Talk:Radovid V/@comment-46.11.87.136-20160312164225/@comment-137.132.228.29-20170123093436

The degree of Radovid V arse-kissing here is ridiculous. These fanboys try to present him as a saviour of the north, but the fact is that even if the north successfully repelled Nilfgaard, Radovid wouldn't restore Temeria or any other lands. Radovid V serves himself, not the north. Anyone who thinks otherwise is deluded by the same propaganda Radovid V throws out there.

It's frankly disturbing to see people defending his actions in the game just because he's their favourite character or whatever.

1). Saying that he has suffered at the hands of mages and fears for his life, while true, is insufficient. Radovid V suffered at the hands of a handful of mages. The fact that he is happy to burn every single mage, alchemist, and witch for indignities caused by a few is PRECISELY why he is refered to as a genocidal Hitler, and PRECISELY why the Radovid V fanboys defending smack of Nazism and Fascism.

2). And to answer another post below boasting of stating 'facts':

- A handful of mages, almost all of them court mages, killed kings. Relevant? Yes, but you might as well argue that since some German Jews nwere no doubt profiteering from the poor economy in 1930s Germany, the Holocaust was entirely justified. Or perhaps that's what you already believe privately

- Nonhumans have been brutalized by humans for centuries. If Scoia'tael brutality justified nonhuman pogroms, why isn't Scoia'tael brutality justified by their centuries of mistreatment and marginalization?

- I won't even dignify the idiocy behind this 'point'. It's also covered in my first point above. If you have no qualms murdering a crapload of innocent people marginally associated with a small number of perpetrators/criminals, you are an objectively terrible person, even by Middle Ages standards.

- There isn't really a 'north'' any more. It's just Redania. Skellige doesn't stand with Radovid V. Oh, and interesting fact you are conveniently ignoring: There used to be several more countries in the 'north', with their own borders and leaders. Countries which kings like Foltest, Henselt, and Radovid's da annexed partly or in full. Since the north has historically attacked the north, I suppose that makes the north the enemy as well? Face facts: most of the northern kings have no qualms conquering or stealing other lands if they believe they can get away with it. Nilfgaard just operates on a bigger scale.

By all means, one can fault the game writers for illogical leaps in characterising Radovid V, and in making him a full-fledged maniac, but trying to defend his actions in the game as it stands is just pretty pathetic.