Odo

Odo is the wealthiest man in the Outskirts of Vizima, the village Geralt reaches in Act I of The Witcher. The money is not really his own doing: he inherited his fortune from his brother, a soldier who is now dead. The brother’s armour, bearing the arms of Temeria, is still kept in Odo’s house, even though Odo himself has little love for soldiers. He lives at the far end of the village, behind a fence and a high gate.

The journal sums him up as distrustful and stingy, and he is drunk more often than not. He likes to invite visitors to drink with him, on the theory that nobody who drinks with him can be a spy. He follows the faith of the Eternal Fire and accepts the Reverend’s authority in the village.

In The Witcher

In the main quest The Salamander’s Tail, the Reverend will not tell Geralt anything about Salamandra until the witcher has won over the village’s most prominent residents: Odo, Haren Brogg and Mikul. They can be visited in any order, and Odo’s part is The Secret Garden.

Odo will not talk business with a stranger at first. Geralt either shows him the Eternal Fire signet ring the Reverend hands out, or beats him in a drinking contest with Temerian rye. Once he opens up, Odo admits to a “gardening problem”: carnivorous echinopsae in his garden. Settling on a price ends with Geralt thoroughly drunk and heading out at midnight to deal with them. After the plants are dead, Odo pays 100 orens and scolds the witcher for fighting monsters drunk in the middle of the night.

Good to know

• Odo plays dice poker at novice level, so he is one of the opponents in Dice Poker: The Novice, which Zoltan Chivay sets up.
• His dog acts strangely, especially around the garden, and it is the only dog in the Outskirts that never turns into a barghest.