The Lore

[Stian Sjøvold]

What I've wanted since this game came into my hands, is this in the game about lore. 
I love it, but I have a wish that when you open a scroll or a book you can press a button to hear 
a person read what it says. something that brings out the mysteriousness in the lore. 
Maybe some famous artists with a good voice, like Anthony Hopkins, Henry Cavill, it would have been cool. 
Hard to do but not impossible. Keep up the good work you're doing, love the game.

[YordaEatsMelon]

Definitely mod territory here. The idea is cool  but I don't think it fits in with the vision the devs have for the game; in sense that it's not like you are hearing audio from a mechanized archive or hearing someone tell you a story, but are rather picking up a rolled sheet of paper/canvas and are reading it. 

The written records are meant to be a glimpse into something much larger, but unfortunately disconnected from the voice and personality of whoever once wrote it. Even with uncovering audio recordings in the resonance archives I'm not aware of any voice acting there, probably for the same reasons the player's avatar and the traders have a "honk honk honk" voice. It also makes game translation much easier as you don't have to hire new voice actors each time you need to make another localization.

That said, to make it into a mod would be great.   Not only would this give that mood some players are looking for, but it could also help for people who learn lore better by hearing it rather than just reading text. Full customization of the voices by players to their tastes, could get the pacing you'd like, etc.

[Thorfinn]

Very cool idea. How would you work localizations?