People are terrified of witchers. There's enough stories about them that Geralt generally travels without concern about anyone except the bandits that plague everyone.

As long as the party has a witcher, most peasants may hate and despise the group, but they're just going to do their best to not get caught up in their business rather than trying their luck accosting them.

>>97330885
I don't think people care that much about being from Skellige and the party being heavily armed and having a Witcher present will already make them only hassled by those with some serious ability to back it up.

Also Druids are literally mages, by virtue of having one the party is already high status and even nobles won't fuck with them. They're not part of the Lodge or whatever but that's purely a cultural difference, even royalty will probably avoid blatant provocation because nothing good comes from making enemies with a mage

>>97334147
Skelligers are generally perceived as bloodthirsty savages, and the cultural difference is an important one. To Nordling lords, their mages were specially trained at an academy to serve them. Druids weren’t, and might as well be basically witches.

That’s not even getting to that, by the Third Northern War, even said Nordling mages are being hunted down by witch hunters, let alone pagan druids from the pirate islands.

>>97330885
>a Witcher, a scoia’tel elf, a vran bard, and a Skelliger druid
In what reality arent these guys just absolutely butchering a bunch on peasants trying to lynch them?

>>97330885
Historically peasants have never been as dangerous as you're making them out to be

>>97337225
Witcher peasants are basically the medieval equivalent of Marvel civilians, they're suicidally aggressive pit-bulls who will zerg rush people capable of single handedly killing dragons and blowing up castles with meteor swarms because Sapkowski is Polish and that's how Polish people think the world is like