Why did you think Eco might work in a game? The Name of the Rose is a book that's fundamentally about language, about text. And by having our central character be a secular artist who resides with a family in the town, the secular world, but works within the scriptorium, he has a unique perspective, because he's constantly moving back and forth between those two worlds. And he's setting limitations on how the woods can be used, or not used, how the death inheritance tax works, things like that. The abbot is a religious leader, but he's taxing people. So there are religious aspects, but then also very practical material aspects. It was very common for abbeys to be near communities, for there to be a lot of interaction between those communities.Īlso, in this time period it was not uncommon for the abbot to be the secular lord of the lands that surrounded it. So we talk about Kiersau Abbey and Tassing, which is a town that is right next to it. For one thing, this is inspired by The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco's novel, which takes place almost entirely within the confines of an abbey. Did you set this game around an abbey because it's a place where a lot of these themes meet?
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