Comparing O`Dimm with the cute little Elves of the Wild Hunt wearing big fat costumes..... it is already clear who will win
I must admit I have never cared about the Wild Hunt anymore as soon as I found out that they are not some creepy supernatural entity or skeleton knights hunting souls or whatever but cute Elves but I enjoyed the sidequests so much more.
I would just like to point out, as I have seen a surprising amount of people make the same mistake. The thing about Witchers being stripped of their emotions is pure poppycock, drivel, shite and eight other varieties of nonsense. It is hate-propaganda spread by those who hate witchers.
Geralt and the other witchers don't bother pointing it out because most people wouldn't believe them, and in fact it sometimes works in their favour.
The closest it comes to being true is that because witchers go through a ton of harrowing experiences and witness the lowest depths of depravity in humans on a daily basis, as well as being hated pretty much anywhere they go, they become quite hardened and cynical over time.
Their emotional capacity as humans however, is entirely intact. This should be obvious from the emotions Geralt goes through in the books and games.
When you gaze into the Abyss, the Abyss gaze back into you.
Isn`t it a little bit strange that Witchers just get a little cynical when facing a life with eternal violence and wandering around and nowhere at home, being hated and hunted away everywhere they go, every single village idiot having serious problems with one all the time (except the jokels who want to get some monster driven of their fields), forever poverty, being hated and seeing only cruelty and violence and being forced to fight and risk the life for income.
Every normal person would commit suicide, therefore I assume that Witchers are really stripped of their emotions otherwise they would also not beeing able to cope with the fear of the creatures and horror monsters they have to fight.
Even all the Veterans of the Iraq war have severe post traumatic stress symptoms but not Witchers, never - they just keep on fighting and doing their stuff no matter what happens without any PTS and not even having nightmares, and they don´t feel any fear at all when facing the most frightening monsters.
Fear is the most primal emotion and survival instinct, and I think at least Witchers are stripped of fear (which means no traumas and never stress no matter how stressful the situation is and no adrenaline shocks and never any feeling of intense life-threatening fear) and they are clearly stripped of the ability to feel strong pain, and other emotions at least partially intact.
Otherwise they just could not function as the beings they are.
This is probably coincidence but the Devil is usually German in the said folklore and O'Dim's first name is a variation of a German name "Gunther" (no offence, Germans).
That`s cool
so I can talk to him in German when offering my soul for endless walk-in dressers with all the gothic stuff one cat can get from London Fashion and endless beauty??? Miss Universe Beauty of course, everything else would be not enough. And because of no language barriere well in this case we can make an even better contract and maybe I will get some other stuff too! Have you ever heard of this Lamborghini Egoista (way better for driving shopping than the Reventon!) and some Achal-Tekkiner gold horses for the weekends?
All that and so much more just for my soul.
I don`t even have one
I love Gaunter O´Dimm....
Yes Gaunter O´Dimm was the best antagonist ever. Of course he is not really an "Antagonist" but more a business partner. Geralt can get a stylish zombie horse when fullfilling his contracts, not as good as a night-lighting Unicorn or an Achal-Tekkiner but unique.
The whole DLC I was wondering what happens when Geralt will lose the highly interesting mind games with O`Dimm, and what he will get when he wins.