Warning: spoilers for Dragon Age: The Veilguard lie ahead.

Dust off your tomes of knowledge and your most unbalanced expressions, Dragon Age: The Veilkeeper players have dug up a painting on a wall that looks like a hidden Easter egg trying to convey something about the larger narrative of the series or just having a little fun with the idea. Naturally, people are desperate to decipher it.

Yeah, forget modders are trying to fight the amount of purple color in the game, it feels like the real battle you should currently be fighting if you’re a Dragon Age stan is with your own brain, as you try to figure out what some sheets of paper might do stuck on a cork board. I will tell you. Well, apart from the fact that BioWare’s environment designers are clearly very good at their job.

According to one of the actors of the Dragon Age Subsupplement which was published about it, this interesting thing can be found in Minrathous, if you look carefully and find a door that you can clear out of the crates and wooden planks.

Inside, on one wall, you’ll find a display that looks like the one shown in the article below: a bunch of pieces of paper with various things on them, many of which will ring a bell for any seasoned Dragon Age veteran, all nailed to a board. This is your standard detective or “person who definitely doesn’t let the questionable YouTube videos they watch about the Illuminati get to them.”

Naturally, people who have discovered it are desperate to understand what it means, and at least one of them used MS Paint extensively as they tried to figure out what each image and connection means. The consensus is that this is the narrative of the DA series as a whole, with various people saying that different elements could represent different key characters and where they appeared in the series.

That said, it is the image on the far right of the fresco that seems to be the most interesting aspect of the whole thing. A few players have speculated that the silhouette of a mysterious person could either hint at something about future entries in the series, be tied in some way to the Veilguard narrative, or perhaps simply being a meta nod to the player himself. connecting factor between all these DA adventures.

I’ll be honest, I’m not passionate enough about Dragon Age to comment on which of these theories, if any, seems most likely to hold up, even though the game’s history suggests it probably won’t be any of them. between them, and someone will finally figure it out in a three-hour YouTube video in a few years.

One thing worth keeping in mind, however, is that former series mainstay David Gaider, the original creator of Thedas, recently revealed to Eurogamer that he had an “overarching superplot” in mind for the Dragon Age series at the beginning, which was ultimately written down in a secret document.

Is this mysterious conspiracy chart perhaps simply a cheeky reference by BioWare to this, or fans’ efforts to figure out how Veilguard might fit into it? It seems possible.

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