Companions are the center and soul of Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Recruiting these fascinating to your occasion occurs routinely, however sustaining your relationships with every companion takes effort and time.
Crucial a part of that course of is finishing every companion’s private quest and spending sufficient time with them to max out their respective bond degree. Sturdy bonds aren’t simply necessary for battle (although reaching new bond ranges does provide you with ability factors to spend on companions). It might probably even make the distinction between who lives and dies.
Our Dragon Age: The Veilguard information breaks down all companions who be part of your occasion, the right way to begin their companion quests, and the right way to hold relationships robust throughout your journey.
Tips on how to recruit all Dragon Age: The Veilguard companions
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Dragon Age: The Veilguard places seven companions in your path, and because you collect them as a part of the principle story throughout Veilguard’s first half, it’s unattainable to overlook any of them. Every companion has a predetermined class, and is related to one of many six factions in The Veilguard. And sure, you possibly can romance all of them.
At a look, your companions are:
- Lace Harding, a dwarf warrior whom it’s possible you’ll acknowledge from Dragon Age: Inquisition
- Neve Gallus, a human mage affiliated with the Shadow Dragons
- Bellara Lutare, an elf mage affiliated with the Veil Jumpers
- Lucanis Dellamorte, a human rogue affiliated with the Antivan Crows
- Davrin, a human warrior affiliated with the Gray Wardens
- Emmrich Volkarin, a human mage affiliated with the Mourn Watch
- Taash, a Qunari warrior affiliated with the Lords of Fortune
Scroll by the picture gallery above to see every companion. Beneath, discover some particulars about when within the recreation you’ll recruit every of them.
Lace joins your occasion routinely in the course of the prologue mission, “The Finish of the Starting.” She stays with you all through the sport. Nevertheless, in the event you select to take Harding once you convey down the statue and cease Solas’ ritual, she’ll endure accidents and behave otherwise for the following few missions.
Neve additionally joins your occasion in the course of the “Finish of the Starting,” and, in the event you take Neve to cease the ritual as a substitute, she will get injured and alters her perspective towards you for a short while after.
You discover Bellara in Arlathan Forest throughout “In Entropy’s Grasp,” and she or he joins you instantly.
Discovering Lucanis takes a little bit of effort. At a fork within the narrative, you’re given the prospect to go to Dock City or Treviso. After going to Treviso, you converse with the Crows’ chief, then find yourself in a rogue mage’s underwater analysis lab, the place the “Sea of Blood” quest begins. You’ll discover Lucanis partway by the mission, doing slightly nicely for himself towards a bunch of Venatori.
After an interval again in Dock City, you’ll journey to the hinterlands for the mission “A Warden’s Greatest Pal.” Davrin joins in the beginning, alongside his lovable griffon pal, Assam.
Emmrich is your information to Nevarra’s Necropolis, and he tags alongside in the course of the “The place the Useless Should Go” mission. You may as well select “The Dragon Slayer” as a substitute and recruit Taash first. The mission order doesn’t matter.
Taash is on a mission for the Lords of Fortune in Rivain, one which places her in battle with the Antaam in “The Dragon Slayer” quest. She joins as quickly because the mission begins.
Can companions go away or die in Dragon Age: The Veilguard?
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Characters can die relying on how robust your bond is with every occasion member, however Veilguard makes it plain once they’re at risk. With out spoiling something, you don’t have to fret about companions going through mortal hurt till a lot later within the recreation.
So far as we will inform, companion approval is separate from their bond degree. We made a number of decisions that Harding disapproved of within the first few missions and irritated her throughout conversations, and she or he nonetheless had the very best bond degree by the point we’d assembled your complete Veilguard.
Finishing their faction and private quests and chatting with them when the time-limited dialog icon pops up subsequent to their location icon on the Lighthouse are stable methods to make sure your bond stays in fine condition. Make certain to not ignore companions — or those you want, at any price — and don’t fear an excessive amount of about making the improper selection throughout dialogue.
That stated, decisions you make all through Veilguard will affect your relationship with every companion, and a few could go away for a time and are available again modified. For instance, one early mission duties you with deciding to save lots of one metropolis over one other. The companion with ties to the town you don’t save will likely be unavailable for the following few missions and comes again “hardened.” The hardened state will increase the ability of their bodily assaults, makes them unable to make use of assist skills, and influences their perspective throughout conversations with you.
Tips on how to begin all companion quests in Dragon Age: The Veilguard
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Each Veilguard companion has a prolonged questline. You’ll be able to inform when a personality is able to chat — beginning their companion quest chain — by opening the map once you’re on the Lighthouse, your major hub. If a personality’s icon is marked with a yellow exclamation level, discuss to them.
Whereas these are technically non-obligatory, finishing them will increase your bond with the companion in query, and also you’ll typically get gear for them in the course of the quest as nicely. Some pop up shortly after a companion joins you, however a number of — particularly these for companions who be part of you a bit afterward — solely present up after you’ve progressed the story additional.
Even in the event you don’t care a lot for them or plan on utilizing them in battle, it’s value finishing companion quests to unlock their exploration skills. Harding’s capacity, for instance, strikes stone and makes it attainable to succeed in beforehand inaccessible areas, and so far as we will inform, you don’t unlock it until you full the primary a part of her companion quest.
Each companion questline consists of 4 or extra quests, of which at the very least two are labeled as “Outings.” Outings are smaller, extra centered quests the place simply you and the companion in query full a selected process, and along with growing their bond degree, these Outing quests often current you with a number of alternatives to enhance your approval ranking with that companion.
Every companion questline additionally has one main selection close to the top that determines how your companion will deal with a severe problem they face, and so they additionally earn totally different rewards or study totally different expertise relying in your selection in that second.
You may as well buy present gadgets for every companion at retailers in cities with ties to particular companions – for instance, the Warden service provider within the Hossberg Wetlands sells a curio for Davrin. These are logged as quests, however finishing them is only a matter of buying the merchandise and giving it to the fitting individual. It’s an easy process, because the presents are marked with a companion icon, and you’ll’t give them to anybody else.
Companions will typically provide you with faction quests as nicely. In our expertise, finishing these makes no distinction to your bond with a companion, although if you wish to max out faction status, it’s nonetheless value your time to take these missions on.
Harding’s companion quest
The primary a part of Harding’s quest known as “An Unfamiliar Sense.” Communicate with Harding on the Lighthouse after retrieving Solas’ dagger from Arlathan Forest throughout “The Singing Blade” so as to add this one to your journal.
Harding’s quest facilities on how she reacts to her newfound powers after coming into contact with Solas’ lyrium dagger, and it’s tied to a good bit of dwarven lore as nicely — one thing not often seen in Dragon Age video games.
Bellara’s companion quest
“Echoes of the Previous,” Bellara’s quest, additionally reveals up after you full “The Singing Blade” and may journey freely to places on the world map. Communicate with Bellara in her workshop to get began.
Bellara’s quest follows her makes an attempt to grasp the Archive, the unusual, damaged spirit you encounter close to the beginning of the sport. Nevertheless, it’s simply as a lot about Bellara studying to grasp herself as it’s about her relationship with expertise and magic.
You’ll be able to start Neve’s quest after ending the “Shadow of Minrathous” mission. Communicate along with her in her room on the Lighthouse, and she or he’ll advocate going again to Dock City, which provides “A Research of Dock City” to your journal. This quest turns into unavailable in the event you don’t full it earlier than the dragon reveals up and in the event you select to go to Treviso over Minrathous.
Neve’s quest is basically a deep dive into the seedy underbelly of Minrathous. It’s like considered one of her detective tales, solely you get to participate in it and study extra about Neve and her tough previous because of this.
Lucanis’ companion quest
“Espresso with the Crows” is Lucanis’ first companion quest, and you’ll seize it by talking with him on the Lighthouse after saving him in the course of the “Sea of Blood” quest. Like Neve’s companion quest, “Espresso with the Crows” is blocked off in the event you don’t full it earlier than the dragon reveals up and in the event you select to go to Minrathous over Treviso.
Lucanis’ quest explores what occurs to the Crows after the dragon assault and uncovers darkish secrets and techniques on the coronary heart of Lucanis’ previous — and household. Spite, the demon residing inside his head, additionally has a job to play, and as you’d count on from a narrative about demons and assassins, issues get fairly darkish.
Davrin’s companion quest
Davrin’s quest begins with “Tips on how to Prepare a Griffon,” an outing mission that turns into accessible after you first converse with him on the Lighthouse as soon as the search “A Warden’s Greatest Pal” ends.
Davrin’s quest explores his relationship to Assan and duties him with deciding the destiny of griffons typically viz a viz the Gray Wardens. All this takes place as he hunts the Gloom Howler, the Blighted creature who first appeared in the course of the mission the place you meet Davrin.
Emmrich’s companion quest
Emmrich’s quest begins with a visit again to Nevarra within the “Strolling the Graves” outing. It ought to change into accessible after you end the principle story quest “The place the Useless Go,” which is when Emmrich joins you, however you may need to depart the Lighthouse and return a number of occasions to get by an occasion with him and Harding to obtain the primary Mourn Watch faction quest.
Emmrich’s companion quest is, maybe unsurprisingly, slightly extra on the esoteric aspect of issues, and it explores views of life, loss of life, and the character of existence in northern Thedas. On the heart of all that is Manfred, his skeleton assistant, and the lengths Emmrich will go to to be able to save him.
Taash’s companion quest
Taash joins you in the course of the Dragon Slayer foremost story quest, and her first companion quest, “Fireplace on the Sands,” unlocks quickly after. As with Emmrich, it’s possible you’ll must get by different occasions first earlier than Taash broaches the topic of her private issues. It’s well worth the trouble, although, as you’ll get entry to the Corridor of Valor and Isabela’s preventing enviornment.
Again to Taash, although. Her quest digs into Qunari tradition and identification whereas additionally exploring that curious little matter of Taash respiration hearth — usually one thing most Qunari can’t do.
For extra Dragon Age: The Veilguard guides, see our guides on the very best class to select and the very best faction to affix, plus explainers on the right way to romance occasion members and the right way to change look, and an inventory of all apply and detonate combos.