THE ART OF DRAGON AGE VEILGUARD

Thank you for reminding me to do this! According to Amazon it will be released locally on December 5th. (Also if any fellow Aussies are ordering this: I usually try to buy from local retailers, but the deluxe edition is $149 on Amazon and $273 at Readings, while Dymocks doesn't even have it up, so Jeff Bezzos gets my money this time around.)

So from the Joplin era:
Harding was always going to be a party member.
Imshael was going to be a party member with a human form that they could change their sex (there's more art of their female form).
Calpernia was going to be a party member, seems to have been transformed into Neve.
Lucanis was originally Tevinter.
The Qunari party member started as a male sareebas > male spy > dragon hunter rogue lady (Taash).
The Crow companion was a female elf dreamer.
Bioware seems to have love the idea of a Dalish-Grey Warden so Darvin was always going to be a thing.

I'm sad about the loss of the Dreamer and Imshael they seemed like really unique ideas for party members.

Here in the Great White North it is 130.00 for the Deluxe Edition. While the slip case is a nice idea...and I do like a nice lithograph- I dont see those two things being worth the amount to make it double the cost of the book itself. 70.00 CAD after tax is more than enough; personally I think a book like this should be $45.00 for the Standard and $80 for the Deluxe.

But just like the games themselves the prices are way over-blown so I try to limit the damage to my wallet as much as possible especially considering the fact that I also spend extra money on the OST when buying it off iTunes.

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My artbook order is being processed now. I won't look at it until I finish the game at least once.

Holy shit we were robbed. Joplin sounds so much better than what we got story wise.

That's ridiculous. How did you get into that whole conclusion just by some simple concept artworks?

Of course I knew there are written text. I read everything. You just assumed I didn't.

These were cool ideas but it's not so easy to execute them I'm sure. Even most setpieces in Veilguard looked like they were straining the time and budget to the max. There's no way the dramatic concept artworks could be delivered in the game unfortunately.

And also about writers, they are the same team from Inquisition.

Mine arrived today!

Once I finish the game at least once I am going to dig into the Art book...maybe find the inspiration to continue my spin-off story that I began after I finished Jaws of Hakkon and Tresspasser.

My head canon Inquisitor is a Dalish Elven Mage who romanced Cullen. My second canon Inquisitor is a Human mage from Ferelden who romanced Cassandra.


I havent finished Veilguard yet so I have not decided which of my PCs is going to be my canon character.

I totally agree there but part of me was/is hoping that Veilguard would be the last in the franchise. I gather though that that is not/would be the case. And though I have always preferred MASS EFFECT as a franchise....the next ME game is not slated for release till closer to 2030.

In the words of our favourite Dwarven Storyteller, "I really am getting too old for this sh*t"

I just finished the game, so I think I will be looking through my copy of the art book this weekend! I loved the previous book (and game art books in general), so I'm excited.