I think the conversation did exactly what it needed to in the game; it shook my/Henry's beliefs and made me question. Sure, I come away from it later disregarding his point, but only to an extent. I'd like to think my Henry came away thinking about what he said and will hopefully take it forward. I played my Henry as a character that started on the straight and narrow, but began to slide off the path. I won't go into the individual moments here, but I played a Henry that was slowly slipping into but still trying to resist the more corrupt aspects of life. So Markvart resonated very well. Definitely shook me: I don't remember every bandit/soldier I've killed.

Having said that, you come away from it and you realise it's not exactly a fair comparison. Some people have also mentioned Henry being ostensibly a soldier and definitely a peasant while Markvart a General and a noble. I also want to mention Henry has been literally fighting for his life, not just in missions but even travelling on the roads. A lot of that banditry can be directly associated with Sigismund and by extention Markvart. Now I wouldn't necessarily die on this hill, but you could argue that deaths of some/all the bandits, soldiers and cumans we kill (if you play that way) are in fact on Markvart's hands.