Johnny Silverhand Guessing you never played Witcher II or I? He was a good king in those. Radovid was forced into being mental outa nowhere and Natalis ran away for some reason not to mention Radovid a wife just disappeared without question. The game is pure gold but thats one of my few annoyances with it. They united the northern realms when it was broken apart and actually turned the tides against nilfgaard. The bloke ripped out the upheaval that was the lodge of sorceresses little rush for dominant power. The lodge was rotten from within then suddenly they were victims? Sure you don’t need to kill any wiff of magic but It’s insane- the lodge are realistically war criminals! Philipa got of lightly I say for what she did to him. Those kinda actions woulda gotten you drawn and quartered in late medieval Europe. Taking her eyes was way beyond an act of mercy. Hell tbh he has more reason to kill mages than anyone, the only problem in his annoyingly forced madness is killing every peller and healer also.
I like radovid , i dont care if he was a maniac , he defeated nilfgaard while being outnumbered by a lot , at a young age , how genius does he have to be.
@@louditalian1962 In the official Witcher-Timeline, put together by Sapkowksi himself, Nilfgaard lost the third Northern-Nilfgaardian War. So Redania winning is canon.
@@Hohenstein1871 I'v seen people debate who wins, so I don't bloody know who wins. But yeah, the white flame dancing on the remains of the imperial treasury had to take the throne. From what I see, the Usurper was decent in assimilating neighbouring lands. But then, my man Ardal aep Dahy and the other conspirators somehow overthrew the Usurper who also was in leagues with Gaunter O'Dimm in CD Projekt Red lore and fucked up Nilfgaard again. In the cut content wiki of gwent, Ardal aep Dahy reacts to Emhyr by being pissed off because Emhyr forgot who helped him. Morvran remarks how Emhyr's time will end soon, probably because of people getting pissed at him.
So many people think Redania are bad when in actuality it was just a poor part of the stories writing in III specifically. Whats that? Someone insulting Witcher 3? Kill him I hear you say. Lower your pitchforks and torches I say. Please go do some research, Radovid was actually a good man forced into being a villain in 3 outa but fucks nowhere. It’s my sole problem with a game that is otherwise pure gold. To put it into perspective so that people who only played 3 (the high majority)- it’s literally like Dany’s turn of heart in the last episode of game of thrones. Witcher 1: Cunning king who does his own dirty work by infiltrating cities and acting as a spy to uncover information. Manipulates everyone so that by the end of the game he's in line to marry Foltest's daughter and inherit Temeria Witcher 2: Even though everything fucks up, finally reveals his hand and masterfully plays everyone in most endings, showing himself as the north's best hope against the oncoming NIlfgaardian force. Which he fulfils and unites the broken north. Also rips up the lodge of sorceresses little rush for power and evil acts. And tbh showed Phillipa mercy for what she did. Witcher 3: KILL THE WITCHES! KILL THE PELLERS, KILL THE HEALERS, BURN THE ELVES!!!! BURN, BURN, PILLAGE! GERALT THE CHESS PIECES TALK! CAN TOU HEAR THEM?! Like what? Also where was his wife? And Natalis ran away? What the hell happened to them? Ahhh >:,(
Witcher 3 complete sidelined this plot, so there really isn't much of anything to make sense of. Radovid was supposed to be the mad king who did anything to gain and maintain power. What better way to rally his people than to have a common enemy? His hatred for the mages mainly stems from Phillipa's mistreatment. After that it was all about finding a new enemy to keep his people busy and stay in power. Honestly, this is no different from Emhyr using the North as bait to stay in power.
100% agree! Also when I was reading books for the first time 8 years ago and I read about little Radovid, poor boy, I felt sorry for him. It also made me hate Philippa even more. Then I saw sentence about how powerful king he would become. I was so hyped for TW3, I though I would be able to help Redania protect whole north, fight Philippa with so powerful and wise king on my side, watch how Redania beats everyone but what I saw was mad 40 years old guy. Fortunately it seems like Radovid lives canonically: what we know: - the next emperor will be Morvran Voorhis, member of the opposition. - If emperor makes mistake, he will be dethroned by his opponents. (Nilfgaard tree) - Philippa dies in 1276, killed by Willhemer ethereal fire priest. - Witch hunts end in 1276 too, that's pretty logical, once philippa dies, there is no more need do kill mages. - John Calveit, the emperor after Morvran Voorhis, is going to attend in wars in which he would use his zombie soliders. (Vivocaro academy, experimental rhemedy). Who can he fight with? Potentially skellige and NR, but skellige is less unlikely. So Northern realms haven't been taken by Nilfgaard - Now if you played the Witcher 2, you know exactly how little Geralt cares about politics. He was known as kingslayer for some time and he hated it so much, so whole TW2 story had to happen. He would never even attend in a coup.
No wonder he went crazy. His father was assassinated by the elves, many kingdoms had fallen to the empire, major rulers of the North were assassinated, he was left alone against the Nilfgaard.
@@fellowtemplar5679 He probably went crazy because of Philippa, of what she had done to him when he was young. And she was the one who invented killing Visimir. Also because he knew she wanted to kill him. There were 2 realms captured by nilfgaard: Cintra and Temeria. Lyria and Rivia is most likely neutral: - It was separated from Redania and Nilfgaard on a map in TW3 - Because of this "small piece of land" Emhyr lost 2nd war. It wouldn't be his high priority target. - Emhyr owes Meve: she stopped Demavend, who wanted to attack exposed nilfgaard. - Lyria and Rivia are great source of income for nilfgaard: it produced cheaper, worse product and sold them in Meve's country. - Lyria and Rivia didn't mind Nilfgaard attacking other realms. Meve only wanted to have peace on her land. So only 2 bigger realms were captured. Major rulers have been assassinated? One of them died while fighting his friends, another was killed by Philippa, yet another by Radovid himself. Actually the fact he stayed alone helped Radovid and that's what he wanted to reach. To sum up: Radovid became mad because CDPR needed an antagonist :)
When i hear this , i imagine a great war between witcher's realm and got's realm. Imagine redania , temeria , aedirn , kaedween , skellige , nilfgaard allying up against house of stark , greyjoy , lannisters , tyrell , targaryens , dorne
@Cloudy Nguyen Nilfgaard sucks. Radovid who is 17 years old crushes them by default in the third game and they had already lost two wars against the North.
Nilfgaard alone would annihilate the 7 Kingdoms of Westeros. Only strategic masterminds like Robb Stark can beat them in battle. Choke points like Most Caitlin and the Dornish marshes would prevent Nilfgaard from easily Conquering the North and Dorne. Vale can withstand invasion too. Regardless it would take all of the 7 Kingdoms united to beat Nilfgaard with Robb on the wheel.
@@deleted2302No, only the will of the author gave Nilfgaard not to win, and so there was no exploration, the magicians decided here, so no, ceas'raet e'er!
En el aspecto técnico de un monarca, radovid es el auténtico puto amo, un genio militar, una persona capaz de manejar a su gusto cualquier situación y persona, sin contar que sus tropas son absolutamente leales a el y a su causa. (Es un demente, pero un demente maravilloso)
Su gran problema es que no gusta a los nobles y otros regentes poderosos de los reinos del Norte (por obvias razones), pero como dices, es un monarca perfecto.
@@zeruk43 una auténtica pena como se trata en el tercer juego (de hecho, si no formas parte de las misiones, por defecto derrota a los invasores y une prácticamente todo el norte. Con mano de hierro..eso sí)
@@felicianofrontado3134 he doesn't burn humans. He burns sorceresses and non-humans, he burns those who plotted against the North and killed innocent northerns. Yeah,what a bad king :Dd
@@jacquesdealdersberg2452 Yes he does, sorceresses are humans :P ... and most of them, including the non-humans, are not even the people he should be rallying against since none of those are members of the Lodge of Sorceresses. He kills innocent people.
Best king is Foltest even though he's kind of a bastard as well, nit nearly as bad as Radovid though Wirth noting that Radovid rules the largest and most powerful northern kingdom by the time of W3, so it's totally understandable why he represents them here
How polish people see Poland in 1330’s
Those were the times..
bloodthirsty and uncultured? as a nilfgaardian i can confirm
TROOPS, HERE NOOOW!!!
Is this a poland referance?
@@bebeklerefsldayanadam2747 redania is very close modeled after medieval poland, thahts why .
If you want peace, fight for it
May it remembered that in the battle of Sodden 22 Mages held the line against the armies of Nilfgaard..
only 22 mages? did the north kingdoms give some infantry or archer any kind of units?
@@Martin-zg7hx They held line until king Foltest arrived with armies of united North.
@@vojtechvybiral4524 Nice
13 of them died...
All hail Nilfgard.
Redania : good
Kaedwen : fun
Temeria : strong
Lyria and Rivia : EPIC !!!
Lmao "Temeria Strong" could be the title of a patriotic song from Eastern Europe
The north *BLEEDS*
FLOGGED BY WAR!
And the birds fly backwards
@@jacquesdealdersberg2452 😂😂😂
PÓŁNOC KRWAWI, CHŁOSTANA *BICZEM WOJNY!*
For me, I mostly associate this music with Queen Meve's Lyrian arbalests - "One bolt is all I need"
"Aim to the knees"
give me a target
THIS HARVEST, WE’LL BE REAPING BLACK CLAD' HEADS
@@sandevastated1 There's a time to reap, a time to sow... and a time to DIE!
LYRIAAAAAAAA
I know a lot of people associate this theme with Redania and it is understandable. But for me this will always be Queen Meve's theme.
I think this theme suits better with Queen Meve: th-cam.com/video/ty7hDrbMMk0/w-d-xo.html
For me this tune is also Kaedwen, Temeria, Cintra, Kerack, Emblonia, Ebbing, Cidaris, Lyria and Rivia, Kovir and Poviss, Verden
FOR LYRIAAAAAAAA!!!! THIS HARVEST WE'LL BE REAPING BLACK CLAD HEADS
Nice editing at the start dude.
Gave me chills when the theme picked up and Radovid Iron Judgement slow-mo title animation began.
Thanks bro ^^
4:06 My favorite.
Long live Radovid! best ruler of north
LONG LIVE THE WHITE FLAME, OR DIJSKTRA.
Long live the King! For Redaniaaaaa!!!
Johnny Silverhand
Guessing you never played Witcher II or I? He was a good king in those.
Radovid was forced into being mental outa nowhere and Natalis ran away for some reason not to mention Radovid a wife just disappeared without question.
The game is pure gold but thats one of my few annoyances with it.
They united the northern realms when it was broken apart and actually turned the tides against nilfgaard.
The bloke ripped out the upheaval that was the lodge of sorceresses little rush for dominant power.
The lodge was rotten from within then suddenly they were victims? Sure you don’t need to kill any wiff of magic but It’s insane- the lodge are realistically war criminals!
Philipa got of lightly I say for what she did to him. Those kinda actions woulda gotten you drawn and quartered in late medieval Europe.
Taking her eyes was way beyond an act of mercy.
Hell tbh he has more reason to kill mages than anyone, the only problem in his annoyingly forced madness is killing every peller and healer also.
I'll even eat worms for Redania
ADHART NILFGAARD!!!!
FOR LYRIAAAA
FOR TEMERIA! FOR THE NORTH! DEATH TO NILFGAARD AND THEIR DOGS!
I like radovid , i dont care if he was a maniac , he defeated nilfgaard while being outnumbered by a lot , at a young age , how genius does he have to be.
You do know he looses the war.
@@louditalian1962 in witcher 3?
@@dopplesoddner2899 redania loses if you kill him, and rhey win if you dont. So yeah, Radovid defeats Nilfgaard.
@@louditalian1962 In the official Witcher-Timeline, put together by Sapkowksi himself, Nilfgaard lost the third Northern-Nilfgaardian War. So Redania winning is canon.
@@Hohenstein1871 I'v seen people debate who wins, so I don't bloody know who wins. But yeah, the white flame dancing on the remains of the imperial treasury had to take the throne. From what I see, the Usurper was decent in assimilating neighbouring lands. But then, my man Ardal aep Dahy and the other conspirators somehow overthrew the Usurper who also was in leagues with Gaunter O'Dimm in CD Projekt Red lore and fucked up Nilfgaard again. In the cut content wiki of gwent, Ardal aep Dahy reacts to Emhyr by being pissed off because Emhyr forgot who helped him. Morvran remarks how Emhyr's time will end soon, probably because of people getting pissed at him.
RIP GWENT :(
amazing ost
So many people think Redania are bad when in actuality it was just a poor part of the stories writing in III specifically.
Whats that? Someone insulting Witcher 3? Kill him I hear you say.
Lower your pitchforks and torches I say.
Please go do some research, Radovid was actually a good man forced into being a villain in 3 outa but fucks nowhere. It’s my sole problem with a game that is otherwise pure gold.
To put it into perspective so that people who only played 3 (the high majority)- it’s literally like Dany’s turn of heart in the last episode of game of thrones.
Witcher 1:
Cunning king who does his own dirty work by infiltrating cities and acting as a spy to uncover information. Manipulates everyone so that by the end of the game he's in line to marry Foltest's daughter and inherit Temeria
Witcher 2:
Even though everything fucks up, finally reveals his hand and masterfully plays everyone in most endings, showing himself as the north's best hope against the oncoming NIlfgaardian force.
Which he fulfils and unites the broken north. Also rips up the lodge of sorceresses little rush for power and evil acts. And tbh showed Phillipa mercy for what she did.
Witcher 3:
KILL THE WITCHES! KILL THE PELLERS, KILL THE HEALERS, BURN THE ELVES!!!! BURN, BURN, PILLAGE!
GERALT THE CHESS PIECES TALK!
CAN TOU HEAR THEM?!
Like what?
Also where was his wife?
And Natalis ran away?
What the hell happened to them?
Ahhh >:,(
Witcher 3 complete sidelined this plot, so there really isn't much of anything to make sense of.
Radovid was supposed to be the mad king who did anything to gain and maintain power. What better way to rally his people than to have a common enemy? His hatred for the mages mainly stems from Phillipa's mistreatment.
After that it was all about finding a new enemy to keep his people busy and stay in power.
Honestly, this is no different from Emhyr using the North as bait to stay in power.
100% agree! Also when I was reading books for the first time 8 years ago and I read about little Radovid, poor boy, I felt sorry for him. It also made me hate Philippa even more. Then I saw sentence about how powerful king he would become. I was so hyped for TW3, I though I would be able to help Redania protect whole north, fight Philippa with so powerful and wise king on my side, watch how Redania beats everyone but what I saw was mad 40 years old guy.
Fortunately it seems like Radovid lives canonically: what we know:
- the next emperor will be Morvran Voorhis, member of the opposition.
- If emperor makes mistake, he will be dethroned by his opponents. (Nilfgaard tree)
- Philippa dies in 1276, killed by Willhemer ethereal fire priest.
- Witch hunts end in 1276 too, that's pretty logical, once philippa dies, there is no more need do kill mages.
- John Calveit, the emperor after Morvran Voorhis, is going to attend in wars in which he would use his zombie soliders. (Vivocaro academy, experimental rhemedy). Who can he fight with? Potentially skellige and NR, but skellige is less unlikely. So Northern realms haven't been taken by Nilfgaard
- Now if you played the Witcher 2, you know exactly how little Geralt cares about politics. He was known as kingslayer for some time and he hated it so much, so whole TW2 story had to happen. He would never even attend in a coup.
No wonder he went crazy. His father was assassinated by the elves, many kingdoms had fallen to the empire, major rulers of the North were assassinated, he was left alone against the Nilfgaard.
@@fellowtemplar5679 He probably went crazy because of Philippa, of what she had done to him when he was young. And she was the one who invented killing Visimir. Also because he knew she wanted to kill him.
There were 2 realms captured by nilfgaard: Cintra and Temeria. Lyria and Rivia is most likely neutral:
- It was separated from Redania and Nilfgaard on a map in TW3
- Because of this "small piece of land" Emhyr lost 2nd war. It wouldn't be his high priority target.
- Emhyr owes Meve: she stopped Demavend, who wanted to attack exposed nilfgaard.
- Lyria and Rivia are great source of income for nilfgaard: it produced cheaper, worse product and sold them in Meve's country.
- Lyria and Rivia didn't mind Nilfgaard attacking other realms. Meve only wanted to have peace on her land.
So only 2 bigger realms were captured.
Major rulers have been assassinated? One of them died while fighting his friends, another was killed by Philippa, yet another by Radovid himself. Actually the fact he stayed alone helped Radovid and that's what he wanted to reach.
To sum up: Radovid became mad because CDPR needed an antagonist :)
@@Mycartol3811 That is a lot of assumptions about Lyria and Rivia. Where did you get the info from?
Thanks for the upload!!
Artwise probably my favorite game.
This is like witcher music only amped to fucking 11, cant believe i only found it now
When austria seeks help to stop the ottomans...
This theme makes me want to play Bannerlord with double passion
This is Gwent did you notice? Not mount and blade
@@sergiusko4327 wow, you've opened my eyes, I had zero clues.
@@sergiusko4327 I see a man with no sense of humor. You better finds some, cause we dont appreciate people like you in the internet.
we just need a the witcher 3 mod in bannerlord :D
@@backend-cataphract and a Lord of the rings mod.
Long live Radovid! Emperor of the North!
LOOOONG... LIVE... THE KIIIINGG....
Wait what? Simba are you there?
@@Thewolfstation24 *Roche and Phillipa dislikes*
Long live Temeria! Long live free Temeria! ;)
Long live Emhyr var Emreis! Emperor of the Nilfgaard!😂
Throw humans in the sea! May they return there, where they came from!
Thanks
When i hear this , i imagine a great war between witcher's realm and got's realm.
Imagine redania , temeria , aedirn , kaedween , skellige , nilfgaard allying up against house of stark , greyjoy , lannisters , tyrell , targaryens , dorne
Northern Kingdom looks like slavic kingdom (Poland, Bohemia, Kievan Rus')
@Cloudy Nguyen Nilfgaard sucks. Radovid who is 17 years old crushes them by default in the third game and they had already lost two wars against the North.
@Cloudy Nguyen U are missing so much, dude
Nilfgaard alone would annihilate the 7 Kingdoms of Westeros. Only strategic masterminds like Robb Stark can beat them in battle. Choke points like Most Caitlin and the Dornish marshes would prevent Nilfgaard from easily Conquering the North and Dorne. Vale can withstand invasion too. Regardless it would take all of the 7 Kingdoms united to beat Nilfgaard with Robb on the wheel.
@@deleted2302No, only the will of the author gave Nilfgaard not to win, and so there was no exploration, the magicians decided here, so no, ceas'raet e'er!
Longue vie à Radovid
Poland in the witcher world stop Nilfgaard empire
Poland in realistic world stop Ottoman empire
along side with other kingdoms...
It was more of a Temeria in the witcher universe
@@julianius484 temeria is france
Long live Radovid!
No ! LONG LIVE TO FOLTEST ! FOR TEMERIA !!!
What is wrong with you
Long live meve
Enid an Gleanna!
The great sun shall light our path! Hael' ker'zaer!
just Amazing
Everything was great, and then I took a look at the birds and a flag...
I did what i could, i dont know about animation and video editing :3
@@Thewolfstation24 I understand, it's just a funny detail
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En el aspecto técnico de un monarca, radovid es el auténtico puto amo, un genio militar, una persona capaz de manejar a su gusto cualquier situación y persona, sin contar que sus tropas son absolutamente leales a el y a su causa. (Es un demente, pero un demente maravilloso)
Su gran problema es que no gusta a los nobles y otros regentes poderosos de los reinos del Norte (por obvias razones), pero como dices, es un monarca perfecto.
@@zeruk43 una auténtica pena como se trata en el tercer juego (de hecho, si no formas parte de las misiones, por defecto derrota a los invasores y une prácticamente todo el norte. Con mano de hierro..eso sí)
Lets go back to gwent and check out how its doing =)
what kind of poland is this?
Ya know, a little bit northern
The Kind led by an absolute nutcase.
@@laurencedixon5307 But a charismatic nutcase, that is
@@laurencedixon5307 a nutcase that was once a great ruler
The strong one
Can you do the new expansion theme?
It is in the composer's Channel.
@@Thewolfstation24 who is the composer?
@@shreekharr3940 th-cam.com/channels/SqIujxgK-0UBYRJMrSGrvw.html
How about another for the mighty empire of nilfgaard?
hey there, great video, just wanted to ask how you made this video if you dont mind
i mean this looks like its image that you animated so i want to know about animation process
@BeatsField This is official artwork made by CDPR for a trailer
Radovid did nothing wrong.
Radovid did everything wrong
Hernan Cortes conquers Aztec Empire :v
Poland strong!)
Only Temeria
Yes!
Radovid africa
xD
It's fucking radovid africa who deals fucking 20 points with fucking shani 🤣
@@bintangantares709 the african radovid skin is dope doe
Long live Temeria! Long live free Temeria! :)
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That a nice province you go there Redanians, would be a shame if something happen to it.
1:15 *sup
0:15
I hate NR, but still like
WHAT THE FUCK IS A SORCERESS
HAİL THE KİNG RADOVİD V !
Redaniaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Worst king to represent the North.
What a ignorant comment. Radovid is the best ruler in the all witcher history.
@@jacquesdealdersberg2452 He... burns people... alive xD
@@felicianofrontado3134 he doesn't burn humans. He burns sorceresses and non-humans, he burns those who plotted against the North and killed innocent northerns. Yeah,what a bad king :Dd
@@jacquesdealdersberg2452 Yes he does, sorceresses are humans :P ... and most of them, including the non-humans, are not even the people he should be rallying against since none of those are members of the Lodge of Sorceresses. He kills innocent people.
Best king is Foltest even though he's kind of a bastard as well, nit nearly as bad as Radovid though
Wirth noting that Radovid rules the largest and most powerful northern kingdom by the time of W3, so it's totally understandable why he represents them here