Feb 7
After seeing a photo shared on Facebook that broke down popular TV and movie characters into the nine old school alignments ala Baldur’s Gate, I decided to take the opportunity to look at Dragon Age’s characters and classify them by the method as best I could. Some thanks to the helpful guide at Thieves-Guild.Net.
Can you hum Darth Vader’s music? Indiana Jones? Jaws? What about the hobbit theme from Lord of the Rings?
If you’ve played Dragon Age half as much as I have, I bet you can recall the music that plays whenever darkspawn show up, or the heroic battle music for the Grey Wardens. Inon Zur’s Dragon Age soundtracks are built on themes that make our heroes more heroic, our villains more villainous and the epic tales of Thedas more epic.
Sit back and have a listen to some of the themes from the Dragon Age soundtracks.
Jan 23
She is called “Most Holy”, and addressed as “your Perfection”. She rises above lay sisters, Revered Mothers, and Grand Clerics. From her seat of power in Orlais’s Grand Cathedral, the Divine watches over mages, templars, seekers, and the good Andrastians of Thedas. She is the agent of the Maker himself, and her word is the Maker’s word; her work is the Maker’s work. In the past this has always worked, but as Dragon Age 2, and now Asunder have shown, the role of the Divine may not be as simple or clear-cut as it once was. And this is all due in part to who the current Divine is: Justinia V. The following contains spoilers for Asunder, so please proceed with caution.
Good games can always become better. Since I’ve been playing a lot of BioWare’s Star Wars: The Old Republic lately, I’ve been looking at some features of the game that might transition well into a new Dragon Age product (I did a similar thing with Skyrim) too. So here’s a couple tricks BioWare Edmonton and the Dragon Age team might consider borrowing from their Austin team colleagues.
Jan 9
It’s a Dragon Age 2 lull. It’s been 10 months since release and news on the game has ground to a standstill. While BioWare is heavily on the DLC bandwagon, new content for DA2 is nowhere to be seen. So what’s the deal?
Jan 3
Asunder: adjective/adverb, meaning “apart or widely separated”. Taking the literal definition into account, Asunder is an appropriate title for the third novel expanding the Dragon Age franchise’s lore and world. The novel follows the actions of mages from Orlais as they see their country in its first throes of civil war, but also as the fallout from the Kirkwall rebellion swoops into the White Spire. The novel opens with strange and unexplainable murders, but that is only the backdrop for the real action. Asunder is a novel focused on the delicate politics of the Chantry and the Circles of Magi, as much as it is on the plot and characters involved in both factions. The following contains spoilers, so readers may wish to proceed at their own risk.
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