I'm pretty sure the original design was "just like AC and Batman" and they put the license on top to guarantee sales. If the Kingdom Come: Deliverance lead designer is right, most distributors were holding on with major investments into next gen titles, so the original pitch was probably as bulletproof as they come outside sports games and CoD.Looks like fun. Although, I get the feeling that the original design was just set in a generic fantasy world, since the wraith abilities are pretty integral to the game and have zero to do with Tolkien lore.
yeah, that's what I thought they said happened too. no idea why a wraith would do that... especially just to let the guy go around killing agents of the dark lord... that doesn't seem to jive with anything Tolkien ever put out. the maia's and whatnot, sure, they could switch allegiances, like ungoliant for example... but even shelob, who never acknowledged sauron's authority, was still referred to by sauron as his "cat." he let her pretty much do what she wanted because all she wanted to do was hang out in that passage and eat anyone who came by. it kept that passage secret and safe. I imagine that if she tried to act against sauron, he'd destroy her. I can only assume that that was sauron's plan with smaug as well. he wanted smaug to wake up in order to just wreak havoc on the dwarves, elves and men. that would have suited smaug just fine as all he wanted was more gold. if he turned against sauron, the ringwraiths probably would have had a field day with him.Didn't it say Sauron returned, killed Talion, and a wraith saved his soul a la spirit bonding deus ex machina. So he isn't a wraith, just a dead human being kept alive by a wraith spirit?
I can't imagine why they wouldn't be...Are all wraiths necessarily agents of Sauron?
He wouldn't have become a ringwraith, just a wraith. Ringwraith very specifically means the 9 human kings who took the rings from Sauron. Regardless, Frodo's size as a wraith is kind of irrelevant.the morgul blade doesn't as Frodo would have ended up a midget ringwraith.
it was like that in the books as well. morgul blade victims will become wraiths without magical healing. that being said, both mediums have made the distinction that a wraith raised via morgul blade and a ringwraith are 2 very different creatures. the ringwraiths are SPECIFICALLY the 9 human lords who were given each a ring of power. any being that was cut with a morgul blade will become a wraith and serve sauron alongside the 9 ringwraiths, but will not be the same as them. yes, they are both wraiths... but the ringwraiths are much more powerful due to their rings.I'm pretty sure it's different in the books, but fairly sure in the movie Vigo explains he's slowly becoming a wraith and will come to serve the dark lord along the other 9. Wraith w/ringwraiths is still a ringwraith in my book.