[SPOILERS] Ladies of the woods quest discussion.

[Z the Wolf]

Did anyone else screw up by releasing the tree demon? I always just bare with consequences of my choices in RPGs.. But the fact that the whole village died because of my, and then the Bloody Baron and his wife... It's just difficult not to think about it. >_< The demon promised to free the children... We still don't know what happened to them. :/ Do we know what happens to them if we just kill the demon?

[Dutchmaniak]

i also released the demon and regret it until last moment

[smörf]

Not shure about this quest.... If you kill the demon the children will be eaten ....
I did kill the demon in my first play of the game - this time i did not just to see if it could influence the quest about this bloody baron guy ... i hope so :-)

[Wrane]

Spoiler: The Witches take the children and most likely kill them, driving the wife Anna insane. The Baron takes the wife away to find a healer. Either way, there will be a lot of blood on your hands.

[supertrooper225]

Funny...I wasn't sure if I made the right choice by killing it. That is the cool thing about The Witcher, you don't know if it is the 'right' choice when you make it.

[OuchThatHurt]

Hmm if you kill the Tree Spirit then the children vanish but it's not 100% what happens personally i think they are eaten. Under the tower in the village is a blood covered alter and the Crones comment on how good the taste, also they tried to eat Ciri.

I've not played it out the other way as I was hoping to get the chance to kill the Crones later in the Return to Crookback Bog Quest, without going into details I'm not sure there is a right choice here either way people die and bad ♥♥♥♥ happens it's just what is the lesser of the 2 evils.

[CAPA]

You did the same choices I made... Felt bad also... but my guess is that if we didn't the children would be really killed.

As I understood the spirit fulfill her part, "Gran" let the children go(maybe the spirit cast some mind control on her), to where the children gone is what isn't clear. I will try reading the "completed quest" text.

[Z the Wolf]

So, as you people say, the witches most likely eat the children if you kill the spirit... But what the spirit does with the children is also very unclear...

[Gizmo1990]

I met and killed it before I had the quest (come on, without the other quest that tree comes of as super evil) but honestly imo I don't think there is a good outcome. What happens to the woman and the Baron is just as bad from what I have read. That being said I don't like kids and they screwed me around when I was asking them questions so I did not really care when they disappeared.

[Lumicko]

Its pretty much often about lesser evil. But there is book about the spirit.
https://i.imgur.com/NFpKKbT.png
So I would say that killing it u saved a lot more.

[Z the Wolf]

Originally posted by Lumicko:

Its pretty much often about lesser evil. But there is book about the spirit.
https://i.imgur.com/NFpKKbT.png
So I would say that killing it u saved a lot more.

Wish I read the book before making the decision... Eh. I mostly feel like sh*t because of the baron because I liked him.

[FallenEldar]

I felt there was no good answer but that the ladies would at least keep some form of balance. Angry trees are not to be trusted. But after what the ladies tried to do to Ciri I am sure they now have one pissed off witcher and the wild hunt is probably not happy with them.

I also felt that the ladies would keep their word unlike the tree.

[Caz]

This was the first time I ever reloaded a save during a first play through because of a decision in a quest. Without even having the spoilers of what she will do once freed, what the Crones told me was enough to redo it.

Let the children die or let an even greater evil run free in the world? Nope, sorry kids.

[Z the Wolf]

Wish they'd at least give you an option later down to fix what you did wrong and hunt down the spirit...

[BenjiGonzo]

Yeah, I went ahead and freed it since I really wanted to kill the crones, wasn't sure if that would lead to me being able to or not. I feel bad about loosing that damned thing into the world, but hey, at least I saved some kids, right?

Worst part about that choice though was that the Baron killed himself, he's one of my favorite npcs in the game so far.

[AmAtic]

Yes, I released the tree demon as well, and now I feel like ♥♥♥♥. But I will try to restrain myself from loading a previous save, since that just breaks the immersion.
I'm starting to realise that I'm a terrible witcher, since I am way to trusting.