{"id":1048631,"date":"2026-01-18T05:32:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T05:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ZTWBERVyJLHwu7DuN43KmV"},"modified":"2026-01-18T05:32:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T05:32:44","slug":"dragon-age-lead-writer-shares-the-heartfelt-process-of-creating-inquisitions-dorian-says-his-story-is-not-my-story-but-its-also-not-far-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/dragon-age-lead-writer-shares-the-heartfelt-process-of-creating-inquisitions-dorian-says-his-story-is-not-my-story-but-its-also-not-far-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragon Age lead writer shares the heartfelt process of creating Inquisition&#8217;s Dorian, says his &#8216;story is not MY story, but it&#8217;s also not far off&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>David Gaider, creator of the Dragon Age universe during his time at Bioware (and the lead writer on Origins, Dragon Age 2, and Inquisition) has been on a bit of a tell-all spree lately. Seemingly seized by an unquenchable thirst to show you behind the curtain, Gaider&#8217;s been revealing truths about the series&#8217; cast, such as <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/dragon-age\/akons-smack-that-and-morrigan-from-dragon-age-origins-have-a-shared-history-according-to-her-writer-who-cast-her-off-a-beat-poet-rendition-of-the-song\/\">Morrigan&#8217;s audition tape<\/a>, a scrapped cameo for the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/dragon-age\/dragon-age-inquisition-was-supposed-to-see-your-origins-character-return-for-what-would-have-been-the-most-excruciating-choice-bioware-ever-concocted\/\">Grey Warden<\/a>, and Shale&#8217;s salvation via an ode to how much he <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/dragon-age\/dragon-age-origins-lead-writer-says-shale-was-saved-partly-by-his-real-life-burning-hatred-for-pigeon-poop-i-wrote-like-the-angry-angry-wind\/\">hated bird poo<\/a>. Dorian brushes a little closer to home for Gaider, though. <strong>Character spoilers for his role in Inquisition to follow.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In case you&#8217;re unfamiliar, while homophobia isn&#8217;t necessarily a big, institutionalised deal in Thedas, Dorian&#8217;s father attempted to change his sexuality using blood magic, because he was both gay and also unwilling to supply House Pavus with an heir. While blood magic doesn&#8217;t exist in the real world, &#8220;conversion therapy&#8221;, a relic of an era where homosexuality was criminalised and pathologized, unfortunately does.<\/p>\n<p>Gaider, who is a gay man himself, led the charge on some of Dragon Age: Origin&#8217;s <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/dragon-age\/the-messy-queer-representation-of-dragon-age-origins-was-commendable-for-2009-and-i-even-miss-some-of-its-thorns\/\">bisexual romances<\/a>, which were a pretty big deal back in 2009. Dorian, however, was his first gay character: &#8220;It&#8217;s no big secret I have a lot of feelings about Dorian, not least of which because he was my first (and only) gay male companion. There&#8217;s a lot more to him than that, of course&#8221; <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/davidgaider.bsky.social\/post\/3lbvlyljgdc2m\" target=\"_blank\">Gaider writes<\/a>, &#8220;(as there should be), and it was quite a trip.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He explains that Dorian&#8217;s initial concept was born out of a set of short character briefs to help the artists design them better. &#8220;We stuck to vibes and the *emotions* we wanted the concepts to evoke,&#8221; Gaider writes, before explaining that Dorian&#8217;s elevator pitch was &#8220;rock star mage&#8221;. In a stroke of both tablet pen and genius, Dorian&#8217;s concept artist turned Freddie Mercury into a mage and gave him a monkey. &#8220;Sadly, we had to lose the monkey.&#8221; We can&#8217;t have it all.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:600px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:145.67%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"C8z48dtCkJykJBjsmCSrDM\" name=\"Screenshot 2024-11-28 151526\" alt=\"Concept art of Dorian from Dragon Age: Inquisition, with the following text: \"Me: \"He looks kind of like... Freddie Mercury?\"Him: \"Is that bad?\"Me: \"NO ARE YOU KIDDING THIS IS AMAZING\"Plus there was a monkey. Sadly, we had to lose the monkey.There were iterations to come, but this was really where Dorian was born: Tevinter mage, noble, savant, and too cool for school.\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/dragon-age-lead-writer-shares-the-heartfelt-process-of-creating-inquisitions-dorian-says-his-story-is-not-my-story-but-its-also-not-far-off.png\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"600\" height=\"874\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"expandable\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: @davidgaider.bsky.social)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>His sexuality, however, didn&#8217;t pop up until a later writer&#8217;s meeting. Gaider <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/davidgaider.bsky.social\/post\/3lbvmgpwmtk2m\" target=\"_blank\">writes that<\/a> he even &#8220;didn&#8217;t think that could work. &#8216;Rich kid gets kicked out of the house for being gay&#8217; wasn&#8217;t a trope I wanted to explore. But, then again, magister families in Tevinter are obsessed with the appearance of perfection.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Any deviation from the &#8216;norm&#8217; is considered scandal-worthy. It said weakness. It said you couldn&#8217;t control your house. Now&#8230; THAT had real promise. The writing pit discussed it a lot. So I think it&#8217;s fair to say that the gay fairy was already circling Dorian even before we got to the romance talk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While Gaider doesn&#8217;t go into any details (and is certainly not under any obligation to), he <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/davidgaider.bsky.social\/post\/3lbvmjoshd22m\" target=\"_blank\">does go on to hint<\/a> that &#8220;Dorian&#8217;s story is not MY story, but it&#8217;s also not far off. I wrote the entire confrontation scene in one go. After I was done, I probably cried harder than I ever have in my life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The scene he&#8217;s speaking of is when <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RC6Jwy0x8Ic\" target=\"_blank\">Dorian confronts his father<\/a> about his attempt to preserve his family&#8217;s legacy at the cost of his son&#8217;s agency and trust\u2014it&#8217;s a heartwrenching bit of writing, made more impressive being allegedly written in one go, with Gaider saying the only feedback he got was a tearful &#8220;it&#8217;s good&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He then goes on to make a <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/davidgaider.bsky.social\/post\/3lbvml5wqx22m\" target=\"_blank\">pretty salient point<\/a> about his work: &#8220;I don&#8217;t think a writer needs to be a minority in order to write a minority. Sometimes those characters should simply exist, and we want them to. But if that character&#8217;s story is about their experience as a minority? That&#8217;s different.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dorian&#8217;s story didn&#8217;t need to revolve around his sexuality \u2026 but my writing him meant it could be. It allowed me to SAY something. That felt good. It felt right.&#8221; Gaider goes on to say that he was pleased by the amount of straight men who chose to romance him\u2014a sign of a well-written character, no doubt\u2014but also &#8220;the number of fans who privately contacted me who&#8217;d been through conversion therapy, some who said Dorian helped them survive? Well. Gosh.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/dragon-age\/dragon-age-lead-writer-shares-the-heartfelt-process-of-creating-inquisitions-dorian-says-his-story-is-not-my-story-but-its-also-not-far-off\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Gaider, creator of the Dragon Age universe during his time at Bioware (and the lead writer on Origins, Dragon Age 2, and Inquisition) has been on a bit of a tell-all spree lately. Seemingly seized by an unquenchable thirst to show you behind the curtain, Gaider&#8217;s been revealing truths about the series&#8217; cast, such as Morrigan&#8217;s audition tape, a scrapped cameo for the Grey Warden, and Shale&#8217;s salvation via an ode to how much he hated bird poo. Dorian brushes a little closer to home for Gaider, though. Character spoilers for his role in Inquisition to follow. In case you&#8217;re unfamiliar, while homophobia isn&#8217;t necessarily a big, institutionalised deal in Thedas, Dorian&#8217;s father attempted to change his sexuality using blood magic, because he was&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/dragon-age-lead-writer-shares-the-heartfelt-process-of-creating-inquisitions-dorian-says-his-story-is-not-my-story-but-its-also-not-far-off\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1048632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[291,748,34],"class_list":["post-1048631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-dragon-age","tag-games","tag-rpg"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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