Dragon Age: Dreadwolf (Title reveal)

They're referring in the blog that they hinted at his return in 2018, but they actually shown it and told that he'd be an enemy in the 2020 teaser.

I'm saying 'it seems' as I don't mean to say it's definitely certain. Just an impression that I/others are having.

god I'd love to Airwolf the Dreadwolf.

I don't think they are ignoring the 2020 teaser in that blog post, that teaser just wasn't about Solas like the DreadWolfRise one was.

The blog post kept the "it's about you" from the 2020 teaser too. Which to me is still peculiar marketing. It's like the blog and teaser are aimed at the character you play as in the game. 

I just realized that they used "using Solas's namesake" in the blog. Maybe the Dreadwolf isn't actually Solas, I think some people theorized that back after Trespasser or was it Tevinter Nights, because the "fade" version of Solas, the Dread Wolf, is way more nasty/angry than the Elf in the material world.

Saying that, it's possible certain things in the 2020 teaser were scrapped, it was mostly concept arts and "empty" locals/environments anyway.

I was thinking more in the sense of Anders/Justice or Anders/Vengeance and also Flemeth/Mythal now that I think about it. 

So with this idea, the Dreadwolf is the spirit part of Fen'Harel, while Solas is his physical body.

Don't forget that Mythal is possibly rattling around in there too. However, leaving that aside, with Anders/Vengeance; Flemeth/Mythal it was a case of a spirit with its own identity having merged with a mortal. Solas has always struck me as something different, as were all ancient elves. There were strong hints in Trespasser that the elves may have originated as spirits that crossed over into the Waking World and then took on material forms. This is probably why Solas identifies so strongly with spirits and, if Tevinter Nights is anything to go by, Fen'Harel seems to command an army of them in the Fade. In fact, the Dalish seem always to have been aware of his power there since the Keepers teach that Fen'Harel stalks the Fade, feasting on the souls of the dead. That could lie behind their aversion to magic involving spirits, because a Keeper or Keepers in the past had a nasty run in with him when they did this.

This has got me wondering about the exact nature of the ancient elves connection to the Fade and its importance to their immortality. I also wonder if there is a clue in what happens to tranquil. With the latter they are cut off from the Fade and somehow this deprives them of emotion as well as their ability to perform magic, yet strangely makes them more adept at enchantments. In Asunder, Pharamond describes the experience of being tranquil as though one was in a dream from which you cannot wake, even though some part of you is aware that this isn't really you, yet you follow the path of the dream believing that nothing is real. Now Solas says that when he awoke and returned to the world, it was like walking through tranquil, so to him the current world wasn't real. Cole mentions this in one of his monologues. Now I wonder if the reason most of the elves went into Uthenera after the Veil went up is because they felt the same way as Solas and had this sense of their real self being somewhere else, cut off in the Fade. The nature of Uthenera allowed them to connect with their real self and so as long as they remained in that state, they did not age. Felassan mentions how the true adept no longer needed sustenance to maintain their body but could also draw it directly from the Fade.

Now here is the tricky part. What if Solas has two aspects in the Fade, his true self and Fen'Harel? After all, he says that Fen'Harel was an identity he adopted in order to terrorise his enemies and it was a moniker that was originally given to him by the Evanuris. Perhaps when he was in Uthenera he could switch between the two identities as it suited him but when he awoke, he was effectively cut off from both, or at the very least the connection and control was much weaker and the dominant one will reflect his current state of mind. Hence the white wolf tarot for a romance but the overshadowing dark wolf for everyone else. Since he left the Inquisition the Dreadwolf has only grown stronger. Now PW said that with a romanced Lavellan he was tempted to abandon his plan but ultimately decided to remain true to his original purpose because he thought that otherwise he would not be being his true self. So for those who want to redeem Solas the trick is going to be to reconnect him with the spirit of the person he was before Fen'Harel. I don't know if that is why Rasaan is searching for his true name but even if her intentions are different for why she needs it, I think she is onto something.

So our enemy is not really Solas (or whatever his true name was) but the Dreadwolf.   Hence the Dread Wolf Rises and the fact that in the 2020 trailer our enemy was the Dread Wolf.  In fact running the two words together probably reflects the fact that the Dread part can no longer be separated from the Wolf.     However, the Executors know him simply as "the Wolf" and the tarot also showed it is possible to separate the Wolf from the Dread part.   It may also be what Solas said to a romanced Lavellan, about he is walking the path of death.   He was not speaking of literally death but the death of his true spirit, his soul if you will.   Hence him also saying "I would not have you see what I become."

Why don't you want to redeem your friend Solas? We all make mistakes!

Hmm, I doubt they will change the wording in german.
Though if they would, I wonder to what they could change it. Let's see... one translation I could see to work if they wanted to change it for the title might be Grauenswolf. Funnily, you could misread that as "Grauer Wolf" Maybe that's why they went with Schreckenswolf as translation.

It might just work better as a title if it's one word. 


I do hope they give the translators context for ambiguous stuff, so we don't end up like when they changed "Lace" Harding's first name to "Borte" cause they thought it was a nickname. 

Interesting tweet about the game title meaning, it goes over the "duality" some of us have been talking about.




The most interesting I think is the quotes from Tevinter Nights. But the entire thing seems to point to the Dreadwolf being a demon and Solas simply appropriating his name after people insulted him using it. Hence the usage of namesake. A demon that Solas now wants to unleash and/or Solas believes he can control it.

The game is so going to be that we have to join up with Solas half-way through to fix his gigantic mistake (once more). Solas, just...stop. Stick to painting stuff.

Now that’s interesting! It really could make an interesting turn if the “real” dread wolf is an old very strong pride demon maybe in the form of a wolf or something (or he can turn into one purple demonic wolf)
I am already very confident that the main story and villain will be more interesting and better than corypheus in DAI.

Pride demons also had one of the by far best demon designs (beside the great old lust demon design which they didn’t take over to DAI for whatever reason…)

Solas stick to painting got me xD

Also interesting is that the BioWare member who posted this has a female crow (the one from the artworks?) as her profile pic which also makes me quite hyped and hopeful to have a female crow member as a companion (a fancy female assassin would be great imho)

Friend? Hahahaha. No. He started out as some elf willing to help, then turned into a nutjob wanting to rid this world of everyone for a ****up he made so long ago. The only redemption the clown will get is if Sithis chooses to redeem him. HAIL SITHIS