Talk:Nilfgaardian Empire/@comment-109.187.31.95-20190510155133/@comment-2001:8003:2057:2C00:7864:7EC5:99D3:69EE-20190816110510

Because the people they're calling barbarians have a pogrom (genocide of 'lesser' races) on a near monthly basis. And don't pretend the northern kingdoms aren't free of rape. They have, if you read the diary in the Devil By the Well quest, nobles who engage in the right of the first night. That means the noble can rape any woman on her wedding day, he gets to go first on her first night as a married woman. It's not allowed, as they pleaded with their lord about it, but it still clearly happens. And said noble didn't get too harsh a punishment if he could later have the woman hanged to death in a well for telling the local lord about his rapist dalliances. Most likely he was told "give me some gold and some goats and stop fucking the peasantry." by the lord and sent on his way.

So you have one empire that is kind of snooty and arrogant towards the people it conquers and also engaging in the terrible shit most empires did, and a gaggle of kingdoms that slaughter every elf, dwarf, doppler, gnome, halfling, mage, herbalist, "heretic", witcher, and others they can slaughter for the crime of being too short, having too pointy a pair of ears, or being too intelligent not to rub pig-shit on themselves for a local peasant cure and instead have an understanding of how some plants can be restorative. Why the absolute fin-flapping fuck WOULDN'T you call them barbarians?

And when every goddamn Nordling spits at me as I walk by, how am I supposed to want to help these people? The only thing that saved them from Nilfgaardians enacting their own pogroms was Dijkstra being so goddamn likeable.