Dragon Age Video: Who is The Dread Wolf?

So, I clearly have too much time on my hands and I was taking another look at the images, trying to wrap my mind around the imagery and geomerty being shown in the veil bubble. And I noticed something:



If you look at the circles in the image, there is a pattern of having a smaller circle (blue) in a larger circle (green) around the image.

Two things.

Less interesting: the top circle breaks the pattern and doesn't seem to have a corresponding smaller circle in it.

More interesting: the blue circle in the bottom corresponds to the Golden City. Does this mean there may be other spaces similar to the city represented by the other two blue circles?


EDIT: Additional image added for clarity cus too many lines.

Just cus I'm already doing it, here: have a fully color-coded set of glyph lines!



Note: the purple and pink dots don't necessarily move with the purple and pink glyphs. The dots might be independent. They aren't present on any image that actually moves, so I can't tell. But they seem part of the same respective overall glyphs, to me, so that's how I coded them. The purple dots especially seem too evenly placed both within and in relation to the purple hexagon to not be part of it, imo. And I can't see any dots on the explosion image except for maaaaybe the westmost pink dot? So I didn't bother filling them in.

YMMV.


Also, looking at this now, I notice the pink dot pattern is broken in the SW corner of the image. It seems to go "one dot in the pink circle, one dot outside the pink circle" as it goes around, but there seems to be an "in circle" dot missing where I'd think it'd be; in the SW quardant, halfway between the southmost and westmost pink dots. Dunno if that's significant.

As a final thought: the red circle section is the one that moves the most in the explosion and that's most differently oriented btwn the two images. And I see that you can't even see the 5th red circle in the first image b/c, if it exists in that image, its behind the City's bubble. Again, not sure if there's significance to that.

Who is the Bred Wolf? Well, when Solas was much younger, he had to star in some elven porno videos to make money …

This got me hyped. Artwork is lovely on this and it really sets the stage. Wonder if we get something more in a few days at the Game Awards or if Bioware wants to wait it out still? Personally, I wouldn't mind them being cautious and waiting until summer 2023 to really show something when they would likely have a better idea of where the game is at in terms of late 2023 vs. first half of 2024 release.

The new cinematic isn't a trailer or promotional type thing per se, it's just an in-game cinematic cutscene that they felt okay to show us. It's the same type of thing as Duncan's intro to DAO or Varric's narrated sequences between acts in DAII, or the Varric narration in the Keep. Unofficial Dragon Age Day is a fan-created holiday and not tied to BioWare, it doesn't seem to be the kind of date or event in which BioWare would release an actual trailer, some fan expectations around what will get released by BW on that day are in need of a bit of tempering. Still, an actual in-game cutscene is quite a meaty asset to show on unofficial DA Day, which makes me wonder (along with the 'closing down the year' line in the blogpost) about the likelyhood of something at TGA. I think it was a Mark Darrah tweet or something somewhere where he was saying that the new stuff from DA Day was making him second guess his guess that DAD will be at TGA. Something about the size of the asset for DA Day making sense if you weren't going to be at TGA ( ). 

Morrigan narrated The Fires Above and wasn't a companion or even an advisor, she just had a key role and arrived for part of the main plot. I could see Varric having a similar sort of key role in the main plot, though due to it being Varric and his presence in the Inquisition in the last game, maybe frontloaded to the front of the game, like maybe he 'recruits' the DAD PC or initially is the point of contact or an initial questgiver or somesuch. Duncan was around in the introduction to DAO then peaced out [well, literally]. He also since DA2 simply is just 'the guy who narrates/tells the stories', as a device.

About the geometric circles, it reminds me of moon phase charts, the suggestion of an eclipse, and the representation of the Conjunction of the Spheres from the introduction to The Witcher 3 wild hunt. 

Pretty sure I've seen that fanfic.

I'd say he's definitely going to be the/aconnection between the Inquisition and the new PC in the game. I think there are different outcomes for his role, being an advisor, a Duncan-like role in the first hours of the game or a role like Morrigan being more likely then a companion, again.

As I said in the twitter thread, the blog seemed pretty clear in cutting off the possiblity of showing something at TGA. And indeed, the fact that the video was basically ripped off straight out of the game, based on what was stated, makes it even more unlikely that they'll show something Thursday.

SW: Jedi Survivor's own marketing cycle could give hope for a short marketing cycle for DAD and a release in 2023, even if the two situations aren't exactly the same, but we'll see, I guess.

Agreed. Given the import state, Varric is a more sensible choice for the narration...plus, his role to likely tie the Inquisition to the new protagonist.

I think there are good chances of Dorian having a role in DAD, but it'll probably more tied to the Tevinter plot then Solas' plot, with variations based on the import saves.

"We wanted to close out this year with a little treat to celebrate Dragon Age Day in our own way by sharing a key cinematic from the game. Enjoy!" - blog.bioware.com/2022/12/04/dragon-age-day-2022/

So this is how they are going to introduce the new protagonist to the Solas plot? A minute long exposition dump from Varric? They dropped all the potential the Inquisitor had with this plot for this piece of shit? I didn’t expect it to be good, but this is way worse than I imagined.

Eh, knowing it’s from the game it feels like Varric explaining things to the new PC and he slips into this similar to him with Cassandra in DA2. If this is the opening narration that hosts its own problems since wow way to start the game in such a boring note compared to Duncan’s narration.

Who is the TEDwolf?

A snooty bald elf that gives highfalutin lectures about magic, spirits, the fade and the old gods ...

To the self-important nobles, magisters and glitterati around Thedas.