Dead Woman's note... Help?

[Valicea]

Ok I don't know if this is just a red herring or not.

For those of you not in the know, this is a little thing you can come across in the Oxbow map when destroying an outlaw camp near Klonica. Essentially the civilian in the cage is already dead with nothing but a note on her person. The note is a touching diary/letter of the deceased woman's regret for giving up her son, and is now looking for him. It states as of writing he would be exactly 7 years, 5 months, 16 days, 2 hours and 44 minutes old.

A lot of detail for something supposedly unimportant.

So I've looked for this boy... a lot. The dead woman and her note recur often, so I surmise that it must be a quest similar to that of the man stuck in a tower every so often because of wolves, and requests mead for liquid courage. It doesn't come up as a quest, it's just something you can do for extra dynasty points.

I can't find the boy. Is it a red herring? is it a pointless sad tail with no mission?

I've looked in every town, every campsite and abandoned building. I don't know if it's that random boy that sometimes shows up ghost hunting, I haven't been able to find him in the same season as having the letter.

Anyone else obsessed with this?

[Ookapia]

The letter is not in the quest items and no quest appears in the diary. So it's not a quest, but just one of many stories in the Oxbow. Not every life story concerns our character. Sometimes he is too late to save someone. This also makes the bandits more threatening.

It may well be that the devs expand this at some point, right now it really just seems to be the memo. But you're not the first to worry.

[Valicea]

Cheers. I'm a bit of a stickler for getting answers. At least now I know it is a red herring :)

[*Morri*]

Got feedback from the devs it's just a bit of background story. One of those sad situations where you come too late to save the day.

[Trim]

I'm not sure I've met the dead woman - I don't seem to have her note in my inventory. But there are other characters that I wonder about.

Who's Sleepyhead? I freed him (or her - I couldn't tell in the dark) and gave them the coverlet they wanted, but when I went back next season the whole camp had disappeared. They seemed to belong in some quest I never got, a bit like those people who don't talk to you if you encounter them before you've reached the right stage in the quest they belong to.

What happened to Danusia, I wonder. I would have invited her to the village if I'd been given the chance. Did I make the correct choice, do you think?

[issssk]

I have 4 of those notes in my chest, the same bandit camp keeps reappearing.

[Rainbow]

I'm just saying... I'm going to be going around and speaking with EVERY YOUNG BOY WHO LOOKS LIKE A 7 YEAR OLD UNTIL I GET SOME ANSWERS.

[Valicea]

:D so true Rainbow