Hey Hopes, again, had some questions, and thought perhaps you could answer them:
1) Will Luna & Amata be sharing screentime in the near future? With them both being Cynthia's students, I'm curious as to how their banter would go and what their relationship with each other is like.
A: Yes they will. They have a close relationship due to both being Cynthia's students.
2) Which Family's sigil/symbol is your personal favorite, and consider it the coolest looking? Can be any Family (well, sans DeLucas I guess, let's make it fair lol) whether it's one of the past or current Big Fives or smaller Families.
A: Haven't made enough logos to really have a personal. Ask me again in a few updates heh
3) "The Mark" that Jalen mentions in his event that shows one is a "part of the core Kaskar Family."
How does it apply to the women who marry into the Family (e.g. Aunt Layla being Pops' wife), or daughters who may not be interested in Family business (Charvi, who by Jalen's words seems to imply just loves partying and isn't really concerned with her Family's business)?
I'm guessing such Family members are just excluded from the Mark, i.e. core Family and the Family's business matters (like Kay Adams situation in the Corleone Family)?
A: Only the ones who are deep into the core 'business' part of the Family gets the mark. If Jalen stayed out of the business, like he was meant to, he would still be part of the family but just not with the mark.
4) This is a suggestion for addition on Lore section.
Could we get a chronological timeline of all the events that happened?
For instance, if I wanted to know how long it has been since "The Big War" (that changed the Big 5 dynamic) till "The Devil's Shadow" (Carnefice Family's extinction by Ombras) I might find out by looking up at the timeline.
An example of timeline I thought of is this (of how it may look like):
Year -29: Cordia DeLuca is born.
Year -10: Antonio DeLuca is born
Year -9: Isabel DeLuca (maiden surname nee "X") is born.
Year -5: Events of The Big War that changes the Big 5 Dynamic.
Year 0: MC (Hope or whatever name player chooses) is born. Jalen Kaskar is born.
Year 1: Luna DeLuca is born.
Year 2: Gracie DeLuca is born.
Year 6: Events of "Portend" flashback takes place.
Year 7: Events of "My name is Luna" flashback takes place.
Year 16: Isabel suffers a miscarriage of her and Antonio's child.
Year 19: Carnefice Family is driven to its end by Ombra Family's attack ("The Devil's Shadow")
Year 20: MC (Hope or player name) is brought to the DeLuca Family and he is forced upon a Contract.
As you can see, the timeline is based on MC's age (just assumed he was 20 at current time don't know whether that's accurate); I set his birth year as year zero and worked around everyone else's age and events around that (of course, years for some of the events like the Big War or Devil's Shadow I just guessed them).
Something like above I think would be pretty cool (though I have to say
Rovenant's timeline looks superior in terms of visuals haha), at first the timeline just has the essentials (characters' birth year etc) and all the events that were shown or told (for e.g. "My name is Luna" "The Devil's Shadow" etc), but with more events shown (with more updates), more and more of the timeline's chronology gets filled up.
A: No plans for that. I like the more loosely based style of writing the lore. When I read lore and history, the fun part of it is to try and 'glue' it all together based on the information the worlds provide.
5) Speaking of timeline, with Season 1 soon coming to an end, how much time did it take from start of the game (when MC is brought into the Family), till the Season finale? Couple of months? A year?
In addition to that, will we see characters aged up a little bit in season 2 and/or season 3 (particularly MC, Luna, Gracie, and others of same/similar age like Jalen, Dominico, Siobhan, Eiza etc, so that the characters have matured a bit in terms of their looks?
A: No real date set of how long. But around a year wouldn't be too wrong. He is starting to be more relaxed in the Family.
I don't think the time difference is enough to make any skin changes. Mostly style changes, if any.
6) One more for the lore; any chance you'd be interested in a territory map for the DeLuca world in terms of visuals? This is an Italian mafia map with territories for different Families etc.
Given there are several Families existing in DeLuca world, I'd be quite interested in seeing the territory areas of each Family, showing the whole balance of power (given it's all fictional map doesn't need to be based on actual land like Italy, just showing how big each Family's piece of pie is in terms of territories?)
A: We need to get far deeper into the story and lore before anything like a map can be drawn. And even then, I'm not sure of it yet. The DeLuca Verse is heavily inspired by Italy, but it is in its own universe. Having a map shaped like Italy may take the 'deluca verse' out of it and make it 'real'.
