Assorted thoughts on the new DA4 teaser, beyond what I’ve already posted:
Tevinter and its magic neon lights - there was a magical laser show (basically) in one of the comics in Tevinter
Tevinter Nights really showed off what such a magic-integrated society is like compared to the rest of Thedas (bars with no barmen, floating chandeliers, magic dust, iirc someone just chucking a perfectly magical flask away like it’s nbd because there’s so many of them/they’re common, etc) - it’s nice to see that reflected in this teaser with the magic neon lights, floating buildings, etc. No wonder Dorian and co think the south is so backwards and quaint. Reminded of the floating aqueduct in The Wigmaker Job. Do mage lamplighters like Myrion create and maintain these kinds of lights we’re seeing here?
Finally the circular “Will it be the Inquisitor or a new PC that’s the PC?” debates can end
The person with the gold triangle bow looks like they’ve been taking hat/headpiece advice from Vivienne (if it’s even a hat or helmet though)
Unsure if Varric is returning in a big meaningful way or is more of like a familiar/iconic face (well, voice) and framing device (he is our narrator thus far after all) for the purposes of the trailer. Compare Morrigan in The Fires Above DAI trailer to her role in DAI. Like maybe they wanted to avoid showing companions in a trailer at this stage? He is a Viscount now. Advisor-y type role, a role like Morrigan’s DAI one, the guy that connects the new PC with the Shadow Inquisition?
Looks like the same palace-type structure from different angles in different times of day (the structure in the middle with light beaming off it)
The wavy lines are oceanic. Makes sense, in that other concept art that creature appears to be rearing out of the sea. - but also! We see that kind of thing in elfy murals like here and here (left hand side, in the part representing the Well of Sorrows)
Another Solas wardrobe change
the turtley-dinosaurs are a new type of fauna
dig the alliteration of demons, darkspawn, dragons, Dread Wolf. smart
Is the person with the wine glass a Crow?
Continuing the theme of finding someone he doesn’t know and needing someone new, and some Joplin-y feeling subterfuge and stealthyness, and of being a nobody who wouldn’t be expected (“what happens when you don’t have power”)
The focus on factions brings to mind the list of factions specifically name-dropped in The Dread Wolf Take You: Carta, Nevarran Mortalitasi, Tevinter Siccari, Qunari Ben-Hassrath, the Executors, the Shadow Inquisition and possibly Orlesian bards
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