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Dragon Age lore nerd. Icon: kiwipon. she/her.

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Dragon Age shelf update #DragonAge
A portrait photograph of the contents of a glass display cabinet. The black-framed cabinet doors are open and out of shot. The shelves feature a range of Dragon Age merch from Origins to Veilguard, including books, statues, figurines, and unofficial merch. This post is not sponsored and I am not affiliated with BioWare Gear store or Dark Horse Direct. Please do not repost.
June 23, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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It's the slow knife that cuts deepest #DragonAge
A square graphic with a cream background and a Dragon Age: The Veilguard themed moodboard with in-game art cropped and edited into tessellating squares and rectangles of various sizes and matching colors. The edited images depict Solas, Mythal, the Evanuris, Elgar'nan, Ghilan'nain, the red lyrium idol, and the lyrium dagger in shades of beige, gold, red, blue, and black. The collage is framed by two quotes about Mythal and the lyrium dagger; 1) a line from Solas in Dragon Age: Inquisition, above: "I once saw a woman stabbed in the stomach with a dagger. She died slowly, in agony." 2) a line from Dragon Age: The Veilguard from Morrigan, below: "The last time Mythal faced Elgar'nan and Ghilan'nain, she was struck down by her own lyrium dagger."
March 19, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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This is all I have ever been. Haiku 28. #Solas #DragonAge
Graphic by @andarateia - do not repost. Square image with text framed in a gold circle against an aged, brown and teal background.
December 14, 2024 at 5:51 AM
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There's power in stories, though. That's all history is: The best tales. The ones that last. Might as well be mine.

#Varric #DragonAge #VirtualPhotography
Recolored landscape screenshot of Varric Tethras from Dragon Age: The Veilguard. A dwarven man with kind brown eyes, ruddy cheeks, thick eyebrows and a scruffy beard smiles at the camera in front of a dark, rocky background. He is wearing a grey jacket with fur trim and brown leather spaulders. A thick gold ring hangs from a leather cord around his neck.
December 3, 2024 at 8:08 AM
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I finished Dragon Age: The Veilguard today, one month after I started. It took me 164 hours and I loved every minute. The ending was everything I wanted. I'm so grateful to everyone who brought this game to life; to my dev friends who worked on the game, I'm so proud of what you made! Thank you 💜
Landscape image with completion stats for Dragon Age: The Veilguard at the top and seven companion tarot images across the bottom against a purple-toned background.
December 1, 2024 at 9:50 AM
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The Crows send their regards.

#Lucanis #DragonAge #VirtualPhotography
Landscape screenshot of Lucanis Dellamorte from Dragon Age: The Veilguard. A human man with long dark brown hair, brown eyes and a beard lunges at a target past the camera. His face is arranged in a determined growl, teeth bared. He is wearing indigo colored armor with intricate details. The left side of his face is illuminated with bright light.
November 17, 2024 at 8:55 AM
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And so he did.

#Solas #DragonAge #VirtualPhotography
Recolored landscape screenshot of Solas from Dragon Age: The Veilguard. An elven man with purple eyes, proud cheekbones and full lips looks sadly at the camera in front of a blurred background. He is wearing gold and black armor. The left side of his face is illuminated with soft light.
November 15, 2024 at 12:16 AM
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I'm 90 hours into Veilguard and just realized that Rook can float! Jump + hold ranged attack to activate. Most pronounced for mages, rogues somewhat less.
November 13, 2024 at 8:54 AM
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HAPPY RELEASE DAY! Congratulations and thank you to all the devs who worked on Dragon Age: The Veilguard, past and present 💜 #DragonAge #Veilguard
Fanmade graphic by @andarateia - do not repost. Square purple-toned image with the companions from the Dragon Age: The Veilguard key art.
October 31, 2024 at 2:21 PM
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Some of my old Dragon Age resources from our #Veilguard speculation era!

- Qunari timeline hinting at a Qunari civil war
- Morrigan, the inheritor of the piece of Mythal, ready to complete Flemeth's long story into the Sun Age
- Anderfels (and return of griffons!)
- Mortalitasi and The Necropolis
Fanmade graphic by @andarateia - do not repost. A old timeline of Qunari activity in Thedas (not including media released after 2021). Beige background with brown text and round images. Fanmade graphic by @andarateia - do not repost. A old graphic discussing what's next for Flemeth and Morrigan. Grey background with white text and a blended image of Flemeth and Morrigan's faces side by side. Fanmade graphic by @andarateia - do not repost. A old graphic about the Anderfels. White background with black text and several concept art pieces. Fanmade graphic by @andarateia - do not repost. An old graphic about the Mortalitasi (not including media released after 2021). Beige background with brown text and several concept art pieces.
October 29, 2024 at 11:16 PM
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An old graphic I made way back, when all we had were a few concept art pieces. Hard to believe we'll be visiting Antiva and seeing the Crows in the flesh in a matter of days! #DragonAge #Veilguard
Fanmade graphic by @andarateia - do not repost. Speculative analysis about the early Antivan Crow concept art for Dragon Age: The Veilguard featuring black text and images from the comics, concept art and short stories.
October 28, 2024 at 7:04 AM
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DA-VEMBER IS COMING!

To celebrate the release of Dragon Age: The Veilguard, here is a prompt list for November as we embark on our first playthrough together! All fanworks, including art, fanfic and virtual photography are welcome. Participate as much or as little as you like! #DAvember #DragonAge
Purple, cream, and orange-themed fanmade graphic with a numbered list of prompts and an image of Rook from the Dragon Age: The Veilguard official key art.
October 26, 2024 at 11:00 AM
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It's exciting to see more Dragon Age fans on here in time for Veilguard!

Hi, I'm Andy - an archaeologist from Australia. I've been playing BioWare games since 1998, and joined the fandom online in 2020. I make resources about lore for the community, write fanfic, and share art. Welcome! #DragonAge
A fanmade infographic about the character Maevaris Tillani from the Dragon Age comics and Dragon Age: Inquisition, featuring images taken from the comics and concept art, accompanied by canon lore. A fanmade Dragon Age infographic about Thedas' various constellations. White diagrams adapted from game assets, and white text, against a blue background. A fanmade infographic with details about the seven Dragon Age Day short stories released from 2020 to 2022. These stories have no confirmed in-world date, with the exception of The Flame Eternal which is set in 9:52 Dragon, and are presumed to be set after or around 9:44 Dragon. These stories feature some of the new and returning factions for Dragon Age: Dreadwolf, like the Nevarran Mortalitasi, Anders Grey Wardens, Antivan Crows, Tevinter Shadow Dragons, and the Veil Jumpers who operate out of Arlathan Forest. The accompanying illustrations and details for each of the short stories are presented in circular shapes arranged into a flower, with six circles around a central circle, against a light purple background with a pink accent strip. Fanmade infographic by @andarateia - do not repost. Square image with white text on a black background featuring canon information about Dragon Age: The Veilguard companion, Emmrich Volkarin, his tarot card artwork by Ramil Sunga, the new Mortalitasi Mourn Watch faction logo, and smaller images of Emmrich from The Veilguard key art, GameInformer cover art, the companion teaser trailer, in-game stills, and art by Albert Urmanov which accompanies the short story, The Flame Eternal, cropped into hexagonal frames.
October 19, 2024 at 7:19 AM
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"Imagine beings who lived forever, for whom magic was as natural as breathing. Some spells took years to cast. Echoes would linger for centuries, harmonizing with new magic in an unending symphony."

A new poem. Haiku 36. #DragonAge #Solas #Solavellan
Graphic by @andarateia - do not repost. Square image with text framed in a gold circle against an aged, brown and teal background.
October 9, 2024 at 2:18 AM
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KAL-SHAROK CONFIRMATION. I TOLD YOU WE WERE GOING! LET'S GO DWARVEN + TITAN LORE!!! #DragonAge #veilguardspoilers
New map of Thedas by Francesca Baerald (blighted version, October 2024), with Kal-Sharok circled.
October 1, 2024 at 10:06 PM
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Made new backgrounds for my old Solas poems #DragonAge #haiku
Graphic by @andarateia - do not repost. Square image with text framed in a gold circle against an aged, brown and teal background.
September 30, 2024 at 11:07 PM
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LYRIUM: SONG OF THEDAS

A millennia of history in two paragraphs. The truth about the Maker, elves, dwarves, Titans, and the Evanuris - and it's all thanks to lyrium, three little words, and one big song #DragonAge
Fanmade infographic by @andarateia - do not repost. Landscape image with a green painterly background featuring mountains and water, overlaid with boxes of white text. A representation of a Titan emerges from the left within a golden-hued circle, with the Inquisition's eye of Visus styled as a flower on its face. The text discusses the role of lyrium - the song of creation - in Dragon Age and how it relates to elves, Great Dragons, dwarves, and Titans, and provides a brief lexical analysis on similar words from different in-game languages relating to the topic. Bluesky has probably downgraded the image quality - the original large image is up on my other socials!
September 27, 2024 at 12:58 PM
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What do you think Varric's nicknames for the new Veilguard crew will be? Do you think he could have named Rook? #DragonAge
A fanmade infographic featuring official art edited and cropped into eight circles, arranged into a spoke-and-hub style flower. Rook and the Dragon Age: The Veilguard companions, Bellara, Davrin, Emmrich, Harding, Lucanis, Neve and Taash (from the official key art), surround an edited circular-shaped image of Varric (by Steve Morris for BioWare/Dark Horse Direct) in the center. A white semi-transparent version of The Veilguard insignia sits behind the "flower" against a purple gradient background.
June 28, 2024 at 12:41 PM
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All about Emmrich Volkarin from Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Will you be romancing this silver-haired, smartly attired necromancer? #DragonAge
Fanmade infographic by @andarateia - do not repost. Square image with white text on a black background featuring canon information about Dragon Age: The Veilguard companion, Emmrich Volkarin, his tarot card artwork by Ramil Sunga, the new Mortalitasi Mourn Watch faction logo, and smaller images of Emmrich from The Veilguard key art, GameInformer cover art, the companion teaser trailer, in-game stills, and art by Albert Urmanov which accompanies the short story, The Flame Eternal, cropped into hexagonal frames.
June 26, 2024 at 12:35 PM
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Gameplay features, Hardware, Accessibility - Part 2
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June 22, 2024 at 3:11 AM
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Gameplay features, Hardware, Accessibility - Part 1
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June 22, 2024 at 3:11 AM
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4/6

Story - Part 2, Companions, Marketing and Release
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June 22, 2024 at 3:10 AM
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3/6

Story - Part 1
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June 22, 2024 at 3:08 AM
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Rook and Character Creator - Part 2
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June 22, 2024 at 3:07 AM
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A thread with questions and answers about Dragon Age: The Veilguard from the BioWare Discord. #dragonage

Rook and Character Creator - Part 1
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June 22, 2024 at 3:06 AM