Dragon Age News Thread

Yeah I saw similar metaphors. Especially since the characters in the prison at the end were the Inquisitor, Cassandra, Leliana, Josephine, and Harding who were all there from the beginning. As I said, I hope that isn't the case regarding the new PC. Unless worst case they do the dual-protagonist thing. Instead I'm hoping it is referring to characters such as Vaea and Arron since you mentioned Knight Errant as companions or important adviser-tier agents. After all Danny Ocean never sat back and let the others do all the work. He was right there with them. 

DAO also had the clear big bad of the Blight and the Archdemon, but first we had to save a sick dude, find a crazy chick to settle a dispute over the dwarf throne, save (or kill) a bunch of mages, hug some werewolves, and end a civil war. The deep roads excursion is the most extended contact we have with the darkspawn and we didn't even go there for them, they were just an obstacle. We only deal with the main plot for about 20% of the game: the first 10% at Ostagar, and the last 10% at the Battle for Denerim.

I have no trouble whatsoever believing that DA4 could be structured in a similar way.


These are usually optional questions. In my successive plays of DAO, I never ask the "Herp derp I'm an Aeducan but don't know what noble hunters are," or "I'm a mage but don't know anything about the various demon types" questions. They were great for learning the world of that first play, but I don't have to take them on subsequent plays, and I don't for RP and immersion reasons. Those questions should be in there regardless for players that are new to the franchise and as long as they're optional, I have no issue with it.

Bioware, Star Wars: The Old Republic would also fit, he's voiced for them in the past and they are working on a new expansion which is going back to the war of Empire vs Republic, so his military man hint would also fit.....

That’s what I hope for, as I really like the idea of creating a Tevinter character.  That said, I think it would be a shame for the Inquisitor to be shoved to the side entirely, so I really hope for dual protagonist scenario.

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Greg Ellis @ellisgreg
Any guesses as to the first letter of the characters job description?

Considering the span of Inquisition (all the way from the Fallow Mire to the Forbidden Oasis) it's not much of a reach to think we could go from Tevinter to Arlathan Forest, though.

Yea, especially if what I suspect is true and we'll be zipping across the whole map of Thedas through eluvians. That wasn't the point addressed though - the hypothesis made here was that the dagger was stabbed close to a specific place and thus suggesting it's a place of importance to the future plot. And if that is true, it's only prudent to point out that there are other places closer to where the dagger was stabbed. Like Silent Plains.... or the town called Solas

Welllllll.... we already know from Weekes and Epler's GDC talk that there are 3 things they established that will be important in 'the future of the franchise': ancient elves, Qunari and eluvians

I'm fairly sure they didn't, just like they didn't forget about Solas, lol. They were simply pointing out that elements like eluvians or Qunari weren't picked at random for the DLC and will matter in the future, aside from things we can be pretty sure will matter.

It is established that individual eluvians can be pried open with enough knowledge or power - which is how Morrigan used hers and Qunari used theirs regardless who had the main password/control at the time.

Plus, Dorian has a banter in Trespasser which I don't think is just random musing - one about building his own eluvians now that Trespasser gave them an opportunity to study them (+ they more than likely got their hands on all the Qunari research). So it may be that we'd have our own eluvians established... orrrr Dorian finishes a few right around the DA4 timeline and we are volunteering (?) to test them.

 Isn't this a plot point in one of the novels. Solas touches on it in his Trespasser convo.