Talk:Ladies of the Wood/@comment-26426852-20150523154706/@comment-67.182.178.180-20150526135602

Maybe this is what happened in my game; I'm not entirely sure...

I did the Whispering Hillock quest before I even entered Crookback Bog for the first time. When I eventually got to the part where the Crones wanted me to help the ealdorman of Downwarren, I told him it was a spirit trapped in the tree, then I told him it didn't matter what I did to resolve it, and he said that maybe it's better that he didn't know.

When I started the Return to Crookback Bog quest, I met the Baron at Downwarren and all the villagers except the ealdorman were dead; he said they all when mad and killed each other. Geralt makes a comment that this is the work of the spirit in the woods (I assume he meant the spirit from the tree in the Whispering Hillock quest). And when the Baron's men get to Anna, nobody mentions the spirit of the druid from the Whispering Hillock quest, and nobody mentions the missing children. Anna is herself, not a Water Hag, and she's mentally unstable. The only explaination given is the trauma of her miscarriage and her debt (and enforcement of that debt) to the Crones.

So I have absolutely no idea what happened to the children, whether they were eaten by the Crones or whether they were rescued by the Spirit Horse... They're just gone.