world that matches it) at the end of the novels. If she had a child, it would have been on that world- and if her child teleported elsewhere she would have been hot on his heels. In the...

They were promised Dol Blathanna, and Nilfgaard had at least treated the Elves a bit better than the Northern Kingdoms. Still not well, mind you, but better. Then when the time came, Emhyr and/or Francesca threw them under the proverbial bus because they were no longer useful. Not talking...

We haven't seen the Nilfgaardian Empire much in the games, but the books draw very heavily on WWII Germany for its ethos and symbolism. Short of having Emhyr grow a moustache, publish Mein Kampf and adopt the Swastika as their national emblem, I'm not really sure how much clearer Sapkowski could...

Erm... have you read the books? Nilfgaard draws extremely heavily on Germany of World War II for influences. The Vrihedd Brigade wears lightning bolt insignia, there's to focus on "racial purity" that makes no sense since being "racially pure" means belonging to a different group than the one...

Can't get the quote tags working for some reason; my apologies. >Shilard, and by extension Emhyr definitely played a part, but the groundwork >to eliminate the Lodge was already set in motion by Radovid, who said was his >plan ever since TW1. Radovid's plan was to amass as much power as...

The man who bought down Phillipa isn't Radovid, though. It's Shilard, possibly Emhyr. Radovid got very, very lucky and was able to take Phillipa completely by surprise when she arrived at Loc Muine; were she not operating with such haste he never even would have had a chance. Despite being...

Actually, Demavend was the acknowledged best of the North's military leaders. He was petty, vain, and cruel, but very good at war. Admittedly he may not have faced Saskia directly, but one would expect the Aedirnian military to display better competence than they did, since peasants in war...

There's at least three ways to get out of the Dungeon. The first is that if you killed Aryan earlier, his mother is being tortured and Shilard will help cover your escape. The second has Aryan being tortured in place of his mother if you convinced him to surrender. The third, and which I only...

This. There may or may not be an organised attempt to wipe out the non-human races (and every kingdom demonstrates at least some degree of support for what is going on), but the "disorganised" actions that have taken place since the Conjunction of the Spheres, and especially in recent times have...

Cities they took by force. Time and time again. Elves were forced from their cities to live in the forests; it's not where the bulk of their race lived before the arrival of humanity in the Conjunction of the Spheres. Yes, they have. In an action masterminded by Roche, no less. They hit...

Iorveth is older than Geralt. Going by his comments he's past the stage of life during which Elves are fertile- he's probably 300 or more years old. And in that time he's watched as non-humans were forced from their lands, murdered, and in a number of other ways brutalised by humans. He's been...

Because Iorveth has watched centuries worth of successive generations doing the same thing to the non-human races that the current one is. He can see where that path is leading as clearly as anyone else. His reaction may be extreme, but he is entirely correct in concluding that if there are no...

You stated that Iorveth was wholly responsible for them being burned. Iorveth is entirely justified in pointing out that the human population of Flotsam could have saved them, and that they did not need to degenerate into the mob we see in action at the end of Act I. But that is the path the...

No. The point is that neither side has clean hands, and pretty much everything you can accuse one side of applies just as well to the other. The difference is that supporting Roche keeps the status quo in place, which may or may not be what he and the Blue Stripes want. Going with Iorveth is...

Shades of gray, and something hardly without precedent in the real world. The ware between the races began with the Conjunction of the Spheres, not the formation of the Scoia'tel or even Nilfgaard. The non-human races have been getting the rough end of the pineapple for quite some time. He...