He made several military reforms, espousing the idea that a soldier was only as good as their breastplate. To counter the sorceresses' rising power, he invited the Order of the Flaming Rose to Redania and granted them lands. Consolidating his power īack from Temeria, Radovid V began to gather his armies and erect fortresses. If Geralt doesn't save Adda: With no other way to combine the two kingdoms, Radovid returned to Redania to reign over by himself. If Geralt saves Adda: With Adda's curse lifted once more, Radovid then proceeded to marry her to solidify the two kingdoms' union. The two conversed for a bit, with Radovid revealing why he was in Vizima before asking the witcher's opinion on Adda the White, who he was seeing as a possible way to combine the two royal families. Įventually, though, his hideout was discovered by the witcher. Despite this, the witcher Geralt of Rivia happened across some of the criminals communicating via a mirror with the king, who only revealed he wasn't backing the group before closing off communications with the witcher. However, while there he eventually came into contact with Salamandra through some "mutual acquaintances" and thought he could make use of the criminal organization but ultimately concluded not to do so. Looking to secure relations with Temeria, Radovid made his way to the kingdom's capital of Vizima in 1270. King Radovid meeting Geralt for the first time In all his political actions, he attempted to embody the idea that a king should be ruthless towards his foes and generous to his friends. He utilized Redania's famed spy network to foster links with multiple potential allies, picking and choosing as he saw fit while ensuring those discarded were destroyed. He proved a capable political actor, manipulating events to the advantage of both his own position and Redania's. He began his reign by taking care of various nobles who ruled on their lands rather independently from Tretogor. The following is considered game canon only and may contradict Andrzej Sapkowski's works. Its members, however, overlooked their underage crown prince and none of the Northern Kingdoms' elites, not even Philippa who took it upon herself to raise him, expected him to grow into a firm monarch who would repay all humiliations he and his mother had suffered during the interregnum. Nitert was put in charge of the Regency Council appointed to save the realm from a total civil war and they managed to do so, by hanging everyone they deemed traitor in specially modified fortifications with internment camps - most infamous of which would be Drakenborg. There remained but a handful of those who were spared, those with important enough social status and armed might to maintain peace, like Duke Nitert. Several practically licked the boots of Nilfgaardian emissaries led by Shilard Fitz-Oesterlen and were ready to rule with Nilfgaardian blessing, only to be caught off guard and stopped by the famous Redanian Secret Service. The aristocracy started to organize itself into factions, attempting to tear some land out for each and every one of them. Redania fell into chaos, as usually happens in such circumstances, and Queen Hedwig was not in a state to control things. A fact unknown to practically anyone was that it was Philippa Eilhart, at the time fighting on Thanedd Island, who hired the elf in order to gain more direct rule. On the day of the outbreak of the Second Northern War with the Nilfgaardian Empire, his father had unexpectedly fallen victim to an elven assassin. Redanian situation in 1267, Baptism of Fire Radovid bore a deep aversion towards mages that stemmed from his father being secretly assassinated by an unknown elf at the behest of the sorceress advisor Philippa Eilhart, who then pulled strings from behind his back, ruled in his name and dominated and demeaned him throughout his youth. Even though his father died in 1267, Prince Radovid didn't succeed him immediately because he was only twelve at the time and for several years the kingdom was governed by a Regency Council under influential Duke Nitert and Count Sigismund Dijkstra, the then-spymaster of Redanian Secret Service. His two older sisters were Dalimira and Milena. He inherited his titles and estates as the only son of King Vizimir II and Queen Hedwig of Malleore. There were also many who took the middle view of his policies being harsh but justified. Radovid was a polarizing figure: a brilliant strategist and a superb general to some, a paranoid madman to others. His reign became, along with witch hunts, one of the defining factors of the post-war period that followed the Peace of Cintra. Radovid V the Stern (Polish: Radowid V Srogi) was the king of Redania from the Redanian Dynasty in the last quarter of the 13th century. Radovid discussing politics, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
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