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Damn I hope Neve Gallus steals this look.
Robert Wun, Autumn/Winter 2024
i did some stuff through the end of july/ beginning of august that got progressively more detailed pt2 pt1 pt3
skyhold maid to a dreadwolf hunter? never underestimate a lesbian
Some new character insight into DA:TV's Neve Gallus, and the Shadow Dragons faction -
Text reads: "As Neve Gallus is the companion I spend the most time with during my visit to BioWare, I asked Epler about this character and her role in the game. Here's what I learned: "So Neve is a private investigator in Minrathous. Minrathous is the capital city of the Tevinter Empire. It’s also a mage-ocracy; mages run the entirety of the Empire – they’re all-powerful. A lot of them still believe in slavery, they keep slaves, it’s a very oppressive, totalitarian regime. And Neve is a member of the Shadow Dragons, which is a rebel faction within Thedas that fights back against this mage-ocracy, fights back against this oppressive, very damaging regime that’s taken over the city, because she believes there’s good, and she is there for the common people. So if you’re not a mage in Tevinter, you are lower than dirt for a lot of people. She and the Shadow Dragons, in general, fight back, but Neve, in particular, is this character that represents this more, ‘voice of the streets, the voice of the common people.’ In previous Dragon Age games, you go to Orlais, you meet Emperor Celene, you meet Briala; we wanted to have a character that showed not just what is Tevinter at the top, but what is the average person who lives in Tevinter. And she is very much about, again, fighting oppression, fighting tyranny and, as a private investigator, finding clues and ways through problems that aren’t maybe as action-focused as some of the other companions.""
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Your companions will have their own rooms in your headquarters known as the Lighthouse. But who do you think sleeps in each room?
Because cats are always a good idea
The struggle is so very very real.
Everyone deserves one (also pretend this is one meme)
I can't wait to see who voices all of them especially Emmrich! ^^
Small doodle! Have fun to the VAs and fans who’ll be at SDCC.
NorZZa on Youtube just uploaded a video on companions abilities. Here it is if you want to check it out. ^^
I love her already
NEVE GALLUS in DRAGON AGE: THE VEILGUARD GAMEPLAY REVEAL
There's already a 3-way Neve/Lucanis/Bellara battle for my heart going on for Veilguard 😄
Also I'm apparently very down with people called Neve.
DRAGON AGE: THE VEILGUARD Neve Gallus (⁘)
When I was in college I had a giant girl crush on Neve Campbell, who was awesome and has the look I love on everyone: pretty dark eyes and freckles.
Honestly, my consistency should be studied.
DRAGON AGE: THE VEILGUARD Neve Gallus (⁘)
Very simple edit to make everything a lot less blue.
During the period the other day when the official Dragon Age YouTube account was dropping snippets of info in the live chat, among other cool bits of info such as 'Inky is returning', there were also these lil blurbs about the 7 companion characters. ◕‿◕ some of them have some different info to what was shared here on the official DA website and here in the EA press release. Twitter user elisa (doggiesnores) managed to grab these and kindly shared them on Twitter via the graphic above. [credit and source link: Twitter user elisa] tysm to doggiesnores for sharing these.
Text reads:
Harding: "She's a ball of positivity, and doesn't have a bad bone in her body (she doesn't even swear)" Emmrich: "Emmrich is friendly, scholarly, and sincerely proud of his companion, Manfred - a walking skeleton" Lucanis: "Lucanis… The guy treats his assassin gig like a 9-5 job. And like any office worker, he loves his coffee." Taash: "You'd expect a dragon hunter like Taash to be a jock. But she's also well-connected, and "knows a guy" for everything." Davrin: "He's one of those guys that knows he's charming, but at least he doesn't take himself too seriously. His pet Griffin is named Assan 🥺" Neve: "A cynic with a heart of gold, Neve is a private detective who works to make Minrathous a better place" Bellara: "Bellara tows the line between Type A and scatterbrain. You can always count on her to come up with a creative solution to your problem."
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just a helpful skin tone chart for the companions of color since im already seeing whitewashed fanart
A quick rundown of info that we know about some of the companions
A few of the companions that we see in the trailer have been seen in other Dragon Age material! Harding was in Dragon Age: Inquisition, but Neve and Lucanis were in the comics and books. Since I know the comics and books aren't everyone's vibe I thought I would summarize some of what we know from them! There are a few other tidbits from the books and comics too that I think might be helpful in understanding some of the other characters too!
Harding
We know Lace Harding from Dragon Age: Inquisition. She was an Inquisition scout, and we would see her whenever we entered a brand new area. After the events of Dragon Age: Trespasser she travels with Verric in an attempt to track down Solas in Dragon Age: The Missing.
Bellara
I want to mention Bellara here because while she might not be in The Missing, there ARE veil jumpers that Verric and Harding come across while searching for Solas. Veil jumpers are Dalish who help to deal with the disturbances in the veil that are happening in the Arlathan Forest. Rifts have been opening in that forest because the veil is being destabilize. In these rifts anything can happen. You can see your double, you could age rapidly and then go back to the way you were in minutes. Veil jumpers try to contain the threat that the rifts pose. That seems to be what Bellara is.
Neve
Neve Gallus is a Tevine private investigator and a mage. She's in both Dragon Age: Tevinter Nights and Dragon Age: The Missing. Teventer Nights is made up of a collection of short stories, and Neve's is called "The Streets of Minrathous." In that story she investigates a series of murders by blood mages who want to summon a demon said to be sealed under Minrathous that Corypheus had wanted to control. Neve works with some templars to keep the ritual from happening.
In The Missing, Neve works with Verric and Harding. She tells them that Solas has been stealing magical artifacts from the Venatori and freeing their slaves. She reveals that she's part of an organization called "The Shadow Dragons" and they're assisting the freed slaves. When Verric and Harding were with her they found that the elven slaves aren't working for Solas, but they hold him in very high regard. Neve, Verric, and Harding then help a group of slaves evade the Venatori's capture.
Something else that's pretty cool about Neve? She has a visible disability, she has a dwarven prosthetic leg from the knee down!
Lucanis
Lucanis Dellamourte is a Crow assassin, the grandson of the First Tallon (the head of the Crows) Caterina Dellamorte. Caterina is in the Tevinter Nights short story "Eight Little Talons" and Lucanis is in the short story "The Wigmaker Job." He is also in a separate short story called "The Wake." Lucanis is called "the magekiller" because he's often sent on jobs to kill mages. He has a special sense that no one else seems to have, he can feel when a mage is drawing on the veil and when they're going to use magic. He can feel with when the veil is thin as well. In The Wigmaker Job he and his cousin Illaro are sent to Teventer to kill a target, a bloodmage who makes magical wigs. They're sent to kill the mage at his own party, and to get there they had the help of a mysterious elven girl who may have been associated with those who worship the Dreadwolf. While trying to find the right place to kill the mage the assassins are caught by one of his slaves, a terrified girl whose hair seems to have been pulled out by the roots and she begs them to kill the mage. Against Illaro's judgement Lucanis lets her go and tells her to run. By the time the assassins get to the basement they find horribly mutilated elves with their legs cut off and chained to walls. The bloodmage has been feeding them red lyrium to make their hair grow so he can harvest it for his wigs. They find an elven artifact that has been keeping demons away and they destroy it. Lucanis sends Illaro to free the slaves (again, against Illaro's judgment) and help them get away while he kills the mage. He wants to make him suffer for the horrible things he saw being done in the basement. Lucanis kills the mage who has turned into an abomination and he and his cousin escape the city. Because of all that happened Lucanis gains the name "the demon" among the higher ups of Tevinter, and they want to find his weaknesses so that he can be taken down.
In the sort story "The Wake" it's believed that Lucanis has died. His cousin Illaro is grief stricken and has gotten drunk to cope with the loss. Because Lucanis is very much not dead in the Dragon Age: Veilgaurd companions trailer I would say it's safe to guess that his death was faked, for some reason.
Davrin
Well, this is less about Davrin and more about the griffin. In Dragon Age: Last Flight a clutch of griffin eggs are found hidden in a kind of magical status. Griffins are supposed to be very large animals (they were warden's mounts) and the griffin in this trailer seemed to be smaller. I wonder if it's still young? Griffins were used by wardens because they hate darkspawn just as much as wardens do, maybe Davrin will be a kind of ranger-type playstyle?
Emmrich
Emmrich looks to be a Navaran necromancer. People in Fereldan burn their dead because they don't want them to become vessels for spirits. In Navara they don't do that, they welcome spirits to possess the bodies of the dead. It's common for some death mages to have assistants that they have called back from the dead, and necropolises there are very active. You can see that in action in the Tevinter Night short stories "Down Among the Dead Men" and "Murder by Death Mages."
Given how much of the immediate backstory to Dragon Age: Inquisition was found in Asunder and the Masked Empire, I think some people might be wondering if any of the short stories, anthologies, or comics are also "homework" for The Veilguard. Obviously, the game's not out yet, so I can't be 100% sure, but here's my best recommendations based on what we know about the characters (done in alphabetical order because why not).
Bellara: She's new! The Veil-jumpers are in a single issue of the Missing, but she's not any of the ones named there. They investigate magical disturbances around Arlathan forest, and that's kind of all we know.
Davrin: Also new! The reason he seems to have a juvenile griffon (or at least, why there's a griffon at all!) is covered in the events of the novel The Last Flight, but it's hard to say how much any of those specifics are relevant to Davrin.
Emmrich: Emmrich (and Manfred!) is in Down Among the Dead Men in Tevinter Nights, and another, The Eternal Flame released during a Dragon Age Day and archived on the wiki. We learn he's a senior member of the Mourn Watchers, somewhat eccentric, and capable of talking to the dead. Also he's got a last name, Volkarin, so that's neat. All of that seems pretty easy to catch people up on in-game. (Down Among the Dead Men is really good though).
Harding: Harding is in the Missing, accompanying Varric on his hunt for Solas. Her buddy-cop-comedy-ing it with Varric is apparent from the trailer. Her apparent magic powers are completely new though!
Lucanis: He and Neve probably have the most backstory in Tevinter Nights of the bunch. Lucanis's story is found in the Wigmaker Job and he's mentioned in Eight Little Talons, both in Tevinter Nights. A Dragon Age Day short story called the Wake seems to have implied that he died, so mayhaps he faked his death? To hopefully set some people at ease, even though he's advertised as "The Magekiller," the mages he's killing are Venatori, so it's all good. I doubt he'd have beef with Neve or Emmrich or a mage PC JUST because they're mages. Also he's got a last name, Dellamorte.
Neve: Neve has a last name too! It's Gallus. Neve is the viewpoint character of the Streets of Minrathous, where she stops a Venatori plot to unleash a giant sealed demon underneath Minrathous. Her story is very Noir-vibes in a fantasy setting. She's also in the Missing for an issue, where she meets Varric and Harding and they work together to help escaped slaves avoid recapture by the Venatori. The giant sealed demon business did feel very "preview of a boss battle" but who can say if it actually is.
Taash: Like with Bellara, Taash herself is new, but the Lords of Fortune have featured elsewhere. They're in a number of stories in Tevinter Nights, as well as in Dragon Age: Absolution. The group doesn't seem to have a formal role, they seem to be sort of "adventurers for hire." Side note though, Ataashi is Qunlat for dragon, so I wonder if that's where Taash got her name.
The Veilguard in color! 🌈
