History Characters / TheWitcher2019TheNorthernKingdoms

* SelfMadeMan: A commoner who rose to become The Chief of Redanian Intelligence and the most skilled and dangerous [[TheSpymaster spymaster]] in all the continent. He outright admits to his commoner status towards Geralt in hopes to find a CommonalityConnection with him, which hilariously fails. Vizimir also hints at this background he points out that Dijkstra rose to power thanks to him.

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Sort of. Despite the fact that she's [[KnightTemplar willing to cross some pretty nasty moral lines for what she sees as the the good of Redania]], she legitimately seems to believe she's acting on a ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight principles and has nothing but utter scorn and disdain and how hedonistic she believes The Brotherhood of Sorcerers has become.

* {{Animorphism}}: She has the ability to turn herself into an owl, she helps a great deal when gathering information and sneaking undetected.

* KnightTemplar: Just like Dijkstra. She's 's so ruthlessly and uncompromisingly devoted to Redania's sovereignty that she's actually willing to [[spoiler:kill the current queen, send her decapitated head to the king and use her death as a FalseFlagOperation in order to galvanize Redania against Nilfgaard and to make sure Redania will never be consumed by the rising empire.]] The amount of [[TheUnfettered moral lines she's willing to cross in her devotion to hercountry]] are horrifying, but what's even worse is that they have the desired effect.

** Family is important to him in a way that very few monarchs have shown in this series and he's very close to both his younger brother (whom he calls his "best man") and his marriage with Queen Hedwig seems to have been a [[HappilyMarried happy one]] by the standards of the series, if not the one he initially wanted. [[spoiler:His reaction to finding [[DecapitationPresentation Hedwig's head on a box]] is a mix us utter grief and utter rage.]]

** As a king, he's notably more willful and independent than Dijkstra might like and he's not completely wihtout his own separate agenda outside of Dijkstra, as seen when he has secret meeting with Nilfgaard and essentially almost brokers a deal with them without Dijkstra's input, even if said deal us utterly destroyed by Dijkstra's FalseFlagOperation. As both he and Radovid point out, Vizimir is Dijkstra's ''boss'' and while Dijkstra might advice, the final decision is Vizimir's alone.

* DeadpanSnarker: Her conversation with Dandelion is filled with barely hidden disdainful mockery, including blatant threats, and she's just initially as utterly dismissive about Prince Radovid as well.

* CommonalityConnection: With Yennifer, according to her. As Philippa notes, they are both renegades among The Brotherhood of Sorcerers and often break their rules to gain results.

* ProperlyParanoid: [[spoiler:"The Art of Illusion" strongly implies that she does ''not'' trusts Vilgefortz and considers him a manipulator in his relationship with Tissaia. While it's strongly implied that a lot of this comes from pure [[GreenEyedMonster jealousy]], near the end of the episode both Geralt and Yennifer [[EurekaMoment release]] that Vilgefortz ''is'' the powerful mage who commands Rience and is working alongside Nilfgaard against The North. So it seems Philippa was right on the money to not trust Vilgefortz.]]

* WeUsedToBeFriends: With Tissaia de Vries. While Tissaia vaguely tells Yennifer that thier friendship had "ran its course", Philippa goes more into depth on "The Art of Illusion": according to Philippa, she argued against the mages participation in Sodden, stating that countless mages would unnecessarily die in the combat and Tissaia fervently disagreed. [[JerkassHasAPoint Considering that before Yennifer pulled her Big Damn Heroes moment during said battle the Northen Mages were dying in droves, one cannot help to think that Philippa was not quite wrong.]]

* WeUsedToBeFriends: With Tissaia de Vries. While Tissaia vaguely tells Yennifer that thier friendship had "ran its course", Philippa goes more into depth on "The Art of Illusion": according to Philippa, she argued against the mages participation in Sodden, stating that countless mages would unnecessarily die in the combat and Tissaia fervently disagreed. [[JerkassHasAPoint considering that before Yennifer pulled her Big Damn Heroes moment during said battle the Northen Mages were dying in droves, one cannot help to think that Philippa was not quite wrong.]]

* WeUsedToBeFriends: With Tissaia de Vries. While Tissaia vaguely tells Yennifer that thier friendship had "ran its course", Philippa goes more into depth on "The Art of Illusion": according to Philippa, she argued against the mages participation in Sodden, stating that countless mages would unnecessarily die in the combat and Tissaia fervently disagreed. [[JerkassHasAPoint considering that before Yennifer pulled her BigDamnHeroes moment during said battle the Northen Mages were dying in droves, one cannot help to think that Philippa was not quite wrong.]]

* EveryoneHasStandards: He's both violently ill and utterly ''horrified'' at Dijkstra and Philippa's FalseFlagOperation. Considering it was by [[spoiler:killing The Queen Of Redania and having her head chopped off to be delivered to Vizimir, all the while making look like Nilfgaard was the one responsible for the attack]], it makes sense why he would be utterly horrofied. As he points out, what they did was [[spoiler:treason, and against his brother to boot]].

* FalseFlagOperation: Worried that a potential deal between Vizimir and Nilfgaard, especially since such a deal would cost them Ciri, would end up with Redania loosing all its power to Nilfgaard he [[spoiler:Has The Queen Of Redania killed and her head chopped off to be delivered to Vizimir, all the while making look like Nilfgaard was the one responsible for the attack]]. This, while absolutely horrifying, utterly galvanizes Vizimir to go against Nilfgaard 100%.

* ObfuscatingStupidity: While at first he comes off as much a UpperclassTwit as his older brother, a surprised Philippa notes that he's actually quite good at manipulating others by being TheCharmer. Even his use of the nickname [[DoNotCallMePaul "Pip"]] seems to be an intentional dig to make her loose her cool on his part.

* ObfuscatingStupidity: While at first he comes off as much a UpperclassTwit as his older brother, a surprised Philippa notes that he's actually quite good at manipulating others by being The Charmer. Even his use of the nickname [[DoNotCallMePaul "Pip"]] seems to be an intentional dig to make her loose her cool on his part.

* DeadpanSnarker: Her conversation with Dandelion is filled with barely hidden disdainful mockery, including blatant threats, and she's just as utterly dismissive about Prince Radovid as well.

* DeadpanSnarker: Her conversation with Dandelion is filled with barely hidden amused mockery and she's just as utterly dismissive about Prince Radovid as well.