I think the COG outline process helps a lot for me in that regard - I need to know how the stats, the storyline, and the characters will all be aligning, so I go in with a fairly solid sense of what roles the characters will play. What tends to get fleshed out in the game-writing process is the details. For a lot of these, I really didn’t have a strong sense of anything beyond what’s written there at the time, and everything more specific about the characters and their backstories developed as I was writing the game.
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Hello, I have a question. Could someone tell me what the romantic options are, both male and female? I’m interested in the dragon (at least that’s what I understood, that there’s a romance with a dragon), but I don’t know if it’s male or female.
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Man ROs are Alek and Frey. Woman ROs are Cecilia and Vesper. There’s also a nonbinary RO, Senna.
Vesper is the dragon you can romance. It’s probably worth mentioning that Frey, Alek’s younger brother, is half dragon, and has some draconic features such as scaly areas and functional wings, although he can’t shift between draconic and human forms the way full dragons can.
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I’m on chapter 9 and I’m irritated because I was hoping I was immortal after receiving my real body,…..how can you bring back my body from the dead, the very body that’s been Dead for 300 years and then reconstruct the artificial body back to life but you can’t make the body immortal,
I was loving this game but after hearing that, it kinda made me hate this game.
I mean, you are already immortal as a sentient specter. If you want a living body it makes sense it would come with all the benefits but also the downsides of living (like your eventual death lol). Senna also remarks that if they had the capacity to make bodies immortal, there wouldn’t be any deaths.
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Not only can you not become immortal but you can’t even keep the Vatrai’s Eye for yourself….. honestly, I didn’t feel like I had a lot of control in this game.
That still doesn’t refute my statement
Because that’s not how the human body works? Admittedly the game doesn’t go into the magic that much, but rebuilding flesh and organs and all the other bits over a framework of mostly unharmed bones is one thing, having human body not decay and breakdown over a decades long period, a.k.a. aging, is a totally different thing. Also, if you look at the achievements list, yes, you can actually decide what happens to both eyes
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It’s noted as well that since no one has ever brought a body fully back to life like this before, you don’t really know for certain what will happen, especially if your body also ends up with magical abilities. But yes, if you want guaranteed immortality, you’re better off deciding to stay a ghost.
Regarding Vatrai’s Eye, you can keep it for yourself if you have it in the epilogue, if you either took it back from Leviathan or the people who have it like you enough to gave it back to you. You just can’t keep it when you get it earlier than that, for a few reasons, including that carrying it directly into battle against Leviathan is probably a bad idea.
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Isn’t the person you gave the eye to also going directly into battle with you?
I’m not sure who you’re talking about, regarding giving away the Eye. You can give it to Cecilia, to Iris as a representative of Galdrin, or to the dragons, all of whom have better ways to conceal it from Leviathan’s notice than you do, and most of whom aren’t confronting Leviathan as directly as you are. And then you can get it back from any of them in the epilogue if they like you enough, except for Cecilia, who isn’t going to give it up.
Senna doesn’t know for certain that the body isn’t going to be immortal - they think it’s more likely that it will start aging/etc again, but they can’t say anything for certain. (Senna also uses they/them, and isn’t a man.) Anatomical magic can be used to reconstruct human body parts (although it’s controversial and has been developing a lot more recently), but not to animate them without the presence of a ghost like the PC. I agree it would have been cool to be able to go in and out of the body at will, but the choice between living as a human or existing as a ghost is part of what I was interested in exploring in the game.
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tbh it’s easier to be a ghost than immortal since the MC wouldn’t really have a human body any more so it wouldn’t be a problem. Also I feel like being immortal would get pretty boring as a human since you can’t exactly fly again or control ghosts too.
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