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Meet Hagador, the main character of "The One-Horned Heretic."
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Meet Hagador, the main character of "The One-Horned Heretic."

He's an impatient drunk with little sense of self-preservation whose past and present are fraught with trauma. We love him.

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I’m an absolute sucker for the big guy/grumpy old man trope. Give me a big softy who protects himself with a hard outer shell. Give me a silent, gruff anti-hero who helps people but won’t make a big deal about it. Give me Geralt, give me Mando, give. me. Joel. Traumatized middle-aged men make the best anti-heroes, I don’t know what to tell you.

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