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Post by Serza on Nov 29, 2018 10:09:10 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.
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.
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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 gangrelbeckett on Nov 29, 2018 17:42:19 GMT
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. Thanks again. As you describing it i really can see an interessing story for both of them. Tallis is one of DA characters who should be use more in the Dragon Age Franchise.
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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 Serza on Nov 29, 2018 17:53:03 GMT
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.
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 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 ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/6576594/images/RebJidSPcxyF0U0Rr0uW.png)
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Post by gangrelbeckett on Nov 29, 2018 17:54:11 GMT
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. 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.
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Post by Serza on Nov 29, 2018 18:00:25 GMT
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. 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.
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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 gangrelbeckett on Nov 29, 2018 18:20:41 GMT
I wonder if their roles were reversed would Vaea have taken the offer from Corypheus? Vaea is a good person in heart but how would she react if she get the same chance to change things?
This just a theoretical question because Corypheus isn´t that threat any more. Lets hope he stay dead and don´t come back.
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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 ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/6576594/images/RebJidSPcxyF0U0Rr0uW.png)
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 Hanako Ikezawa on Nov 29, 2018 18:28:46 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?
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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 theascendent on Nov 30, 2018 13:56:07 GMT
I wonder what kind of accent Vaea has. City Elves usually speak the same way as their country of Origin. Zevran is Antivan, Fenris has his Tevinter and Sera her Cockney.
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Post by gervaise21 on Nov 30, 2018 18:07:14 GMT
Sorry but I have to correct your mistaken idea of what a cockney is because Sera definitely isn't. I think you are mixing up English regional accent with London lower class accent. As a southerner I might be slightly out with the actual region Sera comes from but it is definitely a fair bit north of the "sound of the Bow Bells", somewhere in the middle counties of England.
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Post by gervaise21 on Nov 30, 2018 18:10:24 GMT
I wonder what kind of accent Vaea has. As Vaea's country of origin is Ferelden, then I assume she would also have an English regional accent. As her village was located on the western side of the country then I suppose she could have a west country accent.
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Post by theascendent on Nov 30, 2018 20:04:58 GMT
Sorry but I have to correct your mistaken idea of what a cockney is because Sera definitely isn't. I think you are mixing up English regional accent with London lower class accent. As a southerner I might be slightly out with the actual region Sera comes from but it is definitely a fair bit north of the "sound of the Bow Bells", somewhere in the middle counties of England. Sorry about that. I'm not overly familiar with accents. My bad.
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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 theascendent on Nov 30, 2018 20:50:20 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. God I can totally picture it. Well played sir.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Nov 30, 2018 20:59:21 GMT
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. Thank you for answering. It was interesting to learn more about Aaron and the one idea you had for Deception even if it was changed. Speaking of, 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? As for Vaea, yeah I forgot you already said you hadn't decided where she is going in that aspect yet. Just my personal opinion, I would love if she was part of the Ace Spectrum. 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. Interesting. That was not who I imagined as the voice but yeah I can see how it fits.
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Post by gervaise21 on Nov 30, 2018 22:03:55 GMT
God I can totally picture it. Well played sir. Yes, so can I. Good choice. Incidentally that is a London accent (but not cockney).
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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 Walter Black on Dec 1, 2018 15:40:49 GMT
Well, this only strengthens my hope that none of the comics characters appear in DA4, since then they would be at the whim of players who think darkening and/or killing them makes for a better story. Otherwise, the writers would have to give them plot armor, adding more fuel to the fire that Bioware no longer cares about player choice. As long as Vaea, Ser Aaron and the rest stay in the comics,we get glimpses into Thedas we wouldn't normally get, they can keep having their own personal adventures, and their fates and character development remains *relatively* safe ![:whistle:](//storage.proboards.com/6576594/images/KsWEGtwHLHUtTuiWt0OV.png) .
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Post by gangrelbeckett on Dec 1, 2018 16:38:01 GMT
As to the new characters in DECEPTION: Great but what about the ages of the missing Knight Errant Characters?
By the way do we know the age from Sebastian Vael, Marius and Tessa?
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Dec 1, 2018 16:44:16 GMT
As to the new characters in DECEPTION: Great but what about the ages of the missing Knight Errant Characters?
By the way do we know the age from Sebastian Vael, Marius and Tessa?
I don’t know if he would know their ages since those characters were written by different people.
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Post by gervaise21 on Dec 1, 2018 17:20:01 GMT
By the way do we know the age from Sebastian Vael, Marius and Tessa? Sebastian is probably around Hawke's age, in other words late twenties by the end of DA2 and therefore in his mid-thirties by the time of the events in Knight Errant. He was given to the Chantry as a rebellious youth (teenager?) and then spent several years there before his family were murdered in 9:31, which is why I assume he was in his early twenties, like Hawke, at that time. As for Marius and Tessa, well if you assume they are roughly the same age and also that Marius is roughly the same age as Calpernia, then I'd put them around mid to late twenties. Calpernia actually realised she had magical ability later than was usual (from her story it would seem in her mid-teens), although this was probably because she had had no reason to suspect she did earlier. This was not long after Marius had been sold. Then after Erasthenes had taught her the basics it was probably not that long before Corypheus came to call. The Venatori only started to become a faction during the second half of the 9:30's, so that would make Calpernia not more than early twenties during the events of DAI. If you assume Marius may have been a couple of years older, then by the events of Knight Errant that would make him mid to late 20s.
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