Talk:The Whispering Hillock/@comment-34857206-20180301041244

SPOILER ALERT

This one made me feel dirty no matter which way I did it! I initially freed the spirit (even though Geralt warns you it lies when he says he doesn't remember a druid circle ever being in Velen). Save innocent children from being Crone snacks or release a spirit that might be violent? Hard one, but my gut said save the innocents, then maybe I could kill the spirit later if need be. (Hadn't read the book about the Whispering Hillock yet).

After learning all the consequences, I redid it and killed the spirit, but it took some consideration! Bloody batterer or not, I liked the Baron and didn't want him to die, but he wasn't innocent, so his life didn't come before the kids. Anna dying was sad, but she was okay with using black magic to kill her innocent child, so her life didn't come before the kids. What clinched it for me was the Downwarren massacre. The adults were of questionable morality so that wasn't necessarily worth saving. It was when the ealdorman told me innocent children in the village were also killed that I cussed a little because I knew I had to redo it.

No matter what, innocent children would die, and freeing the spirit wound up with much more dead in addition to the innocents. Plus, freeing the spirit felt wrong. When I read the Whispering Hillock book in Skellige and learned the spirit was the crazy momma of the crones that was devastating Velen in the past, I knew I made the right choice (the right choice for me, not necessarily for you or what Geralt would've done without me possessing him). I still felt dirty, but couldn't find a better solution! :-)