The Vir Dirthara

Image 1 caption: "Racing between bulky Qunari dreadnoughts." Image 4 caption: "A new setting for the war table." Image 5 caption: "I thought it'd would be cool if your ship was stolen, and you had to infiltrate an enemy base to get it back. I didn't realize it at the time, but I pitched this ideas back on ME2 as well. One day we'll get a mission to steal your ship back. Mark my words" Image 6 caption: "Isabela found a ship for you! A little elbow grease and it'll be home sweet home!" [captions source]

Image 1 file name: "Beat board - the ship" Image 2 file name: "Beat board - the ship sketch" Image 3 file name: "Beat board - the ship sketch" Image 4 file name: "Beat board - captain's quarters" Image 5 file name: "Beat board - rescue the ship" Image 6 file name: "Beat board - well take it" Image 7 file name: "Beat board - uneasy alliances"

Art by Matt Rhodes.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard art book pages, under a cut due to spoilers:

🔔 happy New Year 2025 🍻 and happy First Day everyone! 🐲  

Dragon Age: The Veilguard art book pages, under a cut due to spoilers:

Dragon Age: The Veilguard art book pages, under a cut due to spoilers:

Mass Effect: The Official Cocktail Book (Part 2 of 2)

[you can get the book here]

Drink, food, and other lore blurbs from this book. (The book also contains the associated real-world recipes and photography thereof. This post only contains the in-world lore segments).

this post is Part 2 of 2. Rest of post is under a cut due to length. [Link to Part 1]

This is an excerpt from the Mass Effect cocktail book written in-world by an angara at a timepoint after the Andromeda Initiative got to Andromeda. the passages are about food/drink exchange between Milky Way species and angara, and "linking our two galaxies" is about the relationship between Milky Way species who are in Andromeda and angara, but I also can't help but be reminded of the oft fan-theorized idea/speculation that a future Mass Effect game might involve somehow bridging the stories of the MET and ME:A or else somehow more physically/literally linking the actual Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxies.

edit/update: the in-world blurb about the writer also has this idea:

Mass Effect: The Official Cocktail Book (Part 1 of 2)

[you can get the book here]

Drink, food, and other lore blurbs from this book. (The book also contains the associated real-world recipes and photography thereof. This post only contains the in-world lore segments).

this post is Part 1 of 2. Rest of post is under a cut due to length. [Link to Part 2]

Some thoughts on the character descriptions & other details from game files. DA:TV spoilers under cut.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard references to the spinoff game of all time (OF ALL TIME):

Note: Seneschal's Notebook

and

AAAAAAAAA

forget all the lore reveals, forget romance. Serault my beloved

[Dragon Age Legends mentioned]

Dragon Age: The Veilguard concept art and illustrations by Albert Urmanov, under a cut in case of spoilers.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard concept art and illustrations by Albert Urmanov, under a cut in case of spoilers.

Unlisted video from Dragon Age on YouTube: 'Strand Hair Technology in Dragon Age: The Veilguard'

Lucanis and Crows snippets, under a cut due to spoilers.

According to the date listed on publisher Insight Editions' website and the one on Amazon [dotcom] at least, today October 22nd is the release date for Mass Effect: The Official Cocktail Book!

Preview pages and examples of the actual drink recipes (not just lorem ipsum placeholder) can be seen here. some older lorem ipsum ones and the older placeholder cover image can be seen here.