Talk:The Ghost in the Tree/@comment-178.27.159.199-20180917063427

Read that here a lot, but I doubt, Downwarren 'deserves death because: children'. First of all, if you free the spirit it makes mothers smash their babies heads in. Second: the people of Downwarren have no idea, what the crowns do to their children. They have no clue, what the pot of meat is made of, the crowns give to them. You get that information when Geralt talks to the elder. They lived like that for probably centuries and probably turned to the crowns in pure desperation, during starvation, plagues and monster attacks. No one else would've helped them.

Imagine having five children, your parents and a husband/wife at home, half of them ill, one crippled or insane, most of them starved. In a week or so, half of them will be perished. Would you struck the deal to give 'the beautiful ladies of the woods' (they work with illusions remember) one child to save everyone else? In medieval times, children were abandoned and sold for much less. Guess, what the fairy tale Hensel & Gretel is based on.

I don't think they may not have guessed, that these children might die - but they would've died likely anyway, of named reasons. Plus, they have dozens of other children in the village, growing up normally and without that freaking much difficulties than before. I think I alsonread somewhere, that parents should send a child on the sweet path to 'give them a better life'. No idea, if they believed it, but rather that than questioning their 'handsome saviors'.

I don't wanna say, that Downwarren is so damn innocent. But leaving their point of view out of the equation is just 'blind-white-knight-morality' that doesn't work in the witcher universe.