Developer notes - Character descriptions
Each character with a speaking role (no matter how small) has a "bio" - a summary intended mainly for the voice acting crew. These notes include some details that a director should have in mind when choosing an actor for the role. The "age range" does not reflect the actual age of a character, but rather how young or old their voice should sound. It’s also originally given in hexadecimal system, so I added the conversion to decimal.
Without further ado, here are all the character profiles from the Jaws of Hakkon DLC, sorted by factions they belong to.
Character description: The Augur is an important figure in a village of people called the Avvar “barbarians” in the wilderness. He’s a magic-worker, a councilor, and an intermediary between the real world and the spirits. He can be a bit “otherworldly” as a result. He’s a smart man, unexpectedly jolly for his solemn position.
Accent: Light North Country
Age range: (hex)28 = (dec)40
Character description: Thane (leader) of a hold of “barbarians” called the Avvar, a proud, independent people who live by hunting and trading in the wild. Tall and wiry, she is still strong despite her age. She’s a fair and observant woman who can judge the moods of her hold and the other hold they trade with in the blink of an eye. Smart, pragmatic, and not afraid to hit things or make hard decisions.
Accent: Light North Country
Age range: (hex)2D = (dec)45
Character description: This is a bear. Like literally a bear. I’m adding this because I need lines in the conversations where people talk to the bear, and the bear grunts or growls, but unless there is an actor who does like an AWESOME impression of a bear, I’m assuming we are using existing bear-audio.
Accent: Grizzly or Northern Brown
Age range: (hex)14 = (dec)20
Arena Master = Arrken Feldsen
Character description: An Avvar man in charge of an arena where his people train and fight in rituals. Brisk, Loves fighting - loves the theory, the practice, the philosophical arguments about honor and when to fight - loves it all. Gets a bit bloodthirsty when cheering on the fights.
Accent: Light North Country
Age Range: (hex)23 = (dec)35
Skald = Fullna Hethsdotten
Character description: A skald (a bard and a keeper of oral histories) among the Avvar, a tribe of “barbarians” in the mountains. Proud of her people’s history, protective of her clan’s reputation. Aware she’s a bit young for a bard, so takes the role seriously and a bit self-conciously.
Accent: Light North Country
Age range: (hex)19 = (dec)25
Character description: An Avvar villager. Finds himself in a climbing race to settle a dispute with another villager.
Accent: Light North Country
Age range: (hex)1E = (dec)30
Character description: An Avvar villager. Finds himself in a climbing race to settle a dispute with another villager.
Accent: Light North Country
Age range: (hex)1E = (dec)30
Mountain climber = Runa Lyrsdotten
Character description: A young Avvar with a passion for climbing the highest slopes around your mountain home. Cheery, energetic, and absolutely fearless.
Accent: Light North Country
Age range: (hex)14 = (dec)20
Character description: A fisherwoman wondering about her cousin.
Accent: Light North Country
Age range: (hex)1E = (dec)30
Conspiracy Guy = Helsdim Rolfsen
Character description: Helsdim Rolfsen is an Avvar trader. His work takes him outside his small mountainside village and he has an appreciation for the greater world as a result. He takes pride in the fact that he’s literate, a rarity among the Avvar, and is very into “alternate history”. (He’s a bit of a conspiracy nut, in other words, but a harmless one.) Helsdim longs to see more of the world, but he’s stuck in his little hometown village.
Accent: Light North Country
Age range: (hex)1E = (dec)30
The Exile = Sigrid Gulsdotten
Character description: An Avvar = a clan of tough mountain-dwelling people who the rest of the countries consider barbarians. She exiled herself to the woods outside her village because she thinks she’s made a mistake who brought shame on her clan. A bit dour but fiercely loyal to her people.
Accent: Light North Country
Age range: (hex)19 = (dec)25
Character description: Avvar Master of the Hunt, Old, seasoned, and blunt. Slow to give out praise, but sincere when he does.
Accent: Light North Country
Age range: (hex)3C = (dec)60
Character description: Woman in charge of burying the dead. Sly, clever. Can seem unsympathetic, but is truly dedicated to her work and following traditions properly.
Accent: Light North Country
Age range: (hex)1E = (dec)30
Character description: A kind young man who was injured while helping a friend. Sad over the death of his father.
Accent: Light North Country
Age range: (hex)12 = (dec)18
Character description: An Avvar fisherman, old enough to be past most posturing and bragging, proud to be part of Stone-Bear Hold and unimpressed with the evil Hakkon worshippers.
Accent: Light North Country
Age range: (hex)1E = (dec)30
Friendly Avvar Male = Einar, fisherman working with Arvid
Character description: Friendly Avvar talking to his friends.
Accent: Light North Country
Age range: (hex)14 = (dec)20
Friendly Avvar Female = unnamed fisherwoman working with Arvid
Character description: Friendly Avvar talking to her friends.
Accent: Light North Country
Age range: (hex)1E = (dec)30
Character description: A guard for a small village. Strong, watchful.
Accent: Light North Country
Age range: (hex)28 = (dec)40
Character description: A guard for a small village. Easygoing.
Accent: Light North Country
Age range: (hex)28 = (dec)40
Character description: An Avvar villager. You craft goods and mend things.
Accent: Light North Country
Age range: (hex)1E = (dec)30
Character description: A hunter who provides for her small village. Sharp-eyed, capable.
Accent: Light North Country
Age range: (hex)28 = (dec)40
Character description: A hunter who provides for her small village. Experienced, capable.
Accent: Light North Country
Age range: (hex)28 = (dec)40
Character description: An Avvar scout. Good at his job. Cares for his clan of close-knit people.
Accent: Light North Country
Age range: (hex)1E = (dec)30
Character description: An Avvar scout. Good at her job. Cares for his clan of close-knit people.
Accent: Light North Country
Age range: (hex)1E = (dec)30
Character description: A hard-working Avvar villager.
Accent: Light North Country
Age range: (hex)19 = (dec)25
Character description: A hard-working Avvar villager.
Accent: Light North Country
Age range: (hex)19 = (dec)25
Character description: Powerful, proud, menacing Avvar warrior. Heads a group calling themselves the Jaws of Hakkon. He serves a powerful warrior-god, and plans to voluntarily give up his own life in order to be a vessel for this god. A thug and a bully.
Speech pattern: He is chanting with a specific rhythm in his main conversation. See conversation-file notes.
Accent: Light North Country
Age range: (hex)1E = (dec)30
Character description: An evil member of a warrior cult who has kidnapped a bear for nefarious purposes. Your basic loud yelling bad guy.
Accent: Light North Country
Age range: (hex)1E = (dec)30
Character description: An angry thug who fights for the Jaws of Hakkon. She is trying to bully some non-warriors from a different hold, and reacts angrily as soon as she sees the Inquisitor.
Age range: (hex)19 = (dec)25
Character description: A barbarian warrior.
Accent: Light North Country
Age range: (hex)19 = (dec)25
Character description: A barbarian warrior.
Accent: Light North Country
Age range: (hex)19 = (dec)25
Character description: A man in early middle age, an intelligent and seasoned warrior. He is somber and serious, driven by a duty he never asked for.
Age range: (hex)28 = (dec)40
Character description: This is a spirit that touched Inquisitor Ameridan’s wife, Telana, and speaks with her memories. She is a spirit of compassion, just like Cole, and has much of the same empathy and “talking as though in someone else’s head” that Cole does. Unlike Cole, she is clearly and obviously a spirit, tired and worn away from centuries of waiting for someone to tell her story to.
In life, Telana was a Dalish elf (hence request for Welsh accent).
Age range: (hex)1E = (dec)30
Second Inquisition and associates
Character description: A professor from Starkhaven who is bright, enthusiastic, and a little absent-minded. He’s the one whose theories pulled the Inquisition out here on the hunt for the Last Inquisitor, Ameridan (who vanished 800 years ago), and while he’s a little out of his element here in the wild, he is determined to see this through.
He’s innocent and naive, generally speaking, and may have a slight crush on Scout Harding (who he calls “Lady Harding”).
Age range: (hex)19 = (dec)25
Character description: An eager research assistant for Professor Kenric. She has a driven, A-type personality. As an elf, she’s faced some prejudice at the University.
Age range: (hex)14 = (dec)20
Character description: Professional Inquisition soldier. Very good at his job.
Age range: (hex)19 = (dec)25
Character description: Man at research camp.
Age range: (hex)1E = (dec)30
Character description: Woman at research camp.
Age range: (hex)19 = (dec)25
Havard-Pierre d’Amortisan
Character description: A baron who researches dangerous animals. Intrigued by a mysterious animal that no one has ever seen. Speaks in a Lovecraft/Edwaridan-Horror-Story type manner.
Age range: (hex)2D = (dec)45
Character description: Long-suffering assistant to Havard-Pierre d’Amortisan (a baron who studies dangerous creatures.) Dry, butler-like. Think Alfred from Batman.
Age range: (hex)1E = (dec)30
Character description: Young soldier whose friend has been murdered. Now possessed by a spirit//demon
Age range: (hex)19 = (dec)25
Character description: An Inquisition soldier.
Age range: (hex)1E = (dec)30
Character description: An Inquisition soldier.
Age range: (hex)1E = (dec)30
