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Hawke (Dragon Age)
Hawke is a character from BioWare's ''Dragon Age'' media franchise, first appearing as the player character of the 2011 video game ''Dragon Age II''. Hawke is the eldest child of the human Hawke family and hails from the nation of Ferelden in the world of Thedas, the setting of the ''Dragon Age'' franchise. The opening sequence of ''Dragon Age II'' follows Hawke's family as they flee northwards to the Free Marches region as refugees from the invading Darkspawn hordes. Settling down in the city-state of Kirkwall soon after arrival, Hawke emerges as a prominent figure within the span of a decade, rising in power and influence to become the "Champion of Kirkwall". Hawke is a pivotal figure behind the origins of the worldwide conflict between the setting's magician (fantasy), magicians ("Mage" within series fiction) and their custodians Knights Templar in popular culture, the Templar Order, and also plays an important role during a subsequent extradimensional invasion of Thedas by dem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dragon Age
''Dragon Age'' is a media franchise centered on a series of fantasy role-playing video games created and developed by BioWare, which have seen releases on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Microsoft Windows, OS X, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S. The franchise takes place on the fictional continent Thedas, and follows the experiences of its various inhabitants. The first game in the series, ''Dragon Age: Origins'', follows the story of a recent recruit to a legendary order of warriors known as the Grey Wardens. Their mission is to save the kingdom of Ferelden from being overrun by the Darkspawn, a monstrous race of subterranean-dwelling beings who swarm the surface world every few hundred years in a movement known as a Blight. A Blight begins when the darkspawn track down and awaken an Archdemon, a powerful dragon that controls the Darkspawn hordes. Its sequel ''Dragon Age II'' is centered around the Hawke (Dragon Age), eldest child of the Hawke family, a B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Gaider
David Gaider is a Canadian narrative designer and writer. He was the lead writer and creator of the setting for the role-playing video game series ''Dragon Age''. He worked for Edmonton, Alberta-located game developer BioWare from 1999 to 2016, before leaving to join another Edmonton-based studio, Beamdog, as their Creative Director. He departed Beamdog after two years. In 2019, Gaider announced the assumption of a Creative Director position at the newly-founded Melbourne, Australia-based indie game developer, Summerfall Studios, and a new project entitled '' Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical''. Career Gaider began his professional life in the service industry, eventually managing a small hotel, while game designing was a side hobby to him. In 1999, a friend who worked as an artist at a local game studio named BioWare (at that point having only recently achieved success with the release of ''Baldur's Gate'') suggested to the studio founders, Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cassandra Pentaghast
Cassandra Pentaghast is a fictional character in BioWare's ''Dragon Age'' franchise. She is the "Right Hand" of the Divine, the leader of the dominant religion in the ''Dragon Age'' setting, and a Seeker of Truth, an order of said religious organization. The character made her debut in 2011's '' Dragon Age II'', where she appeared as part of the game's framing device. An anime film prequel, '' Dragon Age: Dawn of the Seeker'', was released in 2012, covering the character's backstory. She appeared again in 2014's '' Dragon Age: Inquisition'', where she serves as a party member. Cassandra makes a cameo appearance in the first episode of the 2022 Netflix animated series ''Absolution''. A forceful character was needed to "carry" ''Dragon Age II''s story. The character was designed to be "severe and dramatic", and has a heavily angular face representing her "hard edge". The developers wanted the Seeker armor to be easily recognisable, and it has a "strong and graphic" silhouette. L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Varric Tethras
Varric Tethras is a fictional character from BioWare's ''Dragon Age'' franchise. The character made his debut in 2011's '' Dragon Age II'', where he appeared as part of the game's framing device as the unreliable narrator of its plot. He also serves as a party member, a role which he reprises in its sequel, '' Dragon Age: Inquisition''. In-universe, he is a renowned novelist as well as a self-appointed biographer to Hawke and the Inquisitor, the protagonists of ''Dragon Age II'' and ''Dragon Age: Inquisition'' respectively. In '' Dragon Age: The Veilguard'', Varric reprises his role as narrator while also acting as the mentor for Rook whom he'd recruited to help him stop Solas from destroying the Veil. Brian Bloom provides the voice for Varric in all media. Varric has consistently received a positive reception since his debut, with attention drawn to his sense of humour, loyalty, and wisecracking personality. The character's popularity have led BioWare to turn his most notabl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kotaku
''Kotaku'' is a video game website and blog that was originally launched in 2004 as part of the Gawker Media network. Notable former contributors to the site include Luke Smith, Cecilia D'Anastasio, Tim Rogers, and Jason Schreier. History ''Kotaku'' was first launched in October 2004 with Matthew Gallant as its lead writer, with an intended target audience of young men. About a month later, Brian Crecente was brought in to try to save the failing site. Since then, the site has launched several country-specific sites for Australia, Japan, Brazil and the UK. Crecente was named one of the 20 most influential people in the video game industry over the past 20 years by ''GamePro'' in 2009 and one of gaming's Top 50 journalists by Edge in 2006. The site has made CNET's "Blog 100" list and was ranked 50th on ''PC Magazine''s "Top 100 Classic Web Sites" list. Its name comes from the Japanese '' otaku'' (obsessive fan) and the prefix "ko-" (small in size). In 2009, ''Business I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andromeda
Andromeda most commonly refers to: * Andromeda (mythology), a princess from Greek mythology * Andromeda (constellation), a region of the Earth's night sky * The Andromeda Galaxy, an astronomical object within the constellation Andromeda may also refer to: Artistic works Fine art * '' Andromeda Chained to the Rocks'', a 1631 painting by Rembrandt * '' Andromeda (Rodin)'', an 1889 sculpture by Auguste Rodin Literature * ''Andromeda'' (play), lost mythological tragedy by Euripides from 412 BC * ''Andromeda'' (novel), 1957 science fiction novel by Ivan Yefremov * ''The Andromeda'' Strain, 1969 techno-thriller novel by Michael Crichton * '' The Andromeda Evolution'', 2019 science fiction novel by Daniel H. Wilson, sequel to ''The Andromeda Strain'' Music Classical * "Andromède", a symphonic poem written by French composer Augusta Holmès, 1883 * ''Andromeda'', a cantata for the Three Choirs Festival by English composer Charles Harford Lloyd, 1886 * ''Andromeda'', a dra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Nameless One (character)
''Planescape: Torment'' is a 1999 role-playing video game developed by Black Isle Studios and published by Interplay Entertainment for Windows. The game takes place in locations from the multiverse of Planescape, a ''Dungeons & Dragons'' (''D&D'') fantasy campaign setting. The game's engine is a modified version of the Infinity Engine, which was used for BioWare's ''Baldur's Gate (video game), Baldur's Gate'', a previous ''D&D'' game set in the Forgotten Realms. ''Planescape: Torment'' is primarily story-driven, with combat taking a secondary role. The protagonist, known as The Nameless One, is an immortal man who forgets everything if killed. The game focuses on his journey through the city of Sigil (Dungeons & Dragons), Sigil and other planes to reclaim his memories of previous lives, and to discover why he was made immortal in the first place. Several characters in the game may join The Nameless One on his journey; most of these characters have encountered him in the past or ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mass Effect
''Mass Effect'' is a military science fiction media franchise created by Casey Hudson. The franchise depicts a distant future where humanity and several alien civilizations have colonized the galaxy using technology left behind by Elder race, advanced precursor civilizations. The franchise originated in a series of video games developed by BioWare and originally published by Microsoft Game Studios on the first two games and its expansions. Later on, the series was taken over by Electronic Arts through its acquisition of BioWare. Each installment is a third-person shooter with Role-playing game, role-playing elements. The first three games form a trilogy in which the player character, Commander Shepard, attempts to save the Milky Way galaxy from a race of ancient, hibernating machines known as the Reapers (Mass Effect), Reapers. The inaugural video game in the series, Mass Effect (video game), ''Mass Effect'' (2007), follows Shepard's investigation of Saren Arterius, one of the R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Commander Shepard
Commander Shepard is the player character in the ''Mass Effect'' video game series by BioWare (''Mass Effect'', '' Mass Effect 2'', and ''Mass Effect 3''). A veteran soldier of the Systems Alliance Navy, an N7 graduate of the Interplanetary Combatives Training (ICT) military program, and the first human Citadel Council Spectre, Shepard works to stop the Reapers, a sentient machine race dedicated to wiping out all advanced organic life. Shepard is neither a hero, nor a villain;Paragon or Renegade morality system game mechanics depending upon players' choices and actions, Shepard is the abstaining factor that acts as both on occasion and will take whatever action is deemed necessary when presented with impossible scenarios. Shepard's gender, class, first name and facial appearance are chosen and customized by the player. The default male Shepard's face and body were modelled after Mark Vanderloo, while Mark Meer provided the voice for the male Shepard. Jennifer Hale voiced th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rock Paper Shotgun
''Rock Paper Shotgun'' is a British video game journalism website. It was launched in July 2007 to focus on PC game, PC games and was acquired by Gamer Network, a network of sites led by ''Eurogamer'', in May 2017. History ''Rock Paper Shotgun'' was founded by Kieron Gillen, Jim Rossignol, Alec Meer and John Walker in August 2007. Gillen announced that he would no longer be involved in posting the day-to-day content of ''Rock Paper Shotgun'' in 2010, focusing more on his work with Marvel Comics. Rossignol founded his own game studio, Big Robot, in 2010. Meer and Walker left in 2019. In June 2010, ''Rock Paper Shotgun'' began an advertising partnership with the Gamer Network, Eurogamer Network. Also in the year, ''Rock Paper Shotgun'' partnered with ''Eurogamer'' to create Rezzed, a PC and indie games show spun off from the EGX (expo), Eurogamer Expo. In May 2017, Gamer Network acquired the site outright. A year later, website has partnered again with EGX (expo), EGX to l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Role-playing Video Game
Role-playing video games, also known as CRPG (computer/console role-playing games), comprise a broad video game genre generally defined by a detailed story and character advancement (often through increasing characters' levels or other skills). Role-playing games almost always feature combat as a defining feature and traditionally used Turn-based role-playing game, turn-based combat; however, modern role-playing games commonly feature real-time Action role-playing game, action combat or even non-violent forms of conflict resolution (with some eschewing combat altogether). Further, many games have incorporated role-playing elements such as character advancement and quests while remaining within other genres. Role-playing video games have their origins in tabletop role-playing games and use much of the same :Role-playing game terminology, terminology, Campaign setting, settings, and Game mechanics, game mechanics. Other major similarities with pen-and-paper games include develope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silent Protagonist
In video games, a silent protagonist is a player character who lacks any dialogue for the entire duration of a game, with the possible exception of occasional interjections or short phrases. In some games, especially visual novels, this may extend to protagonists who have dialogue, but no voice acting like all other non-player characters. A silent protagonist may be employed to lend a sense of mystery or uncertainty of identity to the gameplay, or to help the player identify better with them. Silent protagonists may also be anonymous. Not all silent protagonists are necessarily mute or do not speak to other characters; they may simply not produce any dialogue audible to the player. Origin The earliest player characters in video games of the 1980s, including the likes of Mario, '' Metroid''s Samus, and ''The Legend of Zelda''s Link, were silent protagonists. Characters such as these may occasionally speak through text or audible words, but are otherwise limited to making gestures, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
