Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a game with plenty of narrative hand-waving regarding subjects like race relations, slavery and personal conflict. Another criticism cropping up more frequently in the two months since the game's release is how religion has been sidelined and written around despite once being a central pillar of the series' lore.
Dragon Age mirrors the Middle Ages of our own world in that much of the preexisting conflict in the series' lore is based on religion. For example, the tension in southern Thedas between sequestered mages and their heavy-handed Chantry captors. Or how the Dalish exist because of an Exalted March against their homeland by the Orlesian Chantry. There's the importance of the Qun, which is extremely sacred to the Qunari until suddenly the Antaam have no qualms about following ancient Elven gods despite their inherent mistrust of magic. In Dragon Age: Origins, we literally go and collect the ashes of a messianic figure to save an ally from a fatal sickness.
In these games, faith is constantly being referenced by the characters. Andrastianism, the elven gods, the Qun—these are major aspects of characters we interact with in the first three Dragon Age games. The...
