Dragon Age 4 Reveals New Grey Warden Concept Art | Game Rant
Video game fans may be anxiously awaiting the release of the Mass Effect Legendary Edition, which collects the original three Mass Effect titles remastered for modern gaming hardware, but BioWare's primary focus remains on a different franchise. Dragon Age 4 is BioWare's next major project in development, though information about the game continues to be available in limited supply. To help briefly sate fans' anticipation, BioWare's shared a new piece of art featuring Dragon Age's Grey Warden.
The piece of art comes from BioWare Austin Executive Producer Christian Dailey. However, Dailey's art drop starts with a message from Dragon Age creative director Matthew Goldman. Goldman started by asking Dailey on Twitter for something "really gray and pointy." Dailey's response features a new piece of art featuring a sword-wielding and armored Grey Warden with the message, "Is this the right amount of pointy and gray?"
The image itself delivers as promised. The character in the image is wearing a winged helmet and plate armor. Their chest piece has a griffon with claws and wings outstretched, and their kite shield similarly has a symbol featuring two griffons facing opposing directions and wings raised. Both symbols will be familiar to those who have played past Dragon Age games as symbols of the order of Grey Wardens. Even the warden's sword features outstretched wings for its hilt, plus another griffon in the image's background.
Suffice to say, fans are likely to be pleased with both the amount of gray and the pointiness in the image. It's hard to imagine another piece of concept art that could be shared by the Dragon Age 4 team at BioWare that would more clearly convey, "This is a Grey Warden." Goldman agrees, as he later postED a response on Twitter saying, "AW YEAH. Gray. Pointy. Winged. Gooooooold! All the good stuff!"
The reveal of a Dragon Age 4 Grey Warden does conjure some interesting questions, however. In Dragon Age: Inquisition, the Grey Wardens ultimately end up causing a major threat to all of Thedas. The new Dragon Age will be forced to deal with either the Grey Wardens' redemption or perhaps further spiral toward corruption. While the image shared today certainly presents the Grey Warden as heroic, it would be very BioWare to hint at something interesting about its upcoming game.
That said, as nice as it is to receive a teaser image for Dragon Age 4 from BioWare, it's likely to only further fans' demands for more Dragon Age 4 information. The most recent tease came during The Game Awards 2020, which already feels like ages ago. There will be a lot of BioWare fans hopeful for news to be shared this summer, perhaps at E3.
Dragon Age 4 is currently in development for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S.
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