Writing Fable, Part One

The guys at Grand Text Auto have released an article that breaks down the narration and beginning storyline of Fable. This first installment makes for an interesting read and is backed up with information from Lionhead's James Leach. A snip:
Now, with all these characters, it was probably inevitable that there would be a mistake. Each line is tagged with the narrator's name, and for some types of narrators (Guards, Bandits) there are quite a few, differentiated only by number. Unfortunately, as James admits, (we did fall foul of forgetting how many Guards or Bandits there were and we ended up having two BANDIT_8s sounding identical as they erroneously shared a name, despite being separate characters.) Luckily, BANDIT_8 and the character that should have been given the narrator tag BANDIT_9 are about two hours apart in gameplay terms, so it wasn't a show-stopper.