Dragon Age: The Veilguard will take place 10 years after Dragon Age: Inquisition

BioWare confirmed Dragon Age: The Veilkeeper takes place 10 years after its predecessor Dragon Age: Inquisition.

The confirmation comes from a recent Discord Q&A session shared by Shinobi602 on X / Twitter (via Eurogamer) in which BioWare revealed a ton of details about its upcoming fantasy role-playing game.

Among the information it was revealed that The veil guard will be fixed a decade later Inquisitionand that the 2014 game‘s playable protagonist, the Inquisitor, “will definitely be a part of the story.”

Following the reveal of its extended gameplay demo at Summer game Fest 2024, game director Corinne Busche has confirmed that the new locations players will be able to explore in The veil guard are more linear than those of Inquisition and that it will not be an open world, but “mission-based”.

“Everything is touched, handcrafted, very carefully preserved,” Busche said. “We think that’s how we get the best narrative experience, the best moment-to-moment experience.

“However, along the way these levels we’re going to go through open up, some of them have more exploration than others. Alternate branching paths, mysteries, secrets, optional content that you go find and solve So it opens up, but it’s a highly organized, mission-based game.

In the Q&A, it was clarified that players will be able to return to these story locations later and complete side content, such as quests, and freely explore anything they might miss. Once again, the developers stated that these quests were “hand-crafted and story-driven” and would not be fetch quests.

Fortunately, there is no blocking of progress in The veil guard either, unlike Inquisition, where the player was forced to expand their power to certain areas.

Dragon Age: The Veilkeeper doesn’t have a release date yet, but it’s expected to launch on PS5, Xbox series X, Xbox series S, and PC “late 2024.”

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