Key Takeaways
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard has an easter egg referencing Control in the Necropolis.
- Both of our authors aren’t pleased with people complaining about their paranormal sand.
- Dragon Age has a long history of easter eggs.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard contains a reference to Remedy Entertainment’s Control. This easter egg appears in the form of a note and can be found in the Necropolis. Both the original note in Control and its homage in Dragon Age: The Veilguard reference paranormal sand that doesn’t act as the respective writer expects.
This easter egg was highlighted by PlayfulMousse7830 in a recent Reddit thread. The note in Dragon Age: The Veilguard reads as follows, “I’ve heard complaints the sand here is impeding work. But consider! We are too deep for it to be from the surface. It falls endlessly, yet its mass does not increase nor decrease. This is because the sand trickles in from the Fade itself! It’s of incredible experimental value, and anyone caught hauling it away just to erect some scaffolding will be chastised most severely! TOUCH NOT MY SAND!”
The note from Control that the above note references reads, “To ALL Dimensional Research staff, I’ve heard that numerous people have been complaining about the sand piled up around Dimensional Research. This sand is precious research material from a foreign dimension and will be examined more thoroughly when I have the time. If you attempt to clean or dispose of this sand, I will bar you from any future research endeavour! You will spend the rest of your career licking envelopes in a cubicle staring at a cat poster! DO NOT TOUCH MY SAND! – Dr. Darling.”
Dragon Age: The Veilguard has plenty of easter eggs and references to other IP. For example, there’s a room containing a corkboard covered in pictures with pins between them in Minrathous, a clear reference to the oft-memed picture of Charlie from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia explaining his Pepe Silvia postal theory. Or when Bellara is fixing the Eluvian and you continue to bother her, she’ll tell you she’s doing “calibrations,” a reference to Garrus’ infamous line in Mass Effect 2.
A memorable past reference I always recall is the codex entry “Load Limit Reached” from Dragon Age: Origins which references Mass Effect’s notoriously slow elevator rides, which acted as loading zones. I’ll always remember the line “How’s a dwarf get named Shepard? Up yer shaft.”
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.