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In the early stages of research, the team has a full time person in charge of carrying out the research about historical elements that may appear in the game. In addition to this, the team relies on specialists. For Unity, for example, two French historians examined the script to check if there were any historical errors regarding the Revolution. Even for the construction of the city the team called architects, urban designers and archaeologists and the team also traveled to Paris and got old maps of the city. In addition to that, for every part of this research, the team had a person responsible for it, for example for six months a person dealt with all the letters.

To demonstrate the historical research behind the game an anecdote was told. Towards the end of the game the team wanted to add a part in which a very dramatic event takes place and a character of the game must make a very difficult decision, and the team wanted something to symbolize the importance of that situation. For this reason the team wanted to create a scene outside of the city with large army, a situation that had to do with Napoleon. While this scene might seem credible if it had happened six years later, those six years were crucial, so the team had to find another solution.