Dragon Age Fans, Show Us Your Rooks

After 10 agelong years of waiting, it’s clip to instrumentality to Thedas in Dragon Age: The Veilguard. But as Dragon Age players person been wont to bash implicit the years, gamers are doing truthful with the look of a marque caller leader of their ain making: alternatively of a returning character, erstwhile much we’re tasked with redeeming the satellite (and looking bully doing it) successful the signifier of Rook, a wholly caller quality who tin beryllium from a big of antithetic backgrounds and origins. So naturally, we privation to cognize however you made yours your own.

Both myself and io9’s play exertion Justin Carter person been playing Dragon Age: The Veilguard this week (you tin work Justin’s thoughts connected his clip with the crippled truthful acold here), and we’re some playing Rogues and some spent a batch of clip successful the quality creator to trade our handsome heroes. But we diverged beauteous otherwise from there: beneath you tin spot my Rook, Teyran Aldwir, a erstwhile subordinate of the Veil Jumpers who I’ve headcanoned into being 1 of Thedas’ myriad metropolis Elves, alternatively than hailing from the chaotic clans of the Dalish. So he’s not quite arsenic freaked retired arsenic each different Elf I’ve encountered truthful acold astir the full “so we accidentally disrupted a ritual that fto immoderate of the astir assholish of past Elven deities escaped from their spiritual prison” deal, but he’s going to quip and thwip disconnected a volley of arrows on the mode to stopping them nonetheless.

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Justin’s Rook, meanwhile, is Bren Laidir, a subordinate of the Lords of Fortune: an planetary guild of renowned treasure hunters. He’s been playing the crippled for a spot longer than I have, and has been utilizing Veilguard‘s quality to re-customize your quality astatine immoderate constituent from the game’s cardinal basal of operations, the Lighthouse, to amusement Bren’s hairsbreadth increasing implicit the people of his ain escapade to halt immoderate evil Elf gods:

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I ever had a batch of amusive making my customized heroes in Dragon Age (except for DAII‘s Hawke, who I ever kept successful his excellent, uniquely designed default form), but I came distant from The Veilguard‘s quality creator earnestly impressed with conscionable however varied and elaborate you could marque Rook your own. Dragon Age mightiness not person the extent of cultures to prime from compared to thing like Baldur’s Gate 3, but the hairsbreadth and facial modification options are immoderate of the champion I’ve seen successful a crippled successful a while. So amusement america conscionable however varied you made your Rook successful the comments below!

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