Thedas Calls - Dragon Age Day Trailer (2023)

There is no such thing as a Fiscal Summer quarter. 

Summer is weather based. If you want to be real specific, June 20 to Sept 22nd. You don't move the seasons around to match fiscal reports. If it's summer, it's summer. 

I thought something like that, too. The combination of that voice and the 'risen gods' gave me that vibe.

SO now that I have gotten up from my nap

The trailer also did distinctly remind me in tone and style and purpose of this one:



Which was basically the second one they did and not really the start of the marketing in earnest for Inquisition but just the tease of it if I remember correctly. Which does actually put me in mind that all the previous trailers to this could have been analogues in purpose to 'the Fires Above' which does seem to fit and now we got this little one which does the same purpose, shows off Thedas, teases more to come.

Yeah, I'm kind of skeptical. Stewart is quite old and his delivery is starting to falter. The voice in the trailer sounds like a man in his prime. And it's not like everyone didn't grow up doing Stewart impersonations. His vocal ticks can be mimicked.

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Believe it or not, we already know for sure that we have a GW companion. He and his VA were in a video a couple years ago.

Perfect way to encapsulate and imagine my own feelings. A lot of this game could really borrow from Dragon Age Origins structurally....which would not be a bad thing. 

I seem to have Baldur's Gate on the brain nowadays, but one thing I don't love about it is the voice actor for Ketheric Thorn. He sounds like he's phoning it in. I just hope Dreadwolf doesn't have anyone famous like that; it really messes up the immersion and stands out in a game where most other VA's are bringing their A game.

It does sound like Nicholas Boulton and Hawke does go to Weisshaupt if he survives in DA:I... but it could be just someone who sounds similar.

I wonder who the lady in the beginning might be. She sounds like she might be an important character.

It's there at the end, just not named in full. If you look closely it shows the Nocen Sea with Minrathous enlarged and then a name obscured by tentacles with just an "a" visible. I wonder if that part of the map is actually showing an earlier time when the area wasn't known as Tevinter but Neromenia (the human kingdom that first worshiped the Old Gods) or even earlier still under the Evanuris.

The Rivain part is linked with the return of the gods. That could mean the last two Old Gods, one of whom could well be under/near Rivain, whilst the other could be other in the Anderfels. The voice at the end fades into the rumble of a dragon, so that would fit. Of course, it would also fit with the Evanuris returning and since the teaser in 2022 seemed to make a direct link between the two pantheons, it probably means the last two Old Gods are also two Evanuris. Since the final voice is male, I'd hazard a guess that this is Lusacan, who was one of the three patron gods of the ancient Neromenians and yet to arise from his prison. That would mean the other, of course, is Razikale, the patron god of ancient Tevinter and Minrathous.

Glad you agree with my assessment. I think the female voice over the Antiva map is likely that of either Caterina Delamorte or Teia but there is an outside chance it could be Razikale because the Old Gods are returning and assessing the situation on the ground. However, I think the former more likely because it would appear to be the voice of the First Warden over the Anderfels.

Is it also possible they are showing the order in which we will travel. So, starting with Antiva, we will move onto Rivain (which makes sense considering their position in relation to one another), then the Anderfels (plus possible the Deep Roads/Kal Sharok) and then finally Tevinter.

There have been a lot of hints this was going to be the case over the last few years.

Probably not going to be a major faction involved, although we could have a companion from them. If you think about it, neither the Crows, the Lords of Fortune, nor the Wardens were invited to Charter's meeting in Tevinter Nights, yet all might have information on Solas, just not necessarily know it. Also at least two of those factions, the Grey Wardens and the Crows featured in the comic the Missing, which was said to be a direct tie in. Speaking of factions, there was no indication on the map of travel to Arlathan Forest, although it is on the edge of the final shot involving Tevinter, so I think the Veil Jumpers may feature later in the game and connected in some way with the final voice, either supporting or in opposition.

I forgot that there was a Mortaltassi at the meeting in TVN and that is a pretty good catch to imply that they won't be that far involved because of that.

Still we have seen Undead looking imagery in the BTS trailers. Now that could've been scrapped but its also safe to assume its still in there so I find the exclusion of Nevarra/ the Mortaltassi a bit odd if they don't acctually make it into the game.