History Characters / TheWitcherOtherCharacters

* AffablyEvil: Gaunter tends to switch between this and FauxAffablyEvil but in general tends to be fairly benign or at least neutral towards normal people he hasn't set his sights on, or who haven't offended him in any way. Just make sure you're not in those categories, [[DealWithTheDevil other]][[DisproportionateRetribution wise...]]

* ArcherArchetype: He's a brilliant archer. He's no slouch with knives or sword, either, defeating the relentless Blue Stripes Commander in single combat if he's given his weapon by Geralt.

* CharacterDeath: They are broth brutally killed by Schirrú and Nazarian in Literature/TheTimeOfContempt.

* DangerousDeserter: Gishelher deserted from the Nilfgaard army after getting flogged and very quickly fell in with a gang. He went on to become the leader of the Rats.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Giselher assures two noblewomen his group is robbing that they don't fight or harm women. Ironic considering three of his comrades are women.

* HandsomeLech: Kayleigh is described as handsome but he has a dark look in his eyes and makes creepy advances on women. Not only does he try to take sexual advantage of Ciri, he also hits on a young girl his band's robbing.
* HonorBeforeReason: An ally of the group, Hotspurn, warns them that Bonhart is hunting for them and is close by. Despite knowing Bonhart's [[TheDreaded reputation]], when Hotspurn mentions how he dispatched a more impressive gang than them, the Rats are insulted and decide to confront Bonhart directly to prove they're the toughest gang around. To say this would be a mistake would be to put it mildly. Ciri's figures out too late that Hotspurn deliberately did this to arrange their fight with Bonhart.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Mistle scares off Kayleigh, who attempted to force himself on an emotionally drained Ciri... only to do so herself.

** The Rats are introduced wiping out the Nissirs, a mercenary gang infamous for raping and pillaging. Not for moral reasons, just because the Nissirs captured a comrade of theirs for the bounty.

* PerpetualFrowner: Both Giselher and Kayleigh are described as having faced twisted in a permanent grimace.

* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: They came from all parts of society - soldiers of opposing armies, peasants, nobles, even an elven exile.

* {{Hypocrite}}: For all his judgments and remarks about human cruelty and pettiness, and claim that he is merely a [[AboveGoodAndEvil mirror for others' morality]], he is actively unrepentantly cruel and petty himself, visibly taking sadistic pleasure from it as well, with a penchant for DisproportionateRetribution. Two of many such examples being his blinding, terrorizing, imprisoning, cursing and eventual murder of Professor Shakeslock merely for trying to investigate him and learn his true name, along with cursing Marlene de Trastamara to a FateWorseThanDeath as a spotted wight just for being rude and turning him away from her home, with him being the one instigating their fates, which have nothing to do with willingly making a deal with him as those like Olgierd have. And even in the case of said deals, he actively preys on desperate, troubled people and encourages them into making the dirty deals, to the point its possible the bad circumstances that lead them into making the deals may even be his doing.

* {{Hypocrite}}: For all his judgments and remarks about human cruelty and pettiness, and claim that he is merely a [[AboveGoodAndEvil mirror for others' morality]], he is actively unrepentantly cruel and petty himself, visibly taking sadistic pleasure from it as well, with a penchant for DisproportionateRetribution. Two of many such examples being his blinding, terrorizing, imprisoning, cursing and eventual murder of Professor Shakeslock merely for trying to investigate him and learn his true name, along with cursing Marlene de Trastamara to a FateWorseThanDeath as a spotted wight just for being rude and turning him away from her home, with him being the one instigating their fates, which have nothing to do with willingly making a deal with him as those like Olgierd have.

* {{Hypocrite}}: For all his judgments and remarks about human cruelty and pettiness, and claim that he is merely a [[AboveGoodAndEvil mirror for others' morality]], he is unrepentantly cruel and petty himself, visibly taking sadistic pleasure from it as well, with a penchant for DisproportionateRetribution. Two of many such examples being his blinding, terrorizing, imprisoning and cursing of Professor Shakeslock merely for trying to investigate him and learn his true name, along with cursing Marlene de Trastamara to a FateWorseThanDeath as a spotted wight just for being rude and turning him away from her home.

* {{Hypocrite}}: For all his judgments and remarks about human cruelty and pettiness, and claim that he is merely a mirror for others' morality, he is unrepentantly cruel and petty himself, with two of many such examples being his blinding, terrorizing, imprisoning and cursing of Professor Shakeslock merely for trying to investigate him and learn his true name, along with cursing Marlene de Trastamara to a FateWorseThanDeath as a spotted wight just for being rude and turning him away from her home.

* {{Hypocrite}}: For all his judgments and remarks about human cruelty and pettiness, and claim that he is merely a mirror for others' morality, he is unrepentantly cruel and petty himself, with two of many such examples being his blinding, terrorizing, imprisoning and cursing a Professor Shakeslock merely for trying to investigate him and learn his true name, along with cursing Marlene de Trastamara to a FateWorseThanDeath just for being rude to and turning him away from her home.

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I'd gladly kill you from up close, stare in your eyes... But you reek, human."'']]

* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Perhaps the closest we ever get to a substantial theory of his true nature is that he's, somehow, [[spoiler:an interactive avatar of the very concept of "Evil" itself". It also suggests that he may've visited our own world at times in the past, and that he gave birth to Earth legends of the Devil.]]

->'''Voiced by:''' Alec Newman (English)[[labelnote:additional [=VAs=]]]Alexander Hoshabaev (Russian)[[/labelnote]]

* AintTooProudToBeg: [[spoiler: Not that it helps him. ]]

->'''Voiced by:''' Anastasia Travers (English)[[labelnote:additional [=VAs=]]]Elena Ivasishina (Russian), Blanche Ravalec (French)[[/labelnote]]

->'''Voiced by:''' Mark Frost (English)[[labelnote:additional [=VAs=]]]Sergey Smirnov (Russian), Martial Le Minoux (French)[[/labelnote]]

->'''Voiced by:''' Alex Norton (English)[[labelnote:additional [=VAs=]]]Stanislav Strelkov (Russian), Frédéric van den Driessche (French)[[/labelnote]]

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Not only is he the leader of the Salamandra, he’s also the most powerful mage ''and'' fighter in the whole organization.

* KickTheSonOfABitch:
** The Rats are introduced wiping out the Nissirs, a mercenary gang infamous for raping and pillaging. Not for moral reasons, just because the Nissirs captured a comrade of theirs for the bounty.
** Later on, the group's on the receiving end of this when they're slaughtered by Leo Bonhart, who's far more evil than they are, but is only interested in the bounties on their heads.

* RagsToRiches: Virtually nothing is known about her past except that she was an insignificant orphan that no one would miss. By the end of the novels, [[spoiler: she becomes the Empress of Nilfgaard and inherits the throne of Cintra since everyone thinks she's the real Ciri.]]

* StockholmSyndrome: She's abducted and forced to pretend that she's the real Ciri, but grows to view Countess Stella Congreve, who trains her on court etiquette, as a maternal figure, and asks that Emhyr allow her to remain with the Countess as her one request.

* EvilSoundsDeep: ''Very'' deep. Also counts as BadassBaritone.

* FantasticRacism: Averted. Compared to his fellow knights he is very reasonable and gladly helps out Geralt even though he's technically non-human. He doesn't even seem that hateful of any non-Yaevinn Scoiatael, going so far as to show pity to the starving rebels he fought. Played straight when siding with the Elves and sometimes on the Neutral Path.

* EvilSoundsDeep: Averted in the English dub, where he sounds quite high and nasal, played straight in the German dub.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler: Averted. If the witcher helps with fulfilling Olgierd's contract, O'Dimm releases Geralt from his service as agreed.]]