Summary
Dragon Age: The Veilguardis ditching the Keep - a site used to store players' world states across theDragon Ageseries. However, this doesn’t mean that The Veilguard is making a particular playthrough canon.
Sitting down with TheGamer staff writer Gabrielle Castania at San Diego Comic-Con, game director John Epler goes into more detail on Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Here, he confirms that there is no canon world state. As far asBioWare’s concerned, it’s whatever we want it to be.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard Doesn’t Have A Set Canon
Epler expands on what canon means in Dragon Age when asked if The Veilguard will pick a particular world state.
“We get asked that a lot, especially because when we start doing products like comics [and] shows, people want to know what’s canon,” says Epler. “We have to decide one that is for that media canon, but I don’t think there really is a canon state of the world.
“I do think there are some more interesting ones, I’m always a fan of the most chaotic and strange paths through the game, but no, there’s no canon. There’s always what your world of Thedas is, what your people have done… it’s your own canon. Canon is a very personal thing in Dragon Age.”
We already know that we’ll berecreating our Inquisitor in The Veilguard, so we can expect the decisions they made to have some significance.
While this might seem obvious, given that all previous games have let us transfer characters and decisions over, this isn’t always a given. In fact, Dragon Age has made a habit of removingsomedecisions - perhaps most glaringly withDragon Age: Origins. For example, neither of Cullen’s Origins endings can be canon, since that would write him out of the next two games (we could only be so lucky), and Anders can straight up die in the expansion, before turning up unharmed in Dragon Age 2.
We’ll have to wait and see if The Veilguard can stay faithful toallworld states, or if some creative liberties are taken. But at the very least, we now know there isn’t a canon world state that’s overriding everything.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard
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Dragon Age: The Veilguard is the long-awaited fourth game in the fantasy RPG series from BioWare formerly known as Dragon Age: Dreadwolf. A direct sequel to Inquisition, it focuses on red lyrium and Solas, the aforementioned Dread Wolf.
