Key Takeaways
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard modders have unmasked Ghilan’nain, and it’s not a pretty sight.
- BioWare clearly never intended for us to peer behind her veil, because there’s no face. It’s just a fleshy hole with Blight puss inside.
- Nonetheless, it does give us a better look at her eyes, one of which appears to be a mouth.
In Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Ghilan’nain never takes her mask off, so we never see her face. But this is a video game, so curious modders desperate for answers were able to rip it off themselves.
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The answer to what’s lurking behind the mask is a concave, fleshy pit with a dark, gummy hole for a mouth, and balls of Blight puss in her left eye socket (which we can somewhat see through her mask in-game).
Since BioWare never intended for us to see her face, there was no need to design one, leaving us with… nightmare fuel. On second thought, can we pop the mask back on and agree to never talk about this again?
Her Right Eye Has Teeth
Ghilan’nain is incredibly adept at manipulating the Blight to serve her and Elgar’nan in their crusade to built a ‘better’ world, whereas his use of it is blunt and imprecise.
It makes sense then that Ghilan’nain would have succumbed to the Blight completely to better wield it, hence her monstrous, less elven appearance. She is one with the Blight, the Blight is one with her.
Peering closer into her eye sockets that are feintly visible through her mask, we can see this laid out in excruciating detail. There are the afformentioned balls of Blight puss where her left eye should be, and what looks like gums and teeth in her right socket. I don’t want to imagine what dinner with Ghilan’nain and Elgar’nan is like.
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.