Strange thing just occured to me about the Family Matters Quest [Spoilers]

[Dead2Rights]

So I was thinking this over again recently and it occured to me that if Anna went to the Pellar to get a charm that would counter the magic of the Crones, then she must have wanted to keep her child for some reason (maybe she thought better of the decision, maybe she was afraid of having to fufill her end of the bargain).

One thing that is revealed in this quest is that the Baron didn't actually cause the miscarriage, what caused it was when they tussled and Anna lost the charm the Pellar gave her. Anna is the only one besides the Pellar that would have known this.

So I started wondering... did she actually flee that night because of their fighting, or did she flee because she was actually fleeing from the Crones.

Certainly she would have known that once the child was miscarried that she would have been due to serve her 1 year with the Crones.

I just keep wondering to myself if we've mostly got that night wrong, since we never really get to hear from Anna what she was thinking when it was going on. This is all we know:

- Anna and Baron start arguing. She attacks him with a candlestick. They fight.
- Anna loses her medallion, leading to the fufillment of Crone's "curse" on her and her miscarriage.
- She and Tamara flee immediately that night (an odd choice consideirng they could have planned it better and obviously Anna wouldn't have been well.)
- That same night, the Crones send a fiend to abduct Anna as she gets too close to the swamp.

On the surface, when you first start investigating this situation it just seems like an abused wife fleeing from her spouse. However, upon reflection, I think Anna was actually fleeing the Crones that night. To me, this is actually a pretty terrifying thing to contemplate. She would have known what was going to happen to her, and she would have been trying desperately to escape.

[Mark]

Honestly I doubt the medallion protected her, it might even be a gift from the pellar she didn't ask for, he certainly does not have the ability to counter the Crones' magic, I'm thinking the loss of it and the miscarriage are a coincidence
Anna fleeing from the Crones and them cursing her as punishment makes sense, she expected the child to simply disappear, but after the misscarriage she got scared and Tamara helped her, thinking it was the Baron's doing

[Dead2Rights]

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Honestly I doubt the medallion protected her, it might even be a gift from the pellar she didn't ask for, he certainly does not have the ability to counter the Crones' magic

Oh I don't know about that. Certainly he's not in the same magical "league" as the Crones are, but the Pellar obviously isn't a fraud. It seems like all the ritual magic he does always works correctly.

Geralt even recognized the charm for what it was when he saw it, so if a Witcher recognizes it, that means it's not just some trinket the Pellar pawned off. At least, it's supposed to work.

[redfblack]

Първоначално публикувано от Dead2Rights:

So I was thinking this over again recently and it occured to me that if Anna went to the Pellar to get a charm that would counter the magic of the Crones, then she must have wanted to keep her child for some reason (maybe she thought better of the decision, maybe she was afraid of having to fufill her end of the bargain).

By the time Anna went to the Pellar the foetus was already dead, or at least dying. I don't think she went to the Pellar to save the baby but rather to ward off the Crones' curse that was causing the dying foetus to drain her life energy. But who knows, maybe there was a chance to save the baby as well?

Първоначално публикувано от Markinho:

Honestly I doubt the medallion protected her, it might even be a gift from the pellar she didn't ask for, he certainly does not have the ability to counter the Crones' magic, I'm thinking the loss of it and the miscarriage are a coincidence

That's kinda contradicted by the glossary which states that the talisman did indeed hamper the Crones' influence. It also states that once she lost the talisman the markings on her palms began to burn..

[Dead2Rights]

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Първоначално публикувано от Dead2Rights:

So I was thinking this over again recently and it occured to me that if Anna went to the Pellar to get a charm that would counter the magic of the Crones, then she must have wanted to keep her child for some reason (maybe she thought better of the decision, maybe she was afraid of having to fufill her end of the bargain).

By the time Anna went to the Pellar the foetus was already dead, or at least dying. I don't think she went to the Pellar to save the baby but rather to ward off the Crones' curse that was causing the dying foetus to drain her life energy. But who knows, maybe there was a chance to save the baby as well?

Ususally it doesn't work this way - like if you have a dead baby inside you (this is venturing off into gross territory) you don't necessarily have a spontaneous abortion. In fact, quite often you will end up with nothing happening at all depending on how far along you are. In some cases the body will absorb the remains, in other cases it will create a calcified shell around the remains. In many cases the woman will actually go into labor around the time she was naturally due.

Yes, I was so curious about this I looked it up. I don't recommend you do this, some of the stuff I found was nasty.