Heroes!

Is this real? … Is it a dream? … A nightmare? Or perhaps … it’s truth.

We’re excited to announce Sienna’s fourth career, the Necromancer, will release on Steam, Xbox One, and Playstation 4 on October 19!

Sienna’s Necromancer career is born from a fight with her twin sister, Sofia, granting her new powers and abilities that allow her to command the dead. How, exactly, these powers were obtained by the once Bright Wizard have yet to be revealed.

We know it’s been a long time coming, and we can’t wait to see you all try your hand at this new forbidden magic! Stay tuned as we get closer to her launch date for more information on her talents, abilities, and gameplay.

So, on Tower of Treachery can I play Necromancer Sienna (who is now merged with Sofia)?

I don’t see why we would lock you out, but I’d need to see what happens with the narrative team.

Can Necromancer Sienna-Sofia wear a Myrmida frame?

We don’t lock frames that way. You can wear whatever frame you want. It’s just user decoration.

How on earth does the rest of the team accept a Necromancer in their ranks, particularly Saltzpyre who as a Warrior Priest or Witch Hunter would certainly attempt to kill anyone using necromancy on the spot? A fire wizard is one thing, but how do you get a Warrior Priest or Witch Hunter working with a necromancer?

We’ll likely have a dev blog exploring the lore with the writers up in the future. But I do want to remind everyone that our characters are not meant to be static paragons of their ideals. Over the years, we developed them as human (and dwarf and elf, ofc), with all the human flaws, and emotions and attachments do form between them. Did Sienna succumb to necromancy? Sure, but this is the End Times, and not everyone has a happy ending (none of them do, in the end), and Sienna is no stranger to flirting with forbidden arts.

What did the teaser with the colored fire have to do with anything? It appears it had nothing to do with this.

Some of it was meant to show the colors of the Winds of Magic and allow people to speculate which wind she’d choose. In some lores, depending on who you ask, necromancy is a combination of all winds, so that route was taken as well. We tried to avoid the classic Necromancer “toothpaste green” to avoid spoiling during the teaser.

This dialogue line?
“Not a necromancer Markus not a necromancer”
Cause you know, Markus hates necromancers.

We discussed this internally a while ago. I’d need to see how we approached it. We’d likely take two routes: Change it for her necromancer career or keep it for her career for the sheer irony of her being a necromancer at that time.

I suspect Lohner’s Chronicles will cover some of the reactions to her reveal in time. It will change how they view her, but they won’t stop working together (I assume, as that would make the game quite awkward ).

Let me check on that one; we just locked down the extraneous patch notes (stuff that doesn’t involve Necromancer) yesterday.