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Post by nunziodefilippis on Jan 3, 2019 23:52:08 GMT
I certainly can't speak to Bioware's future plans for the Venatori. But to me, they're pretty evil, and it'd be hard to redeem the name into something better. Not saying Calpernia's evil - she's that perfect Dragon Age shade of grey. But the Venatori? I think of them as pretty bad.
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Post by nunziodefilippis on Jan 3, 2019 21:58:21 GMT
Interesting that Francesca wasn’t originally going to join the group. I’m glad that she did. While I like Calix and Olivia, I found her being the character introduced in Deception that I was most interested in seeing more of. Sometimes when we write, we discover things that surprise us. Francesca was built to be a complication - the crimes of Calix and Olivia catching up with them at exactly the wrong time (the break-in). As we wrote her, we realized we wanted to do more with her, so we restructured the final issue to change her role and have her leave with the team. There was something intriguing about someone desperate to prove her worth to her family, unaware that her family is made up of the bad guys. Sort of a less noxious Draco Malfoy, I guess.
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Post by nunziodefilippis on Dec 29, 2018 5:13:36 GMT
Sean Teale was who we suggested as a model for Calix, so I hear his voice when we write Calix' lines, even though Calix is a bit goofier than Marcos in the Gifted. nunziodefilippis Is that what the artist went with in the final version? So Calix is not meant to be South Asian? Or non-white at all? Sean Teale is of Venezuelan and Spanish descent (with some Welsh thrown in as well), so he's definitely not white. The artist's final version of Calix is his own creation, but I see traces of Sean Teale's features in there, so I think our suggestion influenced the design, but isn't at the heart of it.
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Post by nunziodefilippis on Dec 29, 2018 0:34:13 GMT
I’m curious what voices Christina and Nunzio have in mind for Ser Aaron and the various characters in Deception now. Ser Aaron's prototype in our gaming campaign was much younger and visualized as Nathan Fillion. So now, I picture Fillion doing a British accent and sounding a bit older and worn for wear. But Christina hears the voice of Colm Wilkinson (the original Valjean from the musical version of Les Miserables), and that works very well for me too. Olivia's voice is Diane Lane, as she was our inspiration for her. Sean Teale was who we suggested as a model for Calix, so I hear his voice when we write Calix' lines, even though Calix is a bit goofier than Marcos in the Gifted. Francesca we don't have a specific voice actor in mind for. Anyone want to suggest any options?
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Post by nunziodefilippis on Dec 28, 2018 22:22:15 GMT
The question in the other thread was asked because players/readers are suspecting that Calix is a human "Zevran". A promiscuous bisexual and to add to the repeat, a promiscuous bisexual with a preference for women especially. Hanako had originally held him up as the first Promiscuous STRAIGHT person, as he's only obviously chasing skirts in the comic. But there is apparently a single panel of dialogue with a random guard-- "what a night!" -- that implies* that Calix maybe boffed the guard. *only if you're looking for it I guess, I don't even remember this panel and very much felt like Calix was just a young horny teenager type that would bang any girl if he had the chance after his restricted life of slavery. I don't even think he's promiscuous. Wasn't looking for it as much as it being a standard way to subtly reveal homosexual inclinations in literally all media ever by offhandedly including it in one scene (or in this case one panel). I suppose it takes someone who has been exposed to it enough, as I picked it up right away, especially with that cheeky grin that Calix had in the very same panel. But I'm not hinging on it. It could very well been an "act" (they are rogues after all). So yea... another Zevran. When we wrote that panel, our thought was that the night in question was about hooking the guard up with fun - buying him drinks/getting him drunk, and maybe even getting him laid. But not being the one to have sex with the guard. Now, since we didn't specify, I suppose we could revisit it one say and say it meant something else. But that's our current thinking. Sorry for the unintended implication of bisexuality.
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Post by nunziodefilippis on Dec 28, 2018 22:16:57 GMT
nunziodefilippis It came up in another conversation elsewhere in the thread, but I was wondering if you could please tell us what sexual orientations you and Christina had in mind for Calix and Francesca when writing them? I know you said Ser Aaron was straight and Vaea so far isn’t sexually attracted to anything, so hopefully you could clarify the two new members to this party. In our mind, Calix is straight. He has no idea how to form a healthy relationship, but is relatively convinced it's women he's into. Clearly, he sees no difference between hitting on a human female and an elven one, and I suspect that would extend to Qunari and Dwarven females as well (though right now, he'd probably not be all that interested in a Qunari). Francesca? Not sure yet. When we first plotted the miniseries, we didn't plan for Francesca to join the group, so we hadn't mapped her out as much. She has a type, as her brother suggests Calix fits that type - so she's attracted to men. Not sure if she's bisexual. She might be, but I'd need to discuss with Christina.
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Post by nunziodefilippis on Dec 28, 2018 22:09:33 GMT
Vaea's cute nose and little ponytail, like if you agree! I really LOVE this. Wow!
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Post by nunziodefilippis on Dec 13, 2018 16:53:37 GMT
So... what the hell was Vaea so upset about? Because Ser Aaron wouldn't quit drinking? He's her mentor, and partner, and a bit of a father figure. If your "father" is an alcoholic, and he quits drinking, and then falls off the wagon, that's pretty upsetting. When he falls off the wagon, and you say "but you promised me..." and he says "you're not reason enough to quit" it hurts a lot more. It's not so much the drinking as what him quitting drinking represents. At the end of Knight Errant they make a pact with each other to help each other out since as the writers said they need each other, and part of that was Aaron quits drinking. Aaron is a man who always keeps his word and never wants to let people down, but then the only time he breaks his word is with Vaea which even becomes worse when he says things like "Maybe you're not inspiration enough". To someone who saw AAron as inspiration and changed her life because of it and him only breaking the promise he made with her, it felt like a betrayal. What Hanako said.
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Post by nunziodefilippis on Dec 13, 2018 16:50:50 GMT
Deaths to people I met an hour ago are pretty meaningless to me. Well, a couple of things in response to that. The first is that hopefully, you've spent more than an hour. Comics certainly can be "binge-read" by downloading all issues once a mini is complete, or reading a collected version. But as an art form, they were designed to come out in regular installments, and the time between issues is part of how we process them. Three issues of a miniseries should mean you spent two months with the story and the characters. There may be writers who "write for the trade" and write a comic assuming it'll be read all at once. Christina and I have never done that. Still, we know that many people read that way, and our writing needs to work for everyone, so the larger point stands: you say you can't invest in a character enough in an hour to make that character's death meaningful. That brings me to my second point. I don't think that's true. If it were, you'd never have cared about the death of anyone who didn't make it through most of the movie they were in. Ben Kenobi in Star Wars: A New Hope? Only in the movie for about an hour. Captain Dallas in Alien? About an hour. Mufasa in Lion King? About 30 minutes. The wife in Up? About 3 minutes. Each of these deaths (and many more) impacted the audience despite the audience having spent about an hour, and often a lot less, with them. I get wanting a deep dive in your stories, and favoring novels. I totally do. But I don't think you should dismiss the power of a death that comes a bit faster, in a form that doesn't allow that deep of a dive. Those deaths impacted people. The death in our book didn't impact you. I think the blame there needs to fall not on the format, but on our writing. It didn't work for you, and I'm sorry for that. I just don't want you giving up on a medium (comics) and a format (short miniseries) that holds a lot of potential great stories because this one didn't impact as much as you'd have liked.
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Post by nunziodefilippis on Dec 13, 2018 3:52:41 GMT
Well, I enjoyed that and am definitely looking forward to wherever this goes next! I like that the remaining characters have accidentally formed a proper Dragon Age party with a tank, a mage and a couple of rogues. And a dog!
Really looking forward to House Danarius. (Whatever medium that gets followed up in.) Glad you enjoyed it. And that party composition was not an accident. Christina and I are building a bit by design. Though right now, this group also includes Tessa and Marius. Mr nunziodefilippis , if I may ask, why are Gaius' eyes red/reddish in some panels? is it just their natural color in some lightings, an art choice? I ask because red lyrium .. It was an artists' choice. However, I'm not opposed to the idea that he had a little of the Red Lyrium's influence still affecting him (not Bartrand level, but still). Something to think about, I suppose... Solas plan usually work better when he involves himself on the execution of them. That's true of most people's plans, sadly. The larger the number of people involved, the more likely someone will screw it up. Thank you for the response. I have some questions too and I hope you can answer them: What happened to Dorian? Is he safe? Did he managed to escape? As mentioned below, we'd never kill Dorian. His fate after our mini, however, is out of our hands. Thank you for the response. I have some questions too and I hope you can answer them: He already answered this question. See Page 15 of this thread.
"Not to worry - Bioware wouldn't let us kill Dorian. Not sure what his fate is beyond our story, though..." But i have one. Why isn´t Deception included in the Dragon Age Libary Edition Volume 2?
And just out of curiosity how many pages have Deception in total?
I don´t expect that this enough to justify Dragon Age Libery Edition Volume 3 alone. Then we'd need other stuff to fill out Library Edition Volume 3. Can't say for sure that will happen, but that is certainly our hope. I know that Olivia is dead or is she still alive? Definitely dead
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Post by nunziodefilippis on Dec 12, 2018 20:20:55 GMT
Oooooo.... I guess that kills the debate. And the rumor of an Evanuris working all along just as Solas was I was going to start dies with it. Sorry - wasn't trying to kill debate. Debating is what makes fandom fun! Just wanted my (and Christina's) intentions to be made clear, where possible. It's always up for debate whether those intentions work, or if they were pulled off well.
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Post by nunziodefilippis on Dec 12, 2018 17:40:55 GMT
Couple of responses: On Calix: Yep, he's an idiot. And yep, this is his origin story. We wrote this as his story hidden as his mentor's story (which is why we opened Issue 1 with a flash forward to her final moments, and why after Issue 1, Olivia's voiceover style captions drop out). Olivia's death will change him going forward.
On Gaius (the fake Magister Qintara): He has been reporting to Fen'Harel. But that doesn't mean he's ever met him, nor that Solas has the slightest idea of how Gaius or other of his agents refer to him. Just as Vaea works for the Inquisition but has never met the Inquisitor, Gaius was recruited by an agent who was themselves likely recruited by an agent. He was a slave his whole life, and while he is thrilled to be working for an ancient god reawakened, he doesn't have training in exactly what that entails - he's just been giving information to his fellow agents. I can say with absolute certainty... Fen'Harel would not even have approved of the trading of the weapon for information. But Gaius' mandate was information, so when the weapon was in his hands, he saw it as just another tool to get that information.
As to the weapon... you'll have to wait and see what it is. But we've been setting this particular MacGuffin in motion since the first issue of Knight Errant.
Lastly, Slim... Ser Aaron is not a noble. He's landless and doesn't even have a coat of arms or crest that'd be recognizable. The pendant Olivia stole from Ser Aaron has an image of a Mabari on it. In Ferelden, that's hardly a unique symbol. So what Slim bought was a pendant given by the King to someone, with no real indication which of dozens of minor nobles it could have been. So he bought it. But only afterwards did he realize that Alistair had given a pendant like that to Ser Aaron, and that Olivia had been seen with Ser Aaron.
And stealing from a landless Knight who stands up for the common people at every turn goes against everything Slim Couldry stands for.
And yeah, Olivia knew he'd eventually realize this, so she chose to steal from Couldry instead of Aaron.
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Post by nunziodefilippis on Dec 8, 2018 2:20:20 GMT
nunziodefilippis I'm curious about the design choice for Vaea's eyes. It is a minor change for the elves' anatomy, but a surprising one regardless. And what about Uncle Coran's vallaslin? Is that a new design? It reminds me of Tamlen's, but it's slightly different. Vaea's eyes were an artist's choice. I don't believe they represent a shift in how elven anatomy works. So far as I know, anyway. As for Coran's vallaslin, I think they are meant to be in the same pattern as Tamlen. However, I admit that Christina and I were focused on him not having them in his first scene and having gained them by his second, so we didn't specify the pattern for the artist and in retrospect I wish I had. There's another character that we've been talking about (for something I cannot discuss) whose vallaslin we got very specific about, because every detail matters in such a lore-driven world.
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Post by nunziodefilippis on Dec 1, 2018 7:45:25 GMT
how old are Olivia and Calix? We know Vaea is 21 and Aaron has to be in his fifties, but we don't really have an idea for those two? Ser Aaron is 57 years old. Vaea is 21. As to the new characters in DECEPTION: • Olivia would never reveal her real age. But (and she'd kill me for telling) she's in her late 40s. • Calix is 23 years old. • Autumn was a puppy when Ser Aaron and Olivia met, 7 years ago, so she's between 7 and 8 years old now. • Francesca is in her early 20s, probably around 22 or 23. Her brother Florian was a couple of years older, so probably 25 when he died.
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Post by nunziodefilippis on Nov 30, 2018 20:39:39 GMT
In regards to Vaea's speaking voice, the ideal voice actor (in my mind) is Freema Agyeman. She is who we sent as a reference photo during the character design stage. And while the design doesn't really look like her, and I quite like how she does look, in my head I still hear Freema's voice (as I heard during her time in Doctor Who, since I know she's sounded different in other shows) whenever we're writing Vaea's dialogue.
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Post by nunziodefilippis on Nov 30, 2018 3:16:03 GMT
Lace Harding would probably be Vaea's best friend in the entire world. And she'd probably want Lace and Ser Aaron to meet, as she'd think they were perfect for each other (if a little mismatched in age and height). Lace and Aaron huh? Laaron? Aarace? The H&H Connection? I would love to see this. Aaron is a good man and deserves someone to make him happy, and I can see Lace being that person. Plus it would be adorable to see Vaea try to play matchmaker. Speaking of, you probably can’t answer this but if your characters were added to a game would you want them to be love interests and if so what would that look like? For example who would they be available to, how would the romance be, etc? If they were in a game, I'm not sure if/how romance would play out for Vaea. I'd want her to be a love interest, I think, because they get great story and great scenes. But we're still figuring her out on the romance/attraction front. As for Ser Aaron, he's heterosexual. In the early stages of plotting DECEPTION, we had Calix and Olivia's roles switched, which is to say Pryde was a man, and the young con artist posing as a Qintara was a woman. So I was playing around with the concept of Ser Aaron's great lost love being a man who conned him years ago. But I never really pitched that, not even to Christina, and before I got a chance to, Bioware suggested we swap the genders on our con artists. They felt like Ser Aaron and Vaea had an "older male mentor with younger female student" vibe and they thought it'd be more interesting to flip genders this time. So once the flip happened, I pitched the connection between Aaron and Pryde, and it was a heterosexual one. And the way I look at him, Ser Aaron's a bit linear in his thinking. If he's attracted to men, then he's attracted only to men. And since it's women, then it's only women. So now that he's heterosexual, we figure he's exclusively hetero. He's not linear when it comes to race, though. He'd be open to romance with any race, if the game had racial choices for the Player Character. If he were in a game, and if Olivia were not in it as well, then I'd want him to be romanceable by any female PC, but only with broad sweeping gestures. He'd need someone who acts big, thinks romantically, and does only good things. Lead characters who do too many "evil for the greater good" actions would lose him, not just as a romance, but as a companion.
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Post by nunziodefilippis on Nov 29, 2018 18:23:51 GMT
We'll love them both regardless. It just feels like... something is being set up. You probably already know what happens to them next, but we'll wait for the surprise.
I know some, but not a lot. When we talk with Bioware, they talk about the direction the world is heading in, and so we might be able to guess some things about what might be in a new game from that. But they don't tell us specific plans, so we don't even know for certain if and when there will be a new game - just where the world is heading.
I don't suppose you have some stories with them you can share from that pen and paper where they came into existence? I kinda... want more
Well, how well do you know the world of the game Seventh Sea? It's a swashbuckling adventure game from AEG that uses a fictional world built from archetypes from folklore and history around the world (mostly European, but they have a couple of nations to try to expand the scope). The timeline is compressed so adventurous tales from those times all coexist: pirates, the knights of the round table, fairies, Zorro, you name it. I was the GM (called the Storyteller in that system) and the story started with a pirate ship seeking a fabled treasure and wove a tale of how each of the PCs was a destined figure, key to prophecies that would either move the world forward into a new era, or unleash magics upon it that would kill everyone (the prophecy was super vague). Christina's character was a female explorer whose brother ran off with the pirates to start the treasure hunt, and she later learned he did it to prevent her from playing her role in the prophecy. Aaron was a member of an order of wandering knights called the Knights of the Rose & Cross, who simply do go deeds wherever they go. Vaea was his Squire. In their first few encounters with the group, Aaron came off as a drunk buffoon with Vaea doing all the good deeds. Later in the game, it was revealed that both were working for a fallen prophet who wanted the PCs to succeed but for them to choose their path for themselves, so Aaron and Vaea were not supposed to tell them much, but rather make sure they had the support they needed to do the right thing on their own accord.
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Post by nunziodefilippis on Nov 29, 2018 18:11:09 GMT
I was expecting this. Too bad Calpernia (at least for me) isn´t a villian or even a bad character such someone who made a terrible mistake. Just someone who has been used. Her Goals to free all the Slaves and reform Tevinter are admirable.
A tragic hero indeed.
With luck, Vaea won't hear about her before they meet.
Yeah, I really like Calpernia for exactly those reasons. But the way we write Vaea, she can be a little harsh when she feels someone has failed or is bad. I think once she knows and cares about you, she can see her way to understand the mistakes you've made. But if she knows the mistakes first and the person second, she may close up.
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Post by nunziodefilippis on Nov 29, 2018 17:44:02 GMT
Don´t be greedy. But Vaeas opionion on Tallis, Maevaris Tilani, Scout Lace Harding and of course Calpernia would be interessing. And thats more than enough.
Maevaris lives her truth, and Vaea would absolutely admire that about her. I suspect they'd get along well. Calpernia's choices in Inquisition are not something Vaea would forgive easily if she knew about them. So if they met before that knowledge came, then I think they'd get along great and then Vaea would have some thinking to do when it was revealed. But if she found out that truth first, I'm afraid she wouldn't give Calperia much chance to make a better impression. Lace Harding would probably be Vaea's best friend in the entire world. And she'd probably want Lace and Ser Aaron to meet, as she'd think they were perfect for each other (if a little mismatched in age and height). And, no it's not greedy to ask about all companions. Give me time to talk with Christina and I'll get back to you.
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Post by nunziodefilippis on Nov 29, 2018 17:29:59 GMT
If Vaea had any inkling of the price Solas' plan would incur, she wouldn't entertain it for a second. While she's training with Ser Aaron, she started from a moral place where any killing was wrong, and probably will never stray too far from that. I think any plan that causes so much death would be inherently unacceptable to her. Tallis would be interesting to Vaea. She'd see certain common skills and would admire her. But as she came to know Tallis, she'd probably be a little unsure how to understand her. I think the Qun is anathema to someone like Vaea. She is a big proponent of personal choice, and being who you want to be. She'd see someone submitting to the Qun as someone stepping away from their own autonomy, and I don't think that would ever make sense to her.
Does this mean that the scenario of her becoming a companion in a potential future DA game is, in theory, possible, as she is now a combatant?
I like her more and more. Something about Elves in these games, I liked Merrill, I liked Sera, and now Vaea. I've faith there's a fourth game in the making, and that she's in it.
In story, Vaea is training with Ser Aaron because as an agent of the Inquisition, she needs to defend herself. In the real world, Christina and I made that choice to open up stories for her in potential future comics, not necessarily because of game considerations. Truth is, the plan when we create these characters is to make characters for the comics, and take them through journeys in this universe we love so much. I genuinely don't know if them appearing in any hypothetical future games is even remotely possible, much less in anyone's plans for those games, if they happen. So we approach the comics as an ongoing saga exploring new characters by connecting them to existing ones and existing stories/locations/problems. Which means, for us, the big goal is to do more stories with Vaea, Ser Aaron, and the people they meet in these miniseries.
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Post by nunziodefilippis on Nov 29, 2018 6:26:25 GMT
Thanks again. I know that Vaea would hate Solas but do you see even a small possibility that Solas can convince her to join him? I also hope that Fenris and Vaea will meet sometime.
Tallis would also be interessing. And if you don´t mind what would Vaea think about Tallis. I mean they both quite similar.
If Vaea had any inkling of the price Solas' plan would incur, she wouldn't entertain it for a second. While she's training with Ser Aaron, she started from a moral place where any killing was wrong, and probably will never stray too far from that. I think any plan that causes so much death would be inherently unacceptable to her. Tallis would be interesting to Vaea. She'd see certain common skills and would admire her. But as she came to know Tallis, she'd probably be a little unsure how to understand her. I think the Qun is anathema to someone like Vaea. She is a big proponent of personal choice, and being who you want to be. She'd see someone submitting to the Qun as someone stepping away from their own autonomy, and I don't think that would ever make sense to her.
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Post by nunziodefilippis on Nov 29, 2018 6:20:42 GMT
The comics use the default canon for Bioware. So as a couple of examples: Alistair is King and Fenris is alive. We use that continuity, and then the comics are considered canon inasmuch as it fits your save file. So if the comic feature King Alistair but your universe has Queen Anora, you'd assume the events would be similar but altered based on that fact. If a character who is dead in your save appears in a comic, you should assume the events of the comic would transpire in a similar way, but without that character in it. If that makes sense. Of course it does. Thank you for the explanation. Please correct me if i am wrong but you don´t use so much in the Comics? Dorian and Varric have the same fates and backgrounds in all of the player world states. Dorian is a Magister and Varric is the current Vicomte of Kirkwall.
Is there a possibility that you can use this more in the future? For example Bethany Hawke. Even the former Bioware Author David Gaider had played with this idea. I think, in general, working with pieces of lore that are accurate for everyone makes the story more accessible for all fans. That having been said, as a writer, you're drawn to the characters who interest you and sometimes with a franchise like Dragon Age, those are ones whose fate is variable. Bethany is a big favorite of mine, and I'd love to write her. I think I'd be hesitant because (unlike Fenris whose story is generally the same, only with very different endings) the variations are so radically different from one another (died in the Blight, died in the Deep Roads, became a Grey Warden, joined the Circle). It'd be trickier to feel like I wrote her "right," you know? Still, with the right story, I'd be onboard.
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Post by nunziodefilippis on Nov 28, 2018 23:33:34 GMT
Thanks but you forgot the most important one Solas. Mistake or intention? Also it would be interesting what Vaea thinks of Merrill and Fenris. And just for Fun Isabela and Zevran. Especially Zevran could be juicy.
Did I forget Solas...? My bad. One thing her uncle taught her was that people who think they're the one to fix the world can lead to major trouble. I think if she knew the truth about Solas, she'd hate him a lot. But the Solas who was an apostate who talked about spirits? She'd find him odd and a bit smug, but wouldn't hate him. She just wouldn't want to talk to him all that much. ---- Merrill is sweet and naive, and I think Vaea would respond well to that, but wouldn't really know how to truly befriend her as a result. They'd get along well on the surface. Fenris... well, getting Fenris and Vaea to meet is a major aspiration of mine, so I will withhold comment in the hopes of making that aspiration come true. Isabela would be right up Vaea's alley. I think at some point, she'd need to see Isabela's heart peek out from behind all her bluster about freedom from responsibility, or she'd start to be bothered by the notion that Isabela didn't care. But they'd get along well enough that she'd be able to know that Isabela secretly did care. As for Zevran... the way I see it, Zevran would never stop trying to have sex with Vaea. I think to some extent that's true of Zevran with everyone, but I'd write it as particularly extreme with Vaea. And I think that would annoy her. But she'd like him, personally. She'd just wish he'd stop flirting.
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Post by nunziodefilippis on Nov 28, 2018 23:25:04 GMT
Thank you for answering that. I'm very tempted to make a Vaea Inquisitor now. You may have already answered this somewhere else, but what was the inspiration you and Christina had when creating the Vaea the way you did? Also if you would describe the character in a few sentences or so, how would you describe her? Vaea came from a campaign Christina and I were part of in a pen and paper RPG. The system was Seventh Sea, and the characters of Aaron and Vaea were bit characters - NPCs that moved through the world and complicated the lives of the PCs. Aaron was a wandering drunk Knight, who seemed incompetent and foolish, showing up in town to tell obviously false tales of his own greatness - a drunken Nathan Fillion from Castle. Those who payed close attention discovered that Vaea was the real brains of the operation. But the truth about them was that even that was a con, and Aaron was faking his stupidity and drunkenness and the duo was working for a higher power and held many of the secrets of the campaign. So when we got the chance to write for Dark Horse and Bioware, we pitched a bunch of ideas. One of them repurposed the duo with Ser Aaron as a real drunk who never got over Ostagar (which aged him up a bit), and Vaea being repurposed to be a city elf and a master thief. The folks at Dark Horse liked the idea of Ser Aaron's drunkenness being a sort of self-medication due to PTSD. The Bioware folks ran with that and made big character suggestions to pull that to the forefront, and we adjusted Vaea's backstory to make them connect to each other more. And thus this version of the duo was born, partially based on our RPG, partially on our own adjustments, and a lot based on feedback from Dark Horse and Bioware. A couple of sentences to describe Vaea...? She's clever, but perhaps not as clever as she thinks she is. She projects a cynical world view due to a truly tragic past, but deep in her core she is a believer in fairness and decency. She has never worked an honest day in her life, but has never worked a dishonorable one. She cares only about what is right, and never about what is required or what is legal. She has lost so much family, that she is both wary of getting too close to people and secretly desperate for it.
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Post by nunziodefilippis on Nov 28, 2018 22:35:09 GMT
Not sure if I can say, so I probably will play it safe and leave it unsaid. But this was a companion-level character who's been left unused and unmentioned since. We had them do a bad thing, then see the error of their ways and then die. And Bioware's concern wasn't with the death, but with the larger implications of the 'doing bad' part. Plus, the overall story took the franchise a little backwards instead of forwards, so they wanted us to go another direction with it. Very interessing. I don´t think that Bioware would allowed you to kill the major companions from DAO, DA 2 or DAI. So its etiher one from Awakening or one from the DAO DLCs.
So Sigrun, Velanna, Orson Haver (Well this would be a Surprise), Silas Corthwaite, Brogan Dace, Jerrik Dace, Ariane, Finn, Gorim, Jowan, Lily or Soris. My money is on Silas Corthwaite. But i could be wrong.
But all Joking aside did the Comic had their own Canon like previous ones (Alistair Isabela Varric Story) or did Bioware told you can´t do this in this story, because it wouldn´t be compatible with every player world state.
For example the inclusion of characters who could be killed. Let say Fenris.
The comics use the default canon for Bioware. So as a couple of examples: Alistair is King and Fenris is alive. We use that continuity, and then the comics are considered canon inasmuch as it fits your save file. So if the comic feature King Alistair but your universe has Queen Anora, you'd assume the events would be similar but altered based on that fact. If a character who is dead in your save appears in a comic, you should assume the events of the comic would transpire in a similar way, but without that character in it. If that makes sense.
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