Dragon Age: Dreadwolfcould be launching this year.Electronic Artshas confirmed that itwill soon be showing off two unannounced titles, and industry insider Jeff Grubb has said that one of those games is the long-awaited sequel to Dragon Age: Inquisition.
Dragon Age: Dreadwolf Could Make Me A Believer
I’m stoked, which is weird because I don’t really care aboutDragon Age. I played through most ofOriginsa few years ago so I could guest on a podcast covering the series, but I never rolled credits and I’ve never touchedDragon Age 2orInquisition. But this year, I’ve unlocked a deep and abiding hunger for fantasy storytelling. I’ve always been a fantasy fan — the first movie I ever fell in love with wasThe Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring— but in 2024, that affinity entered turbo mode.
This kicked off back in February when I offhandedly decided to read some of Terry Pratchett’s books and ended up loving Guards! Guards! This bloomed into an obsession when I picked up Brandon Sanderson’s book, Elantris, after a friend mentioned he was listening to the audiobook of Sanderson’s doorstop epic The Way of Kings. Elantris was a little roughly written — it was Sanderson’s first published novel — but the way its central mystery and magic system were inextricably tied together hooked me. Three months have passed since I checked Elantris out of my local library and, since then, I’ve read five Sanderson books and am about to finish a sixth. The little flame that flared up each time a new season ofGame of Throneswas airing has been fanned into a full-on five-alarm fire. I can’t get enough of world-building, magic systems, and discovering bits of lore that make a setting’s past and present come to life.
A Return To Westeros
That five-alarm fire will get some mega-flammable kindling next month whenHouse of the Dragonfinally returns after a year and a half away. Though many viewers complained about the series' jerky pace last season, I enjoyed it thoroughly, time jumps and all. With that solid foundation, this season — which, if it follows the book’s timeline, will be much more chronologically compact — is set to blow the hype doors off their hinges.
I’ve started watching BookTubers, specifically those with a speculative fiction focus, and have broadened my reading list. I keep hearing names like Joe Abercrombie and titles like The Lies of Locke Lamora, and my thirst for a broader spectrum of fantasy is only growing. I watch a lot of movies, but there just aren’t a ton of great fantasy films outside of the ones that everyone has already seen. I saw The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, and Hobbit movies as they were coming out, so there aren’t many sorcerer’s stones left unturned. I recently listened to an old episode ofThe Big Picture podcastin which the hosts were giving their top five fantasy films. In that pod, the hosts pointed out that the ‘80s had a fantasy boom and we’ve been living through an ongoing boom from 2001 onward. I agree, I’ve just seen most of the movies that boom has produced, and I’m hungry for more.
So, that leaves me with books, TV, and video games. I’m reading Sanderson and eagerly awaiting House of the Dragon’s return, so I’m covered there. At this point, we know very little about Dragon Age: Dreadwolf. That makes it easy to imagine that it will be just the thing to scratch my fantasy itch. I hope onceBioWarereveals more, it lives up to those amorphous expectations.
