Dragon Age fans, show us your towers

After 10 long years of waitingit’s time to return to Thedas Dragon Age: The Veil Guard. But if Dragon Age what players have been accustomed to doing over the years, gamers do this with the face of a brand new hero of their own making: instead of a returning character, we are once again tasked with saving the world (and looking good doing it if we do) in the form of Rook, a completely new character with a multitude of different backgrounds and origins. That’s why we want to know how you made your own copy.

Both myself and Justin Carter, io9’s weekend editor, played Dragon Age: The Veil Guard this week (you can read Justin’s thoughts on his time with the game so far here), and we both play Rogues and both spent a lot of time in the character creator creating our handsome heroes. But from there we diverged very differently: below you can see my Rook, Teyran Aldwir, a former member of the Veil Jumpers who I made into one of the countless city elves of Thedas, rather than coming from the wild clans of the Dalish. So he isn’t rather as shocked as every other Elf I’ve encountered so far about the whole deal “so we accidentally disrupted a ritual that released some of the most bastardized of the ancient Elven gods from their spiritual prison” but he goes on to joke make and throw a volley of arrows along the way to stop them anyway.

Justin’s Rook, meanwhile, is Bren Laidir, a member of the Lords of Fortune: an international guild of renowned treasure hunters. He’s been playing the game a little longer than me, and uses it too Veil Guard‘s ability to re-customize your character at any point from the game’s central base of operations, the Lighthouse, to show how Bren’s hair grows over the course of his own adventure to stop some evil elf gods:

I’ve always had a lot of fun creating my custom heroes Dragon Age (except for DAI‘s Hawkewhich I always kept in its excellent, uniquely designed standard form) but where I came from The Veil Guard‘s character creator was seriously impressed with how varied and detailed you could make Rook your own. Dragon Age may not have the depth of cultures to choose from compared to something like Baldur’s Gate 3but the hair and facial customization options are some of the best I’ve seen in a game in a while. So show us how varied you’ve made your Rook in the comments below!

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