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Near the start of The Witcher 3, our hero Geralt enters White Orchard Inn searching for his lost lover, Yennefer of Vengerberg. Here he meets Gaunter O'Dimm for the first time - a seemingly ordinary tavern patron who introduces himself as a "mangy vagrant". Previously a mirror merchant, he claims the common folk dubbed him Master Mirror, or the Man of Glass.O'Dimm blends in: with his everyman face, plain clothes and bald head, he could be any other NPC. Perhaps even one you'll save on the road later. You'd never guess you'd just met Geralt of Rivia's most dangerous foe.
Going back to The Witcher 3's prologue armed with this knowledge gives it an eerie edge. O'Dimm can't be cut down with a silver sword - he could stop time and kill Geralt with a kitchen utensil before our hero had armed himself - yet there he sits, a friendly merchant who's offering to help our hero at no cost. Of course, nothing comes without a price. Master Mirror is pulling Geralt's strings before he even steps foot into war-torn Velen, but he doesn't show his face again until the game's first expansion, Hearts of Stone. CD Projekt knows how to do foreshadowing.
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