Pathologic Wiki:Style Guide/Characters

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A brief description of the character.

Description
"Quote from the Artbook or Design Documents where applicable."

A description of the character's personality and motives.

Background
Information about the character that occurs before the beginning of the game.

Appearance
A description of the character's physical appearance, including their hair and eye colour and manners of dress.

Any additional outfits should be mentioned in a second paragraph, with necessary spoiler text if required.

Haruspex Route
"If possible, the Character's path line from the Theatre following their death."

A summary of their role in the Haruspex's Route. This should be written as chronologically as possible, including events that occur to the character that the Haruspex does not personally see and is not personally involved in. Avoid using the Day detail as much as possible as it can look cluttered alongside information without days. Try to write through the characters eyes, rather than the Haruspex's.

Example:

"In the evening Notkin meets with Khan in the Broken Heart to discuss the search for the House of Death - a home that is, according to legend, the home of Death. According to the legend if someone were to either stay in the home until midnight or light candles inside they would scare Death away. Neither Notkin or Khan truly believe in the legend, but insist on looking anyway as "when there's smoke, there's fire." The two are interupted by the Haruspex, who insists on going in their place."

instead of

"In the evening the Haruspex can find Notkin and Khan in the Broken Heart to discuss the search for the House of Death - a home that is, according to legend, the home of Death. According to the legend if someone were to either stay in the home until midnight or light candles inside they would scare Death away. Neither Notkin or Khan truly believe in the legend, but insist on looking anyway as "when there's smoke, there's fire.""

Pathologic: The Marble Nest
"If possible, the hover text from the Character's home in the Marble Nest"

- Bachelor's Hover details on his home in the Marble Nest

A summary of the character's involvement. For many characters this is simply listing their status as alive or dead.

Spoken Dialogue

 * → See (A link to the Character's /Spoken Dialogue page)

Screenshots
A gallery of in-game images for the character.

Official Art
A gallery of official concept art and full models.

Animation Video
Video of the character's in-dialogue animations.

Description
"Description from the design documents except in the cases of Healers, who have their character selection screen information instead.''"

A description of the character's personality and motives.

Background
Information about the character that occurs before the beginning of the game.

Appearance
A description of the character's physical appearance, including their hair and eye colour and manners of dress.

Any additional outfits, including alpha/demo outfits, should be mentioned in a second paragraph, with necessary spoiler text if required.

Gameplay Abilities
FOR HEALERS ONLY

Abilities unique to the Healer. Example: Rat racing for the Haruspex and Changeling.

Portrait Quotes
Quotes pulled from the game about the character from other characters. Usually only two characters will be present Use their Pathologic Classic HD portrait icons and include a redirect to the quoted character’s own page.

Bachelor Route
A summary of the character's actions during the Bachelor's route. Unlike the Pathologic 2 tab this should be organised into Day format. This can be written from the perspective of the Healer.

Haruspex Route
A summary of the character's actions during the Haruspex's route. Unlike the Pathologic 2 tab this should be organised into Day format. This can be written from the perspective of the Healer.

Changeling Route
A summary of the character's actions during the Changeling's route. Unlike the Pathologic 2 tab this should be organised into Day format. This can be written from the perspective of the Healer.

Bound (The Bound Name)
FOR HEALERS ONLY

A table of the appropriate Bound characters.

Spoken Dialogue

 * → See (Link to the Character's /Spoken Dialogue page)

Screenshots
A gallery of in-game images for the character.

Game Map
FOR HEALERS ONLY

A gallery with images detailing the changing of the map.

Official Art
A gallery of official concept art and full models.