Hello ladies, gentlemen, comrades and undecideds.
As always, I’ll immediately make a small disclaimer. There will be spoilers for the Hearts of Stone expansion, I think this is already clear, but just in case it was worth warning.
So, Gunther O’Dimm, a http://euromaniacasino.uk/ charming trickster, supernatural being, traveler, trader, consultant with a penchant for practical jokes, making dubious deals and explaining to the students the fundamentals of Adam Smith’s theory of value. I think that Gunther’s similarity with the Devil, Mephistopheles, Woland and all the other forms of the Evil One with whom they usually make deals lies on the very surface. Moreover, the addition Hearts of Stone itself is largely based on the Polish legend about Pan Twardowski. The origin of which, in turn, is usually associated with the legends about Faust, I think there is no need to explain why.
In general, the sorcerer Tvardovsky is the hero of many legends and small folk fairy tales, however, they all go back to one, one might say, the original canonical legend, about the deal between the master and the devil. So, in short. Once, namely sometime in the 16th century, on the Krzemenka hill near Krakow, the young Pan Twardowski entered into an agreement with the Enemy of the Human Race, the nobleman received considerable power, naturally in exchange for his soul. True, one clause was spelled out in the agreement: the Devil could only collect what was due when Tvardovsky was in Rome. Naturally, the sorcerer himself never even thought of approaching the Eternal City.
There are many different variations of the legend and just individual tales telling about what Pan Tvardovsky did throughout his life, but they all always come down to one ending. One day, one way or another, Tvardovsky found himself in a tavern that bore the loud name “Rome”, where the devil overtook him. There are also several variations of the ending of the legend, either the sorcerer was dragged to hell, or he repented at the last moment, but the road to heaven was closed to him, and therefore he remained flying as a restless spirit between heaven and earth, which again refers us to the myth of the wild hunt, or, the most interesting option for us, Pan Tvardovsky was eventually thrown to the moon, where he remains alone to this day, waiting Last Judgment.
Well, it seems that everything is clear about the closeness of the image to the devil. However, as the CDPR writers themselves admitted, they did not want to make a typical antagonist who looks like a horned demon. On the contrary, the creators wanted Mr. Mirror to seem completely ordinary, unremarkable. I understand that by now everyone already knows that O’Dimm is one of the first characters we even meet in the original game. But admit it, when you played through the game for the first time, perhaps even before the release of the expansion itself, you pretty quickly forgot the merchant who provided Geralt with important information. That is, given that, in fact, Gunther O’Dimm “stole” the entire scene in the tavern, but quickly disappeared from his mind, it was worth leaving the establishment. Well, that is, this is exactly what the creators of The Witcher tried to achieve.
And last but not least, they were suddenly helped by Giancarlo Esposito’s character from Breaking Bad. To be honest, when I first read that one of the sources of inspiration for the creation of Mister Mirror was Gustavo Fring, at first this information seemed dubious to me, to put it mildly.
However, the more you think about it, the more similarities you actually begin to notice. That is, both really, at first, appear as rather unremarkable characters, both hide their true nature, yes, even the first scene in which the witcher meets O’Dimm is somewhat reminiscent of the scene with White and Fring.
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