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 hold screenshotting and dissecting. However these uninitiated with the deeper lore of the franchise is perhaps questioning why everyone seems to be particularly going feral for the lady who shapeshifts from the type of an enormous crow. I imply, apart from the truth that she made such a badass entrance.

Principally, the trailer confirmed that Morrigan, Witch of the Wilds is formally again (after her voice actor Claudia Black oh-so-demurely denied it), and oh my God, relying on what you probably did within the earlier video games, some massive, massive penalties is perhaps forward.

Quick reply: She’s a shapeshifting Goth swamp witch who hates everybody at first, however would possibly simply turn out to be your greatest buddy and/or lover.

Longer reply: She’s one of many companions from the primary Dragon Age recreation, Origins, whose bizarre swamp-witch mom, Flemeth, principally mandates that she goes alongside together with your participant character. She’s chilly, clever, and a complete badass mage. You’ll be able to win her respect, and even her love, and she or he’s simply, like, so cool.

Over the course of Dragon Age: Origins, she finally confides in you that Flemeth intends to make use of her physique as a vessel in order that she will keep younger and delightful perpetually, one thing she’s carried out for hundreds of years to her different “daughters.” You assist her kill her mother. In a while ultimately recreation, once you’re confronted with the truth that both you or one in all your companions within the celebration might want to sacrifice yourselves to avoid wasting the world, she affords you an answer: When you’re a dude, you may impregnate her (if you happen to’re a girl, your companion will), and the newborn will primarily save your soul from being consumed once you slay the Archdemon.

After the ultimate battle, it doesn’t matter what path you select, she takes off. It’s revealed within the Witch Hunt DLC that she acknowledges that her mother isn’t perma-dead and goes off to cover in a secret community of elven mirrors that everybody thinks is defunct (extra on that later). If she has a child, she takes her son along with her. When you romanced her, you may be a part of her.

In earlier video games, BioWare’s default world state (the one which gamers who haven’t performed the earlier video games inherit) had a Morrigan who didn’t full that ritual, and thus didn’t have a son. So, it’s seemingly that the deal is identical in The Veilguard, and if you happen to’re getting into with out importing prior selections, you in all probability received’t have Morrigan who’s a mother. In any other case, she has a son named Kieran who will likely be 20 years outdated on this recreation and he would possibly make an look too. And he simply might need the soul of an outdated god dwelling inside him.

Morrigan doesn’t make a direct look in Dragon Age II, however her mom does. Because it seems, Flemeth had a sense 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 alternate for serving to them escape demons. After a giant ritual, Flemeth regenerates, says one thing 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 Huge Unhealthy of the sport. A part of his massive grasp plan is utilizing that secret community of beforehand assumed defunct mirrors, so she groups up with you to cease him earlier than he does.

This leads you to discovering a mysterious effectively within the temple of Mythal, an historical elven goddess. Morrigan affords to drink from it, as it can give management over the mirror and thus forestall Corypheus from utilizing it. Because the participant, you may determine which of you does so.

Both manner, it’s revealed that whereas the drinker does get some hidden historical data, in addition they turn out to be a lackey of the traditional elven goddess. And that historical elven goddess? Properly, it simply so occurs that Morrigan’s dearly departed mom is her present vessel.

Nonetheless, within the epilogue of the sport, everybody’s favourite elven mage Solas (the bald man in The Veilguard trailers, who’s massive indignant as a result of his grasp plan has been thwarted) seemingly kills Flemeth…

Going into The Veilguard, you may have a Morrigan who’s each a mom and on the whims of the goddess Mythal, who might or might not be her personal poisonous mom. Or, you may have a childless Morrigan and a participant character coping with the fallout of being Mythal’s lackey! Or some mixture of that. It’s unclear at this stage what the default possibility in The Veilguard will likely be, however there’s in all probability going to be ramifications for no matter you determined for Morrigan manner again when…

One very telling element within the trailer: Morrigan (who now has a little bit of a “I’m now 40 one thing so perhaps I ought to tidy up a bit” bob occurring as an alternative of a messy bun) is carrying the identical headpiece that Flemeth wears. Does that imply she’s turn out to be Mythal’s vessel? Now that the elven gods are strolling among the many world once more, that might be particularly disastrous for Morrigan.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard is out Oct. 31.