Every Cameo in Dragon Age: The Veilguard Explained

This article contains major spoilers for
Dragon Age: The Veilguard
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As the fourth game in Dragon Age, Dragon Age: The Veilguard features a cast of new characters but also includes some familiar faces from previous entries in the series. Some of these characters play major roles in Dragon Age: The Veilguard, such as Solas and Varric, but others are cameos that give exposition and bridge the gap in certain narrative arcs.

As the world of Dragon Age has extended to include media beyond video games such as comic books and novels, some cameos in Dragon Age: The Veilguard include characters who were previously only featured in these additional media. This isn’t a problem in Dragon Age: The Veilguard, as these characters only play a small role, but their fans get to see them within the context of a Dragon Age video game. Characters like Emmrich, Neve, and Lucanis also appear in Tevinter Nights and other media, but play a far more expansive role in Dragon Age: The Veilguard.

Cameos from Dragon Age: Inquisition

Solas

The first of several characters to return from Dragon Age: Inquisition, Solas’ role has changed significantly since his humble apostate days and his demeanor and appearance matches.

Varric

Varric plays a critical role in Dragon Age: The Veilguard as a friend and mentor to Rook, as well as the reason they’re involved with stopping Solas’s plans. As a connection between Solas and Rook, Varric becomes a mediator of sorts.

The Inquisitor

The Inquisitor meets with Rook several times across the course of Dragon Age: The Veilguard, and Rook’s influence could change the Inquisitor’s opinion of Solas. The Inquisitor’s reasons for not playing a larger role in the story is the Blight that has taken hold in the South of Thedas.

Morrigan

Morrigan appears in Dragon Age: The Veilguard with a new appearance that hints at her role in the story. While she appears fairly early, her purpose becomes clearer as events take hold, and Morrigan plays a critical part in placing Solas’ story in context while bridging the gap between Dragon Age: Inquisition and Dragon Age: The Veilguard.

Dorian

As when players last saw him in Trespasser, Dorian is a magister and can be found in Minrathous. He works undercover for the Shadow Dragons, and can be encountered during Dragon Age: The Veilguard‘s main questline.

Scout Lace Harding

Harding returns from Dragon Age: Inquisition and is now a full companion in Rook’s party. She provides some insight into her years while working for the Inquisition, including comments on some of its members.

Heir

Possibly the most obscure cameo in Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Heir appeared as the trainer for the assassin specialization for a rogue Inquisitor in Dragon Age: Inquisition. She appears in Dragon Age: The Veilguard in the Cantori Diamond in Treviso as a trainer for the Antivan Crows.

Valta

Shaper Valta is a dwarf from Orzammar who made her first appearance in the Dragon Age: Inquisition DLC The Descent, where she gained magic from a Titan. Valta is indirectly present in Dragon Age: The Veilguard, where her consciousness is present inside a stone figure that she uses to communicate with Harding and the dwarves of Kal-Sharok.

Cameos from Dragon Age Books and Comics

Felassan

Solas’ most trusted general finally makes a visual appearance in Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Felassan made his debut in Dragon Age: The Masked Empire as Briala’s mentor, where he was killed at the conclusion of the book by a mysterious figure who was revealed to be Solas. Felassan’s depiction in Dragon Age: The Veilguard shows him as Solas’ most trusted general during the rebellion against the Evanuris.

Valya

Valya made her first appearance in the book Last Flight as a mage from the Hossberg Circle of Magic. During the Mage Rebellion, she defected to the Wardens and escaped to Weisshaupt, where she discovered Warden Isseya’s journal which documented her preservation of a clutch of griffon eggs. Valya makes a cameo in Dragon Age: The Veilguard during the Gloom Howler questline.

Isseya

The protagonist of Last Flight, Isseya makes an unexpected cameo during Dragon Age: The Veilguard, especially as she lived four hundred years before the events of the game. Her cameo is connected to the reappearance of the griffons in Thedas.

Maevaris

Maevaris Tilani’s first appearance was in the comic series Dragon Age: Those Who Speak. Formerly a magister, she is now one of the leaders of the Shadow Dragons and a friend of Dorian.

Isabela is one of the faction leaders for the Lords of Fortune, and can be found in Rivain. Isabela previously appeared in Dragon Age Origins, appeared in several comics, and was a companion in Dragon Age 2.

Serving in a more prominent role in Dragon Age: The Veilguard as a faction leader is Myrna, one of the faction leaders for the Mourn Watch. Her first appearance in Dragon Age was in the Tevinter Nights story Down Among the Dead Men.

Teia and Viago also make an appearance in Tevinter Nights‘ short story Eight Little Talons, and make an appearance again as the faction representatives for the Antivan Crows.

Strife and Irelin, the faction representatives for the Veil Jumpers, appeared in the Tevinter Nights story Three Trees to Midnight and the comic Dragon Age: The Missing.

Evka and Antoine, the faction representatives for the Grey Wardens, also appeared in Tevinter Nights, Dragon Age: The Missing comics, and the short story Won’t Know When.

Other characters who appear in Dragon Age: The Veilguard, or are mentioned include:

• The Forbidden Ones (including Imshael)
• Zara Renata (Tevinter Nights: The Wigmaker Job)
• Illario Dellamorte (Tevinter Nights: The Wigmaker Job)
• Caterina Dellamorte: (Tevinter Nights; Eight Little Talons)
• Johanna Hezennkoss (The Flame Eternal)
• Xenon the Antiquarian (The Black Emporium)
• Cullen (mentioned by Harding, and in the codex if romanced in Dragon Age: Inquisition)
• Sera (mentioned by Harding, and in the codex if romanced in Dragon Age: Inquisition)
• Blackwall (mentioned by Harding, and in the codex if romanced in Dragon Age: Inquisition)
• Josephine (mentioned by Harding, and in the codex if romanced in Dragon Age: Inquisition)
• Cassandra (mentioned in the codex if romanced in Dragon Age: Inquisition)
• The Iron Bull (mentioned in the codex if romanced in Dragon Age: Inquisition)
• Cole (mentioned by Harding)
• Leliana (mentioned by Harding)
• Charter (mentioned by Harding)