While there's a ten-year gap between Dragon Age: Inquisition and Dragon Age: The Veilguard, that doesn't mean that the game we got was in development for that long. From what we've been able to gather, there were three different attempts to get a fourth Dragon Age game off the ground, with the final one being The Veilguard as we know it.
However, it turns out that plans for the sequel were being laid out before Inquisition launched. Concept artist Matt Rhodes confirmed this today, releasing some work that he drafted back in 2014, as he pitched ideas for what could happen after Inquisition's story.
This work has been released as part of the art book for Dragon Age: The Veilguard. While this wasn't what the sequel was going to be called back then, the work in this book gives us a glimpse at what we could have got instead.
As we can see, there are a few abandoned plot points. For starters, there's the Divine leading an army to track down Solas. One of three characters can become the Divine at the end of Inquisition (Cassandra, Leliana, or Vivienne), but this decision is not imported into The Veilguard.
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