Addai67 wrote...
@ KoP: Why do you like Radovid so much?
Several reasons.
Because he was able to outsmart everyone in Redania including Philippa Eilhart herself and impose himself as king at a very young age (he's in his early twenties). He is cunning and ruthless.
Because he had the foresight to absorb the Order of the Flaming Rose and bring it all under his command after he helped Foltest defeat them in TW1 (he did that in part to outmaneuvre the mages and Philippa).
Because he understands that half of power is image and he always does his best to portray himself as law abbiding, whether it comes to the elimination of his opponents and mages (Eilhart included, he said he was going to put her on trial, even though he already decided her fate) or his ambitions with regards to Temeria. He is subtle in that sense when compared to say Henselt (even though the Pontar Valley technically was Kaedweni territory). His subtelty is also shown in Loc Muinne especially on Roche's path. In that sense, he is politically prudent and astute.
Because he is very ambitious domestically and in foreign policy and will stop at nothing to fullfill it. He is the only monarch in the North who I think is the most likely to reform the system and centralize power under him. Foltest, though competent, evidently failed to do so and Henselt embarrasingly had more than half his army defect before the battle of Vergen.
Related, he expresses respect to Saskia's conscript army even when it lost and says that the knighthood risks extinction. That to me shows that he is also likely to create a more professional army (of course under his direct command) and throw away traditional military paradigms.
Finally, he sounds and acts like a badass in TW2 and says one of my favorite lines: "Politics is like a complicated puzzle. Every piece can prove useful, or equally useless, even harmful."
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