This Is How Dragon Age: The Veilguard Could Have Looked Like. Matt Rhodes Shared Concept Arts Coming Before Dragon Age: Inquisition Release
The fourth Dragon Age has come a long way. Matthew Rhodes from BioWare shared how he envisioned the series' future before the release of Inquisition and long before The Veilguard was announced.
It's no secret that BioWare's latest RPG has undergone big changes during its nearly ten-year development process. Now that The Veilguard has already reached the players, the studio's art director decided to show what the fourth installment of Dragon Age looked like in concept arts, which he prepared even before the release of Inquisition in 2014.
Matthew Rhodes published these graphics on X. As he wrote, even before the third installment of Dragon Age hit the market, he started drawing "cool things that could be next." In part, this was due to the "momentum" gained while working on Inquisition, which gave the dev the strength to consider where the series' "unfinished stories" might take us.
Rhodes added brief descriptions to these graphics on ArtStation, which reveal more than just the potential storyline of the would-be DA 4. The arts depict various scenes, including dwarves escaping to the surface, groups of "divine envoys searching for the sources of the world's collapse" (which illustrate the concept of the player's "parallel teams"), three factions (the Tevinter Empire, the Qunari, and the Chasind tribe), and representatives of various factions seeking advice from the Inquisitor. There was even a conceptual graphic there, presenting a potential, titanic endgame.
