Talk:The Whispering Hillock/@comment-36583602-20190314021348

Killed it in my first playthrough. We can't necessarily say it's evil nor can we say that to the crones, which is more evil. All we can do is "assume" they both are evil, and/or lying. There is a book that talks abou the spirit and the cones, while it may not wholly represent the truth, we can make a choice once we gather information.

Geralt is a witcher who always talks about choosing the lesser evil. He himself isn't really good nor evil, but almost nearly borderline neutral. I didn't roleplay as my ideal self, I roleplayed as "what would Geralt do?". We can't say that the tree is good nor evil, so instead of choosing to believe it, I got what I know and simply killed it instead. If it truly is something that made the crones, then therefore it can also be said that it might be as evil as the crones.

Since eventually you'll have to fight the crones at some point, might as well kill it as well. You don't do good by releasing one evil to kill the other evil. There's no win-win situation here, you will lose at any choice you choose. Children for the death of the village and curse/death of Gran, or the Village and living but morallly insane Gran. That third option to save the spirit before taking the Ladies of the Woods quest confirmed by devs that you never said the children, and much worse, you indirectly kill the entire village. So it's either choose the lesser evil for the greater good, or just do something much worse.

This kind of storytelling and choice greatly shows Witcher's good story progression. There's no right or wrong choices, just choices.