#veilguard artbook spoilers

[maythedreadwolftakeyou]

I KNEW IT I KNEW I KNEW IT I KNEW IT I WEEP FOR WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN 😭💔😫

[milton-chamberlain]

Faded Hawke

I really liked the concept from the artbook and OH MY GOD IT'S SO NICE THAT THE CREATORS OF THE GAME THOUGHT ABOUT THIS

....of course it would be even better if it were in the game, but...

I really want to break free and play with this topic, think about how the Fade could affect Hawke’s mind, health, appearance...

[nemo-of-house-hamartia]

Companions Concept art.

And I am going INSANE for each of them.

[bunabi]

More concepts and info:

There was a top-secret document on Bioware's network containing the objective historu of Thedas called the Black Codex. Um. The artbook lays all its information out. I will not be posting it lol.

There was an idea to find the last living descendant of Andraste?? She looks so fucking cool:

The first build — codenamed Joplin — would have had a fantasy spy theme, hunting 'the most dangerous man in the world'. The artists worked in the same room as the writers to work more dynamically! The book says this was the first time they tried this, to great success. And from the art thst really shows. 😭

The concept of Solas's ritual involves what seems to be mortal sacrifices arranged around an artifact.

I'm only 43 pages in out of 250 and there's SO much.

[liaragaming]

Confirmed Elgar'nan wears a wig.

While Solas is totes comfortable with his bald self.

10/10, no notes.

[elvhenquyen]

This is so fucking brutal 😭

[achlysfx]

A few more potential artbook SPOILERS below the cut.

(Don't spoil game story in comments, please. Most of us still haven't beaten the game.) 😅

[eatingyarn]

rook gathered three most judgmental and opinionated people in whole thedas for the final council. good luck!

[mrs-gauche]

I wonder if the sword and the eye symbol on the new artbook cover are a reference to DA2 and DAI (as in, it looks exactly like Meredith's sword Certainty and the eye on the Inquisition's symbol?) since we had both Meredith and Corypheus on the 2020 teaser mural, too... but how exactly do they tie into the narrative of Veilguard? 🤔

Like the 2020 mural, is it another hint at both the red lyrium idol and the orb, maybe? Both of these artifacts did kinda set the events of each game in motion (less so in DA2 but it was still a big plot device). AND they both belong to Solas after all... 👀👀 Also....

There is the flippin dagger again. 😂 I've seen people speculating that maybe our choices might have an influence on the dagger somehow and that it could become corrupted (again? Since there's still a chance that this is the red lyrium idol but "purified". So maybe Solas cleansed it somehow, but without him, it transforms again?).

To me, the dagger on the artbook cover looks almost like it's covered in vines or roots? And that in turn reminds me of the vinyl cover with the tree branches and the dragon (Mythal?) and how Mythal's vallaslin looks also like tree branches and all that mention of vegetation and flora in the visions about Mythal's war against the Titans in Trespasser..

Or, speaking of "roots", Titans and Mythal, we might as well look at all these "lyrium veins" in The Descent again (the dagger is likely made of lyrium after all)...

And doesn't THAT in turn remind you of the new design of the demons we've seen so far in DA4 and that "nervous system", and how the devs just recently confirmed that there's a lore reason for that redesign?? 👀👀👀

"They made bodies from the Earth, and the Earth was afraid."

Hmmmmmm. 👀👀👀👀👀

[eva-taash]

𝘋𝘢𝘳-𝘴𝘢𝘢𝘮

[scribeofmorpheus]

My Veilguard art book just arrived and I am filled with way too many emotions to just set the book down and go to work! They started storyboarding and creating concept art for Veilguard from BEFORE INQUISITION LAUNCHED! I am unwell! The Divine could have sent a fleet out to search for Solas! The elves hearing the call to go to ARLATHAN FOREST and then meeting Solas with his crown on!! I am so frustrated. We could have had a ship as our base of operations as we travelled around Northern Thedas (the Eluvians could have kept their mystery instead of being reduced to magic portal ways only). I knew the art book would make me feel things but ugh! THE INTENT WAS THERE! The execution was hindered! Why must I work when I can DRAGON RAGE?!

[maythedreadwolftakeyou]

i’m gonna cry laughing at “the ancient elven god equivalent of a business suit”

[waspgrave]

anyway it's such a classic dragon age game experience to go 'ahhh you know i had fun with that game and am gonna play it repeatedly and love every aspect of it possible, but with the intention of headcanon'ing and filling in the gaps in my brain and fanfic and fanart until it becomes The Perfect Media. to me'

[felassan]

I wonder if there will now at some point be a BioWare Blogpost talking about the music announcement and the process of creating the music for DA:TV? :) and/or one final roadmap for the month of October, leading up to launch?

edit: Blogpost!

[bunabi]

Okay I lied bing bong Emmrich concept art

I edited the story spoiler out lol if you wanna see it go grab the art book

[liaragaming]

Bioware missing that the lore I actually want here is the name of Nevarra's national dog breed.