Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Episode 1: Take Me Back To Eden

About this episode

The episode discusses the development struggles and changes in the Dragon Age series as they return to Thedas.

After five years, we're heading back to Thedas. In the first episode of our feature-length Dragon Age: The Veilguard retrospective, we're sorting through a ton of conflicting feelings. We talk about the RPG's reported development struggles, getting used to being in Rook's shoes, our feelings on the series' hard pivot into an action RPG, and much, much more. Today is Dragon Age Day, so we're uploading this episode a little earlier than planned. We'll be picking up our regular biweekly cadence at the beginning of 2026, and if you want early access to episodes, you can get them by becoming a patron. http://patreon.com/normandyfm Follow us on Bluesky: Normandy FM: @normandyfm Eric: @seamoosi Ken: @shepardcdr

People in this episode

Host: Eric

Topics covered

• Dragon Age
• Thedas
• RPG
• game development
• action RPG

Keywords

• Dragon Age Day
• Veilguard
• retrospective
• patron

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Dragon Age: The Veilguard

Books & works: Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Take Me Back

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