The Lord of the Rings: The White Council Interview

ComputerAndVideoGames.com has conducted an interview with EA’s Tyler Vaught, quizzing the assistant product manager about their recently unveiled RPG, The Lord of the Rings: The White Council.

Q: How does the player character fit into The White Council?

A: The White Council is a group of the most powerful characters in Middle-earth. Your goal is to become an officially recognised character and become an agent of the White Council so that they ask you to do things for them. Our character customisation will have things in there that’ll help you understand who you are. We want to avoid the usual RPG problem of you being dropped into the gaming world like some kind of amnesiac character with no history, so we’ve got some things we’re working on to try and address that.

Fundamentally, you’ll start off as a nobody and at one point you’ll become important enough for the White Council to take notice of you and ask you to do things for them. Ultimately you’ll go out and directly help them defeat evil.