Talk:Reason of State/@comment-34478120-20180126170151


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Yeah this quest really ruined things for me, left me feeling sour about the whole thing, not because things turned sour but because it was totally out of character.

Dijkstra is a genius and a spy, he'd never do anything as stupid as to attack Geralts friends in front of him as that would be a direct provocation, he already had his ankle broken when he got in Geralts way before so he knows who he is dealing with and how to approach Geralt, he wouldn't risk his life in such a stupid way by springing his suprise treachery speech on them all like that. He'd have found a way to convince them, wouldn't even be difficult seeing as it was actually the only sensible plan.

Roche, Ves and Thaler are all fun characters who we've seen get up to all kinds of nonsense with Geralt, a man who will always stand up for his friends, this is actually how he dies, so there is only one option which is to kill Dijkstra.

The fact that not one of the supposed politically minded peeps there except Dijkstra was smart enough to work out that Emhyr is a **** and will **** all over anyone wherever his next whim takes him and is not to be trusted, that they needed to win the war not just hold out, that there were a bunch of other ways to play it out also didn't make sense for these characters.

Roche is a patriot, he'd never want peace with Nilfgaard especially seeing as he was just round the corner when his king's head was cut off and Letho hopped out the window with it, this was almost handled well during the battle at Kaer Morhen with him getting pissed off but honestly there's no way he wouldn't have tried to kill Letho then, something I think should have been included, a failed (obviously) atttempt at killing Letho.

Thaler is smart, very smart, just like Dijkstra he should be too smart to fall for a peace treaty with Nilfgaard. Also how on earth would killing Radovid not just give Emhyr free reign to take absolutely everything in the north except Kovir? It just doesn't add up one bit. Ves is the only one I could see being fooled by the treaty idea but even then she also wouldn't go for it, about 3 quests ago you chased her down because she had decided to go hunt some Black Ones. Not a lady who wants peace, she wants someone to fight against.