Chapter 684: Foltest and Charles V (I)
I have to say that Feng Longde's choice of this [King of Temeria, Folteste] Northern deck leader card God knows if it really resonates with the famous words of the characters under this card, it's all a matter of no score......
However, for this guy Feng Longde, he will only use this [King of Temeria, Foltest] Northern Deck Leader card when he teaches Hatsune Miku how to play the Gwent card today, because it can clearly make Hatsune Miku understand the horror of the weather card, and he is more accustomed to using [Leader of the North, Fortest] when he occasionally plays GWENT cards with Weisk or Richard in the past. This leader card is used to clear the weather effect from the field, which is a good suppression for opponents who are keen to use the weather card to cut their card points, and the character quote on this card is quite appealing to Feng Longde: "Forget about the advisors and their plans, I trust my soldiers." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"
By reading the original novels of the "Witcher" series and the games that played the "Witcher" trilogy to understand the setting, Von Longde found that Foltest, the handsome northern king who was famous for his sister control and was too keen on beauty, was actually a pretty good leader: first of all, in terms of identity, he was the king of Temeria and Soden, The rulers of Pontar and Mahakham, and the protectors of the kingdoms of Brugg and Elland, the kings of both kingdoms swore an oath to accept his protection, and not only that, but Foltest himself was the son of King Mydell of Temeria and Queen Shanhia of Soden, who was the princess of Soden, so after the death of his uncle King Eckhard of Soden, Foltest naturally became the king of Soden as the sole heir of Soden...... Wearing at least four crowns on his head and possessing the allegiance of the kings of two other kingdoms, in a sense, Foltest has something in common with Charles V in this era of human civilization, except that the number of titles obtained by the latter through legal principles and marriages is even more terrifying, and it is by virtue of the large number of titles and his own strong comprehensive personal ability to personally lead troops to win battles and govern the huge empire that occupies most of Europe and part of the Americas in an orderly manner, making the Holy Roman and Spanish Empire under his rule the first to be called in this era of human civilizationThe country of the "empire on which the sun never sets", this title predates Queen Victoria's British Empire by 300 years.
As an aside, perhaps most people don't know much about Charles V, a historical figure, but guys like Feng Longde, who are extremely keen on history, habitually call him Cha Wuye, and the number of titles he has alone is indeed quite amazing.
Holy Roman Emperor, Eternal Augustus, King of the Roman People, King of Italy, King of All Spain (Castile, Aragon, León, Navarre, Granada, Toledo, Valencia, Galicia, Mallorca, Seville, Córdoba, Murcia, Jaén, Algarve, Algeciras, Gibraltar, Canary Islands), King of Sicily, King of Naples, King of Sardinia and Corsica, King of Jerusalem, King of the East and West Indies, Archduke of Austria, Duke of Burgundy, Duke of Brabant, Duke of Lorraine, Duke of Styria, Duke of Carinthia, Duke of Carnhola, Duke of Limburg, Duke of Luxembourg, Duke of Herderland, Duke of Württemberg, Count of Alsace, Margrave of Namur, Count of Flanders, Count of Habsburg, Count of Tyrol, Count of Gorizia, Count of Barcelona, Count of Charolais, Count of Avatu, Count of Burgundy Palatinate, Count of Hainaut, Count of Holland, Count of Jutphen, Count of Roussillon.
Dumbfounded, right? The vast majority of these titles were inherited by Charles V from his parents and relatives, but many of them were obtained by him through conquests and wars, as well as political marriages and family marriages; not only that, if careful people combine the place names represented by these titles, they will find that Charles V basically unified most of Europe except for the Kingdom of France and the United Kingdom of England in his own hands with these titles, not counting the expanding American colonies that are several times larger than the European mainland, which can be said to be the most powerful empire in human civilization in this era, and even one doesn't seem to need to be added......
To put it simply, Charles V's life and experience are legendary: he was the son of Philip I of Habsburg and Queen Juana of Castile (Mad Juana), grandson of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile, grandson of Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I and Duchess Mary of the Duchy of Burgundy. Born in Ghent and raised in the Low Countries, his childhood teacher was Adrian of Utrecht, the future Pope Hadrian VI......
Other than that, Charles V's exact nationality is difficult to explain: from his father's side, he was a member of the Austrian Habsburg dynasty, but he was not of pure Germanic descent; from his mother's side, his mother was Spanish, and Spain was also the core of his vast empire, but he often felt like an outsider in Spain; his mother tongue was French, which was the "Low Countries" where he grew up (the Low Countries at that time included present-day Belgium, Luxembourg, The aristocracy of the Netherlands and France, the northern Calais region), but France was his lifelong enemy.
In the course of the establishment of his vast empire, the process was somewhat similar: Charles V inherited the Low Countries and Franche-Comté in 1506, the year of his father's death, and after the death of his powerful grandfather Ferdinand II in 1516, he became the owner of a vast territory that included the kingdoms of Aragon, Castile, Navarre, and Granada ruled by his mother, Castile and Ferdinand II. The Kingdom of Naples, the Kingdom of Sicily, Sardinia, and the whole of Spanish America (during his reign, Spain's colonies in the Americas were expanded several times over by the conquest of Mexico and Peru)..... Soon after Charles V arrived in Spain, he had to fight against the local cities vying for self-government, and some Spanish nobles resented him for installing some Flemish officials in Castile. In any case, all revolts were eventually suppressed by Charles V, and a powerful Spanish Empire formed the basis for his future gallop in Europe, and he continued to expand the absolute monarchy of Spain, with which he established the Spanish Empire, which dominated Christian Europe, and later the Holy Roman and Spanish Empires, and after the death of his grandfather Maximilian I, Charles V was able to inherit the Habsburg estate in Austria, and in 1519 he was elected Holy Roman Emperor by bribing the Electors (he was financed by the Fugger family, a family of Deutsche Bank), defeating the competition of King François I of the Kingdom of France, officially establishing the existence of the Holy Roman and Spanish Empire.
In a sense, Charles V can be regarded as the son of the plane of that historical period or similar to the male protagonist of Long Aotian in the current Chinese vulgar Internet routine novels, but Charles V is a ruler who really has his strong personal ability and courage, and ...... Well, this product is also quite handsome, otherwise he would not passively seduce the Portuguese princess Isabella as his wife, which shows that whether a person is handsome or not is also a kind of soft power......
Not only that, but Charles V's level of leadership and statecraft is not to be said, at least it can be seen from the fact that the Kingdom of France and the Turkish Ottoman Empire have lost their temper...... Well, it's arguably the same almost everywhere as it is, and it's indeed a famous person in history, who knows if it's a shrunken version of Foltest......
To be honest, Feng Longde really thinks that Foltest and Charles V are really similar in many places, or that this virtual game character and another real historical figure both reflect the huge role that the legal lineage that prevails in Europe can play in terms of rule, as well as the soft power embodiment of whether people are handsome or not, as for Foltest's sister control...... Well, in fact, whether in the East or the West, this kind of thing happens in the court from time to time, but a god like Foltest who made his own sister bigger and wants to get married really can't find any character prototypes in this era of human civilization, and he later began to control his wife, and in some side descriptions in the original novel, it can be found that he is interested in Lin Jing, and the ghost knows if this is the reason why he is more friendly to the non-human race or the ancient race among all the northern kings...... In addition, it can be seen in the original novels and games of the "Witcher" series that Foltest is a bold and generous king, deeply loved by soldiers and knights, and he is also a real siege equipment expert, and has always personally gone to the battlefield to draw swords and cut people, and has much in common with the immediate rulers of human civilization in this era.
On the whole, apart from the usual shortcomings of being a king, such as arrogance and complacency and never knowing how to compromise, Foltest was actually a pretty good king - if you look back, Foltest was a remarkable and excellent figure compared to other kings of the north. The ruler of Pontar and Mahakham accomplished many things that his ancestors wanted to do but could not, and he lived a very unexpected life unmarried until his death: in his youth, Foltest proved to be not only "doable", but also quite strong, because he fell in love with his own sister, Yada of Temeria, and directly enlarged his sister's belly after his father King Mydell ascended the throne after his death...... The most terrifying or powerful thing is that after learning that his biological sister was pregnant by himself, Foltest actually directly rejected the marriage contract with Princess Darimila, the daughter of King Vizmir of Redania, and wanted to marry his own sister as the queen......
Well, in a sense, this two-forced king is too much more powerful than Kasuga Yeyu, and TNND has to take responsibility without saying a word, which is that the three views in this regard are not very correct, otherwise if you change to a woman with another identity, it can be regarded as a manifestation of true love......
As you can imagine, Foltest's absurd decision was soon met with strong resentment from his mother, Queen Mother Shanhia, and the nobles of Temeria, and with the personal persuasion of his sister Yada, Foretest finally dispelled the strange idea of marrying his own sister Lightning, but the matter was not over: a year later, Yada of Temeria gave birth to a child, but the child seemed to be cursed, born as a dead baby, and she also died in childbirth, and Foltest buried the two in the sarcophagus of his palace catacombs in Temolia。 It had been peaceful for seven years after the funeral, until one full moon night, when the palace was filled with roars, screams and screams, and chaos everywhere.
For no other reason: the dead baby grew up in the sarcophagus, turned into a vampire bird, and began to run out at night to hunt the living, becoming a scourge in the surrounding area. For this reason, Foltest decided to give a large reward to the man who killed the monster, but no one ever succeeded. One day, a bald, hunchbacked mage with a pointed hat thought it was just a simple spell that would turn the vampire bird back into Foltest's little daughter, and all it would take to spend a night in the catacombs and the world would be peaceful...... Believing that the curse could be lifted, Foltest ordered the people to be forbidden to kill the Vampire Bird and offered a bounty on those who broke the curse. However, these measures did not do much, and instead increased the number of greedy people who were bitten to death by the vampire birds, and the prize money was raised to three thousand Oren. Six more years passed, and the monster killed about fifty people a year, again on the premise that the people in the surrounding area had long since gone into hiding, forcing Foltest to move away from his old residence. It wasn't until the arrival of the Demon Hunter Galot and the Mayor of Virginmaar, Verellad, introduced him to Foltest to lift the curse.