# Author Interview: “Demon Mark: A Russian Saga” **URL:** \ **Category:** Announcements\ **Created:** [May 30, 2017, 7:08pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/author-interview-demon-mark-a-russian-saga/27121 "2017-05-30T19:08:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mary\_Duffy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/mary_duffy/32/5311_2.png) [@Mary\_Duffy](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/Mary_Duffy)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2017, 7:08pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/author-interview-demon-mark-a-russian-saga/27121/1 "2017-05-30T19:08:13Z")
New Author Interview up now on the blog, and Demon Mark releasing on Thursday! > **[Author Interview: Vlad Barash & Lorraine Fryer, “Demon Mark: A Russian Saga”](https://www.choiceofgames.com/2017/05/author-interview-vlad-barash-lorraine-fryer-demon-mark-a-russian-saga/)** > > Choice of Games’ latest release will be Demon Mark: A Russian Saga by Vlad Barash and Lorraine Fryer. Once upon a time, in the land of Rus, you lived a simple life as the firstborn child of p… ---
**Author:** ![derekmetaltron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@derekmetaltron](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/derekmetaltron)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2017, 8:17pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/author-interview-demon-mark-a-russian-saga/27121/2 "2017-05-30T20:17:26Z")
Bit of an Elephant in the room situation I know, but I’m surprised they don’t mention the rather sudden non binary relative thing at all. I respect that’s good for some people but to me it was a tad jarring and not being able to have any actual better input on it in the demo with your sibling made me wish it was a bit better handled. That’s just me of course. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryOwl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/ivoryowl/32/259286_2.png) [@IvoryOwl](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/IvoryOwl)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2017, 8:21pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/author-interview-demon-mark-a-russian-saga/27121/3 "2017-05-30T20:21:16Z")
Not trying to be a jerk but that topic was already brought up and discussed in another thread. > [@Demon Mark: A Russian Saga demo discussion \[SPOILERS\]](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/demon-mark-a-russian-saga-demo-discussion-spoilers/26729): > > I played the demo part of this game and there’s something on my mind ever since then: Is it just me or does it really seem kind of unnecessary to have an agendered (hope this is the right term) sibling? So far it seems to me that it was only written that way just for the sake of having a non-binary character and not bc it would make more sense in the story actually that level of acceptence doesn’t even fit the era, like that level of acceptence seems okay in the Heroes Rise trilogy for example w… ---
**Author:** ![derekmetaltron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@derekmetaltron](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/derekmetaltron)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2017, 8:23pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/author-interview-demon-mark-a-russian-saga/27121/4 "2017-05-30T20:23:16Z")
Sorry I didn’t see that before. I was just curious why they didn’t talk about it in the interview. ---
**Author:** ![Ninja1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/ninja1/32/97352_2.png) [@Ninja1](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/Ninja1)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2017, 8:49pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/author-interview-demon-mark-a-russian-saga/27121/5 "2017-05-30T20:49:26Z")
I can’t wait for it to be out already~! Edit: It’s out! ---
**Author:** ![Samuel\_H\_Young](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/samuel_h_young/32/268356_2.png) [@Samuel\_H\_Young](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/Samuel_H_Young)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2017, 9:11pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/author-interview-demon-mark-a-russian-saga/27121/6 "2017-05-30T21:11:02Z")
This sounds really interesting. I can’t wait for it to come out. ---
**Author:** ![attolia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/attolia/32/17903_2.png) [@attolia](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/attolia)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2017, 10:16pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/author-interview-demon-mark-a-russian-saga/27121/7 "2017-05-30T22:16:54Z")
Quick question: will there be romance in this game?