He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace
still left good legacy
killed by his loving wife and possibly Síle de Tansarville
What if Radovid has indeed lost it? I'm not sure if this is new info, but it's still spoilers about the events between W2 and W3:
Sounds like Radovid, without any helpless sorceresses in his reach, has taken to torturing innocent peasants instead.
when Nilfgaard was on the offensive, Redania didn't support the war effort. Instead, to everyone's surprise, Radovid just attacked Kaedwen in the back. And this is the main reason for why Kaedwen is out of the game now.
Now I'm not a master tactician, so this... really doesn't look like a legit strategy to me. Especially since Redania and Kaedwen are bloody allies.
Now I'm not a master tactician, so this... really doesn't look like a legit strategy to me. Especially since Redania and Kaedwen are bloody allies.
Sounds like Radovid, without any helpless sorceresses in his reach, has taken to torturing innocent peasants instead.
The russian video from yesterday. The Nilfgaardian ambassador talks about the current political situation and mentions all that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGKe3iWRTYg
So, Radovid did the similar thing as Henselt did with Aedirn? Nice.
Smart move by CDP. So they don't have to bother with our Witcher 2 choices at all. Aedrin and Temeria were lost in any case. Kaedwen was the big variable. This way it won't really matter if we killed Henselt or not.
That's all, yes. The video is a fucking mess, the ambassador talks a bit about it 34 minutes in, but that's not the whole conversation. He mentions Radovid's betrayal in some other little cut.
I've also posted a bit of a summary about it in the news thread yesterday, in case someone really wants more spoilers.
It's not quite the same. Kaedwen and Aedirn were always at each other's throats. And Henselt always wanted to rightfully reclaim Aedirn.
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Very different situation completely. When Henselt made the deal to occupy Upper Aedirn with Nilfgaard he did so because every other Northern army besides his own had been virtually annihilated by Emhyr's forces and he didn't have the strength to fight them. By making the deal he stopped the entire eastern advance by Nilfgaard in Aedirn which prevented the Eastern Army from moving into Temeria or crossing the Pontar and invading Kaedwen. It also made it so that the Nilfgaardian Army there was worn out by guerrilla tactics and allowed Henselt to detach his most elite troops to fight at Brenna.
It was a very intelligent, calculated move on his part that won that war.
Radovid invading Kaedwen just doesn't make that much sense to me....unless Radovid made the deal to split the North with Emhyr at Loc Muinne!
Italian? I think in the books some have some Italian-esque names but for the most part I always thought Nilfgaardians were more German/Dutch based, although granted the games seem to not make the distinction that the books do between Nilfgaardians proper and people simply living in the Empire of Nilfgaard, the games make out like everyone is the former.
I think he means that Nilfgaard Empire is similar to the Roman empire.
But how do we know that the ambassador is telling the truth? Not saying it isn't truth but I am just wondering if he doesn't have a agenda like ambassadors then to do!
Yeah.... does anyone have any idea what happened to her? She was still alive in the books.
Why would he be ordered to lie? That's not how Emhyr does things. Besides, Emhyr's main concern is finding Ciri, not manipulating Geralt into winning the war for him.
Also, news like that are easy to confirm by just asking some Redanian nobles, they'll tell you exactly what happened.
Probably trying to hold off another bridge by herself, the crazy cunt that she is. :hmm:
Well this is bollocks, I thought the north would unite, even W2 gave off that hint and now we see some cheap plot tactic so our decisions from W2 won't matter at all :/
I wanted my north to be as strong as possible after the events of W2, all my decisions led to that... but now I see it won't matter anyway, great...
Last time we heard something about Meve was in W2...Stennis said to Geralt something like "She curses you every time she hears your name", iirc...
And in W1 that gossip woman speaks of "wise and strong queen, once beautiful but now with scarred face"...
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Not saying he lied. I am just not going to assume he is absolutely telling the truth. As such I am not just going to take his words for facts. The Witcher universe is full of political manipulation and powerful people that want to use Geralt and in that Emhyr is a master player with is own agenda and I am sure he has hidden objectives.
No, it's idealistic which the witcher universe sure as fuck isn't.
At the very possible best Redania and Kaedwen would have fought together against Nilfgaard, but Temeria, Aedirn along with Saskia's little rump state and the other smaller countries never would have mattered.
Only exception would have been Temeria if Radovid had gained Anais. Some Iorveth path fans fantasized about Radovid allying Saskia to fight Nilfgaard but that sure as hell was never going to happen since Saskia is a threat to the absolute monarch system.
As for Henselt. There's plenty of nobles who don't like him in Kaedwen and much of his loyalist army was killed at Vergen even if he won the battle. Radovid probably bought them off and got rid of him.
One of the first things Geralt mentions is about Radovid's realms while talking with Vesemir about the political situation.
What's really ironic about the situation is that all the Henselt bashers justified the decision to kill him on Roche's path by saying he was prone to making a deal with Nilfgaard. Well turns out Radovid made that deal.