Talk:Essi Daven/@comment-138.229.134.96-20160410112214/@comment-2A02:908:D82:4060:C43:1D01:C7B0:C024-20171210083028

She was killed off because that makes the story more fitting with the tone of the story. Geralt is forced to Yennefer by destiny and by a spell. He does not have a choice, though it might not seem that way to him. As crude as that seems, Essi was simply just another human without any significance to Geralt's destiny, to his story.

As for why she dies, it's simply because she is in a medivial giant city. As I said before, she is just another person, so she dies like just another person to show this. People are not very likely to survive illness in giant cities without proper hygene. The significance of the death is that Dandelion thought of her, as he had thought about her birthday before.