#francis bedlam

[gleamingsilence]

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This is for Moth @luciferian-herbivore​ and all my other chronic-pain-buddies! 💖

After an unfortunate meeting with a certain witcher Sigi Reuven, one of Novigrad’s Big Four, is laid up in bed. He wouldn’t call his visitors friends, but they bring gifts of doubtful comfort, nevertheless.

#as much fluff as one can have with Sigi #Geralt being a mean bean who shoves people aside. forcefully

[gatecrashing-corneas]

Sigi my love, I’ve learned far too much about you in the bathhouse 

[dukeofdogs]

King of Beggars

Chest 1: The enclave in Novigrad from which the King of Beggars conducts his business is called the Putrid Grove – a small district of muddy, fetid streets where city guards dare not venture. Though it is at their loss, for hidden in the Grove's derelict structures are many sought-after alchemists, mages, and sorceresses destined for penance by fire.

Chest 2: The King of Beggars, despite his lofty title, makes no use of traditional symbols for wealth and power. He wears humble garb and conceals his face under a hood. Though he can be distinguished from rest of the cities wretched masses by a characteristic golden signet ring. At the very sight of him, Novigrad's destitute and beggarly lower their heads out of respect and subservience.

Chest 3: In contrast to the city's other crime lords, Francis Bedlam possesses a good heart. The problem is, however, he rarely makes full use of it. He suppresses his noblest impulses, ignores his pangs of conscience. Though more than any other he's been known to demonstrate unprovoked altruistic moments of goodwill. At least, once every few years or so...

Scroll 1: None wish to lay their eyes upon Novigrad's beggars – their eyes milky and blind, their bodies pocked with scabs and festering wounds.

Scroll 2: Yet, paradoxically, in their repulsiveness lies their strength, for they are invisible fixtures in the streets. Few think to choose their words carefully in the presence of the city's haggard wretches.

Scroll 3: Francis Bedlam, known to most as the King of Beggars, has long understood that it is information, not crowns, that serve as Novigrad's most valuable currency.

Scroll 4: In a matter of a few years, Bedlam created a quiet, unseen web of information gathering formed from the city's destitute. There is little that transpires in Novigrad without the King of Beggars' knowledge.

[thirstyforred]

✦ thirsty's fav gwent cards (633/∞) Francis Bedlam - King of Beggars

" The semblance of power don't interest me. "

[aenreth]

You say "tribute", I say "taxes". You say "thieves", I say "hard-workin' street clerks". They call this place the Putrid Grove. But it's the rest of Novigrad that's putrefied. This here's the last bastion of normality, sanity, reason.

[nastyazerina]

Несколько зарисовок.

[estherwieliczka]

The Syndicate

Here’s my personal cast for the members of the Syndicate for The Witcher!

Sigismund Djikstra - Vincent D’Onofrio

Francis Bedlam - Vinnie Jones

Gudrun Bjornsdottir - Michelle Rodriguez

Cyrus Engelkind Hemmelfart - John Goodman

Cyprian “Whoreson Jr” Wiley - Christopher Eccleston

Carlo “Cleaver” Varese - John Rhys-Davies

[putitonthedijkstra]

I love FaceApp right now.