Talk:Whatsoever a Man Soweth.../@comment-167.88.15.4-20190514021233

The saddle you get is the best saddle in the game by far... none of the other rewards really make sense. I have literally thousands of food items and bottles of alcohol, 5k gold is a joke at this point in the game, and I already saved Ciri (how would one get to the end of HOS before finishing the main quest anyway, when it's nearly 10 levels past that point?)

On my first playthrough I saved Olgierd, but on NG+ I had to ask myself why. Olgierd was a selfish prick before this whole thing started and he became an absolute monster. Maybe he was a naively selfish prick, rather than malevolent, at the beginning - but he was on that path well before O'Dimm entered his life. He was the son of a wealthy family but he and his brother terrorized people for fun. Even before O'Dimm had "cursed" him he was willing to give his brother's life to get his help. I don't think O'Dimm prevented him from feeling anything - all throughout HOS he could still feel humor, anger, sadness. It's just that when he got what he wanted he was still dissatisfied. He's been treating people callously and seeking thrills at other's expense his whole life. I think more than anything he just got bored of a quiet married life, and was too restless and immature to control his selfish impulses. O'Dimm's "gift" of immortality might have enabled him to take that even further, but Olgierd chose to kill his wife's father and leave her alone to die.

Or maybe this is all just rationalization for the fact that I really, really want that saddle. Sorry Olgierd ¯\_(ツ)_/¯