Btw the lusher area of Daventry actually appears to be shots of the sea side level that was ultimately cut. The area would have most likely been Connor's starting area when he was a fisherman. He would have went to darker town with graveyard in Daventry in a later level (there are one or two screenshots of an early version of that darker area in Daventry from the period, different textures than the final game even)
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I don't recall her talking about him changing his armor until later iterations of the game--around '97, '98.
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Actually there is at least one 1996 article or interview that discusses the idea. I'd have to find it again. I remember that at the time they only had the 1996 engine screenshots.
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His outfit at the start of the game is almost like a rip-off of Graham's adventurer clothes, sans cap.
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Not actually a ripoff it's standard medieval style tunic. Almost everyone wore that style back then (unless you were middle-class or nobility). At least under their jerkins.
Notice the fisherman artwork above appears to have red medieval style tunic under the guy's hood and mantle.
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The idea of him as a fisherman I think fits better than him being a tanner. It fits into that whole Christian element she was going for with the story.
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Actually even tanner has very biblical and highly Christian symbolism. Look up Simon the Tanner! He represented the gentile Christians! Peter lodged with him three times using his house to spread the gospel to the Gentiles. He represented a break from Jewish Levitical law, which forbade touching dead things. Jewish people had aversion to tanners because it represented ceremonial contamination. Note that Gentiles were also seen as contaminating to Jewish society as well, since they didn't follow the same beliefs. So for Peter a Jew to stay there, he was showing that the gospel was for everyone and that he was willing to set aside older traditions to spread the word.
Basically the job of 'tanner' was one of the lowest positions in society, looked down upon by other members of the society. Yet, someone that far down the totem pole could be accepted by Christ to become a member of his new 'Kingdom of Heaven'. Infact a valued member of that new kingdom, perhaps more valued than any earthly king ('the meek shall inherit the earth').
Note that Conner not only deals with death, he deals out death! He starts out as a lowly tanner, from perhaps one of the least respected career choices. He slowly grows into a knight, essentially of paladin of ideals. Becomes noble not by birth, but by virtues. He becomes a valued member of Daventry. He reaches 'Heaven', basically.
One could argue that the role of 'tanner' has far more signifigance in many ways than than 'fisherman' would have for Connor in Christian symbolism. Bibically the symbolic role of 'fisherman' in the bible was that of 'fishers of men'. To haul in and teach new converts. Connor does not share this role at all in the story... He is not trying to convert anyone, he is not a teacher... He basically is out to destroy all evil.