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Josh Sawyer

Game director, Pillars of Eternity

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Moderator-assigned “Obsidian” flair in r/projecteternity

We retrieved 4 posts and 271 comments from u/jesawyer, dated 2012 to 2024, most often in r/projecteternity, r/IAmA and r/criticalrole.

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A redditor posted in r/projecteternity

Obsidian: Please tone down your ghosts

Battery sirens are getting on my last nerve... Not asking for advice, just commiseration. On my third playthrough, bumped it up to hard this time. My mistake was turning on level scaling for WM1 when I had just reached level 9. Now these sirens are level 11, same as me, plus the…

u/jesawyer replied

Folks, we've heard your feedback loud and clear. We'll be beefing up and doubling the number of spirits in Deadfire.

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A redditor wrote in r/projecteternity

On “Spellcasting incantations”

Yes. Even in BG/IE games not everything was Latin - some of it was also gibberish.

u/jesawyer replied

The spellcasting incantations in Pillars of Eternity are all in Eld Aedyran and Engwithan. "A ulu thenn." = To ashes. "Moeith ixi anath." = Power of my soul. "Lavaru bion sik." = Speech cuts flesh. "Brith u lichna." = Bond…

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The spellcasting incantations in Pillars of Eternity are all in Eld Aedyran and Engwithan.

"A ulu thenn." = To ashes. "Moeith ixi anath." = Power of my soul. "Lavaru bion sik." = Speech cuts flesh. "Brith u lichna." = Bond of magic. "Athek werthan roth." = Return (to the) Wheel. "Craeft afyllath thyr lim." = Skill/strength fills their limb "Cwethe sealmes mihtum." = I speak songs of power." "Werde bylfan an sawel." Words embolden the soul. "Cro ak ten!" = Blood and fire! "Sakrithu!" = Damned! "Ix maru!" = Of death!

A redditor wrote in r/IAmA

On “We are Obsidian Entertainment, purveyors of fine computer role-playing games since 2003. Ask us anything!”

Hello Obsidian, I would firstly thank you guys for making one of my favourite fantasy rpg from this past decade. Being French, I was wondering how much French culture and medieval history influenced you guys in creating the world of pillars of eternity?

u/jesawyer replied

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I've studied a fair amount of medieval French history and I'm always borrowing bits and pieces for elements in the world. I've always loved the city of Carcassonne and I thought it was interesting that it slowly developed into this fortress that was so impenetrable that enemies would rather take weeks of time to circumnavigate it than attack it. Over time, it fell into disuse and when one Napoleon's (I think) surveyors went to check on it, people were raising chickens and drying laundry between the walls.

We have a sea fortress in the game inspired by that: a place that once dominated travel on common shipping lanes but which has since fallen into irrelevance and was subsequently taken over by pirates.