Dragon Age: Tevinter Nights Follows Up On Trespasser's Tevinter Tease
The Dread Wolf has been rising since 2018, and BioWare's teasing more to come in 2020.
The recently announced book that quietly dropped onto Amazon's pre-order list, as well as on other sites - the first look of the cover seen in high res over on Macmillan Publishers, is setting Dragon Age fans abuzz with the possibilities of what's to come in the highly anticipated fourth instalment of the franchise.
Though at first speculation came that it was another tie-in novel by author and one of Dragon Age's writers, Patrick Weekes (best known for his work writing characters such as the dread wolf himself, Solas, and fan-favourite The Iron Bull), Weekes has since gone on Twitter to correct that claim, citing that the book will be a collection of short stories taking place in the Dragon Age universe.
The cover reveals a character that seems to be a Grey Warden in full, griffon wing armour, a Dalish elf (with the Vallaslin) with electric eyes and daggers, an archer with glowing white arrows, and a Qunari warrior in full Vitaar, against what seems to be a sandy backdrop. The title seems to allude to "Arabian Nights" and implies a Tevinter that is far removed from the medieval European-esque stylings of Fereldan, which has been clued in by the Tevinters seen in Inquisition, and by Dorian Pavus, the Tevinter-born and raised (fan-favourite) mage ally from the same game.
What's most exciting about this, apart from the pedigree of writers involved in the project, which include devs from the franchise as well as writers for other properties such as Mass Effect - is that the book, by title alone, all but confirms the Tevinter Imperium as the locale for the fourth game, as teased by the end of Inquisition's world-shattering Trespasser DLC.
Tevinter has been a looming threat to much of the Dragon Age franchise as a place where "the bad mages come from", later rounded out as a supposed meritocracy unofficially run by old and powerful mage families, where magic is used freely and with little real restriction - the other extreme to the South's Chantry-based fear-mongering of magic and mage imprisonment.
It's a completely different world from what fans are used to, and after the disappointment of having Dragon Age 4 cancelled, is something to look forward to.