Talk:The Ghost in the Tree/@comment-185.87.210.20-20160115111751/@comment-68.42.49.80-20160410182851

My big reason for taking the crones over the spirit was knowledge.

One of the books in the game suggests that the spirit is indeed the Crone's mother/parent. Gone mad  for whatever reason, setting her loose may mean the crones disappear, sure. But it also means that the entire province will likely be destroyed under her insane fits of violence. The Crones on the other hand are something of a necessary evil. Sure, what they do (consuming children and killing any whom trespass on 'their land') is vile and repulsive, but the crones have kept the land relatively safe (plague-free) under their watch. The people may still suffer still and for far longer, but the alternative is to let EVERYONE die rather than the occaisional child.