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PCserverdude Jan 23, 2016 @ 11:58am
What happens if I free the tree spirit? What is the best move to do here, should I kill it or free it?
I really don't know what to do, what will bear the best outcome?
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Bite Jan 23, 2016 @ 12:04pm 
Well, the answers involve spoilers.

If you free the spirit, he will save the children that the Crones are keeping in their hut, however, the Crones will punish Anna for this, she'll die and the Baron will hang himself. If you kill the spirit, the Crones will eat the children, but Anna and the Baron will survive and try to fix their lives

There is a way to get the best scenario though, right after you recover Johny's voice go and find the tree spirit, release it and let the Crones know that you released it, they won't be able to punish Anna for that, so you'll save the children and help the Baron and Anna.
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jclosed Jan 23, 2016 @ 12:04pm 
There is no best outcome... Only "consequences"...
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TheT0r Jan 23, 2016 @ 12:06pm 
setting it free will save the kids but the barron and his wife dies,
killing it will save anna, and the barron but the kids are eaten.
still i prefer killing it, orphan and abandond kids wit nothing to their names got no chanse of survival, and the spirrit does more bad than good,
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Bite Jan 23, 2016 @ 12:08pm 
Originally posted by TheT0R:
setting it free will save the kids but the barron and his wife dies,
killing it will save anna, and the barron but the kids are eaten.
still i prefer killing it, orphan and abandond kids wit nothing to their names got no chanse of survival, and the spirrit does more bad than good,

The kids find their way to Marablla's school in Novigrad, so no, they have a pretty good outcome
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PCserverdude Jan 23, 2016 @ 12:11pm 
Originally posted by Bite:
Well, the answers involve spoilers.

If you free the spirit, he will save the children that the Crones are keeping in their hut, however, the Crones will punish Anna for this, she'll die and the Baron will hang himself. If you kill the spirit, the Crones will eat the children, but Anna and the Baron will survive and try to fix their lives

There is a way to get the best scenario though, right after you recover Johny's voice go and find the tree spirit, release it and let the Crones know that you released it, they won't be able to punish Anna for that, so you'll save the children and help the Baron and Anna. [Spoiler/] [/quote]
Thanks!
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BDK Jan 23, 2016 @ 2:20pm 
Kill it for "good" ending
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jss1138 Jan 23, 2016 @ 2:25pm 
Ignore every other answer. Just choose one and live with it. That's the whole fun of the game.
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Living Broscillograph Jan 23, 2016 @ 3:22pm 
The spirit slaughters an entire village at least (we can only imagine lives it will take and make suffer after that). However, you spare four children for time. Four children, baron & his wife or fate of a region? Your choice - your consequences. Remember that you shall live with them.
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Bite Jan 23, 2016 @ 3:32pm 
Originally posted by Living Oscillograph:
The spirit slaughters an entire village at least (we can only imagine lives it will take and make suffer after that). However, you spare four children for time. Four children, baron & his wife or fate of a region? Your choice - your consequences. Remember that you shall live with them.

It's not a whole region, it's the fate of a town who slaughters children to save their own hide. These people sacrifice children, mutilate themselves, and hold rituals to regard the Crones. I'd agree that the Spirit taking revenge on these people was a bad outcome if they weren't so depicable as it is.
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Living Broscillograph Jan 23, 2016 @ 4:19pm 
Originally posted by BuzzardBee:
Originally posted by Living Oscillograph:
The spirit slaughters an entire village at least (we can only imagine lives it will take and make suffer after that). However, you spare four children for time. Four children, baron & his wife or fate of a region? Your choice - your consequences. Remember that you shall live with them.

That entire village deserved it.
I don't judge you. Though you do your business and walk away, and people continue live their lives there facing forces they face and troubles they solve.
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v0 Jan 23, 2016 @ 9:02pm 
Originally posted by BuzzardBee:
Reposting my reply to a simlar thread:

No this is not correct. You don't HAVE to kill the tree spirit. If you do, the kids will all die. If you want to free the kids and have Anna and the Baron alive at the end, you need to begin the quest normally, do it all the way until you reach the point where you find Johnny's voice and give it back to him. When he tells you to follow him back to the orphanage, go to the Tree Spirit instead.

Talk to it, agree to free it, find the rest of the ingredients necessary for the ritual (you should already have the raven feathers from when you got the bottle with Johnny's voice). Go back, do the ritual. Then go back to the swamp and meet up with Johnny. Continue the quest. When the Crones talk about the Tree Spirit, tell them you freed it. They will be angry with you and not Anna and she won't be cursed.

Complete the quest and go back to the baron. Tell him all that happened and then accompany him back to the swamp to get Anna. The rest is as normal. Tamara will be there with the Eternal Fire. The baron will be there with his men and you'll learn along the way that a black horse went to Downwarren and drove everybody insane. They all killed each other. Serves them right.

Anyway, back at the swamp, you fight a lot of drowners, water hags and a fiend but the baron gets to take away his wife in search of a cure. She is not cursed and the baron won't hang himself. There's even hope for a family reconciliation in the future but that's the last we see of any of them for the rest of the game.

So, the kids are free and alive. The baron and his wife are alive. Tamara is trying to mend fences with her father. The Crones are pi$$ed off at Geralt and not Anna. And that's that.

Except an entire village gets wiped out by tree spriit if you free it no matter when you free it.. Other than that you might call it happy ending. But I see Living-O already said that.
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Nikolai Jan 23, 2016 @ 9:24pm 
Im not to judge but, why are you trying to spoil yourself by asking this, in my humble opinion, i think that this thrill of not knowing what the consequences are, and making a choice depending on what you know and think, is what makes TW3 such a good game.
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v0 Jan 23, 2016 @ 9:41pm 
Originally posted by Nikolai:
Im not to judge but, why are you trying to spoil yourself by asking this, in my humble opinion, i think that this thrill of not knowing what the consequences are, and making a choice depending on what you know and think, is what makes TW3 such a good game.

Sure though in this case consequences quite unpredictable and some outcomes bring rather gloomy mood to game. Fits of course right in TW3's brutal world but some might prefer to add rosier colors if possible. (on my first playthrough I freed spirit after quite some deliberation. Quite possibly my longest decision in game. I actually tried going back to discuss with crones but nobody was home so to say)
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