There will be no canon world state in the role-playing game “Dragon Age: The Veilguard”. Instead, players will have to decide what they consider to be the official story.
The “Dragon Age” series tells a continuous story from the first game onwards. However, BioWare does not want to commit to an official story arc in its fantasy universe. As the developers announced at the San Diego Comic-Con, players in the upcoming “Dragon Age: The Veilguard” should instead decide what they consider to be the official story.
As BioWare states, the game will do away with the Keep, an online platform where players can upload and adapt their decisions from previous Dragon Age games. However, this does not mean that any particular gameplay will become official canon.
The world becomes what the players want it to be
During Comic-Con, game director John Epler was asked if BioWare had decided on a certain world state as canon for “Dragon Age: The Veilguard,” i.e. an officially valid course of history. “We get asked that a lot,” said Epler. “Especially because people want to know what canon is when we make products like comics (and) series. We have to decide on a canon of media, but I don’t think there really is a canon state of the world (in the game).”
“I do think there are some more interesting paths and I’m always a fan of the most chaotic and strange paths through the game,” Epler continued. “But no, there is no canon. There is always what your world of Thedas is, what your people have done… that is your own canon. Canon is a very personal thing in Dragon Age.”
BioWare hasn’t been very precise about the story before
Although players can experience their own story, BioWare developers have intervened on several occasions and twisted the story to fit the narrative of subsequent games. For example, none of the endings for the character Cullen Rutherford in Dragon Age: Origins can be canon, as they would exclude the Templar from subsequent games.
The magician Anders, who first appears in the “Dragon Age: Origins” expansion “Awakening”, can also die in this expansion. Nevertheless, the character appears in “Dragon Age 2” as an important companion.
We already know that the Inquisitor from Dragon Age: Inquisition will play a role in Dragon Age: The Veilguard. This means that some of the decisions made will probably be incorporated into the narrative. However, with the removal of the Keep, players will have to create their protagonist from the third part of the fantasy series from scratch. However, a popular character from Dragon Age will no longer appear in the upcoming game.
Those: TheGamer
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