Talk:Kiyan/@comment-96.240.130.166-20160823052025/@comment-62.57.240.187-20170122150531

The fact that it's unexplained allows you to create theories. I.E: I searched him all around the lab, didn't find his corpse nor his students, but I did find a lot of broken things and destroyed walls, so he wasn't killed on the lab. What could have happened to a mage in Novigrad? Guess you can imagine.

Then, why is Kiyan free to roam the lab? The first thing I imagined, was the fact that he died fullfilled with hatred, so he turned into some kind of possessed monster, which destroyed the lab and remained there waiting for people to murder, but he's a Witcher and doesn't look like any kind of specter, so I don't think that's the case. But as the journal said, even after the torture he was able to walk freely and even harmed the room on his first days, so after the mage's death, he managed to escape the cell and destroy everything.

Why was he on a pentagram? That's something I don't know, but in Hearts of Stone they say pentagrams are used to avoid the summoned demon to escape, so maybe he was possessed after all, but why would have he made a pentagram in order to restrain himself?