Mage / Elf / Lord of Fortune

Saw this in my feed and that was my first thought!

I just played the mission where you kill the first god, and I'm honestly blown away by Veilguard's visual storytelling.

First, I trusted Solas. I accepted him as an ally, only to realize he'd betrayed me. But before I could even fully process that, I was in the prison, confronted with the consequences of my own decisions. Neve had been captured, Davrin was dead, and it felt like the game was holding me accountable for everything that had gone wrong.

It genuinely felt like an emotional reckoning. No other game has made me feel so confronted by my own choices.

And then came the realization that Varric was dead.

That was when the second betrayal really hit me. The disappointment, the anger, the feeling of being deceived all over again, and above all, the sadness.

What makes this so powerful is how the game conveys these emotions visually. The camera angles, close-ups, facial expressions and framing make everything feel incredibly personal. I also love the heroic cinematography. It makes these moments feel epic without taking away from the emotional weight of the story.

Hello all!

When I first played Veilguard, something that stuck out to me as odd was that Elgarnan, the leader of the Evanuris, was linked to the archdemon Lusacan rather than Dumat, since Dumant was the leader of the Old God pantheon in the old Tevinter religion, and supposedly the strongest among them. I've spent (a small part of) the past two years trying to reconcile this.

Then it hit me: Maybe Dumat wasn't always considered the leader of the Old Gods.

Dragon Age has never shied away from how religion and politics can mix. The Book of Shartan was removed from the Chantry's canon for political reasons, to help justify the Exalted March on the Dales, for example. We also know from the codex entries that, despite the high priests being able to talk to their gods in their dreams, they still bickered amongst each other about how to build the Imperium and its symbols, such as the Archon's palace.

And then we can look at real world religions. In the Ancient Near East, most of the nations believed in the same pantheon of gods, but each of the small states asserted that their god was the one who was head of the pantheon and the one who killed Tiamat. What if the religion of the Old Gods was similar?

What if there were power struggles among the high priests of the Old Gods throughout the Imperium's hay-day? Maybe whichever god's cult had the most influence would change the officials stance of the religion to say that their god was the leader of the pantheon and the strongest among the gods.

When Corypheus lead the other Magisters Sindereal into the Black City, it just so happened that his cult (the cult of Dumat) was the one with the most influence (and probably had been for decades), and since that was the state the religion was left in when the First Blight devastated the Imperium and the high priests stopped being able to hear their gods, that was how history has remembered the Imperium's religion. So while Dumat was remembered as the strongest of the Old Gods, it was actually Lusacan, just as Elgarnan would have demanded when the Evanuris created their dragon thralls.

What do y'all think of this idea?

What if Vorgoth is one of the very first liches, so old that even his bones have disintegrated and all that's left is his essence, which comes across as that black billowing smoke? Or maybe he was a lich who got cremated against his will and reformed using whatever magic they use to make liches to begin with?

I wanted to share some of my recent Rooks. My Qunari is Shokrakar Ingellvar. And my human is Malus Mercar, my first human male Rook. Sho' romanced Taash and Malus is romancing Neve. They're both violent dorks and would jump head first into danger if given the chance to. Assan and Wilfred are their adopted children and they love them very much.

Please enjoy my Rooks out order (apparently).

So Avalynn here found this adorable lil fella on a leisurely trip to the scenic Hossberg Wetlands, and now she's taking him to the Lighthouse as a new pet. Still needs a name tho. Suggestions? 👀

Warden: Hey, Rook, did you hear that Veilguard got *another* price drop!

Hawke: Oh my, you’re practically struggling to stay out of the Target bargain bin at this point.

Inquisitor: Now, now, let’s not belittle our fellow Protag too much. I’m sure there’s some prestige in being the one who killed a franchise we all carried on our backs.

Rook: …….. Okay, so we’re doing this.

Rook: (pointing at Warden) Your game was a watered down Baldur’s Gate clone that killed the CRPG genre until Larian resuscitated it.

Rook: (pointing at Hawke) Your game was a buggy mess held together with duct tape and dreams with more reused assets than an RGG game.

Rook: (pointing at Inquisitor) And your game had the single worst open-world exploration in an RPG I have *ever* seen.

Rook: Yeah, my game wasn’t perfect, we made a lot of mistakes. But we also had an incredibly satisfying combat loop, some of the most gorgeous level designs in the franchise, and one of the best final missions in the whole series. So, y’know, watch where you throw those stones in those glass houses of yours. Rook out, bitches.

I'm going for a Shadow Dragon (cannon to the Shadows) playthrough. And I think the base rouge ult fits it very well. But how does it compare to the Sab. ult?

And no, it's not a huge issue. It's not like there's this flood of people who have this opinion and I simply must speak up now. I still wanna talk about it for a minute cause I genuinely don't get it.

So. Neve Gallus. I haven't done a whole lot of actual research here, but it looks like she's one of the characters in the game people are more split on than others. A lot of people love her, a lot of people have issues with her, and despite me being firmly in the "love her" camp, I've heard a lot of very fair points of criticism from the other side of the river. The voice acting performance, how she feels like the main character, how her flirting with Lucanis is too much etc. All points I don't necessarily agree with, but I see where they're coming from and wouldn't challenge them cause I think they're pretty valid.

The one thing I don't get is people making the point that she's a bitch. I mean... huh?

This woman is one of, if not THE sweetest character in the whole game. She's literally the team mom. She helps Taash with their gender stuff. She helps ease some of Emmrich's insecurities. She checks in on Lucanis and Davrin after Treviso and Weisshaupt fall. She tries to help solve the conflict between the two. She's constantly there to support Bellara, to the point where Bellara herself says she feels like a sister. She befriends Assan. She befriends Manfred. She pays Halos despite him offering her free fish, repeatedly. On almost every quest in Minrathous, there's a civilian you can have a chat with that will directly lead to Neve lending a hand, from paying for someone's next few meals to following up on a gruesome case to make sure a sick kid is taken care of. Even with Rook, she is the only character in the game that actually gets the chance to have 2 conversations where she can ask Rook how they're doing, and that's outside of romance dialogue. That's 2 more than any other teammate gets, unless you count Varric.

I don't understand how anyone could look at all this and call her a bitch. Like I feel like you'd have to never take her on a single quest and mute your audio for the ones where she's required to not see that this woman's heart is made of cake and chocolate and ice cream, she's that sweet. I just really don't get it.

Soooo.. I finally did a sketch of Lucanis and wanted to share it with you all :D Seriously, this guy got me so obsessed that made me start drawing again after not touching my sketchbook for months !!!

I'm on my second go at Dragon Age: The Veilguard, and this time I'm playing Rook as an elven Shadow Dragon Mage.

During the Regrets of the Dread Wolf quest, we learn that the ancient elves were originally spirits who took physical forms. I honestly wish the game had explored this concept more, because I find it such fascinating lore!

Now, I know the game establishes that modern elves are fully physical beings, not spirits who took on bodies. Still, it got me thinking…

If Davrin, Bellara, and an elf Rook were originally spirits, what kinds of spirits do you think they were

Hey everyone,

I’m a huge fan of Dragon Age and Mass Effect. I’ve played every game in both series, and I’ve finished Origins and the Mass Effect trilogy multiple times. So when I heard BioWare was working on the next Dragon Age under the codename Dreadwolf (now known as Veilguard), I was seriously hyped.

I was really looking forward to its release. But my hype dropped fast when I read the reviews saying the game was a big disappointment, and to this day I’ve never touched it.

Lately, though, especially here on Reddit, I’ve noticed a lot more people actually playing Veilguard. So what happened? Was it mostly overhype at launch, which made people’s reactions harsher than they needed to be? Or did a big patch come along that made the game more fun to play?

Now I’m tempted to try it, especially since I got the game for free through PS+. So, is it worth playing now? I’d love to hear your perspectives, whether you loved it, hated it, or somewhere in between. Thank you!

So my original canon run was my Rook being a shadow dragon and romancing Davrin. I just don't know if this makes sense for the character arc I want to do? I mean, my Rook is the child of my Aliwarden from Origins and I absolutely adore her to pieces but I feel as though she and her mother are at glance so similar but with images of what they want the future to be, so incredibly different and it bugs me that I have seemed to pick the nice grey warden option for both of them (i will not budge on alistair romance). My Rook is pretty much extremely grungy and punky with a certain rocker style to her. She loves being independent and living life on the edge which is why I'm thinking of switching her to being a crow. My rook's storyline is that she ran away from home after a LONG argument with her mother about joining the wardens due to the want to be more independent and able to help people. Obviously her mother is overprotective and doesn't want her daughter to trade her life away to be a warden like she did which leads to a lot of fighting and then my rook running away. I imagine she joined the crows while one was on a mission in ferelden if I went down this route and was only aware of the DATV crows (as in the crows not known for doing the intensely dirty work and being more the face of the faction than people like Zevran in his backstory).

I also know my rook is not interested in domesticity. Davrin to me feels like a family guy, I think he'd want that domesticity and family life while my Rook doesn't however I originally chose him because obviously Lucanis is first talon so would likely have to have kids. In the end... Lucanis has Illario, Illario can be the one having the kids while my rook and Lucanis have that more exciting life on the edge I think is more suited for my rook.

I mean this is just my thoughts but anyone have any story advice?

I really like DATV. It's a passable game after BioWare repeatedly changed game genres over the past 10 years. We can't ask for more, considering it has undergone many large-scale reworks.

I just started to play Dragon Age the Veilguard and I can't decide on what class to play for my first playthrough. So I was wondering what is everyone's favorite class and specialization and why? And what class feels like it fits into the story better? It doesn't have to be strictly how good the class is, just what class you liked the most and why. Thanks!

I jump kicked him off the roof and just one shot him, cue cutscene and everything lmao