Then PAX Prime, last year we did a huge stage presence. We have a base where we have a very much, a very personal connection to the fans. Mark Darrah: Yes, we did have a really big presence at PAX. One, why is that important to you and two, has it been useful now that you're going into the rest of development? Obviously, really substantial and a big substantial fan response to it as well. I wasn't there, but it was interesting to observe. I was going to ask, just to broaden the range a little bit, you guys have had a big presence at PAX. We're not done with the wardens, but yes, they have limitations from how they can be used. We've established a lot of this and there's a certain amount of expectation set up from Dragon Age: Origins. To this is their purpose, they will do nearly anything in order to do that. The wardens are-as we'll go into Inquisition to some degree-they have one purpose: to fight blights, To fight darkspawn, to fight blights to a fanatical degree.
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PC Gamer: Was the reasoning behind coming up with a new faction then so the players could maybe put their own spin on it and determine more about it? For example if you tried to tell this story starring a warden commander then you would be bound to that previous amount of the fiction that's already been established. There's someone that's tugging on the string and maybe pushing the chaos a bit farther. In this case, more than in Dragon Age: Origins, there's the hints and the scent that there's a public master behind this. Someone needs to come in to do what needs to be done. As the warden in Dragon Age: Origins, you're standing apart. He can't allow the Orlesians to come in to help. To him, Orlais is ultimately a bigger threat than the blight. Loghain in Dragon Age: Origins is someone who is doing something bad, but he's doing it because from his perspective it's the right thing to do. One of the overarching things of Dragon Age has always been that people do bad things, but for good reasons and that it takes someone outside of the situation to do good things in that situation. It does what needs to be done to fix the world essentially. Something stands apart or above the politics. In a lot of ways the inquisition is similar to the wardens in that way. Mark Darrah: Yes, that's a very good observation. Also, having something about yourself that allows you to interact with evil in a particular way. You're still a part of an organization that's almost neutral, a third party to a lot of the conflicts in the world. PC Gamer: It's a new direction for the narrative, but it sounds like there are a lot of echoes of who the warden is. This gives you additional influence on the world and additional ability to demand respect, demand that people listen to you, because you can do something no one else can. You have a remnant of this explosion in your hand that actually allows you to close these fade rifts that are around the world. You're pounding down the gates of a castle and demanding that they come onto your side.Īlso, surviving this calamity has actually given you powers that other people don't have. You're not walking into a camp and begging for help. You are acting upon it, both because you have an organization at your back. You aren't waiting for the world to act upon you. This isn't about being a Jedi, this is about founding the Jedi order. In this case it's much more about putting the inquisitor at the head of an organization that you're reestablishing. The story is very much about him reacting to the world pushing on him. Mark Darrah: In Dragon Age 2 Hawke is really a leaf in the wind. Mark Darrah: Apart from Alistair, who doesn't want to pick up the mantle for his own reasons. In Dragon Age: Origins you are a member of the wardens, but in a lot of ways you are the last surviving warden or at least the last surviving warden on the ground when he's needed.
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Mark Darrah: Because we're going back to full races there's going to be a significant difference in background between the different potential inquisitors. They have specific ways in which they have their own identity. PC Gamer: What is different about the inquisitor? In each case, the player puts a tremendous stamp on who they are. We basically are trying to tell the story in the best way possible, rather than trying to have an arc for a single character. When we have a character, these events are big and world-shaking. When we started this franchise, what we really wanted to always be doing was telling the story of the world, as opposed to the story of a single character.
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