Highlights
- Followers watching the Dragon Age: The Veilguard reveal could have uncovered a significant connection between characters Rook and Solas.
- The important thing artwork for The Veilguard exhibits Rook holding a dagger much like Solas’, hinting at a possible narrative connection between the 2.
- Hypothesis abounds on how Rook and Solas could also be linked, with theories suggesting Rook may purchase Solas’ dagger and even be a model of Solas himself.
Dragon Age followers watching the official reveal of Dragon Age: The Veilguard may need uncovered an essential connection between two main in-game characters, Rook and Solas. The connection may trace at dramatic developments within the story of Dragon Age: The Veilguard.
After an extended and protracted improvement, writer EA and developer BioWare have lastly revealed the subsequent Dragon Age sport to the world. The truth is, it is taken lengthy sufficient that the sport went by way of a full title change from Dragon Age: Dreadwolf to Dragon Age: The Veilguard. The story will decide up on main reveals from 2014’s Dragon Age: Inquisition and costs gamers with combating a pressure of rampaging Elven gods.
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And gamers paying shut consideration to the reveal may’ve simply seen a probably consequential connection between the Dragon Age: Inquisition‘s Elven mage Solas and Rook, a brand new character. Twitter consumer banalnadas highlighted an uncanny similarity between the official artwork of Rook in Dragon Age: The Veilguard and earlier artwork of Solas seen in teasers for Dragon Age: Dreadwolf.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard Artwork Probably Reveals Rook and Solas Connection
The connection proven off by banalnadas is small however probably significant, centered on the dagger proven in Rook’s hand in the important thing artwork for Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Rook is the brand new sport’s principal participant character, and alongside them in the important thing artwork are the principal companions of Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Just like the protagonists in Dragon Age: Inquisition and Dragon Age: Origins, Rook can be customizable, and as such, they’re proven within the artwork sporting a full face masks and hood, hiding their gender and species. Nonetheless, of their hand is an odd dagger with a luminous blue-green blade and a deal with with a big ring on the pommel.
A strikingly comparable dagger is seen in a shot of Solas within the official Dragon Age: Dreadwolf cinematic reveal trailer from late 2022. That trailer reiterates one of many biggest reveals from Dragon Age: Inquisition. Solas is a former Elven god generally known as the Dread Wolf and is behind one of the crucial consequential occasions in Dragon Age historical past. The shot is transient, however exhibits Solas (then generally known as Fen’harel) defeating the opposite Elven gods by creating the Veil, the mystic mechanism that separates the mundane world from The Fade, the supply of all magic within the Dragon Age universe. Solas makes use of a dagger with a pointy double-edged pointed blade and a telltale ring on the pommel to conduct the ritual.
If the looks of the dagger is not purely a coincidence, it may trace at a significant narrative connection between Solas and Rook. Followers are already speculating, with some theories suggesting that Rook will one way or the other purchase the dagger from Solas, or that Rook is definitely Solas himself not directly, a reveal that might be on-brand for the Elven god of lies and trickery. No matter occurs, it’s going to possible be defined when Dragon Age: The Veilguard releases.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is the long-awaited fourth sport within the fantasy RPG sequence from BioWare, and previously generally known as Dragon Age: Dreadwolf. A direct sequel to Inquisition, it focuses on pink lyrium and Solas, the aforementioned Dread Wolf.
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