Dragon Age: Inquisition - Interview @ Wired

Wired Magazine has done a two part interview with Bioware about DA: Inquisition.
In the first part of the two part interview Wired talks with both Mark Darrah and Mike Laidlaw. After some talk about the new generation for consoles and how large the game is, here's a rather surprising twist - about the lore in the game:

Inquisition is the third main game now, and you have millennia of history in the Dragon Age world. How do you keep that straight amongst yourselves, particularly when story paths can branch off?
ML: We hired a crime reporter. We actually did. One of our editors is someone we brought on initially as a contractor and then hired full-time because he's fantastic. He is a research specialist and was a crime reporter with the Edmonton newspaper. He's very dedicated and very thorough -- crime isn't something you want to mis-report -- and what he'd do is comb through everything in Origins, everything in the novels, everything in Dawn of the Seeker, the comics, all the different products. We've developed this internal wiki that tracks the states of all the characters. There are various fields for the characters: Dead, Alive, and Quantum, for characters like Alistair who may or may not be alive depending on player choice. Within the entry, it explicitly says "If Dead: This. If Alive: This". So we have that as our internal reference, and while the fans maintain a really good one, they can't put notes about what's coming, so we have to have our own.

According to Wired the next part of the interview will feature design decisions.

Thanks to Kantr at the DA: Inquisitions forums.