Rumor: Dragon Age Netflix Series In Development

That will be a disaster.

Cool.

If true, I'd be thinking earlier might be the go, rather than later.  Meaning, set it at the turn of the century as the 'Dragon' Age is beginning (or shortly thereafter).  Maybe even 25ish years after and focus on the Fereldan rebellion against the Orlesian occupation.

Either that, or set it in a nation not featured in a game (not that Hollywood will care about gamers and the shrieks of 'didn't happen in my game', nor should they), but it would allow freedom of story telling without pre-existing narrative baggage.

I too would rather it connect as little as possible to DA 4.  Flesh out some of the background lore and something.  A previous blight or stories from the Qunari invasion could be interesting.  

Of course I realize the problem with that is most of these events happened with decades or even centuries so might be hard to cover in a series.

But any connection to DA 4, assuming the series comes out before, should just be...I guess just contextual?

Honestly if you don't like the game the show still might be worth it.  Much better, much different.  

Season 1 of The Witcher was … all right. It helped reinforce why I don’t really care for the franchise outside of the creature design.

I would much rather see an animated Dragon Age series than a live-action one. I’m not looking forward to seeing dodgy CGI darkspawn.

Darkspawn could theoretically be handled well with make-up/prosthetics.  The CGI 'worry' that I would have would be for the dragons.  It seems unlikely that this show will start with Drogon-level budget for effects.

Thanks but I think I'd rather use my time playing MEA(MP) or DAI again instead
But I will check the DA series if it comes out.

I wouldn't really worry overmuch about that.  

All this does beg the question though I wonder what type it will be?  Limited? Mini? Game tie in?  Or will it be intended to maybe have multiple seasons and be an actual show?

Let's hope it is set in a completely different time period. Otherwise we will end up with a deja vu for Game of Thrones if DA4 doesn't come out before they reach that point in the timeline.

The other argument against them being in the same time period as we are is the portrayal of characters from the games. It is bad enough when beloved characters from books don't quite match up to how we envisaged them on screen but the argument everyone sees them in their own way in their head and so someone is always going to be disappointed how they interpret them is a valid one in this instance. However, Dragon Age started off as a game. Whilst there have been several spin off books and comics, the game came first and so we have experienced these characters not just in our head but on screen, even interacting with them and shaping how they develop. Several of us were quite upset how Fenris was depicted in the recent comic series, whether simply the fact that he seemed so negative in his attitude towards his former companions but even more so if we had romanced him. Having already not really accepted the reason why he was not with Hawke in DAI (which was forced on us by the writers), it only made it worse to hear his attitude in Blue Wraith. So if the Netflix series was simply starting with Origins and doing their own version of the story, that is likely to end up upsetting more fans of the game than it pleases.

By contrast, if they were to go back to an earlier period (even if strictly speaking it is not the Dragon Age) that would probably work okay. Last Flight did that and even if I rolled my eyes a bit at some of the ideas (Flying aravels pulled by griffons? Particularly since you would think that such a phenomenon would have be recorded somewhere and yet we had never previously heard of them), it did for the most part work for me and it was interesting seeing how they dealt with issues in the 4th Blight, particularly seeing characters like Garahel that had passed into legend. There are several interesting periods of history they could do this with but the one that stands out for me is Andraste. That could be epic and yet still leave the Maker ambiguous. Plenty of action and political intrigue, although I will admit, not too many dragons. However, maybe they could start the series with the final battle of the 1st Blight and the confrontation with Dumat that led to his death, which of course was also the year of Andraste's birth.

Hoping for it to be set around the time of the First Blight, which if I'm honest is also where I logically can see it following.

The founding of the Wardens and the true identity of the First Warden.
Tevinters and the dwarves decline.
The Second Sin, and learn more about the 7 magisters.
Dumats death and the identity of the Warden who killed him.
The rise of Andraste and the rebellion afterwards, which would be the focus of the 2nd season and the next generation of kids in the aftermath.

Obviously I'm biased since I'm an Andraste fanboy, but this period hasn't really been covered at all outside of the DAO intro and a few written sections of the lore.