Dijkstra > Emhyr > Radovid
Dijkstra
-Bro
-Doesn't prosecute people for no reason
-Great style
-Plays Gwent, focuses on the game, gives out rare cards
-Intelligent
-Man of the people
Radovid
-Sells Geralt to Nilfgaard in Witcher 2
-Tries to kill all of his friends
-supports religious fanatics
-dresses like some beggar pretending to be a king
-plays chess, but only with himself, cares more about talking to his pieces than about actual game
-old
-crazy
-obsessed with some whore nobody cares about
I mean, is there one thing Radovid does Dijkstra doesn't do better?
Dijkstra.
- Tried to kidnap Ciri and imprison Yennefer possibly torture her to get to Ciri.
- Was head of intelligence and almost got killed by Filippa, then he was degraded by Radovid.
- Works underworld. He deals with prostitution, murder and so on like every crime boss ever and he loves it.
- His "mighty Redania" falled like house from cards when Nilfgard assasinated Vesemir he got demoted and said "fuck off". "His" redania never was strong as Radovid redania. Nor that redania had ability to conquer all of north using situation like this.
Radovid.
- Realist like Dijkistra. He tolerated mages like everyone else in his youth (filippa was his mentor) but after thanned everything changed when rulers realized that mages are simply to important chees piece to not give a fuck about it. So either slay them or use them. Use them flew out after Radovid got almost killed in Loc Muine where plan of lodge backfired on them and second war with nilfgard started.
So big hunt for mages by radovid is mainly thank you letter to lodge and awesome way to rile up people to war against nilfgard as mages ARE traitors to northern realms. Non associated mages simply got short end of stick.
- Dude united as first ruller ever north and managed to stop completely advances of nilfgard aka the most powerful empire in that world and if he lives he wins the war and emhyr is dead.
Mages got what they deserved. Their assotiation sold themselves to Nilfgard. Even after that they were not hunted (aside from few people). Only after Loc Muine incident Radovid started hunt because in that incident new association of mages almost got him and other rulers killed.
Elves and dwarves got their part because:
- great way to rile up people
- because everybody remembers that scoiatel commandos worked for nilfgard
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laclongquan
Except radovid wasn't persecuting some sandniggers from other countries. He was persecuting wizards from his own country. It's an equivalent of a ruler suddenly deciding that wee need to kill all programmers because some programmer girl was mean to him when he was a kid.
More like ruler who decided he doesn't want to deal with some mercenarry band he can't be sure that won't attack him. Remember that mages twice were traitors and one mage can bust huge hole in defense walls of castle.