#dreadwolf theories

[kcwriter-blog]

Stray Dreadwolf thought: when we do Hushed Whispers we saw a world where the Veil is torn up but red lyrium is everywhere. I can’t imagine Solas wanting to tear down the Veil only to have to deal with the Blight and possibly red lyrium again. So what if part of the plot of DAD is to help him get rid of both?

[knife-eared-jan]

The Missing Thought #2 - Musings on Neve Gallus:

First off, I am basically taking this comic as confirmation that she is a companion in Dreadwolf, and one of the “major” ones at that. You know what I mean, the ones you HAVE to recruit no matter what because they are vital to the story. Like e.g. Cassandra, Varric & Solas. It makes sense if we are going to spend a large part of the plot in Minrathous. Hell, maybe she’s even the one we meet first and she then introduces us to Varric & Harding. 

Secondly, I think we can now conclusively say that the lady in the middle of this concept art is Neve, albeit before a major redesign. (They DID already know that they wanted her to definitely have shoulder pads though lol)

Other people before me have pointed out the leg on our right/her left of the concept art figure is clearly a prostethic (- it seems to have switches legs since). But not everyone was convinced I guess. I for one did think it was Neve, but also had in mind that some of these characters allegedly already got scrapped. And I also thought that it looked kind of too fancy for Neve. 

Which brings me to point three: Neve’s design. On the one hand I think it is such a cool look! I love all the teal accents. BUT. But... I find it really hard to connect it to the Neve I pictured when reading Tevinter Nights? In her short-story she made it really clear that she wasn’t part of the upper class and not everyone was a magister or altus. She clearly represented “the common people” and was basically the Thedas equivalent of a hard-boiled detective from one of those noir movies, just missing a recent divorce and a drinking problem. The Neve in this comic (and I imagine her look is taken straight from the character design for Dreadwolf) looks like someone moving in elevated circles. Lots of gold jewelry. The fancy hat looks like something from the Derby. High heels, cravatte, done nails. Again, I love the look, it’s iconic, but it feels like her character went through quite a lot of change since Tevinter Nights and I kind of mourn the commoner perspective on Minrathous already. 

She still seems to be all about helping the misfortunate of Minrathous, but it feels very different coming from someone who is of elevated status reaching down, as opposed to someone who is just a normal dude.

[warpedlegacy]

Okay, laying this prediction down now because I wanna see if I'm right later: - Dreadwolf starts with you as a new recruit for either the Inquisition (if not disbanded) or whatever new form its network of agents take (if disbanded), and your first mission is to recover the red lyrium idol. Varric is your handler, and he explains (via the cinematic that just dropped in its full expositional glory) what the mission is, why it's important, and the significance and history of the idol. - Prologue is acquiring the idol, and the whole of the first act will be playing keepaway with it and Solas. - Act one ends when he finally gets the idol back, and immediately uses it to tear down the Veil and open up the Black City, throwing the whole of Thedas into chaos. - The rest of the game is you moving through space/time because time works differently in the Fade, trying to find a way to undo what Solas has done. Maybe even going further and further back through history until you get to the inciting incident and learn the full truth about the Blight's origins, how and why Mythal was killed, and what exactly led up to the Evanuris' entrapment.