Summary
Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s quest structure is centred around the game’s various factions and their associated locations. In addition to progressing through the main quest, a secondary objective of Rook and his eponymous team is strengthening the various factions around northern Thedas so they might better oppose Elgar’nan and Ghilan’nain.
Some of these factions have a very central role in the narrative, like the Grey Wardens, Veil Jumpers and Antivan Crows. Others are less relevant, and according to Dragon Age: The Veilguard, one faction doesn’t feel present in the game at all: The Lords of Fortune.
Lords of Boredom (With Cool Armour)
This was highlighted in arecent Reddit thread by Andrew_Waples, who questions whether the Lords of Fortune were originally intended to be a faction Rook can originate from. Their post reads, “I hate to use the phrase “last minute,” but it really does [feel like it]. At least from being a part of of or doing faction quests for them. I mean, really? You get wave-based combat? That’s it? I don’t know, they could’ve done a cool side quest heist or something. They’ve got cool armour, I guess.”
I have to concur with the original poster. During my time playing Veilguard, I found the Lords of Fortune were comfortably the least relevant faction to the overall story or even any side story. All of their associated quests involve doing unrelated missions around Rivain or helping Taash. Taash is a Lord of Fortune but their quests are more closely associated with their journey, rather than anything to do with the Lords.
This is a key difference between the Lords of Fortune and the Mournwatch, who are both somewhat less important than the others. Emmrich’s quests are more closely associated with the Mournwatch, and the quests assigned to you by that faction are thematically appropriate.
Most-Okay-Novelistin the comments speculates that BioWare either ran out of time to implement the faction, wanted them to be unpopular or replaced a Tal-Vashoth faction with a half-baked group of pirates led by a fan-favourite character in Isabela, who has been watered down significantly for The Veilguard, pun intended.
The comments also suggest that Lords of Fortune Rooks don’t have a lot of faction-specific dialogue, another strike against the Lords.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard
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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.
