SAGamer recently talked to senior game designer Johnny Cash about the zone of Bastion. Here are the highlights. Check out the full interview by clicking the banner below.
- Creating a zone that is very pretty and for the most part fine was a unique challenge for the design team.
- The team was inspired by a lot of past WoW villains when creating the Forsworn. They wanted to show that they were not inherently evil, just having less than ideay ways to solve problems.
- Newly arrived souls partake in rituals to shed their mortal wants, desires, and burdens.
- Those who succeed will eventually become a Kyrian and continue aiming to ascend as an aspirant and be granted wings.
- If you fail to let go of your past life you are eventually sent to a different afterlife.
- Paragons act as the overseers of the aspirants.
- Some Ascended become Watchers who look at the mortal realm and determine whether a soul on the brink of death is ready to cross over. We know these as spirit healers in Azeroth.
- We will get to see how going down this path affected Uther.
- A lot of thought went into the bells of the zone. As you venture deeper into the story, the calming chimes will become discordant.
- The ambience of the zone was designed differently from other zones. Bastion was created with calming and peaceful ambience not rooted in realism.
- They tried to design things to not look too coventional, so even the bells were made to look unique.
- The heart of Bastion has a massive statue with clouds and mist surrounding the column to symbolize ascension and inspiration.
- It was fun to design a fictional written language with the Kyrian runes and scrolls.
- Stewards (the owl people) aid the Kyrains with their crafting and scholarly pursuits.
- Automatons, anima-fueled constructs, help build the structures of Bastion.
- Magic functions as technology in this world.
- The foliage and colors of the zone were also designed to be whimsical and calming.
- The team also took inspiration from the Valajar and the Val'kyr.
- Anima used to flow freely in the realms of the Shadowlands and so was incorporated into their very existence. The drought has overwhelmed the Kyrians.
- When the initial story of Shadowlands concludes you will be able to pick which Covenant you want to join and see a unique narrative of that Covenant at max level.
- Having a narrative that is told in zone order allows the team to focus on developing characters, both heroes and villains.
- As you meet these characters you will not only learn about them through story, but also through gameplay in the form of soulbinding.
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