RE: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | I haven't played an RPG in a very long time.

To add to this, the Law of Surprise is how witchers were recruited. Sometimes Witchers requested the first thing the person see's when they go home. This was the case for a witcher named Lambert, whose father was saved by a witcher, and when the father came home he ran to give him a hug. Thus being the first thing the father saw when he got home.