In Dragon Age: The Veilguard, there are various wolf statues that can be placed throughout the Lighthouse to open up murals that give us a direct glimpse into the past.
Each one unearths more of Solas’ history and the truth behind the world’s origins and even its gods. But what’s especially interesting is that Cole shared the same knowledge ten years ago during Inquisition.
Spoilers for The Veilguard.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard Reveals The Origins Of Elves And Darkspawn
Perhaps the biggest reveal is that Elves were once spirits, but they used lyrium, the blood of Titans, to manifest physical bodies after Solas created the Veil. As Harding says, the Titans saw this as an attack and retaliated, sparking a war between the two races.
To put an end to this bloody conflict, Solas made a weapon to sever the Titans from their dreams, leaving them “broken and mindless”, inadvertently birthing the Blight and Darkspawn.
Titans consider Dwarves to be their children.
There’s a lot to unpack here, but Cole once told us the same exact story, just in less detail: “They made bodies from the earth. And the earth was afraid. It fought back. But they made it forget.”
We can now fill in the blanks of this cryptic clue: Elves made bodies from the Titans. And the Titans were afraid. They fought back. But Elves made them forget.
Cole Knew The Truth About Solas
Not only did Cole tell us the broad strokes of the world’s history, but intimate details about Solas.
In the Trespasser DLC, Cole says, “He did not want a body. But she asked him to come.” We now know that ‘he’ is Solas, and ‘she’ is Mythal, as the mural plays out the moment in which she begs Solas to take a physical form, something he’s reluctant to do after seeing the earth shake in response.
Cole was sowing the seeds for The Veilguard’s story a decade in advance. In fact, you can even find a codex entry in Origins that hints to Elgar’nan making a physical form out of the earth, albeit romanticised as a creation myth as opposed to the sordid truth of their theft and cruel war. These aren’t retcons, they’re long-in-the-tooth revelations Dragon Age has been building up for 15 years.
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.