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续上篇：https://bbs.a9vg.com/viewthread.php?tid=1048949&fpage=1
这是ubi内部资料的第3篇，是关于公主Elika的设定的
Journey
Elika starts the game in a detached state. In the last 24 hours she’s died, been brought back to life, realised her father has sold his soul to a demon and faces the fact that the only way to avert the apocalypse is to kill herself again. She is not having a good day.
When she first meets the Prince Elika is focused on one thing – getting to the tree in order to stop Ahriman’s return. She blanks her father and only has the barest level of communication with the Prince. Once she has faced her father and the Tree of Life has been destroyed, she faces a moment where she can’t see a way forward. Once she realises that the lands can be healed she returns to being purposeful, her survivor’s mentality partitioning off the horrors she’s faced so she can focus on the task in hand.
As Elika progresses through the story she gradually relaxes. The body is incapable of sustaining high levels of stress and she copes by coming to terms with her fate…she will die, but she will die for a cause (she still keeps this fact from the Prince). While her relationship with the Prince begins as distant she begins to enjoy his company and the fact that, for once, she can have a human relationship.
Adjectives
Confident, serious, compassionate, intelligent, quick witted…warm once she comes to terms with her past and future.
Similar to…
Princess Leia not Cinderella.
We want to avoid….
The bitchy teenage squabbling that exists in many games. While there will be a clash of ***ures between Elika and the Prince we want to give her depth. She will face some moments of deep emotion (this girl goes through a lot!!).
INTRODUCTION
Born the Princess of a small state Elika has lived in a land cut off from outside contact. For generation upon generation the Ahura have guarded the Tree of Life to prevent Ahriman being released to plague the universe once more. Brought up amongst the stuff of legend and tied to an eternal duty, Elika’s life has been very real. Her mother died when Elika was only young and as her father retreated into mourning consumed by the loss of Elika’s mother, Elika was left to care for the governance of her people. A practical and intelligent woman in a patriarchal society, Elika has done much of the running of this small state for years.
What Is At Stake at the Start?
If her father is consumed by Ahriman then he will free the God of Darkness from the prison that has held him these past centuries. The only way to stop this is for Elika to sacrifice herself. Her sacrifice is to serve a greater goal – her death will save her father and spare the world from Ahriman’s return.
How Does She React To This?
Her first reaction is horror at what has happened. She is terrified that Ahriman will escape from the Tree of Life to spread his darkness once more. This doesn’t turn her into a weeping wreck, but she does retreat into herself. She is forced to communicate when she encounters the Prince and realises that he can help her.
Once the King appears at the Tree and destroys it releasing Ahriman, the Prince will want more details. Elika must tell him enough to keep him hooked, still missing out the fact that it is her sacrifice that will close the Tree.
Seeing the land corrupted, Elika realises that she must first heal the land before she can strike at Ahriman (through sacrificing herself). She hardens herself to complete her task. She will keep her sorrow to herself, wearing a mask to the Prince and often to herself. She conceals her intended sacrifice. Over the course of the game she will relax, accepting her fate and starting to allow herself to enjoy the Prince’s company.
Why Does She Follow The Prince?
In the early levels he follows her – chasing. When he moves to the front it is because she agrees to let him - she allows him to lead, she is not following.
For Elika this is not deferring power, it is a matter of being practical - she isn’t weak, he is merely physically stronger. If the Prince were to mess her around she would leave him (obviously she won’t within the bounds of the game). We can indicate this through idles, and her hurrying the Prince along.
By the end of the tale, although Elika feels loss, she has given herself to her fate. Everyone dies in the end and so to her there can be no better way than to die saving everything you believe in.
Elika and the Mourning King
Although there are points in time Elika will actively blame her father for what has happened, at heart she sees him as victim. She knows Ahriman has been growing stronger and has played upon her father’s weakness. As he becomes more and more corrupted, she will resign herself to the fact that her father is dead, the creature she sees now is not her father but one of Ahriman’s puppets.
Why Does She Keep The Truth From The Prince?
She doesn’t tell the Prince who the Mourning King is because she doesn’t want him to discover her true quest and to try and stop her.
Elika and the Ahura
Time has corrupted the followers of light in a different way. Isolation has seen them become a quite right wing society that refuses to bend, or compromise. They will reject Elika when she appears, seeing her as tainted by Ahriman (as it was he that brought her back).
Elika and the Prince will have to contend with this when they approach the temples.
Ingame Role
Elika has lived in the closed society of the Ahura since her birth and she doesn’t know much beyond responsibility and legend. As the Prince tells her of the outside world, the things he’s seen, the places he’s been, the people that have shared his life, she realises more and more that her sacrifice is necessary. While the Prince show Elika the wonders he talks of, she knows that if Ahriman escapes then eventually all these wonders will be destroyed. She must die so that these things, these things she’s never seen, tasted, experienced must survive for others.
The only way to defeat Ahriman is to drive him back into the tree, this can only be done by healing the land; this is done by reactivating the fertile ground. The fertile ground is what powers the ‘orbs’ in the temples which in turn give the tree its power.
We will use Elika to drive the player forward. The game is about the journey and Elika knows where the player needs to go and why. Elika wants to heal the land and undo the evil that her father has done by bargaining his soul for her resurrection. She has in a short time, lost and gained life, lost her father to Ahriman (either her father has been taken already, or she knows he will be, if she knows he will be then surely she will seek a way in which to stop this from happening) and lost her lands to Ahriman, the evil growing around them, corrupting everything she values.
What is Her Job/Function?
Elika is descended from the Ahura and so destined to guard the Tree of Life (and Ahriman’s prison). Once Ahriman is released, it falls to her (since her father has betrayed his duty) to recapture and imprison Ahriman.
Where is her Family?
Her mother is dead (as noted above) – killed in an accident when Elika was very young. Elika’s father has sold himself to Ahriman chasing after her and trying to force her to return home. He undergoes the process of corruption during the game, losing touch with this world and becoming Ahriman’s puppet.
Where does She Get Her Powers From?
From the power left in the land by Ormazd. Sensing the Tree weakening so the land provides Elika with the power she needs to fight back and keep Ahirman sealed in the tree. Over time she gains the ancient powers of the Ahura.. |
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