Key Takeaways
- Concept art for Dragon Age: Inquisition suggests that Anders was almost playable in the multiplayer mode.
- This concept art shows him living as a hermit, as we’ve seen in previous drafts for his character in the game.
- Ultimately, he didn’t appear in Inquisition at all, leaving his fate up to players.
While it’s easy to forget, Dragon Age: Inquisition has a multiplayer mode. That’s right, long before the disaster of Anthem, BioWare was tacking multiplayer modes onto its single player games, and they were about as popular as you would expect.
However, judging from the concept art for this mode, ia very unexpected character was considered for a slot in Inquisition’s multiplayer mode: Anders. This would have been after the events of Dragon Age – and his character design very much reflects that.
Anders Was Seemingly Considered For Dragon Age: Inquisition’s Multiplayer
This comes from recently revealed concept art for Inquisition, showing multiple rejected character designs for the multiplayer mode. It didn’t take fans long to identify that one of them is almost definitely Anders, with his blond hair and similar robes to what he wore in Dragon Age 2.
The biggest giveaway though is his character description: “There are many reasons for mages to flee to the wilderness. From Templar persecution, to the crippling guilt of starting a war that threatens to burn the world to ashes.” Don’t know why he’s feeling guilty, mind you. He did nothing wrong.
Even if that wasn’t a dead giveaway, we then have the fact that this hermit character looks just like previously released concept art for Anders in Inquisition.
It’s unsurprising that BioWare decided against including Anders as a character. For starters, he can be killed off at the end of Dragon Age 2, and players might be annoyed to see such a huge decision ignored. On the flip side, there are those of us who hooked up with him, in which case he would be on the run with Hawke – presumably looking a little better than this.
In the end, this idea of finding Anders as a hermit never went anywhere, both in the main campaign and multiplayer. We don’t even find out where he is, although if Hawke romanced him, the two are still together – provided Hawke survived the events of Inquisition, that is. The latest game, Dragon Age: The Veilguard, didn’t import any decisions regarding Anders’ fate, so I suppose it’s just up to our imaginations now.
Dragon Age: Inquisition is the third in the popular action RPG series from BioWare, and serves as a sequel to the events of Dragon Age 2. You must travel the continent of Thedas in order to seal the ‘Breach’, a kind of portal that is sending demonic enemies into the world.