Talk:Phillip Strenger/@comment-30706862-20200114212527

Surprised to see so many defending the Baron’s character. He chose to be a soldier, so his excuse for being away from his family is null and void; he certainly makes no implication he was conscripted and served against his will.

As a soldier, he grew accustomed to violence, and drinking. But it’s no excuse for bringing that back to his family. The amount of people who refer to Anna’s relationship with Evan as “cheating” is laughable. How was she to know Phillip was even still alive? And upon this triumphant return to an abandoned house his response is to murder his wife’s lover, admittedly feeding his corpse to rabid dogs in front of his estranged wife. For all we know, she had a better relationship with Evan than some dude she essentially acted as a nurse to (among how many other wounded soldiers?)

Phillip was an horrible man, and Geralt once said he’d prefer not to choose when presented with the lesser of two evils; thus, any argument that Phillip is a better ruler than Ardal becomes null and void on account of the fact that it wouldn’t be enough of a reason for Geralt not to intervene. The guy was horrible; beat his pregnant wife. Got what was coming to him.