Witcher 3 - Gaunter O'Dimm Strikes Again - The Secret of the Last Spotted Wight - Witcher Lore 

yeah that bugged me to when i played the game, more likely that she started think of something and stopped writing in the middle of a word or that her letters became unrecognizable due to mental degradation but writing "Aaaaaaaaa", really?

All typed up on a magical typing machine!

She must have been referring to the Castle Aaaargh ... maybe she forgot the "rgh"

@@russellwatkins854 Do you suppose he meant the Kamaaaaargh?

Hand got stuck on keyboard.

Rory Sparshott Don’t forget the infamous tavern scene. Spoons everywhere.

The spoons could be a reference to the saying "he who sups with the devil should have a long spoon" So maybe that's why he coursed she with the spoons and why he breaks them.

@@federicohz2001 the breaking of the spoon combined with the O Dimm music, and the fact that the curse is so totally his thing is more than enough evidence to prove he's behind it. That being said, I totally didnt catch it at all first time around.

The act of breaking a wooden spoon is actually a way to curse someone. One it must be wooden. Two it must have been used the spoon in a meal that they ate, ether in preparing the meal or used in consuming it. This curse can only be evoked if you are a guest in the target's home and they have denied you hospitality three times. Once by refusing you shelter, second by refusing you food, third by refusing your kindness. These are the three rules of hospitality. The first two are subjected by circumstance because if they grant you sanctuary for a moment like willing to let you stay under their porch roof for a few seconds to get out of the rain it counts as sanctuary. As for the second you must ask for food and they must refuse for it to count. The third however is universal as refusing the kindness of a guest is well not circumstantial. Remember all three must be refused to work unless the target of the curse is yourself. Three, sware upon the spoon like so "I sware upon this broken spoon that- (fill in the black with three curses) so it shall be." The three curses must share repetition of intent such as "None will (blank), none will (blank), none will (blank)" Or "That you shall never (blank), That you shall never (blank), That you shall never (blank)." As an example, then fill the blanks in with what you wish upon the afflicted. In the end it should sound like this. "I sware upon this broken spoon, your heart be rotten, your visage be foul, your loins be fruitless, so it shall be." This is an example it could be slightly off but its the jest of what it is. This was an old curse to remind the rich and wealthy to be polite. Its reversible in two ways, one they must give their most precious possession to the caster, two they show the three rules of hospitality to someone in need who they never met and it must be genuine.

@@drnobody1908 So the spotted whom refused a homeless man shelter, and food got tricked and cursed by a dressed O'Dimm

I agree

He's a really fascinating Charakter

Ragnar Lothbrok _ not just O'Dimm on expecting ciri references if not a quest, wild hunt references if we don't get a chance to fight them and all sorts of references to lara Dorren and cregannen of lod and maybe geralt and the witchers.

hope to see ciri pop in and out of existence in the backround

O’dimm is someone you’d never notice right away.He’ll be there alright,but that doesn’t mean you’ll see him coming...

true. but when he sit in the tavern or he is in the ship or in Yantra where he say that magic is just childish hocus pocus is epic too

@@xillex819 yet he uses it all the time, what a hypocrite

@@nathenbosher1067 by magic he refers to the artificial and structured kind, the one used by sorcereces and mages follows rules and special incantations in ancient elvish languages. What O'Dimm does is probably what any magical being does when they use magic: they wield it naturally like breathing, no need for no silly "hocus pocus"

Loved that scene too! And how he came as if he was walking down off the moon. Olgierd's own wish being thrown in his face like that is incredibly cruel, and scarily foreshadowing the way he tricks Olgierd

​@@El_King911yup man I wish I had his powers

true hero right here

Well a spoon in the road would just be a pothole

@@wolfspider2034 a spork in the road?

I would add unseen vampire to it, but he's not on the same level

What makes him more unsettling is that he's not even a "standard" enemy. He's more of an evil mysterious entity.

The funny thing is that the spotted creature is already extinct, so, again, as he did in the beginning of the game, in white orchard, gaunter sort of helps Geralt progress on his missions. Call me crazy, but I think gaunter creates the problems so he can grab the souls of those who try to solve them. It makes sense when we remember that he is able to manipulate time at will. He theoretically could go back and forth time to create the solutions for a problem, then create the problem itself.

So you just made out with the crones?

he gives dahaka vibes

Al'yelia He's actually god

Devil, God. Same thing really.

Here's the thing, it is written that the devil will masquerade as an angel of light.

Only a creator could manipulate reality as much as O'Dimm does. I think he is in fact the God of the Witcher universe

@@dimitrijepenjaskovic9374 technically it would be the writer/author of the Witcher series that would be the true god of the Witcher universe

Spartacus115 I was in a PS4 party and me and my friends are fans of the Witcher 3 and we all played the hearts of stone dlc and I told everyone in the party to shout up because the gaunter O’Dimm theme was playing and they freaked out

Deathraider317 ok lol

@@Puppy_Puppington ok lol

@@deathraider3172 cool

You won't hear it if you play blood and wind befoe heart and stone

Shit, I should have brought a pokeball. Oh well, I still have Roach.

I know its so heartwarming

Goo goo gagaaaa. Awwwwww

@@Puppy_Puppington I know, right?

Lynn Harrod

It's one of my favourite quests as well.

Zurin arctus *I Will Redeem The Land of Shadow** They're technically the same universe, or multiverse at least. Ciri makes references to Cyberpunk when talking to Geralt (I think at the end of TW3).

Zurin Arctus obviously shes not saying its cyberpunk, how would that make any sense in the first place anyway?

@Zurin Arctus Well, if you argue like that, every easter egg EVER makes no sense. The sword in the bonfire under the cloud giant's castle in B&W wouldn't be a Dark Souls reference. It would just be any sword stuck in a bonfire. You can't deny Ciri talking about Cyberpunk, neither that they will include an easter egg about her and Avallac'h in the game.

Nah Alduin is better. 😂😂😂😂

ScytheNoire bit of a stretch

Robomerc Gaunter would curse you just for breathing in his direction

good point

I'd argue the story of Nivelen and the Bruxa from The Last Wish is a better reference given Nivelen's house has living furniture that serves him.

I basically turn into a porcupine when I think of him...

A friend of mine told me to read his initials. Gaunter O'Dimm. G O D. He's probably a God, trickster or whatever.

As players, I think we got used to playing characters that are the “Chosen Ones” of their worlds (Skyrim, Dragon Age, Mass effect, Fable, etc.) We’re used to the world revolving around us, and our choices. We feel as though we are at the top of the food chain (or maybe importance chain?). So when a character like O’Dimm appears, it gives you a huge slap in the face - even for all your greatness, when compared to someone as O’Dimm, you are as insignificant as an ant. Humans are always fascinated by the unknown. Which is why characters like O’Dimm or the G-Man from Half-life are so intriguing to theorize about.

My best guest..Odimm is a crossroads Demon

@MegaTheInternet a dog.......interesting, i never thought of him like that

She also said that they had flying ships ;) We will probably get an easter egg or something on Cyberpunk 2077

They had metal in their head and had flying vehicles. Aka Cyberpunk world

@@ZoglerRandomiel the devs if memories serve said there would be no reference to the witcher series in cyberpunk 2077. This coule also be a misdirection but its doubtful because im pretty sure its because they dont want people wasting all their timw to find an easter egg instead of immersing themselves in the game they worked on.

They wore metal in their heads

@@thomaskaimann6800 they said there won't be any quest that references Witcher. Doesn't mean they can't talk about it

No , its gerogian

Eternal fire is christainity itself. The killing of others who don't follow them is exactly what happened to pagans during the crusadw

Haha, puns!

(Chokes on tea)

I'm Gaunter go out on o'dimm here and guess that Triss is not oxenfurst witcher pun

If you can understand that

Gtfo

gold

I understood that reference!

What if they were muttering to themselves and the curse was appearing on the walls?

Max I just did it what the fuuuuuck

Oh MAN I can wait to try it

More like Haunter O' Dimm amirite?

Going to replay the game...just to do this.

Yeah, I was curious what would happen and daamn that was creepy XD

thats Gaunter's theme

That's because O'Dimm cast a curse on her.

Same here. It's insane how much live they gave this character. He seriously shivered me limbs when he started showing his powers from the storm onwards.

Oh come on! He's obvious oblivious ding bat loser bad guy... I mean seriously, he's after a ginger... and EVERYONE else knows... Gingers don't have souls to steal in the first place. He completely botched that one. If you don't challenge O'Dinn, "takes" the soul, really feigns taking it, instead burns his corpse realizing the great embarrassment that he wanted to conceal, there was no soul to take, like trying to suck big block of cheese through a straw. Had to make himself look bad ass to save face, spending all that time on a ginger. No, O'Dinn sort of stunk that one up. And if you do challenge him, his riddle can be mastered by a 1st grader.

Since you're writing "fun things", in my eyes Gaunter o'dim is inspired by the german tale, Faust, the most know version of this tale that i know was made by the writter: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, very good reading if you ask me.

The last Trastámara was Fernando de Aragón(although Isabel also had Trastamaran blood ,he was the Catolic King with the closest(and most recognized(due to the patrilinealism)) bond to the Trastamaran line),who,while being of Castillian descent,ruled over Aragón,not over Castilla.

You talking about Juana la Loca?

@@demetriusstewart5365 I think so

most appropriate music they could have made

Basically the current small print of my car repayment plan 😂

Wanderingwalker 1990 lmao. And divorce settlements.

They’re told to make sure people follow hospitality customs. The core of the stories always come down to, “Don’t be rude to strangers knocking at your door, for you never know if they’re a god in disguise.”

@@coltonwilliams4153 or Devils.

I'd call him a malevolent and irony loving god, but suit yourself

Then throw me this bone: Gaunter O'Dimm got a destructive storm running without sorcery. Just. Like. That. He can make it, that time seemingly stops. He basically inserts himself multiple times in the story of his little champion trying to fulfill the contract. 1st: Where does this power come from? Not from sorcery or any magic, he detests that stuff. The christian devel has never been shown to be able to change the weather for one. And before you claim that thing was on it's way, it wasn't. Any boatsman with even the smallest commonsense would have rather tried his luck with the ofiery swords than a storm that's that close. Plus, once Geralt wakes up, that thing is looong gone. And I doubt he had been out cold for hours. 2nd All that is easily more power than just destroying an immortal. After all, Gaunter _could_ literally take him apart and spread the corpse pieces out. But he wants the soul. He is also eternal. Completely. He makes himself look humble. Since when do devils hide behind humble facades? Did you know that he is the one that made the boclair noble become a monster (edit: Off course you know. After all, you watched this video. Silly me. Forgets where we are)? He posed himself as a beggar and upon being rejected he cursed her. Pulled a real beaty and the beast on her _without_ the question, wether it was justifyable to curse a probably ten year old. All in all, if not god, then close enough for me. But surely no devil. After all, he gives you _exactly_ what you want. Like a djinn and claims your soul like a devil AND has the power of a god. Every higher bad thing amalgamated into one.

You think all gods are omnipotent? "A god could do whatever they wanted" sounds like you do. Any supreme being is a god as it's the synonym for the word. O'Dimm is a supreme being. ( a being with "supreme" logo ;D ). You think all gods have to be good? As in have exactly the same morals as you do as it defines what is good in your eyes and what is bad?

"Any god worth your worship should be" And why is that? "The concept of God, as described by theologians, commonly includes" COMMONLY is the keyword. It's not "always". Gods being man made they always wants their god to be as strong as possible and what is the strongest? Omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscience. They would claim their god was stronger than that if they could. There's more non omni gods than omni gods. For example the indian gods, mayan gods, egyptian gods, greek goods, roman gods, nordic gods etc. All those omni gods are outnumbered by non omni gods. "The God of the old testament describes in job 38-41 how big his dick is. (It's Yuge)" I wish I could give ur comment 10 thumbs up or 100 simply for this :D

Oi! Before any of you say anything about gods: Look at kami. They are gods. They are sometimes closer to sorcerers in witcher than to "The Lord" or even the greek/roman ones! Plus, I still don't see how Gaunter is not omnipotent. I play witcher sometimes without real armour on and sometimes fighting skull bosses. Because I get a kick out of it. It is dangerous, hard and wonderfully monotonous once you caught on. Playing by self set rules is fun. Why should Gaunter not do the same?

More like Mother nature: so anyways are started storming

more like: Gaunter o'Dimm to mother nature: lets start a storm

Ever find a way in?

Come on, someone should use noclip on this.

@@SalazarII spoke like geralt

I absolutely dread going to that house ... it freaks me out so badly. I just run out and hold my breathe like when I was a child and had to run to my room through a dark scary hallway after the lights turn off.

@@SalazarII Left it a mystery. Had no reason to be in that room, and I for sure wasn't going to find one. Just say I'd seen enough spoons for one day.

I think it's just a consequence of trying to convey that through text, could have been done better though, like if they called it or commented it as indiscriminate scribbling

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"All spoons and no fun make Marlene a dull girl."

Maybe her finger got stuck on her keyboard while transforming :-P

@@frenne_dilley monty python discussion relevant to post

I was so sure, but I wasn't sure, and I came to this video hoping it would be pointed out. Thank you. Master Mirror is making me mad

I'll take quality over quantity

No, that's dumb.

O'Dimm appears all over the place in Hearts of Stone. If you look closely, you'll see his face in many of the major storyline cutscenes. The easiest one to spot is Gaunter dressed up like a Redanian soldier during the auction house heist standoff. He's holding a crossbow in the back row of soldiers. Eerie stuff when you actually notice him.

He appeared as the security guy if you didnt notice

Naaaah that’s lame, embrace the cold Grimm darkness or drown in it

Yeah dude. Skyrims played out for now.

Lmao . I was thinking that few weeks ago . I have literally lost 3 spoons in a month . Just vanished

edi He definitely does. The storm could just as easily have killed Geralt, yet O'dimm knew it would result in his freedom

Mads Andreasen If he knows the possible futures, how did he not see his defeat?

edi Perhaps he did, yet cannot refuse a direct challenge all the same. Maybe there are just certain limitations to this foresight, hell, he might have put those limitations there himself, as knowing everything that will happen is boring. Maybe he can't see the future after all, in which case he took a hell of a risk with Geralt's escape. Who knows?

I've seen a rather crappy anime, that had a quite interesting concept: 1) magical creatures gain power from people believing in their powers 2) In order to pull off a particularly strong spell, you need to make a sacrifice or if you can't you need to make it a gamble putting yourself at risk. Regarding Gaunther, I doubt that he would put limitations onto himself, if he didn't had to. It must be vanity or greed for souls that makes him accept contracts that he might fail to keep. Maybe, his power grows with his legend and with every gamble he wins (which in turn creates the illusion of omnipotence and strengthens his legend). Maybe, he can only see probabilities. When he created the spotted wight, he might have split the world into two parallel universes. One in which Gerald takes advantage of it and one where he doesn't, making it a 50:50 gamble to Gaunther. Maybe, there was an 80% chance that Gerald survives the Shipwreck (he was far from the only survivor BTW) and Gaunther had also a plan B, if he doesn't survive it, or perhaps he would have intervened a second time. I like that he was portrayed as neither good nor overly evil. However, if he was interested in making as many contracts as possible, wouldn't he want to appear more like a nice god and advertise himself a bit more? Thus, I think it's not primarily about souls, but his own pride or growth of might.

I think that maybe he sees time not as a linear thing but as a plan of events on an open table

Yes, but so very subtly that it is easy to miss and that is what makes it genius. Even the spoons clanging sometimes made me think of the theme, Geralt mentions that as he enters the place.

Furthermore spoons carry a liquid, which can be considered a mirror but not of glass, one that cannot be broken

No, that's dumb.

we want dandelion

Note from 2021: You'll get your wish of evil incarnate in that the game will be a buggy dirty turd mess that it will be recalled.

@@jmitterii2 i had fun as hell, 144hours and all steam achievments. sadly it could have been way better if they took another year for the game. The storys in this game hard carried it tho.

LOL

erm...you still have your soul?

he is Satan

idk it could be the unique way spoons reflect images...most metal spoons reflect image reverted

but he used also wood spoons, for example the drunken guy he killed in the tavern

That's what I'm saying! He only uses wooden spoons. Why?! Why the spoon, ya creep!?

It's to do with an old saying. "He who sups with the devil should eat with a long spoon" gaunter is so well designed. Devilishly so.

Ah! That's brilliant!

pretty sure Marlene says all her family is dead. she watched them grow old and die, so she was cursed LONG before Geralt met O'Dimm in Hearts of Stone.

the professor in oxenfurt say that there are stories a few thousand years ago about him. He is very very old

Ive only found a total of 2 and the second one was an accident whilst trying to help Vivienne.

@@user_harddrive ah the one in the cave

Or Vampires in general

@@g.o.d.6752 I'm looking for a woman

Harrowed One - All my friends are skeletons....!

Lachlan Bold I doubt it, since if you ask O'Dimm about Ciri at the end of Hearts of Stone, he actually admits interfering with Ciri's fate directly is outside his power.

Doesn't mean he is less poéwerful it just means he must abide by rules just like when he is beaten in his own game he must always keep his end of bargain.

Yes, but how many die to punish those who supposedly deserve it? Just think back to how many people olgierd may have killed because of Gaunter O'dimm.

@@trisryan4161 that was a decision made by Olgierd. O'Dim never forced him to be a negligent uncaring degenerate who pillaged and murdered for fun...in fact it was a Von Everec pass time. Olgierd could have accepted his deserved punishment for all the selfish decisions he took im his bid for immorality. He CHOSE to sacrifice Vlodimir. Olgierd deserves little pitty and it's honestly just as morally correct to let O'Dim deliver his punishment as it is not. It all depends on wether you believe Olgierd deserves to die for his sins or if he deserves to live with the insurmountable guilt for the rest of his life.

@@sidetracker3496 Ok then what of skellige? I mean, those people lived for pillaging so shouldn't they suffer the same fate as olgierd? Hell, what of Witchers even? some monsters dont kill without provocation yet witchers often kill them anyway for a bag of coin. Olgierd does not mention how many he killed, if he killed children, let people live, etc. all we know is that he led a band of rogues. noble-born rogues at that. He even says that he regrets turning the prince into a frog when you talk to him meaning that he isn't some sociopath that doesnt feel until O'dimm gave him a heart of stone. O'dimm murdered a man with a spoon just for interrupting him for less than 10 seconds. He didn't need to cause he can just freeze time.

Thank you. I feel the same way. These people weren't "good" people. Olgeird had to have known what he was signing up for, since he was using "black magic". He chose that path. It didn't sound like he had a very good heart before O'Dimm gave him a "heart of stone". The spotted wight was being cruel and selfish on top of going against what was supposed to be a traditional custom when a traveler comes to your home. I mean, damn, all she had to do was give him some food. But she denied him and then rubbed salt in the wound by belittling him. Olgeird and the old woman kinda deserved it.

@@trisryan4161 let me get things straight here.. if you're a son to a weapons dealer, ate food from that "blood" money, go to college with "that" money, and get married mostly by "that" money. Then someday, a son of the father whose been murdered by the weapon get revenge on you and killed your newborn baby and you'll say...."FATHER! THIS IS YOUR DOING!" and you apologize to that man who killed your baby and shake his hand on behalf of your father? Or you just simply killed that man? You have a long and twisted logic man, even Olgierd never mess with eredin even if he could. Why? Well, someday you'll get the picture. And for that drunkard on the inkeep on oxenfurt who got killed by the spoon was enough to make a conclusion that O'Dimm is nothing but evil? You mean that CDPR must give a detailed background story for every one that O'Dimm deal with? Then this wouldn't be The Witcher 3, but The Mirror 3. And maybe Olgierd has the hearts of stone, but his logic still clear as a fresh everluce. Your point only based on Olgierd being sorry for the frog prince? But you neglected the fact that he also told geralt that he asked for help from "the wrong kind of man", and what did you think about a man whose looking for solution for his problems in a bar to drink and brawl on and on and on again? Sociopath? Aaaahhh, not quite....but he's getting there and got the hearts of stone side effect (let me make things clear once more, SIDE EFFECT). This is a simple logic, if you're good people then you asked for solutions from another good people. But if deep down inside you're a twisted man then the wise words will never reach your ears until you've changed. Cheers

Ciri isn't gonna be there.

@@Johnspartan296 knowing CD she probably will as some mid game Easter egg that doesn't Interfere with the story

Another Wight guards the furthest North place of power...........so crows are not all wise. Cheers!!

If O'Dimm could see the future, he wouldn't have been defeated by Geralt

Spotted wights, the last of the spotted wights. Wights are still around, just not that particular version of them.

So before even coming in contact with Geralt and Regis he cursed that women (probably hundred years ago - don't remember correclty but i think it was mentioned if you helped to lift the curse and offered her to stay in mansion, that she has been cursed for more years that she even looks like in her elderly version). It's fun theory but doesn't make a lot of sense. :)

I have a theory that O'Dimm is some kind of fallen pagan god (like "devils" from Polish folk tales). Like them, he isn't completely evil: he helps the poor and protects the law of hospitality. Isn't it weird that the last time we see him in an abandoned temple?

@@hyzop3719 That definitely makes more sense than saying he's just God or the Devil.

Valerie Montanez Hmmm...Olgried summoned him using a book of dark/ocult magic. This does not sound typically for a GOD, like the MIRROR of GOD, like the upside down reflection, as visible in spoons...

Kaelan Everett what hapoened b4 u were born? Were u a spirit?

triigga s tf?

Kaelan Everett im saying like we think after we die a piece of us is still alive but b4 we were born there wasnt nothing we dont remember anything and we were unconcious. So after death we would b unconcious

triigga s Did you even read my comment? Holy shit.

''What would happen if when you die, you stay dead'', There's no such outcome. First, Depending on your race and what you did in life, you may enter a different after life, be it sovngarde, or the hunting grounds of hircine, or other deities and daedras. Second, you could have your soul trapped in a Gem and stuck in there, and those trapped by black soul gems go to Soul Cairn. Third, when your soul is destroyed you cease to exist, like when the Dragonborn devour the Soul of the Dragons he kills, the dragons ceases from existence to never come back. There's nothing more to it, you die, one of these 3 happens to you.

the gaming turtle 1 your grammar makes me angry