Talk:Nilfgaardian Empire/@comment-24019656-20200203075941

Where exactly was a "Nilfgaardian republic" mentioned? Certainly not in the books. I have read most of the witcher related media including rpg booklets both Polish and new ones and while Nilfgaardian Senate is mentioned in some translations (while in Polish I think it's just called Rada which can mean both Senate and general Council) that doesn't mean Nilfgaard is 1 on 1 Roman Empire with it's history and that it was a republic. It might have been but until Sapkowski or CDPR explicitly write that I think that part should be removed. Someone went into heavy conjecture here and tried to represent it as canon fact. First of all a realm doesn't need to be a republic to have a senate. Senate existed long before the Republic in case of Rome, it was literally a Council of Elders (Litteral meaning of the word Senate). In case of later iterations when Rome became increasingly autocratic monarchy in the East it still had a senate even though it wasn't a Republic. Holy Roman Empire also had a senate but was not a republic.