Dragon Age: The Veilguard trailer reveals Morrigan is again

Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s new trailer is chock-full of particulars that my Tumblr mutuals protect screenshotting and dissecting. Nevertheless these uninitiated with the deeper lore of the franchise is maybe questioning why everybody appears to be significantly going feral for the woman who shapeshifts from the kind of a big crow. I suggest, along with the reality that she made such a badass entrance.

Primarily, the trailer confirmed that Morrigan, Witch of the Wilds is formally once more (after her voice actor Claudia Black oh-so-demurely denied it), and oh my God, counting on what you in all probability did throughout the earlier video video games, some giant, giant penalties is maybe ahead.

Fast reply: She’s a shapeshifting Goth swamp witch who hates everyone at first, nonetheless may merely flip into your best buddy and/or lover.

Longer reply: She’s one in every of many companions from the first Dragon Age recreation, Origins, whose weird swamp-witch mother, Flemeth, principally mandates that she goes alongside alongside together with your participant character. She’s chilly, intelligent, and an entire badass mage. You probably can win her respect, and even her love, and she or he’s merely, like, so cool.

Over the course of Dragon Age: Origins, she lastly confides in you that Flemeth intends to utilize her physique as a vessel so that she is going to be capable of preserve youthful and beautiful endlessly, one factor she’s executed for a whole lot of years to her completely different “daughters.” You help her kill her mom. Afterward finally recreation, everytime you’re confronted with the reality that each you or one amongst your companions throughout the celebration would possibly need to sacrifice yourselves to avoid wasting a number of the world, she supplies you a solution: Do you have to’re a dude, you could impregnate her (for many who’re a lady, your companion will), and the new child will mainly save your soul from being consumed everytime you slay the Archdemon.

After the final word battle, it doesn’t matter what path you choose, she takes off. It’s revealed throughout the Witch Hunt DLC that she acknowledges that her mom isn’t perma-dead and goes off to cowl in a secret neighborhood of elven mirrors that everyone thinks is defunct (further on that later). If she has a baby, she takes her son collectively along with her. Do you have to romanced her, you could be a part of her.

In earlier video video games, BioWare’s default world state (the one which avid gamers who haven’t carried out the sooner video video games inherit) had a Morrigan who didn’t full that ritual, and thus didn’t have a son. So, it’s likely that the deal is equivalent in The Veilguard, and for many who’re getting into into with out importing prior selections, you possibly obtained’t have Morrigan who’s a mom. In another case, she has a son named Kieran who will be 20 years earlier on this recreation and he may make an look too. And he merely may have the soul of an earlier god dwelling inside him.

Morrigan doesn’t make a direct look in Dragon Age II, nonetheless her mother does. As a result of it appears, Flemeth had a way that Morrigan was gonna kill her, so she safeguarded a bit of herself in a magic amulet that she duties the participant character with delivering in change for serving to them escape demons. After an infinite ritual, Flemeth regenerates, says one factor cryptic to the participant character, then takes off.

Morrigan reappears in 2014’s Dragon Age: Inquisition, the place she assists the participant character in taking down Corypheus, the Large Harmful of the game. Part of his giant grasp plan is using that secret neighborhood of beforehand assumed defunct mirrors, so she teams up with you to stop him sooner than he does.

This leads you to discovering a mysterious correctly throughout the temple of Mythal, an historic elven goddess. Morrigan supplies to drink from it, as it will give administration over the mirror and thus forestall Corypheus from using it. As a result of the participant, you could decide which of you does so.

Each method, it’s revealed that whereas the drinker does get some hidden historic data, they moreover flip right into a lackey of the standard elven goddess. And that historic elven goddess? Correctly, it in order that happens that Morrigan’s dearly departed mother is her current vessel.

Nonetheless, throughout the epilogue of the game, everyone’s favorite elven mage Solas (the bald man in The Veilguard trailers, who’s giant offended because of his grasp plan has been thwarted) seemingly kills Flemeth…

Going into The Veilguard, you will have a Morrigan who’s every a mother and on the whims of the goddess Mythal, who would possibly or might be not her private toxic mother. Or, you will have a childless Morrigan and a participant character dealing with the fallout of being Mythal’s lackey! Or some combination of that. It’s unclear at this stage what the default risk in The Veilguard will be, nonetheless there’s possibly going to be ramifications for regardless of you decided for Morrigan method once more when…

One very telling component throughout the trailer: Morrigan (who now has just a little little bit of a “I’m now 40 one factor so maybe I must tidy up a bit” bob occurring in its place of a messy bun) is sporting the equivalent headpiece that Flemeth wears. Does that suggest she’s flip into Mythal’s vessel? Now that the elven gods are strolling among the many many world as soon as extra, that is likely to be significantly disastrous for Morrigan.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard is out Oct. 31.