Hearts of Stone plot discussion. *SPOILERS*

[mo]

So I just finished the game and I was wondering: why does Olgierd's heart turn to stone both literally and figuratively and why does he become immortal when his original wish was to have his fortune returned, have his betrothed back and live like there's no tomorrow. I don't see how the Man of Glass could've twisted his wish the way he did. That's the core element of the whole plot though....Is all that suppossed to follow from him saying he wants to "live like there's no tomorrow"? It doesn't really convince me....

[FurtivePygmy]

Originally posted by .stega:

I don't see how the Man of Glass could've twisted his wish the way he did.

Gunter: "I fullfill what one asks - not one wants."
Olgierd had already known about that and said: "You should care what you wish for. Otherwise you will deal with consequences."

IMO, Gunter is the most powerful being in the Witcher Universe. Eredin is like a little boy compared to him. If he wanted, he could've easily destroy (alone!) the Crones, the Wild hunt, all mages and armies, monsters. However, he is somehow bounded within this world (lacks ability to travel between worlds). "Ciri is out of my sight. Sorry, ".

Sad that Gunter prefers collecting souls.

[Zuriyel]

I saw it this way. Let's say that we humans in general have an emotional range of 0-100, and usually we keep ourselves around 50. Olgierd's level would then have been set to 100. After a while, his body would get used to and adapt to that level.

Always maintaining the exact same emotional level would be destabilizing in the sense that there's no proper balance. Like being sad or angry and stuff kinda helps u when you then experience something that makes you happy, because a part of you appreciates how far the happiness takes you away from the anger and sadness, but Olgierd can't do that.

[mo]

It doesn't fit though. On the one hand, they're going with this classical demon-grants-wish-not-the-way-originally-intended narrative and O'Dimm says himself that he never cheats, yet that's exactly what he does. The moon thing for example was cheating, since they stood on an image of the moon, not on the moon itself. Plus, when the Man of Glass pulls you into his demon world and shatters all the mirrors in front of you he cheats as well, because the riddle itself is easy, he just doesn't let you solve it because everytime you try to, he pulls the solution away from you. On top of that: why would there be water in that world when it is a world completely designed and under the control of Gaunter O'Dimm? It doesn't really add up IMHO. Unless you assume that the water is the way O'Dimm lets you solve the riddle, but that didn't fit his reaction in the end. I dunno, even though I didn't feel like the plot was logically coherent and sufficiently explained, I still enjoyed it, because it was very personal and less grandiose than the main plot.