00:02All men dream, but not equally
00:07Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds
00:11Waken the day to find that it was vanity
00:15But the dreamers of the day are dangerous men
00:18For they may act their dream with open eyes
00:20To make it possible
00:25This I did
00:43Nathan Drake doesn't actually travel here to Jordan
00:46In Uncharted 3
00:48Where T.E. Lawrence's house is located
00:52But the historical hook that we use
00:56Is that on Sir Francis Drake's circumnavigation of the world
00:59There is supposedly about six months of unaccounted for time
01:03And we're just making up the idea
01:07That he actually came here to the southern Arabian peninsula
01:10Where the crusaders had talked about the lost city of Ubar
01:15And the realm of the pillars, city of brass
01:19Why are you here?
01:22Why do the English cross the Ruble Kali?
01:24They're looking for the lost city of Ubar
01:26The tie-in with T.E. Lawrence's house
01:29Who also had dubbed a possible lost city
01:33You know, hundreds of years later
01:35As Atlantis of the Sands
01:39That's the two historical hooks there
01:41Now, Nathan Drake
01:43Who supposes he is the descendant of Sir Francis Drake
01:48Worked with T.E. Lawrence
01:49Who also went to the Crusaders in France
01:51Where our game also goes
01:53We're trying to tie that all together
01:55Into a nice, neat package
01:56Drake only had half the clues
01:58Lawrence only had half
02:00And Marlow has nothing
02:04Sir Francis Drake
02:05When he completed that circumnavigation of the globe
02:08The Queen knighted him
02:09And she gave him a motto
02:14And it was Sic Parvis Magna
02:16Which means greatness from small beginnings
02:18I guess Sir Francis Drake's lineage
02:23Was not at all that great
02:24But he rose to greatness
02:27It is the dream of a dreamer
02:29Mirage of the desert
02:31A cup of death will be filled for thee
02:33It's all in English
02:34That must have been dream
02:36Here we go
02:38Same with T.E. Lawrence
02:40T.E. Lawrence's surname
02:42Was an assumed name
02:44It wasn't his
02:45He wasn't a Lawrence
02:46He had very humble beginnings
02:49And yet became this Lawrence of Arabia
02:52So sort of made a lot
02:53Out of his small beginnings as well
02:56And really the same thing
02:58Kind of goes for Nathan Drake
03:01That he sort of aspires to greatness
03:04And wants to unravel these mysteries of the world
03:08You're going to keep going, aren't you?
03:11For what?
03:13Treasure?
03:18Hang on, I got you!
03:19All three of these men
03:21And three points in history
03:22All had this sort of common theme
03:24This common background
03:25And it's a nice intersection
03:27To have them all kind of converge in this place
03:30Admit it
03:31You love all this as much as I do
03:40Never a dull moment, huh, Sully?
03:42Why change now?
03:43T.E. Lawrence was obsessed with the Crusades
03:45And the Knights
03:46As a young lad
03:48And he traveled all around France and Syria
03:52Checking out Crusader castles
03:53And that's really what got his interest
03:56Into the Middle East
03:58He was here in Arabia
04:01During World War I
04:02And when he finally went back to England
04:05He said that if he ever
04:06If he ever had a chance
04:07To go back to Arabia
04:08He would look for this place
04:09Called the Atlantis of the Sands
04:10He actually coined that term
04:12It was known as
04:15Iram and Ubar
04:17And the City of Brass
04:18And he was convinced
04:19That it was in the Arabian Peninsula
04:22Actually near Yemen
04:24But so this was a big touchstone
04:26For us with Uncharted 3
04:27We used a lot of reference from this area
04:30To model the backgrounds
04:32And a lot of the other scenery
04:34That takes place in the game
04:35And it looks like it does in the game
04:37One of the things we like to do with these games
04:39Is ground them in some real reality
04:41And we refer to it as
04:44It passes the Google test
04:46Basically
04:46If you wanted to search for T.E. Lawrence
04:48And you wanted to search for
04:50The Lost City of Brass
04:51That's all there
04:53That's fact
04:54And then we use that
04:55As our jumping off point
04:57To create sort of the fiction of the game
05:00The Lost City of Brass
05:01The Lost City of Brass
05:02The Lost City of Brass
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