Talk:Gaetan/@comment-18750685-20161002175853

My reasons for sparing him did not revolve around morals or justice, but humility.

I remember when I'd returned to Crookback Bog with Strenger and some witch hunters. Earlier - though unbeknownst to me - I had freed the Tree Spirit. Most of you already know what happens next, even should you manage to lift the curse.

When I returned to Crow's Perch, witnessed the consequences of my actions, and heard his "sergeant" claim that he and his men would found a "new order" of glorified bandits, I wanted to butcher them all. Every last man in town.

I thought back to this moment when Gaetan admitted to acting out of anger and shock. They'd betrayed him, refusing to pay him more than a dozen orens for slaying an ancient, powerful creature that threatened their wives and children. What the Cat brought in wasn't a pile of corpses, but pure - if brutal - retribution.

Killing him was no more justifiable than storming and burning Crow's Perch. I had no right to judge him.