#dreadwolf teaser

[arlathaans]

dragon age: dreadwolf - dragon age day 2023 teaser map locations

[an-established-butt-dent]

The Dreadwolf rises

[felassan]

just a quick DA:D summer 'prep' watch-list hh:

Dragon Age Official Teaser Trailer - 2018 Game Awards

DA4 Tease - EA PLAY - June 2020

The next DRAGON AGE: Behind the scenes at BioWare - August 2020

The Next Dragon Age Official Teaser Trailer - 2020 Game Awards

EA Play Live 2021 Full Presentation (just the first few seconds of the vid; the pre-stream logo animation featured at one point what looked to be Solas' broken foci)

Dragon Age: Dreadwolf Official In-Game Cinematic Trailer - December 2022

Thedas Calls - Dragon Age Day (2023) - Dragon Age: Dreadwolf

[exhausted-archivist]

So About That Thedas Calls Teaser...

I am by no surprise a map fiend and have been combing over the map shown. First off it is tilted and squashed to heck cause of the really fun stylization which seems to be pulling inspiration from historical nautical maps as it has at least two sea bound center points.

Second, we have confirmation of:

Treviso, Antiva

Rivain

Weisshaupt, Anderfels

There are elements that suggest the following:

Merdaine, Anderfels: a location that holds the giant white sculpture of Andraste titled "Our Lady of the Anderfels", this is also near Weisshaupt.

Minrathous, Tevinter: which would make sense considering everything we've seen in previous concept work and through the short stories and anthology Tevinter Nights

Arlathan Forest, Tevinter: Same reasoning as above

Kal-Sharok: This one is a bit more tenious because as I mentioned in the first point the map is squashed and tilted so exact location is hard to figure out. Couple with the fact the structure is largely hidden in the fog of war. It could very much also be Andoral's Reach as that is the other known location in that area, but that is in Orlais so I have my doubts.

The following images are organized in order of mention:

The last image shows the whole frame for Minrathous, Arlathan forest, and the mysterious southern fortress (Kal-Sharok?) I also wonder, given that the Thedas Herbology oversized mousepad shows two varieties of deep mushrooms we've only seen in a drawing in The World of Thedas Vol. 2; the bleeding russula and the blighted morel. I wonder if that further lends to the possibility that we will be venturing back into the Deep Roads.

I'm really hoping we get to see more than one place in each location outside Tevinter. Not only that, but I also hope we get to go to Antiva City, though not named it would be interesting to see the capital of Antiva as well as how the "crown" and crows are handling the fifth occupation of Treviso by what they perceive as the Qun and if the main body of the Qun is helping fight against the rebelling Antaam as we see suggested in Tevinter Night.

I do really love the map they've shared, the stylization definitely communicates a focus on certain locals and fades away the ones we don't need to even consider. The use of the fog of war also plays so well into that and the sea monster.

Unfortunately, it doesn't portray much in terms of climates/biomes. The Anderfels looks arid as it always has, but Antiva is even more un-informing than usual. The fact the map is essentially stylized cracking rock portrays little on if Antiva is an arid climate or not. Considering Treviso seems to have snow on the mountains, and pretty low on the peaks as well, I have questions considering the rough placement we've been suggested they are on the globe and the fact that Seheron and Par Vollen are tropical and Rivain has the hallmarks of the same with the crops they grow - bananas, sugar, nutmeg, cinnamon, rice, chickpeas, bell peppers, ect.

Very excited to get back into the world of Thedas again.

[icespyders]

dragon age

[tsvai]

it's n7 day!!!

the cut content restoration mod i paused my current playthrough of MELE to wait for is out, so i'm climbing back on my bullshit lmao.

[alialioxenfreeee]

ALRIGHT.

WE GET IT.

THE EGG BOY IS IN THE GAME. VEIL TEARING, WOLVES, SPOOKYYYY!

I swear to GOD. Give me something else in a trailer for Dreadwolf than Solas. Just. Anything. How is Tevinter vs The Qun going? How are the elves in general? How are the circles?! HEY, WHAT ABOUT THE TITANS? ARE THEY LIKE, WAKING UP? WHAT ABOUT THAT THING ABOUT THE QUNARI BEING EXPERIMENTS?? WHATS UP WITH THAT?!

Dragon Age listen I know Solas is a big part of the game (So solas lovers please do not come at me with pitchforks) but can we know anything else at all about Dreadwolf? I think the only teasers aside from concept art has been Solas themed. GIMME SOMETHING ELSE.

[sorshania]

[kissingwookiees]

thinking about... solas dragon age dreadwolf game awards 2020 teaser trailer new face reveal again

[demilypyro]

New Mass Effect teaser is out.

You get a SICK Jacket now!

Anyway in August Bioware laid off 50 employees who were working on Dragon Age Dreadwolf. They are now protesting because they received far less severance pay than is legally required. 13 QA testers were also laid off back in September, an unusual choice since a game still in development would actively *need* testers. These former employees are today picketing in hopes of getting their jobs back.

[an-established-butt-dent]

Fen'Harel in Dragon Age: Dreadwolf 2024

Acrylic ink, colored pencil and gouache on paper.

[felassan]

I'm excited to visit Treviso (<- DA:TV spoilers at link) :D

[some burblings about Treviso here in this now somewhat-out-of-date post hh (ctrl-f Treviso)]

[kcwriter-blog]

I'm of two minds when it comes to the information that Solas has been slowly preparing his ritual for longer than anyone in game was aware of.

On the one hand, my mind goes immediately to the idea that he has been working on this from the Fade side for hundreds if not thousands of years. There was something when the teaser to the teaser came out about a merging of the two worlds hundreds of years in the making - if I remember correctly. That would mean Solas has been up to something for a long time.

Except he seems so horror stricken by what the world has become when he wakes up. Pulling the strings from the Fade side implies he's always known how bad things are in Thedas.

The only other thing I can think of that makes sense to me, personally, is that he always knew there was a time limit on the Veil. He knew it would degrade eventually. He somehow sets an alarm clock that wakes him up when the Veil is very weak.

The entire point of the Veil is that it serves as a prison for the Evanuris. I can't see him wanting them to get out. But, what if knowing the Veil would eventually degrade, he decides he needs a powerful object that gains magical energy for thousands of years? He can take down the Veil and destroy the Evanuris with, say, an Orb.

That might be why he has been preparing the ritual. He probably thought his people would be fine and maybe even strong enough to help him. He didn't realize the Veil would mean the destruction of his people. Now he's faced with a Veil that is coming down no matter what, so he tries to move the Evanuris into another prison before continuing with taking down the Veil. With his Orb broken he doesn't have enough power to take them on. Basically he decides to move them, bring the world back to what it was and then try to figure out a new plan (given his track record, that's a scary thought).

I know I'm rambling.

On the other hand, I'm reminded of the original premise for Veilguard when it was still Dreadwolf. Then devs said that our hero would have no power and the game would be about what happens when no one in power is listening or paying attention. We see in both Tevinter Nights and The Missing that there is more magic in the world in the sense that non-mages are starting to get magical powers. Lucanis gets Fade headaches. Sister Laudine, in the short story In Genitivi Dies in the End seems to suddenly get Rift Mage powers. In The Missing Arlathan Forest is a magical disaster. So much so it's led to the creation of the Veil Jumpers. There's also the activation of Ghilan'nain's monster factory in Horror of Hormak. There are probably other examples.

So is it possible that what Epler is referring to is just what Solas has been doing for the past 10 years? We have all been thinking that Solas would tear the Veil down in one fell swoop with a single ritual. What if it isn't? What if he had to do a lot of things before he could get to the big ritual? Those things brought even more magic into the world.

In that situation, his gathering of magical objects makes sense. They may be the anchor points for pulling down the Veil. I've always suspected those artifacts we have to turn on in DAI for him were used to help create the Veil. That's why when we activate them, they strengthen the Veil and keep rifts from forming. Over time, they got picked up by people, lost, stolen and turned off. It's possible our Inquisitors are the only ones who could activate them because they had magic tied to the Fade. Solas certainly isn't activating them.

Then again it could be both. Solas was aware of what the Veil is doing to spirits in the Fade and wanted to help them by pulling it down. He starts on the Veil side and then wakes up to finish the ritual on the waking world side. He has no idea what's been going on in the world so he's pretty upset.

I don't know if any of these theories are correct but I'm glad we won't have to wait much longer to find out.

[feykrorovaan]

Dragon Age Dreadwolf is taking so long because BioWare fired Solas. That's why he's not in the new teaser.

[stars-and-clouds]

DRAGON AGE: VEILGUARD GAMEPLAY + STORY SPOILERS

What have we done 🫠🫠

SO we have Ghilan'nain and Elgar'nan being released and that is the game?????

They'd be the only two left after all the other ones died through blights.

The above image is from the 2020 teaser and this is quite literally what happens in the gameplay reveal. Dreadwolf in the golden city (probably) tearing the veil accidentally and releasing the two God's Ghilan'nain and Elgar'nan into the world. They hinted this so long back!

If the veil is the mirror of the real world then Solas was standing in the Golden city, which is where the black city is where the Evanuris were sealed away.

Reference

[smilelikeawolf]

As I was combing through all things Dragon Age like an excitable gremlin, something caught my eye. Among the stuff Bioware is offering for purchase, they have Rook's Coffer, which includes a replica of Solas' ritual lyrium dagger.

We can also see it briefly in the trailer, specifically on Rook's belt and stabbed into one of the Evanuris.

And it struck me that we have seen something kinda similar in DA2.

The lyrium idol.

An idol that was shown again back in the Dreadwolf teaser trailer.

The shape could be a coincidence. The dagger was said to be forged by the dwarves in the Primeval Thaig Hawke and Varric discovered. But the figures don't appear dwarvish, and the headpiece the central figure wears is similar to Flemeth's/Mythal's and Andraste's.

Was the idol meant to be a base for a lyrium dagger or sword? Mythal is the one said to have struck down the titans, maybe this was to be a weapon to fight against her. I wondered if this was part of the weapon the Evanuris used to kill Mythal, but that doesn't explain why the dwarves made it or how it got back down into the thaig. It's possible it could be a key of some kind, which then begs the question if Solas' dagger can also function as a key. It was used in the ritual to bring down the veil. That could offer one explanation as to where House Valdasine vanished to.

The idol was teased for a reason, so I expect the game to pull it into play somehow.

In conclusion: