The Consequences Of Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s Biggest Early Decision, Explained

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Many of Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s choices are personal and focus on your team’s relationships and life paths. However, one of the big, world-changing ones comes early on, shortly after you recruit Davrin, the Grey Warden companion. Right now, you might be staring at a choice between helping either the Tevinter city of Minrathous or Treviso, the home base of the Antivan Crows, from coordinated dragon attacks. If you’re unsure of what decision to make and want to know what the results of each option are, we’re here to lay them out for you.

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This choice has an impact on your party and your faction allies, as both the Tevinter mage Neve and the Antivan assassin Lucanis are from the affected cities. You’re essentially making a choice on which city and faction will be in a better position to help you when the time comes, and putting Neve or Lucanis on a specific path in their stories and even combat roles. Here’s the rundown of the consequences.

The person you don’t help will temporarily leave the partyWhen they return, they will be considered “hardened,” which locks out parts of their skill tree and makes it harder to progress their relationship without higher approval throughout the gameYou will lose some choice in Neve and Lucanis’ personal storylines, and they will be forced to go down one direction because of the circumstancesThe city you don’t save will be blighted, altering quest lines and dialogue, and cutting off access to the local faction’s shopThe Shadow Dragons or Antivan Crows will have a baseline loss in allied strength points, meaning it will be impossible to max them out

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