Making other animals into characters?

[ngppgn]

Now that dragons are implemented as actual character, I figured I just should ask for the following logical step: are other animal (warged direwolfs, shadowcats, bears and the like) be eventuallt made into characters? I'm well aware that their impact in way lesser than that of dragons, but it would be cool nevertheless

 

[Arcvalons]

I doubt so, even direwolves which are the most important creatures other than dragons, are magnitudes less relevant

 

[D Toccs]

No, dragons are different to all of those animals in that they live for centuries and so outlive all humans, they get passed on to the heirs and they have many events such as the dragon duels and field/siege of fire events.
Whereas the benefits of the skinchanger animals can all be represented fairly well through the trait. It would be a waste of resources to be generating characters that are crows, or dogs, or eagles or bears or any other mundane animal when the traits work just as well. Not to mention that it would just be silly to, for example see the Jorah Mormont has a "brother" that is a crow.
Dragons are a special case.

 

[Ivashanko]

I suggested this idea in the other thread and a lot of people liked it.

 

[locustgate]

I like the idea but there's not a lot of reasons to do it.

 

[Ivashanko]

I plan to mod it in if they don't put it in themselves.

 

[kvk]

I don't like the idea, the dragons are enough for now.

 

[WingedLion14]

at least the stark direwolves should

 

[Ivashanko]

Haha, well, I would make a mod but I'm not very good at creating portrait designs.

 

[jOrionII]

As a purely stand alone mod that'd be pretty cool. Breeding animals to try and get better marital bonuses, like horses for movement speeds, wolves as a plus in duels or all the cool things that accompany having a tertiary animals in the game. And seeing as most animals would have a substantially lower lifetime compared to a human so have a greater turnover rate, so you wouldn't have to worry about strain as much and well as have a greater variance in what stats you get so not too OP.

I plan to mod it in if they don't put it in themselves.

I'd actually like it as a standalone seeing as it would be less of a strain on the dev team and seems simple enough with the coding already done as a start it could even be completely separate from the AGOT mod seeing as it would work well enough as a plain old Crusader Kings mod.

 

[yezhanquan]

Just out of curiosity: In the game, which year will the Stark kids get their direwolves? According to canon, it'll be somewhere around 8299. I always start before that, and so never see them with their wolves.