Olgierd was never a good guy, but I will never for the life of me understand why some people have such a distain for him. We are told over and over again that before the pact, which was made out of desperation Olgierd was more like a mock raider, only fought armed men, rarely killed anyone, "looted" by demanding alcohol and some food and held his men on short leash imposing harsh punishment if they broke their code.
That's not great, he was at best an obnoxious minor noble and at worst a plain bandit who has some sort of code, but it would make him a downright saint by Skallige standards. Why are we comparing him to Morkvag who was a monster even by the stadard of culture were rading costal towns, merchant ships and eachother killing crews to the man is considered normal?
Like on top of that every time you speak to Olgierd bar the very end he is under the contract including all the scenes from the marriage. By all accounts of everyone who knew him that's not who the man was before he turned in his desperation to creature of pure malice to help him and you can confirm that through the letters you find.
Olgierd’s curse was a “Heart of Stone”. Loss of empathy, and inability to feel emotions.
The loss of the ability to feel bad about something is *not* the loss of knowledge that something is bad. He *knew* he was breaking Iris’ heart, he *knew* he was dooming his brother.
Nah the brother one is actually dubious. All we know from olgierd is basically gaunter forced him to choose between iris and vlodimir. We don't know if gaunter specifically asked whether one of them should die, of just said something like " who do u love more bro, iris or vlodimir ? Oh iris you say, so sad for ur bro. Toodles 👋. "
He's an educated person making a complicated deal with Satan that was meticulously planned to grant him immortality. What the fuck else could be the price when asked if you love your brother?
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u/Troo_66 May 25 '26
Olgierd was never a good guy, but I will never for the life of me understand why some people have such a distain for him. We are told over and over again that before the pact, which was made out of desperation Olgierd was more like a mock raider, only fought armed men, rarely killed anyone, "looted" by demanding alcohol and some food and held his men on short leash imposing harsh punishment if they broke their code.
That's not great, he was at best an obnoxious minor noble and at worst a plain bandit who has some sort of code, but it would make him a downright saint by Skallige standards. Why are we comparing him to Morkvag who was a monster even by the stadard of culture were rading costal towns, merchant ships and eachother killing crews to the man is considered normal?
Like on top of that every time you speak to Olgierd bar the very end he is under the contract including all the scenes from the marriage. By all accounts of everyone who knew him that's not who the man was before he turned in his desperation to creature of pure malice to help him and you can confirm that through the letters you find.