What did you choose in "The nithing" quest?

[DaniTheHero]

Did you deflect the curse back at the Herblist and let her die? (Some sort of justice, but losing on a herbalist merchant)
Or make the man leave his family for her. Which sadly pretty much rewards the ♥♥♥♥♥ for doing harm to the child.

[Reina Orikasa]

Bought everything she had and then deflected the curse back. She isn't the only herbalist in the Northern Realms.

[DaniTheHero]

Originally posted by Pokémon Champion Leaf:

Bought everything she had and then deflected the curse back. She isn't the only herbalist in the Northern Realms.

I heard she sells some rare things later into the game, so i should wait with the quest conclusion until after i buy the later items?

[Jac]

I made her ex go back to her but it is one of the decisions I regretted later.

Most of the decisions are grey in the game but that one on reflection seemed a bit more clear cut. She initiated the curse afterall. Only mitigating factor was that the guy betrayed her in some part.

[Reina Orikasa]

Originally posted by DaniTheHero:

Originally posted by Pokémon Champion Leaf:

Bought everything she had and then deflected the curse back. She isn't the only herbalist in the Northern Realms.

I heard she sells some rare things later into the game, so i should wait with the quest conclusion until after i buy the later items?

If I remember from my NG+ run where I chose to save her, she stops selling you stuff even if you choose to save her. (Correct me if I'm wrong here).

[♠.brT]

killed her. No regrets.

[Forblaze]

If you make him go back to her, what's going to happen to his wife? She's basically condemned to poverty. She initiated the curse. It really does suck what happened to her, but I think reflecting the curse is what's best. It's a shame you can't force or convince her to lift the curse on some other terms.

[v0]

I'm not killing to settle people's domestic troubles that they can fix on their own so choice was obvious :P If they're unhappy with their options they should pay attention to what they do (how they got there) or expand options by learning new things such as magic... there's nothing stopping people from killing each other afterwards anyway :)

[thayanora]

Once you've made it to Skellige, you can just fast travel to other merchants and back. (can't you?) On my second playthrough I wanted to make different choices to see how it plays out, but I just couldn't in this case. What kind of person kills a kid because she doesn't like his dad? For reals, that's ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up.

[Digital_Bullit]

Killed her. Went into her hut afterwards and meditated for like 6 hours whilst pretending I was taking a Duke on her food.

[geri43]

I didn't kill her, simply because the guy was lying. When I asked him about who could have put the curse on his boy, he said he had no idea, and he knows noone who has bad blood with him. Seems like he didn't want to admit that he took advantage of the herbalist for 10 years, then let her be shamed by the whole village. He just wanted her to be dead, and lied into the face of a Witcher.

[bgray9054]

Deflected the curse back at her. Even if the guy was a c-o-c-k to her, that doesn't excuse her trying to kill his kid. If she'd been trying to kill him instead of the kid, I may have let her do it.

[deidian]

Deflecting the curse on the herbalist.

Doesn't matter if the guy behavior wasn't the best or not. When a person says "no", is no, here, in the moon, in the sun, wherever. Relationships are like that, when they end you have to understand you can't forbid the other person to leave or take revenge because the person left.

In a side, the guy's child and current wife have no responsability, so they shouldn't be paying for that in any way. Besides, forcing the guy to live with her doesn't solve anything, it could potentially mess the things even more: the guy and the herbalist could end really bad living together in the current circunstances(bloody baron and his wife, they forced the situation and was a hell of a mess) and the guy's family would be abandoned with it's social consequences, remember they live in Skellige.

[every1hasnames]

Its a little more complicated then just a relationship ending damian. It wasn't a case of the relationship ended and the herbalist was just mad that the ex moved on and found another. the husband cheated on her and left to be with the woman who he cheated on her with. Remember its not like real life were breakups are normal. In the witchers world it most likely closer to how it was hundred years ago. Were people look down on you if cant hold a partner. And Divorce was forbidden.

Remember what he said would befall his new wife and kid if he had left. They would be poor/destitute looked down upon if he did. Which was likely the fate of the herbalist when the guy left her. She was probably looked down upon and probably was in the process of becoming destitute.

That being said turned the curse back on the herbalist. If the curse was on the husband I might have just left him to his fate. But it was on a kid who had nothing to do with the situation. Sorry but shes not killing a kid who did nothing to her out of spite for the ex.

[geri43]

Originally posted by BuzzardBee:

Originally posted by geri43:

I didn't kill her, simply because the guy was lying. When I asked him about who could have put the curse on his boy, he said he had no idea, and he knows noone who has bad blood with him. Seems like he didn't want to admit that he took advantage of the herbalist for 10 years, then let her be shamed by the whole village. He just wanted her to be dead, and lied into the face of a Witcher.

What Triss did to Geralt, using him for sex, making him believe they'd always been lovers while promising to help him regain his memories after his amnesia yet doing nothing at all to that end -- THAT is taking advantage of someone.

What this guy did was to openly live with a woman, never promising to marry her and yet she still held on to some fantasy that he would marry her. Then when he met someone he liked better, someone he really loved, he dumped her and married the other woman. She was the fool who is now disgraced in the village but it was of her own making.

Women need to be smarter with the choices they make but deciding to punish his son because she'd been a damn fool, that I could not nor would I ever forgive or excuse. She had to pay. And the guy? Well, he was being a guy, wasn't he? When the hell are women going to take responsibility for the stupid choices they make? Like living for years at the beckon call of some married guy because they believe that one day he'll leave his wife and marry her. Seriously, there are still women this naive and then they turn around and blame the guy. Sure, right.

To the guy in the quest, once he'd married and had a son, he gave the herbalist no second thought. She was someone who'd once warmed his bed and made his meals. It was over so naturally he didn't think of her. His son was dying. Why the hell would he think of her? He wasn't lying. He really couldn't think of anyone who could be that cruel to wish harm upon his son -- even the herbalist.

He'd never promised to marry her. He didn't take advantage of her in any way. She knew what she was getting into and she accepted it because she wanted to be with him. Then comes one morning when harsh reality finally hits home and she's out on the street. That's on her. She could and should have left him long ago when she realized the relationship wasn't what she'd hoped it would be. She was a fool.

If she'd placed the curse on the guy, promising only to lift it if he left his family, that might have bveen excusable but no less forgivable.But to target the child, she has to pay for that with her own life.

You are right, targeting an innocent child with a deadly curse is evil. If Geralt wouldn't have been there, the child would die. But Geralt's job isn't to solve relationship problems, by siding with someone and killing the other. With the other outcome, the curse is lifted, and noone dies.

[DaniTheHero]

Why was this post revived.