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KaerMorhenResident 5 points 1 year ago
I didn't like Olgierd at first and despised him in fact. I did think that O'Dimm was nice and found him to be pretty charismatic.
However, as the game progressed I grew to have more empathy for Olgierd and started to see O'Dimm's cruelty. The Professor in Oxenfurt who O'Dimm essentially paralyzed in fear, blinded, and then made him believe he had a daughter who he loved only so he could take that daughter from him in order to make him feel the loss. How O'Dimm slowly and methodically turned Olgierd's wish against him stripping him of everything. Ultimately, although at the start I thought Olgierd worthy of punishment in life that which O'Dimm was serving him was so cruel and unusual that to play a part in it was to serve evil, which my Geralt would never do.
In my opinion, to not save Olgierd's soul was to ultimately lose Geralt's soul since he would have served evil through serving O'Dimm. It made it worth the risk and it was a big risk especially if you play HoS before completing Wild Hunt. However, in my opinion, Geralt is a true Knight worthy of the sword presented to him by the Lady of the Lake and he woudln't be worthy of that sword had he stood aside and allowed evil to triumph.
It's funny, because the Knights of Toussaint are very cheesy in how they proclaim their righteousness, but Geralt even though he doesn't say the chessy things that they do outloud is really a true believer in all of them despite acting like a cynic.
shadowybabe 6 points 1 year ago
Wow i cant believe this opinion comes so late in the thread. That’s exactly how i felt. I was indifferent to Olgierd at first and then when i learnt he killed his brother, i was taken aback. But then they reveal that his heart had turned to stone, he did it only out of love for his wife. I felt an unexplainable empathy for him. He didn’t know what he was getting into. I am glad i saved him as he decided to become more normal after and since he was no more immortal, it felt right.
Don’t really understand how others felt the other way was right. I hated Master Mirror. How do people not see he was cruel? Poking a wooden spoon through some poor guy’s eye just for interrupting him? Just shows he must have done way more horrible things than Olgierd.
I didn't like Olgierd at first and despised him in fact. I did think that O'Dimm was nice and found him to be pretty charismatic.
However, as the game progressed I grew to have more empathy for Olgierd and started to see O'Dimm's cruelty. The Professor in Oxenfurt who O'Dimm essentially paralyzed in fear, blinded, and then made him believe he had a daughter who he loved only so he could take that daughter from him in order to make him feel the loss. How O'Dimm slowly and methodically turned Olgierd's wish against him stripping him of everything. Ultimately, although at the start I thought Olgierd worthy of punishment in life that which O'Dimm was serving him was so cruel and unusual that to play a part in it was to serve evil, which my Geralt would never do.
In my opinion, to not save Olgierd's soul was to ultimately lose Geralt's soul since he would have served evil through serving O'Dimm. It made it worth the risk and it was a big risk especially if you play HoS before completing Wild Hunt. However, in my opinion, Geralt is a true Knight worthy of the sword presented to him by the Lady of the Lake and he woudln't be worthy of that sword had he stood aside and allowed evil to triumph.
It's funny, because the Knights of Toussaint are very cheesy in how they proclaim their righteousness, but Geralt even though he doesn't say the chessy things that they do outloud is really a true believer in all of them despite acting like a cynic.
shadowybabe 6 points 1 year ago
Wow i cant believe this opinion comes so late in the thread. That’s exactly how i felt. I was indifferent to Olgierd at first and then when i learnt he killed his brother, i was taken aback. But then they reveal that his heart had turned to stone, he did it only out of love for his wife. I felt an unexplainable empathy for him. He didn’t know what he was getting into. I am glad i saved him as he decided to become more normal after and since he was no more immortal, it felt right.
Don’t really understand how others felt the other way was right. I hated Master Mirror. How do people not see he was cruel? Poking a wooden spoon through some poor guy’s eye just for interrupting him? Just shows he must have done way more horrible things than Olgierd.
