King Foltest summons Geralt to his side and wants to launch a ballista at Count Etcheverry for being a traitor. He must also help Foltest recover his children before he may leave with Triss.
@@Moeflyer6213dude is more lecherous than any witchers lol. He have kinks for taboo stuff. He banged celibate priestesses, his friends' wives and daughters, and also his parents' daughter apparently. Regardless of that, he still is the best king the Northern Kingdoms ever had, perhaps even the best ruler in the Witcher universe. I mean compared Emhyr whom invaded the North multiple times just because he wants to bang his own daughter and suddenly Foltest's scandal doesn't seem that bad.
Foltest was such a memorable character. Never played the first game, so being introduced to him this way in Witcher 2 had me captivated by him. The other northern kings we were introduced to later in the game were downright unlikeable.
Aren't one or two of his kids still alive the one with his sister and one of his bastards no? If so it would make sense that Roche would try to install one if them as ruler
@@european-one if one of his kids preferably the bastards as his sisters one os married to radovid I think would be the perfect person to place on the throne barely remember hearing about any if that if at all in the witcher 3 gad been a year or two since I last played though
In a hindsight, he was the least deranged crowned head in Witcher series. What a little sister-fu**ery on a side is compared to Emhyrs' warmongering, Henselts' love for slaugher, or batshit hatred of Radovid.
And not only that, they didn't allowed us to keep some of the gear and weapons from 1-2, and of which I took much care thru my journey, without even some in game explanation at the start of 3 😒😡👍
@@Hellion73honestly they should just make another expansion for the Witcher 3 and add some nilfgard and northern realm areas and expand the war and political stories, also bring back saskia and ivoreth. I really don’t know why they hadn’t thought of it earlier
@@piratekingluffy376 Yeah, agreed...was looking for CPRD news, and some content about TW start to appear, so I commented in one vid someone make about the "worst" parts of TW3, been one of those how all the "political" side of things went to the toillet with the Reason of State quest and its end...man, what a massive let down was all that cos I think that should've been the point to compressed all the characters and consecuences on that aspect and from the whole trilogy and of which you just wrote...and more than Gerald just to be there to save his friends😒
@@Funkshoonthis should be made into open world remake with better choices. Witcher 3 is my favourite game of all time but the story in is the best I've ever played
11:28 is my favorite part. Always gets me pumped up. A shame what happened to Temeria at the end of the Witcher 2 and start of Witcher 3. The plate armor worn by those Temerian Knights with the red feathers is aesthetic, I'd say on par with the plate armor design of Nilfgaard.
Foltest made one mistake, ge gave too much trust. If he didn't trust the "monk" he would have stayed alive. With Geralt at his side, Letho would have been dead before he could have touched Foltest.
He wasn't as paranoid as he should've been or maybe that's just me if I was a king I would certainly be looking over my shoulder even more than I already do
Hard to decide. Witcher 2 has Foltest, Letho, Henselt, Dethmond, Roche , Saskia and Iorweth While Witcher 3 has Emhyr, Bloody baron, Dijkstra, Regis, Gaunther o Dimm, Olgierd , Lambert, Eskel, Vesemir and ofc Yen. There are great characters in both. Shame they did not bring the great characters from the W2 to W3. Roche and Letho are there but they suck.
On one hand Foltest had his understanding about engineering and military, was willing to fight alongside with his soldiers and knights and recognized their sacrifices for the country. On the other hand he couldn’t control his lower part of the body, produced scandals and bastards with his vassals spouse, causing conflicts within the kingdom. He was described as a charismatic ruler with complicated characters in witcher 2. Hard to say whether he was a good king or not, but sure has left a vivid impression to me 12 years ago when i first played the game.
It's hard to say how good of a king in general Foltest was indeed, in books he is fairly energetic and ambitious and is capable of extending the power of his kingdom, and due to other factors not dependant on him, he actually gets a boost to his power, after death of the king Ekkehard of Sodden he gets the crown of that kingdom (or at least that part of it that didn't get counquered by Nilfgaard in first war :)), and king Venzlav of Brugge willingly becomes his vassal (to protect his country from the threat of Nifgaardian Empire), we learn already in the story The Witcher that even from young age he was quite a troublemaker prone to scandals :) and so hence his infamous love affair with his own sister Adda and the child they sired that later got cursed and turned into striga. He also was nominal sovereign of Mahakam, though dwarves had their own ruler in truth, still he would have benefitted economically from proximity of dwarven mines :), as he said in the book during the meeting of kings at Hagge in Blood of Elves he was for the coexistance and cooperation with other races, though he later agreed to get rid of the Scoia'tael in larger campaign, he definitely worked to protect the Temeria's economy (the 'customs war' with Redania) but so was king Vizimir protecting his country's interests as well :), he was fairly decent commander during battle of Brenna though he was mainly doing the grander strategy and it was communal effort of larger alliance of kingdoms: "'Your Majesty! Lord Constable!' 'Speak up, boy.' 'The Volunteer army and the Free Company are nearing Golden Pond... The dwarves and the condottieri stand firm, though with severe losses. It is said that Adam "Adieu" Pangratt is dead, Frontino is dead and Julia Abatemarco is dead... All the commanders. The Dorian banner, which were sent to help were cut down to the man...' 'Withdrawn, Lord Constable,' Foltest said quietly but clearly. 'If you ask me, it is time to fight a withdrawal. Let Bronibor's men stand against the Black ones. Now! Immediately! Otherwise they'll break through the army's front line, penetrate and end us all.' John Natalis didn't answer; he watched another messenger from afar who raced towards them on horseback, from which foam flew. 'Take a breath man. Take a breath and pass on the message.' 'They broke... They broke the front... Elves, the Vrihedd brigade... Lord de Ruyter conveys a message to your lordships...' 'What is it? Speak!' 'It is time to save your lives.' John Natalis look up to the heavens. 'Blenckert,' he said flatly. 'Let Blenckert arrive. Or let the night come.' In the rashness of his youth he had to oftne be tempered by his advisors for he had a temper :), he tried diplomacy when the military solutions were not enough, though his armistice with Nilfgaard when other kingdoms like Aedirn were conquered wasn't his best moment, he tried to secure peace with the treaty, which Nilfgaard soon enough broke attacking the temerian protectorates (but during this diplomatic escape so to protect his kingdom, he also took advantage and secured the piece of Aedirn with castle Hagge to protect his flank). He was in general all things considered as far as kings go pretty chill guy :). He is certainly intelligent and is fair, he does things to maintain the pretences or public opinion but is pretty just and honest, though when the situation arise he can use pretty ruthless underhanded means. Personally he was pretty accepting, he hoped for saving his daughter from the curse and despite all he wanted her to survive, etc.
Don't read this comment if ye haven't played the Witcher Two. The internal disarray of Temeria destroyed it all. If they had worked harder to prevent the empires vying to take Temeria it'd have not become as dismal as in the Witcher Three. All trying to take Foltest's throne without any real thought for the country's sovereignty. Only Vernon was bothered with his Blue Stripes, but merely as supplicants in front of the midget stern King Foltest speaks of. O, yes! Dethmold probably tortured Foltest's son to death!
Boussey died in accident during attack on convoy that carried him and Anais. There were actually 4 seperate plots (we know of) to deprive Foltests' children of throne: First, they wanted for Aryan to claim they were his children. Then there were 2 seperate ambushes, one by Temerian noble who wanted to simply kill them, other by sellout Temerian noble working for Nilfgardians, who then gave Anais to Dethmold. Finally, Radovid had plan to use her as a proxy to gain Temerian throne.
