>During an interview with studio head Patrick Gilmore, I put a version of this notion to him. He looked genuinely shocked. “That’s not really been a focus at all,” he said. “The lore of the game is that there’s a tainted aspect to this world, that it’s a garden of Eden that has fallen from grace.”
>You could argue that this is precisely how 17th-century Europeans viewed the new world.

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