our channel and your growth get yourself premium access to knowledge right now blinkist has a special offer just for our audience click the link in the description or go to URL_TOKEN wizards and warriors to start your free NUMBER_TOKEN-day trial with blinkist and get NUMBER_TOKEN percent off premium membership it is ugly indeed but the lion cub if she has survived must now die for reasons of state gentlemen the rain hammered against the windows the gale howled among the towers of haggard castle the kings grew silent blood of elves chapter seven in the years since their defeat at sodden nilfgaardian agents prepared for the next invasion by fomenting division amongst their foes in hamlets and towns rumors began to spread that in the lands recently conquered by the empire everybody lived freer and richer lives preachers roamed from vesima to tretigor delivering firebrand sermons of a savior destined to come from the south incited by the imperials armed skoyatel partisans continues to paralyze trade and terrorize poor farmers in their undefended villages in hager castle a secret council was held between visimir of rodania fultest of temeria dermowen de vader henselt of kedwin and meev of lyria there they decided that special forces were to be established to hunt the scoia'tael down in their forests and leave their corpses as a warning to other non-humans meanwhile it was an open secret that after sodom amir had violently purged the old military aristocracy replacing them with young and talented commanders who sought nothing more than a chance to avenge that defeat thus the northern monarchs agreed that it would have to be them who would make the first strike and that it should be directed at sintra this however would violate the ongoing truce and if the five monarchs were seen as aggressors then other northern realms would not join them in war nor would the brotherhood of sorcerers who had been so crucial in the first northern war so it was decided that the edenians would stage a false flag assault on the fort of dalangra located in lyria to make it look like nilfgaard had attacked and therefore increased support for a war against the empire that left the other issue the heiress of sintra cyrilla was still missing and the monarchs knew full well that if emir could find and marry her then he could legitimize his claim to sintra to prevent that cyrilla had to be found and eliminated unbeknownst to the northern monarchs word of their meeting reached amir himself the emperor easily predicted the plan to use dolangra to bait him into conflict so he sent meno cohorn to garrison the region and stand by then as part of his plan to destroy the brotherhood of sorcerers emir instructed his agents to spread the information about the haggar council to the northern mages nature doesn't know the concept of philosophy geralt of rivia the pathetic ridiculous attempts which people undertake to try and understand nature are typically termed philosophy the results of such attempts are also considered philosophy it's as though a cabbage tried to investigate the causes and effects of its existence caused
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