InDragon Age: The Veilguard, Rook comes from nowhere and doesnt care about anything.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard lacks the nuance to do Minrathous justice.
Beatrice Thorne, a Tory name for a Tory character, was ready to go.
I was never told where Beatrice came from, so I decided she fared from Tevinter.
Except, it then became clear she knew nothing about the place in dialogue, so I scrapped that.
Okay, fine, shes an apostate from another country, maybe somewhere in the Free Marches?
Instead, Im running around playing camp counsellor.
Even the Inquisitor loves me after I unfairly blamed her for everything.
And why wouldnt they?
Ive been there for everyone.
Ive been kind and considerate.
And I hate it.
Ive had it relatively easy.
Elven Rooks will also refer to Elgar’nan and Ghilan’nain as their gods, whether or not theyre Dalish.
They seem to have gotten over that schism now, with neither group feeling strongly about their beliefs.
The issue stems from the strange wayBioWareapproached backgrounds this time.
And yet, it seems that The Veilguard wants to act as if they mostly have.
They even have the same surname and everything.
Dragon Age: Origins, on the other hand, is a roleplayer’s dream.
Shes arrogant and prone to being childish.
Best of all, her being a mage defines her entire life.
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.
The world that Origins creates is so rich that I can never forget my place in it.
Everything I do is coloured by my characters background, and how Ive decided she feels about it.
The Veilguard has given me nothing to work with.
But no one seems fussed as to why I did that.
Lucanis - the mage killer - does too.
Hell,Iforget Im a mage half the time.
Remember when you could lose two companions in Origins because you defiled the ashes of Andraste?
Except,Dragon Age 2already did that.
In hindsight, it was much better than The Veilguards approach.
BioWare’s first single player RPG in years was bound to land in the middle somewhere.
For starters, we werent being lied to.
Theyd always have younger twin siblings, and theyd always start their story fleeing Lothering from the Blight.
Eventually, theyd become the Champion of Kirkwall, and witness the beginnings of the mage uprising.
Yet within those constraints, we still had a remarkable amount of freedom.
Ultimately, BioWare should have just given Rook a better-defined backstory, and let us take it from there.
Being unable to be the Queen of Ferleden on the basis of being a mage defined my Wardens life.
Hawke seeing her sister dragged away to the Circle did too.
A direct sequel to Inquisition, it focuses on red lyrium and Solas, the aforementioned Dread Wolf.
