We’re in the endgame of Dragon Age lore now. In The Veilguard, we come face-to-face with legends that are – are – thousands of years old, implicated in mysteries we’ve been speculating about for 15 years, since the series began. The new game openly discusses long-held secrets, and it’s thrilling, but in doing so it also uses some of them up, raising the question of where the series goes from here.
In this article, I’m going to look at what’s left to uncover as well as speculate about what might be next for the series as a whole, so fair warning, there will be spoilers – spoilers about the ending of The Veilguard and discussion of secrets revealed within. To reiterate, in bold lettering, there will be spoilers, so please don’t read this if you’re not ready for them.
I’ll start with something that’s not necessarily a spoiler in its own right, however, and that’s the secret post-credits ending scene, which you unlock by collecting three Mysterious Circle artefacts from around The Veilguard world. The scene doesn’t actually reveal events from within the game, so is relatively safe to watch, and it gives the clearest indication of what BioWare intends to do with Dragon Age next.
In the scene, we’re introduced to what I assume will be the big new villain of the series, because remember, we’re now lacking one. But it’s not a villain we’re particularly familiar with. It’s a villain or villainous force that’s been hidden, and it’s implied that it has been controlling major world events all along.