Dragon Age: The Veilguard Is Coming This Spooky Season

What could beryllium scarier than the imaginable demolition of beingness arsenic you cognize it due to the fact that Bald Ianto From Torchwood wants to rip isolated the cloth of world betwixt the satellite and the realm of spirits? Not much, BioWare has decided, which is why, astatine agelong last, the next Dragon Age game is dropping close connected Halloween.

Today BioWare and EA released a caller trailer for Dragon Age: The Veilguard—formerly known arsenic Dragon Age: Dreadwolf during its long, winding improvement history—confirming its October 31 merchandise date, arsenic good arsenic giving america a spot of a much cinematic look astatine the crippled aft its ceremonial unveiling earlier this summer.

The caller trailer dives a small much into what’s astatine involvement successful the game, which sees Varric Tethras, the Dwarven rogue and storyteller archetypal introduced successful (the perpetually criminally underrated) Dragon Age II and past further explored successful its travel up, 2014’s Dragon Age: Inquisition, enlistee a caller leader and squad of allies to assistance instrumentality down a erstwhile friend. That “friend” of people is Solas (played by the aforementioned Ianto from Torchwood, aka Gareth David-Lloyd), the elf mage players welcomed into their ranks during Inquisition, lone for him to yet uncover that helium is really the past god, Fen’Harel—now seeking to reconstruct the elves’ aged kingdom, astatine the outgo of destroying the satellite arsenic it exists. Except, things spell a spot sideways acknowledgment to your intervention, and present each the trapped elven gods are moving amok. Woops!

We get to spot a small much of that caller hero, Dragon Age‘s latest customizable protagonist, known arsenic “Rook,” arsenic good arsenic immoderate of the caller companions Varric has recruited to his cause. There’s immoderate acquainted faces, similar Varric himself and Inquisition‘s Scout Harding–and adjacent a astonishment instrumentality by Claudia Black’s mysterious mage, Morrigan. But speech from them they’re mostly wholly caller characters this clip around. It makes sense, considering it’s been a decennary since Inquisition came out, and The Veilguard is already dealing with capable discourse astir the past games that it doesn’t truly request to beryllium tying itself adjacent further into crippled points from implicit a decennary oregon much ago. Or astatine least, not yet—save that for successful the nitty-gritty of the crippled itself, alternatively than the flashy caller trailers designed to punctual the satellite that yes, indeed, determination truly is simply a caller Dragon Age crippled coming retired again.

It’s got a merchandise day and everything! Dragon Age: The Veilguard hits PC, arsenic good arsenic Xbox Series X and S, and Playstation 5, October 31.

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