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Dragon Age: The Veilguard looms on the horizon, and expectations are high.

Fans' hopes are just as high.

A large city in Dragon Age: The Veilguard

To some, this is a wild claim.

One word: Kirkwall.

But Kirkwall, a city and not a person at all, is impossible to forget.

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Some changes are harder to miss.

Then there’s the people.

That one lonely drunk you pass by every time?

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He’s given up the swill now.

Remember Elegant, who used to sell you poultices?

Three years later, she’s a lady with her own web of connections.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard art showing the RPG’s companions grouped together

Aveline is promoted from guard to guard captain, and your sibling either perishes or joins a new organization.

However, the biggest change is Hawke and their relationship to the city.

Compare Kirkwall to the huge, sprawling locations that you trek through in Dragon Age Inquisition.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard reveal trailer screenshot showing Lace Harding, a dwarven woman with long red hair and a freckled face

This all being said, I have high hopes for Dragon Age: The Veilguard.

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