to be honest. Someone that simple just happily in his local German Pub talked a bit too much about something he realy liked next to someone desperate to be mean in lack of bigger missions.
15k for soft wood that has little use in the furniture industry is no money considering that some European woods make that per cubic meter and not for one hundred trees.
There are among TheGermans also those that just were pushed around. I know from watching the faces of the others when I stood up against the teacher. Not everyone was angry against me and you don't hide any feeling from a Witcher kid. No hate, no admiration.
If this turns hot, the tyranny of evil will exchange the selfish setting aside the path of the rightous, but the silent weak will die.
I am not sorry anymore for them. They can run and hide or choose a side.
PS: In the German coltoure that is a few hundreds in compensation pay, in the original Frankonian cultoure this is death, because why he did it: Lowest instincts against a weaker. What you think he'll do as Landau's Obersturmbannfüherer when having had to pay a few gold coins only and was free to go when coming back to enforce their proclamation over that land?
The heeling therapy for the old man based on iureinwhoner coltoure would be to encourage him to cultivate setzlinge from sprösslinge of the left behind trunks in his home. As many as he can to plant them after a few years, but no anti-depressent pills at all.
Yours,
Chieftain