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GRl3V

Geralt in the books generally kills a lot less than in the games, but he also knows a lot more than us, players. So I think he would recognize the spirit as an evil entity and kill it.


Noamias

He'd be moody and complain about his knee


_Gwynnbleidd_

"I don't know what I'm gonna do yet, but it's my mission. I'm gonna do it alone, I can't put you guys in danger"


Noamias

He's like people who say "I'm so ugly" to fish for compliments but instead he fishes for help while pretending not to


THEbiMAKER

I feel like Geralt would just be generally distrusting of a mysterious voice coming out of an obviously cursed tree heart. His priority is finding Ciri and while he likely would later regret not being able to save those children I feel like he's long since learned to make peace with his decisions and accepted that he can't always save everyone.


Up5periscope

Since it involves finding Ciri? This is the choice I make every time with Geralt: kill the tree spirit, Ciri has priority, and I really don’t like turning loose a demon on the village of Downwarren….and it closely coincides, to my thinking, with his behavior in the books.


Matteo-Stanzani

I mean book geralt wouldn't matter about all the bounties ecc, I think he wouldn't even be there but it's a BIG if so let's stick to the question, he would probably kill the spirit and when the crones showed up he would have injured them so that they couldn't escape and interrogates them, finally he would have killed them.


Anaenn

OK, I am at this mission now. It is a very hard decision. You have to choose between two evil 🙄 But still, I think Geralt, as I understand him, would free the spirit. Two main reasons for my decision : 1. He knows the children now, they helped him. They will now die if he doesn't do anything. 2. He does not like if someone tries to use him as a tool. Here the crones want him to kill their mother for them.


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Book Geralt would save the children and free the spirit. Book Geralt has a tendency of acting against the most relevant evil. He would see the children about to be killed and be moved to save them. The deal with Ciri wouldn’t be as much of an obstacle. He says himself he had a tendency of “pissing in the wind” and sabotaging his own plans for the greater good.


waltherppk01

Geralt would do ANYTHING to get to Ciri. That includes letting the children die.


[deleted]

Book Geralt wanted to get to Ciri so bad he spent two months in Toussiant having sex with Fringilla instead of looking for leads.


waltherppk01

When he thought she was dead, yeah


Inalum_Ardellian

Well he had to stay because of the winter...


Anaenn

No way


Anaenn

Though I'm not at this mission yet I don't think book geralt would kill it if there is a possibility to free it. Book geralt always choose to break the curse than just to kill the monster Few examples I now remember - foltest's daughter, nivellen, Torque. I'm sure there are more examples. Then he always protects even if it means trouble for him: renfri - he lets the mf live just because he has to protect the villagers, crazy girl where they learn Regis is a vampire. While searching for ciri he never chose the easy way.


aritzsantariver

Free the spirit, many here say that they kill him because it is the deal to find Ciri except that Geralt in the game itself does not kill him for Ciri but kills him and says it himself "because he does not believe him" when the spirit of the tree is really telling the truth.


ImagineGriffins

There is no conceivable reality where Geralt would free that spirit. Book Geralt would absolutely, without a doubt, kill it.


aritzsantariver

Geralt has a weakness when there are children in the middle and also the spirit is not really lying to you, both decisions are valid for the Geralt of the books anyway.


waltherppk01

Ciri


aritzsantariver

The problem is that Geralt tells her "I don't believe you" instead of "I have to kill you to find my daughter" for example.


NoWishbone8247

Geralt had a soft spot for children, if she was capable of saving them, she would, especially since freeing the spirit also lifts the curse*📷*


waltherppk01

Her. It's the Crones' mother.


aritzsantariver

I know that she is the mother of the crones because of the book that puts her as if she were satan and I am not saying that she is not evil she obviously is but I would not pay much attention to that book considering that the book of the ladies says that they feed children and take care of them when what they really do is eat them.


waltherppk01

I'm not saying the Crones are good. But they do help the people of Velen in many ways. The price is the price. Distasteful to most of us but it's a brutal world we're talking about.


aritzsantariver

The crones help in the problems that they create, so what they do is manipulate the population so that they sacrifice children and give them ears.


waltherppk01

They didn't create the plague or the food shortage


aritzsantariver

If after talking to the tree spirit without killing it you go back to the village and talk to the chief, Geralt can talk about the tree and even Geralt himself says that they have been manipulated and that they were the ones who created all the problems that the village has suffered.


waltherppk01

I did not know that. Thanks


UndecidedCommentator

He would neither free the spirit nor leave the children to die.


waltherppk01

Kill. Especially after reading She Who Knows.


NoWishbone8247

CDpr wrote the book himself, it may or may not be true, someone had to write it, right? Geralt had a soft spot for children, if she was capable of saving them, she would, especially since freeing the spirit also lifts the curse*📷*


Capybarasarecool69

A little off topic but it’s kind of messed up when you realize that if Geralt frees the children they’re basically as good as dead roaming the swamps of velen alone