Talk:Phillip Strenger/@comment-208.58.117.101-20150602065454/@comment-86.140.215.17-20150604190135

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I stuck with the guy and backed him to the end, even when his petulant daughter kept brushing him aside. He was a wife beater but she "cuckolded him for years", as he put it, while he was out fighting wars and risking his life to put food on their table. So, not an excuse but its an explanation at least. He seemed genuinely remorseful and clearly loved his family, which further adds to his defense.

I suspected after the first 2 or 3 missions of that questline that he would end up hanging himself. The guy's life was falling to pieces before Geralt's eyes and the plotline seemed to be pushing for that ending the whole time. It was no less sad and hard-hitting when it actually happened though.

Geralt seemed to share my empathy for The Baron even without the player having to pick a compassionate response, when he berates the Baron's sergeant for his total indifference about the suicide.

An excellent character.

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