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The Dread Wolf is an established character in the Dragon Age lore, known as " Fen'Harel ," a person that is pretty much the elf equivalent of Loki. Specifically, he is known for betrayal—he is said to have sealed away the elven gods 'The Creators' and their enemies known as the 'Forgotten Ones' somewhere in the Fade.

Or, more accurately they are somewhere in the 'Beyond,' which is presumably why it was considered dangerous for Corypheus to be able to walk into the Fade: either he would unleash something worse than the blight upon Thedas, or he might be able to make contact with forces like the Elven gods. While Thedas-at-large believes that the fall of the elves was because Tevinter destroyed their cultural capitol, Arlathan, during the Well of Sorrows mission you learn that the actual fall of Arlathan was caused because of warring between the elves.

Tevinter didn't really have anything to do with it. Truthfully, nobody knows what actually happened at Arlathan. But if we assume that some parts of the story of the Dread Wolf are true, that might explain part of what happens in Arlathan—because the Dread Wolf sealed the Elven gods, Arlathan couldn't call upon their gods to save them when Tevinter came knocking on their doors.

In this reading, the current state of the Elven race could be considered the Dread Wolf's fault. But, even that theory has some holes in it. First, let's talk about how the Dread Wolf is depicted in the game. Much of Elven lore paints the Dread Wolf negatively. Here is one fable, called the Courser and the Wolf:.

It was a terrible, lonely place where the sun was forbidden to shine. Their Keeper had a coursing hound. They had run down deer and hares and wolves together when they were young. But they had grown old together, Keeper and hound, and now only dozed before the campfire, dreaming of hunts. At night, he tried to steal into the Keeper's dreams, to twist his mind and turn him against the People.

But even in dreams, the courser guarded his master. He caught the Dread Wolf's scent and gave chase across the Fade. Even the wind couldn't have fled that hound. He ran the Dread Wolf down and grabbed him by the tail! Fen'Harel howled, so loud that the Veil shook and even the stars scattered in fear. But the hound wouldn't let go. Finally, Fen'Harel bit off his own tail to escape, and away he fled. Ever since, the Dread Wolf thinks twice about playing his tricks when dogs are on guard. The god Fen'Harel was asked by a village to kill a great beast.

He came to the beast at dawn, and saw its strength, and knew it would slay him if he fought it. So instead, he shot an arrow up into the sky. The villagers asked Fen'Harel how he would save them, and he said to them, 'When did I say that I would save you? It came to the children and opened its great maw, but then the arrow that Fen'Harel had loosed fell from the sky into the great beast's mouth, and killed it. The children of the village wept for their parents and elders, but still they made an offering to Fen'Harel of thanks, for he had done what the villagers had asked.

He had killed the beast, with his cunning, and a slow arrow that the beast never noticed. There are a couple other fables of the Dread Wolf, but you get the idea. This guy sounds like the worst. And yet, a different codex entry poses the following:.

The Dalish use " harellan " to mean "traitor to one's kin," but the word does not appear in any elven text before the Towers Age. The ancient root-word is related to " harillen ," or opposition, and " hellathen ," or noble struggle. The Dalish call Fen'Harel a god of deception, but I posit a far more accurate translation would be "god of rebellion.

The truth probably lies somewhere in the middle: the Dread Wolf, aka Solas, is not perfect, as he is a real person, and as such was capable of doing awful things. Perhaps the Dread Wolf could even be noble; perhaps there was a good reason he sealed away the gods. That's my take, anyway. It comes from some dialogue that Solas has with Sera throughout the game, which you can hear in this upload by DanaDuchy around the mark:.

Sera, as you know, is a troublemaker herself. The fact that Solas seems impressed with the Red Jennies and their goals of disrupting nobles is notable. Could that be what the Dread Wolf actually did—did the tales get him all wrong?

That wouldn't be surprising— Dragon Age Origins spent a lot of time establishing certain lore, myths and fables, and the bulk of both Dragon Age 2 and Inquisition took glee in dismantling everything we thought we knew about Thedas.

Maybe lyrium is alive. Maybe Andraste isn't the person everyone thought she was. Maybe the elves have no idea what they lost. Maybe the maker isn't real. It turns out that history gets nearly everyone wrong—including you, the Inquisitor. Those of you that pushed back on the whole 'herald of Andraste' thing know that the truth doesn't matter to the people: they'll tell themselves whatever they need to believe.

With that in mind, let's reconsider the Dread Wolf. I can't help but wonder: was he actually more of a Robin Hood-like character, as Sera is?

He seems empathetic to the idea of creating chaos, but only if it has a purpose, only if it serves the greater good. The question then becomes: if the Dread Wolf wasn't as bad as the fables made him out to be, what was his purpose? It's hard to speculate on things the game doesn't explore. What we concretely see in the game is that Solas is interested in the lost history of the Elves.

This is something that he has a personal stake in, not just because the world's understanding of Elven lore is so wrong, but because some of that lore includes stories of his supposed maleficence.

While it's possible that the fables about the Dread Wolf are true, we can assume that the story around Mythal is not. According some tales, the Dread Wolf killed Mythal. But as we see in the epilogue, Mythal and the Dread Wolf seem to have no animosity between them. Then again, the Dread Wolf does seem to absorb Mythal at the end—which is not something a friend would do, presumably.

Could it be that the stories about him are right all along, and he is actually a backstabbing jerk? It's hard to say, because we don't know what the elven gods are planning. All we know is that Mythal wants revenge for some betrayal, per what she says to Morrigan in the Fade.

Wouldn't Flemeth have to be willing in order for the consuming to happen? While the final scene is ambiguous and seems like a betrayal, that might not actually be what happened. This will solve the problem of your loneliness. But be warned, it will give you a new one: anxiety.

Let me be clear: This is not a bad thing. Not entirely. There are toxic corners of any fandom, but Dragon Age players skew toward the Nice end of the spectrum. Yes, we still have to wait it out for quite some time yet, but it's exciting to know a next-gen Dragon Age game is on the way.

Hearing from various BioWare developers working on the game, the video gives us a look at how the team are creating this new adventure, complete with some gorgeous concept art and very brief glimpses of game footage showing off different vistas and locations.

I'm also convinced one piece of concept art features Dorian Pavus underwater because we absolutely need more Dorian , and if we end up going to Tevinter as the ending of Dragon Age Inquisition suggests, it would make so much sense. We also get lots of interesting tidbits from the developers, offering some insight into the direction of our return to Thedas. Lead writer Patrick Weekes says that Dragon Age 4 will tell a story that explores, "What happens when you don't have power?

For now, we can only speculate, but it does make our imaginations run wild - especially if you think about what happened in the Dragon Age Inquisition Trespasser DLC. Other more recent signs of life for Dragon Age 4 came in the shape of dark and delicious concept art revealed during a next-generation montage at EA's summer event, EA Play Live. The game wasn't even mentioned by name, but in a section introduced by EA's chief studio officer, Laura Miele, she did namecheck Bioware.

In a fiscal yearly earnings call for EA's Q2 report, chief operating and financial officer Blake Jorgensen said Dragon Age 4 will "probably" release after the studio's fiscal year of More recently, GamesBeat reported that sources familiar with the project "confirm the game is on track for release in The Game Awards debuted the first teaser trailer for Dragon Age 4, and three years later we still don't know the official title.

You should watch the brief glimpse above, but essentially we see the TheDreadWolfRises tagline, along with an ominous greeting from Solas of Dragon Age: Inquisition fame:. If you're not intimately familiar with Dragon Age lore, the 'Dread Wolf' moniker refers to Fen'Harel, the Loki-like elven god of betrayal who has spoilery ties to Solas and features prominently in Inquisition's epilogue DLC, Trespasser.

Most interestingly of all, the trailer prominently features a red lyrium idol, and it's not just any idol. Those of you who played Dragon Age 2 might recognise it. The idol plays a big role in the corruption of Kirkwall's templars. In the first act of Dragon Age 2, you go into the deep roads with Varric and his brother Bartrand in a bid to recover lost dwarven treasures and make your fortune.

You stumble upon an ancient dwarven thaig filled to the brim with red lyrium, and sitting upon a pedestal is the very same idol we see in the trailer. The idol corrupts Bartrand, and causes him to turn his back on his own brother and leave him for dead in the deep roads. Later on in Act 2, Varric asks you to go and confront Bartrand in his mansion in Hightown for his personal quest. You find out that the idol has poisoned his mind, and makes him "hear a song. It's pretty awful, to say the least.

After confronting and fighting Bartrand, you find out he sold the idol to a woman, who turns out to be none other than Kirkwall's Knight Commander, Meredith. The red lyrium drives Meredith to take her fight against the mages and magic to extremes and all but tear apart Kirkwall. Now, from Dragon Age 2 we know red lyrium is very, very bad news in the world of Thedas.

In Inquisition, if you side with the mages early on, you'll be catapulted into a future scenario where Corypheus is wreaking havoc.

And what makes an unfortunate comeback? Yep, you've guessed it: red lyrium. You meet Fiona who appears to have red lyrium growing out of her, and she says Corypheus has been growing lyrium in living people and harvesting it from their corpses.

From the get go, lyrium courses throughout Inquisition, so naturally it makes sense that it's still a problem in Dragon Age 4. Since we know just how corruptive it can be, we also know it must hold untold power. And in the wrong hands It looks like our old egg friend Solas might be getting his hands on it.

The flash of a mural in the teaser as seen above shows what looks like a wolf beast with three eyes and an elf either side of the idol. The Dread Wolf rises right, so what if he does so using the idol?