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The saga politely asks you to consider that it's possible elves will never have full civil rights and also that it's none of some goddamn sun-worshipper's fucking business.

It's sort of all sorts of things. Point being, it's a generic Foreign Empire that is trying to tell My Shithole how to live.

the whole point of the Witcher's geopolitics is very affirmatively "this is a shithole with no redeeming qualities. no like seriously, no redeeming qualities. we treat most people horribly. by the way anyone who tries to take it will taste cold steel"

I will die on this hill: Nilfgaard is not only bad, it is, in fact, worse than the North

You're not meant to sympathise with the Nilfgaardians because the very ethos of "we are saving you from your nasty Nazi selves" is supposed to make you go "ew, it's the Russians."

The Witcher is only pro-imperialist if people have not paid attention to anything that has ever happened to Eastern Europe tbh.

he's actually 100% convinced gelthior was the rightful high king of all valenwood and that he was complicit in a terrible, terrible crime against the green pact. he hopes mara will protect him from y'ffre's justified wrath

he eats one (1) altmer every month to do penance

currently the only way i can justify the existence of my character, in the sense of being someone who isn't actively joining the blacksap, is that he is madly in love with ayrenn

yeah but idk if they're that often /explicitly secessionist/ rebels

ESO: ultimately all these alliances want to unite tamriel anyway though, which is why none of them are /really/ evil :)

me: fuck you. i'm joining the blacksap rebellion.

i have been consuming a lot of elder scrolls content so that may have just aggravated me quite a lot

TES in general has me feeling aggro about this point, but I do think it's fairly common.

Sometimes the guys who rule the country down the river are just assholes and you dont want to be subject to their whims. It's not personal. It kind of is, but it's also not

there are far fewer ulfric stormcloaks than there are cyrus the redguards actually

one of the reasons we need more non-americans writing high fantasy is because I am sick and tired of storylines where declaring independence is the mark of an immature ultranationalist and not a completely valid policy choice a polity may make

Like one way or the other the farm is not an innocent smol bean in this process but a wasteful environment destroyer same as the rest of us.

Huh. Do we know the actual original name(s)?

Also like lol that will still require you to take on the farmer lobby.

Well let's not stereotype all plumbers. I somehow doubt you have the statistics on specifically how plumbers vote.

Not automatically of course. But with corresponding land use restrictions, certainly

Making the same acreage more output-efficient can incidentally at least in theory mean more land For Trees

One of the greatest lies the Farmer has ever pulled off is the idea that he is a friend of the trees rather than like the chief executioner

What tends to happen to forests in the hands of the agricultural industry, Hilary

Quick question what role is played in these processes by agriculture and would you say it is a broadly positive one

There is an even more banal problem here admittedly and it is that they tend to vote and politicians like easily winnable votes

I will genuinely die for the consistent maintenance of a solidly mid state of affairs for my children. Nay, I will kill for it

Not prosperity, not happiness, not joy, just kind of average, so I can sit and relax for fucking once

Was it a delusion that history had ended? Yes. Which is why I demand we end it as soon as possible in factum

Ain't nothing a tyrant loves more than flashiness