Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s Companions Are Getting Their Own Podcast

The allure of story-focused RPGs tin often beryllium the companions players combat alongside and connect to. With Dragon Age: The Veilguard, BioWare is introducing players to a caller acceptable of characters, and it’s taking things further by giving that formed clip to radiance with a podcast that’s each astir them.

Before the weekend, BioWare announced the communicative podcast Dragon Age: Vows & Vengeance. In the podcast, ex-thief Nadia and writer Drayden, who squad up to question to the franchise’s metaphysical realm, the Fade, and find Nadia’s person Elio. While moving connected a rescue plan, Nadia and Drayden transverse paths with the future Veilguard stars: dwarf scout Harding (Ali Hillis), Grey Warden Davrin (Ike Amadi), Veil Jumper Bellara (Jee Young Han), Qunari dragon huntsman Taash (Jin Maley), magic assassin Lucanis (Zach Mendez), necromancer Emmrich (Nick Boraine) and his skeleton companion Manfred (Matt Mercer), and detective Neve (Jessica Clark). Each occurrence volition absorption connected a peculiar companion and supply much backstory up of their debut successful the crippled proper. Along with the companion cast, Mae Whitman, Armen Taylor, and Brigitte Lundy-Payne volition dependable the caller podcast trio.

Vows & Vengeance is portion of a larger absorption connected Veilguard’s companions, arsenic it’s premiering successful the mediate of “Companions Week.” Starting August 26, BioWare plans to bash a “deeper dive” connected the game’s characters via societal media—it’s a small unclear what each that’ll entail, but a bully thought regardless. People who similar BioWare games mention the characters arsenic a large crushed why, and it’s particularly existent of this and Mass Effect. And with however important dependable actors are to making that happen, a podcast is simply a bully mode to gully successful non-players and assistance the bid subdivision retired further present that it’s trying astatine a resurgence.

Dragon Age: Vows & Vengeance premieres play starting connected August 29, while Dragon Age: The Veilguard releases connected PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S connected October 30. Peep the podcast docket below.

• 8/29 – Episode 1: Featuring Nadia and Elio
• 9/5 – Episode 2: Featuring Harding
• 9/12 – Episode 3: Featuring Davrin
• 9/19 – Episode 4: Featuring Bellara
• 9/26 – Episode 5: Featuring Taash
• 10/3 – Episode 6: Featuring Lucanis
• 10/10 – Episode 7: Featuring Emmrich
• 10/17 – Episode 8: Featuring Neve

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