The following article contains spoilers for Act 1 of Dragon Age: The Veilguard.
Key Takeaways
- The Inquisitor is the only protagonist to have interacted with the other three.
- Only a couple of characters have interacted with all four protagonists.
- Varric, Alistair and Isabela are among the characters to have interacted with three of the four.
Dragon Age is notable for having a different protagonist in every game, something you don’t see very often in a multi-game series. The Warden, Hawke, The Inquisitor and Rook all have their stories occur within the same 23-year period between 9.31 and 9.53 Dragon. However, despite all of these events happening in the same two decades, there are very few characters who have interacted with all four protagonists.
This subject was raised in a Reddit thread by RhiaStark, who noted that the Inquisitor is the only protagonist who has interacted with the series’ other three protagonists. The Inquisitor corresponds with the Warden during the events of Inquisition, with the latter seeking advice on how to defeat the ancient darkspawn Corypheus. Hawke then arrives to aid the Inquisitor during the quest ‘Here Lies the Abyss’ and of course, the Inquisitor appears several times in Dragon Age: The Veilguard and speaks with Rook.
The Lucky Few
Naturally, this also means that the Inquisitor is one of the few characters that has interacted with every series protagonist. Assuming you equate the act of existing in one’s body with the act of interacting with oneself, which I most certainly do. Nobody has interacted with the Inquisitor more than the Inquisitor, except maybe Varric.
The only other character to have achieved this feat is Mythal, through her various aspects. Flemeth interacts with the Warden, Hawke and the Inquisitor; while Morrigan and a different aspect of Mythal talk to Rook during the events of The Veilguard. Morrigan herself comes close without Mythal’s memories, as she travels with the Warden, and then advises both the Inquisitor and Rook. While Morrigan and Hawke can both be in Skyhold at the same time, there’s no on-screen interaction between the two, so while you could reasonably assume they interacted during this period, there’s no firm evidence to suggest this.
These are the only two (or three) characters that have interacted with all four, but there are plenty that have met or corresponded with three of the four. Isabela meets the Warden in Denerim, travels with Hawke in Dragon Age 2, and leads the Lords of Fortune in Dragon Age: The Veilguard, but despite being an agent of the Inquisition, she never corresponds with the Inquisitor.
A couple of other characters that have met three of the protagonists are: Alistair Theirin who travels with the Warden and can potentially meet both Hawke and the Inquisitor in brief cameo appearances during their respective games and Varric Tethras who is a companion to Hawke and the Inquisitor and recruits Rook to stop Solas prior to the events of The Veilguard.
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.