#also hot take I guess but radovid x adda is way more compelling to me

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Absolutely love in the games that you get to see Adda the White again [hate that she's a redhead though because she's meant to have white hair due to the lifting of her curse but... well this was only stated by Sapkowski on his website so the book translations and games kept it red] and based on your choices during the first game, there's a strong chance she ends up married to Radovid in the second and third games!

If you choose to save her in the first game [I don't know if the Radovid marriage is impacted if you also sleep with her because I always turned her down] + keep Radovid alive and then carry that saved data over into the second, Foltest will tell you that Adda and Radovid have married but because the Temerian nobility will "never accept a Redanian on the throne" the couple have to content themselves with only ruling Redania and not both countries together

Unfortunately you don't get to see her in 2 or 3 again so everything you hear about her is second-hand flavour text but it's still a really cool progression of her story from Last Wish and one that I personally absolutely adore

Radovid is a polarising political figure who was a great strategist and general to some but a paranoid madman to others and the Adda we meet in the games is a wild and spoiled woman with heavy ambitions for the throne. Despite never seeing their relationship on screen [except in a single still image of them sitting on the throne], something about that chemistry and dynamic absolutely fascinates me especially because their marriage was purely political in nature - while in Vizima, Radovid asks Geralt what his thoughts on Adda are because he saw her as a potential way to combine the two families

Idk man! Political intrigue just gets me sometimes ya know!