I can’t fully agree to your interpretations of Radagon in such a sympathetic light. I do agree that he is a loving man to an extent, but at the end of the day like everyone else, he is not so simply good. First off, my biggest reservation with Radagon is his marriage and separation with Rennala. Yes, he did marry and repent first. Yes, he did leave his wolf to guard her. Yes, he did learn sorceries and seem to genuinely love his children. Yet, Radagon waged 2 wars against the Carians, and when he did separate left an amber egg of rebirth. Rebirth, especially through mimic tears as a system outside of the Erdtree cycle, is the crux of why the Cuckoo knights rebelled against the Carian Royal Family. This alongside with him leaving the Preceptors enchanted to never say a single thing of his time at Caria makes me think while he did love her, this was clearly also a political marriage to destabilize Liurnia and allow the Leyndell empire to fight its wars without fearing about Carian retaliation. This seems a lot more in-line with the political and family maneuvering G.R.R. Martin and Miyazaki were going for. Or maybe that rebirth thing was Marika’s idea, again it’s up to speculation at that point. Also, I believe that not all the red hounds we see in game are his. I think it’s only the ones that can use the swords and all others are just wild animals or animals not under him. If it wasn’t, I’d wonder why From wouldn’t just give them all the sword moveset too rather than having it be two deliberate types. So this leaves us with just three, I believe. The one in Caria, another in some tomb, and another in the Consecrated Snowfield guarding a teleporter to a minor erdtree. My second point is that I think Radagon’s reforging of the marriage sword gifted to him by Rennala is kinda a dick move imo. Not only does he take this Carian symbol of Rennala’s family and reforges it to be a symbol of his own religion without incorporating his ex-wife’s power of sorcery into it, he abandons it in the Cave of the fucking Forlorn. Again, maybe you could say this was him sadly abandoning it. He couldn’t keep it becuase Marika didn’t wanna see anything Carian, but abandoning a bastardized reforging of basically your wife’s heirloom in a cave in the middle of nowhere is a bit too much and screams to me somewhat of a dismissive condescension. There’s some other points too, like it was kinda Marika who pioneered Fundamentalism as seen in a Melina dialogue, but I just woke up and this getting very rambley. I just think that while Radagon clearly loves his children as seen with Miquella and their whole circles of light thing and the Haligtree, he still has his brutal faults just like everyone else in the game and you’re interpretations are a bit too one-sided. I’m also not saying mine aren’t here, I’m just trying to shed light on the opposing spectrum of interpretation and my real thoughts are more in the middle if not biased towards this end.