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But Vilgefortz did infuse Rience with power as a conduit of sorts. When Geralt had R pinned down in Blood of Elves, V sent R some magical force (through a portal!) that allowed him to spawn knives from his fingers and stab G. They don't come out and say it, but Lytta probably had Mozaik on a leash - but it's not clear what power she was endowing her with. Mozaik says that without Lytta, she'd be a nobody, but that's pretty vague.
My take on Yarpin: I'm not sure we can blame his joining the Scoia'tael on Henselt betraying him. After all, he still fought the Scoia'tael at Brenna on the same side (mostly) as Henselt. But what always put Yarpin against the Scoia'tael is that he hated the terrorist tactics that they employed. He hated the inter-racial killing. I think he joined Saskia because she is the best hope for (some amount of) peaceful coexistence among the races, and that's what he wants above all. He joins Saskia despite the fact that Scoia'tael terrorists like Iorveth will be with him, not because of that fact.
I also kinda got the vibe that "Bounds of Reason" Yarpin and "Blood of Elves" Yarpin are almost two completely different characters... But maybe that's just me.
An ongoing theme in the books: Those who care more about grand ideals vs those who care about the people in their lives. Sapkowski always paints those with big, grand worldviews and ideals as the bady guys... at least compared to those who just care about their own parochial lives and familiars. Both Philipa and Dykstra care a great deal about ideals... but only Dykstra is fully willing to sacrifice his own personal interests for those ideals. By contrast, Philipa's pursuit of grand ideals always seems to serve her own personal interests as well. Another character who cares about grand ideals: Tawny Owl and his quest for democracy... which led him to do some really horrible things, to Ciri above all. Emperor Emhyr cares about his grand ideal (reasons of state) which he ultimately gives up in order to save the true Ciri and the fake Ciri, the familiars that he cares about. Geralt is good precisely because he doesn't lead so many friends to their deaths to save promote some grand ideal, but to save his closest familar. Witchers' neutrality is what makes them the good guys in the story, since it means they don't care about grand ideals. Big, epic wars, cataclysmic ice ages, and elvish prophecies are all sort of red herrings in the books that don't really amount to anything.
I always thought it strange that the pontar valley is supposed to be this super valuable piece of land that the kingdoms fight over, but then it's just a broke down, swampy POS.
Another thought, Foltest being too accomodating to Nilfgaardian envoys was his downfall during the 2nd Nilfgaardian war. It's strange to see him doing the same thing again. After what happened last time, Foltest should spit in the envoys face and send him packing. What isn't clear to me is why Triss urges him to be so accommodating? Is she on mission from the Lodge? Since (spoiler alert!) the Lodge doesn't want Foltest dead, it's really not clear to me what Triss' motives are.
(spoilers!) It seems that Nilfgaard is supporting the LaValette rebellion and using the envoy to distract/delay Foltest as they did in Time of Contempt. The Lodge probably knows this and might even be on board with the rebellion. After all, Saskia supported the LaVallettes as well. It might be that they told Triss to get the envoy in to see Foltest? I don't know. Letho makes it sound like a long time passed between Demavend and Foltest's deaths since he had to go under cover as a blind priest. The Lodge supported Letho in Demavend (but not Foltest), but its not clear to me how close the Lodge and Letho were in between the 2 assassinations. Seems they were pretty tight up until Letho killed Foltest, but that would mean that they were privy to his being an undercover priest in Temeria for all that time.
It's also worth noting that Temeria was looking to find and kill Ciri (in Blood of Elves?) they chose not to capture and torture Geralt because - they thought - witchers were built such that they couldn't withstand that kind of stress and would simply die. It's interesting, then, to hear Roche tell Geralt that the former thinks the latter could withstand an awful lot of torture. "You better believe it."
It's funny hearing Triss swear that she won't out Geralts' secrets. In the Blood of Elves the witchers thought that she was being pretty naive about the conflicts of interests that she was so casually putting upon herself when promising to keep Ciri a secret... And it's far from obvious that she kept that secret. (She was in a relationship of sorts with Philipa and the latter could read the former's mind.)
Awesome subject matter, excellent production. True to lore but with just enough personality for me to love. Your a pro and you'll only keep moving forward, be that what you want.
Hi! Fellow fangirl of the witcher universe here😊I really like your voice and even if my first language isn't english I'm able to understand everything. Do I hear an accent in your voice?
I choose to believe the quest ending in Witcher 3 for him isn’t canon, there’s just no way he would be that dumb no way. Why wouldn’t he allow roche to try and rule if anything he’d use it as a puppet government
I kinda hate how powerfull Vilgefortz is. I mean, I saw my share of powerful villains in fantasy, anime, movies, comic books, etc. But all of them, at some point, it doesn't matter how powerful they were, had a difficult moment while facing the protagonist. This guy plays with the protagonist AND his allies, like they were a bunch of little brats who needed a lesson. All the time. He lost by a detail. If he had his eye, I really doubt Geralt would be able to fool him. So, all of this overpower makes me kinda mad with the character! And the way he beats the shit out of Geralt for the first time, will always be in my mind!
May I just say, your narrating voice and story telling rhythm and tone is absolutely incredible and is actually one of the best I've heard and I'm not even exaggerating on that.
I would like to also mention that if you decide with the mother spirit inside the tree, if you go to the town that worships the Crons everyone was slaughtered, killed murdered the spirit killed everyone who served or made sacrifices to the crons bloodbath spirit of vengeance
i really love this video, its so concise and well narrated, it somehow clarified my understanding of the character beyond what i had gleaned (or failed to) from the books... looking forward to exploring more of your Witcher content.
