I’m fairly positive Varric goes to die in Dragon Age: The Veilguard. It could possibly be a purple herring, however the gameplay trailer all however screams it at you. Close to the tip, as Rook and buddies put together to confront Solas, Varric tells Rook that he’s going to try to speak Solas out of his ritual. Harding says, “Varric, Solas isn’t going to cease simply because an outdated good friend asks properly.” Varric insists that he has to try to purpose along with his former good friend, however that he’ll shoot Solas along with his trusty crossbow Bianca if needed.
Right here’s the primary essential factor: Varric tells Rook to “handle the crew” for him. Enormous purple flag. That is the road that we’ve seen numerous characters say proper earlier than they die within the fray of battle – handle everybody for me, will you? Dude goes to die. Proper after this, we see Varric making an attempt and failing to speak Solas out of his mission, and Solas destroys Bianca. Second purple flag. Bianca is virtually an extension of Varric’s character, the factor he values most. Proper after this, Solas says, “Individuals are at all times dying. It’s what they do.” Third purple flag. Rook manages to disrupt the ritual, however Varric is nowhere to be seen. What’s occurred to him? My guess: loss of life!
Once more, this could possibly be a purple herring. The scene is so unsubtle in regards to the prospect of Varric dying that loss of life appears virtually too apparent an end result. However the indicators are there. Right here’s my drawback: I haven’t performed sufficient Dragon Age for this to be a giant deal to me. My relationship with Varric is restricted to the couple of hours of Dragon Age: Inquisition I’ve performed, and since I didn’t know who he was, the snarky dwarf was simply one other companion to me. Oh, he confirmed up once more, and he died? Positive, I suppose. Why ought to I care? I don’t care about any of those companions simply but.
That’s not a fault on BioWare’s half, it’s a direct results of me not having performed sufficient of the sequence but. Whereas the video games don’t share a protagonist, Dragon Age is an epic told over the course of several games, fairly than a set of standalone adventures. Characters recur over time, and lots of followers virtually grew up with Varric, contemplating he was the narrator of Dragon Age 2 and a companion in Inquisition. While it might be time for Dragon Age to move past Varric, it’s nonetheless going to sting for lots of people if he does die.
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I would like it to sting too. I don’t need to go into Dragon Age: The Veilguard with no attachments to those characters, figuring out {that a} dramatic loss of life could have no impact on me as a result of I’ve no stakes. I’ve been working my method by the sequence, not simply because I need to perceive the bigger setting and lore, however as a result of I would like The Veilguard to have an emotional payoff. I would like Solas’ betrayal to harm, regardless that I already realize it’s coming. I need to really feel my coronary heart shatter as Bianca falls to the bottom in items.
I do know I can’t manufacture the attachment that longtime followers may need to the sport. I’ll by no means know what it feels wish to develop up enjoying this sequence, as a result of I don’t have a time machine. However I’m doing what I can within the run as much as The Veilguard by enjoying as lots of the video games as I can, and I hope it’s sufficient that I nicely up just a little once we (in all probability) discover Varric’s physique within the rubble.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is the long-awaited fourth recreation within the fantasy RPG sequence from BioWare previously generally known as Dragon Age: Dreadwolf. A direct sequel to Inquisition, it focuses on purple lyrium and Solas, the aforementioned Dread Wolf.
