

When the witcher got to the auction house, Vimme Vivaldi introduced him to Horst, who was uncomfortable with the Witcher's presence, treating him with obnoxious disdain. One such wish was for Geralt to bring him the "house of Maximillian Borsodi", a casket with Horst's father's will. Horst Borsodi and masked Geralt in the vaultīefore O'Dimm could take Olgierd von Everec's soul as agreed between them all those years ago, he first had to fulfill his three wishes via proxy, that, through the whims of fate, turned out to be a witcher: Geralt of Rivia. It even got so far that he had a squadron of Redanian Guards to protect the auction house, while he did not have to pay taxes since Radovid gave him a taxation rate of zero percent in return for moving into Oxenfurt. Around this point, Olgierd also learned that Horst was not the legitimate owner of the auction house.ĭuring the 1270s, Horst succeeded to get into Radovid V's inner circle, mostly by selling war bounty on his auction. Some of the von Everec family's possessions were sold on the auctions, to the dismay of Olgierd he later gathered up enough resources, with the help of Gaunter O'Dimm, to get the Von Everec Estate back. When Olgierd heard about this, he ran to Horst pleading for mercy and tearing his shirt dramatically, but it brought him nothing as Borsodi shut the doors in front of him. He demanded his money back immediately, but when they could not pay, Horst confiscated all of their property. Sometime after becoming a head of the family, Horst witnessed the downfall of the von Everecs, a noble family. Ewald was thusly expelled from the family and cast out on to the streets, destitute. In his will, Maximilian left the auction house to Ewald, but Horst decided that Ewald was unfit to continue their father's business, arguing that he spent all the money they earned for prostitutes and alcohol, so he cheated his brother and took the auction house for himself. This caused a rift between Horst and his father, and also contributed to Ewald being their father's favourite son. Unlike his father, he was not opened to many things and believed that the auction house was more of a place for meetings of the local elite, not only a source of coins.

While Ewald was more of a rogue and womanizer, Horst became pompous, strict and self-centered. Even though they were of the same blood, their personalities were very different and soon enough they developed an animosity. He grew side by side with his brother, Ewald. Horst Borsodi was born in Novigrad to Maximilian Borsodi and his partner into a large and, at the time, already rich Borsodi family.
