Dragon Age: The Veilguard Devs Confirm There Is No Canon Storyline

By 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Rhiannon Bevan

Published Jul 28, 2024

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Summary

Dragon Age: The Veilguard won't introduce a canon world state.
Game director John Epler tells TheGamer that as far as he's concerned, there is no canon.
Instead, it's still up to players to decide what's canon in their playthroughs.

168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dragon Age: The Veilguard is ditching the Keep - a site used to store players' world states across the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dragon Age series. However, this doesn't mean that The Veilguard is making a particular playthrough canon.

Sitting down with TheGamer staff writer Gabrielle Castania at San Diego Comic-Con, game director John Epler goes into more detail on Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Here, he confirms that there is no canon world state. As far as BioWare's concerned, it's whatever we want it to be.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard Doesn't Have A Set Canon

Epler expands on what canon means in Dragon Age when asked if The Veilgu🐠ard will pick a parti💦cular world state.

"We get asked that a lot, especially because when we start doing products like comics [and] shows, people want to know what's canon," says Epler. "We have to decide one that is for that media canon, but I don't think there really is a canon state of the world.

"I do think there are some more interesting ones, I'm always a fan of the most chaotic and strange paths through the game, but no, there's no canon. There's always what your world of Thedas is, what your people have done... it's your own canon. Canon is a very personal thing in Dragon Age."

We already know that we'll be 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:recreating our I🔜nquisitor in The Veilg🔜uard, so we can expect the ♑decisions they made to have some significance.

While this might seem obvious, given that all previous games have let us transfer characters and decisions over, this isn't always a given. In fact, Dragon Age has made a habit of removing some decisions - perhaps most glaringly with 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dragon Age: Origins. For example, neither of Cullen's Origins endings can be canon, since that would write him out of the next two games (168澳洲幸运5开奖网:we could only be so lucky), and Ander💮s can straight up die in the expansion, before turning up unharmed in Dragon Age 2.

We'll have to wait and see if The Veilguard can stay faithful to all world states, or if some creative liberties are taken. But at the very least, we now know there isn't a canon world state that's overriding everything.