Is Radovid V actually the child from Falka's curse? (theory)
Initially, I did not like what CDP RED did with Radovid in the final game (another mad king...), but after some thoughts, I changed my mind.
First of all, we should remember that Radovid the Stern is not the first member of Redanian royal dynasty to succumb into madness. More than a hundred years ago, Falka, the disinherited daughter of King Vridank, initiated a revolt which went down to history as the Falka's Rebellion. Initially perceived by Temerian and Koviri nobles as the fight of the legitimate firstborn for the throne rightfully belonging to her the rebellion turned into the bloodiest peasant war the Northern Kingdoms had ever seen.
Over time, Falka was falling deeper and deeper into insanity. She ordered to burn Mirthe (the Brotherhood of Mages' first seat of power) and personally murdered her own father, half-brothers and Vridank's second wife. She left her child to Riannon, wife of Temerian prince and carrier of Elder Blood, announcing that only queens were worthy of the privilege of being wet nurses to her children, and that such fate would await all the crowned chicks in her New Order.
Let's find some parallels.
Thus, when we considered such similarities, time to to recall Falka's curse.
Most of Nordlings combined the person of Avenger with the Destroyer of Words and Reviveress from Ithlinne's Prophecy and assumed that it'd be one and the same person - in "our" times, Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon or her child. And here we have a mismatch.
It's rather certain that Ciri is not Falka's descendant. Though Codringher and Fenn discovered some ancient elven documents which might suggest that Fiona was actually daughter of Falka, it is strongly suggested to be a mistake - poetic variant of Elder Speech is hard to understand even by Aen Seidhe and it is rather unlikely that Francesca could conceal such revelations from the rest of the research team. Though she could play her own game even a century ago...
The point is - not a single one drop of Falka's blood flows in Ciri's veins. In such case, who will be this "Avenger" from Falka's curse?
The answer is simple. Falka's blood is the blood of Redanian dynasty. The blood of Sambuk, Dambor the Black and Vestibor the Proud. The blood of Radovids and Vizimirs.
The blood of Radovid the Stern. The blood of the man who is actually an ultimate Avenger from her curse. The man who brought death and vengeance to offspring of Falka's persecutors - mages and Redanian aristocracy. The man who spreaded fire and blood in Northern Kingdoms as Falka did hundred years ago.
Initially, I did not like what CDP RED did with Radovid in the final game (another mad king...), but after some thoughts, I changed my mind.
First of all, we should remember that Radovid the Stern is not the first member of Redanian royal dynasty to succumb into madness. More than a hundred years ago, Falka, the disinherited daughter of King Vridank, initiated a revolt which went down to history as the Falka's Rebellion. Initially perceived by Temerian and Koviri nobles as the fight of the legitimate firstborn for the throne rightfully belonging to her the rebellion turned into the bloodiest peasant war the Northern Kingdoms had ever seen.
Over time, Falka was falling deeper and deeper into insanity. She ordered to burn Mirthe (the Brotherhood of Mages' first seat of power) and personally murdered her own father, half-brothers and Vridank's second wife. She left her child to Riannon, wife of Temerian prince and carrier of Elder Blood, announcing that only queens were worthy of the privilege of being wet nurses to her children, and that such fate would await all the crowned chicks in her New Order.
Let's find some parallels.
- Both Falka and Radovid were legal members of Redanian royal family.
- Both were being harmed, insulted and humiliated in their youths. After his father's death, Radovid suffered ignorance from Redanian nobility and aristocracy and was tutored by a dominatrix sorceress who was behind the assassination of his own father. Falka, when she was one year old, was banished with her mother to Kovir after her father had found younger and prettier wife.
- Both took revenge on their persecutors. The horribly revenge, in both cases.
- Both wanted to create a New Order. Though the details are different, both strived for it with fire and sword.
- Both hated mages. Falka raided and burned Mirthe, the ancient city of mages in Gelibol, and commanded to flay Radmir of Tor Carnedd alive. What Radovid did, we know all too well.
- Both fell into a madness.
- Both were associated with fire in some way. During Falka's Rebellion the countless number of cities, castles, mage towers, temples and manors were burned down, Falka herself ended up being burned at the stake in Novigrad, cursing all the people who witnessed her death. Radovid used Church of Eternal Fire to achieve his own goals.
Thus, when we considered such similarities, time to to recall Falka's curse.
Most of Nordlings combined the person of Avenger with the Destroyer of Words and Reviveress from Ithlinne's Prophecy and assumed that it'd be one and the same person - in "our" times, Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon or her child. And here we have a mismatch.
It's rather certain that Ciri is not Falka's descendant. Though Codringher and Fenn discovered some ancient elven documents which might suggest that Fiona was actually daughter of Falka, it is strongly suggested to be a mistake - poetic variant of Elder Speech is hard to understand even by Aen Seidhe and it is rather unlikely that Francesca could conceal such revelations from the rest of the research team. Though she could play her own game even a century ago...
The point is - not a single one drop of Falka's blood flows in Ciri's veins. In such case, who will be this "Avenger" from Falka's curse?
The answer is simple. Falka's blood is the blood of Redanian dynasty. The blood of Sambuk, Dambor the Black and Vestibor the Proud. The blood of Radovids and Vizimirs.
The blood of Radovid the Stern. The blood of the man who is actually an ultimate Avenger from her curse. The man who brought death and vengeance to offspring of Falka's persecutors - mages and Redanian aristocracy. The man who spreaded fire and blood in Northern Kingdoms as Falka did hundred years ago.
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