#i love my carians so very much please stop treating them like evil monsters and mindless brutes

[goji-pilled]

man maybe that is just me, but everytime i see someone say that radahn only cared about fighting i get the urge to tear my hair out

like yes, he did enjoy the thrill of battle greatly but that isn't all! it never was!!

he may have inherited his father's flaming red hair, but he is also a carian, he is also rennala's son.... because dear god, this man holds much love in his heart still.

he loved his horse, so much so he learned gravity magic and made it a significant part of his fighting style.

he loved rykard, or else why would he have the abductor virgin (though rykard may have overshot the line of what was needed with the amount he sent... clearly as seen in that cave lol) in redmane castel? why else would his painting be proudly displayed in volcano manor, if not because he and his brother loved eachother??

he clearly loved messmer and gaius too, as they too are like brothers to him.

and ranni... oh when it comes to ranni people love to paint it like they couldn't stand eachother, and perhaps there is some truth to it. perhaps they did argue over their difference in ideals and the topic of the golden order. and yet, radahn held back the very stars that determine the fate of the carians... including ranni's, a fate that was bound to her status as an empyrean and the two fingers, something she hated, something he must have had known.

some may claim it a coincidence, but the connection is too obvious for that. so i call bullshit. sure, perhaps the thrill of such a battle was a motivator, but i say he also very much, perhaps most of all even, did this for ranni.

yes, general radahn the great starscourge was a warrior, a lion bred for battle, one who idolized godfrey greatly.

but he remains a carian, a child of rennala, to love and care is as much in his nature as it is in his mother's, aunt's, brother's and sister's.