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I don’t know if you’re interested, but just in case:
Question: Fantasy is one of the genres, wich allows an author to answer a number of topical issues of modern society in a veiled form. The empire of Nilfgaard can be successfully attributed to France of the times of Napoleon, and the Northern kingdoms to European monarchies, who did not want to participate in the bourgeois revolution, which bear the bayonets of Bonaparte.[...]
AS: Personally, I imagined Nilfgaard as Rome in the period of pax romana, the Northern Kingdoms as Gauls or Britons, but your parallels also make sense. [...]
Source : https://www.reddit.com/r/wiedzmin/comments/83ayrq/interview_with_sapkowski_the_work_of_my_life_is/?ref_source=embed&ref=share --— Gwynbleidds (talk) 16:48, 18 February 2019 (UTC)