Talk:Phillip Strenger/@comment-178.27.159.85-20180830000522

Well they both fucked up. But it spiraled down on its own. Lets recapitulate their relationship: 1. Happily married with daughter 2. Baron disappears for weeks/months (for war) 3. Comes back mostly to drown his sorrows in alcohol 4. Meanwhile Anna struggles as a single mother in medieval times. Gets help from her old childhood friend. 5. She sees this guy more often than her husband, (which isn't even that difficult. She probably saw the wild hunt on zhe sky more often than him) 6. Annas feelings for the Baron fade and she tries to leave him on a good tone by (at least) leaving a letter 8. Baron comes back furious, kills her new love, drags her back and keeping her against her will 9. She despises him now, while he tries to warm up feelings from long ago 10. Doesn't work, he drinks, she provokes = violence on daily basis 11. Anna, probably raped while he was drunk had no intentions of raising another child of the man she hates the most 12. Result: Dead infant, curses, crones and hellllooo Geralt! Try solving this mess, would you?

There is no real bad guy here. The baron is actually a pretty good soul and surprisingly naive considering the world he lives in. If you talk to him, you notice, that he tries to see the good in everything, even these pr*cks of men he has. He likely has no clue, what they do behind his back. His mistake was to drink, leaving his wife and daughter alone for so long and then beeing unable to let them go when there was no use for this relationship anymore. Everything after this is obvious.

Anna shouldn't have cheated for a year (though we don't know any details about that time - we just know they saw each other) before leaving him. She shouldn't have hold her grudge for a lifetime or at least tried to escape much earlier. And of course she shouldn't have trusted the crowns.

There is a lot of mistakes on both sides, some weigh heavier than others, but I only see it as a very dramatic escalation of two people who weren't made for each other.