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* MakeMeWannaShout: Ciri's scream of grief not only hurts people, it ''opens a massive chasm'' in the earth.


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* SuperScream: Ciri's scream of grief not only hurts people, it ''opens a massive chasm'' in the earth.
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* ConcentrationBoundMagic: The castle at Cintra is being attacked with overwhelming armies they cannot hope to defeat. As a final line of defense, CourtMage Mousesack creates a magical barrier around the moat, which he can maintain only so long as his energy and focus last.
-->'''Ciri:''' How long will it hold?\\
'''Mousesack:''' As long as I hold.
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[-Adapts the short story "The Lesser Evil" from the anthology ''Literature/TheLastWish''.-]
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* TheBadGuyWins: While the episode is deliberately vague on how good or bad Renfri is, Stregobor is undeniably the greater evil here. He also is the only person to get everything he wants: Renfri is dead, he has her body to study ForScience, he's perfectly safe, and Geralt is kicked run out of town and can't oppose him.

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* TheBadGuyWins: While the episode is deliberately vague on how good or bad Renfri is, Stregobor is undeniably the greater evil here. He also is the only person to get everything he wants: Renfri is dead, he has her body to study ForScience, he's perfectly safe, and Geralt is kicked has been run out of town and can't oppose him.

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Calanthe's first battle as a teenager is referenced by Ciri, then the next scene has Renfri talk about it as being very recent. A bit later, Mousesack talks about the Black Sun like it was much longer ago than in Geralt's storyline.

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: {{Foreshadowing}}:
** Marilka asks Geralt if he's ever fought a striga. He hasn't yet, [[Recap/TheWitcher2019S01E03BetrayerMoon but he will soon enough]].
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Calanthe's first battle as a teenager is referenced by Ciri, then the next scene has Renfri talk about it as being very recent. A bit later, Mousesack talks about the Black Sun like it was much longer ago than in Geralt's storyline.
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* TheOner: Geralt cutting through Renfri's men in Blaviken is filmed in a single shot.
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* HollywoodTactics: Nilfgaard and Cintra start in organized lines, but end up just running at each other across the battlefield, and Cintra makes no attempt to put up a pike line to break Nilfgaard's cavalry charge. The cavalry on both sides waits to charge until the lines are too close to build any momentum. Likewise, it's not clear why Cintra met them on the field anyway, since they knew Nilfgaard was coming for the castle and putting troops on the walls would probably have been a more efficient use of resources. Though there are strategic reasons for defenders to decide not to try to fight a siege.

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* HollywoodTactics: Nilfgaard and Cintra start in organized lines, but end up just running at each other across the battlefield, and Cintra makes no attempt to put up a pike line to break Nilfgaard's cavalry charge. The cavalry on both sides waits to charge until the lines are too close to build any momentum.momentum, so it's more of a cavalry trot. Likewise, it's not clear why Cintra met them on the field anyway, since they knew Nilfgaard was coming for the castle and putting troops on the walls would probably have been a more efficient use of resources. Though there are strategic reasons for defenders to decide not to try to fight a siege.
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* HollywoodTactics: Nilfgaard and Cintra start in organized lines, but end up just running at each other across the battlefield, and Cintra makes no attempt to put up a pike line to break Nilfgaard's cavalry charge. Likewise, it's not clear why Cintra met them on the field anyway, since they knew Nilfgaard was coming for the castle and putting troops on the walls would probably have been a more efficient use of resources. Though there are strategic reasons for defenders to decide not to try to fight a siege.

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* HollywoodTactics: Nilfgaard and Cintra start in organized lines, but end up just running at each other across the battlefield, and Cintra makes no attempt to put up a pike line to break Nilfgaard's cavalry charge. The cavalry on both sides waits to charge until the lines are too close to build any momentum. Likewise, it's not clear why Cintra met them on the field anyway, since they knew Nilfgaard was coming for the castle and putting troops on the walls would probably have been a more efficient use of resources. Though there are strategic reasons for defenders to decide not to try to fight a siege.

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