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Olgierd von Everec is the titular character of Witcher 3: Hearts of Stone, serving as either the deuteragonist or the secondary antagonist. Olgierd is an arrogant Redanian noble, who wanted to marry Iris but their parents didn't allow for this due to his bandit lifestyle and poverty. They arranged marriage with an exotic prince instead.
He was voiced by Paul Thornley.
Biography[]
Early life[]
Olgierd von Everec was the eldest of two sons born in the early 13th century to Kristina and Bohumil von Everec, who were members of a noble and respected family. He grew up with his younger brother Vlodimir owning his family's estate and learned to read, ride a horse, shoot and fight with a saber. Whenever they were able, Olgierd and Vytautas formed a group of noble rogues and often raided Velen and other Temerian frontiers, and the locals developed fear at the sound of "Olgierd" himself. Nevertheless, he and Iris, a woman from another noble family, started dating and fell in love.
Misfortune finally befell the family through debts, poor investments and a bad harvest year. Though they were finally able to recover, it was during this time that Horst Borsodi acquired the family's debts and required them to repay them immediately or he would take over all their assets, including their house. Although Olgierd begged to give them a week's time, Horst refused and seized the von Everec estate with all their belongings, leaving the family homeless.
Iris's parents, no longer considered a high-class family, found the relationship between their daughter and Olgierd inadequate and decided to hand over her hand to an Ofieri prince named Sirvat. Olgierd, still in love with Iris, tried to convince her to run away from him, but she did not want to cut herself off from her family, leaving them no choice. Surprised by the loss of the love of his life and everything else, Olgierd in desperation shouted that he wished the prince could turn into a monster, not realizing the weight of these words, and accidentally cursed the prince, turning him into a huge toad.
Meeting Gaunter O'Dimm[]
However, Olgierd realized that the only way to get Iris back was for his family to get their fortune back, and he eventually found out about the entity that grants wishes, contacting Gaunter O'Dimm soon after. Gaunter agreed to grant three wishes, but in return Olgierd had to sacrifice someone he loved: Iris or Vlodimir. He chose his brother and the next day, during an air raid, Vlodimir was killed while trying to hide, overwhelmed by the soldiers. Wanting his brother's name to live on, Olgierd lied and said that Vlodimir had died bravely trying to fight several enemies at once, and then visited his grave regularly.
For his part, Gaunter restored the family's fortune and, as part of Olgierd's other wish, granted him immortality. Initially satisfied with the whole situation, Olgierd and Iris happily married, but the happiness did not last long. It turned out that his desire for immortality had a two-sided effect: during his immortality, Olgierd also began to lose all empathy for everyone, including the love he once felt for Iris. Furthermore, Iris's parents were reluctant to accept Olgierd because there was no one else to marry Iris and they considered him a thug with the leading thugs he regularly socialized with.
The years began to pass and Olgierd's marriage began to fall apart. Realizing what had happened to his wishes, he began practicing black magic to try to summon Gaunter to end the pact, but nothing worked. As he pushed Iris further and further towards the edge, it finally got to the point where Iris brought her father to end the marriage as it had become a loveless relationship. Olgierd, now completely emotionless, got into an argument with Iris's father and pushed him against a stone pillar, killing him instantly and causing Iris to hate him.
Over time, Iris' hatred soon turned to utter apathy towards her husband, who tried to give her spectral creatures as companions, and later a caretaker who would wait for her and take care of the estate, despite her wife's protests. Having long forgotten how love felt like, Olgierd left the estate one day, leaving behind a purple rose and a letter explaining that he did not want to bother her any more and was leaving.
Meeting Geralt[]
He first met Geralt when he wrote a commission that was hung by one of his men outside one of the taverns, telling him to kill a monster in the sewers in exchange for a considerable fee, as well as anything he would like from the court. Geralt accepted the contract and under the sewers of Oxenfurt discovered that Shani was trying to revive a dead Redanian soldier. They were surprised to see each other, and after a small portion of flashbacks, Geralt relented and allowed Shani to follow her so she could take a venom sample from the monster. Geralt, with the help of Shani, succeeded, but unfortunately was taken prisoner by a band of Ofieri soldiers led by Aamad, unknowingly killing their accursed prince. Fortunately for Geralt, Gaunter O'Dimm, the acquaintance who helped him find Yennefer, offered him a choice: he could serve him for a while in exchange for freedom, or reach Ophir and be executed.
In a short time, he accepted O'Dimm's offer, and soon after, the ship crashed due to a storm and the witcher was forced to fight with the surviving soldiers. He returned to the Garin estate, where Olgierd stopped for a while, but he saw the pudding in flames, and one of his drunk men greeted him as Geralt looked at the destruction. Then, one of von Everec's men was about to be beheaded, and Geralt could choose to intervene or let the man be executed.
If Geralt intervened, von Everec left the burning mansion and said that he would duel the witcher for the man's life. After Geralt's victory, von Everec laughed and declared him the winner, and Gaunter O'Dimm appeared after the conflict. If the man was executed, the heir's daughter would stab Everec with a sword to avenge her father's death. In both cases, von Everec's immortality was revealed to Geralt. O'Dimm showed up soon after. He explained to Olgierd that he was forced to implement the terms of the deal and introduced Geralt as his sidekick. Geralt was tasked with listening to Olgierd's three wishes according to the terms of the contract. Olgierd, suspicious of O'Dimm and his motives, expressed his first and second wishes, and provided vague details of the third until Geralt fulfilled the first two. He asked for three things: to get Maximilian Borsodi's house, to see that his brother would be saved forever, and the purple rose he had given to his wife before he left.
After completing each task, Olgierd explained the reasons for these tasks. The house of Maximilian Borsodi, which he wished, he wanted to use to get revenge on the Borsodi family, because they bought up his family's debt and proceeded to sell all the things in the auction house, and the "house" in question was the casket used to store the will of the senior of the family, Maximilian. It contained a clause that would bankrupt the Borsodi family. The second quest, to show his brother "the time of his life", was deliberately impossible for Geralt to complete as Witold von Everec had been dead for some time, however Gaunter O'Dimm gave Geralt a vial of blood belonging to Olgierd and summoned Witold's spirit with it , thanks to which he allowed Geralt to fulfill the second wish, allowing Witold's spirit to possess Geralt for a day.
The third task proved to be the most difficult, as the von Everec family estate was guarded by a demonic creature called the Keykeeper, and his wife Iris, who possessed the rose, had long since died and appears as a powerful wraith. The rose in question has also withered long ago. After calming the spirit and summoning her, Geralt discovered that her grief was so powerful that she created the world in the painting and had to go through it to fully awaken her. In the painted world, Geralt had to deal with all the fears associated with his memories of Olgierd, which showed how, over time, Olgierd developed a heart of stone, which made him increasingly distant and easygoing towards his wife. However, after overcoming Iris's fears and waking her up fully, Geralt was able to obtain a purple rose or a painting of Iris holding a rose as proof that Olgierd's third wish had been granted.
Later, Geralt met with Professor Premeticius Shezlock from Oxenfurt, whom he learned about from Shani. As Geralt learned from the blind professor, Olgierd paid him gold to find out who O'Dimm was and how to get rid of him. When Shazlock relays what Olgierd told him when the von Everecs were left destitute, Olgierd wanted to run away, but Iris did not want to break family ties. Everything changed when a wandering witch directed him to Mr. Mirror. During the meeting at the crossroads, with a wish and a pact signed in blood, Olgierd was to choose between Iris and Witold to regain his fortune; he chose a brother who died the next day.
Conclusion[]
After granting three wishes, Olgierd was summoned by Geralt to the temple of Lilwani, where he was to finally pay off the debt to O'Dimm. Although Olgierd reiterated that they had to be on the moon for the deal to end, O'Dimm revealed that the floor of the temple was actually a crescent mosaic that fulfilled the terms of the contract, allowing them to "stand on the moon" through a loophole in the contract.
If Geralt did not intervene, O'Dimm took Olgierd's soul, leading him to his death.
If Geralt intervened, he bet both his soul and Olgierd's on one of O'Dimm's games; if the witcher wins, he will free them both, and if he loses, the demon will take their souls. After answering O'Dimm's riddle and banishing the evil entity, Olgierd's emotions were restored and he became mortal once more. He immediately felt regret for his past actions and mistakes. He gave Geralt his family sword and promised to start a new life free from O'Dimm's control.
Journal entry[]
To this day, I do not know what caused Geralt to inquire after the contract posted by Olgierd von Everec. That famed witcher curiosity? An ominously light coin pouch? Or perhaps it was some other, more nefarious force... Whatever the impulse, Geralt decided to visit the locally-infamous nobleman and pursue the bounty on the sewer monster.
From their very first encounter, Geralt knew Olgierd was a unique character. He led an informal band who worshipped the ground he walked on, though he clearly was of a different sort than they: educated, a lover of art and an adherent to a certain noble code. Yet Geralt also perceived something indefinable within the man, something years later he would call "a void crying out to be filled."
Geralt later returned to the estate where he had first met Olgierd and his band – and found the place in flames. He soon learned the property did not in fact belong to Olgierd, but had merely been commandeered by the ataman and his men, who then went a touch overboard in their carousing. Olgierd did not begrudge them their pyrotechnic overexuberance, but the murder of the manor's lord he considered one cruelty too far and ordered the wrongdoer beheaded. Geralt entered the stage in the middle of this execution. In the tumult that followed, he made a most startling discovery: Olgierd von Everec was immortal.
And immortality was but the start of the surprising revelations about Olgierd. Master Mirror revealed the two had signed a contract: in exchange for regaining his lost status and wealth, Olgierd had promised Mirror something very personal (what, exactly, Geralt did not yet know). This contract had a strange clause: before it could be considered complete and Master Mirror could collect his due, he had to fulfill three of Olgierd's wishes. He could not do this personally, however, but needed instead to make use of a proxy. His choice for this role? Geralt, who in this way was drawn into a personal settlement between a powerful, immortal nobleman and the mysterious Gaunter O'Dimm.
Upon hearing Geralt would be the one to carry out his requests, Olgierd wasted no time and issued him his first challenges: to bring him the house of Maximilian Borsodi, and to show his brother Vlodimir the time of his life...
Granting Olgierd's wishes had proven difficult but rewarding, for Geralt now knew a great deal more about the unusual nobleman – and the story that unfolded could have jerked tears from a cyclops.
Once upon a time, Olgierd fell hopelessly in love with Iris, a beautiful young lady from a well-off family. Her parents accepted his proposal of marriage and all seemed set for a happy ending when a storm of misfortune suddenly broke over the von Everec family. A chain of bad decisions and a few years of bad harvests had left the once-wealthy family deeply in debt. Then the Borsodis purchased this debt and, with their brutal enforcement of its terms, drove the von Everecs into utter bankruptcy. After this, Iris' parents changed their mind about their daughter's future husband, revoking their approval of Olgierd and betrothing Iris to an Ofieri prince who had come to study in Oxenfurt. Out of desperation, Olgierd turned to Master Mirror – and soon won back his coin, influence and, most importantly, his betrothed. All seemed well until he discovered his wishes' unwanted side effect: his heart was slowly hardening into stone.
Now the witcher was on the verge of bringing the pact between Olgierd and Master Mirror to completion. Did this mean everything would soon be as it once was? Geralt was not so sure. One question kept nagging him: what was that "something very personal" Gaunter O'Dimm intended to collect from Olgierd?
- If Geralt chose to side with Olgierd:
Once Geralt realized Master Mirror was playing for the highest of stakes – Olgierd von Everec's soul – he decided he could not sit idly by. Instead he found a way to cheat the demonic being and win Olgierd back his soul. Free from his pact and his heart restored, Olgierd thanked Geralt and gave him his sword – a souvenir which had been in his family for generations – then walked off into the sunset.
- If Geralt didn't investigate and left Olgierd to his fate:
Geralt did not have to wait long to find out what lay at the heart of the contract between Olgierd von Everec and Gaunter O'Dimm. In exchange for regaining his family fortune, clearing his name and marrying Iris, Olgierd had agreed to give Master Mirror his soul. Geralt could now only watch as O'Dimm collected his due. Thus ended the sad tale of Olgierd von Everec, a man who lived as if there was no tomorrow, feasted as if he had never known joy and loved a love so strong he was willing to surrender his own soul for it.
- If Geralt investigated more but left Olgierd to his fate:
Geralt did not have to wait long to find out what lay at the heart of the contract between Olgierd von Everec and Gaunter O'Dimm. In exchange for regaining his family fortune, clearing his name and marrying Iris, Olgierd had agreed to give Master Mirror his soul. Geralt knew of a way to stop this, but for some reason did nothing and instead watched as O'Dimm collected his due. Thus ended the sad tale of Olgierd von Everec, a man who lived as if there was no tomorrow, feasted as if he had never known joy and loved a love so strong he was willing to surrender his own soul for it.
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