Talk:The Whispering Hillock/@comment-2604:6000:1405:5ED:E106:8816:3ABD:FD9-20180909210710/@comment-178.11.53.49-20190420213346

Wrong.

Geralt would want to save the children and the spirit is the only way. The lives of the village is something that's not on the table at that point. You only know that in hindsight, so it shouldn't factor.

Also, the crones sentries and curse over the spirit killed the villagers not the spirit itself. And the children later go to Novigrad so they're safe. And the spirit only takes revenge on the village for wanting to kill it. The only question that factors is whether geralt trusts that trapped spirit to save them or not, and if you'd read the books or played the games, then you'd know that geralt coming to terms with creatures he's supposed to kill isn't that rare.

In the end Geralt is faced with saving the children by trusting a spirit. so releasing is the logical thing to do: both from a gameplay and story perspective. Its a bitter sweet choice but the obvious one.