Key Takeaways
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard has a cheeky little Elden Ring reference.
- During Emmrich’s recruitment mission, you can find a tattered note formatted almost exactly like a FromSoftware message.
- It can even be recreated verbatim in Dark Souls.
During Emmrich’s recruitment mission in Dragon Age: The Veilguard, you can find an oddly familiar note sitting just by a ledge.
It reads, “Treasure… try down”, formatted exactly like an Elden Ring message. It’s a fun little homage, but I wanted to put to the test just how accurate it is.
In Elden Ring, you can’t recreate the tattered note 1:1, the closest you can get is, “treasure chest, Try down”, but in Dark Souls, you can make the tattered note almost verbatim: “treasure, try down”.
What Are Elden Ring Messages?
If you haven’t played Elden Ring and are wondering what the hell I’m waffling about, you can write notes in-game using a list of prompts. Think of it like dark fantasy Madlibs. Other players can then see what you wrote in their game, choosing to upvote or downvote your message (an upvote heals you).
Helpful players use these messages to point out hidden paths and treasure, others write jokes (like calling every animal you see ‘dog’ or scrawling ‘fort night’ everywhere), and the trolls try and trick you into jumping off a ledge to your death.
Before I get yelled at, messages first appeared in Demon’s Souls, and have since become a Soulslike staple, appearing in the afformentioned Dark Souls as well as Bloodborne.
Elden Ring was an unprecedented success for FromSoftware, garnering even more popularity than Dark Souls, so while messages might have originated in past games, newcomers will likely know them from their time in the Lands Between.
But now, they’re crossing over into Dragon Age. Kind of. Let’s just hope there isn’t a trail of glowing gems at the end of this tattered note, with a bald guy waiting to kick us into the abyss. I guess that’s just Solas.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is the long-awaited fourth game in the fantasy RPG series from BioWare formerly known as Dragon Age: Dreadwolf. A direct sequel to Inquisition, it focuses on red lyrium and Solas, the aforementioned Dread Wolf.
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Top Critic Rating:
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Critics Recommend:
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