So who was he again exactly?

I mean he's just the devil, right? So why would he kill those who found out the truth?

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He's Evil Incarnate.
A massive prick and all around cunt, evil is as evil does and he's utterly merciless, cruel and a huge liar.
He presents a facade of being fair, but it really is just an act. His agreements are always geared towards making somebody suffer.

Cause he’s the devil, duh?

Also

He's literally Randall Flagg because the writers of Witcher III are hacks unable to come up with their own ideas

>Gaunter O´ Dimm
>Gaunter
>O
>Dimm
>G O D

hmm gee i wonder

Likely a demon or the devil himself. Playing with people is his game, which is why he corrupts every wish and looks for people to curse like that woman in blood and wine. And that's all we know, but yeah he's inspired by a Stephen King character like said, who has an alias known as Walter o'Dim -hence Gaunter's last name

>why would he kill those who found out the truth?
When does this happen? Geralt found out the truth and all he did was clap and say "oh yeah? Well you're a faggot."

Alias

Randall Flagg
Rudin Filario
The Walkin' Dude
The Hardcase
Walter O' Dim
The Man In Black
The Dark Man
The Covenant Man
Marten Broadcloak
Many Others

this
every fucking great moment or character in The Witcher III turns out to be either a homage or reference to something else if you look that shit up

>Randall Flagg
It has nothing to do with that and more to do with a traditional polish tale about a character that makes a deal with the Devil, O'Dimm is clearly the devil.

>muh originality

There is no such thing as originality. Just derivation through inspiration.

I'm Polish and you have no idea what you're talking about

According to the books he is an incarnation of the spirit Brap Memey from the realm of Reddidia, who Geralt faced many times in the novel Fall of Fagoen.

Its one of my favourite of the Wotcher novels, cna recommend to any fantasy fan.

polish are not white

Randall Flagg goes by the name Walter o'Dim
Even the devs admited that he was the main inspiration

The most reddit cringe character in the entire franchise

pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Twardowski_(postać)

Oh Sorry I mixed up, I was talking about the Faust Legend, is german not polish. CDPR did take inspiration from a polish tale/play but that was for other parts of Hearts of Stone.

>books are subversions of European Fairytales, folklore and history
>games are DUDE WE WILL JUST COPY Stephen "REDDIT" King

Video games were a mistake it's nothing but garbage

Yeah, I know about this one.
Doesn't matter since even the devs have long admitted that they used Randall as the base for Gaunter. And King certainly had used the Faust story as an inspiration for Randall Flagg before they stopped shitting diapers.

But HoS is a subversion of european fairy tales. Like this user said though in fact CDPR used the polish version of the Faust, Pan Twardowski, which is basically almost the entire main plot of HoS.

>the devs have long admitted that they used Randall as the base for Gaunter
[citation needed]

even if he is unoriginal he is the best antagonist of the DLC/main quests

he's supposed to be a trickster, these kind of folks are common in european mythology.
they aren't bad per se, they just make it so if you make a bad decision then you're fucked. they twist words and meanings around. they just want to cause chaos

He literally deals in souls, there's nothing closer to the devil and his contracts than that.

Yeah but the game also took inspiration from a vocal version of PT where the Devil had to perform 3 tasks before taking his soul.

>O'Dimm was inspired by Leland Gaunt, the main character in the Stephen King's 'Needful Things'. In the book, Gaunt moves to a small town and opens an antiques store that offers magical items to the town's residents, though they can only be purchased by payment in 'favours'. King's Walter O'Dim - aka Randall Flagg - who travels between novels (or dimensions) to perform evil deeds in The Stand shares more than the best part of a name with O'Dimm too.

eurogamer.net/articles/2016-10-23-the-making-of-the-witcher-3s-greatest-villain

Sure thing but I was talking about the character and not the story

It's the same story, dude. Right up to the part where the devil goes to claim his soul and he goes "No. I said you could claim it when I'm standing in Rome." and the devil says "But we are standing in Rome." and it turns out that's the name of the inn he's in. In TW3, the devil returns to claim Olgierd's soul and he says "No. I said you could claim my soul when we're standing on the moon." and the devil summons wind to blow away the leaves on the ground to reveal they're standing on a mosaic of the moon.

Perhaps my posts were not so clear as I thought they were, my bad

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Not even a quote from the devs.

So what's the subversion here. Seems like a copy to me

From that very same article, this time an actual quote from the devs and not the journalist.

Are you a debil?
I know about that. The game is full of homages to the western ficition yet you just can't fucking accept that some of the writers have a glorious boner for the King's multiverse.

Wasn't a huge chunk of Blood and Wine copied from the Grimm fairy tales?

One of his names was 'Walter o'Dim'.
It's blatant to anyone who knows of Randall.

You actually do get to outwit the devil if you want. In both the Faust and PT the main character always ended up fucked up somehow even though not in hell.

In TW3 you actually get to decided what is the destiny of whom makes a deal with the devil. Is a modern take since you don't get to face a sort of salvation thanks to god/Virgin but by the players free will to choose that destiny.

Yeah his name is the same but TW3 O'Dimm is clearly made to be the freaking devil, specially with the story he is taking part off. If O'Dimm was named anything else, people would still think he is the Devil.

Glad I'm not the only one who thought about Walter/Randall when they first saw this guy. Would be kind of cool to seem him pop up in other CD Projekt games.

Randall Flagg was made to be the fraking devil too you illiterate swine
It's even funnier because the Gaunter O'Dimm may even be the Randall Flagg canonically if you wanted him to
Go read some books

Says the faggot that hasn't read Pan Twardowski or the Faust.

>sort of salvation thanks to god/Virgin but by the players free will to choose that destiny.
God isn't real morty *buurb*
Also that's not what happened in the original story

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Yeah but if the character was called anything else, there would be no fucking comparisons with King's character.

This is the dumbest most reddit thing I can think off, but given It's CDPR we're talking about here I wouldn't be suprised in the slightest

>but by the players free will to choose that destiny.
In the dumbest "puzzle" resolution possible. It was even worse than the ending of the main game, CDPR should stop trying

So the fact that pan twardowski story exists and is parallel to HoS means nothing.
The fact that the devs themselves say "we based it on pan twardowski" also means nothing.

He's got a name from story by a modern American writer therfore everyone else is illiterate. That's good.

>In the dumbest "puzzle" resolution possible. It was even worse than the ending of the main game, CDPR should stop trying
Yeah the battle wasn't really a battle but then again who can you make a simple witcher win against the devil if it isn't in a game?

>but then again who can you make a simple witcher win against the devil if it isn't in a game?
I don't know the most obvious solution I can think off is playing his own game against him, using verbal gymnastics from the original contract to get Olgierd off the hook

You're an angry little man, aren't you?

But he was, in Pan Twardowski the character is saved by the virgin and the devil drops him on the moon. In the oral more older version he outwits the devil by asking for 3 tasks which the last is to spend a year with his wife, which the devil can't fulfill.

for the fuck sake I even made a post to clarify that I never said the story wasn't inspired by Faust and Pan Twardowski. I said that the character of Gaunter O'dimm was inspired by Randall Flagg a.k.a. Walter O'dim and Leland Gaund (and those two are almost certainly a one fucking person). And yes, you probably are pretty much illiterate if you have problems with understanding words you read.

Pan Twardowski jełopie.

wracaj na wykop

I could give it to you that the character of O'Dimm was based on Randall Flagg but the problem is that it is clear after playing HoS that the name of the character is irrelevant when seeing the story that CDPR adapted and the role O'Dimm plays in that story.

Specially when you consider that HoS was most likely in pre production moths before The Witcher 3 was finished.

Hes not THE devil hes A demon. Just one of many possible demonic entities that can find their way to our world when magic users keep fucking shit up.

So he was the devil right?

At no point in the game did the every explain what the fuck this mark is supposed to mean. Did the devs every reveal it?

What exactly are brainlets so confused about.
The story is ripped off Pan/Faust.
The character is ripped of Stephen King

it means this is reddit this is memes

I like how when you ask him for Ciri at the end he tells you exactly on how to get the "best" ending for Geralt, clever.

And you could say this shit about every villain ever. It's not just about his name, it's about his traits and why he's so cool as a fictional character
>Specially when you consider that HoS was most likely in pre production moths before The Witcher 3 was finished.
I don't understand what's the point of this sentence. Randall was introducend in the Stand, in 1978.

I just started replaying the game. Gaunter is one of the first people you talk to in the tavern in the beginning. In vanilla was it also Gaunter who you talk to?

LMAO Randal flagg is based on nyarlathotep

I am saying that it is obvious that CDPR was making HoS before finishing TW3 and that GOD inclusion on TW3 was to set up HoS. This also includes the characters and motivations of GOD before he is fully revealed in HoS.

Yes but you never see him again in the game.

>using the word Clever to describe any aspect of this "game"

*angry polacks noises*

>sneaking Gaunter into every single cutscene of the expansion
>not clever

they had to make it up for the rushed endings of the original game somehow

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