Dragon Age: The Missing (Comic Miniseries)

NO! Harding is all mine! 

But why would Maevaris be in the Deep Roads?

Your work on the DA series was great. So, yeah... I'm a bit sad now they didn't bring you back onboard.

We'll see what the new series brings, but I hope we'll get to see you & Christina write Vaea, Autumn, and the gang again!

This is also true of DLC and yet they have done this before as well. Whilst they could argue that you should be playing the DLC to get the full picture, with Trespasser people on old consoles didn't even have that option. So, already they have former players with different experiences going into the next game. I assume the Missing is going to be like Masked Empire; it sets the scene but you don't need to have read it to understand what is going on in Orlais. Ditto Asunder and the Mage/Templar war, although that one is helpful in establishing why Fiona is leading the mages. If I hadn't read Asunder I would be totally perplexed as to how she assumed that role, particularly as she seemed so bad at it and I didn't even have the option of replacing her/putting her on trial for her actions as I did with the rogue Templar leader on the other path.

Former Friend makes it sound like they expect us to know them. I also feel they mean someone whom both Harding and Varric know.

Solas makes sense as a former friend, but I just don’t see him running around in the deep roads. He’s a manipulator, he’d get some patsy to do the dirty work.

Probably an unpopular opinion, but Former Friend could be the Inquisitor. It would be a way of getting them out of the picture for the new game.



Which is why I think they should be given the resources to rework Trespasser into a standalone experience.

I've always quite liked when there's tie in stuff that appears in the game, even if they aren't especially good at balancing how important it is/Assuming we should know/Wardens Fall just not having an ending.

Thedas is a big place, I like when the series implies interesting things happen to not just my protagonists. I've been on both sides, having read none of the Mass Effect tie in stuff before I beat the Trilogy a few times vs having read all the Dragon Age tie in stuff after 2 but before Inquisition came out. I think it's cool when it isn't mandatory homework and is more Cassandra's little dialogue about how she became the Divine's Hand is also a movie I can watch for more context.

I think the difference there is that Cassandra was introduced to us in DA2. We don't how the background to why she is the person interrogating Varric but we did have a codex in game explaining about the Seekers of Truth. Then when she pops up again in DAI, it makes sense to a player of DA2 and we learn a bit more about her background to fill in the blanks.

By contrast, so far as I can recall, there was nothing in DA2 about Fiona being Grand Enchanter or mention of her leading the rebellion by Cassandra. If Anders survives you might assume he would be leading the rebellion or Hawke for that matter. The rebellion does appear to have started in the Freemarches and then spread elsewhere. Now Asunder explains the two year gap, why someone completely different is leading the mages and what Fiona's status is with respect to other First Enchanters. The codex may have covered this in DAI but it doesn't really explain it enough for players of the other two games, for whom it would be a revelation there is even such a thing as a Grand Enchanter. Mind you, that said, the Fiona in Asunder seems so different from the Fiona in DAI that I was left puzzling over that.

I hope so. Harding is non-quantum.

Leading directly into DAD? Former friend? Darkspawn themed? Do I smell Solas instigating a Blight so everybody's distracted while he pursues his deeds nefarious?

Mayhaps even a double Blight? There are still two archdemons out there. Although. It would be an interesting twist if we could somehow redeem the last one and get it on our side. And by 'redeem' I mean make a deal with the devil because they probably want Solas dead as much as we do (don't come for me Solasmancers). Potential use for Kieran maybe? Morrigan doing stuff if Kieran's not available? Bonus points if the two dragons are the proxies of the twins, Dirthamen and Falon'Din.

I wonder if the story will tie into the two remaining Archdemons...

What, "The Inquisitor is dead and we never found the body, The End"?