Dragon Age: The Veilguard is ditching the Keep - a site used to store players' world states across the Dragon Age series. However, this doesn't mean that The Veilguard is making a particular playthrough canon.
Sitting down with TheGamer staff writer Gabrielle Castania at San Diego Comic-Con, game director John Epler goes into more detail on Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Here, he confirms that there is no canon world state. As far as BioWare's concerned, it's whatever we want it to be.
Epler expands on what canon means in Dragon Age when asked if The Veilguard will pick a particular world state.
"We get asked that a lot, especially because when we start doing products like comics [and] shows, people want to know what's canon," says Epler. "We have to decide one that is for that media canon, but I don't think there really is a canon state of the world.
"I do think there are some more interesting ones, I'm always a fan of the most chaotic and strange paths through the game, but no, there's no canon. There's always what your world of Thedas is, what your people have done... it's your own canon. Canon is a...