Dragon Age The Veilguard Criticism Thread (formerly Skepticism Thread) [Spoilers]

- The Blight and the taint were retconned to being extremely less than dangerous than they used to be. Just destroy the "source", be it the Evanuris or glowing flesh sacks and you're good. And also the reason the blight exists, and where it comes from, was revealed to us in the game. We did nothing with this information.

- The near complete erasure of the Qunari government save for a little codex entry about how most of the Antaam rebelled and the Arishok can't do shit. Except he could with the help of the Ben-Hassrath.

- Qunari soldiers following an elven god, known as demons for the Qunari, just to get power. I don't care if the entirety of the Antaam suddenly turned Tal-Vashoth, it makes ZERO sense for them to work for an uber powerful elven mage because even Tal-Vasoth don't trust magic, or mages and still keep Saarebas on leashes.

- Can't confirm this because I didn't see it but if it's true that there was a Qunari mage Lord of Fortune saying that "the Qun wasn't so bad" then it is the nail in the coffin for the Qunari.

- The Agents of the Dread Wolf vanished when they should have and could have been working towards freeing Solas from his prison, or even before he was imprisoned they could have hindered our efforts. Still they aren't anywhere in this game and Weekes would certainly love us to forget that Solas had countless elven spies and spirits working for him.

- The Antivan Crows were neutered in this game and went from professional assassins for hire to gauche freedom fighters that are romanticized by everyone. Where is the organization that bought children and slaves to brutally train them into their culture of assassins? A blood codex from DAI, The Crows and Queen Madrigal had more teeth than anything Lucanis could ever blot out of his insipid dialogues. "Do you think we would talk because of something as banal as torture?"

- The Tevinter Imperium is no longer a mage supremacist country. It is no longer the big bad of Northern Thedas. Genocide and hatred for the elves? Forgotten. Irrelevant. As far as I'm concerned we as players never went to Tevinter and never will.

- The Tevinter-Qunari war was forgotten and ignored, because of course it was.

- Isseya from the Last Fligth was brought back to do the opposite of what she did in life just for cheap drama that no one cared about, not even Davrin, the only Warden in the party.

- There is no racism in Thedas anymore and everyone loves you no matter what. Kinda lore related but also gameplay related I guess.

- The Dalish basically longer exist as a people because the game refuses to recognize their existence in any meaningful way. Instead, Arlathan is claimed by the Veil Jumpers, who apparently take anyone. The Dalish have neither a home nor a pantheon now, and all of them are apparently screwed in Southern Thedas because it’s just straight up gone anyway so there's that.

- Speaking of the South, the South being destroyed is also pretty bad so yeah.

- There will be no reckoning from Mythal that will shake the very heavens. No “she was betrayed as I was betrayed as the world was betrayed” because not only is Mythal an absolute good guy now, but she is also pro-veil. There will be no retribution, despite the game hinting at it.