Talk:Wild at Heart/@comment-119.74.246.213-20190322185937/@comment-2600:1004:B048:EB69:2C68:916F:DE75:5B53-20190712111731

There's actually A LOT of subtle to the Noonwraith by the well. Short Version, the Lord had a son, that son was a homosexual. His lover is some random dude you save from death at some point and he tells you about it. I forgot what happened to the Lord's son, he died somehow, but anyway, the Lord was a JERK.

When he went to the village with the well, the woman was mad at how he was behaving the way he was, taking their supplies or something (i'm loosely going from memory here) and she makes some comment under her breath about the Lord's son being gay. This sends the Lord into a rage and he has her murdered.

Now here's the part where you find out about the "justice". All this takes place in White Orchard, through one of your conversations, one of the very first in fact, you are speaking with the lady at the tavern. You ask about the Griffin contract, she says that usually there would be a contract by the village elder taking up a collection or the Lord that oversees the area (the same one that killed the woman at the well). She went on to say though that the village elder was too scared to talk to the Nilfs about it and that the Lord...he was an ass that was murdered by the Nilfgardians when they came to town.

I just replayed all this the day before you yesterday. The writing is so complex with the witcher, they give you details about stories before you even realize you are getting details about stories. Passing conversations go on to complete puzzles of content sometimes hours later in gameplay.

That's why replaying the game more than once is really beneficial. Even if you are a thorough player, there are details like this and pieces of the puzzle to put together that probably 90% of the player base either lacks the ability to, or they simply don't notice.

So yes, the murderer was punished in the case of the "noonwraith by the well". In an obscure, convoluted, and hardly explained kind of way. The man responsible for her death, was soon executed by the Nilfgardians when they came to town and he died in quite a deservedly horrible fashion.

I hope this brings you some closure!