what is hearts of stone based on

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At the end of hearts of stone the game tells you that it is based on a work of fiction by an author

however both the title and author name are hard to read/memorise
i typed them into google as best i could and got irrelivant results

obviously copy/paste, rewind, version control rct are not an option for getting the name
only replaying it and prntscren will do, but that does not seam to be working for me

so can someonee tell me that the author name and title is

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Originally posted by BuzzardBee:

Andrzej Sapkowski is the author of the short stories and novels upon which the story of Geralt are based. They took some liberties with the stories and the first two games are set five years after the conclusion of The Lady of the Lake novel which had been the last book Sapkowski had written to that point. He's since continued with a prequel, Season of Storms.

http://witcher.wikia.com/wiki/Andrzej_Sapkowski

That is interesteing
i thought that master mirror was that subject matter of the referance

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Originally posted by BuzzardBee:

For references in Hearts of Stone, perhaps you'd find this interesting:

http://witcher.wikia.com/wiki/Gaunter_O'Dimm

read it

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Originally posted by BuzzardBee:

As far as I'm aware, the story itself in Hearts of Stone isn't based on anything directly. It is however influenced by several sources and various instances in Polish and Slavic folklore, as is the rest of the Witcher saga.

O'Dimm is seen as the Devil but he more closely resembles a crossroads demon, one who offers to grant wishes by sealing a deal with the person with the goal of collecting their soul upon completion of the contracted exchange.

However O'Dimm revels in twisting these deals so that he can create as much torment as possible for the wisher.

The fact that O,Dimm is the devil and uses "deals" was very obviosu fromt the start.
However this leaves a few questions

1)
Why did he kill the drunk with a spoon
2)
Why did he trap the scholar in the circle
3)
Why was gerralts "deal" engineered from before it started

I have my own answers to these questions

1) the drunk was soon to fall on the spoon anyway (the witnesses comments after it happened would lead an investigator who did not witness it to conclude that this happened)

2) The scholar was blind and at risk of the accident which killed him, by trapping him the circle he was protected for long enough to have dreams of the child he always wanted to have but the child died and so the dreams ended (he outlived the child). in this was ODimm actually did something good.

3) I want more explanation on the 3rd point

[Bite]

Hearts of Stone is indeed based on another work of fiction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Twardowski

The legend of Pan Twardowski is pretty much a direct inspiration for everything that happens in HoS (At least between Olgierd and O'Dim), it's practically the same story (With wife's ghost summoning and all), but with another character (Geralt) stepping into the scene to carry the story along.

[Hekatonkheires]

1)
Why did he kill the drunk with a spoon
2)
Why did he trap the scholar in the circle
3)
Why was gerralts "deal" engineered from before it started

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2) He's an all-powerful ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ who likes ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ with people.
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Originally posted by BuzzardBee:

I don't know where you got that part about having dreams of a child he always wanted to have... none of that is in the game. You may be confusing this with something else. Here's the scene so you can see for yourself.

The proffessor talkes about how he feared sleeping
Yet during sleep he had a child and developes a paternalistic love/bond with it

He never had this in the real world

The the child died and he was left the the grief of loosing it.

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There is a German fairy tale called "Das kalte Herz" (the cold heart) which tells the tale of Peter Munk who trades his heart for riches but gets a heart of stone and turns selfish and emotionally crippled. It definitely has a lot of parallels to the story of Hearts of Stone. The english version is even called Heart of Stone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_Stone_(German_fairy_tale)

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Originally posted by icon_of_sin:

At the end of hearts of stone the game tells you that it is based on a work of fiction by an author

however both the title and author name are hard to read/memorise
i typed them into google as best i could and got irrelivant results

obviously copy/paste, rewind, version control rct are not an option for getting the name
only replaying it and prntscren will do, but that does not seam to be working for me

so can someonee tell me that the author name and title is

There is a German fairytale tale which is even named heart of stone... And considering the fact that olgierd Von everec has a German Von which often was used by knights and nobleman I'm pretty sure olgierd story is based on this fairytale