Instead, Black sent in a recording she had done to let BioWare know she’d be interested in future projects.
“She did not actually audition for Morrigan,” Gaider says. But then Claudia Black (the actress who portrays Aeryn Sun in Farscape) came along in an unexpected way. At one point BioWare settled on a different voice actress, but like Morrigan’s initial conception, decided she just wasn’t working for what they envisioned. “Morrigan took forever to cast,” Gaider says. BioWare considers this one of the most critical elements to a character. With one hurdle for Morrigan overcome, the team was on to the next: Finding the perfect voice. completely blunt because she doesn’t like that her mother talks in circles,” Gaider says. “I decided rather than make her like Flemeth, make her a teenage girl who just resents her mother. Gaider had to completely rewrite her, and he liked the idea of having a character speak obtusely, so he came up with a compromise. Gaider wanted players to wonder what she was talking about every time she opened her mouth, but soon decided with the team that the whimsical Morrigan just wasn’t working. “She would never give you anything straight.” “Remember meeting Flemeth and she’s talking in circles and kind of out there? I had Morrigan kind of the same way,” says lead writer David Gaider. Strangely enough, Gaider first wrote Morrigan much like her nemesis: Flemeth, the woman who raised her. Lead writer David Gaider’s initial vision for Morrigan was vastly different from the defiant and vociferous woman he presented in Dragon Age: Origins. Not only do we catch you on to speed on Morrigan, but we also sat down with BioWare to discuss the creation of one of the most-discussed Dragon Age characters and her role in Dragon Age: Inquisition. With so many questions lingering, including Morrigan’s whereabouts since performing the dark ritual to conceive a child, Inquisition is her chance to return to glory. If the cheers following her appearance in Dragon Age: Inquisition’s E3 trailer are any indication, fans are glad to have her back. The seductive mage keeps everyone guessing about her true intentions, and knows more than she lets on. Morrigan is one of the most mysterious characters to grace the Dragon Age universe.