Talk:Alzur/@comment-24.69.201.248-20150531082301

One of the odder parts about the Witcher, though I can't fully confirm it:

Given Alvin's little show in Chapter 1 and Berengar's notes, we know that the Hellhound is very likely to be operating under the same rules as Alzur's Demon (that is the demon will ask a question, and if this is correctly answered, the Demon will lose its powers.)  I have heard that the battle with the Hellhound is much easier if you accuse Abigail - the flaming circle is supposedly not summoned and the battle itself is much easier...and I've seen far less people complaining about its Pain ability when they're on that side of things. I'm still on my first playthrough, so I haven't chosen this option yet, so I can't confirm how much of this is true.

Now comes the interesting part: When you and Abigail give Alvin the white myrtle potion she makes, he becomes a voicepiece for the Beast. He asks "Who summoned me?" If this is indeed a demon of the same variety encountered by Alzur, correctly answering this question should drain it of its powers; if you accuse Abigail, the Hellhound, supposedly, loses a couple of its more unpleasant abilities.

Then there's how Abigail responds to being accused: unleashing a curse that kills everyone in the village, apparently demonstrating that she is a part of the cukt of the lionhead spider. This suggests that the old woman in chapter 4 is full of sh**: Abigail is far from innocent.

Personally, I think Abigail may well have summoned the Beast. This doesn't mean that the Reverend and co. aren't necessarily terrible people - at the very least, we know the Reverend abandoned his daughter to become a whore in Vizima (Carmen) and we know he abandoned Alvin, another child, to the Salamanders. It's not like she's not prone to using excessive force when provoked (again, death curse to the entire village); perhaps it was just her self-righteous response to all the human failings of the villagers around her (and being the scapegoat certainly doesn't help)