||: In search of a Games based Radovid to start a war with. Book based Radovid would be 12 years old, so, it would make no sense. lmao

She is scared of her own father?

...She must return to Vizima immediately then. Before these things become something worse.

You wish.

Heads will roll. Kingdoms will burn. Witchers will be hunted.

Hold your tongue, Rose. You are lucky it's not been cut yet.

It's already happening. ...There's a bounty.

Come to Vizima then. The end is in your hands.

You do not remember because I made certain you would not. The curse, the hedgehog mask, the years I spent as Duny in Cintra’s court. I claimed you then as a father by right of blood and promise. I claim you now as an emperor by right of destiny.

Then deny me, Ciri. Deny the blood. But you will not deny the world. The witch hunters sharpen their stakes for elder blood. The Lodge circles like vultures. The North devours its own. It will be iron, and the key will be thrown into Radovid’s pyres.

Begging is for the powerless, Ciri. You were never meant to be powerless. Bloodshed is the price of peace. The North drowns its own in pyres while preaching virtue. Nilfgaard spills blood once, cleanly, so the Continent may breathe without witch hunters at every door.

The witch-hunters are Radovid’s dogs, Ciri. Their pyres, their chains, their fanatic howl. Not mine. I do not burn women for the gift in their veins. The Lodge walks free south of the Yaruga because I will it.

Threats were the language of a man who still believed fear could force destiny. I spoke them. I regret the necessity, not the intent. Radovid is a fiend, yes. A rabid dog burning everything that smells of magic or defiance. I am the blade that ends him.

Emperors have duties. ...Peasant minds cannot fully understand them.

She was a peasant. Still is. She's got no title.

Yes. ...If she remains an ally.

Yes.

Good, good. Glad she came back to her senses.

What feeling? She is gonna rule Nilfgaard from Pondar to Yaruga... When the north falls and Radovid's head is served on a platter, she will be the Queen of the continent.