Talk:In the Heart of the Woods/@comment-212.183.176.68-20180502123749/@comment-87.7.15.94-20181006083627

you forgot the part in which the Witcher is a side profession, especially at this point in history in the games, while a hunter is fundamental to assist the sustenance of the village. If at any point in the history of that village there are only five kids that are willing to become hunters and three die, what will the village do? survive only with what two hunters, armed only with spears, can manage to acquire? Starve off and die? And what if there are no boys that wish to become hunters with spear and knife, or are too weak to do so? they force them anyways, wiping off a generation?

Sven is a jerk, a hotheaded idiot, and I have no doubt he will have his throat slit in his sleep someday; but as a witcher, i don't care. The leshen "testing" with a sadistic ritual (that is hard, at the recomended level, for a witcher with steel sword and beast oil, picture a common man with a pointy stick) the figures that are meant to provide the wellbeing of the village, and that on his whim can destroy that wellbeing because he plays the god, and "it doesn't please him", and can't be reasoned with, is a problem. The same reasoning I applied when I met the sylvan in Velen: he played the god, he was being a jerk, but he accepted the discussion, so i spared him. Simple as that.

Relying on the individual heroism is the reason why Skellige has been the backwater hole of the Northern continent, and it's the same kind of reasoning that brought me to side with Cerys: old traditions are fine, when they bring positivity. When they hinder or endanger your life, or the life of the ones nearby, they are simply dangerous.

Even the witchers themselves despise their own destiny, they certainly do not consider the Trials to be "right", basically everyone has a trauma remembering those.