Talk:The Whispering Hillock/@comment-2604:6000:1405:5ED:E106:8816:3ABD:FD9-20180909210710/@comment-108.170.49.166-20181015152050

The horse itself isn't much of a physical threat. But everywhere it goes chaos follows. Animals become vicious. Monsters swarm. Mothers murder their babies. People commit suicide or drop dead on the spot. Etc. Besides which the spirit might only be saving the children from death at the specific hands of the Crones. It might just take them away to die somewhere else. They can't go home, their parents willingly sacrificed them and would bring them back. With nobody to care for them they're as good as dead and someone willing to take in a bunch of new mouths isn't easily found in Velen. If you'd suggest the spirit itself would care for them see the above note that this thing causes death and insanity just by existing. You're trying to trade hundreds of lives for a handful but in actuality not saving that handful, either.