not on topic but related:
doing the stone statues outside the church get's you ...
- fighting nearly 10k XP and some loot, but
- doing the right conversation option zero XP and no loot
kind of inbalanced due to missing a good junk of XP while not fighting
And killing the Lighthouse Horror without it reviving any wolves also means you miss out on that experience... but it does save you resources and trouble that would result from fighting and killing the wolves and having them revive.