ALL Dragon Age: The Veilguard endings and how to watch them

The narrative of Dragon Age: The Veilguard plunges players into a realm where every decision holds weight and can dramatically alter the storyline. Some choices carry more significance than others, ultimately influencing one of the five possible endings, which fall into three categories: three positive outcomes, one negative outcome, and one hidden ending.

This guide will detail how to achieve each ending while highlighting the key decisions you need to make along the way. Keep in mind that the outcomes can vary significantly based on your choices throughout the game.

Positive Endings

The positive endings are marked by the survival of all faction leaders and most characters, with one unavoidable exception. Achieving this result requires players to fulfill specific conditions and make critical choices during their journey.

Crucial Choices for Positive Endings

One of the initial major choices takes place in Part 6 of the game, at the end of a key mission. Here, players must decide whether to save Minrathous or Treviso. This decision has lasting repercussions:

• Opting to save Treviso will prevent you from attaining the positive ending, as one faction leader will perish, making it impossible to ensure everyone’s survival.
• Additionally, saving one city will close off access to a faction store.
• Your choice will also affect potential romantic relationships, possibly blocking some options based on your selected city.
• The city that is not saved will undergo significant changes, leading to corruption and fewer quest opportunities.

Companion Missions and Faction Support

Before reaching Part 11, players should consider completing all companion missions. Finishing these tasks ensures that all companions become heroes capable of surviving the final events. Moreover, completing all faction side missions is crucial for increasing their support levels, which is essential during the climactic battles.

Important choices continue in Parts 12 and 13. For instance, during The Island of the Gods, players will have to decide who leads the distraction team. While this choice won’t affect the positive ending, it will impact character survival. Another significant decision involves selecting between Bellara or Neve for a particular task, ensuring that the chosen character is a hero of the Guard of the Veil.

As you progress to The Dragon and the Terrible Wolf, most of the decisions that could jeopardize your companions’ lives will present themselves. Choosing the wrong character for specific roles can result in considerable losses.

Final Choices

Your last major decision occurs during One Last Breath, where you must choose Taash to lead the siege. After this, the path to the final confrontation with Elgar’nan becomes straightforward, allowing you to experience one of three positive endings based on your actions:

• Confronting Solas directly.
• Deceiving Solas.
• Using a character who had a romantic involvement with Solas to intervene.

Each of these choices leads to distinct cinematic moments and character outcomes that reflect the decisions made throughout the game.

Negative Ending

The negative ending occurs when players fail to meet the necessary criteria for the positive endings. The fewer factions you have at level three and the more poor decisions you make, particularly in The Dragon and the Terrible Wolf, the more likely you are to witness a tragic conclusion where multiple main characters and faction leaders meet their demise.

Variations of the negative ending depend on how many companions fall during the final sequence, with outcomes turning disastrous in both available routes (attacking or deceiving Solas).

Hidden Ending

The hidden ending requires players to meet specific criteria that are independent of achieving the good or bad endings. To unlock this, players must first complete Regrets of the Terrible Wolf and follow certain steps to gain Mythal’s favor. Additionally, discovering three mysterious circles is crucial:

• The first circle is located at the end of The Summit of Their Equals.
• The second circle is found after defeating the dragon in The Heart of Corruption.
• The third circle can be discovered behind the chest of a lost treasure in the Forest of Arlathan.

Once you have Mythal’s favor and the three circles, finishing the game will lead to an unexpected sequence that hints at the future of the Dragon Age series.

Each ending provides a unique perspective on the decisions you’ve made, ensuring that every playthrough is distinct. Enjoy your adventure!