New Dragon Age Short Stories for DA Day

You have to admit, though, that 8 years is sufficient time for the trail to go cold and even those people who originally believed the Inquisitor, start to question their story. I mean the easiest way for Solas to ensure they can't find him is to order his followers not to draw attention to themselves and then him to stop contacting the Inquisitor.

However, another thought has occurred to me and that concerns the characters from the comic. I assumed that if events followed on fairly quickly from the end of the comic's time period, we wouldn't see them because at least some were headed south for the foreseeable future. However, 8 years is sufficient time that, if they are still working for the Inquisition, they could be heading back north again. Given their abilities, it would be odd if we were involved with the Inquisition but didn't encounter them, even if it just as important NPCs.

Maybe maybe not. But the fact is we only getting one female dwarf at the time. And i still prefer Harding over anyone else.

The Dragon Age team historically have not been that good at paying things off that were set up in a previous game. When they made Dragon Age Origins they didn't know it would get a sequel so they just went all out for it in a way they've been too scared to for the games that came out after.

Well, Solas had to start being smart sometime I guess. Though as we’ve seen, his followers aren’t the best at not drawing attention to themselves.

I don’t think the trail would go cold, but as for people not believing the Inquisitor that depends. They didn’t tell many to start with, and those who were would still believe. And those are some very influential few. We have a paramilitary organization, the Divine so the Chantry, the leader of the Seekers, a leader of the mages, a merchant princess, the viscount of a city-state, a magister, a group of vigilantes, and potentially a mercenary company. Unless they’re going to ruin all those characters by having them not believe their friend/significant other or care about the world including those they care about.

As for the comic characters, perhaps but I hope not. They’ve already been ruined enough, so would rather be brand new characters.

Audric was happily settling down to become a librarian at the end of his story, so I'd be surprised if he was the possessed dead/greater dead in the party.

If he does show up then he would presumably be with Myrna, the mortalitasi Mourn Watcher whom he is bonded to. Making for two companions, unless he joins the PC because she died or something. He might be more an introduction to the idea.

Regardless I'm personally anticipating either a Mourn Watcher Mortalitasi accompanied by a Greater Dead (in the form of a companion's companion/pet, mechanically speaking, or as a second whole companion) or a Greater Dead who has lost the mortalitasi they're bonded to and joined the party as a result.

I think the main thing we can take from these stories is that the Mortalitassi are going to be involved in some way. Hopefully we will be going to the Grand Metropolis, which will have some significance to the main plot, but if nothing else someone from there will be involved with us.

I think it is more likely that the character would be a mage. For a start off, the Mortalitasi are mages. Anyone else working there is just a regular guard, unless they were a Spirit Warrior, who doesn't necessarily have to be a spirit, just work with them. Even if it turns out we are getting a spirit companion, it would be interesting to have one who was able to focus entirely on spells as we have previously had a warrior and a rogue. However, Justice as a Spirit Warrior didn't really have as much development as a companion in a full game, and I have long said that they ought to revive the Spirit Warrior class now we are heading north. I was specifically thinking of Tevinter but, of course, it would make sense that the Grand Necropolis would have Spirit Warriors too.

It does seem likely we are getting a Grey Warden companion but if that is Evka, what about Davrin? May be Evka, Antoine and Davrin will all be Wardens we meet when we go to Weisshauppt or alternatively Wardens we have to rescue from somewhere. Our involvement is likely to be linked to the strange pools in the the Deep Roads.

With the focus on the Mortalitasi in Tevinter Nights and this short story, we have to have some sort of companion representing them. We know from the Dread Wolf Take You that they are involved in the hunt for Solas and their knowledge of the spirit world could prove important.

The Crows also seem likely to be involved in some way and we will get either a current or ex-Crow as a companion. The plot hook with them is more likely to be the Qunari invasion.

Then there are the Executors. We know very little about them but we know they have local recruits and they definitely seem opposed to Solas, though possibly for their own nefarious reasons and not necessarily because they don't approve of his plan to remove the Veil. If they are connected with Strife and Irelin, as suggested by the illustration to their short story, then it is possible we will get Strife as an elven companion, although I'd rather have Irelin.

Lastly, there is the Qunari lady. It is interesting that there has been nothing about her in any of the associated literature (unless she is Rasaan) but she has appeared in enough concept art that she seems certain to appear. I rather like that they are keeping her under wraps as I like the aura of mystery about her. I hope they keep it that way so we can discover more about her in game.

If these short stories, and the ones before, are an indication of the tone and feel of DA4 I’ll be very happy.

It was meant to be on the surface though and creatures around it just died rather than mutated. Unless you have to be tainted for it not to kill you. So that is why it worked in the Deep Roads on both darkspawn and Grey Wardens.

Nevertheless, I did wonder when this story was meant to be taking place and for that matter the timescale for the stories in Tevinter Nights. The latest Mortalitassi story had a definite date to fix it in the timeline but none of the others have, apart from Three Trees to Midnight because that was set just after the fall of Ventus and that was in 9:45. In Tevinter Nights Evka and Antoine were heading back to Weisshauppt as the result of an urgent recall, which we assumed might be connected with the Horror of Hormack and it did cross my mind when reading the latest Evka story about whether this was before or after returning to Weisshauppt.