David Gaider, the creator of the RPG series, has written a summary of everything that will happen in the world of Dragon Age after Origins…
While players can enjoy each adventure without having to delve deeply into the franchise, each new Dragon Age instalment contains details and references that only die-hard fans of the brand – those who have tried all of BioWare’s games – will understand. Of course, the developers have managed to expand the world of Thedas with new ideas in each title. However, it turns out that most of the work, at least in terms of plot, was already done 15 years ago, during the development of Origins.
In fact, most of the plots seen in Dragon Age 2, Dragon Age: Inquisition and the new Dragon Age: The Veilguard were already developed by David Gaider, the creator of the franchise. In an interview with Eurogamer UK, he explained that these details, as well as future storylines, were written down in a very exclusive document that only a handful of BioWare members had access to.
“By the time we released Dragon Age: Origins, we were basically sure that it was one and done, but there was, back when we made the world, an overarching plan,” Gaider explains during the conversation.
“The way I created the world was to seed plots in various parts of the world that could be part of a game, a single game, and then there was the overall uber-plot, which I didn’t know for certain that we would ever get to but I had an understanding of how it all worked together.”
“A lot of that was in my head until we were starting Inquisition and the writers got a little bit impatient with my memory or lack thereof, so they pinned me down and dragged the uber-plot out of me,” the developer continues. “I’d talked about it, I’d hinted at it, but never really spelled out how it all connected, so they dragged it out of me, we put it into a master lore doc, the secret lore, which we had to hide from most of the team.” Although Gaider no longer works at BioWare, he estimates that only about 20 people had access to the document. And interestingly, without the games’ creator’s involvement, the subplot in The Veilguard “more or less remained” as it was 15 years ago.
Dragon Age has a “last plot” that will end its saga once and for all
Gaider’s document doesn’t just contain plot points for potential Dragon Age instalments or details that connect events between games. It also hints at the series’ ultimate conclusion. “I always had this dream of where it would all end, the very last plot,” he explains. “I won’t say because who knows, we could still end up there. But the idea that this uber-plot was this sort of biggest, finite… That the final thing you could do in this world that would break it was there as a ‘maybe we would get to do that one day’…”
Source: Eurogamer
