Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s character creator is well essentially the most expansive that developer BioWare has ever put in one in all its RPGs, with its most notable additions this time round together with choices to pick your character’s gender and pronouns impartial of any features of their physique, and high surgical procedure scars to indicate protagonist Rook’s attainable trans identification. Nevertheless, the sport’s dealing with of trans identification goes past simply choices you possibly can select within the character creator which will assist your individual private headcanon. In The Veilguard, BioWare has given you the choice to actively declare in-game that your hero is transgender, in a approach that’s mirrored in dialogue all through the sport. Traditionally this has been the form of factor that gamers have needed to simply apply to a recreation’s hero via their very own imaginations, so I used to be comfortable to see BioWare went the additional step to codify it for many who need to play a trans Rook.
This selection doesn’t happen within the character creator itself, although you’re capable of finding the aforementioned pronoun and gender picks and high surgical procedure scars there. Reasonably, it comes a couple of hours into the sport if you unlock Rook’s quarters within the Lighthouse base. This isn’t one thing you possibly can miss, so when you’ve began your individual playthrough and haven’t seen it but, don’t fear, you simply haven’t gotten thus far within the recreation. Whenever you’re organising Rook’s room, one of many objects you’ll put down is a handheld mirror. This offers Rook a second of self reflection and also you the chance so as to add some backstory to your character based mostly on belongings you included within the character creator. Personally, I selected to speak about my tattoos and converse a bit of lore for my hero into the universe. However there’s one possibility that permits you to contact on Rook’s gender identification, particularly stating that your character is transgender. This isn’t tied to something particular within the character creator, so it doesn’t matter what choices you select whereas making them, you possibly can nonetheless have a trans Rook in your story.
The three choices embrace “I’m getting there,” “I really like who I’m,” and “Feels good to see the actual me,” so you possibly can designate your trans identification and in addition colour in the place you assume they’re of their private journey. This can unlock some dialogue choices all through The Veilguard that will let you focus on this facet of your identification with different characters, so it’s not only a factor it’s a must to internalize. Nevertheless, so far as I can inform after ending the sport, when you don’t decide this feature if you’re organising Rook’s room, it doesn’t come up once more later. So be sure you go down this dialogue path if you’re analyzing the mirror if you wish to play as a trans Rook and have or not it’s acknowledged in dialogue. It simply may offer you a degree of frequent reference to some characters that may enrich your story all through.
