Fenris Probably Won't Appear In Future Dragon Age Games Because Of His Tattoos

By 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Rhiannon Bevan

Published Nov 25, 2024

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Summary

Former lead writer on the Dragon Age series, David Gaider, explains why Fenris is unlikely to make cameos in future games.
Fenris' lyrium tattoos require him to have a unique character model, something which is too "expensive" to pull off for a cameo.
Gaider planned to include Fenris in his cancelled fourth Dragon Age book - and would have killed him off.

168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dragon Age companions often pop up in future games, making brief cameos, or in some cases, even playing major roles in the sequels. This can be hard to pull off with all the different player world states, but it's worked ni🌱cely so far, bringing back familiar faces throughout the series.

Despite being a fan favourite, Fenris isn't one of these returning characters and has only ever appeared in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dragon Age 2. The other love interests from that game have popped up elsewhere, or were in games beforehan🐟d (except for Sebastian, the DLC guy), which only makes his absence even st💝ranger. However, it turns out there's a reason for this - Fenris' lyrium tattoos.

David Gaider Explains Why Fenris Didn't Appear In Dragon Age Sequels

This comes from David Gaider, the former lead writer for the Dragon Age series, who also🤡 wrote Fenris for Dragon Age 2.

"The ওlyrium tattoos💧. Interesting concept, but they're probably why you'll never see Fenris in a future DA," Gaider wrote on . "He requires a custom body, and the tattoos make that expensive."

If that wasn't bad enough, it gets even worse: "It's 💦why I put Fenris in my 4th DA novel - the cancelled one. Don't fret, though. He died in it, so this way he lives on."

I suppose that last point is a silver lining, in a way, but it also means we got very, very close to Fenris being killed off - and not even in one of the games. My thoughts are with the🅘 Fenris romancers during this difficult time. Although this does give you free rein to come up with whatever ending you want for him and yo♉ur Hawke... if they're still alive, I guess. God, that couple is doomed.

It was recently revealed that Fenris' best buddy, Anders, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:almost made♎ it into Dragon Age: Inquisition - as an incredibly rough-looking hermit. Dragon Age 2 fans have dodged a lot of bullet✨s🏅, it seems.

Gaider is doing similar BlueSky threads for all of the Dragon Age characters he's written, giving us some behind-the-scenes insight. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:In another thread, he noted how Dragon Age 2 was supposed to give Alistair and Zevran unique face models, but this was scrapped, explaining why they ended up looking like that. So, your favourite character not turning up again isn't always a bad thing - they might come back just to die again. Or their nose looks completely di♍fferent. Or they're ginger all of a sudden - looking at you, Alistair.