NWN2: Mysteries of Westgate Spotlights The Lore of Westgate
By Shawn on Sunday, April 13th, 2008 at 6:52 PM PST In Bioware, Computer, Game Companies, Game Platforms, Games
Ossian Studios has put up another Neverwinter Nights 2: Mysteries of Westgate Spotlight on the BioWare community site. The latest developer article on the first adventure pack for NWN2 focuses on the Lore of Westgate.
Folk around the western Inner Sea view Westgate as a cesspool of decadent evil, eager to make financial deals with pirates to leave its ships alone and to attack those from other ports, or to arrange shortages and wars to drive prices up. And these views are right, for the intrigues, secret deals, black markets, murders, skeleton-filled closets, and supposedly hidden treasures of the city are endless. Behind literally every corner exists the opportunity for the crafty and clever to become wealthy… and the gullible and naïve to become dead.
As the largest and oldest city on the Dragon coast, Westgate has a colorful past which many seeking fortune and fame hope to be more truth than myth. Tales of dragon hordes, forgotten subterranean temples and Verovan’s lost hoard have lured treasure hunters in the the labyrinthine sewers under Westgate searching for forgotten cashes of loot and artifacts. Some even return to tell the tale
The background story for Westgate is a rich and well fleshed out tale. If the in game story line is as interesting as the mythology, the Mysteries of Westgate should be well worth plumbing indeed.
