Talk:Payback/@comment-198.54.212.177-20170605020156/@comment-219.92.197.253-20170814142855

There's an out, although a very flimsy one - pick the option to buy the horses for them, and the elf will explain that it wasn't a problem of not having money, the trader simply refused to "trade with such scum" i.e. was a racist. Geralt hates that crap, so you can use it to justify agreeing to help steal the horses.

Hard to say. I mean, in some quests where you sided with one party, Geralt had no qualms putting down the other - and if I'm not mistaken there were a few that dealt with similar bigotry. I don't think stealing a bunch of horses from someone he finds distasteful to help a bunch of non-humans (and more importantly, Ciri) is too far out of character.

I mean, I concluded "Reasons of State" not too long before this; considering the bloodshed in that quest, overcoming some reservations on theft doesn't seem too far a stretch. Admittedly he could seem less enthusiastic about it though, gotta say he does seem a bit too nonchalant here.