a primer on the 3rd Nilfgaardian War

[dragonlady7]

fannish pedantry to the rescue, this answers nothing but now we've really thought about it, NOW WITH MORE MAPS i am delight, the fan-made map is the clearest one, all the profesh ones are excessively aesthetic and lack consistency, but i digress

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So someone sent me a note, pertaining to the last chapter of Fit For Pearls https://archiveofourown.org/works/31289303/chapters/83210671 where I’d had Morvran explaining the political situation, asking me a few questions about specific scenarios, and from the questions I eventually realized that while I had a pretty clear idea of how the war ended up, the commenter did not. And it struck me that, well, it is sort of breezed-over in the game. It’s just presented as a bare fact that Nilfgaard has almost the whole North– well, everything up to the Pontar– and if you’re not paying attention it’s easy to overlook.

So here’s a basic summary of what has happened in the Third Nilfgaardian War, and how it ends if you’ve wound up on the Empress Ciri ending, which is what I’m taking as the foundation for the stories I’m writing. (No shade to the other endings, I just wanted to write about court intrigue and bookish lesbians; fair play if you’ve got other dreams, and more power to you.)

Keep reading https://bomberqueen17.tumblr.com/post/661879690149183488/a-primer-on-the-3rd-nilfgaardian-war

On that point about the seemingly-nonsensical “Dol Blathanna - Mount Carbon line”, it may be worth noting that the front lines of conflicts aren’t generally straight lines as the crow flies. Especially for Witcher-era conflicts, the front would likely follow things like natural boundaries and fortified towns rather than being a point-to-point line across a map. So here’s a suggestion for making sense of Roche’s quote there:

Keep reading https://eatingcroutons.tumblr.com/post/661925714102255616/a-primer-on-the-3rd-nilfgaardian-war

Also see this reblog https://akilah12902.tumblr.com/post/661894841929695232/a-primer-on-the-3rd-nilfgaardian-war for screencaps of the closing credits of W2, which seem to pretty clearly depict Nilfgaard advancing steadily up from the south in a straight progression, through the poetic image of fire burning the paper of the map but avoiding Brokilon and Mahakam.

The unavoidable conclusion here is that each one of us separately has already given this four thousand times more thought than anyone who was paid to work on any of these projects 😂 This is the curse/blessing of fanfic I guess. (Your picture was not posted)