Цитата(Терри Рэй - сценарист Heroes Chronicles и Heroes of Might and Magic IV @ это интервью у него брал MMXAlamar)
Conversation with Alamar and Terry Ray, 5/6/12
Terry: Yeah, Gauldoth was always my favorite I always thought Tawni (the pirate) would make a good bad guy.
Alamar: I was also curious about your plans for Iranese [proposed name of the continent in Heroes IV]. Jennifer told me that Lysander was supposed to conquer it, but that's pretty much it.
Terry: Yes, Lysander's own goals never seemed finished. I pictured him going in either two directions - good or bad. You see, I wrote him with just enough arrogance that he might one day be corruptible. The purest Heroes, I always thought, were Waerjak and Elwin. Oh, and Emilia. I enjoyed most of those characters.....Emilia, I thought, was the true Queen Catherine.
Alamar: What are your thoughts on [a marriage between Lysander and Emilia]?
Terry: Yeah, I could see them married. Let's say Lysander gets a little too comfortable with his power. Emilia would be the one to notice....and the one to try to call him on it. Probably the one who would fight him too. She always has a good moral compass where she thinks about the little guy. Lysander, he focuses more on politics, knighthood, honor....and then the little guy.
Alamar: Did you have anything planned for the Ancients or Kreegan?
Terry: Not the Ancients. The Kreegan were like a dwindling force in our world. Gauldoth used them sort of like a superpower uses a smaller country's forces to pad their own to diminish the losses. Gauldoth recognizes the ambition of Kreegans. Wherever he is in control, you know he will make sure they are kept in check, both in power and in numbers. If the Kreegan were a major bad-guy force, Gauldoth might....I mean might....work against them because he knows they would never accept the Half-Dead. Here's another spoiler....I kind of thought someday that Gauldoth would have the hots for Emilia.
Alamar: I wanted to ask you, who is the God of Death? The one that Kalibarr called “master.”
Terry: Simply, a being of destruction. I pictured him as beyond a normal god. I pictured it as two opposites. Sort of like, there was an entity who gave birth to everything - and that was the Big Bang - and there is an entity who is trying to cancel it all out - the God of Death. He really isn't a god though. Just like people cannot fathom a god, gods cannot fathom these two beings.
Alamar: There are some fans who misinterpret him to be Necros, who is a character from Crusaders of Might and Magic. Necros traveled to Axeoth through the Fiery Realm.
Terry: Yeah, I know. When I was writing everything, I pictured doing several heroes and slowly bringing that guy out.....however, I kept him vague just in case people wanted to do something else with him. So, Necros could certainly be the God of Death.
Alamar: This could be a fantastic storyline thread for Gauldoth to be the hero!
Terry: He was always my favorite “hero.” He's not really a bad guy....a little warped, but I think he truly can love. In the end, he does not want people to be destroyed, or everyone to be turned into zombies, or anything like that. But he does want power.
Alamar: Do you think he'd wage any major wars against other kingdoms on Iranese if provoked?
Terry: Always when provoked, and then he would wipe people out totally to assure the protection of his own but he is, above all else, practical. Too often, bad guys are psycho or stupid. I made Gauldoth neither of these.
Terry: The God of Death tried to use Gauldoth the first time.....I kind of see him trying to use Lysander the second time because it would be unexpected. However, I know some people who like Heroes like their Heroes to be heroes. What do you think about that? Lysander vs. Gauldoth....but in the end the two flip their roles from good to bad. Lysander will always consider Gauldoth a bad guy.
Alamar: Would the player choose one side?
Terry: That would be up to game design.....although, you could have them play both until the last point of the story.....where they would have to play the good guy (Gauldoth) as he saved the universe yet again. Could even have a love triangle going on with Emilia in the middle.