#radovid of redania

[c-the-crazy-cat-lady]

Radovid: “Uh… forgive me, I am speechless. Blame the mead.”

Jaskier: “I would, except you are not drunk… it’s all in the eyes. They are not glassy.”

[back2whenwestarted]

Jaskier & Radovid | But I Knew You

[jens-holland]

Friendship ended with Geraskier

Now Radskier is my best friend

[timetraveladdict]

Yes Netflix! Let that happen 🤣🤣🤣

[veralevina15]

Collab with @wildelighten (the 1st half-frame by me, the 2nd half-frame by wildelighten)! For the first time, the netflix!Radovid experienced a magical political maneuver of such a scale! Translation: - First time? - Huh? Original meme:

[thelostgirl21]

Okay but...

Jaskier always wore blue-green doublets (various shades of teal, olive...) in Season 1, except for one episode...

That episode. The one where Geralt told him that if life could give him one blessing, it would be to take him off his hands!

On that episode he was wearing a bright red doublet over a blue-green shirt.

And, ever since, he's been wearing his red/burgundy coat, and has totally abandonned those blue-green color tones.

Besides red, he's been sticking to whites and browns and more earthly tones (his vests are also a mix of red and gold).

Red is the color of Radovid's Kingdom (note: the chaotic part of me almost wishes Redania's color was blue, just to mess with people's expectations!), often combined with white, gold, brown and black.

The wardrobe of nobles and people at court is dominated by those colors.

In terms of 100% accidental foreshadowing, I just think it's interesting that Jaskier was already on his way to adopting the colors of Radovid's own world when Geralt essentially "cast him off" from his.

(And that the very first time Geralt and Jaskier met, Jaskier's doublet had slits with just a tiny bit of red and gold seeping through.)

I'm starting to think that it might have been a good thing that Jaskier was only wearing a pair of pants and a shirt that first time he and Radovid met.

As revealing as that outfit was, Jaskier standing there in all of his bardic glorly with his long red leather coat, flashing hints of gold at Radovid, just might have clearly signaled to him that he'd just found himself a suitable mate!

Don't know if that was the intent or not, but Jaskier's outfit on the show also offers a nice nod to him actually being Redanian nobility (viscount), but with a much less formal vibe...

He basically looks like a Redanian noble that escaped into the wild and went feral!

Yup! Jaskier is now dressed like a feral Redanian viscount that keeps "wailing" (Joey's words, not mine!) outside to attract mates, stealing scraps of food from everyone he comes across, sneaking into people's homes to go sniff around your perfectly domesticated Redanian prince...

Next thing you know, your domesticated Redanian prince is stealing food from your plate, hissing and giving you attitude, then he suddenly runs away from his prince-sitters to disappear into a forest in the hopes of finding the feral Redanian viscount.

He finally manages to locate him when he hears the distant and familiar sound of him "wailing" a feral Cintran princess to sleep, makes noise to attract him outside, starts "wailing" back, and winds up mating with him in the back of a woodshed!

And the moment your domesticated Redanian prince is eventually found and brought back home - all dirty and stinky, no less - the first thing he stubbornly wants to do is run off into the wild again to go chase after that pesky feral Redanian viscount to go help him reunite with the rest of his feral pack, and hopefully be allowed to join it so they can mate more often!

[yuncifang]

me: I'm into the story for the character development

the character:

the development:

[geraltyen-of-corvobianco]

"𝗗𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 & 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹"

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I've wanted to make this for such a long time :') I've always been intrigued by how the books and even the games portray Radovid and Phillipa's relationship. The background and origin behind Radovid's hatred and trauma for Phillipa may just be a short paragraph in the books, but it was impactful enough when paired together with our knowledge of how ruthless and manipulative Philippa can be in politics, to see how that could have fucked up young Radovid's life.

Thank you to @windflowerofskellige for the Radovid Reworked mod for Radovid! I hate that he looks old and bald in the games. xD Thank you to @bathsebah for Philippa's face variants mod, I love every single variant so much.

Mod used for Philippa's dress here.

[limerental]

i actually enjoyed a lot of twn s3 but i see it repeated fairly often that it followed the books fairly closely (or at least more closely than s2) but listen. having freshly reread time of contempt, in my opinion, s3 somehow followed the books LESS than other seasons.

s1 and s2 were both often working with original content in between book canon scenes. but s3, as much as it did seem to go beat for beat following time of contempt's plot... somehow ends up changing almost every single plot point in some way.

yennefer travels with ciri and geralt together. geralt is pissed at yennefer and doesn't speak to her for a whole year. ciri wounds (maybe kills?) elves at shaerrawedd. yennefer calls ciri "ugly one" without the follow up context of their "you're already pretty" convo. geography is ?? travel is ?? the politics is flattened out to redania vs nilfgaard. the scoia'tael conflict is flattened out. aplegatt's story gets repurposed with none of the actual consequences that made that story in the books have an emotional impact because there is none of the same geopolitical plot.

tissaia stands with and frees vilgefortz out of love for him instead of standing against both the genocide and warfare of the northern kings and the imperialism of nilfgaard. the coup plot seems to be a last minute decision by philippa based on what?? who knows!! the last vilgefortz joins emhyr in nilfgaard??? yennefer calls the conclave and heads up the lodge????

so yes, it pulls some lines and scenes directly from the books and nods to them fairly often but in no way was s3 a closer or more faithful adaptation of the books than s2. it truly, fully misses something huge in almost every story beat.

[craybii]

[archfeykoi]

Very excited to post the first chapter of my new witcher AU! Stakes and passions alike are high in the Redanian castle as mystery unravels.

[chwduplemon]

the time of contempt season 3 of netflix's the bitcher is approaching, so here is a silly little bingo card i made (as a coping mechanism and with a lot of help from @sorokmagpies — thank you, btw, my friend!) for all of us redania & redanians fans in these trying times

[p.s. feel free to use it however you want, but don't even try to defend twn and their stupid decisions on my dash, this show has already done irreparable damage to the fandom and a bunch of my favorite characters, tyvm]

[windflowerofskellige]

An angel and a devil on your shoulder, one whispers dark temptations, one only wants the best for you. For the Queen of Temeria however she didn't seem to have an angel, only a striga and a devil.

For her political opponents it was clear as day. The Queen surrounded herself with monsters. But when does a monster become a man? Arabella would say when it is loved.

She certainly loved her sister and husband, and they her. Nothing could sway the young queen. Thusly something strange happened in Temerian history. The Queen was buried next to a striga. And even now, some nights, dark in the family crypt, archivists swear they can hear the giggling of two women.

[hanzajesthanza]

‘No one’s going to shout ‘Long live Radovid’, thought the prince (…) ‘No one’s even going to look at me. No one will raise a cry in honour of my mother. Nor mention my father; they won’t shout his glory. Today, on the day of triumph, on the day of reconciliation, of the alliance to which my father, after all, contributed. Which was why he was murdered.

He felt someone’s eyes on the nape of his neck. As delicate as something he didn’t know–or did, but only from his dreams. Something like the soft, hot caress of a woman’s lips. He turned his head. He saw the dark, bottomless eyes of Philippa Eilhart fixed on him.

Just you wait, thought the prince, looking away. Just you wait.

No one could have predicted then or guessed that this thirteen-year-old boy–now a person without any significance in a country ruled by the Regency Council and Dijkstra–would grow into a king. A king, who–after paying back all the insults borne by himself and his mother–would pass into history as Radovid V the Stern.

Lady of the Lake, Chapter 10.

[timetraveladdict]

First attempt at a Radovid custom Lego

[veralevina15]

My half-frame with Radovid and Philippa from collab