Do you pick your character’s name and traits or does it pick you?
Have you ever wondered at the importance of a character’s name to his or her make up and personality? Does an author — or in the case of Dragon Age: Origins, an entire team of authors and world designers — name a character based on the meaning of a name, or something that just subconsciously resonates? How about you? Do you name your character through any sort of convention, driving toward how you feel the character will represent him or herself throughout the story? Whatever the method, it is certain that we all put some degree of weight and meaning behind the naming of something. We even have an analytical practice (that some call science and others… don’t) called numerology to help us distinguish character traits based on names.
I found a site that automates this practice. I entered in some prominent character names. This is what I found:
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Lead Writer of Dragon Age's lore plus the man behind "The Calling" and "The Stolen Throne"
Recently we teamed up with BioWare’s Lead Writer, David Gaider, to bring you exclusive and interesting insights. Today we present you part two of our interview with David Gaider.
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Lead Writer of Dragon Age's lore plus the man behind "The Calling" and "The Stolen Throne"
“There are days you want to do a faceplant on your desk.”
“I was let go, given severance and walked off the property.”
“I have to be comfortable with letting someone else touch my baby. That would be harsh, man.”
In our continuing series of bringing you interesting BioWare interviews, we are proud to present you our first part of our exclusive interview with David Gaider, the Lead Writer for Dragon Age: Origins. Due to the length of the complete interview we agreed to present it in a two-part series.
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We take a look at the release of Awakening
Dragon Age: Awakening is finally upon us and Grey Wardens across the globe are strapping on their armour and preparing to battle the Darkspawn once again. We take a look at some of the initial responses, events and celebrations tied to this call to war.
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GreyWardens.com Interviews Fernando Melo
During last week’s Awakening promotion event in Germany we managed to grab an exclusive interview with Online Producer, Fernando Melo:
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We get to play Awakening before release and spend the night on a castle
I was lucky enough to be chosen by EA for a very special Awakening promotion event which will take place this Friday, March 5th in Germany. The whole weekend is packed with lots of cool stuff like an exclusive Gladiator’s training by the School of Historical European Martial Arts, a meeting with the band Corvus Corax and playing Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening.
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