![]() ![]() Geralt's decision to kill her doesn't prove that she was, because the way I read it, the 'greater evil' he was trying to avoid was the murder of the townsfolk, not her existence. But in the end, who was right in the debate? Was Renfri, and the others like her, a cursed monster or not? In Renfri's case at least, she had good reason to hate Stregobor, so her desire to kill him doesn't prove that she was indeed a cursed monster. Stregobor held that they were all monsters with an insatiable urge to kill, but Geralt said this was nonsense. Towards the beginning of the story, Geralt and Stregobor argue over whether Eltibald's theory of cursed women was true or whether the women such as Renfri were only victimised or righteously vengeful. Refuses to involve himself either way, until towards the end when he realises Renfri and her companions plan to murder innocent townsfolk at the market, and kills them all to stop this. ![]() ![]() Each of them asks the witcher to help them kill the other, saying it would be 'the lesser evil'. In the short story "The Lesser Evil" (the third story in the collection The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski), Geralt becomes involved in a feud between the wizard Stregobor and the princess Renfri. ![]()
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