Talk:Gaetan/@comment-36583602-20190506140653

I can guess a few reasons what really happened:

1. Gaetan had a bounty on his head. The letter from his hideout showed that the Cat Witchers are being hunted down. It mentioned Geatan also had a bounty. So from this we can guess the context that the villagers thought they can kill two birds with one stone. Killing the Leshen problem, and getting money for kiling Gaetan. With blind rage after being stabbed by the pitchfork, Gaetan massacred the village. HOWEVER, if this truly was the reason, Gaetan could just mention this straight up to Geralt. It's not  a secret already that non-humans, magical entities, etc. are being hunted down like wild game. Even during Novigrad's main questline, while with Triss, Geralt was seen as a potential person to kill if needed to. Geralt would understand that situation a bit more farer than his story with low pay for the Leshen. So there's a strong possibility this isn't the reason.

2. Gaetan didn't really kill the Leshen. Gaetan had trophies in his hideout, Gaetan could've probably used an already-dead Leshen trophy to trick the village. However, they found out and tricked Gaetan to going to the barn to collect his money to kill him for the fraud he is, or was confronted there face-to-face to tell him he didn't kill the Leshen, and Gaetan just blindly killed everyone who probably heard this.

3. Gaetan DID kill the Leshen, and wanted to keep the trophy. We see a well-off house as Geralt puts it, in the village. The house had a wall of trophies. Millie said that she heard an argument, and this was probably it. Gaetan tried to get the Leshen trophy as part of his collection, but the person that owned the house also wanted it. Then we move to the barn where they probably talked and confronted to be stabbed at the back. Gaetan could've also told this to Geralt, however I don't know if there's a rule with Witchers not keeping trophies. Seeing that Geralt keeps trophies of his own via the game, Geralt would probably understand this the same as #1.

4. His story was true.

All of this eventually needs to lead to the barn. Considering it did have a pitchfork and signs of a fight, to some grain of salt, Gaetan's story on this part was probably true.