Talk:Radovid V/@comment-73.210.53.176-20150726151703/@comment-109.60.4.72-20151023104953

Ugh.. a BioWare fan. You just made me wretch by mentioning Mass Effect's treatment of Cerberus... If you like nice little storybook black/white tales, you can always play the Saturday-morning cartoon that is Inquisiton.

The Witcher series is about tough choices, about real moral greyness. You're the one who wasn't payiong attention. Radovid V is a monarch in a tough situation: he needs money to fight a state about ten times the size of his own. He will get it by any means necessary - and if that means purging those conniving mages, so be it. He is using the Faith of the Eternal Fire to pursue this goal, and he can't very well pick and choose his targets in that situation.

But what you fail to notice is that its EMHYR, not Radovid, who is to blame for the persecution of mages. Likely because your BioWare mind wwas baffled by the story of The Witcher 2 (if you even played that game). Its Emhyr who assassinated two (possibly three) out of the four major Northern monarchs - and skillfully blamed it on a secret mage plot nobody really knows the extent of.

CDPR absolutely DID make a huge shift in this character. He was an ally of Foltest by the end of The WItcher, and in my game the Order of the Flaming Rose was lead by the moral Siegfried of Denesle. Whether they're evil in TW2 depends entirely on your TW1 choices. Further, I don't see them as particularly more "evil" than the racist, supremacist terrorists whom they defended the people from, and whom you undoubtedly chose to side with.

The fact that he had Eilheart, the TRAITOR and MURDERER of his own father - blinded, is frankly nothing. Traitors get drawn and quartered.