Summary
Dragon Age: The Veilguardwon’t let you import custom world states fromDragon Age: OriginsandDragon Age 2, and the options you can select fromDragon Age: Inquisitionare limited.
After some leaked screenshots of world state options from previewers, there was a suspicion among the community that Veilguard’s world wouldn’t be as reactive as players have come to expect from the series. According to arecent IGN articleabout the topic, this has proven to be the case.
Northern Thedas is a Different Beast
The only choices you’ll be able to select in the character creator are: who your Inquisitor romanced, whether or not you disbanded the Inquisition, and whether the Inquisitor told Solas they were going to stop or save him.
The Veilguard’s creative director John Epler explains that since The Veilguard is set in Northern Thedas, this has given BioWare the freedom to start with essentially a “clean slate” without directly contradicting the hundreds of choices made by players across the series.
“There’s not as many decisions you have made up to this point that have an impact on what’s happening in Northern Thedas. And we don’t speak directly to things like who is the Divine? Because again, that’s happening in the South,” Epler said.
The solution for BioWare to avoid contradictions is to just not address certain topics. It’s a delicate balance because the narrative permutations have multiplied with every subsequent release in the series, creating a lot of extra work for developers should they decide to keep creating unique content for every possible scenario.
Though Epler stresses in the interview that this isn’t any different from certain topics not being addressed between Origins and 2, and then both to Inquisition, you can understand why the community might be saddened to find that they can’t import any of their options.
It was always going to be an impossible balancing act for BioWare to keep using Dragon Age Keep, but this news is going to come as a disappointment to people in the community who were looking forward to seeing a decade’s worth of decision-making come to life.
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.
