The Dimirs

"You should be thanking us. We are helping, making things easier for all of you. Oh, it is so easy to call us evil, to call us monsters... But you cannot do anything about it. You will not. Your leaders will not. You cannot wash your hands of us. You need us. Your world needs us - to do what you cannot do! You need us!"

- Olga The Dimirs are a mother-son team of butchers operating out of a decaying homestead in the Transylvanian forest; though they apparently used to be a much larger family, they now consist only of the aging matriarch Olga and her mentally-handicapped son Silviu.

Though they are technically questgivers, this is only because the player immediately decides that their butchering operations cannot be tolerated: though supposedly "poor farmers," the family have been unable to raise crops in the increasingly polluted soil and have no experience in agriculture anyway; their real vocations involves hunting, killing, butchering and eating supernatural creatures.

Despite having no supernatural traits and almost no supporters outside their immediate family, the Dimirs have managed to prove a consistent threat to the magical creatures of the forest: though they have been able to cut down on local ghoul populations, they have also murdered hundreds of innocent fairies, blajini and fauns, justifying each murder with xenophobic rhetoric concerning "the lesser races." It is this savage behavior that makes the Dimirs almost unbearable to the locals - and to just about anyone else visiting their secluded farm. Even the Illuminati find them difficult to stomach.

Abattoir Philosophy
Having remained in the shadows ever since they began the operation, the history of the Dimirs remains unknown. Olga claims that their family have been butchering magical creatures for generations, and there is nothing to suggest that she is lying. However, the presence of an abandoned Red Hand bunker under their farmhouse suggests that they only moved to their current location in the years following the collapse of the Soviet Union. It is not known how the family became so depleted, though the hazards of their trade likely resulted in several casualties, especially given that the Dimirs are brazen enough to hunt werewolves; this is possibly the fate of Silviu's father, given that Olga's letters claim that he went out one day and never came back. Of course, Olga also mentions that he was infected with syphilis, indicating another cause of death altogether.

More well-known is their philosophy, which Olga insists on voicing as loudly and angrily as possible: to the Dimirs, supernatural beings cannot be trusted or tolerated in any form; to the family, the magical world is populated exclusively by "lesser races" fit only to be exterminated before they can corrupt humanity. They make no differentiation between the harmless Blajini and the marauding ghoul tribes, capturing and murdering both. More disturbingly, they also enjoy the taste of these creatures, noting the "excellent stew" that can be made from the Fata Padurii; ghouls are the family's primary prey, with their forest abattoir being constantly festooned with freshly-made strings of ghoul sausage.

The Dimirs do not appear to consider this behavior reprehensible or even unusual, becoming offended at even the faintest notion that they might be doing something criminal: after all, they claim, the victims of the hunt weren't human, so it "obviously" wasn't a crime. Grandiose and vain, they insist that they should be thanked for killing magical creatures, claiming that the safety of the human world depends entirely on their depredations and that local factions know it - hence the reason why they haven't been driven out of business by the Draculestii or the Big Three; in reality, it's more likely that these factions are too preoccupied with saving the world to bother with the Dimirs.

In keeping with their self-image as righteous defenders of humanity, the Dimirs restrict their crimes to non-human victims: Olga is outraged to discover that their family has been suspected of kidnapping children, and Silviu refuses to attack the player on the grounds that "people are not for sausages" - though he doesn't sound very sure of this. However, along with these standards, they also demonstrate a prominent hypocritical streak: though they supposedly disparage relationships with supernatural entities of any kind, the current hunting plan relies on the help of a pet ghoul called Patches.

Olga
The matriarch of the family and the brains behind the butchering operation, Olga dominates every aspect of life on the farm.