David Gaider lives in Edmonton, Alberta, and has worked for video game developer BioWare since 1999. He is the lead writer on the upcoming Dragon Age: Origins role-playing game and has previously worked on such titles as Baldur's Gate 2: Shadows of AmnTM, Star Wars : Knights of the Old Republic TM, and Neverwinter Nights TM.
The first of the Maker’s children watched across the Veil And grew jealous of the life they could not feel, could not touch.
In blackest envy were the demons born.
—Canticle of Erudition 2:1
Maric looked about to speak, but Loghain held up a hand. “He said that we needed to be taught a lesson. They held us there, me and my father, and made us watch as he raped my mother.” He shuddered. “Her screams were . . . they are burned into my mind. My father raged like an animal, and they knocked him out. But I watched it all.”