[ACT I] After killing the Beast

[Eoghain]

[ACT I] After killing the Beast

1. What's with all the dead bodies? As I've mentioned elsewhere: it can't be Abigail's "powerful", "enough for an entire village" magical brew, because they were all very bloody, very violent deaths (a few missing limbs). Magic doesn't do this. My first and only guess -- very close to becoming an assumption -- is that it's was the Beast's final, complete action against the guilty -- by means of its barghests -- knowing it was about to be defeated . . . although all those villagers were seemingly not guilty of wrong-doing -- aside from a wife-beater or two.Very, very strange indeed.if there's an answer to this later on, let me know that there's an answer but please don't spoil the game for me by explaining it. Thanks.2. If you've also saved Abigail: Why are these peasants who don't know how to fight so much harder to kill than a whole bunch of drowners or barghests? I mean, even the Reverend -- the Reverend -- had a very high vitality.Not that I had any difficulty at all defeating them all . . . after a full minute or so. But still . . . this makes no sense whatsoever.

 

[Corylea.723]

1. What's with all the dead bodies?

If there's an in-game explanation for this, I've never seen it. I've always assumed that those corpses are the work of the Beast or its barghests, though why it should kill so many more peasants this night than any other night ... maybe it was feeding on the hatred of the intended lynching. Perhaps that was the last of the evil acts that gave the Beast its power.I suppose it's possible that there was a fight among the villagers after we left, with some wanting to behave decently and some wanting to attack Geralt and Abigail, and violence broke out among them. But my money's on the Beast.

2. If you've also saved Abigail: Why are these peasants who don't know how to fight so much harder to kill than a whole bunch of drowners or barghests? I mean, even the Reverend -- the Reverend -- had a very high vitality.

The Reverend, Odo, and Haren Brogg are main characters. It has to take awhile to fight them so that what's happening has time to sink in for the player. It makes no logical sense that the Reverend should be hard to kill, but it makes emotional sense. If you need it to make logical sense, try this: maybe Geralt was pulling his punches, to give the Reverend time to change his mind.