Talk:Gaunter O'Dimm/@comment-78.144.36.163-20160530025346/@comment-68.37.219.130-20160609040029

Yeah, this sounds like way too much of a stretch. Your connections are tenuous at best, and you clearly really want to believe this is Hastur (somehow) but you have very little evidence to back up the assertion. The theory rests on... what, that O'Dimm's name might drive men mad? And that the "Devil" doesn't? That he appears omniscient and 'evil,' sure, but there are myriad explanations for that and no particular reason to connect those characteristics with the Cthulu mythos over any other folklore.

If there were any references - even oblique - to the Yellow Sign, the Hyades, Aldeberan, Hali, Ythill, black stars, cloud waves, kings in yellow, theatre plays, mind control, the Pallid King, masks, Strangers, or of course Carcosa... then we'd have something to go on. As far as I know, nothing like that is present. CDPR's homages aren't particularly subtle, and it's never all that hard to connect their references to the source; in this case you seem to be seeing a connection that's so vague and tenuous as to be nonexistent. (That said, I'd of course love if they'd used Bierce and Chambers as inspiration for characters or locations elsewhere in the Witcher, but unfortunately we've seen the last of Geralt.)