Talk:Jad Karadin/@comment-70.68.221.255-20180104090325/@comment-86.127.214.32-20190427132518

"who sends assassins to collect a supposed debt"- They were percieved as assasins by Lambert, because they ended up killing Aiden. They were hired as mercenaries, to rough up Aiden in case he wouldn't pay. "who pays a witcher in advance" See, the thing is, Aiden was paid after he (thought) was done with the job, to lift a curse, but he messed up, and the curse wasn't truly lifted. Thus the employer, angry and wanting his money back, most likely posted a notice requesting hired thugs capable of handling a witcher to, what I presume would be most important, teach the bastard a lesson, since getting his money back couldn't be the main reason, the hired thugs gotta be paid too, most likely from the money they'd get from him. Karadin references this in his side of the story, says Aiden botched a contract. In truth, anything to do with curses and wraiths cannot be permanently fixed/solved. You can even find a letter in Vizima in a hidden chamber in the gardens, referencing a curse turning a person into a Striga being lifted, only to be later reapplied by "interested" individuals... Concerning the letter to Hammond, reading the 2nd part of it, "There are plenty of other potential buyers in Novigrad: goldsmiths, jewelers and merchants dealing in luxury goods",it's not offering Hammond alternative trade contacts for him to sell his slaves to, or implying Ronald Treugger would be willing to partake in this. Goldsmiths and jewelers have no need of slaves. He simply stated that he(Karadin) has shifted his area of commerce to more legal, socially acceptable, sources of revenue. And to anyone arguing that the city is at war, and that people there have no money or need for jewelery, note that Karadin is a merchant, not a craftsman. He is the one who buys the jewelery on the cheap from the craftsmen, who would basically go out of business if nobody bought their goods "in wartime", and then sells it to other countries, in other places unaffected by war. He's most likely wracked up quite a fortune during his time as a witcher, and was able to buy a few merchant ships to finance this endeavor.