As Melinoë, the immortal Princess of the Underworld, you’ll explore a bigger, deeper mythic world, vanquishing the Titan’s forces with the full might of Olympus behind you, in a sweeping story that continually unfolds through your every setback and accomplishment. New locations, challenges, upgrade systems, and surprises await as you delve into the ever-shifting Underworld again and again. 

Like her brother Zagreus from the original game, Melinoë is not a character of our own invention, and is based on an ancient Underworld deity thought to be related to Hades. What little ancient mythology exists about her was more than enough to make us want to explore her story and connection to her family, and in so doing, expand on our vision of the Underworld!

Meet The Man Behind Dragon Age's Cut Language

Dragon Age: Origins could have had several more fictional languages, but they were cut before launch.

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Dragon Age: Origins could have had several more fictional languages, but they were cut before launch.

“I made languages for Dragon Age: Origins - Elves, Dwarves, Qunari, and one other that I can’t remember,” a linguist by the name of Wolf Wikeley tells me. “Elven was whispery and had Welsh and Irish Gaelic influences and Dwarven was secretly modelled on the Swedish Chef from The Muppet Show. Seriously - the word for ‘cave’ was ‘Borq.’ The order was rough and guttural.” […] While it would be fascinating to peruse these, they are under lock and key at BioWare - even Wikeley doesn’t have access to them.

Dragon Age was supposed to have expansive lexicons for its non-human races. This was to avoid any non-English dialogue sounding like “gibberish.” […]

“The process is brief,” Wikeley says. “First, I listen to the needs of the producers. What are the people like who speak the language? What is their culture? What is their role in the story? These things don’t affect the sound of language in real life, but we tend to think that they do so it can make the storytelling more effective. There’s no reason pretty Elves can’t have voices that sound like belching, but it is aesthetically pleasing and somehow ‘right’ to have them sound pretty.” […]

Unfortunately, it’s up to EA whether those dictionaries ever get released. Nonetheless, Wikeley does remember the odd word here and there, like the Elven ‘Llinthy’ which means ‘beautiful’ and is a reference to Wonder Woman’s Lynda Carter. He said that he also slipped plenty of Easter eggs into the languages, but the details are hazy. [full article]

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