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The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings eGuide (Steam)
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Contents

  • Essentials
    • How to Think Like a Witcher

      • Dodging
      • Sword Types
      • Blocking and Countering
      • Using Signs
      • Witcher’s Tricks
      • Alchemy Boosts
      • Critical Effects
      • Adrenaline
    • How to Equip a Witcher

      • Items
      • Crafting
    • How to Build a Witcher

      • Gaining Experience
      • Leveling Up
      • Skills
      • Character Attributes
    • Cast of Characters 

      • Geralt of Rivia
      • Triss Merigold
      • Letho
      • Vernon Roche
      • Iorveth
      • Shilard Fitz-Oesterlen
      • Dandelion
      • Zoltan Chivay
      • Bernard Loredo
      • Dethmold
    • Video Strategy
      • Video Strategy - Videos
    • Steam Exclusive
      • Concept Art
      • Wallpaper
  • Walkthrough
    • Planning Your Game

      • Major Decisions
      • Quests
      • Difficulty Level
    • Prologue

      • Day of the Assault: Dawn
      • Day of the Assault: Morning
      • Day Of The Assault: Noon
      • Day of the Assault: Afternoon
      • Day of the Assault: Evening
      • After The Escape
    • Flotsam

      • The Town Guard
      • The Inn
      • Inn Merchants
      • Guard House
      • Louis Merse
      • Blue Stripes Headquarters

      • Town Square Merchants
      • Points of Interest
      • Mysterious Merchant

      • Nonhuman District
      • Berthold

      • Einar
 Gausel
      • Cedric

      • Sendler

      • Anezka

      • How to Win in Dice Poker

      • How to Win at Arm-Wrestling

      • A Sword For Monsters
      • Bandit’s Hideout Key

    • Vergen (Iorveth)


      • When You’re Not Geralt

      • Points of Interest
      • Merchants
      • Subterranean Life
      • The Beaver Cap

      • Where is Triss Merigold?
    • The Kaedweni Camp (Roche)

      • The Kaedweni Camp (Roche)
      • Merchants
      • Points of Interest
      • Poker Face: Kaedweni Camp
      • Infinite Harpies

      • Vergen
      • Answer List 

    • Loc Muinne (Iorveth)

      • Loc Muinne (Iorveth)
      • Ilona

      • Aryan La Valette

      • Merchants
      • Points of Interest
      • The Secrets of Loc Muinne
      • From A Bygone Era
    • Loc Muinne (Roche)

      • Loc Muinne (Roche)
      • Ilona

      • Aryan La Valette

      • Merchants
      • Points of Interest
      • The Right to Bear Arms (If No One Catches You)

      • From A Bygone Era
    • Endings Guide

      • Endings Guide

    • Dark Mode

      • Surviving Dark Mode

      • Chapter by Chapter 

      • Build Advice

      • Dark Sets

    • Arena Mode

      • Arena Mode

      • General Facts

      • Fights and Rewards 

      • Companions

      • Build Advice
      • Final Tips

    • Achievements

      • Achievements

    • Geralt’s Lovers

      • Triss

      • Ves

      • Mottle

      • Succubus

      • Cynthia

      • Brothel

      • Camp Followers

      • The Untouchables

    • Bestiary

      • Drowners
      • Nekkers

      • Endregas

      • Rotfiends

      • Wraiths

      • Harpies 

      • Arachasae
      • Bullvore

      • Trolls

      • Elementals

      • True Golem

      • Gargoyles

      • Werewolves

      • Draugirs

      • Kayran

      • Draug

      • Dragon 

    • Items Compendium

      • Steel Swords

      • Additional Weapons

      • Silver Swords

      • Armor

      • Trousers

      • Boots 

      • Gauntlets

      • Ranged Weapons

      • Oils

      • Runes

      • Armor Enhancements

      • Potions

      • Traps

      • Bombs

      • Books

      • Trophies

      • Mutagens 

      • Lures

      • Junk

      • Alchemy Materials

      • Crafting Materials

      • Formulas

      • Diagrams


The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Guide (Steam) › Walkthrough › Flotsam


Einar
 Gausel

Einar Gausel
Item Price
Three Years Among the Endregas 64
Nekkers in the Mist 32
The Horrors of War: Rotfiends 64
Wraiths: Fear and Trembling 95
Drowners: A Textbook for Initiates of the Order of the Flaming Rose 32
The Kayran?A Monograph 251
The Temerian Royal Dynasty 64
Magic and Power 64
The Feudal Society and Its Enemies 64
The Viziman Uprising 64
The Temerian Special Forces 64
Minor Books (Random Selection) 64

Einar Gausel is the other important merchant in the Nonhuman District. He sells only books, most of which have no effect on quests but let you learn more about the game’s lore. Do note, though, that any book he sells that pertains to monsters can be read to give Geralt knowledge of that monster’s strengths and weaknesses. A few quests require that you acquire this knowledge in-game, either by slaying tons of the appropriate monster or buying the right book from Einar. It’s worth picking up his books about various monster types if you have cash to spare.

Einar is also a barber. That is, you can visit him and pay a few orens to change Geralt’s hairstyle into something else. Looting Einar’s shop lets you find a rare armor enhancement called the dwarven enhancement. It’s one of the few +2 enhancements easily available in the game, so stockpile it for later use. As a final note, you can get services from Einar at all hours, even if you have to wake him up in bed.

When you initially speak to Einar Gausel, he mentions that Síle de Tansarville purchased a book from him called De Vermis Mysteriis . This is a reference to an nonexistent book whose title would translate roughly as The Mysteries of the Worm . Early horror author H.P. Lovecraft incorporated it into his Cthulhu mythos tales, which has led to it being widely referenced in other works of fiction. Einar Gausel himself is also an homage, named after the real-life Norwegian chess master Einar Johan Gausel.

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